Cookies

We use essential cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. These will be set only if you accept.

For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our cookies page.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. For example, the selections you make here about which cookies to accept are stored in a cookie.

You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics Cookies

We'd like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify you.

Third Party Cookies

Third party cookies are ones planted by other websites while using this site. This may occur (for example) where a Twitter or Facebook feed is embedded with a page. Selecting to turn these off will hide such content.

PROGRAMME 2025 - 2026

MAIDENHEAD WOMEN’S GROUP FOR EUROPEAN FRIENDSHIP

PROGRAMME FOR 2025/2026

2025

14th May                                             Paul Seddon                The History of Cookham Abbey

9th – 13th June                                   60th Anniversary         Group from Kortrijk to visit Maidenhead & two delegates from other circles

9th July                                                Coffee morning            In the garden of Gina Curtis

13th August                                         Afternoon Tea              In the garden of Hilary Lawes

10th September                                  Joshua Reynolds MP   My First Year as MP for Maidenhead

29th Sept –3rd Oct.                            Exchange visit             Group from Maidenhead to visit Frascati – their 60th Anniversary

8th October                                        Alan Fitzgerald            Britain’s Early Trading Companies                

12th November                                 Dr Stephen Goss         The Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill – The man and war-time leader

10th December                                 Christmas social

2026

14th January                                        Adrian Jones               Out of this World! The European Ariel Space Mission to study 1000   

exoplanets and how Newlands school amateur astronomers are helping

4th February - Art Lecture                  Barbara Askew           King Charles 1 – King and Collector

11th February                                      Dr Nicholas Henderson  The rise and Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867-1918

11th March                                          Annual General Meeting

8th April                                             Catherine Sampson    Royal Weddings – What could possibly go wrong? 

This Group, which is unique in the UK, was formed in 1965 to encourage friendship between the women of Maidenhead and its twinned towns of St Cloud (near Paris) France, Bad Godesberg (near Bonn) Germany, Frascati (near Rome) Italy, Kortrijk in Belgium and Salzburg, Austria, each of which has a similar Group of its own. Together these Groups make up the European Friendship Circle. Every year, about 12 of our members visit another Group, and in return we host about 12 members from one of the other Groups.

Our members meet on the second Wednesday of the month at the United Reformed Church, West Street, 10.30 - 12.30 pm. It is not necessary to be a linguist to join, just to have a sincere wish to know more about Europe and our fellow European women. Annual Subscription £55.00