Meetings are normally held on 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. See the “Try Us Out” button for when and where. Our next meeting will be on Monday 9th February 2026. We will start with lipreading practice. After the tea break, we will have a talk from Neil Mach on the Women’s Land Army in Surrey.

Neil Mach is an English novelist from Surrey with over 20 published books, specialising in fantasy fiction featuring strong women, independent loners, and outsiders driven by loyalty and duty. The idea of using women (to replace men) on the land, in times of emergency, was initially developed in Surrey. The Women’s Land Army came into being in this County before the Great War. During the conflict, the Land Army employed 23,000 female workers to fill the roles of 100,000 male farmworkers who had gone to fight. During the Second World War, the Women’s Land Army enlisted over 80,000 women. More than a third of these came from London to work in the Surrey fields. Neil, whose mother was a Land Army veteran, interviewed there Surrey women who served in the WLA during WW2 and his talk reflects these experiences and the challenges of wartime life on the land. For more information on Neil click here: https://www.neilmachauthor.com

Tea and biscuits provided in return for a donation of £2. Please bring your own mug to save on the washing up.