THE CATENIAN ASSOCIATION - PROVINCE 1

Davyhulme Circle meet at 8.00pm on the fourth Thursday of every month (except December) at St. Ann’s Parish Centre, Stretford and we do stress that the meeting, although following formal guidelines is seen as a social gathering of Davyhulme brothers, visitors and prospective members. To minimise the length of these meetings, we have a monthly Circle Council meeting and although the council is comprised of the Circle Officers, all brothers are invited and encouraged to attend.

Phil Brown (left with Linda) is our President for the current year and he has chosen a number of local charities as well as Francis House Children’s Hospice  to benefit from his President’s Charity

It should be pointed out that, as with all other Circles of the Association, we see ourselves as a Catholic fellowship group and therefore fund raising is a byproduct of our activities rather than the main objective.

Neither are we geared towards Catholic Action. However, we try to encourage our members to become involved in the Lay Activities of the Church. We have a particularly successful example of brothers being involved in charitable works in CAMEO-Aid, a Charity (founded by Brother Tom Power of Davyhulme Circle) working with communities in East Africa. Click on the link to get a flavour of the tremendous work they are doing to meet the basic health and education needs of children in Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan and neighbouring countries.

                                
Some Photographs from the past year
 

Grand President attended our meeting in April to present a scroll to Liam Donnelly to mark his extraordinary achievement of 60 years membership of the Association

Our previous social event had an entirely different theme as we celebrated the life and times of Robbie Burns. With apologies to all Scots, we include a picture here of our Secretary, Alan Pritchard, with an excessive gesture to his Scottish ancestry.

Question for Alan on looking at a well filled plate
Is the plural of haggis, haggises or is it just excessive?

Circle Past President Ron Fellows presented a cheque for £1,200 to his President’s Charity, The Christie Hospital, following our meeting in May. The money was raised at a number of social functions during his year of office

Spectators (above) and the winners of our Bowls Evening in July

The principal events of our social calendar includes

• Ladies Evening : A formal Dinner Dance usually at Davyhume Golf Club in November and open to all Catenians, their Ladies and their Guests.
• President’s Sunday, which is a family day in Summer, where Catenian Families meet for Mass and a get together with a buffet lunch.
• Our Clergy and Charter Evening is a formal dinner generally held in September to which our clergy, friends and prospective members are invited as our guests to celebrate our founding in 1966. This has been held at Flixton Golf Club for the past few years.