THE TEESSIDE BRANCH FACT-FILE

A few facts about the Teesside Branch....some such as our meeting place are important, others are included to satisfy the curiosity of those of interested in such things as statistics and history!

Branch Meetings  

Held on the second Wednesday of every month (except August on the rare occasions when Easter interferes). Refer to our programme for dates.
 

They are held in the Elmwood Youth & Community Centre, at the junction of Darlington Road and Greens Lane, Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees
(Click to see location map)

Speaker meetings begin promptly at 7:15pm is a short interval at half time for refreshments.

Table show classes are judged at the interval:

Cactus, Succulent, Cactus or Succulent in Flower

There is no admission charge .

 

 Members enjoy the food at one of our quiz nights

 

Although our monthly meetings are our primary activities, we do a whole lot more besides.
More information about the events the Teesside Branch organise can be found accompanying the photographs in the Picture Gallery.

 Membership

Teesside Branch has just under 50 paid up members.

A total of about 24 different people (plus guests and and visitors) attended our monthly meetings during the course of 2018.
This number includes a spread of ages, and both sexes are represented with a little under a third of those attending being ladies.

Our attendance for 2018 was in the range 14 to 21 with an average of just under 18.


 

Committee

The Teesside Branch committee is scheduled to meet formally twice each year (typically March and October)
but additional meetings are added as and when they are deemed necessary. The advantage of having a large committee is that the workload is shared represent all our members.

 Geographic Location

The Teesside Branch is part of Zone Oneof the BCSS. The only other Branch in the Zone being Northumbria Branch (our neighbours to the north who meet in Newcastle).
To the south the nearest Branches are Leeds, York and Bridlington.

A full list of all BCSS Branches is here
UK Map

History

The Teesside Branch was inaugurated on 17th October 1958. The Inaugural Officer was Mr K. Robinson of Manchester who was assisted by Mr G. Walker and Mr L.K. Thompson of Darlington. The first Branch Honorary Secretary was Tom Lavender. See reports of the formation of Teesside Branch.

In March 2018, to celebrate our 60th Anniversary, a special event was held ( see picture gallery) at which the BCSS President, Dr Colin Walker, cut our anniversary cake.

 50th anniversary cake

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