2025 January Newsletter - click to download the latest newsletter for our news, articles and member's events/talks.
AGM at Bowburn Community Centre, Durham Road, Bowburn, DH6 5AT on Saturday 29 March 2025 at 9.30am-10.30am.
It will follow the usual format and we are organising an exhibition and two speakers for the remainder of the programme. We intend the day to end at 3.00pm.
Message from the Chair I trust you have all made it through the festive season without too many seasonal challenges. The winter months may be quiet for some of our groups however looking at the activity on our Facebook page many organisations take the opportunity to tidy up the projects from the previous year and plan new projects for the coming year. In some cases it may be the coming years, should that project require such dedication.
Our AGM is almost finalised and the planned exhibition should be very interesting and well worth a visit.
I have been saddened to hear of so many groups struggling and mostly due to a decline in membership. My own group in Lanchester is one where getting folks to join the committee is proving impossible. The members are all folks who volunteer for many groups around the village and just haven’t time to take on more work. This is a similar situation for the Forum committee. We are struggling to sustain the level of workload required and may have to cut back on some of our activities in the year ahead.
However on a lighter note our draft activity plan for 2025 is looking positive and we will try to find something for everyone in the future. Please do consider joining the committee if you have time. We have reduced the number of committee meetings a year by half so less time talking more time in action.
See you at the Exhibition and hopefully the AGM Bowburn Community Centre Saturday 29th March.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for ALL groups and individuals become due on 31 December 2024
18th Feb - Upstairs Downstairs in the Country House - Richard Pears.
18th Mar - Thomas Kenny VC - Thomas Kenny was an ordinary miner from a very small south-east Durham village. He went to war and came back a hero. - Margaret Hedley
Talks will begin at 7.00pm with login available from 6.40pm. We will send a link for the Zoom meeting to a representative of every group and each individual CDFHH member. It is then up to you to resend that link to all your group members.
Click to view our 2025 programme, also other events.
Donnison School Heritage Centre in Sunderland - Programme of events.
A voluntary association of local history societies and groups, heritage organisations and individuals interested in sharing and promoting the history and heritage of County Durham.