Social Groups
SUB GROUPS:-
SUPPER CLUB
meets 1st Wednesday of the month at 7.00p.m..
Locations vary depending on recommendations from the group members.
We started this group in July 2024 with the Buck Inn as our first choice, this was very daunting for me because it was an open invitation and I had a feeling that I would be a billy-no-mates on the night, but what a surprise I got when I turned the corner to see 7 members waiting for me. We enjoyed the food (because I have never been to a Wetherspoons Pub for a meal I was a little bit sceptic but I really loved the meal I had). This also enabled us to get to know each other and we have over the months become great friends.
Over the year we have also visited the *The Fox & Hounds on Bullamoor Road, *The Golden Lion Hotel, *The Blue Bell Inn at Ingleby Cross as well as a Christmas Afternoon Tea at Whitegates Nursery,
Our group started at 8 and now we have 13 members and it is still growing.
What a lovely way to spend time with friends and enjoying a lovely meal together.
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CULTURE VULTURES
This group covers Theatre, Art Galleries, Films, Museums and Stately Homes and many more
Locations vary depending on recommendations from the group members.
Our first meeting was to visit Georgian Theatre in Richmond to Jessica Swales debut play about the first women students at Cambridge. The Blue Stockings. A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage.
1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peer’s grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a 'blue stocking' - an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriageable
We arrived at the Georgian Theatre as prepared as a troop of scouts armed with our weapons of choice - teaspoons! for the interval ice creams. Poppy’s (obviously apocalypse prepper) had a quiet word and got her ice cream defrosted but poor Dawn was taken unawares and Culture Vultureswas still digging through hers at a glacial speed deep into the second curtain.
Whilst purchasing the ice creams from hell, we viewed a picture of the Theatre sponsor "Lady Crathorne, the off spring of the maker of our embroidered table mantle which has been passed to us to keep this heir loom in trust and maintain the bond of W. I’s in North Yorkshire. So, we have been passed the mantel both physically and figuratively. To mark the occasion our Garden Appreciation Group has picked the flower “Ladies Mantle” as their flower of the month. If you have not seen it, we highly recommend you do.
Victoria, Dawn, Shirley and Poppy at the Georgian Theatre.
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GARDEN APPRECIATION
we meet approximately every 2 weeks during the Summer months so we can enjoy the gardens whilst in full bloom.
Locations vary depending on recommendations from the group members.
We attend members' gardens, open gardens, RHS gardens and also stately homes. Whatever takes our fancy.
During the winter months we take it in turns to invite our friends round for tea/coffee and a chat, as well as some lovely home-made cakes.
THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GARDENING APPRECIATION CLUB HELD ON 13TH MAY 2024
It started innocently enough when the ladies on the Committee of the Northallerton W.I asked me if I would host the inaugural meeting of the Gardening Club, I said I would think about it, which was met with a rejoinder of “that’s settled then” put things in motion. So, on an idyllic sunny afternoon, whilst enjoying the Darling Buds of May, I had got the garden in “perfeck” condition for our guests. Then there came a distant sound of marching wellies, growing louder as they drew nearer! I picked up the murmur of a battle song - something about England’s green and pleasant land .... Suddenly the gate burst open and an Amazon hoard came pouring in, brandishing pitchforks, razor sharp hoes, lethal looking secateurs and dibbers, sharpened for hand-to-hand combat. They swept through the lush vegetable garden like a plague of locusts, leaving a Somme like landscape in their wake. This is a picture of the President's (Victoria) husband defending his garden.
This being our first year we have visited members' gardens which gave us the opportunity to get to know each other better and I would like to think that we have built up friendships within this group.
Our next meeting is in January 2025 where we will be discussing holding a Garden Party in the Summer.
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WALKING GROUP
meets on the last Friday of the month at 9.30a.m.
at the Tourist Information Centre but this can change dependent on the walk.
The walks last for an hour or so
A member of the group volunteers to lead the walks.
During the Winter months these will be town based. A coffee/tea ends the walk.
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BOOK CLUB
Meets every 2nd Thursday of the month at 10.30a.m.
At different locations.
We discuss books that we have read individually and recommend whether or not they are worth reading.
We have coffee and cakes and put the world to rights.
Everyone is welcome even if it is just for coffee and cakes