Potteries Model Boat Club Christmas Event 2024

You will all be aware by now that the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust have given up their contract to provide café facilities at the Westport Lake Visitor Centre and while we are aware that Stoke Council are in the process of finding a replacement provider, we have been informed that due to refurbishment work, the facility will not re-open until early 2025.  We had already booked our Christmas meeting with the Wildlife Trust and are obviously disappointed that we now need to find a new venue.  Your committee recently held a special meeting to discuss the situation and as a result, we can now tell you that we have now made alternative arrangements with a local pub, as follows:

The venue: The Function Room

at the Talisman Pub, Furlong Road, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent, ST6 5TZ,

a short drive from Westport Lake.

Note: for info - the sat nav location is about 50 meters up the road from the pub.

Date: Wednesday 4th December 2024

Club Members arrival:  12.30 pm till 2.30pm max.

Catering: A selection of ham, beef, cheese and egg sandwiches and sausage rolls with accompanying salad, will be available plus homemade mince pies as last year.

The facility is a pub and as such has a range of refreshments available which members will need to purchase for themselves on the day; tea/coffee, soft drinks or alcoholic beverages.

Events:  Our normal ‘Best New Model Competition’,

2024 Sailing Event awards and a raffle will also be held.

We plan to leave the venue (clean and tidy so we can get our deposit back)at 2.30pm.

Our Secretary, Bob Grayson has kindly agreed to take the names of those who plan to attend as we will need final numbers and names by Wednesday 20th November to finally sort food quantities. Finally, this event is financed from Club Funds and thus ‘free’ to members, so apologies but we cannot accept additional attendees.

Sufficient car parking is available onsite or in the adjacent streets if need be.  As Wednesday is a normal ‘Sailing Day’ those who wish to sail have time to do so, weather permitting, before our Event starts at the Talisman.

We hope as many of you can attend, as happened last year giving us a good closing event for 2024 and a chance to get together before the family Christmas and New Year activities.’

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                        THE POTTERIES MODEL BOAL CLUB.                  50th Anniversary    

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