Sandbach Conservative Ladies Luncheon Club hold lunch in support of the National Memorial Arboretum
Sandbach Conservative Ladies Luncheon Club held a lunch in support of the National Memorial Arboretum at Alsager Golf & Country Club this week.
The National Memorial Arboretum is a charity located in several acres of ground in Staffordshire and is home to the Armed Forces Memorial which honours the 16,000 UK Armed Services Personnel who have died in the service of our country since the end of WWII.
The speaker at the lunch, John Turner, told of the launch of the arboretum by Prime Minister, John Major in 1996 to which grows today with 40,000 trees, over 200 significant memorials for different groups of the Armed Forces and over a quarter of a million visitors a year. A service of remembrance, including the Last Post, is held every day at 11am except Christmas Day.
Several members of the Sandbach Conservative Ladies Luncheon Club have visited the arboretum and commented on its particular peace and tranquillity.
The lunch was attended by MP Fiona Bruce and the photograph shows speaker John Turner, to his left Fiona Bruce MP, to his right Chairman Mrs M Beresford and members of the club.
