York Association of the National Trust
YANT Talks Archives 2024
Talks Organiser: talks@yant.org.uk
Saturday 20th April 2024 at 2.30pm
“I’m Anthony Day and I keep bees”
Marriott Room, York Explore, Museum Street, YO1 7DS
Anthony Day is hard to categorise. A wide-ranging career includes sales missions to Iraq and to Iran in the time of the Shah.
More recently he was General Secretary of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and subsequently established a training
consultancy which prepared some 300,000 hotel staff to be ready for the euro in 18 countries and 14 languages. Contract work in Selby, Chester-le-Street, Scunthorpe and Grimsby also included a period as Deputy Director of Finance for the NHS (in the Outer Hebrides).
He and his wife Mary settled in York 24 years ago and he published 477 episodes of a weekly podcast on sustainability (http://www.sustainablefutures.report) from 2007 to November 2023. They now have an allotment and Anthony has had bees since 2010 - although it was Mary’s idea.
In today’s talk Anthony will talk about bees and pollination, but not just about honey bees. Bumble bees and many other insects are important to the survival of a wide range of plants and flowers - and a constant supply of flowers and plants is equally important to bees. We’ll look at how bees make honey, what they use pollen for and why they stick everything together with propolis.
The presentation will close with a 20-minute video tracking Anthony through the beekeeping year, before a Q&A session.
YANT 53rd AGM, Talk and Lunch
Saturday 23rd March 2024 at 10.30am. AGM starts at 11am
53rd Annual General Meeting, Delta by Marriott Hotel, Tadcaster Road, York YO24 1QQ
Following the close of the meeting, there will be a talk and lunch
Our guest speaker is Mary Murray
“When the Queen came to Lunch”
In this entertaining talk, Mary Murray will share with us some of the events and visitors involved in her work as Secretary to the Archbishop of York.
Do join us for the short formal AGM, followed by the talk and lunch.
The AGM Notice and Accounts were enclosed with the March Newsletter
and are also available, along with the Agenda, on the Newsletter/Docs Page (Login required).
Complimentary tea, coffee, juice and biscuits will be available from 10.30am and we have arranged lunch in a separate part of the restaurant for the YANT group.
If you would like to join us for lunch, please complete the booking form which was sent with the December Newsletter and which is also available on the
Newsletter/Docs page of the website (Login required). Lunch is served at 1pm and the event concludes at 2.30pm.
Everyone welcome, particularly for an excellent talk and to meet fellow members and guests over lunch.
The AGM, Talk and refreshments are free.
Saturday 17th February 2024 at 2.30pm
Sandra Gold-Wood will talk about the ”Canary Girls’ Memorial Project”
Marriott Room, York Explore, York Central Library, Museum Street, YO1 7DS
At the National Memorial Arboretum there is no memorial to the women who worked during both world wars in munitions factories at great costs to themselves. Hear about this campaign to remember these workers with their own memorial and the stories of these hard-working women.
Saturday 20th January 2024 at 2.30pm
“Beetles, Bears and Battles” Museum Gardens through Time with Catherine Brophy
Marriott Room, York Explore, York Central Library, Museum Street, YO1 7DS
Catherine Brophy will share ongoing research on the history of the gardens, which is part of the “York Trailblazers” community project taking place in York in 2024, including the planned “Tansy Beetle Sculpture Trail”.