2021
All meetings subject to change
Wednesday 7th July
at 7.00pm via Zoom
Guest Speaker: Hayley Scott, The Life of a CSI
Hayley is a former Crime Scene Investigator working with the Metropolitan Police for fourteen years. She will talk about forensics, the life of a CSI and what actually happens behind the crime scene tape. She will also talk about fingerprints and how they are matched from a crime scene to a suspect. There will also be an opportunity for us to code our own fingerprints.
Here is the Fingerprint activity sheet to use after the Zoom meeting. You can use ink pads, artistic paints or a felt tip pen to take the fingerprints with and then do the coding.
Meeting ID: 856 9072 4676
Passcode: 456789
Click here to join via link
Wednesday 4th August
at 7.00pm via Zoom
Guest Speaker: Jane Barnes, The Life of a Dairy Farmer’s Wife
Jane is very proud of the Barnes family dairy farm and is passionate about sharing her farm life experiences. She will give us an insight into life on a dairy farm, milking 250 cows twice a day and tell us how they produce milk for the award winning Long Clawson Blue Stilton Cheese.
Meeting ID: 856 9072 4676
Passcode: 456789
Click here to join via link
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Wednesday 4th August
Meeting at the White Hart
Guest Speaker: Anne Bromley and Turner
from the Guide Dog Association
The Guide Dogs story started in 1931 with two amazing British pioneers, Muriel Crooke and Rosamund Bond. These remarkable women organised the training of the first four British guide dogs from a humble lock up garage in Wallasey, Merseyside. The Association has come a very long way since those early days. Today Guide Dogs is the world’s largest breeder and trainer of working dogs.
Anne together with her dog Turner, who is an Ambassador for the Association, will talk to us about this British charitable organisation founded in 1934 and tell us how they help blind and partially sighted people across the UK.
Wednesday 1st September
Guest Speaker: Debbie Abrahams MP
Debbie Abrahams is the Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth. She has been the Member of Parliament since her by-election victory in January 2011.
Debbie will talk to us about Women in Politics
Wednesday 6th October
Guest Speaker: Phaedra Patrick
Phaedra Patrick is an internationally bestselling author who has been published in over 20 countries around the world. Film rights for her second book, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper have been optioned in the US by a major Hollywood studio. Her fourth book, The Secrets of Sunshine was released during the Covid19 pandemic. Phaedra lives in Greenfield.
Wednesday 3rd November
Guest Speaker: Penny Dean OBE
Penny is the Chair of the Dwarf Sports Association. She will talk to us about Dwarfism and coping with childhood, marriage, children, society etc .
Friday 10th December
Christmas Party Night!
Watch this space for details of our Christmas Party Night!