{"id":8,"date":"2014-08-01T13:13:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/des-workstation\/wordpress\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:07:27","slug":"meetings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-box wc-shortcodes-item wc-shortcodes-content wc-shortcodes-clearfix wc-shortcodes-box-secondary \" style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<h4>Meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month from September &#8211; May each year. All meetings begin at <strong>7.30 pm<\/strong> in the upstairs room at St James\u2019s Church Hall on Pottergate in Alnwick<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>All our meetings are free to members, with visitors asked to pay \u00a32. We do not operate a booking system for attendance \u2013 just turn up!<br \/>\nThe venue, where we meet in the upstairs room, provides a pleasant and warm environment with good acoustics and it has proved to be a most pleasant venue for members and speakers alike. Nearby on-street parking and access is easy with evening parking possible in the Morrisons carpark, only about 200 metres from the venue.<br \/>\nFrom this coming September we shall be returning to our traditional provision of free refreshments at the end of each meeting and all who attend are warmly welcomed to stay for tea\/coffee\/biscuits and a chat.<br \/>\nDetails of indoor meetings for 2024\/25 are listed below and will appear in appropriate issues of our newsletters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Speaker Programme 2025\/26<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is a first summary of the talks for the coming Indoor Meeting Season\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dec\u00a0 10\/12\/25<\/strong>\u00a0 Phil Hanmer \u2018Butterflies of the High Atlas Mountains of Morrocco\u2019 a short talk followed by the annual quiz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan 28\/01\/26 <\/strong>\u00a0Richard Thompson \u2018 Wilding the Hepple Estate &#8211; the story so far.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb 25\/02\/26<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Judith Line, \u2018The re-ordering of St James churchyard, Shilbottle\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mar 25\/03\/26 \u00a0<\/strong>Richard Muggeridge \u00a0\u2018Roe deer &#8211; a video diary\u2019 Trail camera video selfies by Northumbrian Roe Deer through the seasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apr 29\/04\/26<\/strong> Mark Welfare\u00a0 \u2018Hovertastic &#8211; an introduction to the most delightful Diptera\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 27\/05\/26<\/strong> \u00a0Ian and Elaine Burnell \u2018Dragonflies of North Northumberland\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month from September &#8211; May each year. All meetings begin at 7.30 pm in the upstairs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":107,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}