Every Thursday from 9.45 onwards 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 10.30, for around an hour followed by questions and related discussions.
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 – 2026/7
| Date | Title | Speaker | ||||
| PLEASE NOTE OUR MOVE TO OUR NEW LOCATION – CHELTENHAM WHADDON BOWLS CLUB | ||||||
| 2026 | ||||||
| Oct 22nd | Is UK’s Defence Capability In Peril? | Paul Shepherd | ||||
| Oct 29th | The Dogs Trust | Callum Stackhouse | ||||
| Nov 5th | Sir John Black | John Macartney | ||||
| Nov 12th | Helen ? and a Pub Lunch – proposed for the Merryman Charlton Kings -tbc | |||||
| Nov 19th | Islands that changed the world | Peter Petrie | ||||
| Nov 26th | A Blue Plaque Tour of Gloucestershire | Andrew Meller | ||||
| Dec 3rd | Bayes Theorem | Julian Cox | ||||
| Dec 10th | Xmas Lunch | |||||
| Dec 17th | Members Bring and Talk about favourite items – with nibbles | Alan Oxenbury | ||||
| Dec 24th and 31st | No meetings – Christmas Break | |||||
| Jan 7th | Kick off meeting for the New Year – A Quiz | |||||
| Jan 14th | A History of Advertising | Martin Gower | ||||
| Jan 21st | History of the British Fire Service | Fraser Gunn | ||||
| Jan 28th | Sue Ryder – The Biography | Joanna Bogle | ||||
| Feb 4th | W G Grace | Tim Brain | ||||
| Feb 11th | Sir George Dowty | Martin Robinson | ||||
| Feb 18th | Thomas Jefferson | Geoff King | ||||
| Feb 25th | Landscape of the Leach Valley | Alan Pilbeam | ||||
| March 4th | The Australian Flying Corps in the Cotswold in WW1 | Bill King | ||||
| March 11th | TBA | |||||
| March 18th | Visit tba and Pub Lunch | |||||
| March 25th | TBA | |||||
| April 1st | Vulcan B2 Bomber – Update | Keith Douglas | ||||
| April 8th | Everest Base Camp Trek | Lewis Lawton | ||||
| April 15th | History of Glyndebourne | Andrew Moth | ||||
| April 22nd | William Hill Knight – his work and life | Neela Mann | ||||
| April 29th | AGM | |||||
| May 6th | Chairman’s Lunch | |||||
| May 13th | The Stroud Workhouse | Chas Townley | ||||
| June 3rd | The Atlantic Barons of BOAC -pioneers of Atlantic Flight | Ron Jeffery | ||||