Our Open Monthly Meetings are held on the last Friday of each month, in the Church Hall at St. John's Church, Locks Heath. Doors open at 1.15pm ready for a 2.00pm start. Please aim to arrive by 1.45pm. We have interesting talks from speakers covering a wide range of subjects. Free tea, coffee and biscuits are provided as well as plenty of time for a chat with other members or to find out more about the different group activities that you can join.
Many of our groups also meet in the church building in the Grove Room or the Evens Room.
Forthcoming events
25th September 2026
Meeting
With a talk by Alan Jones 'Can You Please Say That Again'
30th October 2026
Meeting
With a talk by Andy Thomas 'Lewes Bonfire Night'
27th November 2026
Meeting
With a talk by Judy Theobald 'Christmas and Other Problems'
18th December 2026
2:00 pm
Social
We will meet together to enjoy company with music,quiz, drama, poetry, etc.
29th January 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Louise Morrish - Secret Women-Female Agents of SOE. A talk about 39 women recruited by the SOE who were sent into Occupied France in WWII to […]
Venue: St. John's Church
26th February 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Paul Stickler - The Pushchair Murder. How it took ten years to bring the suspect to court over a murder at Sir Harold Hillier Garden in […]
2nd April 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Ann Gardner - Canals in Hampshire. The why's and wherefore's of the rise and fall of the canals built in Hampshire during canal boom in the […]
28th May 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by David Bailey - Wildlife Wanderings. David is a wildlife photographer who talks about and displays the many wildlife species he has photographed in Africa and the […]
25th June 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk from Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance. A talk about the Air Ambulance history, how it is financed and how it operates with some examples of their call […]
30th July 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Jane Glennie - Ministering Angel. Meet Nursing Superintendent Jane Catherine Shaw Stewart, good friend and colleague of Florence Nightingale and discover why she left Netley Hospital […]
27th August 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Mike Williams - John Pound - Shipwright & Teacher. Stories of this 18th century shipwright turned cobbler and teacher in Old Portsmouth who provided education to […]
24th September 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Gordon Lewis - Here's One I Made Earlier. The story of that well known longest running children's TV programme that started in 1958.
29th October 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Vivien Rolf - Mrs Delaney. A talk to reveal the talents of Mary Delany, artist, socialite woman of fashion and best known for her botanical 'paper […]
26th November 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
With a talk by Shelley Lozano - From Caberet to Conservation. Shelley shares some ‘funny but true’ stories from her life in showbiz as a cabaret artiste, to her encounters […]
Past open meetings
August 2026
July 2026
June 2026
May 2026
April 2026
April 2026
March 2026
November 2025
October 2025
September 2025
August 2025
July 2025
June 2025