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Messages from BSD Director, John Moss

Office Opening Hours

PLEASE NOTE
The office is run by 4 part time staff. Our opening hours are as follows: Monday to Friday, 10.30am to 3.00pm. Closed at weekends. The office may be closed at other times for operational reasons. We are always delighted to welcome visitors but please contact us to make sure someone will be here to greet you.

Our phone number is 01684 576969 or email: info@britishdowsers.org

New Web Site Launched on March 1 2007

We hope you enjoy browsing through our new web site. This new site has been designed to be extremely easy to navigate around, to be dyslexia friendly, to be bright, informative and engaging and to keep everyone updated with what is happening in the dowsing community.

We will be making changes and updates for a while, so please bear with us. There is lots more to come, including a helpful calendar to show what's on, where and when. If you notice anything incorrect or out of date, please let us know by emailing info@britishdowsers.org

We hope you enjoy the new site!!

Are you lonesome tonight?

Forming an Affiliated Local Group, by Director, John Moss

Wwe have an increasing number of enquiries from members and non members who are seeking local contact with other dowsers. Sadly we have often had to tell enquirers that there is no local group in their area. For a listing of the current BSD affiliated local dowsing groups please click here. Read on to find out where new groups are being established.

My first experience of dowsing came in 1997 when I caught sight of an advertisement in my local Parish magazine. A dowser was trying to start a group. At the time I was interested in finding a new hobby to provide a diversion from a stressful and unfulfilling job. It is a strange thought that attending my first meeting and feeling the rods move has led to the Director's chair at BSD!

A short while after the group had been running we made contact with BSD and soon became an Affiliated Group, one of almost 30 that we now have in the UK. Membership of a Local Group provides an invaluable source of help and support for dowsers

So what does an Affiliated Group mean? At the present time, it means that the Group has the option of adopting our model constitution which provides a useful framework for actually running the group and provides access to our Group Third Party Insurance Policy. Additionally, amongst other benefits,the Group will be able to take advantage of our special offer for website facilities, an essential tool which is very useful in attracting new members. We also ask for confirmation that the group agrees with the Objects of the Society and that members abide by our Code of Ethics.

At the Office we are keen to help and encourage the Groups as much as possible and Council Members regularly visit. We are developing a package of discount offers for equipment.

Groups have their own Forum at Congress which is well attended and produces good ideas for developing Groups and their programmes.

If you are a solitary dowser who would welcome local contact or if you would like to help form a Group, please either contact us or one of the following members, if there is one in your area. It should be stressed that by agreeing to list their names it should not be assumed that they will actually run the new Group. They will simply be acting as a focal point at this stage.

Adrian Incledon-Webber, meeting in Guildford, Surrey area. Now Meeting as Waverley Dowsers... next meeting 30 Jan 2008 at Broadwater Park Email: inkywebber@fastmail.fm or phone 01483 421922

William Holding, North Yorkshire area 01904 744582 email williamholding@btinternet.com THIS GROUP NOW MEETING AS RIDINGS DOWSERS

Miranda Aldridge, Salisbury area. 01747 820293 Now meeting as Shaston Dowsers. Email mirandaaldridge@btinternet.com

Bart O'Farrell, West Cornwall Dowsers now meeting in the Penzance/Redruth area, 01326 280681

Isobel Smith, Lymington, Hampshire, Lymington Dowsers now meeting in Lymington . 01590 670697

Steve Foster, Oxford city area. NOW MEETING! Email: info@britishdowsers.org for details

Jim and Wendy Doyle, Cambridge area, East Anglia, Now Meeting as Cambridge Dowsers 01223 513016 or email wendy@polygon.demon.co.uk

Please get in touch, you are assured of a warm welcome.