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Our Study Groups

We always welcome new ideas for study groups.  * 2 new groups have recently started and others are now suggested - see panel at bottom of page for details. Please contact Anne Brown if you have a suggestion for a new group. Please note that we are still waiting for ideas from you, the members, as to what other groups you would be interested in and if you are willing to organise a group.

Most of the information on this website is about future meetings.  Our monthly NEWSLETTER (which is either posted or e-mailed to members), sometimes also carries reports of past activities of groups.  To see the current newsletter as a pdf file (you need Adobe Reader) - click here and here for page 2

Established Groups
Group
Meeting times

Leader

Art Appreciation Meets usually on the 4th Wednesday of the month More...

Anne Butterworth  Tel: 01335 324435

email: kanda.butterworth@btinternet.com

 Bridge Meets weekly, usually on a Tuesday (occasionally a Thursday) at 2.30pm. More...

Forbes Barbour. Tel: 01335 361081

email: patand.forbes@virgin.net

Computing Meets fortnightly, (during term time), on Monday 9.30 - 11.30am. More...

Vic Needham. Tel: 01335 345142

email: vicneedham@talktalk.net

Craft

New group recently established. More members welcome.
More...

For more information please contact
Barbara on 343457 or Anne on 345435
Family History  New group recently established. More...

Vivien Tiano.  Tel: 01335 342668

email:   tiano121@btinternet.com

French

Meets weekly on Monday at 2.30pm More...

Vivien Tiano.  Tel: 01335 342668    email: tiano121@btinternet.com          or

John Green Tel: 01335 347448       email: john.green122@virginmedia.com

Gardens Meets monthly but the days and times of the meetings vary.  More...

Sue Green. Tel 01335 347448

58 Premier Avenue  Ashbourne  DE6 1LH

Landscape Heritage Meeting monthly usually on the 3rd Friday of the month. More...    

No permanent Group Leader. For more information please use the contact details shown for a particular meeting.

Lunch meetings Meeting monthly at the moment; no regular pattern yet. Click on this link for details of next meeting...

Rhona Oakes  Tel: 01335 342634

email: rhonaoakes55@btinternet.com

Music Appreciation Meets monthly on the 4th Friday of the month at 10.30am. More...

Knighton Butterworth  Tel: 01335 324435

email: kanda.butterworth@btinternet.com

Poetry Appreciation

New group recently established

More...

Max Oates      Tel: 01335 348265

email:  max.oates@btinternet.com

Salsa Dance

New group recently established

More....

Roger or Maggie Gage   Tel: 347751

email:   r.gage@btinternet.com

Theatre New group recently established More... Harry Wilson.   Tel:  01335 342920
Scrabble Meets monthly usually on a Wenesday evening.      More... Anne Brown.  Tel: 01335 345435
Walking Click on this link for latest programme..

Peter Worboys.  Tel: 01335 361277

email: worboys@globalnet.co.uk

New Study Subjects

Through the Open University a whole new range has become available - FREE!

For details of the OpenLearn scheme click on this link.

PROPOSED NEW GROUPS

CHOIR   and / or   READING GROUP
We would need to have someone willing to lead either of these groups. It may be an idea for anyone interested in joining a group to meet initially at ‘Stepping Stones’ (or somewhere similar) for coffee and a chat to discuss possibilities,
There would be no cost for room hire and would only cost the price of a cup of coffee, maybe a date could be arranged at the April meeting.