We divide our year into three four-monthly sessions. Members are sent the events programme for the next session two months before the events begin.

Meetings during the late autumn and early spring are distributed between Lichfield and Stafford.

This year, for instance, we have had talks on Erasmus Darwin, Staffordshire’s vanishing country houses, a demonstration and history of Morris Dancing, Vietnam and the fall of Saigon (this talk given by one of our own members).

In the summer period coach and car outings are arranged, visiting both National Trust and other venues. These have been to ‘The World of Glass’ and Speke Hall, Rockingham Castle, The Greyfriars at Worcester, Tutbury Castle (to meet ‘The Virgin Queen’), Birmingham (to go behind the scenes of Symphony Hall, take a narrowboat ride and visit the Botanical Gardens).

Each month there is a ramble in some part of Staffordshire. We have also had two holidays, one to Weymouth and the second to Cardiff. The Centre also has an annual lunch in March at which there is an invited speaker.