Meeting Dates

Meetings of Starcross History will be every other month, on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, in the brand new Starcross pavilion, from 7:30pm until 9:30pm.

Here's the dates that have been booked

Wednesday May 13th 2015
Wednesday July 8th 2015
Wednesday September 9th 2015
Wednesday November11th 2015
Wednesday January 13th 2016
Wednesday March 9th 2016

The principle of having no compulsory charge to attend this meetings will continue for as long as possible, because we don't want to exclude anyone. Starcross Parish Council kindly allowed us to have the pavilion FREE OF CHARGE for our first meeting, but of course, there will now be a charge to Starcross History. It's £20 to hire the room for the 2 hours, so we need to cover that. Our first 2 speakers, Alison Miles and Peter Hinchliffe, gave their time and expertise freely too, but we may like to offer future speakers their expenses.

Fundraising at the Meetings

• Please could everyone bring a raffle prize?  Go on. Scrounge one, or lose that ghastly ornament, those nearly-out-of-date biscuits, the strange cactus plant or the brand new toy-that-needs-HUGE-batteries.  The Very Vintage Hire Company  have kindly donated a £20 voucher. We will be selling raffle tickets for £1 a strip. Unclaimed prizes will be put into another raffle.

• Tea/coffee/squash and a biscuit will be £1

• Our quality, hard-enamel badge depicting The Swan of the Exe will be on sale:

1 badge: £10

2 badges: £15

4 badges: £20

btw

 Here's a pertinent quote from JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy
"
Weaknesses of Voluntary Bodies
The main weaknesses of such bodies is that they are hard to launch, liable to disintegrate...
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Charles Arnold-Baker. Local Council Administration. 7th Edition. 22.23