Past President: Mary Faull
Mary is one of the mainstays of our Club having been a member for many years. She has a wealth of knowledge not only in flower arranging, but of other clubs and how NAFAS (National Association of Flower Arranging Societies) functions.
President: Sue Nice
Sue is an ex chairman, always there to help and advise beginners, novices and those wishing to brush up on their flower arranging skills.
Vice Presidents:
Gladys Bettison
Gladys is our oldest member; she has been a member of Guildford Flower Club for over 50 years. She has an amazing wealth of knowledge and experience in all flower arranging matters. Gladys is always happy to give help and advice to all our members.
Joan Mills
Joan has been a member of the club for many years. She is a past Chairman of the club. She is also our representative for the Surrey area.
Chairman: Cynthia Bromwich
Cynthia is our new chairman this year. She is looking forward to her time as chairman with the help and support of all in the club. She always has a smile on her face and is happy to chat to everyone about all aspects of the club.
Secretary: Janet Weil
Janet deals with all the correspondence for the Club and manages the month to month running of the Club.
Treasurer: Brenda Fox
Brenda greets everyone at the door, asking them to sign in for health and safety, she looks after all our finances and collects membership fees, subs etc.
Programme Secretary: Janet Sutton
Janet puts together the Club's annual programme; together with the rest of the Committee, she thinks of all the titles for the Club's monthly competitions, books the Demonstrators, and helps on the Plant Stall.
Maureen Collin Maureen is also the Judge's steward, and takes the Judge through the monthly competition keeping track of the points awarded to everyone; new members will begin in the novice class and progress through the classes by the awarding of points as detailed in your membership card. You may prepare your exhibit at home and bring it to the hall, or you can assemble it at the hall as long as it is completed for judging by 7.20pm. Maureen also greets the Demonstrator and arranges refreshments for them.
Maureen Clarke
Maureen is at the door when everyone arrives, she sells the raffle tickets. The raffle prizes are the demonstrator's designs and the raffle is drawn at the end of the evening. Maureen is also our representative at the Jacobs Well Residents Association who own and manage the Hall.
Lisa-Jayne Lewis
Lisa is our Publicity Officer, She arranges for our Club to be as widely advertised as possible, if you have any suggestion for publicity or can take a poster or flier to help with this, please see Lisa. We are always very grateful for any help with publicity. She is also to be found managing the public address system at the Club meetings.
Trading/Publications Table: Helen Norman
Helen manages our Trading/Publications Table which has the Flower Arranger magazine (the quarterly publication especially for flower arrangers) for the members, it also has many other NAFAS publications, gift wrap, greetings cards, gift ideas etc .
Sales Table:
The sales table is overseen by Cynthia with different club members manning it each month. They will give you advice on what is available and how to use it. If there is anything you cannot find and would like to have, don't hesitate to ask and we will endeavour to get it for you if possible.
This is how the Officers and Committee are made up and we are all here to help. Conversely if anyone feels able to help us in any way we are very pleased to know. We are all very hard working and like most women have three hands but an extra pair would come in very handy, we are always grateful for any help either with fundraising, the Cathedral Flower rota and especially the monthly tea rota and the vote of thanks.