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We always welcome new ideas for study groups. * 3 new groups have been 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), often 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...	Sheila Gurney. Tel: 01335 347493 email: sheilagurney@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 and Digital Photography*	Meets fortnightly, (during term time), on Monday 9.30 - 11.30am. More...	Vic Needham. Tel: 01335 345142 email: vicneedham@talktalk.net
*French*	Meets weekly on Monday at 2.30pm More...	Ian Kyd. Tel: 01335 344029 email: iankyd@tiscali.co.uk
*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...	Althea Devine Tel 01335 342020 altheadevine@btinternet.com
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 or 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
*Natural History*	Meetings temporarily suspended More...	New Group Leader needed * Volunteers please *
*Poetry*	Meetings temporarily suspended More...	New Group Leader needed * Volunteers please *
*Scrabble*	No regular meeting times established yet. 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 Groups

3 new groups have been proposed recently:

WRITING FOR PLEASURE.
Share with others your experiences from nature study, your family history,
holidays and many other activities, in the form of short stories, poems or even songs.
Get feedback from the group how you might improve your work.
Take your writing into realms which you may not have considered.
Meeting monthly giving you plenty of time to enjoy the pleasure of writng your piece.
If you are interested then contact Dave Williams -
david@ireton.plus.com 01335 370473

PLAY READING GROUP
In addition to play reading the intention is to introduce elementary voice control. Not knowing how many members will be interested numbers will initially be limited to 8. At least 50% of the reading will be my own stage and radio plays with the rest of the time devoted to Shaw, Priestley, Coward etc. Sessions are expected to last at least 2 hours. As to the venue I am hoping my home...Shaw Lodge 30 Derby Road will prove suitable.
Please contact Harry Wilson on 342920

"Family History" - would you be interested in learning to research your family history? Do you have any experience or expertise in this area that you could share with a new group?