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GA Lincoln Branch

Contact

Secretary: Peter Penn
3 Branston Close
Lincoln
LN6 8AG
Email: Peter Penn
Tel: 07989 751929

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Programme

Worldwise Quiz
15 October 2009
Branston Community College


"Please say it's Geography" (Presidential Address)

12 November 2009, 7:30pm
Hardy Lecture Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College
Lecture by John Halocha, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln and GA president.


Chairman's Evening (Full Members Only)
10 December 2009, 7:00pm
Staff Common Room, Bishop Grosseteste University College


Sixth Form Conference
11 December 2009
Bishop Grosseteste University College


Is Venice sinking or swimming? How the city copes with rising tides of water and visitors
21 January 2010, 7:30pm
Old School House Teaching Room. Bishop Grosseteste University College
Lecture by Heather Hughes, University of Lincoln


Lambusango - a little rainforest in a big world: ecology, conservation and people
11 February 2010, 7:30pm
Hardy Lecture Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College
Lecture by Dr Bruce Carlisle, University of Northumbria


Digging at Britain's Social Geology: Using the census to unearth the geography of how and where we live
4 March 2010, 7:30pm
Hardy Lecture Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College
Lecture by Dr Dan Vickers, University of Sheffield


Earthquake Reconstruction Projects in Turkey
25 March 2010, 7:30pm
Hardy Lecture Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College
Lecture by Mr Bob Willmott, Civil Engineer


AGM (Full Members only)
22 April 2010, 7:00pm
Staff Common Room, Bishop Grosseteste University College

 

Dates to be confirmed:

June 2010 - Members' Evening and Evening Visit

June/July 2010 - Bunkhouse Weekend and Weekend (B&B) Visit

 

Read the Chairman's Annual Report for 2009 (399k)

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Branch Trip to India

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"Members of the Lincoln Branch recently visited Kerala in South India. We were led by Brian Harrison who runs a charity called Lincs with India which sponsors projects for disadvantaged people, especially tribal groups, in the Western Ghats. During our trip we visited four different groups. Some of them lived in remote areas and the party sometimes had to walk along forest paths and travel by boat.

We also saw a range of farming activities and rural industries including spinning coconut fibre into rope and we visted some rural schools.

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We visited a hostel for boys whose parents are unable to support them. The hostel provides accommodation, food and medical attention. The boys attend the local school in their uniforms of green shorts and yellow shirts.

Many of the boys are sponsored by people in the UK. Lincs with India helps to support the hostel and has recently improved the water supply by funding a new bore-hole and tank.

A total contrast was provided by a visit to the hill station of Kodicanal and the temple city of Madurai."

Patsy Booth


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