Meetings Programme 2025

Monthly meetings are held on the third Monday of each month in the function rooms at the White Swan Hotel in Rother Market, starting at 6 pm. Meetings last about an hour. Members are encouraged to arrive early and/or stay on afterwards to socialise.

Meetings may also be broadcast online (via Zoom). 

After the meeting, a report on the talk is included on each page, and sometimes a link to a recording of the event. Please check each individual page for details.

Events for 2025 are shown below:

20 January         The Shakespeare Club: the last 200 years and the next! - Susan Brock and Sylvia Morris

17 February       Stratford's Foodbank: why we have one, what it does and what its future is - Cheryl Flavell

17 March             Annual General Meeting followed by A Passion for Stratford Life: Enid and Neville Usher - James Ranahan

21 April              The Gondolas of Venice: their origins and future, including the one owned by Marie Corelli - Nick Birch

19 May               What did you do in the war, Dad? About Squadron Leader Kenneth Price DFC of the RAF - Alistair Price

16 June              Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, his life and work - Paul Hirons

21 July                Business Improvement and Placemaking: Who is Responsible? - Aaron Corsi

18 August          Stratford-on-Avon through 400 years of maps of Warwickshire - Lindsay MacDonald  

19 September   Heritage Open Day 2025 at Hall's Croft, Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon 11-4pm

22 September  Suffragettes, Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon - Nikki Pearson. PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATE

20 October        A Private War: The diaries of Frederick George Draper 1939-1945 - Carol Draper

17 November    Community Projects - Rachel Sharpe (RSC, Head of Creative Placemaking and Public Programmes)

15 December    Quiz Night!