by admin | Sep 4, 2023 | Speakers
This week we were visited by Eve Haynes, a community and events fundraiser for the charity Children’s Heart Surgery fund [CHSF]. Eve told us that congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect and cause of infant mortality across the world. In the UK, each...
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 | 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...
by Scott Wolstenholme | Feb 27, 2023 | Speakers
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...
by admin | Feb 6, 2023 | Speakers
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...