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Events Calendar The main mission of the British Charitable Society is to help others, but we are also a social organization and we hold events for members and guests in the Boston area. These events invariably have a "British" flavour - such as a fish and chip supper and curry evenings at local Indian restaurants. We are a splendidly social organization eager for members to meet and mingle with each other (and enjoy it). Our regular events like fish and chip suppers, curry nights, and the odd garden tea party have a British flavour but we throw in the occasional outlier -- like last year’s dalliance with Doyle’s Irish pub in Jamaica Plain – to keep us on our toes. Sometimes events are organized to raise funds, but always to raise fun. Our annual ball is our biggest fundraiser of the year and a grand gala night with all the trimmings. See the links below for witty reports on recent events and upcoming bits and bobs. Upcoming British Charitable Society and Other British Events of Interest Reports on past British Charitable Society Events
The 2008 British Charitable Society Ball
25th International Churchill Conference, Boston J.K Rowling at Harvard Commencement afternoons are often very dull, with everyone congratulating everyone else on how much money they raised for Harvard in the past year. Then came J. K. Rowling. In summary she told how being able to survive severe poverty- alone, with her young daughter and no job - gave her the strengh that comes from knowing her own strength. And she recomended cultivating, and unleashing our imaginations, so that we could better feel what it is like to be in someone else's shoes. The change of tone from money matters to highly personal and intimate ones shocked the huge crowd into the silence of rapt attention. When she had finished speaking, her audience came back from enchantment and gave such long aplause, wave upon wave of cheering, that it seemed that they would never stop. It was amazing. Harvard had never been so stirred since Churchill spoke here in 1943. The 2008 British Charitable Society AGM. On Thursday, 22nd May, 2008, the British Charitable Society held it's Annual General Meeting at the British Consulate in Cambridge and we are extremely fortunate this year to have had Alex Holroyd-Smith, formerly Capain in the Scots Guards as our speaker. Wih humour and clarity what it was like to be in an infantry regiment as it crossed from Kuwait into Iraq in March, 2003. See the new June 2008 Charter for a transcript Monday, 28th April 2008 saw the return of the ever-popular Curry Night at the New Mother India Restaurant, 336 Moody Street in Waltham, MA. Pictures from this fun event may be seen by clicking here. Christmas at the Consul-General's Residence On Wednesday the 12th of December there was a fundraising-cum-raffling-cum-carolling-cum-meet the "new" Consul-General party, and great fun it was too. Raffle prized were won by:
Armistice Day Services November the 11th was a Sunday this year, and there was the usual Service of Remembrance at the Old North Church in the North End of Boston. The Consul-General and the President of the British Officers Club are the official hosts of this service, but the real hosts are the parishioners who provide us with magnificent reception afterwards. The Reverend Stephen T. Ayres, the Vicar of Old North, preached on the poets of the Great War, commenting how their tone had changed from militarist, at the beginning of the war, to one of compasion for all who uffered in it, soldiers and civilians alike. "In the end," he concluded, "we all emain in God's love." The full text of his sermon may be read by clicking here. |