Social Activities

It’s not all work in the Chelmsford club!

Annual Garden Party

This year’s garden party is being held at 2.30pm on Sunday 24 June and, as in previous years, in the gardens of member Lily. For more details contact us via email.

Last year’s Garden Party

Last year’s garden party was held on Saturday 19 June, in the beautiful garden of club member, Lily and her husband, who have hosted this event for the past seven years. The weather wasn’t as kind to us as it has been on prevous years, but it didn’t dampen our spirits and some of the children were keen to play croquet between showers.

This event is the main fund-raiser for the year and President Linda (pictured left, in red) presented Chris Moran of Chelmsford’s Women’s Aid with the club’s cheque for £1,000.

As usual there was a bottle stall, croquet on the lawn, a quiz and some splendid raffle prizes, donated by local businesses. We also held an auction for two prizes, a beach hut in Frinton and a beautiful, handmade quilt. This incredibly generous gift to our club had been made by the Vice Chairman of the UKPAC, Barbara Dixon. The winning bid of £110 was made by our host, Lily, who was delighted with the double quilt, pictured right.

Social Evenings

Every two months we all meet for a meal in a local restaurant. Sometimes we organise theatre trips (we saw Fascinating Aida in September last year) and we went to the Pantomime in January 2010 – Oh yes we did!