MONTHLY MEETINGS
The club meets once a month on the first Wednesday at 10:00 for a 'business' meetingin the Ticehurst Village Social Club. We then adjourn until 11:00 when a speaker entertains, enlightens or educates us until around noon. Some members then adjourn to the pub for further socialising and lunch.
The club also organises a monthly walk, usually ending at a convenient inn, and a regular lunch at the Greyhound on the 3rd Tuesday of the month.
We have four more formal gatherings a year for lunch or dinner, with our wives, and occasional outings by coach or car to places of interest.
Membership is by invitation - and currently stands at 68
Contact the Hon Secretary John Bush on 01892 782 391 - or e-mail
| Wed 7 Jan | Nancy Mandera | Learning from Ladakh | Wed 1 Jul | Dennis Williams | I can do ballet arms |
| Fri 9 Jan | Walk Hook Green | Fri 3 Jul | Walk Brenchley | ||
| Tue 20 Jan | Lunch Greyhound | Tue 13 Jul | Lunch Greyhound | ||
| Wed 4 Feb | D S A | 'Arrive alive' | Wed 5 Aug | Chris McCooey | Birds, Beasts & Bacchanalia |
| Fri 6 Feb | Walk Bodiam | Fri 7 Aug | Walk Ticehurst | ||
| Tue 17 Feb | Lunch Greyhound | Tue 18 Aug | Lunch Greyhound | ||
| Wed 4 Mar | Peter Pilch | Walking the Path | Wed 2 Sep | John Scholey | The Life of a Town Crier |
| Fri 6 Mar | Walk Marden | Fri 4 Sep | Walk Iden Green | ||
| Tue 17 Mar | Lunch Greyhound | Tue 15 Sep | Lunch Greyhound | ||
| Wed 1 Apr | Rev Tom Johns | 19 years inside | Wed 7 Oct | Warwick Child | The work of the RNLI |
| Fri 3 Apr | Walk Hawkhurst | Fri 9 Oct | Walk Lamberhurst | ||
| Tue 14 Apr | Lunch Greyhound | Tue 20 Oct | Lunch Greyhound | ||
| Wed 6 May | Sarah Russell | Running - and organising - a half marathon | Wed 4 Nov | Hugh Miller | 'D-Day' |
| Fri 8 May | Walk Wadhurst | Fri 6 Nov | Walk Horsmonden | ||
| Tue 19 May | Lunch Greyhound | Tue 17 Nov | Lunch Greyhound | ||
| Wed 3 Jun | Richard Filmer | Rural Romania Revealed | Wed 2 Dec | Mark Perry-Nash | Fillet Steak and Ketchup |
| Fri 5 Jun | Walk Cranbrook | Fri 4 Dec | Walk Rolvenden | ||
| Tue 16 Jun | Lunch Greyhound | Tue 15 Dec | Lunch Greyhound |
The WADHURST PROBUS CLUB started in 1992.
WHAT IS PROBUS? An association of retired and semi-retired men who join together in autonomous clubs throughout the UK and the world. The word PROBUS is an abbreviation of the words PROfessional and BUSiness, which embraces any person who has had some measure of responsibility in the fields of commerce, industry, education etc. The basic purpose of a Probus club is to provide regular gatherings of people, who, in their retirement, appreciate and value opportunities to meet others in similar circumstances and similar levels of interest.
THE EMPHASIS OF PROBUS CLUBS is for a Probus club to be: Simple in structure, Involve members in minimum costs, Free from constraints and obligations, Directed primarily to provide friendship with the opportunity for development and aquaintance, Made up of members who are compatible with each other.
One day, in 1965, the Rotary Club of Welwyn Garden City decided to initiate a project on behalf of the retired and semi-retired folks of their community. They had an idea of a luncheon club as an alternative to the old folks clubs. The first name for such a club was the "Campus Club". In Caterham, a similar club started named Probus. It took two to three years for the initial idea to flourish and take off. Rotary has since then adopted the approach of enabling the organisation to start and then leave it to its own devices.
You can find the International listings here - a direct link to the UK lists is here and click on Probus Clubs REGISTER