To celebrate National Volunteer Week 2014, Historic Ryde Society held a soirée for volunteers old and new, to thank them for their commitment to the Heritage Centre, without which the Centre would not be open. Twenty two volunteers attended, to hear James Bissell Thomas explain salient points of the recently installed Donald McGill saucy seaside postcard exhibition, and to learn other relevant details regarding the running of the Centre.
Several of the volunteers took the opportunity to have a spin up and down the stairs on the new stairlift, so ably launched by new Ryde Mayor, Cllr Roi Milburn, nearly two weeks ago.
Many of the volunteers rarely meet up, as the rota is run on a weekly basis and they work on different days, so it was a good chance to meet up with other volunteers and in some instances to put faces to names for the first time.
Many thanks to all who turned out, and to Brian for organising the goodies!