The English Reformation – The First Brexit

The English Reformation – The First Brexit

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...
Swansong Project

Swansong Project

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...
Dignity in Dying

Dignity in Dying

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...
Chapel FM Leeds

Chapel FM Leeds

Peter Spafford has spent the last 30 years writing plays and poetry, with a particular interest in writing about groups of people, and giving them a voice by encouraging their own creative writing. He has worked in community and arts centres, schools and prisons. For...
Flourished Minds

Flourished Minds

Karen Cruise came to the club to tell us about her enterprise ‘Flourished Minds’, a life coaching company working in primary and secondary schools, and latterly universities, to help students achieve their full potential. This is done by encouraging self-belief and...
Tools with a Mission

Tools with a Mission

Chris Martin is a true philanthropist. A cycling instructor from Bingley, some ten years ago he went out to Tanzania to do cycle training with youngsters. He stayed some time, enrolling his son at a village school. He was shocked by the grinding poverty he saw but...