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Please click on the links to see photos etc from the events PREVIOUS EVENTSFired up with enthusiasm after a trip to a day conference at Huntingdon in 1991 several of our members decided to hold a Beverley "event" but realised that we needed a float before we could proceed so really the first "events" were the Barn dance and Hair and Beauty Demonstration which we held to raise funds. This float has been carried on from event to event and has just been paid to The Lairgate as deposit for the forthcoming Triple Teasers.
Beverley Group's first "event" was held at the Bishop
Burton College of Agriculture. We had 3 women speakers who talked about the
social history of women, women in the workplace and homeopathy. These were
followed by discussion
groups and we finished off with an open forum.
Reverend Tom Willis gave an interesting talk on his work as one of the few priests in Yorkshire appointed by the Church to investigate reported hauntings and restore peace. After discussions and questions over lunch we then joined 2 local guides on tours around the haunted sites of Beverley. 1994 - NWR National Conference at York Nine members of the Beverley Group were on the organising committee of what turned out to be the largest NWR conference with 600 delegates.
This was an event to celebrate NWR's Silver Jubilee and was held
in the Beverley Arms Hotel. A quiz filled the morning and then, after
lunch, delegates took to the streets of Beverley armed with clues to a Treasure
Hunt.
After the success of Caroline Bloomer's first Telephone Treasure
Trail Beverley Group were asked to host the follow-up. We decided on the
theme of "colours" and choose places around the world with a colourful
name eg the Black Forest in Germany and the Orange Free State of South Africa.
Delegates were able to choose 2 of a possible 7 workshops which
were all to do with forms of communication eg body language, written Chinese,
internet and sign language. We all came together at the end of the
afternoon for a demonstration of how verbal instructions are translated into
communal actions in the form of a line dancing session.
The Beverley Group put together a package of 4 items which made up an evening's meeting and asked groups around the world to join us on 10 January 2000 to celebrate the new millennium together. Over 3000 members took part in the discussion on the ethics of
spare part surgery, a cryptic quiz, a balloon debate and the toast to take NWR
into the new millennium. The final challenge was to design a square to
depict each group's view of NWR. Of the 300 squares we chose 41 to go on a
tea towel (selling 1000) and 12 to make up a mouse mat (100).
The event was held at The Lairgate Hotel. Lesley Hughes, the head teacher at one of Beverley's 3 comprehensive schools talked about the fact that girls are out-performing boys academically and how that will effect the working environment in the future. We then discussed the subject over a very enjoyable lunch and came back with questions over coffee. The majority of delegates were then taken on a historical tour
of Beverley by local historian Pat Elliott.
Three Beverley members decided that they had enjoyed their stint on a national conference committee so much during the 18 months leading up to April 1994 that they would have another go when York was chosen for the 2003 conference. We all took on different jobs and, once again, found the experience exhilarating and fulfilling (albeit very tiring). Would we do it again in another 9 years time? I wonder ....
NWR members said they had enjoyed our Quizzical Day so we decided to hold a similar event, this time in 3 parts - a quiz followed by a photo trail around Beverley in the morning and an antiques quiz in the afternoon. A theme of the 5 senses was incorporated into the quizzes. Once again the venue was the Lairgate Hotel who
put on a very good buffet lunch.
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1992
- Day Conference
1993
- Discussion Lunch
1996 - "Telephone Treasure Trail"
1998
- Workshop
2000
- "Millennium Event"
2001
- Discussion Lunch
2005
- Quiz Day "Triple Teasers"
