Reports
5th December 2017
Christmas Party
Christmas Party
28th November 2017
Annual General Meeting
After the business of the day we voted on the new Committee and appointed a new President, Linda Gammon, ably overseen by Sally Dyke, our Advisor. (More details on individual roles in the New Year).
This year's Rose Bowl for Competition entries was won by Linda Taylor, second was Mamie Bell and third Françoise Rothery.
After the official duties were over, we had a short talk from Stuart Gammon and Dorothy Davidson from the Holmes Chapel Partnership regarding the Dementia Friendly Village initiative and how we can all get involved. For more information on http://www.hcpartnership.org.uk/dfv.html
Annual General Meeting
After the business of the day we voted on the new Committee and appointed a new President, Linda Gammon, ably overseen by Sally Dyke, our Advisor. (More details on individual roles in the New Year).
This year's Rose Bowl for Competition entries was won by Linda Taylor, second was Mamie Bell and third Françoise Rothery.
After the official duties were over, we had a short talk from Stuart Gammon and Dorothy Davidson from the Holmes Chapel Partnership regarding the Dementia Friendly Village initiative and how we can all get involved. For more information on http://www.hcpartnership.org.uk/dfv.html
24th October 2017
Speaker: Susan Ord
‘The Secrets of Handwriting’
Competition: Handwritten First 3 Lines of Jerusalem
Speaker: Susan Ord
‘The Secrets of Handwriting’
Competition: Handwritten First 3 Lines of Jerusalem
26th September 2017
Speaker: Hazel Griffiths
‘Motion of the Ocean’
Competition: An Antique or Collectible
Speaker: Hazel Griffiths
‘Motion of the Ocean’
Competition: An Antique or Collectible
22nd August 2017
Speaker: Jenny Thomas
‘Hand Bells’
Competition: Most Unusual Hand bell
What a full house we had for our August meeting on Tuesday 22nd. After a full and busy business section our President, Wendy Morgan, introduced our entertainment for the evening. These were the Middlewich Handbell Ringers, 10 members in all.
The St Michael and All Angels Ringing Team (SMAART) is a group of hand bell ringers and all ages can play and the only requirement is an ability to count to six, which most of us manage most of the time!
They use both hand bells and Bell plates - a cheaper, lighter version with a sharper sound and they practice at Willowmere Extra Care Development premises in Middlewich on Monday evenings at 7 pm. Their repertoire is continually increasing in range and includes hymns, carols, folk and popular songs and tunes. One of our ladies decided to have a go but she did find it rather heavy and commented that she wouldn’t want to hang on to it for any length of time.
Our competition this month was an ‘Unusual Hand Bell’ and Karen Glendinning was the winner, Lizzy Broxton 2nd with Linda Taylor 3rd.
Speaker: Jenny Thomas
‘Hand Bells’
Competition: Most Unusual Hand bell
What a full house we had for our August meeting on Tuesday 22nd. After a full and busy business section our President, Wendy Morgan, introduced our entertainment for the evening. These were the Middlewich Handbell Ringers, 10 members in all.
The St Michael and All Angels Ringing Team (SMAART) is a group of hand bell ringers and all ages can play and the only requirement is an ability to count to six, which most of us manage most of the time!
They use both hand bells and Bell plates - a cheaper, lighter version with a sharper sound and they practice at Willowmere Extra Care Development premises in Middlewich on Monday evenings at 7 pm. Their repertoire is continually increasing in range and includes hymns, carols, folk and popular songs and tunes. One of our ladies decided to have a go but she did find it rather heavy and commented that she wouldn’t want to hang on to it for any length of time.
Our competition this month was an ‘Unusual Hand Bell’ and Karen Glendinning was the winner, Lizzy Broxton 2nd with Linda Taylor 3rd.
25th July 2017
Speaker: Karen Corcoran
‘The Lady Policeman’
Competition: 4 Flapjacks (recipe in paper version of Programme)
At our monthly meeting on Tuesday 25th July our President Wendy was back at the helm and after the business had been dealt with, she introduced our Speaker, Karen Corcoran. Her talk was entitled ‘The Lady Policeman’ and Karen told us how she became the first lady mounted policewoman in Manchester.
Karen had always loved horses and as a treat for passing her 11+ she had a riding lesson and never looked back and spent all her weekends at the riding school. At a careers day at school they advertised an open day for the police so she decided to go along and after meeting the horses she was sold - 3 weeks later she was a member of the Manchester & Salford Cadets. At 19 and after just 12 weeks training she was let loose in the centre of Manchester but in the Women’s Dept. Her love of horses was still strong and when she had an opportunity to join the ‘mounties’ she took it and at 20 was the ‘token’ woman on a training horse called Nickolas Nickleby. She then controlled crowds at football matches and rallies, but the strangest job was at a pensioners Christmas party where the lady mayor wanted her to come inside the Odeon in Manchester. Her horse at the time Martin Chuzzlewit, managed to get up on the stage, but then he would go anywhere for a mint imperial!
It was 3 years before the next female ‘mountie’ and it took a long time for the uniform to change from normal police helmets to the more safe riding hats, and from there to full body armour and visors and high ‘vis’ outfits, all depended on what role they were undertaking.
Karen had a varied career on horseback, the highlight of which was the special equine show at Windsor in tribute of the Queen’s 50th Anniversary. Her last horse was called Soloman who sadly died of colic just after she retired. Karen finished the evening with a short montage of film clips of her varied career taken from Granada Reports.
The competition of 4 Flapjacks was won by Mamie Bell, 2nd was Karen Glendinning and 3rd Wendy Morgan.
Speaker: Karen Corcoran
‘The Lady Policeman’
Competition: 4 Flapjacks (recipe in paper version of Programme)
At our monthly meeting on Tuesday 25th July our President Wendy was back at the helm and after the business had been dealt with, she introduced our Speaker, Karen Corcoran. Her talk was entitled ‘The Lady Policeman’ and Karen told us how she became the first lady mounted policewoman in Manchester.
Karen had always loved horses and as a treat for passing her 11+ she had a riding lesson and never looked back and spent all her weekends at the riding school. At a careers day at school they advertised an open day for the police so she decided to go along and after meeting the horses she was sold - 3 weeks later she was a member of the Manchester & Salford Cadets. At 19 and after just 12 weeks training she was let loose in the centre of Manchester but in the Women’s Dept. Her love of horses was still strong and when she had an opportunity to join the ‘mounties’ she took it and at 20 was the ‘token’ woman on a training horse called Nickolas Nickleby. She then controlled crowds at football matches and rallies, but the strangest job was at a pensioners Christmas party where the lady mayor wanted her to come inside the Odeon in Manchester. Her horse at the time Martin Chuzzlewit, managed to get up on the stage, but then he would go anywhere for a mint imperial!
It was 3 years before the next female ‘mountie’ and it took a long time for the uniform to change from normal police helmets to the more safe riding hats, and from there to full body armour and visors and high ‘vis’ outfits, all depended on what role they were undertaking.
Karen had a varied career on horseback, the highlight of which was the special equine show at Windsor in tribute of the Queen’s 50th Anniversary. Her last horse was called Soloman who sadly died of colic just after she retired. Karen finished the evening with a short montage of film clips of her varied career taken from Granada Reports.
The competition of 4 Flapjacks was won by Mamie Bell, 2nd was Karen Glendinning and 3rd Wendy Morgan.
27th June 2017
Speaker: John Stirling
‘Toy Town to Buckingham Palace’
Competition: Photo Featuring a Donkey
Tuesday 27th June saw another fun filled monthly meeting, our Vice President once again took charge of proceedings and our speaker for the evening was John Stirling and his talk was ‘Toytown to Buckingham Palace’ and our competition was a picture of a donkey. But not knowing what his talk was about or the reference to donkeys, we were surprised and thrilled when it all became clear.
He was born in a hamper in between his mother’s scenes for her latest film “A Candlelight in Algeria” with James Mason and, while his father was waste deep drowning in a man-made ice cold water tank, clinging to a life raft in Ealing studios filming “The Cruel Sea” with Jack Hawkings and Co, he was more of a hindrance than a joyful arrival. But John followed his parent’s footsteps into a theatrical career and he became a successful child actor on TV and radio in the 1950s and 60s and started work at the age of ten being chosen to appear in Enid Blyton’s musical of “Noddy in Toyland” at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London. Between the ages of 11 to 16 he notched up over 400 television appearances and several theatre shows. His favourite was “Lumley” the head boy at Chislebury School with Professor Jimmy Edwards in “Whacko”. He was the youngest actor to be signed up to the BBC’s Radio repertory company which gave him the chance to play a huge variety of characters from Ted Ray’s Naughty Nephew in “Ray’s a laugh” to “Shakespeare and the Classics”. He won various awards, including an Emmy, but he became restless and wanted to concentrate on production and writing and it was then that Eric Morecambe came into his life. They met backstage after a live recording of “Ray’s a Laugh” at the Charing Cross Playhouse where Eric was struggling with the double act and he asked John how to get the comedy over the radio. Four years later they met at Liberty’s and Eric asked John to become their production manager - this was at the tender age of 18! - and went on to stage manage all their pantomimes and summer shows from the Palladium to the Manchester Palace. Eric also introduced him to television producers which culminated in his first production show for Television for ATV: “Blackpool Night out” which replaced “Sunday night at the Palladium” and was now working with artists like The Beatles, Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra Jnr, Dusty Springfield and of course Morecambe and Wise.
His love of theatre lured him back to working with live audiences and wrote a musical for the comedienne Marti Caine called “Once in a Lifetime”. He has worked as a stage manager on Coronation Street, talent-spotted for prime-time TV programmes such as Royal Variety Show, Game for a Laugh and Surprise Surprise before embarking on a varied and colourful career backstage, and sometimes upon it.
The last television play he was commissioned to write for the BBC was a drama “Marked for Life”, a play for the actress Patricia Hayes, who had just had enormous success with “Edna the Inebriated Woman”. “Marked for Life” was about a religious elderly recluse living alone in Hope Cove in Devon with her twelve rescued donkeys all named after the Apostles! Sadly Patricia Hayes passed away before being able to make the play and he was left with the donkeys which he didn’t want to relinquish to the meat factory, as someone suggested! So he started “The Actors Donkey Sanctuary” - enter Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams and June Brown.
"The Michael Elliott Trust” has been a huge success for over twenty five years rescuing Donkeys and working with special needs children from all over the UK and overseas. As a producer or stage manager, John has worked with a range of artistes, and put on variety shows for good causes in the country’s biggest theatres and concert halls. This resulted in a private audience with Her Majesty at Buckingham Palace with two donkeys, his wife and family. So there you have it “From Toytown to Buckingham Palace”.
Speaker: John Stirling
‘Toy Town to Buckingham Palace’
Competition: Photo Featuring a Donkey
Tuesday 27th June saw another fun filled monthly meeting, our Vice President once again took charge of proceedings and our speaker for the evening was John Stirling and his talk was ‘Toytown to Buckingham Palace’ and our competition was a picture of a donkey. But not knowing what his talk was about or the reference to donkeys, we were surprised and thrilled when it all became clear.
He was born in a hamper in between his mother’s scenes for her latest film “A Candlelight in Algeria” with James Mason and, while his father was waste deep drowning in a man-made ice cold water tank, clinging to a life raft in Ealing studios filming “The Cruel Sea” with Jack Hawkings and Co, he was more of a hindrance than a joyful arrival. But John followed his parent’s footsteps into a theatrical career and he became a successful child actor on TV and radio in the 1950s and 60s and started work at the age of ten being chosen to appear in Enid Blyton’s musical of “Noddy in Toyland” at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London. Between the ages of 11 to 16 he notched up over 400 television appearances and several theatre shows. His favourite was “Lumley” the head boy at Chislebury School with Professor Jimmy Edwards in “Whacko”. He was the youngest actor to be signed up to the BBC’s Radio repertory company which gave him the chance to play a huge variety of characters from Ted Ray’s Naughty Nephew in “Ray’s a laugh” to “Shakespeare and the Classics”. He won various awards, including an Emmy, but he became restless and wanted to concentrate on production and writing and it was then that Eric Morecambe came into his life. They met backstage after a live recording of “Ray’s a Laugh” at the Charing Cross Playhouse where Eric was struggling with the double act and he asked John how to get the comedy over the radio. Four years later they met at Liberty’s and Eric asked John to become their production manager - this was at the tender age of 18! - and went on to stage manage all their pantomimes and summer shows from the Palladium to the Manchester Palace. Eric also introduced him to television producers which culminated in his first production show for Television for ATV: “Blackpool Night out” which replaced “Sunday night at the Palladium” and was now working with artists like The Beatles, Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra Jnr, Dusty Springfield and of course Morecambe and Wise.
His love of theatre lured him back to working with live audiences and wrote a musical for the comedienne Marti Caine called “Once in a Lifetime”. He has worked as a stage manager on Coronation Street, talent-spotted for prime-time TV programmes such as Royal Variety Show, Game for a Laugh and Surprise Surprise before embarking on a varied and colourful career backstage, and sometimes upon it.
The last television play he was commissioned to write for the BBC was a drama “Marked for Life”, a play for the actress Patricia Hayes, who had just had enormous success with “Edna the Inebriated Woman”. “Marked for Life” was about a religious elderly recluse living alone in Hope Cove in Devon with her twelve rescued donkeys all named after the Apostles! Sadly Patricia Hayes passed away before being able to make the play and he was left with the donkeys which he didn’t want to relinquish to the meat factory, as someone suggested! So he started “The Actors Donkey Sanctuary” - enter Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams and June Brown.
"The Michael Elliott Trust” has been a huge success for over twenty five years rescuing Donkeys and working with special needs children from all over the UK and overseas. As a producer or stage manager, John has worked with a range of artistes, and put on variety shows for good causes in the country’s biggest theatres and concert halls. This resulted in a private audience with Her Majesty at Buckingham Palace with two donkeys, his wife and family. So there you have it “From Toytown to Buckingham Palace”.
23rd May 2017 Resolutions Meeting
Speaker: Sue Yates
‘Delamere Dairy’
Competition: Flower Arrangement in a Yoghurt Pot
Again our monthly meeting was conducted by our Vice President Sue Dutoy, and this month she had the onerous task of overseeing the Resolutions vote, but before the serious matter commenced she introduced our Speaker for the evening who was Patrick in charge of Sales & Marketing at Delamere Dairy.
Patrick outlined the history of the dairy which started life in Delamere Forest over 30 years ago with just 3 goats. They sold fresh goats’ milk and soft cheese made in their kitchen to local health food stores but it soon flourished and they started supplying major UK retailers. They outgrew their premises so moved to Yew Tree Farm in Knutsford and started adding more products like butter, plain and flavoured yoghurts. They next developed a long-life goats’ milk which enabled them to export all over the world. They now have farms all over the country and keep developing new lines. The farmers say that goats are very interesting characters and although kept in large groups they are all individually identified.
We all had samples of their milk, milk shakes and cheeses, and delicious they were too. It’s a common thought that goats’ milk has an odd smell, but this isn’t true, look out for them at The Cheshire Show and try it yourselves.
Patrick very kindly judged our ‘Flower Arrangement in a Yoghurt Pot’ competition and the winner was Mamie Bell, Françoise Rothery second, with Linda Taylor third.
After refreshments we then turned our thoughts to business and voting on the 2 Resolutions – ‘Alleviating Loneliness’ and ‘Plastic Soup: Keep microplastic fibres out of our ocean’. After much debate voting was cast and our Link representative will take our decision to the AGM and vote on our behalf.
Speaker: Sue Yates
‘Delamere Dairy’
Competition: Flower Arrangement in a Yoghurt Pot
Again our monthly meeting was conducted by our Vice President Sue Dutoy, and this month she had the onerous task of overseeing the Resolutions vote, but before the serious matter commenced she introduced our Speaker for the evening who was Patrick in charge of Sales & Marketing at Delamere Dairy.
Patrick outlined the history of the dairy which started life in Delamere Forest over 30 years ago with just 3 goats. They sold fresh goats’ milk and soft cheese made in their kitchen to local health food stores but it soon flourished and they started supplying major UK retailers. They outgrew their premises so moved to Yew Tree Farm in Knutsford and started adding more products like butter, plain and flavoured yoghurts. They next developed a long-life goats’ milk which enabled them to export all over the world. They now have farms all over the country and keep developing new lines. The farmers say that goats are very interesting characters and although kept in large groups they are all individually identified.
We all had samples of their milk, milk shakes and cheeses, and delicious they were too. It’s a common thought that goats’ milk has an odd smell, but this isn’t true, look out for them at The Cheshire Show and try it yourselves.
Patrick very kindly judged our ‘Flower Arrangement in a Yoghurt Pot’ competition and the winner was Mamie Bell, Françoise Rothery second, with Linda Taylor third.
After refreshments we then turned our thoughts to business and voting on the 2 Resolutions – ‘Alleviating Loneliness’ and ‘Plastic Soup: Keep microplastic fibres out of our ocean’. After much debate voting was cast and our Link representative will take our decision to the AGM and vote on our behalf.
25th April 2017
Speaker: Jean Finney
‘The Origin of Nursery Rhymes’
Competition: Group - 'A Tudor Rose in any Medium'
This month's meeting was hosted by our Vice President, Sue Dutoy, helped by our Assistant Secretary, Jean Jepson. Both novices at this but coped admirably.
After the business of the day Sue introduced our Speaker for the evening, Jean Finney. Jean is a singer songwriter and has had bit parts in Hollyoaks (literally bit as it was only her arm!). Also look out for the Shreddies advert as she is one of the Nana’s.
Jean started her talk singing one of her creations ‘I’m not Confused’, which we all associated with, and then went on to explain the origins of Nursery Rhymes. Nursery Rhymes are our early learning tool for our pre-school children who listen, copy and repeat but who would have thought that the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle” developed from a pub crawl around Macclesfield?
Also most of them had a hidden background of cryptic historical events. They became a safe way of speaking out against the king, the church and other authorities without losing your head! The War of the Roses led to the victors the Lancastrian army making fun of the Yorkist losers in the ‘Grand Old Duke of York’; The Abbot of Glastonbury lost his monastery after sending his steward to appeal to Henry VIII when this turncoat steward changed his allegiance, out came ‘Little Jack Horner’; ‘Mary Mary Quite Contrary’ tells us of the reign of Queen Mary and her attempt to reinstate Catholicism back into the life after Henry VIII; ‘Three Blind Mice’ referred to the Oxford martyrs who were executed as they did not agree with Queen Mary, who was nick-named the farmer’s wife, over the communion bread and wine; ‘Georgy Porgy’ related to James I and his “dresser” the Duke of Buckingham and ‘Humpty Dumpty’ was the name of a cannon eventually dislodged from the battlements at the siege of Colchester in the Civil war by Cromwell’s army.
It was a very entertaining and informative evening. Jean then judged our competition which was the Dane Valley Group entry of a ‘Tudor Rose in any Medium’ and was won by Joy Bridle, second was Sue Dutoy and third Françoise Rothery.
Speaker: Jean Finney
‘The Origin of Nursery Rhymes’
Competition: Group - 'A Tudor Rose in any Medium'
This month's meeting was hosted by our Vice President, Sue Dutoy, helped by our Assistant Secretary, Jean Jepson. Both novices at this but coped admirably.
After the business of the day Sue introduced our Speaker for the evening, Jean Finney. Jean is a singer songwriter and has had bit parts in Hollyoaks (literally bit as it was only her arm!). Also look out for the Shreddies advert as she is one of the Nana’s.
Jean started her talk singing one of her creations ‘I’m not Confused’, which we all associated with, and then went on to explain the origins of Nursery Rhymes. Nursery Rhymes are our early learning tool for our pre-school children who listen, copy and repeat but who would have thought that the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle” developed from a pub crawl around Macclesfield?
Also most of them had a hidden background of cryptic historical events. They became a safe way of speaking out against the king, the church and other authorities without losing your head! The War of the Roses led to the victors the Lancastrian army making fun of the Yorkist losers in the ‘Grand Old Duke of York’; The Abbot of Glastonbury lost his monastery after sending his steward to appeal to Henry VIII when this turncoat steward changed his allegiance, out came ‘Little Jack Horner’; ‘Mary Mary Quite Contrary’ tells us of the reign of Queen Mary and her attempt to reinstate Catholicism back into the life after Henry VIII; ‘Three Blind Mice’ referred to the Oxford martyrs who were executed as they did not agree with Queen Mary, who was nick-named the farmer’s wife, over the communion bread and wine; ‘Georgy Porgy’ related to James I and his “dresser” the Duke of Buckingham and ‘Humpty Dumpty’ was the name of a cannon eventually dislodged from the battlements at the siege of Colchester in the Civil war by Cromwell’s army.
It was a very entertaining and informative evening. Jean then judged our competition which was the Dane Valley Group entry of a ‘Tudor Rose in any Medium’ and was won by Joy Bridle, second was Sue Dutoy and third Françoise Rothery.
28th March 2017
Birthday Party
This was our 87th Birthday Party and after a very short business agenda our President, Wendy Morgan, welcomed a visitor and 30 members to our Birthday Party. As a rare treat we were accompanied during our singing of Jerusalem followed by a buffet meal with wine. The puddings, provided by the Committee, were fantastic. Hearing the chatter around the room everyone was enjoying themselves, a good chance to catch up with one another. Our birthday cake, lovingly provided by our member Ann Stafford, was cut by our pianist for the evening, Sally Ross.
After the cake and tea we then all participated in a sing-along with Sally. The songs were varied and included Abba and the Beatles at one end of the spectrum with a medley of well known war songs at the other. I must say we sounded quite good; is a new choir on the horizon?
Birthday Party
This was our 87th Birthday Party and after a very short business agenda our President, Wendy Morgan, welcomed a visitor and 30 members to our Birthday Party. As a rare treat we were accompanied during our singing of Jerusalem followed by a buffet meal with wine. The puddings, provided by the Committee, were fantastic. Hearing the chatter around the room everyone was enjoying themselves, a good chance to catch up with one another. Our birthday cake, lovingly provided by our member Ann Stafford, was cut by our pianist for the evening, Sally Ross.
After the cake and tea we then all participated in a sing-along with Sally. The songs were varied and included Abba and the Beatles at one end of the spectrum with a medley of well known war songs at the other. I must say we sounded quite good; is a new choir on the horizon?
28th February 2017
Speaker: Derek Poulson
‘It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it’
Competition: Handcrafted Celebration Card
After the business the President introduced our Speaker, Derek Poulson, who hails from a South Yorkshire mining village. When he was young it was a case of joining the local brass band or to sing in church and after receiving half a crown for singing solo in a concert he soon realised he could be paid for entertaining, and as the other alternative was to go down the mine, he decided to be an actor.
His talk was ‘It’s Not What You Say, But The Way That You Say It’, so he took us on a very funny journey around the British Isles, speaking with the accents and dialects of the various countries and regions. He explained if you were English then if you were from up the North you were probably from German extraction and in the South from the French and this can be recognised with the hard accents in the North and the soft accents in the South. He took on the roles of Bill Connolly, Kenneth Willams and Sir Laurence Olivier to prove his point. He also showed us how we produce the different sounds by using the chest, throat, mouth and nose to hilarious effect.
Accents and dialects are tribal – it’s who we are. It would be boring if we all spoke the same – example The BBC! The moral of the talk – we should never judge people on the way they speak.
We finished off the evening with tea and biscuits and Derek judged our competition of a handcrafted card. This was won by Linda Taylor, with Pauline Ryman second and Sandra Smith third.
Speaker: Derek Poulson
‘It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it’
Competition: Handcrafted Celebration Card
After the business the President introduced our Speaker, Derek Poulson, who hails from a South Yorkshire mining village. When he was young it was a case of joining the local brass band or to sing in church and after receiving half a crown for singing solo in a concert he soon realised he could be paid for entertaining, and as the other alternative was to go down the mine, he decided to be an actor.
His talk was ‘It’s Not What You Say, But The Way That You Say It’, so he took us on a very funny journey around the British Isles, speaking with the accents and dialects of the various countries and regions. He explained if you were English then if you were from up the North you were probably from German extraction and in the South from the French and this can be recognised with the hard accents in the North and the soft accents in the South. He took on the roles of Bill Connolly, Kenneth Willams and Sir Laurence Olivier to prove his point. He also showed us how we produce the different sounds by using the chest, throat, mouth and nose to hilarious effect.
Accents and dialects are tribal – it’s who we are. It would be boring if we all spoke the same – example The BBC! The moral of the talk – we should never judge people on the way they speak.
We finished off the evening with tea and biscuits and Derek judged our competition of a handcrafted card. This was won by Linda Taylor, with Pauline Ryman second and Sandra Smith third.
24th January 2017
Speaker - Paul Unwin, ‘Trading Standards’
Competition: Number of Words from Trading Standards
On Tuesday evening, 24th January 2016, Holmes Chapel WI started off a new year of great speakers and fun events. As our President was off travelling Linda Taylor took charge of this month’s meeting and introduced our new Committee and outlined their roles and also welcomed previous and new members.
After the business was dealt with the Speaker for the evening was introduced as Paul Unwin, a Team Leader from Cheshire East Trading Standards. He outlined the more common scams we could avoid and gave us lots of advice. As he went through some of the scams, you could see many heads shaking as we’d all fallen for one or more of them over the years, luckily without too much upset or loss of money. He had booklets, door stickers and flyers all to aid our protection against these people, but we were surprised to learn of how these scammers travel all over the country and pass on, or sell, your details to anyone who wants them, to make it more likely you would be hit again by another bunch of them. It’s big business!
We finished off the meeting with our competition result with Jean Jepson winning and Nora Eaton 2nd and Mamie Bell 3rd.
Speaker - Paul Unwin, ‘Trading Standards’
Competition: Number of Words from Trading Standards
On Tuesday evening, 24th January 2016, Holmes Chapel WI started off a new year of great speakers and fun events. As our President was off travelling Linda Taylor took charge of this month’s meeting and introduced our new Committee and outlined their roles and also welcomed previous and new members.
After the business was dealt with the Speaker for the evening was introduced as Paul Unwin, a Team Leader from Cheshire East Trading Standards. He outlined the more common scams we could avoid and gave us lots of advice. As he went through some of the scams, you could see many heads shaking as we’d all fallen for one or more of them over the years, luckily without too much upset or loss of money. He had booklets, door stickers and flyers all to aid our protection against these people, but we were surprised to learn of how these scammers travel all over the country and pass on, or sell, your details to anyone who wants them, to make it more likely you would be hit again by another bunch of them. It’s big business!
We finished off the meeting with our competition result with Jean Jepson winning and Nora Eaton 2nd and Mamie Bell 3rd.