The Sunderland Budgerigar Society Homepage

Welcome to our Website - we hope you find it interesting!!

For Up To Date information on the fancy in our area its activities and its members.

THE NEW ORDER

(above, Mick Cooke (Chairman) and Joe Staples (Secretary) now lead the society officers)

HOW THINGS CAN CHANGE IN THE SPACE OF A COUPLE OF MONTHS !!! It seemed, such a short while ago, that this great society was more or less "down and out", but happily we are now talking about a building our club up again into a really vibrant unit, to serve the needs of Budgerigar fanciers in the Sunderland area and beyond for the forseeable future.

For more details, see the meeting reports page

For more about our meeting room - See below and the "What's On" page

DO YOU WANT TO BUY A BUDGERIGAR ?? Click HERE to a North East extract from the Budgerigar Society's Pet Breeders' Register (at the foot of our Members' Page), or to see the full nationwide list visit www.budgerigarsociety.com/pet_budgerigar_breeders.asp

3) The Sunderland Budgerigar Society is its' members! It is made up of people who all share the same common interest; keeping, breeding and the general care and husbandry of budgerigars. Some folk believe that a club like ours is only for those fanciers who are interested in breeding and exhibiting birds, but this has always been far from the truth. The history of our society is studded with fanciers who have never showed a bird at all. This is the case today and we welcome ALL budgerigar fanciers to our society, to share our experiences as fellow fanciers. Those of us who are also interested in the exhibition side of the hobby are equally interested in the budgerigars themselves, in their different colour varieties, and perhaps most important for our society, how other members also enjoy their hobby!.

For this reason also, we urge all fanciers to join our 'flock' , tell us about how they keep their birds, and see if we can do something about letting other folk in the Sunderland area know just what a great hobby we share.

(See the Articles page about the new Budgerigar Society initiative - The Pet Breeders. Register - which we hope will soon be open to ALL budgerigar fanciers). Meanwhile, if any local budgerigar breeder, whether a member of our club or not, is interested in having his or her details printed in such a register, please contact me, Dave Herring at the address at the bottom of this page, as soon as possible

Our Meeting Room and How to Get There!

It is in the parish centre at St Luke's Church, Pallion Road.

Access is via the main gates on the North (river) side and by following the footpath around the church - the pictures below indicate the route and appearance.

Please note that there is a One-Way road system around the church and other buildings. Parking is either in the street (cul-de-sac) outside the main gates or nearby streets . There is also a good bus service to this area

The Sunderland Budgerigar Society was founded in the late 1940's at a time when the budgerigar fancy was growing. In the intervening time there have been periods of decline in our membership, and the fancy in general, but we hope that following recent problems, the fancy is once again on the way up.

The budgerigar fancy appeals to a wide range of people, irrespective of ages and gender and Sunderland Budgerigar Society welcomes all fanciers, whatever form their interest takes, be it breeding birds for pets, to exhibit, or merely to keep as a collection of birds - for example, to enhance a back yard or garden.

We aim to provide a certain amount of basic information information on the breeding and exhibiting of the modern budgerigar, mainly through the views and activities of our members . Please let us know what you think of the site and any ways in which you feel that it may be improved.

So What Is The Society All About ?

You may ask, “ What exactly do you do in your society ?”. Briefly, we meet on the last Monday of every month .

Everyone is very welcome and those arriving for the first time will be welcomed to the society by our chairman; at this point. It is worth stressing that all fanciers are cordially invite to come along to any of our meetings, as a visitor, before deciding to join the society.

After conducting the society’s official business, which does not usually take more than half an hour or so, we spend the rest of the time in projects aimed at increasing our knowledge of the fancy, either by means of general discussion, viewing videos or presentation concerning other fanciers but increasingly often, as we build up in numbers we try to secure the services of speakers and panels from other societies and other parts of the region to come and talk to us about their experiences and difficulties in the breeding and exhibiting of budgerigars.

They also share advice with our members about particular problems or queries that they may have. We are always on the look-out for new speakers and subjects, so anyone who has any ideas about this should contact our General Secretary, or indeed any of the officials of the society.

We are a small society but there is still around 9 -14 people turn up to every meeting out of a base of twenty or so members who attend regularly. We have plenty of room for more, enthusiastic, members, who will help boost our numbers. The more the merrier! See our Members Page to be introduced briefly to our regular attendees.

We are hoping to move shortly into rooms which we feel that this will be more attractive to a wider section of the community, Old and Young. Watch this page for developments!!

Subscriptions for membership of the society are far from exorbitant. We charge only £1.50 for Adults per year and 0.75 for juniors and OAP per year.

The society also organizes trips out to breeders’ aviaries and once a year takes a bus-load of fanciers down to The World Budgerigar Championship Show in Doncaster. From this year, the show will be held in September, which should be better from travelling than the traditional date in November. Time will tell whether this is, all round, of benefit to the fancy.

THE SOCIETY'S OFFICERS for 2008

President Eric Ward

Chairman J.M. (Mick) Cook

Vice Chairman John Herring

General Secretary J. L. (Joe) Staples, 6 Rishton Sq., Red House Est., SUNDERLAND

Assistant Secretary (Acting) Dave Herring

Treasurer John Herring

Minutes secretary Eric Ward

Publicity secretary David Herring, 6 Chatsworth Street, SUNDERLAND SR4 7TR Tel 0191-5673933

Auditor Joe Staples

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