SLIMBRIDGE DOWSING GROUP - Providing a forum for dowsers throughout Gloucestershire


The Slimbridge Dowsing Group

in Gloucestershire was formed by Peter Golding in 2003 in response to requests following a talk given to the Local History Society on the discovery, by dowsing, of an ancient labyrinth in the village. The formal Inaugural Meeting was held on 23 November 2006.

Join us and discover:

The ancient skill of Water Divining; how to locate unseen underground archaeological features; how to diagnose and relieve health problems in people and animals.

We welcome enthusiasts and beginners from throughout the county and beyond at our fortnightly practical sessions held at the Slimbridge Village Hall, opposite the Church, (Other venues if sufficient support.)

Meetings are open to everyone, novices, members and non-members alike. Members £2; Non-members £3.
Second Thursdays 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Fourth Saturdays 10:30am to 11:30 noon. For a full listing select 'Events' from the menu.

Slimbridge Dowsing Group

is affiliated with The British Society of Dowsers.

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Slimbridge dowsers

Ann

SLIMBRIDGE DOWSING GROUP - COMMITTEE


At the 2009 AGM, most of our long-standing (and long-suffering!) Committee were returned unopposed. One newcomer, Jon Martin, was heartily welcomed, and we bid a reluctant farewell to Arthur Marrow, who has recently moved out of the area but hopes to continue coming to some meetings.

Slimbridge Dowsing Group Comittee

Back row: Jim Greatrix, Jon Martin, Peter Gibson (Vice Chairman) Trish Mills (Publicity and Newsletter), Ann Jones (Refreshments)
Front row: Barbara Davis (Secretary and Membership), Peter Golding (Chairman), Barry Goldring (Treasurer)


Chairman Peter Golding

01453 890316
email:

Vice-chairman Peter Gibson

01453 890820
email:

Secretary Barbara Davis

01453 890679
email:

Publicity Secretary Trish Mills

Tel: 01453 545855  or e-mail

Treasurer Barry Goldring

01453 861002
email:

Committee members

Ann Jones 01453 890244
Jim Geatrix 01453 543444
Jon Martin 01453 547204 (h)
07941 690668 (m)




THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT FROM THE 2009 AGM


With thanks to the help of a willing committee and the support of our regular attendees I believe this has been the most active and successful year for our Slimbridge Dowsing Group. Since I was standing here exactly one year ago, we have held twenty-five dowsing meetings plus many unscheduled days out on the fields and river bank where we have been conducting archaeological dowsing surveys to discover where buildings and other objects have been in the distant past.

However, it has not all been good news. Sadly, we have lost two of our members although they will not be forgotten. Michael Lakin and Colin Davis, two of our most loyal and enthusiastic supporters, died during this period. I attended both funerals and offered sincere condolences to Elizabeth and Barbara.

Our membership goes through phases where attendance fluctuates – some long-standing members drift in-and-out while new members attend most events. This is the same in all clubs and societies. Thankfully we have a solid core of regular attendees. I must thank Ann Jones for phoning round to remind members before each meeting.

The Slimbridge Dowsing Group Newsletter was introduced this year, and it has proved to be very popular and a great success. Thanks to Trish Mills for this and the other ways she publicises our activities in the local newspapers and my website.

I am fortunate in having my daughter’s partner Simon as my Webmaster. He posts all Trish’s reports of our events in a prompt and eye-catching manner. I am often receiving complimentary comments from visitors to the website – as well as many requests for my dowsing services!

Let me highlight just a few of the interesting events this year. Visiting speakers have covered subjects as diverse as “Crystals” by Toni Hunt, “Kinesiology” by Janet Nicholls, “Bach Flower Remedies” by Daphne Adams, “Reflexology” by Isobel Willmott, “Spirit Release” by Irenka Danielewicz-Herbert, “Sacred Geometry” by Ced Jackson, “Dowsing in the Garden” by Prof. John Flavell. Thanks to Peter Gibson, Barry Goldring and Arthur Marrow, our “home-grown” speakers have also taken part, touching subjects such as Water Divining, Earth Energies, Geopathic Stress and Lost Objects. Barry and Peter also gave talks about two of our archaeological dowsing projects at the BSD annual Conference at Cirencester.  They and I have also given talks to other organisations. Arthur now leads the “Engineering Dowsing” of the BSD Water & Site Dowsing Group.

We have held joint events with other organisations. We visited Avebury Stone Circles with South Herefordshire Dowsers in the summer. One of their members came to our Berkeley Castle dowsing day, and I heard him at their AGM singing the praises of the professional standard of our archaeological dowsers. The Taw & Torridge Metal Detectorists visited Slimbridge in August, and we were able to compare our predictions of buried metal objects with their results. We demonstrated our activities at the Thistledown Environmental Centre, the Dursley Town Festival and the Slimbridge Horse Show.

I have tutored Water Divining courses here, and encouraged students to accompany me to sites where my clients wanted to know where to drill water boreholes. One student obtained remarkably comparable results to that of my own. The proof of accuracy will be shown when drilling takes place. I will be tutoring another Health & Healing course on 21st of this month. I feel it is important to pass on these ancient skills to younger generations – and that covers all members of this Dowsing Group.

In finishing, I must pay special tribute to our hard-working committee for their help in making our meetings run smoothly. You will have noticed some of their activities: Jim Greatrix is always the first one here to open up and prepare the room for the meeting. Ann Jones always has a welcome cup of tea or coffee with a biscuit to greet people as they arrive. Barry and Peter take the register – and your entrance fee. Barbara deals with the secretarial duties – and always prepares a good display for public events. Arthur helps members and visitors to improve their dowsing skills at the end of most meetings. Trish takes notes during the meetings, no matter how unexciting some of them may have been, and turns them into eye-catching articles, which are regularly given full prominence in the local Dursley Gazette. I’m sure there must be many members who have joined as a result of reading those articles.

And so I thank the committee and members for their help, friendliness and enthusiasm during the past year and look forward with confidence to another successful year ahead.

Thank you!