Carol Weyman, Chair of the Littleport and District Flower Club, welcomed everyone back to the opening up of the Club after a very long break of 18 months, and she and the Committee were delighted that so many people turned up for our return, 45 people in all. We hope that some of those who were visitors will return to enjoy the opening up and socialising again. Vicki Hease was our Demonstrator for the night,…
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Report By the Programme Secretary Pam Hayes A big hello to all Flower Club Members and hopefully new Members that might come along as a Visitor in the first instance to see what it is we do and meet up with other Members. The Club is hoping to restart on Friday 17th September at our usual venue of Littleport Village Hall, 7pm for 7.30pm start. Vicki Hease will be the Demonstrator at this meeting, a…
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Pam Hayes, Programme Secretary, Gives an Update It has come round to finding a report for the magazine and in these very difficult times it is hard to find anything to report on. Like most clubs we have had to close all meetings and so have not had our usual monthly meetings with our wonderful Demonstrators to see and admire. I am sure that you are all hoping 2021 will prove a more happy year…
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It is a difficult time to put a report in for the Club! With all the problems of Covid we have not had any meetings to look back on, and none at present to look forward to and with the restrictions altering all the time we really at present cannot see any meetings being held until March or April of 2021. The Committee organised a zoom meeting in October at which all of these problems…
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It is a sad fact that the Summer has gone and we have not been able to meet at our usual venue of Littleport Village Hall for our monthly meetings of flowers and friendship, so many wonderful Demonstrators have had to be cancelled and this August we should have been looking forward to a Saturday Workshop with the wonderful Barbara Collins, who is the incoming Chair of the East of England Area of NAFAS, this…
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The club has had a very good year of flowers and friendship over the past year and our membership has grown steadily, our demonstrators have as usual given us all great entertainment with their flowers and designs and humour. The year was rounded off at our Open Evening with 120 people coming along to see the magic of Gill McGregor, and the Club did a wonderful buffet for everyone to have before the demonstration commenced….
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Our Programme for the year started in March 2019 and finishes in March 2020. 2019 has proved a good year for the Club with excellent Demonstrators entertaining us with their wonderful designs, flowers and personalities and our Open Evening certainly finished the year off with a fantastic demonstration by Gill McGregor with her personality and wonderful designs. Gill had a very different approach to flower arranging with her different ideas and entertaining talk. She has…
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Since the last report we have had our September meeting at which Pat Barton from Attleborough gave a very entertaining evening with her designs title of ‘Where in the World’. Pat was a new Demonstrator for the Club and she proved very entertaining with her six designs from around the world. Her flowers were beautiful and filled the stage with loads of colour as well as her enthusiasm for the places she had visited. October…
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The first meeting of the new year for the Club was in March when the new Chair Carol introduced the welcome return of Barbara Collins with her demonstration of ‘Past Present and Future’. This was also Membership Night and the Committee were delighted at the end of the evening when the membership rose to 50 members so all the hard work over the past 3 years to gain new membership and rebuild the Club had…
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It has been a very positive 2018 for the Club with new members joining and a very good programme of demonstrators new and old entertaining the members at our meetings. The Club’s AGM was held on the 15th February at Littleport Village Hall when 38 members attended, with apologies from a few members who were not able to attend, and the evening started with a meal provided by Fairways Catering of Littleport which started the…
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