Our newsletters will be issued at appropriate times to ensure that members are fully informed regarding general matters and our social programme.

CURRENT NEWSLETTER

Our latest club newsletter was published on the 10th January, 2025

To view this, please click on January, 2025

For historic newsletters and other information, including the last A.G.M. Minutes and the latest Approved Club Accounts, take a rummage in The Loft.

SOCIAL TEAM UPDATE

I am pleased to report that our new Social Team are geared up for taking on the mantle after both Sue Russell and Christine Goose left at the end of 2024 and are actively working on our 2025 Social Programme.

Our thanks to both Sue and Christine for their hard work in organising events in the past and hope to see them at some of the future events.

2025 SOCIAL PROGRAMME

As our membership profile changes we are having to adapt our Social Programme to meet the members’ needs. We are therefore arranging more local events that are self-drive and events that run for less time.

This has the dual benefit of keeping cost under control (i.e. less coach hire costs) and less tiring for the participants.

We are not yet in a position to fully publish our Social Programme for 2025. However, there are two important dates that you can note down now in your diaries:-

• A.G.M. 2025 will be held on Thursday 17th April 2025

• Christmas Lunch 2025 will be held on Tuesday 9th December 2025

We have also confirmed with our Tunbridge Wells venue that they are happy to host 6 Coffee Mornings in 2025, the first of which will be on Wednesday 15th January 2025. Please see the Coffee Mornings page in the Social Events section for the remaining dates.

Further information regarding each event will be published in the Newsletters as we progress through the year ahead. Once each Newsletter has been issued, please remember to apply early if you do not want to be disappointed as many of our events have a limited number of spaces available and places are allocated on a “first come first served” basis with priority given to Members..

Some events that are fully booked may have a "Reserve List" if there are more members wishing to attend than there are places available, so I would ask that, if you need to cancel your attendance, please contact the Social Team as soon as possible in order that your place can be filled from the Reserve.

BARCLAYS CHEQUE BOOKS

We understand that Barclays will no longer issue a new cheque book automatically when you are running low. You will need to either order a new cheque book through Online Banking, by calling the central telephone number, or by visiting a Branch.