A very warm welcome to 2023, how the time passes and the years flash by.
Our next monthly meeting is on Wednesday, 11th January, and I look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible, please ensure that you enter the building from the car park rear entrance and book in at the desk.
As always please try to remember to wear your name badges so that folks (especially new members) know who you are, if a group leader or committee member, again pleased wear your ID so that others know who they are talking to. Our committee members should all be wearing a lanyard with their name and function shown.
Please remember to either silence or turn off your mobile phones. We are reserving some front row seats for those who have a hearing problem, please use them if you need to.
Well, another Christmas has passed and we must now welcome a new year, 2023, it didn’t seem possible that we could imagine seeing in 2023 when we were young. I really hope that Christmas was a joyous occasion for all of you, with visits to and from family members and shared gifts and meals to think about during the coming cold months. I do of course know that for some it is a time if sadness and recollections of happier times.
I was so thankful when the mid December freezing weather ended and we returned to the relatively warmer 5 degrees, who would have thought we would welcome back the rain and slightly warmer climes.
I would like to offer tremendous thanks to all who were able to donate to the Hucknall Food Bank, we collected the magnificent sum of £320, along with a quite few bags of food, all of which have been gratefully received. This will be a tremendous help as so many more families now have to rely on the food bank for provisions in these difficult times. Many, many thanks to you all.
A great big thank you to our Social Sub Committee for organising our Christmas Social on 4th December along with the String Quartet and the Ukulele Group for their entertainment, it was a really good and enjoyable event. We look forward to 2023 events.
Likewise, many thanks for the film show “The Bishop’s Wife” on the 14th December organised by our own David Rose, with the accompanying sausage rolls, mince pies, cakes, biscuits and drinks supplied as always by Christine and John Berrill.
Also, thanks to Kim and her staff of the John Godber Centre, who look after us very well, we would struggle without their support.
Hoping we will all have an active and fun 2023.
Melvyn Francis, Chair