future Events

Thursday 19 September                            17:00                Direct Members' Forum Meeting, Online
Tuesday 8 October                                     10:00                Board Call, Online
Saturday 12 October                                 14:00 CET         Extraordinary International Council Meeting, Brussels

Past Events

25 June 2024 - Fourth in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Jessica Newberry Le Vay *view recording*
​14 May 2024 - Spring Lunch, London with Guest Speaker: Rt Hon Baroness Catherine Ashton LG GCMG
​11 Mar 2024 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Spring Meeting with Karen Ainley on her experience of "Hosting a Ukrainian Family"
22 Feb 2024 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
22 Feb 2024 - Council Meeting, Online
​17 Jan 2024 - Third in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Catherine Flick *view recording*
​21 Nov 2023 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture with Prof. Mala Rao OBE, Online
​​21 Nov 2023 - Annual General Meeting, Online
10 Oct 2023 - Second in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Dame Irene Hays DBE *view recording*
28 Sep-2 Oct - Europe Alive, Bucharest
12 Sep 2023 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
11 Jul 2023 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
13 Jun 2023 - First in a new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Myroslava Hartmond: Why Art Matters: Lessons from Ukraine *view recording*
16 May 2023 - Council Meeting, Warwick
15-17 May 2023 - Spring Break, Warwick including guest speakers Rick Thompson, former BBC Producer and Broadcaster and Christopher Monks, Founder and Artistic Director of the Armonico Consort and the AC Academy
​10 May 2023 - Tyne and Wear Branch Annual General Meeting with guest speaker Paule Richard, International President Education/Employment Commission
​26 Apr 2023 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Jeff Brown, BBC Look North Announcer
​​31 Mar 2023 - First Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
22 Mar 2023 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Roger Harvey, Author, Traveller
21 Mar 2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Spring Meeting with Nicholas Charrington, DL.  A Deputy Lieutenant of Essex talking about the Layer Marney Tower, the touring opera, Wild Arts, and his continuing efforts to expand cultural interests in our area. 
14 Mar 2023 - 70th Anniversary Lunch, London with guest speaker Rt Hon. Dominic Grieve KC
26 Jan 2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Winter Meeting with Jules Pretty, OBE on Sea Sagas of the North – How stories and Sagas Create Agency for the Climate Change
29 Nov 2022 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Christmas Meeting with Barbara Erskine, British author of bestselling novels, Colchester
​22 Nov 2022 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture, London
22 Nov 2022 - Annual Meeting, London
​20-23 Oct 2022 - International Council and Election Meeting, Athens
5 Sep 2022 - Council Meeting, Online
28 Jun 2022 - Jubilee Lunch, London with Guest Speaker Susanne Oberhauser - Liaison Officer, European Parliament in London
27 Apr 2022 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting
5 Apr 2022 - Council Meeting, Bedford
4-6 Apr 2022 - Spring Break, Bedford
23 Mar 2022 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Graeme Mason, Chief Communications Officer, Newcastle International Airport
23 Feb 2022 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Victoria Lancaster, ‘Rewilding Europe’
28 Jan 2022 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Winter Meeting with David Grocott on "Margaret Thatcher - The Colchester Years"
26 Jan 2022 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Donald Wood, 'The Enigma of Nixon'
18 Nov 2021 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture, Online
18 Nov 2021 - Annual Meeting, Online
12 Oct 2021 - Celebration Lunch 2021, London