Completed meetings and events 2025-2026

Mon 23rd March 2026 Is there a Fatherless Crisis? - Richard Kay

Richard is the founder and a trustee of Chapter 2 – A Reading Charity providing mentoring to Young Boys who are living without a father

Mon 16th March 2026 Curry night - no meeting at The Bull

Venue tbc

Mon 9th March 2026 Club business meeting

Council meeting at 6.30pm

Sun 8th March 2026 Pangbourne Art Exhibition & Sale

Held at Pangbourne Village Hall
Exhibition and sale of paintings by local artists

Sat 7th March 2026 Pangbourne Art Exhibition & Sale

Held at Pangbourne Village Hall
Exhibition and sale of paintings by local artists

Fri 6th March 2026 Pangbourne Art Exhibition & Sale

Preview evening with refreshments

Mon 2nd March 2026 Fireside chat with Qais Ramani

Our own 'Kirsty', Richard Anderson, chats to Qais Ramani from Afghanistan.

Mon 23rd February 2026 Provision of life-saving neonatal equipment - Trevor Goodall

Trevor is the Founder and CEO of Newlife Special Care Babies

Mon 16th February 2026 My Police Career - Gavin Wong

Leadership Development, Thames Valley Police
30 year career in the Police in many different roles

Mon 9th February 2026 Club business meeting

Council meeting at 6.30pm

Mon 2nd February 2026 Reading’s Colossal Lion - Robert Clarke

Robert traces the story of The Forbury Lion, a Victorian icon.

Mon 26th January 2026 Residents takeover & run a pub - Andy Millard, Claire McLean

Andy & Claire are the owners and managers of The Vine at Honnington read more...

Mon 19th January 2026 Dingley’s Promise - Catherine Mole

Catherine is the CEO of Dingley’s Promise which is a a charity supporting children in their early years with Special Educational Needs

Mon 12th January 2026 Club business meeting

Council meeting at 6.30pm

Mon 5th January 2026 Phil Relf

Phil is a wine expert at Stanlake Park Wine Estate and he will give a review of Stanlake Park Vineyard and wine tasting

Mon 29th December 2025 No meeting

tbc

Mon 22nd December 2025 Christmas Party

tbc

Mon 15th December 2025 Berkshire Youth - Louisa Merchant

Berkshire Youth is a leading charity that works to provide young people with a variety of experiences both inside and outside of education to have fun with their friends, stay healthy and creative, make positive changes in their community, and pursue thei

Mon 8th December 2025 SGM/Bee Keeping - Ben Titchband

Ben is Head Beekeeper at Ben’s Berkshire Bees

Mon 1st December 2025 Artificial Intelligence in my world - Stef Aspin

Stef is Product Manager at Global Freight Solutions

Mon 24th November 2025 Desert Island Discs - Tess Watson-Smith

Our own 'Kirsty' will interview a couple of our members and ask them about their Desert Island choices

Mon 17th November 2025 Club business meeting

Council meeting at 6.30pm

Mon 10th November 2025 West Berkshire Homeless - Erica Gassor

Erica is a Trustee for West Berkshire Homeless (Newbury)

Mon 3rd November 2025 Scatter night

Members scatter and visit other clubs

Mon 27th October 2025 Disaster Aid UK & Ireland (DART) - Steven Lister

Steven is a DART Volunteer

Mon 20th October 2025 Club business meeting

Council meeting at 6.30pm

Mon 13th October 2025 Our River Thames - Hannah Pomeroy

Hannah is an archivist, at The Berkshire Record Office

Mon 6th October 2025 ReadiFood

Meet at ReadiFood to help with sorting and stacking food items followed by dinner at The Bull. Andy Dickens, CEO of ReadiFood will speak to the Club.

Mon 29th September 2025 Triangle Players in Tilehurst - Lewis Gilbert & Jan Charlton

Lewis and and Jan are directors of this local Amateur Dramatic Group

Mon 22nd September 2025 The Supernatural and the connections between Religion and Natural History - Professor Helen L Parish

Helen is a Professor of History at Reading Unviversity and an author.

Mon 15th September 2025 Club business meeting & RYLA candidate Mahfoud Mohamad Mahfoud

Council meeting at 6.30pm
Speaker is the club sponsored RYLA (Rotary Youth Ledearship Award) candidate who attended Rhos y Gwaliau Outdoor Centre

Mon 8th September 2025 Club social at The Bull

Board games

Mon 1st September 2025 Autism Berkshire - Jane Stanford-Beale

Jane is CEO of Autism Berkshire

Mon 25th August 2025 Bank Holiday – no meeting

Mon 18th August 2025 BBQ

Chez Tony N

Mon 11th August 2025 Club business meeting & RYLA candidate Mahfoud Mohamad Mahfoud

Council meeting at 6.30pm
RYLA is the Rotary Youth Leadeshipl Award scheme which helps young people develop skills as leaders while having fun and making connections.

Mon 4th August 2025 Researching Family Ancestry in Berkshire and beyond - Catherine Sampson

Catherine is Chairman of The Berkshire Family History Society

Mon 28th July 2025 Club social

Meeting at Cross Keys in Pangbourne

Mon 21st July 2025 Reading, The Home of Photography - David West

David is a local historian

Mon 14th July 2025 Club business meeting

Council meeting at 6.30pm

Mon 7th July 2025 Joint Author under the nom de plume Frances Wise - Dr Chloe Houston

With colleague Adam Smyth; their latest novel is The Book Game

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