The meeting taking place on 29th February will be different from that published in the current programme cards.
Graham White and Jessica Brewer from The Churches Conservation Trust will be telling us about some of the churches that Trust owns, and showing us some of the glories of those churches. Visiting some churches in their care can also be included in our York day visit.
The programme for the winter season is announced today.
There is a varied selection of topics, and in at least two cases they will lead to summer visits to the places about which we hear, in 2012.
Programme cards will be printed shortly, and members will receive theirs in due course.
Tuesday 12th July 2011
The National Lottery has today announced its support for the work of an Easingwold society by awarding them a grant of £9,950 under the Awards for All Scheme.
The Forest of Galtres Society, the lucky winners of this grant aid here in North Yorkshire, has ambitious plans to widen its goals and use information technology to improve what it does.
Forest of Galtres Society Chairman, Dr Frank Kirk, says; ‘This will be a great opportunity for us. We are a small society, founded in 1953, so well before most civic societies came into being. We hope to study much more of the history of the area and to make an archive. This will be made available on our new website, which will be created as an important part of improving communications. The grant of Lottery Funding will enable us to use digital information technology, which otherwise we could not have afforded. The Lottery Award will pay for training in the archiving of information in an accessible way, and will enable us to participate in archaeological and historical research supported with good recording facilities.’
Three members of the Committee will have laptops and printers for the purpose of communicating and the preparation of reports and documents. This will enable the good work we began last summer with a Stone Tool Surgery at Easingwold Library, to continue. We have already enjoyed some supervised archaeological fieldwalking this spring, and hope to continue to widen our knowledge with the help of professional archaeologists.
The opportunities in front of us are really good and this funding will provide a great boost for the Forest of Galtres Society.
Contact: Forest of Galtres Society, Hon Secretary, Helen Kirk Tel: 01347 821685
e-mail: helen@forestofgaltressociety.org
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