There are three notices to read — 1) Coronavirus;  2) Council number for help for over 70s; 3) Fulwood Church stream­ing ser­vice.

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Update

Stumperlowe Probus Club is abid­ing by the Government’s latest advice with regard to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) restric­tions, and as such all formal meet­ings are cur­rently sus­pen­ded.

We recog­nise that we might be regarded as a vul­ner­able group, with an aver­age age of 77 and some mem­bers with under­ly­ing health issues, and lock­down for us star­ted a week before the coun­try at large when an emer­gency com­mit­tee meet­ing on Mon 16th March took the unan­im­ous decision to sus­pend all future gath­er­ings of the club until fur­ther notice.

When lock­down was offi­cially announced on 23rd March, we had hoped that we might be able to recon­vene in time for our sched­uled Annual General Meeting on Mon 11th May, but that date has now passed and our out­go­ing chair­man, Peter Curtis, has agreed to con­tinue in his post until he is able to hand over to our chair­man for the next two years, Glyn Davies.

That will happen at our first meet­ing back, when Government restric­tions on gath­er­ings are lifted and OUR MEMBERS FEEL IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.

“It is impossible to hazard a guess as to the times­cale at the moment but, taking into account the age pro­file of our mem­ber­ship, it is likely that we will be well down the list if restric­tions are to be lifted gradu­ally,” Peter Curtis explained.

“Consequently, all our sched­uled speak­ers until the end of August – two months later than at our last review — have now been ‘stood down.’ Fortunately, all are sup­port­ive and quite pos­sibly relieved, and all have indic­ated that they would like to rearrange future dates for their present­a­tions.”

Although we are not cur­rently hold­ing our usual Monday morn­ings meet­ings at Fulwood Church Hall, where attend­ances aver­age close to 50 out of a total mem­ber­ship of 64, we are still very much in touch with each other. Every member receives a tele­phone call at least once a fort­night from a com­mit­tee member to ascer­tain that they and their part­ners are in good health phys­ic­ally and men­tally, that they are coping with isol­a­tion, and that they are receiv­ing reg­u­lar sup­plies of food, medi­cines and other essen­tials via friends, neigh­bours, carers or family.

Meanwhile, we would like to wish our oldest member, Rex Mercer, a very happy 94th birth­day on Wed 20th May.