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For Up To Date
information on the fancy in our area its activities and its members.
Firstly, are you just looking to find out more
about breeding budgerigars. If so, please read through and enjoy this
site, and then click HERE for a general
guide to the budgerigar fancy. ( If you do that straight away, don't forget to
come back and find out more about Sunderland BS !!
I will continue to maintain and sponsor this
site, as I have for the past few years and welcome any contributions, from
members, to these pages. So--- I will try to play 'catch up' very
quickly and hope that members will tell me if I have
missed anything :-
President J Staples
Vice President G Carr
Chairman J Wanless
Vice Chair D Harding
Secretary J Staples
Treasurer K Thompson
Ass Secretary D Herring
Minutes Sec K Allison
Publicity Sec D Herring
Auditor vacant
The NEW programme of Speakers :-
Speakers confirmed
for 2013 at present are
JULY 4th
No meeting.
Trip to K
Allison's
aviary
AUGUST 1st Speaker to
be arranged
SEPTEMBER
5th
Dave & Pat
Herring
OCTOBER 3rd Adrian
Richards
NOVEMBER 7th
Speaker to
be arranged
JANUARY 2nd 2014
AGM AND GENERAL
DISCUSSION
I am happy to report that the society remains nicely settled in its new headquarters, the Grindon Broadway Club, Gregory Road, Grindon - which is on the same
estate as the North East National show Hall (on Grindon Lane, (top, right, on
map below). This room has all the advantages of our last
venue with none of the disadvantages and is extremely comfortable.
However,
it will be considerably more so with the addition of a few new members - or
indeed with frequent visits from some of our present members. Budgerigar
breeding remains a fascinating and stimulating fancy and in its very nature is
an ideal hobby for all livestock lovers, whether they be male or female, young
or old, able bodied or dealing with any kind of disability. We would be
delighted to welcome anyone who wishes to know more about our hobby . Our
members will be delighted to discuss the hobby with all who wish to know
more about it.
PLEASE PHONE DAVE HERRING 0191 - 5651415 FOR
DETAILS
Meetings are
held on the first Thursday
of each month starting at 7:30 pm.
As always, we cordially invite you to join us !
About the Society
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.
We are a
small society but there is still around 14 -20 people turn up to every meeting out
of a base of thirty 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!
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.
At our meetings, we
provide basic information and opinion on the
breeding and exhibiting of the modern budgerigar, through the
views and activities of our members, but chiefly via our visiting
speakers.After
conducting the society’s official business, which only takes a half an hour or
so, we spend the rest of the time in projects aimed at increasing our knowledge
of the fancy, either by 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.
This site is aimed to report this and as time goes on,
we hope to add more articles, etc about basics Please let us know what you
think of the site and any ways in which you feel that it may be
improved, by additions ---- or deletions!.
All fanciers - and especially folk who think that they would like to take up
this fascinating hobby - are cordially invite to come along to any of our meetings, as
a visitor, before deciding to join the society.
ANNUAL SHOW.
We hold an OPEN SHOW, with South Shields Budgerigar Society. This is
called the North East National -- see separate pages, listed in the
margin to the left hand side of all these web pages. The next show will be held
on Sunday, 21st August, in the Grindon Young People's Centre, Grindon Lane,
Sunderland.
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Subscriptions
for
membership of the society are far from exorbitant - only £4.00 per year.
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