With only very close family present, a short but moving service was held for Don Tomlin at the City of London Cemetery in Manor Park on Friday 1st May 2020. Don’s family kindly sent us
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Geezers Organised Activities (inc Bow Bowls) January – March 2020
Geezers Organised Activities: January 2020 Weekly Weight Training sessions at gym in Bethnal Green for men over 55. Saturday 18th January 2020 Kate Thompson Book Signing The Geezers were invited to a book signing at Newham
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Tower Hamlets Bin Strike, TV Licence Update, Geezers Meetings Suspended
Tower Hamlets Bin Strike Veolia runs the bin collections contract for Tower Hamlets. Refuse collectors were on strike from 9th-16th March as Veolia has withheld holiday pay which was due to them. A few days
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Active Energy Project: Olympic Park
Communities Countering Climate Change Active Energy, led by Loraine Leeson, has been collaborating with the Geezers for twelve years. On 20th Sept 2019 they celebrated the installation of the latest Active Energy project, a waterwheel
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GEEZERS ORGANISED ACTIVITIES INC BOW BOWLS JULY – SEPT 2019
The Geezers activities July – Sept 2019. Also Ray Gipson’s diary of speakers and visitors to the Geezers club.
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The Geezers Global Reach
Chihiro Masui visited us on January and June this year. She wanted to see how a club was for elderly men was run, as they have a lot of elderly men in Japan, but no such clubs.
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Geezers filmed for BBC News
On Tues 20th May a BBC news crew visited the Geezers in Bow. Siobahn Wornell came to interview the Geezers about how rising inflation was affecting them. The finished news piece featuring the Geezers was
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Geezers New Book
On Tuesday 14th May 2019 fourteen of The Geezers made a trip to the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green, to investigate using it for launch of the forthcoming book: Where’s My Boozer Gone? They were
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