All About The Society
Our Society has been active in the area since its formation in 1893. It has a long and prestigious history and has always maintained close ties with our local community.
The object of the Society is the promotion, advancement and enjoyment of horticulture and gardening.
We pride ourselves on being a friendly Society. If you need advice on growing plants or vegetables you are likely to find members who will be only too happy to give you some advice.
The Society holds two Shows a year, four informal Evening Meetings with guest speakers and an Annual Quiz.
Our shows take place in July and September and you can see many photos taken at the show in the Show Gallery in this website.
We publish four newsletters during the year, keeping members up to date with events and often incorporating useful gardening advice and information. You can view current and previous editions of the newsletters in this website.
There is no need to own a large garden, grow rarities or enter our Shows. As we encourage all our members to enter in the shows.
If you enjoy growing your own food or gardening, then do please consider join our Society.
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AGM Notice
Weds 13th November at 8PM
I am sure you are all looking forward to attending our Annual General Meeting which will be held at:-
St Christopher’s Church Hall
Dallas Road
Cheam, SM3 8RS.
In order for the AGM to take place, we need to have a quorum of 12 members.
After the AGM we will be presenting our Annual Awards (except for the Children’s Classes) for this year. May I remind members who won cups and other trophies last year to bring them, duly cleaned and engraved, to the AGM please.
Agenda:-
1. Chairman to open the meeting
2. Apologies for Absence
3. Minutes of the last AGM
4. Matters Arising from the minutes of the last AGM
5. Report of the Committee
6. Hon. Treasurer’s Report and adoption of the accounts
7. Subscription for 2025
8. Election of Officers
• President
• Vice Presidents
• Chairman
• Vice Chairman
• Hon. Secretary
• Hon. Assistant Secretary
• Hon. Treasurer
• Hon. Membership Secretary
• Hon. Publicity Officer & Newsletter Editor
• Hon. Show Secretary
• Hon. Assistant Show Secretary
• Hon. Website Administrator
9. Election of Committee & Appointment of Auditor
There will be tea/coffee and cakes on sale and our usual raffle.
There is ample free off road car parking.
Dobies Seeds Discount
Jane has just revealed that our Discount code for Dobies, has been secured for another year.
Please note the old code will not be valid from the begining of Sept. So please contact us for the new code.
The code is available to all members. It gives 50% off all seed prices and 15% off all live Items. Their web address is shown in the logo above.
Or you can click on the link below to visit their website:
Please note this code cannot be used at any of the Dobbies Garden Centres outlets, which is a different company and has nothing to do with Dobies Seeds.
To get the discount code, members should send a request to our email address:-
To use the code online put the discount code in the "Offer Code" box on the payment page and then use the "Apply" button.
As the code is not being published, we ask our members to keep this code secure and for their purchases.
Evening Meeting,
Weds 9th October.
Annual Fun Quiz Night.
Hosted by our resident quiz master:-
Mike Snowdon.
Yes members it's this time of year to brush up on your revision and take part in our annual quiz.
Members are organised into casual teams, so there is always room for everyone to join in and compete with your team for this years star prize. Questions will be on all sorts of subjects - not just gardning. Nothing too serious, the idea is to have fun.
So please come along and join in. We are all looking forward to seeing you here.
The quiz will be from 8pm to 10 pm at:- St Christopher's Church Hall, Dallas Road, Cheam, Surrey, SM3 8RU.
The atmosphere is informal. No Formal dress required.
Admission is free to members but guests can either pay £2 to enter. Or join the society on the night for the Annual Subscription of £3.50 and their subscription will carry over, until the end of the following year 2025.
There will be tea/coffee and cakes on sale and our usual raffle.
There is ample free off road car parking.
Untangling our Long, Local History – Can You Help?
Cheam & Cuddington Horticultural Society has a long and prestigious history and has always maintained close ties with the local community. We are in the process of putting together as much information as possible about our history. Members old and new, and their families, often find awards, trophies, photos, memories and memorabilia from the Society. We would certainly appreciate it if you or your family could help us.
We have published several articles on our history in our Newsletter over the past years. Special thanks to Richard Bailey and Linda Scanlon who contributed to these articles. We have now gathered them together. You can find them by clicking on the History tab in the menu above.