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2025 Programme

Additional events to Monthly meetings

2025

Meeting Details, competitions, refreshments

December 11th

Christmas Party - Steve & Julie Wigley “Original Songs and Stories”. Refreshments: Pooled

2026 Programme

 

Date Event / Competition / Refreshments

January 15th

Samantha Dowsett – “Interpreting Sign Language”
Competition: Any Language Book
Refreshments: Felicity Archer, Lynn Balnaves, Ann Devitt

February 12th

Pudding night and games
NB: This date is the second Thursday in the month
Each person to bring a pudding

March 19th

Sam Dobson – “Elgar the man and his music”
Competition: Your favourite Classical music album
Refreshments: Sue Betteridge, Muriel Taylor, Chris Cox

April 16th

Stu Morgan – “A visit to Greenland”
Competition: A photograph from your travels
Refreshments: Doreen Brown, Sybil Wallis, Pat Barnes

May 21st

AGM
Pooled refreshments

May 28th

Macclesfield Silk Mill Museum Visit

June 16th

Sandra More – “May Clements War”
Competition: A household item/recipe relating to the 1940s
Refreshments: Sue Fitch, Di Worthington, Di Saunders

July 16th

Afternoon Garden Party at Isabel Stanley’s (2.30–4.30 pm)
Competition: The best hat

August 20th

Peter Dunkerly – “The Strutts of Belper”
Competition: A book on any British Industrial Pioneer
Refreshments: Sandra Holden, Jane Mack, Jane Reynolds

September 15th & 16th

Overnight coach visit to Portsmouth to see the Mary Rose

September 17th

Ed Maudling – Talk about his time at 11 Downing Street
Competition: A childhood memento
Refreshments: Debbie Monk, Lynn Benoist, Carole Timms

October 15th

Steve Mills – “In my father’s footsteps”, The Burma Railway
Competition: Any item of militaria from the Second World War
Refreshments: Else Godfrey, Claire Godrich, Ann Chesterton

November 19th

Annie Maudling – Founder of “On a Wick & a Prayer” (Tissington)
Competition: A favourite craft item you have made
Refreshments: Lynn Podmore, Lynn Dent, Wendy Vallis

December 10th

Christmas Party with Julie Holland and the Cartwheel Pennies
Pooled refreshments