Each year we host a fantastic array of fascinating speakers, with every talk accompanied by a group competition. Here’s a list of 2025’s line up…

Annual New Year Dinner
Combermere Arms
7th January 2025

‘creating sound effects for BBC Radio 4’
Vanessa Nuttall
4th February 2025
Competition: An item which makes a sound effect

‘Gems & Celebs’
Norman Jones
4th March 2025
Competition: A piece of costume jewellery

‘Stained Glass’
Julie Wright
1st April 2025
Competition: An item of coloured glass

‘The Lusitania’
Mike Royden
6th May 2025
Competition: WWI memorabilia

‘Whitchurch foodbank’
Alan Scutt
3rd June 2025
Competition: The most out of date item in your cupboard

80th Birthday Meeting
Combermere Abbey
1st July 2025
Competition: A historical fact about Combermere Abbey

‘My life as a chimney sweep’
Martin Haycocks
5th August 2025
Competition: A wedding photograph

‘My life at Granada’
Judy Popley
2nd September 2025
Competition: A fact about Granada Television

‘My Career Racing Motorbikes and Cars’
Stuart Graham
7th October 2025

‘Life as a vet’
Keelin Hopkins
4th November 2025

‘Christmas Decorations’
Christine Roberts
2nd December 2025
Competition: Winner of the decoration made at the meeting
2026

Annual New Year Dinner
Combermere Arms
6th January 2026
What’s on – Malbank Group
Speaker Debra Drake – BBC Sewing Bee Finalist
Tuesday 18th March – Function Nantwich Football Club
7.30pm, £10 each
Coach trip – Black COUNTRY museum
Tuesday 3 June 2025, 9.15am – £20pp
Bowls afternoon – COMPETITION trophy
Monday 23rd June, Wrenbury Bowling Club, 1pm, £3pp
Speaker – lADY dodd
Tuesday 16th September 2025, Nantwich Football Club, 7.30pm, £10

Carol Service
Monday 1st December 2025, Nantwich Methodist Church, 7pm, £3
Inspiring Women
Burleydam Womens Institute





