We meet for a couple of hours at 7.30pm on the first Monday of each month (or the second Monday if it is a bank holiday) in the Blanchard Room upstairs at the Hollywood Arms, 45 Hollywood Road, London SW10 9HX. Hollywood Road is directly opposite the entrance to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
At our monthly meetings we usually have a speaker talk to us about current events and issues. Previous speakers have included:
- Natalia Cohen – member of Coxless Crew, Pacific Ocean Row
- Jeffrey Archer – international best selling author
- Julie Montagu – aka The Flexi Foodie
- Brian Cumming – The Royal Hospital, Chelsea Pensioners
- Annie Tempest – artist and celebrated cartoonist
- Tim Cooper – former Director of Music of The Band of The Blues and Royals
- Odette Toilette – (aka Lizzie Ostrom), author and perfume expert
- Forward UK – concerning the issue of FGM
- Rachel Johnson – journalist, author, former editor-in-chief of The Lady magazine
- Judge Barbara Mensah
- The First Aid Nurses’ Yeomanry (FANYs) – hosted at their London HQ
- Jane Means – gift-wrapping supremo
- Miranda Sawyer – journalist and author
- Kim Walker and Vicky Chown – Handmade Apothecary
If you have any suggestions for our speakers’ programme please get in touch at speakersfcwi@gmail.com