Every Third Tuesday (except December): Come along to one of our Informal social evenings from
6-8pm at Malmaison, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3AS
Events in 2017 included (pictures can be seen in our Flickr account):
Thursday 9 March
Our annual Everyman Theatre trip: La Strada an award-winning Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart – matinee performance
Saturday 25 March
Ivor Gurney concert performed at 11:00 at Twigworth Church.
Sunday 2 April
Boat Race – enthusiastic social rivalry in the company of GlosOxSoc!
This year we are enjoying the Boat Race in the splendid company of our Oxonian friends in the Oxford University Society of Gloucestershire. A great opportunity to get to know each other better in a spirit of amiable rivalry! We shall have a relaxing social with them, with refreshments provided (nibbles and drinks) in informal surroundings, while we watch the Men’s and Women’s Races together.
Saturday 22 April
International Centre for Birds of Prey, Newent - a guided tour of this internationally important collection, and a practical demonstration specifically for the Society (with a light lunch on site) followed by Three Choirs Vineyard, Newent - a guided tour and a tasting session specifically for the Society
Friday 28 April
Listening to nightingales in Highnam Wood - 8.30pm, a delightful experience, guided by an RSPB expert, back again by popular request!
Saturday 6 May
The Glos Cam Soc AGM and lunch, Calcot Manor
Friday 16 June
Hand-stonemasonry and Gloucester Cathedral a working demonstration of both traditional and ultra-modern local stone masonry, followed by special access to the exterior restoration work in the Cathedral Lady Chapel (Project Pilgrim).
Saturday 22 July
Cotswold Wool Day
*The Witney Wool and Blanket Trail - a specialist guided town tour of the wool heritage of the Cotswolds, followed by:
* Cotswold Woollen Weavers - a visit to the Filkins design studio, shops, museum, furniture exhibitions, interiors gallery, rug warehouse, sculpture gallery, coffee shop – a really interesting location with unusual opportunities for some specialised retail therapy!
Sunday 20 August
Clearwell Caves deep potholing a real hard-hatted, exciting adventure to finish off the Summer Holidays, for adults and families alike
Monday 21 August
Sezincote country house and garden - The Society has exclusive access to the only authentic Mughal palace in northern Europe; the 1805 house was built in the Indian style inspired Brighton Pavilion; the grounds combine Mughal temples, grottoes, waterfalls, canals and a Repton landscape; near Moreton-in-Marsh (after an optional lunch at the Horse and Groom)
Wednesday 20 September
Welcome Tea Party at 6pm, to welcome matriculands about to go up. Across the UK at around this time, Cambridge alumni offer friendly and informal support for local youngsters (in our case, Gloucestershire youngsters) due to matriculate September 2017, giving them a chance to chat informally to a few older but not necessarily wiser folk who “have done it before” (!) and, equally important, to connect with some neighbours of their own generation also about to embark with them on the great Cambridge adventure. (Venue TBC)
Saturday 23 September
Annual GlosCamSoc Walk: “a blowy Severn tided place” an attractive stroll in part of the Arlingham meander, much beloved by our very own Gloucestershire composer and poet Ivor Gurney
6-8pm at Malmaison, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3AS
Events in 2017 included (pictures can be seen in our Flickr account):
Thursday 9 March
Our annual Everyman Theatre trip: La Strada an award-winning Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart – matinee performance
Saturday 25 March
Ivor Gurney concert performed at 11:00 at Twigworth Church.
Sunday 2 April
Boat Race – enthusiastic social rivalry in the company of GlosOxSoc!
This year we are enjoying the Boat Race in the splendid company of our Oxonian friends in the Oxford University Society of Gloucestershire. A great opportunity to get to know each other better in a spirit of amiable rivalry! We shall have a relaxing social with them, with refreshments provided (nibbles and drinks) in informal surroundings, while we watch the Men’s and Women’s Races together.
Saturday 22 April
International Centre for Birds of Prey, Newent - a guided tour of this internationally important collection, and a practical demonstration specifically for the Society (with a light lunch on site) followed by Three Choirs Vineyard, Newent - a guided tour and a tasting session specifically for the Society
Friday 28 April
Listening to nightingales in Highnam Wood - 8.30pm, a delightful experience, guided by an RSPB expert, back again by popular request!
Saturday 6 May
The Glos Cam Soc AGM and lunch, Calcot Manor
Friday 16 June
Hand-stonemasonry and Gloucester Cathedral a working demonstration of both traditional and ultra-modern local stone masonry, followed by special access to the exterior restoration work in the Cathedral Lady Chapel (Project Pilgrim).
Saturday 22 July
Cotswold Wool Day
*The Witney Wool and Blanket Trail - a specialist guided town tour of the wool heritage of the Cotswolds, followed by:
* Cotswold Woollen Weavers - a visit to the Filkins design studio, shops, museum, furniture exhibitions, interiors gallery, rug warehouse, sculpture gallery, coffee shop – a really interesting location with unusual opportunities for some specialised retail therapy!
Sunday 20 August
Clearwell Caves deep potholing a real hard-hatted, exciting adventure to finish off the Summer Holidays, for adults and families alike
Monday 21 August
Sezincote country house and garden - The Society has exclusive access to the only authentic Mughal palace in northern Europe; the 1805 house was built in the Indian style inspired Brighton Pavilion; the grounds combine Mughal temples, grottoes, waterfalls, canals and a Repton landscape; near Moreton-in-Marsh (after an optional lunch at the Horse and Groom)
Wednesday 20 September
Welcome Tea Party at 6pm, to welcome matriculands about to go up. Across the UK at around this time, Cambridge alumni offer friendly and informal support for local youngsters (in our case, Gloucestershire youngsters) due to matriculate September 2017, giving them a chance to chat informally to a few older but not necessarily wiser folk who “have done it before” (!) and, equally important, to connect with some neighbours of their own generation also about to embark with them on the great Cambridge adventure. (Venue TBC)
Saturday 23 September
Annual GlosCamSoc Walk: “a blowy Severn tided place” an attractive stroll in part of the Arlingham meander, much beloved by our very own Gloucestershire composer and poet Ivor Gurney
