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NEWS FROM THE GATEACRE SOCIETY (Apr.2010):
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Some other items from our April Newsletter
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Other local events this month:
Friday 16th April
Friends of Gateacre
QUIZ NIGHT at the
Gateacre Institute
£5 on the door, 7pm
Saturday 17th April
Friends of Gateacre
CLEAN-UP DAY
10am-1pm
Meet on the
Village Green
Sunday 25th April
Gateacre Chapel
SERVICE OF
THANKSGIVING
11am
ALL ARE WELCOME to participate in any of these activities. Former Belle Vale Prefab residents are especially invited to the Chapel service, which will be followed by refreshments for everybody.
For further details of the Friends of Gateacre events please email the FOG Chair, Terri Holcroft
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GATEACRE IN BLOOM 2010
The Friends of Gateacre - winners of the 'Best Small Village' award in North West in Bloom 2009 - have reluctantly decided not to take part in the event this year. But this does not mean that Gateacre will not be blooming! Instead of concentrating their limited resources on preparing for a summer 'judgement day', the small band of volunteers who comprise the Friends will be aiming to bring colour to the village throughout the year.
The spring planting has already begun, and the first of this year's Clean-up events has been organised. Anyone who would like to help is invited to visit our special FOG web pages, contact Terri Holcroft and attend the Friends' A.G.M. at the Gateacre Institute, Grange Lane, at 7.15pm on Wednesday 19th May.
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A 'CIVIC VOICE' IS BORN
As reported in our May 2009 Newsletter, the Civic Trust - the national charity with which the Gateacre Society had long been associated - went into administration a year ago. The steps being taken to create a new national body, to represent and assist local civic societies such as ours, were discussed at our A.G.M. in October. That new body is being launched on 17th April, and the name chosen is 'Civic Voice'.
The Society's Committee has decided to join Civic Voice, at least for its first year of operation, in order to give the new organisation a chance to become established and demonstrate what it can do for us. The cost for this first year is £1.50 per Society member (which is being met out of our accumulated funds, including the substantial book sales income of the past few months) but next year - if we decide to continue our membership - this will rise to £2 per head.
There will be some specific benefits to Gateacre Society members - for example each member will be entitled to receive a free one-day admission pass to any National Trust property of their choice - details of which will be circulated in due course.
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MARY ROSE SILCOCK
We were very sorry to hear of the death of our long-standing member Mrs Silcock
on 23rd February. Mary Rose held fundraising events on behalf of the Society in
the 1980s, and was also a stalwart member of our team of Newsletter deliverers.
Our condolences go to her family.
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Page created 15 Apr 2010 by MRC
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