The Partridge Group - men's discussion group

The group, open to any man who can drink beer (or other beverage) and talk religion at the same time, usually meets in the Three Tuns public house in Abington on Wednesday evenings, in January and February. To find the Three Tuns, use postcode CB21 6AB.

in 2022, we plan once again to use the Zoom platform to hold the sessions remotely.

Join from your own home - or elsewhere! These ZOOM sessions will start 8pm on Wednesdays (or Tuesday if marked below).

Partridge Group 2022 DRAFT Programme - subjest to confirmation  / change

Date
Speaker / coordinator
Topic
     
19/1/2022
Barry Brooks
The Good Ancestor - How to think long-term in a short-term world 
Discussion based on a video and slides from the book by Roman Krznaric
26/1/2022
Dr Katie Keller
Leads the GP Training Hub supporting GPs and the primary care workforce across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The challenges for tomorrow's General Practitioners
The NHS in England is short of around 50,000 doctors ahead of what is expected to be one of the worst winters on record, a union has warned. The British Medical Association (BMA) said the number of doctors in England has fallen to 2.8 doctors per 1,000 people - which is (much) lower than the EU average of 3.7
TUESDAY 1st Feb 2022
Dr Matt Bothwell
Public Astronomer, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
 The Invisible Universe

The discovery of gravitational waves was one of the most important astronomical findings of all time. The talk will cover what gravitational waves are, how they were discovered, and why this will revolutionise the way astronomers see the Universe. 

It is also the title of a book Matt has written and recently published: details at https://www.waterstones.com/book/9780861541249
09/2/2022
Pippa Heylings 
Chair, Climate Change, South Cambs District Council (who attended COP26)

COP26 Climate Change Conference

"What was the tangible outcome of COP26 and what does it mean for us locally and internationally"?
 
Please feel free to contact the organisers with any offers or suggestions for future speakers...

Page maintained by Peter Brunning - partridge@brunning.org.uk

 
The Partridge Group was named when it met in the training room, later used for B&B, at the (former) Pear Tree pub in Hildersham. It was started in 1993 after the vicar Rev. Geoffrey Turner's 'Pre-Lent Course', which was held there in 1992, and has continued ever since.
 
A small group seeks ideas for topics and/or speakers from the members and arranges a program that attempts to cover these. Discussion is usually informal and wide-ranging. The hire of the room is collected weekly in an engraved 'collection' pint glass, which bears the date 1993. A small profit from the collection is donated to charity each year.
 
Three Tuns public house
 
Since 2009, the group has moved and now meets in Abington, at 8:00 pm in the Terrace Room at the Abington Institute in the High Street, after gathering in the Three Tuns pub opposite.
 
Archive of past programmes
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