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History of the Club

The Club was formed in October 2000 in recognition of the fact that, whilst local women had (for example) the Womens Institute & Ladies Guild to support their general social needs, there was not a forum for retired & semi-retired professional & business men in South-West Herefordshire. The Founding Members followed the example of many other groups of men and set up this Probus Club to provide a forum for men who have in common a wish to meet from time-to-time with others who have a similar approach to Life.

Links to sites where more information can be found on the activities of Probus in the UK are given on our Links page. You may see reference to the fact that some Probus Clubs are linked to the Rotary Movement. Ours is not; it is fully autonomous. Indeed, we view with some amusement (albeit also with some despair) when people think that we must have something to do with Rotary, the Masons, or whatever. We have nothing against such organisations but we are very different! Whereas many Probus Clubs are quite formal, ours is relaxed & informal.

Over the years the Club has had a number of places for our Monthly Meetings. The first was The Neville Arms in Abbeydore after which, after a month at The Kilpeck Inn, was the Galanthus Galley & Cafe in Wormbridge and then The Memorial Hall in Ewyas Harold. From April 2015 to February 2019 we met in the Functions Rooms (upstairs) at The Temple Bar Inn in Ewyas Harold. The meetings from March 2019 to June 2021 (inclusive) were cancelled because of the covid-19 pandemic. They recommenced in July 2021, meeting that month and the next 2 months in the Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall. In October 2021 we moved back to The Temple Bar Inn (Ewyas Harold HR2 0EU) but that became unavailable from January 2023. We moved back to the Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall, initially on a temporary basis but that became our permanent venue, again.

Organisation

The Club is managed by a Committee whose members are shown on the Contact page.

The Club's present Constitution was adopted at the AGM on 24th October 2017 following a review of the original Constitution (dated 2003) that was made to ensure that the broadening of the range of the Club's activities over the years is covered properly. The Committee has adopted 'Procedures' that will be made available to any Club Member who wishes to see them. It covers such matters as the identification (in general terms) of the roles & responsibilities of the Committee Members (none of which is exceptional) and summarisation of the Club's banking and accounting arrangements. Those procedures were first formally brought to the attention of Members at the AGM in October 2017 following a consultation period in which Members were invited to offer comments on a draft. It is a responsibility of the President to advise Members of any significant changes to the procedures. This was last done in March 2019 when the Club's previous constraints on its banking arrangements were relaxed to permit use of Club debit cards and online banking

Web site

This site was formally announced to Members at the AGM on 28th October 2014 and was formally adopted at the Committee Meeting on 4th December 2014. Apart from goldenvalleyprobus.org.uk, the Club owns the following domain: goldenvalleyprobusclub.org.uk.

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