Hands on Night 9th March 2023
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Tonight, in our Club Meeting, we were very privileged to have 4 of our members demonstrating different aspects of
woodturning and the associated skills thereof.
John Boyne - Aitken demonstrated all aspects of sharpening various gouges and chisels
Pete Moncrief - Jury took use of the Skew Chisel to new levels
Peter Hatherell did his usual of finding another fantastically obscure demonstration to amaze the audience,
utilising melting various plastics such as milk bottles, then turning them.
Joe Kerrawan demonstrated the use of home made jigs and gizmos for use in woodturning to great effect.
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K&A Involved in the Queen’s Green Canopy Orchard in Trowbridge - 27 May 2023
Taken from a Wiltshire Times story by Senior Reporter John Baker
Robert Wall, Chairman of The Friends of the Down in Trowbridge with town
mayor Cllr Stephen Cooper launch the Queens Green Canopy Project.
Image - Photo - Trevor Porter
Image - Photo - Trevor Porter
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Cheque Presentation to
The Wiltshire Air Ambulance - Wed 26th July 2023
Kennet & Avon Woodturners are a club based in Trowbridge, they meet at St Johns
Community Hall, Upper Studley on the second Thursday of each month. The
membership strength currently stands at 57 drawn from across West Wiltshire, Bath,
and East Somerset. The clubs chosen charity for Christmas 2022 was the Wiltshire
Air Ambulance (WAA). Our members were asked to turn a piece to exhibit and enter
the annual competition at the Gallery Night held on Thursday 8 December 2022. The
pieces were subsequently donated by the members and sold in aid of the WAA
charity. The total amount raised was £505.00.
Hollie Newhook the Community Engagement & Volunteer Coordinator for the
Wiltshire Air Ambulance based at Semington invited club members for a tour of their
facilities and the opportunity was also taken to present the cheque. Club members
including the committee and competition prize winners attended the event. George
Williams (Pilot) with Emma Thompson and Jo Gilbert (Critical Care paramedics)
showed the group around the Bell Helicopter and the Operations Room.
Photograph – Phil Lobb, Club Chairman (centre) with Emma Thompson and Jo
Gilbert (Critical Care paramedics) far right and George Williams (Pilot) far left with
club members Peter Hatherell; Tim Awmack; Kevin Smith; Alan Reed; John Weller;
Kevin Crane; Sam Morris; Derrick Weston; Ken Crittle and Joe Kerrawn.
Philip Lobb – K&A Woodturners Chairman / Press Officer 01225 763540
Response Letter from The Wiltshire Air Ambulance
Photograph by the kind permission of Trevor Porter (photographer) and The Wiltshire Times
John Boyne-Aitken Awarded BEM in King’s New Year Honours.
Registered Professional Wood Turner John Boyne-Aitken who is a Trowbridge Man and the
Kennet & Avon Woodturners Chairman has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM)
in the King’s 2024 New Year Honours for his outstanding services to the craft of wood
turning and for his services to the wider community of West Wiltshire. John, who is also a
Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Turners will receive his BEM from the Lord
Lieutenant of Wiltshire, the King’s representative for Wiltshire later this year at County Hall.
Early in 2023 John visited London to be honoured and gain the Freedom of the City of
London at an ancient ceremony held at the London Guildhall. He will be making such a
visit again with his wife Jenny this time to attend a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham
Palace held specifically for recipients of New Year Honours.
John is known both nationally and internationally as “The Bowler Hatted Turner” his
trademark when demonstrating his skills around the UK and abroad.
John devotes a great deal of his spare time encouraging and helping inexperienced
wood turners to improve their skills many of those wood turners are members of the
Kennet & Avon Woodturning Club located in Trowbridge.
Contact Details:
John Boyne-Aitken BEM on 01225 752373. or Email; johnbaitken@hotmail.co.uk
