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 – 2025
| Date | Title | Speaker | |||
| PLEASE NOTE OUR MOVE TO OUR NEW LOCATION – CHELTENHAM WHADDON BOWLS CLUB | |||||
| 2026 | |||||
| March 5th | Connexions | Amber Deacon | |||
| March 12th | TBA – visit to avoid the Races – The Steam Museum GWR Swindon and a Pub Lunch | ||||
| March 19th | Cider making in Gloucestershire | Andrew Meller | |||
| March 26th | National Star College | Monica Farthing | |||
| April 2nd | What were the Napoleonic Wars? | Gareth Howell | |||
| April 9th | HS2 Followed by a Committee Meeting | Douglas Butler | |||
| April 16th | The Dogs Trust | Callum Stackhouse | |||
| April 23rd | Hans Holbein the Younger Followed by a Committee Meeting | Sally Ferers | |||
| April 30th | AGM – followed by a Q&A Discussion and Social | ||||
| May 7th | Chairman’s Lunch – with partners | ||||
| May 14th | Mossad | David Thorpe | |||
| May 21st | 400 years of Stroudwater Textiles | Ian Mackintosh | |||
| May 28th | The Lusitania | Paul Barnett | |||
| June 4th | A History of Advertising | Martin Gower | |||
| June 11th | Midland Air Ambulance | Nicole Beebee | |||
| June 18th | Deserted Medieval Settlements in the North Cotswolds | David Aldred | |||
| June 25th | Unusual Cures and Blood Galore – Tudor Medicine Followed by a Committee Meeting | Angela Dunsby | |||
| July 2nd | The Great Fire of London | Tim Brain | |||
| July 23rd | History of the British Fire Service | Fraser Gunn | |||
| Aug 6th | The Butterfly Garden | Chris Evans | |||
| Aug 13th | Hadrian’s Wall – followed by a pub lunch | Eric Moore | |||
| Aug 20th | Simon de Montford | Howard Robinson | |||
| Aug 27th | Keep the sea on your left. remember to turn right at Land’s End | Chris O’Grady | |||
| Sept 24th | The Wagner Dynasty | Alan Oxenbury | |||
| Oct 1st | Tewkesbury in the 1950’s including the Railways and the River | Richard Chatham | |||
| Oct 15th | Life in Regional Television | Steve Knibbs | |||
| Oct 22nd | Escort Carriers | Ray Carter | |||
| Nov 5th | Sir John Black | John Macartney | |||
| Nov 19th | Collapse | Peter Petrie |