Fundraising Your MECHANICS 100 Club still needs members! Prizes of £50 and £20 each month! Books, books, books! Bag a bargain now at our Book Sale in the foyer! Wed. 18 March, 2.00pm: BEETLE DRIVE & afternoon tea: £6.

Tues. 31 March, 11.00am: Ivor’s movie, ‘Pacific North West ’

Tues. 7 April, 2.00pm: The Mechanics Choir - No 34 March 2020 SPRING PERFORMANCE, with Afternoon Tea: £6

Wed. 15 April, 2.00pm: The AUCTION! Bring your treasures! What’s on? What’s happened? What’s YOUR view? This summer we shall have more events and speakers, familiar and unfamiliar, so do keep checking the noticeboard! And now - Short Monday Films - 6.00pm (Members only) 2 March: ‘Educating Rita’ Michael Caine, Julie Walters (1 hr 50min) Mat

9 March: ‘7 Brides for 7 Brothers’ Howard Keel, Jane Powell (1hr 40) Indoor 16 March: ‘Without a Clue’ Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley (1hr 47min) BOWLS 23 March: ‘A Touch of Frost’ David Jason, Bruce Alexander (1hr 55) 30 March: ‘Miss Potter’ Rene Zellweger, Ewan McGregor (1hr 30)

Elders Forum Dance, every Friday afternoon at 2.00pm 60+ Keep Fit with Audrey Malik - Mon: 10.30 to 11.30 am £3.50

Seated Exercise Class 11.45 to 12.30 £2.50 Another New Activity to Enjoy

The first session of Short Mat Indoor Bowls (above, 8 Feb)

was well supported. The next session will be on 7th March.

Why not have a go at one (or more) of our fantastic

activities. You can now choose from:-

Music (the Choir; Opera; Dance; Music with Mary), Whist,

Keep Fit, Bridge, Canasta, Scrabble, Table Tennis, Bowls,

Knit & Natter group meets every 2nd Monday in the month, 2.00pm Bingo, Knit & Natter, Poetry, Painting, Talks, Courses ...

Next meeting: 9th March. Free to members. Visitors £2 ... or simply relax with a coffee! (see inside for more details)

The Nottingham Mechanics Choir, with Cliff McArdle, Tuesdays at 1.30pm £2 per session Please claim your Raffle Prize!!

The Nottingham Mechanics We have a selection of goodies in the office, 3 North Sherwood Street NG1 4EZ winners in the Christmas Raffle. These will be www.nottingham-mechanics.org.uk raffled again on Friday 10 April if not claimed. Phone: 0115 9417353 (see list of numbers on the noticeboard) Item for the April newsletter? Contact Viv: [email protected] Holidays 2020 (more details on Noticeboard)

Harlequin Ladies’ Group, meet 1st Wed of each month. Contact: 0115 9620139 30 Aug - 3 Sept: Little Haven Hotel, Northumbria £355 4 March, 7.30pm ‘A Night of Music’ with Ian Morton 27 July, 4 nights, Garden of , Kent £375 - Book

now! RTCS - 10 March: ‘Railways in a Yorkshire Landscape’ by Stephen Gay 24 March: ‘The High Marnham/ Test Track’. Peter Ellis, Network Rail Full-day Trips - More soon - see Noticeboard

Friends of Nottingham Museums meets Saturdays at 2.00pm Ph: 0115 9221734 Tues 19 May - Bakewell & Lea Gardens £18 (guests £20)

23 March: ‘The Queen’s Jester’ by Anne Featherstone Wed 3 June - Boston Market & Mablethorpe £16 (£18)

Nottm Painting Group: Wednesdays, 1.30pm. Some experience useful. Wed 17 June - Lincoln & Doddington Hall £25 (£30) incl. admission Contact: Rosemary Longland: 0115 9229410 Thurs 2 July - Cambridge (£16) or Duxford Imp. War Museum (£30)

Trevor and Jennifer’s Modern Sequence Dance - Saturdays 7.15 - 9.45pm Sat 18 July - The Yorkshire Dales £26 (£30) incl. Wensleydale Railway £2.50 per person. More information: 0115 9526203 (evenings) Tues 18 Aug - Packwood House & Baddesley Clinton £35 (£40) NT Wed 9 Sept - Royal Windsor £18 (£20) (Tour of the Castle +£19) Nottm Writers’ Club: All welcome! Contact: Carol 0115 9817661 Bridge: Thursday evenings, 6.45pm All welcome. Wed. 11 March. 7.00pm: Read & Write Night. Whist: Tuesday, 1.30pm (Contact for info: [email protected]) Nottm Shakespeare Society Contact: Sandra Appleton, 0115 9256551 Fun Bingo: every Thursday at 2.00pm. Lots of prizes! Tuesdays, 10th & 24th March. at the Mechanics, 7.00pm, Sept to May Table Tennis: Fridays, 1.30pm Music with Mary: Fridays, 2.00pm Nottm Dickens Fellowship meets 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month, 2.00pm Wednesday 4 March, and Friday 20 March, 1.30pm Canasta: All welcome. Contact: Rosemary Longland: 0115 9229410 Short Mat Indoor Bowls: Saturdays 7th & 21st March, 10.30am City of Nottingham Probus Club Contact, Robin West: 0115 9164774 Scrabble Club: Friday 27 March, 1.30pm 18 March: ‘The Controversial Mountbattens’ with John Whitfield OPERA: Monday 23 March, 1.30pm Madame Butterfly Notts Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild Contact: Eileen Tilley Meets at the Mechanics, first Tuesday of each month, 1.30pm. PLEASE START GETTING YOUR PLANTS READY Details at: www.emreg.org.uk/branches/nottinghamshire FOR THE SUPER PLANT SALE ON 29th MAY!!! A Time to Stitch. Contact: Jan Merryweather, 07800 546428 The CURTIUS SALON Friday morning talks at 11.00am Mondays 1.00 - 3.30pm, in 5 - 7 week blocks

Nottm RSPB Group, Contact: Barry Nelson 0115 9146583 6 March: Andy McKinnon, Arnold’s Mighty Army 4 March, 7.30pm: ‘Jack’s Top Ten Reserves’ by Jack Perks 13 March: Robert Logan, Lifecycle of the Beehive

Nottm Centre, The National Trust Contact: Irene Millburn 0115 9812267 20 March: Stephen Flinders, Ilkeston Electric Tramway 12 March, 2.15pm: Update on the Southwell Workhouse by Fiona Lewin 27 March: Graham Hayes, ‘Titanic’ A ship of dreams 25 March, 7.30pm: AGM (free), plus ‘The Nottingham Centre Year’

Oddfellows Friendship Group meets 1st Friday in the month at 11.00am SOMETHING DIFFERENT for LATER ON . . . Contact: Karen Pye-Smith 07921821866 or www.oddfellows.co.uk During the summer months, after the Curtius Salon season finishes at

National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) the end of April, we shall be having a variety of fresh events on Friday Nottingham Branch meets weekly on Wednesday mornings, 10.30am mornings with different speakers, including Robert who will be showing Contact: Phil Wilson - 0115 875 2346 us images of the places he has explored since his retirement. And there CSRF - meets on 2nd Wednesday of the month, 10.30 - 12.00noon will be some exciting raffles as well! More details later, of course.