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AGM 2023 Reminder

Dear  Supporter, to comply with charity and company law we are required to hold an Annual General Meeting, which this year will take place at 7:30  on Wednesday 24th October at The Scout Hall, Church Street, Weaverham – details as per the agenda below.  Our chair, Tina Johnson, will outline our progress with the orchard, the […]

AGM 2023

Dear  Supporter, to comply with charity and company law we are required to hold an Annual General Meeting, which this year will take place at 7:30  on Wednesday 24th October at The Scout Hall, Church Street, Weaverham – details as per the agenda below.  Our chair, Tina Johnson, will outline our progress with the orchard, the […]

AGM 2022

Dear  Supporter,   to comply with charity and company law we are required to hold an Annual General Meeting, which this year will take place at 7:30  on Wednesday 9th November at The Scout Hall, Church Street, Weaverham – details as per the agenda below.  I am also attaching the minutes of the  last  AGM […]

Chairmans Report and Accounts 2020-2021

Last year, due to lockdown we held our AGM using Zoom but attendance was very poor. We therefore decided that, like many other local organisations, we would not hold an AGM this year but will do so next year when, hopefully, we will be able to meet inside when the new Sea Scout hall will […]

VE DAY

2020 is the 75th Anniversary of Victory In Europe day in 1945. Following Adolf Hilter’s suicide on 30th April 1945 his successor, Reichspresident Karl Donitz, head of the Fiensburg Government signed the act of military surrender at 02.41 on 7th May in Reims.  A slightly modified document was signed on 8th May in Berlin. Thus […]

Tom The Appleman

Chairman’s Report & Accounts 2019-2020

CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2019-2020 So far 2020 has been a strange year. Until the lockdown we were able to continue the work we started in 2019: re-staking trees and planting a few new ones. We are grateful to Tom the Appleman who grafted some scions onto rootstock for us. He also grafted some Wareham Russet scions […]

THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945

80 years ago, on  the 1stSeptember 1939,  the Second World War in Europe began when France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany following the invasion of Poland by Germany.  However it should be noted that, although neither had declared war on the other, Japan (aiming to dominate Asia and the Pacific) had already […]

Chairman’s Report for the Year 2015-2016

In 2014 the Woodland Trust offered us almost an acre of land in Thorn Wood on which to plant our orchard. After the lawyers had worked on the details we eventually signed the lease in November 2015 and we are very grateful for the support given by Neil Oxley of the Woodland Trust who has […]