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What’s onPlease find below a list of some meetings and event’s scheduled from April to
end June. As always, please check before attending any event. Please take a
look at the NVS website “Events” section for up-to-date additional information.
2025 Local to Type Description Location Start time
30/03 East of
Scotland
Meeting
& Talk
Annual General Meeting. Followed by talk
on Growing for Showing in a small garden
Craigie Road Allotment Society Hall, Old
Craigie Road, Dundee DD4 7HX
2pm
07/04 Midlands Meeting Committee Meeting Zoom 10.30am
08/04 Hants Talk Preparing for Your Show – Veg, Fruit and
other Horticultural Classes with speaker
Barry Newman FNVS
Sherfield English Village Hall, Salisbury Rd,
Sherfield English, SO51 6FL
7.30pm
08/04 National Meeting Trustee Meeting Zoom 7pm
09/04 Kent Talk The Kitchen Garden with speaker
Steve Edney
Bridge Village Hall, 28 High Street, Bridge,
Canterbury, CT4 5JZ
7.30pm
17/04 Midlands Event Countrytastic – Event for Kids
“Dig – Plant – Grow”
Malvern, Three Counties Showground,
WR13 6NW
10am–
5pm
24/04–
27/04
N/A Event Harrogate Spring Show The Great Yorkshire Showground, Railway
Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 8NZ
9.30am
27/04 East of
Scotland
Talk Talk on window boxes and tubs with
speaker Jim Williams FNVS
Craigie Road Allotment Society Hall, Old
Craigie Road, Dundee DD4 7HX
2pm
02/05–
04/05
Hants Event DA Display and plant sale at BBC
Gardeners World
Beaulieu, Hampshire 9.30am–
5pm
04/05 Essex Talk Life on our Allotment with speakers
John & Julie Wills
Main Hall, Hatfield Pevere Village Hall, CM3
2HP
2pm
08/05–
11/05
Midlands Event Malvern Spring Festival –
Stand/Display by Midlands Branch
Malvern, Three Counties Showground,
WR13 6NW
9am–6pm
09/05 Ireland Event Garden visit - An Tlonad Glas – The
Organic College in Dromcollogher, County
Limerick. Guided Tour by an Instructor
The Organic College in Dromcollogher,
County Limerick.
12.30pm
10/05 Hants Event Plant Sale Wellow Village Hall SO51 6BR 10am–1pm
14/05 Kent Event Plant Propagation including Fruit with
speaker Lee Woodcock
Bridge Village Hall, 28 High Street, Bridge,
Canterbury, CT4 5JZ
7.30pm
17/05 Scotland Meeting Committee Meeting Aytoun Hall, Auchterarder, PH3 1BJ 1pm
30/05–
31/05
Scotland Event Scone Palace Garden Fair Scone Palace, Perth, PH2 6BD 10am–
5pm
10/06 Hants Talk Birds in the Garden with speaker Steve
Oates, RSPB
Sherfield English Village Hall, Salisbury Rd,
Sherfield English, SO51 6FL
7.30pm
11/06 Kent Talk The History of Sissinghurst Castle and
Gardens with speaker Stephen Harmer
Bridge Village Hall, 28 High Street, Bridge,
Canterbury, CT4 5JZ
7.30pm
13/06 Ireland Event Cork Summer Show. See NVS website for
show schedule. Entries close 6h June
Cork Showgrounds, Curraheen, Cork Staging
from 4pm
13/06–
15/06
Midlands Event Royal Three Counties Show – showcasing
the best of British farming, food and the
countryside
Three Counties Showground, Malvern,
Worcestershire WR13 6NW
8am to
6pm
21/06 Midlands Meeting Committee Meeting TBC TBC
Role of NVS Chair
I would like to inform you that our Chair
of seven years, Sandra Hall FNVS has
decided that she is going to step down
from her position at the AGM this August.
We are deeply grateful for all that Sandra
has done and continues to do for the
Society and we look forward to her
continued support going forward.
With this announcement, the process
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of selecting a new Chair to lead our team
of NVS Trustees and help drive the Society
forward begins. If any member is interested
in standing for this role, any nominations
must be submitted to myself, General
Secretary, by the 15th May at the very
latest, (but preferably by the 24th April
to aid planning of the Summer SV
Magazine). The nomination must include
confirmation by the nominee that they do
wish to take on the role.
For your information, should there be
more than one nomination, details of each
nominee will be published in the Summer
edition of the SV Magazine along with a
postal voting slip so that all members will
have the opportunity to vote for our next
Chair.