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Spring Lunch Speaker
Rt Hon Alistair Burt, Pro-Chancellor Lancaster University, is an expert on the complex politics and relationships of the Middle East. He is the former UK Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the Middle East, North Africa, North America and South Asia and Minister of State at the Department for International Development. He has been the UK Commissioner to the International Commission on Missing Persons and continues to work with Middle Eastern conflict resolution group Forward Thinking. Alistair frequently writes for national newspapers and appears as a Middle East expert of national television.
The Venue
The Reform Club is a beautiful, historic venue which reminds us of Britain’s advance towards democracy in the 19th century. It was founded in 1836 for those who pledged support for the Great Reform Act of 1832, and evolved as their political headquarters before becoming the politically neutral place for critical thinking and intellectual discourse that it is today. We’re delighted, therefore, that the Spring Lunch will be held in the gold leafed Library, home to many of the Club’s finest books. The Library runs the entire length of the building and faces south overlooking Carlton Gardens and is described as “the most handsome room in the Club and is considered to be one of the finest interiors in London.” (source: www.reformclub.com/Private_Events/Club_Rooms).
Rt Hon Alistair Burt, Pro-Chancellor Lancaster University, is an expert on the complex politics and relationships of the Middle East. He is the former UK Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the Middle East, North Africa, North America and South Asia and Minister of State at the Department for International Development. He has been the UK Commissioner to the International Commission on Missing Persons and continues to work with Middle Eastern conflict resolution group Forward Thinking. Alistair frequently writes for national newspapers and appears as a Middle East expert of national television.
The Venue
The Reform Club is a beautiful, historic venue which reminds us of Britain’s advance towards democracy in the 19th century. It was founded in 1836 for those who pledged support for the Great Reform Act of 1832, and evolved as their political headquarters before becoming the politically neutral place for critical thinking and intellectual discourse that it is today. We’re delighted, therefore, that the Spring Lunch will be held in the gold leafed Library, home to many of the Club’s finest books. The Library runs the entire length of the building and faces south overlooking Carlton Gardens and is described as “the most handsome room in the Club and is considered to be one of the finest interiors in London.” (source: www.reformclub.com/Private_Events/Club_Rooms).
Monday 9th-Friday 20th March 2026 Seventieth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, New York
Thursday 19th March 17:00 Direct Members' Forum Meeting
Tuesday 24th March 11:15 North Essex & Suffolk Branch Spring Meeting with guest speaker: Susie Eldridge, an emergency sector psychotherapist & clinical supervisor
Wednesday 25th March Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: City Guide
Wednesday 22nd April Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Representative of the Ambulance Service
Wednesday 6th May Tyne and Wear Branch Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 12th May 2026 Spring Lunch 2026 with Guest Speaker: Rt Hon Alistair Burt
Wednesday 3rd-Sunday 7th June 2026 Europe Alive, Czechia
Past Events
25/02/2026 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker
28/01/2026 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Karen Gillespie on The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide
22/01/2026 - Eighth in series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Walburga von Lerchenfeld - "Exchange on European Security Perspectives" *view recording*
10/12/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Christmas Lunch
27/11-2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Christmas Meeting with guest speaker: Judith Hood, "Living with the Paranormal"
26/11/2025 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture with Professor Dame Julia Black FBA FRSA on "The importance of the social sciences, humanities and the arts" *view recording*
26/11/2025 - Annual Meeting, Online
26/11/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Liz Finch, Secrets of Delaval Hall
14/11/2025 - International Council Meeting, Online
30/10/2025 - Interactive Council Meeting, Online
22/10/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Amanda Cowie, Inheritance Tax
16/10-20/10/2025 - Europe Alive, Malta
09/10/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Autumn Meeting, Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Religion" presented by Dr Martin Parsons, Colchester
17/09/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Cristina Rizbasan, Pottery at Vindolanda
16/09/2025 - Seventh in series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Emma Thwaites - "From Britpop to No. 10, tech booms to boardrooms. Lessons from a life lived in a ringside seat"
*view recording*
28/08/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Summer Meeting, “Defence & Conscription in Today’s World” with Bevan Waghorn, Colchester
04/06/2025 - Sixth in series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Margaret Hales: 'From grass roots to president: a journey of many friendships' *view recording*
20/05/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch AGM followed by talk on “Germany: Still Europe’s Reluctant Hegemon?” with Guest Speaker: Dr Alex Hennessy, Dept of Government, Essex University
16/05/2025 - Central Essex Branch Annual General Meeting with Guest Speaker: Baroness Rawlings - Former Front Bencher in the House of Lords
14/05/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Annual General Meeting
13/05/2025 - Spring Lunch, London with Guest Speaker: Mary Dejevsky *read transcript (members' only)*
23/04/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Steffi Smith, Founder The Chocolate Smiths
26/03/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Rachel Metcalf, Biblical Women and How They Have Affected Literature and Culture
19/03/2025 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Roger Hirst - Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex
19/03/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Spring Meeting with Guest Speaker: Sally Vincent - “Tracing Long- Lost GI Fathers", Colchester
11/03/2025 - UNCSW Parallel Event: "Exploring Europe's new laws for preventing violence against women" *view recording*.
25-28/02/2025 - Mini Europe Alive, Vienna
26/02/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Lewis Jobson, Manager Tyne Theatre
19/02/2025 - Direct Members Forum Meeting including a presentation on the EUW 'Adventures in Life' book
30/01/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Winter Meeting with Guest Speaker: Peter Inson - "The Importance of Parental Involvement"
28/01/2025 - Fifth in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Dr Jennie Bristow: Generational Conflict: Are Boomers and Zoomers at War? *view recording*
23/01/2025 - Central Essex Branch Event: Warner Textile Archive - Pomp, Circumstance and Jubilation
22/01/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Sheridan Parry, RNLI Lifeboat Training Co- Ordinator
05/12/2024 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Andy Thomas - A festive history of Christmas
04/11/2024 - Tyne and Wear Branch Christmas Lunch
27/11/2024 - Tyne and Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Francesca Gillis - Geoarchaeologist on the Impact of Climate Change on artefacts at Vindolanda
12/11/2024 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture with co-founders of Smartphone Free Childhood, Daisy Greenwell & Joe Ryrie *view recording*
01/11/2024 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Rt Hon The Lord Pickles
28/10/2024 - Annual Meeting, Online
28/10/2024 - Council Meeting, Online
12/10/2024 - Extraordinary International Council Meeting, Brussels
03/10/2024 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Autumn Meeting with Guest Speaker: Kate Evans - "Modern Slavery - Here in our Community"
20/09/2024 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Catherine Cameron - What is Essex County Council doing to tackle climate change?
19/09/2024 - Direct Members' Forum Meeting, Online
25/06/2024 - Fourth in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Jessica Newberry Le Vay: Climate change and mental health: common causes, common solutions? *view recording*
14/05/2024 - Spring Lunch, London with Guest Speaker: Rt Hon Baroness Catherine Ashton LG GCMG
11/03/2024 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Spring Meeting with Karen Ainley on her experience of "Hosting a Ukrainian Family"
22/02/2024 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
22/02/2024 - Council Meeting, Online
17/01/2024 - Third in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Catherine Flick: Deepfakes and Stereotypes: Generative AI and the Impact on Women *view recording*
27/11/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Christmas Meeting with Guest Speaker: Charlie Haylock
21/11/2023 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture with Prof. Mala Rao OBE, Online
21/11/2023 - Annual General Meeting, Online
10/10/2023 - Second in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Dame Irene Hays DBE: Hero of the High Street? ‘Just a woman with a northern work ethic’ *view recording*
28/09-02/10/2023 - Europe Alive, Bucharest
25/09/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Autumns Meeting with Guest Speaker: Michelle Brown, LLB, OBE
12/09/2023 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
26/07/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Summer Meeting: “Edith Pretty & the Sutton Hoo Story”
11/07/2023 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
13/06/2023 - First in a new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Myroslava Hartmond: Why Art Matters: Lessons from Ukraine *view recording*
30/05/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Annual General Meeting with Guest Speaker: Prof Mark Bailey - “Women and work in the age of the Black Death”.
16/05/2023 - Council Meeting, Warwick
15-17/05/2023 - Spring Break, Warwick including guest speakers Rick Thompson, former BBC Producer & Broadcaster & Christopher Monks, Founder & Artistic Director of the Armonico Consort and the AC Academy
10/05/2023 - Tyne & Wear Branch Annual General Meeting with guest speaker Paule Richard, International President Education/Employment Commission
26/04/2023 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Jeff Brown, BBC Look North Announcer
31/03/2023 - First Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
22/03/2023 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Roger Harvey, Author, Traveller
21/03/2023 - 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.
14/03/2023 - 70th Anniversary Lunch, London with guest speaker Rt Hon. Dominic Grieve KC
26/01/2023 - 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
29/11/2022 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Christmas Meeting with Barbara Erskine, British author of bestselling novels, Colchester
22/11/2022 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture, London, with Dr Hannah White, Acting Director at the Institute of Government
22/11/2022 - Annual Meeting, London
20-23/10/2022 - International Council and Election Meeting, Athens
05/09/2022 - Council Meeting, Online
28/06/2022 - Jubilee Lunch, London with Guest Speaker Susanne Oberhauser - Liaison Officer, European Parliament in London
27/04/2022 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting
05/04/2022 - Council Meeting, Bedford
04-06/04/2022 - Spring Break, Bedford
23/03/2022 - Tyne & Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Graeme Mason, Chief Communications Officer, Newcastle International Airport
23/02/2022 - Tyne & Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Victoria Lancaster, ‘Rewilding Europe’
28/01/2022 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Winter Meeting with David Grocott on "Margaret Thatcher - The Colchester Years"
26/01/2022 - Tyne & Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Donald Wood, 'The Enigma of Nixon'
18/11/2021 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture, Online, with Sajda Mughal OBE, CEO of JAN Trust
18/11/2021 - Annual Meeting, Online
12/10/2021 - Celebration Lunch 2021, London
28/01/2026 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Karen Gillespie on The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide
22/01/2026 - Eighth in series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Walburga von Lerchenfeld - "Exchange on European Security Perspectives" *view recording*
10/12/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Christmas Lunch
27/11-2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Christmas Meeting with guest speaker: Judith Hood, "Living with the Paranormal"
26/11/2025 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture with Professor Dame Julia Black FBA FRSA on "The importance of the social sciences, humanities and the arts" *view recording*
26/11/2025 - Annual Meeting, Online
26/11/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Liz Finch, Secrets of Delaval Hall
14/11/2025 - International Council Meeting, Online
30/10/2025 - Interactive Council Meeting, Online
22/10/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Amanda Cowie, Inheritance Tax
16/10-20/10/2025 - Europe Alive, Malta
09/10/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Autumn Meeting, Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Religion" presented by Dr Martin Parsons, Colchester
17/09/2025 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker: Cristina Rizbasan, Pottery at Vindolanda
16/09/2025 - Seventh in series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Emma Thwaites - "From Britpop to No. 10, tech booms to boardrooms. Lessons from a life lived in a ringside seat"
*view recording*
28/08/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Summer Meeting, “Defence & Conscription in Today’s World” with Bevan Waghorn, Colchester
04/06/2025 - Sixth in series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Margaret Hales: 'From grass roots to president: a journey of many friendships' *view recording*
20/05/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch AGM followed by talk on “Germany: Still Europe’s Reluctant Hegemon?” with Guest Speaker: Dr Alex Hennessy, Dept of Government, Essex University
16/05/2025 - Central Essex Branch Annual General Meeting with Guest Speaker: Baroness Rawlings - Former Front Bencher in the House of Lords
14/05/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Annual General Meeting
13/05/2025 - Spring Lunch, London with Guest Speaker: Mary Dejevsky *read transcript (members' only)*
23/04/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Steffi Smith, Founder The Chocolate Smiths
26/03/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Rachel Metcalf, Biblical Women and How They Have Affected Literature and Culture
19/03/2025 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Roger Hirst - Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex
19/03/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Spring Meeting with Guest Speaker: Sally Vincent - “Tracing Long- Lost GI Fathers", Colchester
11/03/2025 - UNCSW Parallel Event: "Exploring Europe's new laws for preventing violence against women" *view recording*.
25-28/02/2025 - Mini Europe Alive, Vienna
26/02/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Lewis Jobson, Manager Tyne Theatre
19/02/2025 - Direct Members Forum Meeting including a presentation on the EUW 'Adventures in Life' book
30/01/2025 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Winter Meeting with Guest Speaker: Peter Inson - "The Importance of Parental Involvement"
28/01/2025 - Fifth in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Dr Jennie Bristow: Generational Conflict: Are Boomers and Zoomers at War? *view recording*
23/01/2025 - Central Essex Branch Event: Warner Textile Archive - Pomp, Circumstance and Jubilation
22/01/2025 - Tyne & Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Sheridan Parry, RNLI Lifeboat Training Co- Ordinator
05/12/2024 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Andy Thomas - A festive history of Christmas
04/11/2024 - Tyne and Wear Branch Christmas Lunch
27/11/2024 - Tyne and Wear Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Francesca Gillis - Geoarchaeologist on the Impact of Climate Change on artefacts at Vindolanda
12/11/2024 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture with co-founders of Smartphone Free Childhood, Daisy Greenwell & Joe Ryrie *view recording*
01/11/2024 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Rt Hon The Lord Pickles
28/10/2024 - Annual Meeting, Online
28/10/2024 - Council Meeting, Online
12/10/2024 - Extraordinary International Council Meeting, Brussels
03/10/2024 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Autumn Meeting with Guest Speaker: Kate Evans - "Modern Slavery - Here in our Community"
20/09/2024 - Central Essex Branch Event with Guest Speaker: Catherine Cameron - What is Essex County Council doing to tackle climate change?
19/09/2024 - Direct Members' Forum Meeting, Online
25/06/2024 - Fourth in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Jessica Newberry Le Vay: Climate change and mental health: common causes, common solutions? *view recording*
14/05/2024 - Spring Lunch, London with Guest Speaker: Rt Hon Baroness Catherine Ashton LG GCMG
11/03/2024 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Spring Meeting with Karen Ainley on her experience of "Hosting a Ukrainian Family"
22/02/2024 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
22/02/2024 - Council Meeting, Online
17/01/2024 - Third in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Catherine Flick: Deepfakes and Stereotypes: Generative AI and the Impact on Women *view recording*
27/11/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Christmas Meeting with Guest Speaker: Charlie Haylock
21/11/2023 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture with Prof. Mala Rao OBE, Online
21/11/2023 - Annual General Meeting, Online
10/10/2023 - Second in new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Dame Irene Hays DBE: Hero of the High Street? ‘Just a woman with a northern work ethic’ *view recording*
28/09-02/10/2023 - Europe Alive, Bucharest
25/09/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Autumns Meeting with Guest Speaker: Michelle Brown, LLB, OBE
12/09/2023 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
26/07/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Summer Meeting: “Edith Pretty & the Sutton Hoo Story”
11/07/2023 - Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
13/06/2023 - First in a new series of online encounters with stimulating speakers * Myroslava Hartmond: Why Art Matters: Lessons from Ukraine *view recording*
30/05/2023 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Annual General Meeting with Guest Speaker: Prof Mark Bailey - “Women and work in the age of the Black Death”.
16/05/2023 - Council Meeting, Warwick
15-17/05/2023 - Spring Break, Warwick including guest speakers Rick Thompson, former BBC Producer & Broadcaster & Christopher Monks, Founder & Artistic Director of the Armonico Consort and the AC Academy
10/05/2023 - Tyne & Wear Branch Annual General Meeting with guest speaker Paule Richard, International President Education/Employment Commission
26/04/2023 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Jeff Brown, BBC Look North Announcer
31/03/2023 - First Meeting of the Direct Members' Forum, Online
22/03/2023 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Roger Harvey, Author, Traveller
21/03/2023 - 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.
14/03/2023 - 70th Anniversary Lunch, London with guest speaker Rt Hon. Dominic Grieve KC
26/01/2023 - 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
29/11/2022 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Christmas Meeting with Barbara Erskine, British author of bestselling novels, Colchester
22/11/2022 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture, London, with Dr Hannah White, Acting Director at the Institute of Government
22/11/2022 - Annual Meeting, London
20-23/10/2022 - International Council and Election Meeting, Athens
05/09/2022 - Council Meeting, Online
28/06/2022 - Jubilee Lunch, London with Guest Speaker Susanne Oberhauser - Liaison Officer, European Parliament in London
27/04/2022 - Tyne and Wear Branch Meeting
05/04/2022 - Council Meeting, Bedford
04-06/04/2022 - Spring Break, Bedford
23/03/2022 - Tyne & Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Graeme Mason, Chief Communications Officer, Newcastle International Airport
23/02/2022 - Tyne & Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Victoria Lancaster, ‘Rewilding Europe’
28/01/2022 - North Essex & Suffolk Branch Winter Meeting with David Grocott on "Margaret Thatcher - The Colchester Years"
26/01/2022 - Tyne & Wear Branch Meeting with guest speaker Donald Wood, 'The Enigma of Nixon'
18/11/2021 - Alison Tennant Memorial Lecture, Online, with Sajda Mughal OBE, CEO of JAN Trust
18/11/2021 - Annual Meeting, Online
12/10/2021 - Celebration Lunch 2021, London
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