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North East National thanks all exhibitors for 720 entries! -  601 benched ! Congratulations to Newcastle & Gateshead BS on another great entry !!

 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 :-

       I am happy to report that the society is 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 Us
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.

 

Officials for 2011.

 

President - J Wanless

Vice President - J Cook

Chairman - J Cook

Vice Chairman - K Thompson

Secretary - J Staples

Treasurer - K Thompson

Minutes Secretary - K Allison

Auditor - Vacant

Assistant Sec. D Herring

Publicity Sec. D Herring.

 

        

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                                                                              Last updated: November 05, 2011 06:16