History and Activities of

‘The Federation of British
Bonsai Societies'

Photo by Paul lGoff

 

The Federation of British Bonsai Societies, now coming close to 30 years since its inception in 1981 has become the shop window and mouthpiece for bonsai in the United Kingdom. So much has been achieved in nearly 30 years that we should be proud of, yes there have been organisational hiccups on the way, but name me any organisation including multi million corporates that does not have them in their history.

We have so much to thank a group of dedicated amateurs for doing for British Bonsai, many of whom  are no longer with us but without them all this would never have happened.

Remember especially Bill Horan from the British Bonsai Association (London) whose dream it was.  Remember also Kenneth Stafford Jones, Bill Faulkner and John Southworth who worked untiringly on the groundwork of the Steering Committee of 1981 – 1982 and remember also Peter Brown (still very much with us) who, as its original chairman led this young and tender organisation to its greatest heights in 1991 when we had the temerity to hire the entire newly opened International Convention Centre for one of the very first World Events in Bonsai.

They were halcyon days when so many people gave freely so much of their time to further Bonsai in the UK. can we not ask all you bonsai lovers out there to give but a little of what was given in the past to enable us to reach even greater heights