Dear Members,

It is with great pleasure that we write to you today to set out our plans for 2025

Membership details are attached. We have included boxes to tick to let us know what other memberships you may have; this is only for us to consider when we are organising future trips.

Please let us know if you would like to be removed from the mailing list. Likewise, if you know of anyone else who would like to hear from us, let us know.

Please find enclosed details for the five upcoming day excursions and the residential holiday for 2025. The booking form is available for the residential however we are just finalising the details and confirming the bookings for the day excursions so the booking details from them will follow. We do hope though we will get these to you in the next few weeks.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Best wishes,

Hannah, Elizabeth, Bunny & Steve

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Dear Members,

It is with great pleasure that we inform you today that following our very successful early Christmas luncheon, Hannah and Elizabeth have come forward to organise a number of day excursions this year. Bunny has said he is happy to remain as treasurer and Steve is happy to continue supporting as before. Therefore this year we have arranged 2 trips so far, these will be the Malvern Show on May 12th and a shorter day visit to Jekka’s Herb garden just north of Bristol on June 6th. Preparations are also being made for a day visit in both August and September. We will conclude the year once again with a Christmas luncheon. 

We will not be asking for any subscriptions for this year however it is hoped that in 2024 we will be able to again run a series of day trips and also a residential holiday All being well we will ask members to sign up with a small membership fee for the year running January to December 2024. This sub will help keep the club going, paying for banking and any costs arising.

Please let us know if you would like to be removed from the mailing list. Likewise if you know of anyone else who would like to hear from us, let us know.

Please find enclosed details for the two upcoming trips. Jekka’s herb garden is small and therefore we are limited to just 30 visitors which will have to be on a first come first served basis. Details for the remaining trips will be sent out in due course.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Best wishes,

Hannah, Elizabeth, Bunny & Steve

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Norfolk Residential

It is fantastic so many of you have been able to join us for this delightful spring treat. We have a few more places available however our closing date will be Thursday 14th April. Anyone wishing to book at this stage please do call Steve first to check there is still a hotel room available. Balances would need to be paid in full on booking at this stage.

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Dear Members:

We hope you are all very well.

We are delighted to announce information regarding our three residential excursions we have planned for this coming year. Our apologies for the delay in getting this information to you, we have had a little struggle with hearing back from many of the gardens we wish to visit as they have been in hibernation over the winter. 

We have three fantastic holidays to tempt you with, our first being a trip to Norfolk which many of you had requested. We initially had this trip planned for 2021 then having to push back to this year as a fallout from the pandemic. Also originally planned for May 2020 we are finally able to visit Sussex with our base in vibrant Brighton. Finally, we have a new trip organised for August, we are returning to Yorkshire, this time based in Harrogate and will be visiting some very interesting gardens. Details of each of these excursions can be found by following the 'Residential Excursions' tab of the website.

We do hope to get the information out to you all for our Day Excursions which will also start in May, hopefully we will have this ready the first week in March, all being well. At this point we will also send out information for renewing membership with Gardens, Bath & Beyond. 

Please check our website www.gardensbathandbeyond.co.uk.  Completed application forms and payments can be made on-line by Bank Transfer and to Centurion Tours Ltd.  We will regularly update the individual pages of the website so everyone can keep in touch.

It will be a delight to welcome you all back onto our programme and for you all to get together again.   We hope you will join other old friends and new on one or each of the events and we welcome new members being introduced to our group.

Warmest wishes,

Steve, Bunny and Sue

(Steve Spiller, Bunny Harvey and Sue Carroll)