The Fellowship

The Fellowship - An Introduction

Summer Tea Party 2016
From left to right: Geoff Robinson, Ann Harman, Pat Woodhams, John Woodhams and Sheila Somerton

The Helmdon Fellowship of Retired People came into being in the 1950s as a village group for retired people mainly through the efforts of Harold Gulliver, supported by Jim Jessett, Connie Storer, Eric Humphrey, Nora Nichols and Harold and Jean Seckington. It became affiliated to a county-organised association known as Old People's Welfare, and at that time was linked very loosely with Age Concern.

The name was changed to The Fellowship in the mid-1990s and is open to those over sixty, whether retired or not. The Fellowship's "get- togethers" were on every second Friday afternoon of the winter months.

It also ran fund-raising events, coffee mornings, afternoon tea parties, fish and chip lunches and other events to raise funds to support its members and subsidise coach outings, which ran in the summer.

Te final event was a tea party in September 2022 - see the entry in Helmdon Villager's Facebook group for photos (you need to be a member of the group to see the photos)

See also:

• Fellowship detailed history 1950 - 2008
• Fellowship News and News Archive

The Fellowship - Activities Programme