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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.

(above,Mick Cook (Chairman),Joe Staples (Secretary),Kevin Thompson (Treasurer) and Keith Allison (Minutes Sec)

   This is the third year of "our revival" and are still at St Luke's, although we are on the look-out for an alternative which will be at least as good.    It seemed, such a short while ago, that this great society was more or less "down and out", but happily we are  building our club up into a really vibrant unit, to serve the needs of Budgerigar fanciers in the Sunderland area and beyond for the foreseeable future. We still have room for more members and welcome ALL budgerigar fanciers, whatever their interest may be  -- you don't need (or wish) to show birds to be "One of Us" - please read on.....!

        We now have speakers arranged for much of 2010, and a great line-up it is ,too! .  For more details, see the meeting reports 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 If you, as a member, wish to be added to a Sunderland BS pet Breeders' register which can replace the present version, please let Dave Herring know as soon as possible - by email if you like ! (See the Articles page about the Budgerigar Society initiative - The Pet Breeders.)

 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 !  See the Members Pages for details of some of our members and plans for the future of the page

      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.

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

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, after a cup of tea or coffee and biscuits, 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 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!  

Subscriptions   for membership of the society are far from exorbitant  - only £4.00  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.

For further info or to advertise on this space please E-Mail david.herring@ukonline.co.uk
                                                                              Last updated: February 08, 2010 03:44