{"id":5035,"date":"2023-02-27T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:10:31","slug":"february-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/2023\/02\/27\/february-meeting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"February Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the update on our February Meeting at the Holiday Inn, Scotch Corner.\u00a0 We were pleased to welcome 3 prospective new members, and 3 students from Richmond School.\u00a0 The students are attending meetings as our guests in our Sharing Our Skills (SOS) programme this term.<\/p>\n<h3>History Talk<\/h3>\n<p>We had a fascinating talk from our speaker, Mike Wood on the history of Richmond before the arrival of the Normans.\u00a0We hear a great deal about the Normans and the building of the Castle around which the town developed, but the earlier period is less commonly known.\u00a0 Mike is a local archaeologist and historian, and Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondshiremuseum.org.uk\/\">Richmondshire Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 This is close to our hearts, as SI Richmond and Dales was instrumental in it&#8217;s being set up over 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He showed us a series of slides illustrating sites and artifacts found around Richmond which clearly proved that there was a varied settlement here during the Neolithic, Stone and Bronze Age periods, and during the Roman occupation.\u00a0 This was also the site of a major battle between Britons and Anglo-Saxon invaders which cemented Saxon control of the area in the early Medieval period. \u00a0He showed us evidence of the connection between Richmond and Cataractonium &#8211; the extensive Roman fort and settlement at Catterick, became a commercial centre specialising in tanning and leather working.\u00a0 There is also evidence of Roman lead mining in the district, with shipment of &#8220;pigs&#8221; via Hull.<\/p>\n<h3>Events<\/h3>\n<p>As we approach the end of the year, we firmed up on some aspects of our plans for 2023-24 (which we brainstormed in January), including discussing a possible Mindful Art event.\u00a0 Plans are well advanced for the upcoming event at Scotch Corner in honour of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\"> International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a>.\u00a0 Tickets are now on sale for the talk and supper with Dame Vera Baird, the former Government Victims Commissioner, on March 30th.\u00a0 This promises to be a very interesting event.<\/p>\n<h3>Re-cycling<\/h3>\n<p>Jenny Cathcart outlined new arrangements for some of our recycling initiatives.\u00a0 Spectacles can no longer be passed on for re-use, but a large bag of spectacles has been give to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/\">Specsavers<\/a>, who will have them recycled for materials recovery and re-use. Some of the outlets we donated to are no longer able to collect items, but she has been able to pass on mobile phones and chargers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/\">Oxfam<\/a>, and printer cartridges are now going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywt.org.uk\/\">Yorkshire Wildlife Trust<\/a>.\u00a0 These may be small initiatives, but every little helps!<\/p>\n<h3>Bin-Twinning<\/h3>\n<p>She also suggested members consider a scheme reported by our Federation SIGBI recently on a personal basis, as it does not fit our usual schemes.\u00a0 This is called &#8220;Bin Twinning&#8221;.\u00a0 Individuals pay to &#8220;twin&#8221; their waste-bin with a refuse processing scheme in a poorer country (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bintwinning.org\/twin-your-bin\/\">https:\/\/www.bintwinning.org\/twin-your-bin\/<\/a> ).\u00a0 This would be a good follow up for our &#8220;Toilet Twinning&#8221; campaign completed this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the update on our February Meeting at the Holiday Inn, Scotch Corner.\u00a0 We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,110,25,112,64,91,43,111,109],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news","tag-bin-twinning","tag-oxfam","tag-richmond-school","tag-richmondshire-museum","tag-scotch-corner-hotel","tag-sharing-our-skills","tag-sigbi","tag-specsavers","tag-yorkshire-wildlife-trust"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>February Meeting | News | Blog | Events | SI Richmond and Dales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Richmond and Dales : Blog &amp; News : February Meeting : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Richmond and Dales . 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