• Mid-Cheshire Branch: Lunch & Talk ‘Cheshire pubs and pub signs’ – CANCELLED

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    We regret that this event has been cancelled. Tony Bostock lives in Swanlow area of Winsford in the heart of Cheshire and descends from a family which has lived in the Northwich district for several hundred years. The 30 years he was an officer with the Cheshire Constabulary and later worked as a community safety […]

  • Mid-Cheshire Branch: Lunch & Talk ‘In harmony’

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    Speaker From the Liverpool Philharmonic (to be named later) In harmony Liverpool was launched in 2009 and uses orchestral music making to improve the life chances of over 1500 children every week in North Liverpool. This is done by increasing confidence,  well-being, skills and resilience. It also enhances opportunities to travel, learn, perform and collaborate […]

  • Mid-Cheshire Branch: Lunch & Talk, Research work in the Arctic

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    Professor Terry Callahan will be giving a talk on his Research work in the Arctic Terry Callahan started  as an Arctic plant ecologist in 1967. Over 52 years, he has worked in every Arctic country and has been in the field during each of 50 years. His main current focus is to develop international collaboration […]

  • Mid-Cheshire Branch: Lunch & Talk on The Vine Project

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    The vine project aims to enable vulnerable children and young people in choir Zulu Natal, South Africa to get the best education possible. Kate Stross was inspired to become a supporter of the project in late 2011 and has since visited South Africa regularly.

  • Mid-Cheshire Branch: Christmas Lunch & Talk, ‘Ways for wildlife’

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    Richard Macaulay is a member of the Sandbach Woodland and Wildlife group of volunteers who, over the past seven years, have regenerated the woodland area in Sandbach, increasing biodiversity by new planting and creating a variety of habitats for woodland creatures and new trails to explore.

  • Mid-Cheshire Branch: Lunch & Talk, ‘On the road with the BBC’

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    After postgraduate training as a teacher of languages, John Miller made an early move sideways to join BBC staff where he remained for nearly 30 years. Most of that time was spent in television production. He began his BBC career in Sound radio operations  in London, soon moving north to Manchester and into network television […]

  • Mid-Cheshire Branch: Lunch & Talk, ‘It’s about time’

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    Ian Morison is Emeritus Gresham Professor of astronomy, the oldest chair of astronomy in the world dating from 1597 and once helped by Sir Christopher Wren. He studied physics, maths and astronomy at Oxford university and became a research student at Jodrell  Bank Observatory in 1965 before he joined the staff. He lectures widely and […]

  • Mid-Cheshire Branch: AGM

    The Portal Premier Golf Club Forest Road, Tarporley, United Kingdom

    AGM followed by a review of the ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition and the Branch’s involvement therein