Men's fellowship
- Introduction
- AGN 2011
- 2012 Events
Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month in the Church Hall, unless a visit or extra - mural activity is planned. In 2008 some joint activities with Euxton Men's Fellowship have taken place. Subscription is £1 per meeting.
Activities are planned to appeal to a wide range of interests and include illustrated talks , visits and social / sporting activities. Recent examples have been; guest speakers on The life and Work of Charles Dickens and History of Police Dogs Lancashire (The first county Force to use them), a guided walk around the (often sub - terranean) canals of Manchester city centre - followed by a fish'n chips supper at Harry Ramden's - a visit to the Dewlay cheese factory at Garstang and a joint bowls evening with Euxton Men's Fellowship at St George's Church Institute
New members are most welcome, simply come along on a 'second Wednesday or contact one of the committee members (after 10.00am services on Sunday). Similarly we would love to hear from anyone who would like to offer their services as a guest speaker (telephone Chorley 01257 263245).
MEN’S FELLOWSHIP GROUP
The Annual General Meeting and Social Evening of the Group was held on Wednesday the7th. December in the Church Hall: there were eleven members present with apologies being received and accepted from three other members.
David Horsfield and Bill Greenwood were re-elected as the programme organisers/secretaries with Derek Beaumont again filling the position of Treasurer. A review of the past year’s programme highlighted the two bakery evenings which had been introduced to the programme and the highly successful trip to the Leyland Recycling Plant. Theses high points were offset with reference to the loss of one of the members, Fred Williams, and the protracted illness of Brian Clayton.
The Treasurer indicated that, while the financial position of the Group was sound, he was awaiting the results of the raffle of the Christmas stamps before he would be in a position to produce the final balance sheet. The Treasure also announced that he and his wife would be relinquishing the organisation of the Spring Plant sale: as a consequence of this he recommended that the meeting subscription be raised from £1 to £2 to cover the possible loss of income from this revenue stream while retaining the annual subscription level at £5. The recommendations were accepted with the proviso that the issue be looked at again in the light of a volunteer being found to organise the plant sale. Mr. Beaumont and Margaret were thanked for the work they had carried out over the years in organising the plant sale. Efforts would be made to find a volunteer replacement.
The dates for the scheduled meetings for 2012 were presented and accepted, together with a plea for ideas/suggestions which could be incorporated into the programme. The meeting ended at 7.55p.m.with the thanks of those present being expressed for the work which had gone into the making and presentation of the past year’s programme.
SOCIAL EVENING.
This consisted of the usual involvement in a range of games and a quiz, together with the annual Chef of the Year competition which, on this occasion was won by Bill Greenwood with his Victoria Sandwich.
The winners of the games’ prizes were:-
Darts- Gerald Downing
Dominoes-Bill Greenwood
Quoites-Bill Walker
Beetle-Derek Beaumont
Quiz-David Horsfield …………with David also being the overall winner.
The Hot Pot refreshments went down a treat before the Cinderellas had to leave at well after the curfew hour.