Fancy being social? Find a meet-up in Beverley
Wed 4th May 2016
The power of the internet transformed Angela Shingler’s life when she was newly-widowed and living in Newcastle-upon-Lyme. Now she has just returned to the East Riding to live in Beverley, she is using the internet to transform her life again.
Angela was in need of a social life when her husband passed away. She found the Meetup app whilst looking for possible groups to join. One of the Meetup groups was a social group in Stoke-on-Trent, which offered a variety of theatre and cinema trips, lunches and dinners, walks and stately home visits which were free to join. Angela joined, accepted the invitation for her first ‘meetup’ and has not looked back, making many firm friends along the way and enjoying life again. She even joined a Meetup for Christmas Day dinner!
Angela set up Beverley Socialites through the Meetup app in March, almost as soon as she moved in. Within 4 short weeks she had over 85 members, with Meetups attracting men and women of all ages, although the majority tend to be people who are 40+. Most members are single but married couples are very welcome as long as they socialize!
Members are notified by e-mail when a new Meetup is arranged, which they can accept or decline as they wish. Meetups have been as diverse as Adult Colouring at East Riding Theatre Café, to dinner at Rebel’s Smokehouse to a walk on the Westwood. As Angela says “I don’t drive so all of the Meetups I arrange have to be Beverley-based. If I arrange a Meetup to the seaside, for example, then we meet at the bus or train station and use public transport.
“This is a great way to meet new people - you never know but they might become your friends!” If the thought of joining Beverley Socialites is appealing to your social side, then why not join? You can find the group at www.meetup.com/Beverley-Socialites
