The Wednesday Meeting
Meetings are held in our cosy Foyer and begin with announcements, a short Bible reading and prayer. The talk usually begins at 2.10pm, ending at about 2.45pm, followed by a cup of tea/coffee and scone/cake; questions sometimes drift into tea-time.
The programme covers a wide range of topics, of equal interest to men and women, and has included The art of China’s Buddhist Caves, Why is English spelling so weird?, The benefits of Physiotherapy, Mozambique Revisited, Training Detectives, The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, Charles Dickens and the North East, Climate Change: Biblical Fact and Modern Myths, Living on the Farnes, Fire Safety in the Home – further details of the programme in our news.
There is no charge for admission, but the speaker receives a small payment/fee/gift which is usually paid for out of voluntary donations by attendees.
Our first meeting of 2025 took place on Wednesday 15th January at 2pm. Unfortunately, our planned speaker, Elaine Swan, was unable to attend so Chris and Helen Hodder gave their talk ‘Mandy Rice-Davies and the Profumo Affair’ a month earlier than planned.
Our next talk in the Spring 2025 series will take place on Wednesday 19th February at 2pm. In a revised schedule, the speaker will be David Milner, instrumentalist and conductor, speaking about ‘A Life in Music, at Royal Events and with the Police’.
Our final talk in the Spring 2025 series will take place on Wednesday 19th March at 2pm, when Paul Mooney, a man who knows, will give a talk entitled ‘Auntie Beeb … The Weather at Large’.
Come and join us. All are welcome!