Events

Annual Mill Events

This page lists annual mill events from the point of view of Mill Trust Directors or volunteers responsible for organising or assisting in running them.

Mills Weekend Open Day

Organiser: Secretary/Assistant Secretary invites the radio hams.

National Mills Weekend is promoted by the Mills section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and occurs annually on the second weekend of May. We open on this Sunday which often falls on a regular open day. SPAB encourages mills that are not usually open to the public to open over this weekend and mills that charge for entry to offer free admittance. We do not offer free admittance - mostly due to this normally falling on one of our regular open days - so we do not participate in SPAB's advertising for the event.

A group of local radio hams are invited to the mill and they operate a special call-sign that is only used at the windmill on this day. They reach out to mills around the world and keep track of contacts on a board in the roundhouse.

Annual General Meeting

Organiser: Company Secretary.

This is usually held at St. Peters Church, Furze Road towards the end of April or in early June. All members are welcome to attend and should receive notification three weeks in advance, A speaker is invited to speak after the business of the meeting is concluded. The meeting is conducted by the Chairman with reports from the Treasurer and Technical Adviser or Maintenance Coordinator. Volunteers are required to make and serve tea/coffee with biscuits and wash up afterwards.

Speaker may need access to projector and screen or may bring own. Bring along adapters and power cable reel.