
Every Thursday at 10.30am the smell of coffee and a supply of biscuits encourages members to chat with friends and colleagues prior to the weekly talk. The talks now start at the revised time of 11am
An analysis of our wide-ranging talks since 2008 shows that the four most popular subjects are – History (20.2%),Local Interest (15.8%), Geography/Travel (13,7%) and Arts/Entertainment (12.6%)
These were followed by Geo Politics (9.8%), Lifestyle (7.6%), Science/Technology (7.5%) Natural History (5.2%) Sport (2%) Health(1.4%) and finally Education (0.7%)
We record past meetings on another page of this site
Future Weekly Meetings – 2025
Date | Title | Speaker | Host | |||
Jan 30th | Producing the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow | Robert Arley | ||||
Feb 6th | NATO Update – tbc | Jasper Stroler | ||||
Feb 13th | Fighting Gliders | Ashley Letts | ||||
Feb 20th | Greek Islands Followed by Committee Meeting | Mike Bone | ||||
Feb 27th | Training For Space – to be followed by a pub lunch | Richard Farrimond | ||||
March 6th | The Thread of Life | Peter Petrie | ||||
March 13th | Holst Victorian House | Sabine Otton | ||||
March 20th | The Typhoon | Ray Carter | ||||
March 27th | Newport Transporter Bridge | Geoff Grosvener | ||||
April 3rd | ||||||
April 10th | The Duke of Marlborough Followed by a Committee Meeting | Tim Brain | ||||
April 17th | tba | |||||
April 24th | AGM | |||||
May 1st | Chairman’s Lunch – details to be announced | |||||
May 15th | tba | |||||
May 22nd | Cheltenham Animal Shelter | Erica Lake | ||||
May 29th | tba | |||||
June 12th | IBM | Julian Cox | ||||
June 19th | Old Paths of Gloucestershire | Alan Pilbeam | ||||
June 26th | Talk to be confirmed Followed by a Committee Meeting | |||||
July 10th | Pub Lunch to follow the talk – to be confirmed | |||||
Sept 4h | Pub Lunch to follow the talk – to be confirmed |