Winton AHS Flower Club

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About us:

We have had a very successful year with a very supportive membership and hardworking committee. We are able to keep going by fund raising at every meeting to augment our income. We are slowly increasing our membership and make all visitors very welcome.

In 2009 we organised four coach trips: February to Bardon Mill near Colne including lunch followed by a canal boat trip with afternoon tea; In June we had a lovely day out to David and John's beautiful gardens at Armathwaite where they made us very welcome and gave us a tour of the gardens, refreshments with home made cakes, plus a mini demonstration by David; a visit to be repeated in a different season, we stopped off at Windermere on the way home; September saw us visiting Barton Grange Garden Centre en route to Cartmel Priory for their Medieval Flower Festival.

A few of us went on the Region's trip to Belfast, and what a wonderful time we had. It was very well planned and such a shame that so many missed out by not going along. In December we enjoyed a visit to the Lytham Christmas Flower Festival and what a terrific show that was at Lytham Hall, stunning. In December also we visited Skipton including lunch and then on the Grassington Dickensian Village Festival, another successful day out enjoyed by all followed the week after by our annual Christmas Dinner.

Our Christmas demonstration in November at Salford University was very well attended including members from surrounding local clubs who support us every year. It was a wonderful demonstration by Bill Dixon with "A Touch of Frost” and very enthusiastically received. A group of our members took part in decorating Manchester Cathedral as part of the Manchester Festival last year.

We hope to have another good year beginning with a trip to Bodnant Gardens and Llandudno in May and to St George's Hall, Liverpool for the Pedamania event.

This is our 45th anniversary year and we are pleased to celebrate at our Christmas Demonstration in November with Neil Whittaker, a national and international demonstrator who has a florist business locally.

Our programme for this year is as follows, and we think our programme secretary has done us proud with a wonderful line up of demonstrators:

Programme:

	Dates	Title
	9 Sep 2010	Demonstration by David Ryland: 'Treasure and Pleasures'
	14 Oct 2010	Demonstration by Gilian Platt: 'This Time of Year'
	13 Nov 2010	Christmas Demonstration by Neil Whittaker
	9 Dec 2010	Christmas Dinner
	13 Jan 2011	Demonstration by Joan Hardwick; 'Let the Moment Linger'
	10 Feb 2011	AGM and Film Show: Lytham Hall Christmas Flower Festival