NEWS LETTER

Autumn 2010

When you contact us please state your "COUNTY".

If you click on the All Ireland website, you will find their next All Ireland Rally 2011, is organized to be held on May 26th 2011, on the Cork Mallow Racecourse, in the conference centre. All Ireland Probus have been holding a Probus Rally since 2005, and it would be interesting to hear from you; should we in the UK organize similar events? Please see left to CONTACT us.

Today the 24th August started with rain, so I thought I would start the Autumn Newsletter. Weather-wise it been a mixed-odd sort of summer! Good in places but generally mixed to medium. But apart from today our late summer is proving more settled, currently good; but feeling a bit back-end-ish. And yet who knows there is still time to have a late Indian summer!

On Monday September 20th our local Filey Club will be giving a very warm welcome back party in St Johns Church Hall; to our re-visiting Australian friends, who we contacted last year through these pages.
Australia has a population of about twenty one million, approximately a third the size of us in the home country. Currently there are 2244 Probus Clubs in Australia with 184,207 members, and the majority of these clubs are of mixed gender membership.
New Zealand has currently 457 clubs, and again the majority of their clubs are also mixed; Men and ladies

So our message to our brothers and sisters from down under planning their visit to UK. Please search down the Register on this site, and contact the nearest UK probus Club to where you will be staying. Current experience this summer from members indicates you will make lifelong friendships, and who knows you may even give their club a talk.
Best wishes
GC

Summer 2010

"Within reach of approximately 186,000 Probus Members & Past Members in the UK, and many others around the world"- This is what we say on our "Title Page". Because we have been told many times that there are over 2000 Probus Clubs in the UK, plus all the past members who now just read these pages!
But there has been no carefull research into the proof of the above! So over the next few months with your help we hope to list as many Probus Clubs as possible, so newly retired gentlemen will know where you live.
But please remember we can only list your club on the register if we receive an email request from your committee giving the precise title of your club, and the email address of your appointed communications officer.

The "first days of summer"? or nearly so! Can we sigh with relief?; still a bit cool but we are slowly getting there!
This is a time of year when World Probus Visitors to the UK are considering how much luggage to take, and whom they are coming to see. Please contact one of our Probus clubs on the register We are sure they will invite you to a meeting, and their local knowledge will be most helpful to you to visit all the best places..

The number of visitors to our UK Probus website is increasing. if our fourth year ending 30th November reaches 56,000, we will have had twenty thousand or more visitors in the last twelve months. Probus is growing rapidly throughout the world. Joining probus we make many friends which improves all our interests, and the quality of our lives.
More later
Best wishes
GC

Spring 2010

April 1st!
Thank goodness its Spring! Or is it! Because even this morning some of our members are still struggling in the snow, and of course our best wishes go out to them.
The worst winter in 30 years they say! all this snow, in a period of global warming too? When we were much younger we used to listen to all these scientific reports, weather predictions and discussions with great interest; now from all your comments we listen with only humorous passing partial hearing.

Now we can report a success! More clubs are adding their Club Name to the Club Register; and more potential members are finding probus clubs in the register near to where they live.
Please keep them coming, especially from new clubs, if you are a New Probus Club please send us your details to put on the Club Register; see left so new potential members can find you.

We are also receiving more emails from ladies wishing to start their own ladies Probus Club. If there is not a Ladies Club in your area, please make contact with the President of your local Rotary Club, tell him about your need for a local Ladies Probus club, and ask him if he will appoint you as a founder member for a new probus club in your area. Then all you have to do is find new committee members willing to begin a new probus club.

Best wishes
GC

Winter 2009 / 2010

To our surprise! A festive white winter arrived before Christmas; and has stayed! and stayed! With ever increasing depth of snow! And ever decreasing temperatures; recorded as low as -18 degrees, and generally at -6 degrees. Of course most of us were delighted to see the white stuff for Christmas. When did we have the last one? We could not remember. But on January 9th as I write this letter, roll on spring! And with no end in site it is already being compared to 1947! I wonder how many of us can remember that winter?

Club membership seems to be holding steady! As we prepare for our A.G.M. we had six new members last year. But sadly two members died, and four left the area or stopped coming because of age; so we are holding steady at 64 members on our active list, and nine on our supplemental list.
More Later
Best wishes
GC