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Start time 6-45pm.

I was extremely disappointed to have to cancel the previous meeting on account of the weather, although the main roads were kept relatively clear the side roads were very bad, as was the car parks in the village, it was this aspect that determined whether or not the meeting could go ahead more than anything else, I felt the hall car park in particular and the short walk to the clubhouse door were dangerous and that meant we had to cancel.

Start time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting is on Thursday 9th January 2025. It has been organized by myself (Alec Mutch) and the subject matter is working with Natural Edges or inclusions, that could mean a piece of faceplate work or something made between centres, as long as some of the natural elements are left on the item that’s being made will fulfil the criteria.

Our meeting on Thursday 28th November was a joint venture by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson, Alan was in charge of the exhibition lathes, one, two and four, Nick was overseeing lathes three and five as part of the training programme.

Start time 7.00pm.

This meeting has been called by your committee to discuss and vote on the proposed change to our club by becoming a charity. This change to a charity has certain advantages for the club which will all be explained at the meeting. If approved there will be a new constitution which we have already posted on our web site, it’s largely similar in structure but goes into much more detail, do take a look.

Our meeting on Thursday 3rd October 2024 was the last of our Shield Competitions for this year, it was organized by Nick Simpson and Rocking Bowls was the theme for this Competition. The Novice and Intermediate groups were required to make just one Rocking Bowl, the Open group had to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls.

Our meeting on Thursday 19th September 2024 was organized by Alan Geddes, he had invited Mark Sutton to do a solo presentation on the theme of Christmas. Mark is one of the founding members of this club when it started in 2005 and has remained a member ever since, holding various positions on the committee over the years.

Our latest training day was on Thursday evening 12-09-2024.

All our training days are organized by Nick Simpson our training co-ordinator.

There were 5 trainees along with 5 tutors on all our lathes, 4 of them were on their 2nd training session with 1 person on their 1st session. The training is usually split into 4 sessions, 2 with faceplate or bowl work sessions and 2 spindle or between centres turning, with the pupil doing lots of practice between sessions, it’s normal to set them free from the tuition after they have had 4 sessions. Some of them may go on to receive advanced tuition at a later date, our training also deals with very specialised turning as well as what’s considered normal.