by Scott Wolstenholme | Sep 11, 2023 | Speakers
This week we were visited by Mark Lister, Chair of the trustees of the Charity Emmaus Leeds. He explained that Emmaus Leeds is an independent charity, but part of a worldwide movement founded by a French Catholic Priest Abbe Pierre, a member of the Resistance in Paris...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Aug 22, 2023 | Speakers
Philip Ashe, a historian with 41 years teaching experience and now retired from his post at Leeds Grammar School, came to the club tonight and delivered us a lecture on the topic The English Reformation: the first BREXIT. I say ‘lecture’ rather than ‘talk’, to pay...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Aug 21, 2023 | Speakers
Tonight we were pleased to welcome Ben Buddy Slack back to the Club. Ben is well known to us as the lead singer/guitarist in the dynamic blues band Blind Dead McJones, which has generously donated its services to our Charity Beer Festival ever since we started in...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Apr 24, 2023 | Young People
Following an absence of two years due to the pandemic, the club once again organised a writing competition in April 2023 for school children aged 7 to 16. Two primary schools and three high schools participated: Talbot, Roundhay Primary, Roundhay High School and Ralph...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Mar 13, 2023 | Speakers
Alan Otter, an old friend of Rtn Raj Menon, is a member of ‘Dignity in Dying’, a national campaign advocating a change in the UK law to permit assisted dying. Raj, while disagreeing with Alan, invited him to the club to tell us about the issues. The subject is...