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 | |||
| PLEASE NOTE OUR MOVE TO OUR NEW LOCATION – CHELTENHAM WHADDON BOWLS CLUB | |||||
| April 24th | AGM | ||||
| May 1st | Chairman’s Lunch – Lilybrook Golf Club | ||||
| May 8th | Intellectual Entertainment in 19th Century Cheltenham | Adrian Barlow | |||
| May 15th | A417 – Missing Link | Carolyn Furguson | |||
| May 22nd | Cheltenham Animal Shelter | Erica Lake | |||
| May 29th | Visit – Bugatti Museum | ||||
| June 6th | Greek Islands – an Odessey | Mike Bone | |||
| June 12th | IBM A History | Julian Cox | |||
| June 19th | Old Paths of Gloucestershire | Alan Pilbeam | |||
| June 26th | Fighting Gliders Followed by a Committee Meeting | Ashley Letts | |||
| July 3rd | AI – Artificial Intelligence | Luke Gassmann | |||
| July 10th | An Art Exhibition – Pub Lunch to follow the talk | Mark Brazier | |||
| July 17th | Swearing, Sex and Loos | Kirstie Bingham | |||
| July 24th | In the Name of Scott and Shackleton | Sue Davies | |||
| Sept 11th | Queens at War Pub Lunch to follow the talk | Douglas Butler | |||
| Sept 18th | China: An overview of modern China in todays’s world | John Nixon | |||
| Dec 4th | Road Safety | Nigel Lloyd Jones | |||
| Dec 11th | Christmas Lunch | ||||
| Rest of Dec | Christmas and New Year Break | ||||
| Jan 8th | New Year’s Quiz with Nibbles | Rod Davies |