Forthcoming events
New members are welcome and there is no need for you to have a partner.
Venue: Bowling Green Society
Cost: £2:50 per person
Venue: Member's Home
This historical novel is set in Crete and the nearby former leper colony of Spinalonga. It follows Alexis Fielding, who discovers her family's hidden history of leprosy, passion and tragedy […]
Venue: The Reubens, Leeming Bar
Cost: No charge for venue hire but members attending are expected to buy a resfreshment
New members are welcome and there is no need for partner.
Venue: Bowling Green Society
Cost: £2 per person
1st May 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Committee Meeting
All members are welcome to attend a committee meeting as an observer, without commitment. Please contact Di or any committee member in advance to arrange this. Committee meetings are held on the first […]
Venue: Bowling Green Society
Booking Required
The body is found abandoned on the A35 in Dorset – tied to a chair, stag antlers on his head. It's Jim Tiernan, landlord of Fleetcombe’s The White Hart pub – […]
Venue: Member's Home
This month's task is to write 5 minutes of dialogue.
Venue: The Reubens, Leeming Bar
Come and go as you wish between these times. Please let us know if you require a scone.
Venue: The Reubens, Leeming Bar
New members are welcome and there is no need for partner.
Venue: Bowling Green Society
Cost: £2 per person
Venue: Member's Home
We’ll all bring along something of our own to work on. We hope that you will be able to join us.
Venue: Member's Home
Walled Gardens Ripon for a look around and then lunch. Then onwards to Norton Conyers. A cost of £5 per head which will be used as a donation to Norton […]
Cost: £5
Booking Required
Carol Brooks rose from Officer Cadet to Commanding Officer during the years when women leaders were few and far between! She also worked on the Line of Communication when NATO […]
Venue: Chantry Hall
New members are welcome and there is no need for you to have a partner.
Venue: Bowling Green Society
Cost: £2 per session
Venue: Member's Home
This is a memoir and mystery that investigates the 1929 kidnapping of the author’s mother from a Lincolnshire beach. Although found safely five days later, the child has no memory […]
Venue: The Reubens, Leeming Bar
Cost: No charge for venue hire but members attending are expected to buy a refreshment.
New members are welcome and there is no need for partner.
Venue: Bowling Green Society
Cost: £2 per person
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with a marital meltdown. Once a cop on Chicago's South Side, there's not much that can shock him. But when […]
Venue: Member's Home
Come and go as you wish between these times. Please let us know if you require a scone.
Venue: The Reubens, Leeming Bar
5th June 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Committee Meeting
All members are welcome to attend a committee meeting as an observer, without commitment. Please contact Di or any committee member in advance to arrange this. Committee meetings are usually held on the […]
Venue: Bowling Green Society
Booking Required
Venue: Member's Home
These gardens are only open for 8 days in June and July. One community minibus and own transport. Leave Bedale 10.30, using their tearooms for a light lunch and leaving […]
Cost: £10 + £10 for minibus or own transport
Booking Required
We’ll all bring along something of our own to work on. We hope that you will be able to join us.
Venue: Member's Home
This is a follow up to his earlier talk 'The Brain' which everyone enjoyed. Bob Pullen is a retired University Lecturer who has spent many years teaching the brain to […]
Venue: Chantry Hall
Venue: Member's Home
This epic novel follows Roland Baines through the, often turbulent, political and social changes of the late 20th century, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall […]
Venue: The Reubens, Leeming Bar
Cost: No charge for venue hire but members attending are expected to buy a refreshment.
1st July 2026
to 3rd July 2026
Other
FESTIVAL 26 will take place at York University from 1st to 3rd July 2026. Planning is underway but nothing, other than the date and venue, is firmed up yet.
Come and go as you wish between these times.Please let us know if you require a scone.
Venue: The Reubens, Leeming Bar
In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell […]
Venue: Member's Home
We’ll all bring along something of our own to work on. We hope that you will be able to join us.
Venue: Member's Home
Paul Whittaker is an inspirational speaker, musician, performer and workshop leader although profoundly deaf. Born in Huddersfield in 1964, Paul has been profoundly deaf all his life yet pursued a […]
Venue: Chantry Hall
Trip to Keswick with a theatre visit to see a production of Calendar Girls. We have pre-booked 26 seats and have booked both Community minibuses for transport. Cost includes theatre […]
Cost: £48 - A £10 deposit is required on booking and the balance is to be paid by 17th June
Booking Required
Karen Adams is a Commercial Archaeologist from York. There is a lot more to archaeology than just the digging on site. Discover the work of an archaeological contractor from planning […]
Venue: Chantry Hall
Leave Bedale at 9.30am - arrive at Beamish at approximately 10.30. Leave Beamish at approximately 4.30pm. As the coach will take approximately 1 hour each way this will give us […]
Cost: £18 plus cost of coach - £10 deposit required on booking
Booking Required
John Young, resident Heritage specialist and railway enthusiast at The Station, has marked 60 years since he arrived by train at Richmond railway station, stepping onto the platform for the […]
Venue: Chantry Hall
Venue: Alan's house
Venue: Alan's house
Venue: Alan's house
Venue: Alan's house
Venue: Alan's house
Venue: Alan's house
Venue: Alan's house