Monthly Notices August
These are some notes from our August Monthly Meeting held on Monday 10th August 2026. The meeting was followed by a talk from Robert Brewer who told us all about "The Roles of a TV/Film Extra"
July Monthly Meeting - Chairman's Announcements:
Pauline opened the meeting by welcoming all the members to this month's meeting and gave us all the usual safety announcements and reminded the members of the meeting place in the event of an emergency.
Pauline started by providing some fun facts in the form of famous Birthdays born today such as Herbert Hoover (1874), Charlie Dimmock (1966) & Roy Keen (1971).
Pauline then informed the members that 'Table of the Month' was Geoff Street who is one of our IT Team and he will be there to help anyone with questions or issues about using our Simple Membership application.
Pauline also mentioned that she needs new members for her Visits Team and RUG. If you want to know more, then contact Pauline.
Monthly Meeting
Adele reminded the members that she would lead today's walk to the post meeting coffee and chat.
Anniversary News
Ann updated the members on the year we've had and that we still have 4 months to celebrate our 25th Anniversary. So the Anniversary team are looking for ideas for activities we could still do. Contact Ann, Gaynor or Sue with your ideas.
Interest Group News
Roger gave us an update on the interest Groups:
Firstly, we have two new groups that are about to start.
- Creative Writing 2 plans to start in October & meet on the 2nd & 4th Friday of the month at 2pm and has spaces.
- Book Group 4 plans to start in September & meet on the 1st Friday of the month at 2:15pm
A new Marquetry group has been suggested and Zahra has arranged a visit to Harrow Marquetry Group in Watford for them to show what we could do. It’ll be a ‘make-your-own-way’ visit on the 15th or 29th September. Contact Zahra if you are interested.
There is a second Scrabble group in the planning and we've had enough interest in the new Spanish Beginners group that a second group is also being planned.
The Chess group have a new leader and a new meeting location and would welcome new members.
Finally, we are looking for a group to use the 'Table of the Month' in September and a reminder that members that are interested in a group, need to contact the Group Leader first, before going to a group meeting.
Visits
Pauline mentioned the Brighton trip on the 17th September and that there was still 6 places left.
Pauline went on the tell the members about a future trip she is thinking about which a Wine Tasting with Lunch visit to Denbies Vineyard near Dorking. She was asking about the level of interest to gauge if it was viable.
After the Coffee break, Pauline introduced our speaker Robert Brewer who talked to us about "The Roles of a TV/Film Extra".
Pauline closed the meeting at 12pm