Past Events

  • A Night at the Opera with London Festival Opera

    A programme of well-known arias and ensembles for an evening of humour, passion and high drama!

  • Val Bourne:Growing Organic Veg

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    Val shares her successful strategies for growing organic veg in the Cotswolds.

  • An Evening with Tricia Stewart

    Portrayed by Dame Helen Mirren in the iconic film ‘Calendar Girls,’ Tricia Stewart is the woman who came up with the brilliant fundraising Alternative WI Calendar, after her friend’s husband passed away from cancer.

    Heart-warming, inspirational and VERY funny, Tricia’s story is unlike any other.

  • The Bookseller of Florence

    Best selling author Ross King captured the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this illustrated talk about the life and work of “the king of the world’s booksellers” Vespiasano da Bisticci, purveyor of knowledge to the popes, Kings, Princes and scholars of Renaissance Europe.

  • The Wessex male voice choir

    The Wessex are an award-winning amateur male voice choir, based in Swindon, who pride themselves on a relevant, contemporary and innovative repertoire.

  • Val Bourne - A Year at Spring Cottage

    Val Bourne is an award-winning organic gardener, gardening writer and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. Her garden in Cold Aston is managed without using chemicals - something she has always believed in.

  • Craig Ogden in Concert

    Craig is one of the finest classical guitarists of his generation and the most sought-after guitarist for chamber music in the UK.

  • Jewels fit for a Queen

    Jeremy Mainwaring-Burton, gemmologist and former equerry to the Queen Mother, gave a fascinating and fully-illustrated talk on her pieces of gemmological or historical significance, including the Queen Mother’s Coronation Crown

  • Adam Henson talks about his new book Two for Joy

    November 2022

    Adam spoke about his family history in farming and his personal commitment to conserving our countryside, its wildlife and crops. It was an eye-opening talk that left many of us marvelling at the scope and scale of modern farming.

  • An Evening with Prue Leith

    October 2022

    Prue Leith spoke entertainingly about the ups and downs of being a successful restauranteur, novelist, businesswoman and Great British Bake Off judge - feeding the rich and famous, cooking for Royalty and even the occasional accidental food poisoning!

  • An evening with Joanna Trollope

    June 2019

    Best-selling novelist, Joanna Trollope, talked about her Cotswold family, the Hudson Parsons of Gloucestershire. And in particular, her great uncle Harold Hodson, who was vicar of Northleach from 1927 to 1940.