{"id":111,"date":"2012-05-22T18:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romanysociety.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:41:09","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/pictures\/romany\/Vardo%204a.jpg\" alt=\"Romany's Vardo in its former site in Wilmslow\" width=\"275\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romany&#8217;s Vardo in its former site in Wilmslow<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Romany Society Events\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Society organises a series of events each year, with a residential weekend in the autumn, visiting sites associated with Romany&#8217;s life, or used by Romany in his books and broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Until 2013 we also had open events at Romany&#8217;s Vardo, which stood in his memorial garden in Wilmslow.<\/p>\n<p>The vardo has now been moved elsewhere (see the full story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/?page_id=81\">Vardo Appeal page<\/a>) and so these open days have ceased.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">New event May 2024:\u00a0<\/span>A guided walk to Old Parks Farm and Romany\u2019s memorial on Monday 27th May at 2pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The walk will take in the beautiful area, a favourite area for Romany where he wandered observing wildlife around him, and inspiring his later radio broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MemPanelOldFarm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1335 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MemPanelOldFarm-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MemPanelOldFarm-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MemPanelOldFarm.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Also to view the new information panel and Romany&#8217;s memorial birdbath.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Length of walk 1 + hour, farmyard and grassy field.<\/li>\n<li>Parking on the road at the entrance to Old Parks Farm, near Glassonby, Cumbria (7 miles NE of Penrith). Disabled parking in the farmyard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>IMPORTANT: The Romany Society has closed. The last formal Society event, marking the 80th anniversary of Romany&#8217;s death, was held in Wilmslow in November 2023.\u00a0 The last Romany Society Magazine, the issue for 2023 (number 28 in the new series), was circulated in March 2024. The website will continue to exist until a decision is made on how best to continue online information.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Position Statement: The Romany Society, as at 12 July 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Annual General Meeting on 13 May 2023 resulted in a formal request by members for an Extraordinary General Meeting to\u00a0 be held to discuss whether the Romany Society should be wound up due to the inability to secure a Chairman or a Secretary and following other resignations from the Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The EGM on 17 June 2023 resulted in a vote to wind-up the Society&#8217;s affairs. For more details <a href=\"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/?page_id=143\">visit our News page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Extraordinary General Meeting on 17th June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following our recent AGM on 13th May in Wilmslow an EGM has been called for and will be held at 10.30 am on Saturday 17th June in Room B of the United Reform Church, Chapel Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 1PR. This is an important meeting to ratify a resolution to dissolve the Society in line with its constitution. This follows the failure to elect new officers at the AGM.<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot attend in person attendance via Zoom is possible \u2013 please contact Stuart Redgard for details: stuart.redgard@mac.com.\u00a0 Apologies or comments can be sent to Derrick Murdie: mrdi@talktalk.net<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For reports on previous events\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/?page_id=119\">visit the Events News page<\/a><\/span><strong style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/romanysociety.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=119\">.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Events pages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/?page_id=111\"><strong>Events introduction page<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/?page_id=119\">Events News<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/?page_id=115\">Previous years&#8217; events<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romany Society Events\u00a0 The Society organises a series of events each year, with a residential weekend in the autumn, visiting sites associated with Romany&#8217;s life, or used by Romany in his books and broadcasts. Until 2013 we also had open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mistletoe.org.uk\/romanysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}