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2023 Winter Update

News Update: The 2022 Final Accounts and the minutes of the 2022 AGM as well as the agenda for the 2023 AGM are now available in the Members Only Area.

Welcome to 2023!

After the snow has given our gardens and allotments a bit of a bashing, lets hope that 2023 will bring an abundance of vegetable and fruit crops as well as flowers.

Our AGM is on the 14th March and details will follow at the end of the month.
There will be changes. A new Treasurer and Secretary as well as an assistant secretary/events co-ordinator. The Trading Hut will be jointly managed by a group of Committee members, with few changes, but we will need more volunteers for unloading when heavy stock arrives.
Arrangements for both our Spring and Annual Shows have been made at St Stephen’s and we hope these will be as successful as last year.
We welcome new members to our Society to get the benefits we are able to offer.

GPHS Dates for 2023:

AGM
14TH MARCH 7 o’clock for 7.30
At St Stephen’s Birthday Hall, at rear

COACH OUTING to Savill Garden
14th MAY
MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE

PLANT SWAP
27th and 28th MAY
Saturday 27th 10 – 4 o’clock and Sunday 28th 10 to 2 o’clock
Outside Trading Hut, allotment site

SUMMER FLOWER SHOW
1st JULY
Large Hall St Stephen’s

ANNUAL SHOW
2nd SEPTEMBER
Large Hall St Stephen’s

CHRISTMAS LUNCH
10th DECEMBER
North Enfield Conservative Club

Annual Show 4th Sept. 2021

Wow! Probably one of the best Shows the Society has had in recent memory.
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Attendance was about 90 members and 40 visitors, and we also signed up 3 new members on the day. We are victims of our own success with so many entrants – 36 including 8 first timers, and one junior entry. Nearly 300 exhibits and too little space and time to get everything done, but we did it all just in time.
Everyone did so well and Cllr Terence Neville who gave out the trophies and vouchers, was extremely impressed. He said a few very nice words and flowers were presented to him by Milo and Seren Oliver and he then pulled the numbers for our raffle, after which we had our usual frantic auction of donated exhibits, including vegetables, flowers, cakes and preserves.

A big thank you to everyone that attended and helped set up, run the kitchen, and serve the cakes and a big thank you to all the cake makers.
Some of the cakes could have won a prize in the Show!
And the trophy winners were:

JH JEFFRIES CUP FOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT, HIGHEST POINTS – Devina and Arun Rishi
JACK HUMPHRIES CUP FOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT, BEST EXHIBIT – Derek Florin
VIC MANN CUP FOR FIVE KINDS OF VEGETABLES, BEST IN CLASS – Derek Florin
HONOUR EWART CUP FOR PRESERVES – Julie Floyd and Paul Osborne
GPHS COOKERY CUP – Lesley Dufton
WRAGG BROTHERS FOR CHRYSANTHEMUMS,HIGHEST POINTS – Evan Theodorides
LESLIE LAWRENCE CUP FOR DAHLIAS, HIGHEST POINTS – Ken Wong
JOHN PAYNE CUP FOR FLOWERS – HIGHEST POINTS – Evan Theodorides
NORMAN FRANCIS CUP FOR POTTED PLANTS – Devina and Arun Rishi
LESLEY DEVERELL TROPHY FOR NOVICES – Pauline Jeffries