About our Club
Welcome
Welcome to SI Thirsk and District which covers the whole of Hambleton in North Yorkshire and whose members come from Northallerton, Stokesley, Easingwold and several villages as well as from Thirsk.
Where is Thirsk More information on Thirsk
Our meetings, which begin at 7.30, are held on the second Thursdays of each month, with additional events on most fourth Thursdays. The Golden Fleece Hotel, Market Place, Thirsk is our usual venue Golden Fleece which is convenient for the several members who opt to eat in the hotel beforehand.
Members come from, for example, business, the professions, agriculture, education, health and the voluntary sector and our Club activities are almost as varied. We all do our best to keep fit through organised walks and regular litter-picks, whilst individual members again took part in the Great North Run (see picture below)in the tradition of previous Presidents who have led sponsored cycle rides, swims and barn dances.
Recent topics exercising our brains have included The White Ribbon Campaign (Men Against Domestic Violence), medical aid to Sierra Leone and wine-tasting. Our Fundraising Quiz Evenings look set to become regular events. The Club has been sponsoring the efforts of Secretary Rosemary on a specialist book review website and we include a bookshop/lending library at our Meetings
Ann our Programme Action Co-ordinator makes sure that we take part in Regional initiatives.
Members of the Club about to set off on the Anti-Trafficking of Women and Children March through York on 2nd March 2008
Projects
President’s Charity for 2007/8 was the Hambleton Citizens Advice Bureau and the Club has already donated £900 towards building and IT costs. For more details of the local CAB service please click on the link to Hambleton CAB
President this year is Di Nicholson and her charity for 2008/9 is the Alzheimer’s Society.
President Di on the Thirsk Festival float
Regular financial support has been given for some years to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. After the successful completion of the local initiative to fund a respite bed in The Lambert Hospital, Thirsk, our Club is presently looking for another local ‘cause’ to support. All suggestions would be welcome.
Some years ago the Club helped financially to establish the Thirsk Community Woodlands Group and we are now looking to support the Group more practically with their work in seeding, growing and replanting trees across North Yorkshire.
The Club hosts the February Friendship Lunch at The Society of Friends Meeting House Thirsk.
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