The Leek Club is not just a Leek Club! It provides the focus for a village show for vegetables and flowers that is an excellent way to bring the gardening season to a close at the beginning of October. The village school take an active part in the Leek show, with the children last year providing a healthy number of entries to their own class and leeks and onions in the open classes. The Leek Club are actively encouraging all the gardeners of Slaley to enter something into the show to maintain the fine tradition of the village.
The committee now consists of Malcolm Goodwin (Chairman), Ros Doonan (Secretary) and Brian Wilson (Treasurer). After a year of change the Slaley Leek Club is thriving and looking forward to the coming years with great enthusiasm!
In 2009, after 27 years of running the club, the committee of Clive and Margaret Weatherley, Roy and Jean Ridley and Harry Mole felt the time was right for others to take on the running of the club. They had done a great job for all those years, and so a new committee was formed and the club is again flourishing with new members determined to carry on the club, and find the mystery of growing winning leeks!
The Leek Club held a Ceilidh in the Village Hall in March that was attended by about 100 people. It was agreed by all that it was a great success. It featured a Ceilidh band with all but two of the 9 players coming from Slaley. The excellent food was cooked by the committee, there were no dancing injuries and it was so popular that there have been calls for a repeat next year. A presentation was made to the retiring committee to thank them for their great effort over the previous quarter century.
