Friends of St Botolph's Parish Room
We are a friendly little group who meet on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month,
in the Parish Room, 1:30 to 3:00pm.
We have a lunch club on the fourth Thursday of the month
at 12 noon, tickets £3.
All welcome.
What a fantastic year our ladies have had.
During Lent we managed to raise £600 for Martin House Children's Hospice Wetherby. For 7 weeks we served soup, a roll, sweet and tea or coffee. We also held a raffle and played bingo.
We knitted throughout the year for Ann the lady who sells the knitting for the Hospice, I think we have taken 4 lots of big bags of knitting, mainly baby knitting, clothes, blankets, etc. Ann has made £100s of pounds for the Hospice, where she lives and when she goes to the caravan and big events.
The ladies always support our church events by baking, helping and contributing where and when ever needed.
A few times this summer we have gone out to lunch to various places, for some this is the only time they manage to get out and go somewhere. We have had raffles and since the clock appeal have given it to that.
We have welcomed 3 new ladies this year who support the group. Mrs Whitehead, Janice and the latest is Janet E.
In December we go out to Christmas Lunch and we invite other members of Church to join us.
It is a lovely little group; if you would like to come along its the second Thursday of the month from 1pm to 3pm ,we also have a lunch club the fourth Thursday of the month 12noon to 3pm we have lunch, hold a raffle and play bingo.
If you are interested in joining us give Linda a ring on 07939967800.
I would like to thank each and every one of you for all your hard work supporting the group, the Hospice and also St Botolph’s Church.
We had a lovely meeting in September, we had a special day as it was Mary Hodgson’s 90th Birthday. We had cake and presented Mary with some beautiful flowers and Mary received lots of cards.
Mary keeps very busy by knitting lovely garment, gorgeous baking, makes cards and many other crafty things.
Later in the month we went to the Fig and Olive in Womersley for lunch. We were given and warn welcome and the food was delicious.
On Saturday 18 May, Glenis one of our ladies did the Zip Wire for Martin House, well done! Glenis raised over £700 for this charity. The charity ran this event over the weekend, over those 3 days the charity raised over £50,000 how amazing is this? These brave people doing this for the children’s hospice.
Most of the ladies from friends supported our plant sale & coffee morning by having stalls, baking, plants, knitting.
On the last lunch club, we went out to lunch to Crown Garden Centre, 14 of us turned up. We had a raffle and raised £30; this went towards our renovation of the church clock.
We all are continuing to knit for the charity Martin House, blankets, baby clothes dolls clothes toys etc.
Thank you all to these wonderful ladies for supporting St Botolph’s Church also Martin House.
Love from Friends of St Botolph’s
