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December 2007

Friday, 7 December 2007

Indoor Meetings Entrance Fees

INDOOR MEETINGS - Entrance Fees
Regretfully, the cost of admission to indoor meetings will be increased from January 2008. The rise will enable us to spend more on speakers and donate more to the RSPB.
The new rates are:
Group Members £1.50
Non Group Members £3 (This rate includes RSPB
members who are not Group members.)

Friday, 7 December 2007

Children birding at Titchwell Marsh

Tombola News

As promised, the second instalment of the 'East Yorkshire Money Snatchers' - Jenny Copley, Sarah Robins, Trevor Malkin and me. The excess water on 25th June, which took its toll on so many, struck the Skipsea Gala and the ground was too waterlogged to have the fair. It was postponed until Saturday 8th September. We all arrived in good time to get our stall set out. (However, trying to keep Trevor off the huge bouncy castle slide was a trifle difficult!)
After a slow start we enticed enough people through our tent to give us a total for the day of £209.33 on the tombola, which became £199.33 after a pitch fee of £10. We had donations of £1.50 and took £6 for badge sales. Not bad for about three hours work. It was a lovely day weather wise and listening to a school steel band all afternoon just put the icing on the cake. (We had to stop Sarah and Jenny doing calypso dancing!) So the grand total for both Tombola events was £416.98. Excellent! And thank you all for your donations of prizes and keep them coming please. I hope to include a new event location next year.
Angie Bird

Many thanks to Angie and her team for their great fundraising efforts on behalf of the group. It is greatly appreciated.
Editor

Friday, 7 December 2007

View of Bempton Cliffs

A Passion for Seabirds

The new reserve manager at Bempton Cliffs told a packed November meeting of the Group that he has a lifetime passion for seabirds. Ian Kendall, on only his second day in post, came to the meeting and introduced himself to East Yorkshire members. He is from Cornwall, where he spent hours watching seabirds as a child. Now he can live out his dream at Bempton. Ian was in charge at the Lee Valley Country Park, near London and has a wealth of experience of reserves management. We look forward to seeing him at Bempton as he works for seabirds and to raise the profile of this magnificent reserve.
Sue Leyland