IF WE DID ALL THE THINGS WE ARE QUITE CAPABLE OF DOING,

WE WOULD SIMPLY ASTOUND OURSELVES." 

GROUP MEMBERS' PERSONAL ATTENDANCE INDEX COLOUR CODE:

A.  SENT CONFIRMATION BY E MAIL or TEXT & PARTICIPATED

C.  TURNED UP BUT DIDN'T BOTHER TO NOTIFY ANYONE BEFOREHAND

D. CONFIRMED BUT DIDN'T TURN UP OR APOLOGISE

              

Recent Events from 1.01.2012.

2011 was a first class year for the Group and is portrayed on the Biking Page.

It is now time to give our thanks to its young chairperson RL who gave her all,continuously over the whole year and gained wide respect and admiration not only from the Windmill Group but from individuals,other charity organisations and commercial enterprises.

All of them speaking with one voice and with the one word

"Outstanding"

It is RM's turn now in 2012.

She has a very hard performance to follow after RL in 2011

but we have every confidence in her and ask all the Group members to rally around her and give her

your full support.

 

We need a Snows team this weekend Saturday & Sunday

7th & 8th January

The recent gales have blocked the track and there is also a large fallen tree hanging over the old kitchen block.

Weather permitting we need to clear these away and check through the grounds for other dangerouse trees.

Be at the unit for 8.30am. Back Sunday 6pm.

Bring usual food etc.

Full cooking facilities

WS CW BM RM

WT

This little team worked like Mighty Atoms in very wet and trying conditions.

They rescued the hut from being demolished and saved the day.

Well done.

You can be justly proud of yourselves.

Thanks to RM for leading them and for the pictures below

As you all know we are updating all your Duke of Edinburgh Records.

If you started with us prior to 2011 get hold of a memory/pen stick bring it with you to training so that you can download all the events prior to 1.1.11. You can then update all your records so that when it comes to submitting your books to the Award Office it can be done smoothly.

Those of you who started this year download the present Recent Events sheet from the website and keep your records up to date.

Do it before the end of the year as the Recent Events sheet will then go back only to June 2011 in order to fit the events which will take place in 2012.

An Invitation

 

Hello All

The Windmill Youth Group will be holding an evening to publicly present to the young members of the Group the awards they have achieved over the last twelve months.

This is a rare opportunity for these very special young people to have their achievements heralded at a local level. The emphasis will on each individual youngster and what they personally have achieved.

The date is Wednesday 18th.January 2012.

The venue is the fabulously new, Blackpool Sixth Form Theatre at Highfurlong. Not Highfurlong School but the new sixth form, the next one down towards Poulton. The one with the 'Brise Soleil' shuttering across the front of the buildings

The presentations commence at 7pm. and will be completed by 8.15pm.

This will be followed by light refreshment,in order to give you a chance of meeting the awardees.

The evening then draws to a close at 9pm.

Free car parking is in the rear car park of the college. (Last right turn after the college)

Then just follow the signs at the rear of the building to the reception area, where members of the Group who will guide you to the theatre.

We do hope you can attend.  All friends and families are welcome.

You will enjoy a very convivial evening and be very pleasantly surprised.

 

Wednesday 18th. January.

7pm - 9pm.

Blackpool Sixth Form College.

Windmill Achievement Award Presentations.

At the last count we have 40 Windmillers to make presentations to and that with the invited audience amounts to over 120.

Photgraphs by courtesy of DE

(captions above photo)

President of Blackpool Palatine Rotary

Some of our Benefactors

Some of the Audience

Some of the Awardees (the others did not look at the camera !)

 

 

Windmill Committee Award

Last Year's Youth Chairwoman

 

The Windmill Achievement Awards are the Group's recognition of the efforts

made by the Group members.

They are in excess of the usual Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and will (administration permitting) provide sufficient confirmation of a subsequent D of E Award.

40 eligible Windmillers for the award attended,with only three absentees.

JA EA NB TC JC NC AC SC JC EC JD SD ED PD LE DE ANG AG SG KH SH  RL ML JL GL CM BMC JOR JMC MHM AM KM RM RN EO JO AV SV AW KEW

The President of the Blackpool Palatine Rotary Club made the presentation of.

39 Bronze Awards

24 Silver Awards

24 Gold Awards

A total of 87 Awards.

We could easily have spent a full day outlining your achievements and showing photographs but we only had two hours.

So we had to compress all your activities and what you have done into that short time.

However the audience was very appreciative and supplied you with nothing but praise.

You can be justly proud.

Thankyou to all of you especially the new members for helping out with marsalling and serving refreshments after the event.

 

Saturday 21st.January

Lancashire Outward Bound Association Fund Raising Dinner

Marriot Hotel Broughton

Main Speaker

`Sir Chris Bonnington CBE

"My Early Days"

By RM & RL

 Accompanied by a brilliant presentation on Outward Bound 21 day Classics by these two Windmillers and as a result helped to raise £5000 to send youngsters on Outward Bound Courses.

Wednesday 25th. January

Training Stanley Park Arena

6pm-7.30pm

AG RM

NC BM CW KM JA NB JS WS EO KH RM SC LE WT BMC

AM TMC JCO EC MHM (CG INTRO)

RL KW SD JOR