{"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":"2026-10-15T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:26:56","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 2026\/2027 are listed below and will appear in appropriate issues of our newsletters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Speaker Programme 2026 \/ 2027<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a great line up of speakers over the past winter indoor season its time to begin all over again. We have the following confirmations booked so far with several others in the pipeline. The programme page will be updated in each newsletter as the bookings are confirmed.<\/p>\n<h4>30\/09\/26 Dave Dixon &#8216;The natural world through the lens of a landscape photographer&#8217;<\/h4>\n<h4>28\/10\/26<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Duncan Hutt\u00a0 \u2018Rothbury Wilding Project\u2019<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>25\/11\/26<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>James Common \u2018The Urban Flora of Newcastle\u2019<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>09\/12\/26<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Christmas Quiz with George Dodds plus short talk by Stewart Sexton on Moths.<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>27\/01\/27 George Dodds \u2018Hedgely : Restoring the River Breamish\u2019<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>24\/02\/27<strong> TBA<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>31\/03\/27<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Richard Jefferson &#8216;British Meadows and Pastures with special reference to the grasslands of Northumberland\u2019<\/h4>\n<h4>28\/04\/27<strong> TBA<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>26\/05\/27<strong> TBA<\/strong><\/h4>\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":112,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7330,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/7330"}],"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}]}}