Bourne Area Group Newsletter November 2022 What do we want from our Area Group? Our last newsletter was in February 2020. A lot has changed since then. At the time, I’d offered to take over as interim chair of the group to give chance for someone else to come forward; needless to say, that hasn’t happened. The pandemic has caused other changes. We are no longer able to distribute paper copies of our newsletter with the Lincolnshire Trust magazine. So, providing this online version is the best way for us to communicate with you all. But, of course, an online newsletter won’t suit everyone. And many people won’t see our Facebook page either. It has, in other words, become harder to share details of events and programmes with members except through electronic media. We are still short of volunteers on Committee, particularly for a programme secretary. As a result, we won’t have a series of indoor talks this winter other than our AGM in the spring. And when we ran a few talks last spring, we only got 10 participants for what was a very good talk on climate change. It’s been difficult to get things back to how they used to be. But, if we run more talks, will members still turn out? If they do, is it better to have them on a day other than our traditional Friday? However, we will run our regular and popular open days at Dole Wood and Deeping Lakes; we will also run a series of walks over the summer. Details of all of these are to follow shortly. But if we are to do more than this, then it needs more people with the time and willingness to help organise and run things. I’m still technically an interim chair only (I would like to hand over the reins), Terry Connellan wants to retire as treasurer and we no longer have a catering coordinator to help run the open days. So, there is no shortage of vacancies. Not surprisingly, our last newsletter said pretty much the same thing. Ultimately, whether we have an Area Group going forward depends on you. (Vin Fleming) You can contact us by using our Facebook page:-
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