Programme 2024

January 16th 2024 

Singing session with Chris Bartram, who taught music at York St. John and now works as a community musician with experience in running workshops with groups like ours!

February 20th 2024

Meet Erica Gatenby of Ericalili Designs, a local maker of beaded jewellery and more.

March 19th 2024

From Prison to Palace: Veronica Bird OBE, a former Deputy Governor at Armley Prison.

April 16th 2024

How to Get a Bill Through Parliament with York Central member Grace Loveday.

May 21st 2024

Meet Phil Bewers, husband of Maria, who will tell us about York Hospital Radio in its 60th Anniversary Year.

June 18th 2024

Hoping for better weather than 2023 for our annual picnic – will it go ahead this year?

July 16th 2024

Alice Maynard of The Outside In plant studio shows us how to make a terrarium.

August 20th 2024

Martin Whipp, Lead Astronomer from the Lime Tree Observatory in Ripon, with Reverse Through the Universe Part 2, a backward adventure through the Solar System and beyond! You may remember Part 1 from January 2020.

September 17th 2024

Bob Scott, husband of Denise, on the Treasurer’s House, where he volunteers, and Frank Green, who owned the house in the early twentieth century

October 15th 2024

Dr Conor Rankine, Lecturer in Machine Learning at the University of York and husband of Sarah: Do Androids Dream of Nonlinear Sheep?

November 19th 2024

York Central member Gill Potts leads a workshop on beaded snowflakes.

December 17th 2024

Annual Meeting  and Christmas party.

Review the year, question the committee and shape the future of our group in a short business meeting. Followed by our tradition seasonal gathering.

York Central Book Group

* We meet on Zoom on the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm.

Members talk briefly about a book of their choice, sharing recommendations and favourites, occasionally warning us off a stinker. New members always welcome