Visit the DLI Museum & Art Gallery for FREE this Christmas

Free Admission for all on Boxing Day 26th December 2012
& New Year's Day 1st January 2013

If you're wanting to get out and about on Boxing Day or New Year's Day visit us at the DLI Museum, where we will be opening our doors for free to everyone 10am-4pm. Enjoy a walk in our lovely parkland, visit the DLI Café (open 11am-3.30pm) for a coffee and a mince pie or have a wander round the museum and see our new exhibition in the art gallery 'An Experiment in Total Environment' inspired by Victor Pasmore's Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee. 

Click here to find out more about Durham Art Gallery's new exhibition 'An Experiment in Total Environment.'
We are open daily throughout December, Christmas and the New Year; 10.00am-4.00pm, (except for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day when we are closed).
Merry Christmas from the DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery!

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DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery,
Aykley Heads
Durham
DH1 5TU
0191 3842214
dli@durham.gov.uk
www.durham.gov.uk/dli

Easy Fund Raising

Raising money for the DLI Museum Friends through your on-line purchases

For the online shoppers amongst us, there’s now an easy way for you to shop as normal and at the same time raise funds for the DLI Museum Friends using www.easyfundraising.org.uk. Once you have registered see how below) every time you make an on-line purchase from over 2,000 well-known retailers, including Amazon, M&S, Expedia, eBay and many more, the retailer from whom you have made a purchase makes a donation to the DLI Museum Friends.

If you’re sceptical, don’t be – This scheme is a winner and has been recommended by Col Tony George, one of our DLI Museum Friends, who tells me that the administrator and trustee of another small charity he knows of uses www.easyfundraising.org.uk and has raised over £900 for her Trust in less than a year.

We have set up a DLI Museum Friends Account under www.easyfundraising.org.uk and all that is required is for people to register when they go on-line to make a purchase.  Once you’ve registered we will start raising funds through your purchases – AND THE COST OF YOUR PURCHASES WILL BE THE SAME AS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN ON A SIMPLE ON-LINE TRANSACTION..

It’s easy to become a fundraiser for the DLI Museum Friends.  Just follow these straightforward instructions:

1. Visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk
2. left click on Find a Cause
3. Enter DLI Museum Friends in the search box and click search
4. When our name comes up, click Support next to our listing and then register your personal details, then click Register
5. When you next want to shop online, just go to the retailer you want and shop as normal. If this retailer is one of those supporting this scheme you will begin to accumulate contributions for the DLI Museum Friends.

Please encourage as many of your family and friends as possible to support DLI Museum Friends.  This way the amount contributed by Easy Fundraising will quickly add up.

If you wish you can add www.easyfundraising.org.uk to your 'Favourites' to make it even easier.

It doesn’t cost you anything to shop online with easyfundraising and you can even save money with special offers and voucher codes. We’ll push this way of supporting the DLI Museum Friends through our own channels, such as the website but of course feel free to encourage your friends and family to support the DLI Museum Friends in this way too, especially in the run-up to Christmas.

There is also a search engine function, like Google, which works in a similar way: www.easysearch.org.uk. Search for and select DLI Museum Friends as 'your cause', add this site as one of your home pages (as you might already do with Google) and each time you search you'll raise roughly 5p for the Museum. It also provides a weekly running total so you can see how much we're raising.

If you have any questions, get back to me and I'll try to help but otherwise just start shopping/searching!

I very much hope you are prepared to give this a go. It seems a particularly painless way of raising money for the Friends and if we are able to raise significant amounts of funding we will really be helping the DLI Museum.

The Durham Light Infantry Association

BRANCH BULLETIN DECEMBER 2012

90.12 LT.COL RONNIE WALTON MBE

Lt. Col. Ronnie Walton MBE who served with the 2^nd Bn. in Wuppertal in the early 1950s and on leaving the Regular Army took up a number of posts with Durham ACF, is now a resident in Philips Court Nursing Home, 140 Bluebell Close, Beacon Lough Gateshead NE9 6RL Tel. No..0191 491 0429. He can be visited at any time and members who live in the vicinity of the home are encouraged to do so.

91.12 CHRISTMAS CARDS

The stock of Association Christmas Cards is now exhausted, however, The Rifles 2011 and 2012 cards are still available at £4 per pack of 5. There is also a stock of Association cards issued in previous years and these are priced at 10 (mixed) for £3.

92.12 RIFLES OFFICE – CLOSED

In accordance with Rifles HQ instructions The Rifles Durham Office will be closed from after business on Friday 21 December 2012 until 0830 hrs on Monday 7 January 2013. Urgent communications can be sent by email to Kevin.storey(at)btinternet.com ( change (at) to@ )

93.12 STOCK – UNPAID ACCOUNTS

At the end of year stock check it was noted that the following invoices had not yet been paid. It would be appreciated if all were cleared by Wednesday 19 December 2012.

South Shields Bugles & Bren-Gunner £69.50

Darlington & Newton Aycliffe - Christmas Cards £19.50

Ryhope & Silksworth - Bugles & Christmas Cards £40.90

Spennymoor - Bugles & A Wreath £37.50

Stockton Col. Kemp - Beret £10.00

City of Sunderland - DLI Ties 334.00

Washington (to collect) - Bugles £16.00

94.12 SEASONAL GREETINGS

On behalf of The Chairman of the Association Major Paul Wharton MM.The Rifles County Secretary Major Chris Lawton MBE and Shirley, on whom all things revolve, may I wish all members and their families a Merry Christmas and a most prosperous New Year. It has been a busy year and we are all grateful for your unflinching support.

95.12 DEATHS

The death of the following comrades have been reported to the Rifles Durham Office since the last Bulletin:

NEIL SCAFFTON – KOYLI/LI

CYRIL ALLEN – 1 DLI KOREA

May they Rest in Peace

 

Kevin Storey BEM

Secretary

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