Ann has now handed over to Lies who will be our new courses co-ordinator, Lies will no doubt provides us with an excellent and varied programme of Saturday/weekend courses throughout the year. We are lucky that a number of our excellent tutors are also members of the group. Lies will bring in other tutors for courses our member tutors are not experts in.
Our current course fees for a 2 day courses are as follows:
| Member | Non-NCLG member* | |
| Tutor a (local) NCLG member (2 days) | £45 | Members fee + £5 surcharge |
| Claire Bonito’s course (2 days) | £60 | Members fee +£10 surcharge |
| UFO’s working day (1 day) | £15 | Members only |
| Members Ann Maybrey course subsidy The family of Ann Maybrey very generously donated money to the group in Ann’s memory, this money was to be used on the things Ann enjoyed doing with her NCLG friends (speakers, courses and educational trips) and included a contribution to a celebration buffet the group were having. Since 2009 we have been subsidizing speakers, courses and educational trips out of this money, each year by small amounts. From September 2022 until further notice each NCLG member doing a 2 day course will be able to use a £10 Ann Maybrey subsidy once each academic year. So if you do Claire’s course you can use your £10 subsidy against the course and just pay a £50 fee (the same fee as last year), if you don’t do Claire’s course but do Susan’s beading course you can use your £10 subsidy against the course and pay £35 for your course and so on. Kathryn and Lies will maintain a list of who has used a subsidy each academic year, the list will reset each August. The Committee have agreed that new members to the group are not entitled to a subsidy until the new member is in their second year of fully paid membership (a £5 reduction for joining between September and December is insufficient to qualify for a subsidy the next year). Ann brought a small teddy bear to courses and Bear was always responsible for any mistakes so there is an added benefit of using an Ann Maybrey subsidy towards your course fees… any mistakes will be Bear’s (not yours)! |
All places on courses are for the full course, we will only consider part places such as one day if there are still spaces once all those wanting a full weekend place have a place. The maximum number of students on all our courses is 14..
| Date | Course | Beginners |
| 23 November 2024 | UFOs working day with Sally Wylde, Lies is in the process of confirming attendees, anyone else interested in attending now will automatically be added to a waiting list | |
| 25 & 26 January 2025 | Bedfordshire lace with Denise Vickery Lies is about to start checking if those who previously said they are interested are still able to attend, anyone else interested may need to go on a waiting list | No bobbin lace beginners but existing lacemakers who want to learn Bedfordshire are able to attend. |
| 26 April 2025 | UFOs working day with Sally Wylde, Not open for confirmed bookings yet, please let Lies know if you are interested in attending | |
| 21 & 22 June 2025 | BHT (Belgian, Honiton and Torchon) with Susan Roberts. The laces on offer will be The Belgian laces of Brugge Flower, Chrysanthemum, Flanders and Binche, as well as Honiton and Torchon (this includes people who want to work versions of Susan’s Garden which was previously a lockdown course and intended to run over 2 sessions). | Susan will accept a maximum of 3 beginners to bobbin lacemaking on this course Brugge Flower is suitable for beginners (its easier than Torchon!) and Susan will accept bobbin lace beginners to do Honiton lace. |
| 20 & 21 September 2025 | Milanese etc with Claire Bonito, Claire’s YouTube channel. Not open for confirmed booking yet, please let Lies know if you are interested in attending | The laces Claire teaches for us are not suitable for beginners to lacemaking, Claire is happy to accept those with some lace experience to start working the laces she is covering in the course. |
| 25 & 26 October 2025 | Christmas beading with Susan Roberts, details of the new techniques that will be available at this course to follow | There is no limit on the number of beginners to beading in this course, beginners will need to start with peyote pods rather than Christmas presents, bauble bands and jumpers |
To register and interest in a course members should first contact Lies (details in Pillow Talk) to be added to the list of interested, when a course is approximately 3 months from running Lies will contact everyone on the interested list and see if they are still interested and able to attend, up to 14 people will be invited to confirm their places by paying their full fee to, if payments are not received by the deadline (normally 2 NCLG meetings before a course) places will be offered to those not offered a place in the initial place allocation. Non NCLG members interested in attending: please fill in the form on the Contact us page and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
As of courses from March 2023, we have moved to a one off full payment for each course after this date as this makes the course secretary’s job some much easier, we will treat the first £15 of this as a deposit, our refund policy is linked here. Payments to the bank – please e-mail Susan and Lies to confirm you have paid money into the bank, Susan will confirm safe receipt by e-mail once she’s checked the group bank account.
Payments are due 2 NCLG meetings before a course takes place unless otherwise stated.