COMMITTEE MEMBERS ELECTED APRIL 2008

PAST COMMITTEE MEMBERS FROM 2003

Chairman	Kevin Downing	Email
My wife Maureen and I joined The Camping and Caravanning Club in 1981 and the Folk Dance and Song Society in 1967. We dance and I learned to Call and MC with Adlington Folk Dance Club (Cheshire). We are also members of their Display Team and have danced at a number of International Folk Festivals at home and abroad. We do 98% of our camping with the Folk Section. After we had been members of The C & CC for 12 months, I served on the committee of the NW Folk Section for the first time of many. I have filled the positions of Equipment & Sites Officer, also that of Vice Chairman and Chairman. We have helped to set up THS's at Cartmel and Penley. We both love the C & CC Folk Section, because of the friendliness of all the Folk Section's members. We enjoy the Folk Dance, Music, Song & Crafts. We like to try and encourage people to try and take part in OUR ENGLISH FOLK HERITAGE and thus preserving it for our future generations. We have been married for over 40 years, and in 2001 we celebrated our Ruby Wedding with 150 of our folk and camping friends at which we received £310 each for the Local Cardiac Rehab Group and The David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy. We have three children, two girls and a boy and eight grandchildren.

Vice Chairman/Regalia	Molly Clouston	Email
I have been married to Allan since 1960 and we have four children and five grandchildren. We joined the folk section in 1999 after staying at Penley overnight and ending up staying for a week. Never having danced or played music before, we joined two dance clubs, Colne and Whalley and I soon started to learn the guitar until someone showed me a melodeon and I became hooked on that

Treasurer	Tony Sudlow	Email
Margaret and I joined the "Camping Club" in 1963 when we bought our first of three tents. We graduated through a DIY motor caravan to a caravan in 1980. Unfortunately we did not become involved with the Folk Section until about 1987, by which time our two children had fled the nest. The Folk Section has expanded our horizons and our circle of friends. We are both keen walkers, an interest which we are able to pursue during camping weekends. We are members of Chorley and Adlington Folk Dance Club. I have been Treasurer for North West since 1995 and Treasurer for Lancashire Folk since 2000. I am a caller and walk leader. We have two young grandsons.

Secretary	Lilian Davies	Email
I have been Section Secretary since 1996, and was on the Committee for a short while before that. I have been District Secretary for Prestwich and Whitefield Scouts since about 1980/81. I am also a Group Secretary for the 20th Prestwich and Whitefield Scout Group. My hobbies include cross stitching, knitting, sewing and other craft activies.

Sites Officer/Webmaster	Vivienne Hayes	Email
I joined the Camping & Caravanning Club in 1979 after my sister-in-law who was a keen member recommended it. We joined the North West Folk Section a few years later after attending a holiday meet in Tywyn and being introduced to the pleasures of folk dancing. I have been married to Bob for over 40 years and have a son and a daughter and also three grandsons. As well as enjoying folk dancing I am also a keen American Square Dancer. I have held the post of Secretary of the Section but had a break off the Committee for a few years.

Catering Officer	Bob Hayes	Email
My sister persuaded me to join the Camping & Caravanning Club in 1979. We initially camped with Ribblesdale BCC but we joined the North West Folk Section a few years later after attending a holiday meet in Tywyn and enjoying the dance sessions in the local village hall. On returning from the meet we joined a folk group near our home. I have been married to Vivienne for over 40 years and have a son and a daughter and also three grandsons. I enjoy American Square Dancing as well as English folk dancing. I held the post of Treasurer of the Section for a few years and Sites Officer for a year, but came off the Committee for a few years until being elected again.

Public Relations Officer	Margaret Sudlow	Email
See the first part of Tony Sudlow's profile. I have been PRO since joining the Committee in 1996 and am Secretary of Chorley & Adlington Folk Dance Club. My main time absorbing interest is craft and I am a member of Bolton Quilters and Chorley P’s and Q’s. I run various craft workshops and co-ordinate the Cooks Corner in the Newsletter.

Music Equipment Co-ordinator	Ian Revill	Email
My love of camping started as a teenager in the Scouting movement and my interests in 'folk' started in the 1970's going to Folk Song Clubs. In 1980 with my wife Maureen and two very young children we started a long lasting association and many happy holidays with the Folk Camp Society, making friends across the folk world, dancing at Cecil Sharp House, Halsway Manor and festivals. In 1988 we joined the Folk Section of the Camping and Caravanning Club, helping to run rallies and holiday meets. This gives us the opportunity to travel, meet like minded people and enjoy all aspects of folk dancing, songs, lively music and traditional crafts.

MC Co-ordinator	Roy Allan	Email
Jean and I have been married for over 40 years. Our membership of the Camping Club started in 1972, when we joined The Tent Camping Group. I was Secretary for 2 years and The Youth Officer when we had lots of Camping Club Youth Members. Our Membership lapsed for 5 years in the 1980's. I was a Scout Leader for 17years. We joined the Folk Group in 2000. I am also Chairman of Southport Folk Group.

Committee Member	Ray Hartnell	Email
Mary and I began camping long ago with the children. In due course they left home and when we moved to Lancashire we took up camping again primarily to enjoy walking over the fells in the Lake District. In 2001 we bought a campervan, re-joined the Camping and Caravanning Club, found the North West Folk Group, and haven't looked back since. I am a committee member of the Whalley Country Dance Group and Mary and I regularly attend the Colne & District Country Dance Club and the Accrington Group.