19/11/2025
LOOKING AHEAD …
The Fellowship AGM was very well attended and a fresh committee has emerged who will steer the Fellowship in new and interesting directions.
It’s going to be a great time to get involved, there are some exciting plans for the next two years that will see the Fellowship working closely with the Festival, the Museum and Bleak House.
Already the Fellowship has made the move to Bleak House and in December the Declaimers will perform A Christmas Carol at Bleak House; there can be nowhere better to perform this wonderful and timeless piece. It will be a very special event with a small party after the performance. All tickets have now been sold but there is another opportunity to hear Christmas Carol at the Pavilion on December 7th at 3pm. This will be a free event with cash donations invited for the NSPCC.
The December meeting, on Wednesday 3rd, will be another special meeting with food and drink from Dickensian times. Peter Silver, the chairman of trustees of Cheerful Sparrows is also coming to the meeting to accept a donation of £300 from the Dickens Murder Mystery and to give a short talk on the Cheerful Sparrows charity and how the donation will be spent this year.
The programme for next year will be published shortly and is going to be another varied year of speakers, social evenings and special events. Keep an eye on Facebook.
As ever, we would welcome new members, or guests who might like to attend one or two meetings. A guest fee of £5 is payable for each meeting.
If you’d like to just find out more about the fellowship then come along to our coffee morning at the Havisham & Cratchit tea rooms in Bleak House. As you can see from the posts on here, the mornings are jolly occasions and there will be members of the fellowship there to talk to . Second Thursday of each month at 10am.
We are so lucky to be in Broadstairs, where Dickens spent so much time, and even luckier to have Bleak House not only opening up a tea room but wanting to host events and be involved and active with the Fellowship.
Let’s celebrate the wealth of history we have, celebrate the man we all love, and come together to enjoy events that really are envied round the world!
We’re in Dickens country and I think we all have …
