Each year we host a fantastic array of fascinating speakers, with every talk accompanied by a group competition. Here’s a list of 2026’s line up…
Annual New Year Dinner
Combermere Arms
6th January 2026
Cyber Crime Protection
West Mercia Police
3rd February 2026
Competition: A good password
‘Vet to Vicar’
Rudy Hunt
3rd March 2026
Competition: An amusing grace
‘Shrubs and PERENNIALS’
Matt Hudson
7th April 2026
Competition: A house plant
‘The River Weaver’
Margaret Carding
5th May 2026
Competition: A picture of the River Weaver
‘Putting Extinction on Ice’
Tullis Matson
7th June 2026
Competition: A horse picture
Birthday Meeting
Speaker TBC
‘Millinery’
Ruth Ravenscroft
4th August 2026
Competition: Your favourite hat
‘Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Save The Children Fund’
Alison Utting
5th September 2026
Competition: A soft toy
‘My life as a Ballet Dancer’
Rev. John Jukes
6th October 2026
Competition: Dancing shoes
The RELUCTANT SHEPHERDESS
Rosie Lee
3rd November 2026
Competition: An item made of wool
Christmas Party
1st December 2026
Competition: Christmas Cracker Joke
What’s on – Malbank Group
What’s On – Malbank Group
The Dress Makers of Aushwitz
Tuesday 21st April 2026, The Function Room at Nantiwch Football Club
Start time: 7.30pm, £10pp
They sewed to survive…
At the height of the holocaust twenty-five young jewish inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau were selected to create beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon established by the camp comandant’s wife.
Historian Lucy Adlington has researched their lives and fates wo write a powerful chronicle, The Dressmakers of Aushwitz, which became the New York Times bestseller.
Yhis fascinating presentation, drawing on eyewitness interviews with original garments from the era, is a remarkable tale of resilience, camraderie and quiet heroism in the most extreme circumstances. Lucy Adlington is a writer and social historian, specialising in women’s history in the 1940s.
Magic and Larks
Tuesday 15th September 2026, The Function Nantwich Football Club, Speaker: Alison Neil
Details to be announced.
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