EVENTS
Our monthly meetings are held in the Camden Centre, Market Square usually starting at 2.30pm, but members need to arrive before then. The Camden Centre has a hearing loop for the benefit of members who wear hearing aids. For a location map and satellite view of Market Square click Market Square Map. Members have an opportunity to socialise over refreshments following the speaker.
We have an active Outings Committee that runs about 10 outings per year. Details of forthcoming events are featured in our monthly newsletter and application forms for the outings can usually be found at the end of the newsletter.
We have an active Outings Committee that runs about 10 outings per year. Details of forthcoming events are featured in our monthly newsletter and application forms for the outings can usually be found at the end of the newsletter.
August 2018
14th (Tues) Outing by coach to the Wimbledon All England Tennis and Croquet Club to include the award winning Wimbledon Tennis Museum and Blue Badge guided tour of the grounds and championship facilities, calling en route at Morden Hall Park. Application form in the June Newsletter.
16th (Thurs) Monthly Meeting at 2.30pm at the Camden Centre. Russell Bowes will give a talk “Food of the Gods: the utterly delicious history of chocolate”. A history of chocolate from its discovery in the forests of central Mexico to the birth of the modern chocolate bar, via a rehearsal of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, a chocolate processing plant, breakfast with a Spanish Marquesa and possibly some free samples to take home with you.
31st (Fri) Coffee Morning at Trinity
14th (Tues) Outing by coach to the Wimbledon All England Tennis and Croquet Club to include the award winning Wimbledon Tennis Museum and Blue Badge guided tour of the grounds and championship facilities, calling en route at Morden Hall Park. Application form in the June Newsletter.
16th (Thurs) Monthly Meeting at 2.30pm at the Camden Centre. Russell Bowes will give a talk “Food of the Gods: the utterly delicious history of chocolate”. A history of chocolate from its discovery in the forests of central Mexico to the birth of the modern chocolate bar, via a rehearsal of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, a chocolate processing plant, breakfast with a Spanish Marquesa and possibly some free samples to take home with you.
31st (Fri) Coffee Morning at Trinity
September 2018
18th (Tues) Outing to Arundel Castle where there is much to admire of historic and artistic interest. There will be time to explore the Castle and Grounds at your leisure, with a choice of eating in the Castle Restaurant or in the town of Arundel. Application form in the July Newsletter.
20th (Thurs) Monthly Meeting at 2.30pm at the Camden Centre. Mary Smith, a former headteacher of Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, will give a talk entitled "A Schoolgirl's War". Her talk will feature the exquisite and highly original art work of the art teacher at the school during World War 2. As well as documenting in paint and pencil the lives of school children as the war unfolded, she will share some of the old girls' fascinating memories and anecdotes of disrupted schooling, air-raids, doodlebugs and underground shelters.
28th (Fri) Coffee Morning at Trinity
October 2018
12th (Fri) & 13th Outing with one night stopover to Cliveden, Blenheim Palace, Bladon, Oxford and Hughendon Manor A few twin-rooms are still available. Please see August Newsletter for more details and booking form.
18th (Thurs) Monthly Meeting at 2.30pm at the Camden Centre. A talk by Dr Nikki Gammans FRES, the Project Manager for the Short-haired Bumblebee Reintroduction Project which was voted runner up in the 2016 BBC Countryfile wildlife success project of the year! She comes highly recommended as an expert speaker on the unusual subject of the short haired bumble bee, Bombus subterraneus, which is one of 27 bumblebee species native to the UK but which was declared extinct here in 2000.
26th (Fri) Coffee Morning at Trinity
12th (Fri) & 13th Outing with one night stopover to Cliveden, Blenheim Palace, Bladon, Oxford and Hughendon Manor A few twin-rooms are still available. Please see August Newsletter for more details and booking form.
18th (Thurs) Monthly Meeting at 2.30pm at the Camden Centre. A talk by Dr Nikki Gammans FRES, the Project Manager for the Short-haired Bumblebee Reintroduction Project which was voted runner up in the 2016 BBC Countryfile wildlife success project of the year! She comes highly recommended as an expert speaker on the unusual subject of the short haired bumble bee, Bombus subterraneus, which is one of 27 bumblebee species native to the UK but which was declared extinct here in 2000.
26th (Fri) Coffee Morning at Trinity