AUTUMN LUNCH 2025

4th OCTOBER 2025

PENARTH MASONIC HALL, PENARTH

AUTUMN LUNCH

Saturday 4th October

Penarth Masonic Hall, Penarth

Speaker: Alex Stone – The Worst Journey in the World

The society will hold its Autumn lunch in the Penarth Masonic Hall on Saturday 4th October. The menu will offer options for the three course meal and early booking is advised for this popular event.

The guest speaker will be society member Alex Stone presenting “The Worst Journey in the World” his homage to the perilous journey undertaken by members of Captain Scott’s team collect Emperor penguin eggs from Cape Crozier in 1911. Alex has spent a considerable amount of time and money in bringing this story to screen and those attending will get a preview of this incredible journey to a land of ice and snow.

CHRISTMAS LUNCH 2025

SATURDAY 13th DECEMBER

CHRISTMAS EVENT £49.00

SATURDAY 13th DECEMBER -12.30 reception for 1.30 lunch

JANE HODGE SUITE, CORNERSTONES, CHARLES ST, CARDIFF, CF10 2GA

The chairman cordially invites members and guests to a new venue for this year’s Christmas Lunch.

Cornerstone, Cardiff has been a Cardiff landmark for over 160 years.

The beautiful Grade II listed building, with its dramatic colourful frontage and magnificent open span interior, was originally opened in 1855 as Ebenezer Chapel, the first Neo gothic church in Cardiff.

Renovated in 2015-2016 with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Cornerstone is a hub for the community, business, arts and weddings, which caters for parties, weddings, VIP dining, corporate meetings, concerts, exhibitions and more. Its community hub features a cafe, communal spaces for local events, and rooms to suit any occasion.

It was officially opened by HRH the Prince of Wales (King Charles III) in December 2016 and has been serving Cardiff’s people ever since.

In 2017 Cornerstone was awarded the 2017 Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Awards, Wales Building Conservation Award.

The lunch will be preceded with a reception serving sparkling wine, Bucks Fizz and of course Mister Cosslett’s infamous Antarctic Blue. The lunch will be catered by the Spiro Borg team and the Chairman has been assured the meal will be to their usual high standards.

Past attendees will know this event is somewhat less formal than the annual dinner so why not get your Christmas off to an early start and enjoy dining in fine surroundings.

Menu:

• Mulligatawny Soup
• Traditional Roast Turkey & Trimmings
• Christmas Pudding

SPRING LUNCH 2026

17th APRIL 2026

SPRING LUNCH 2026

17th APRIL 2026

LLANISHEN GOLF CLUB, CARDIFF, CF14 9UD

GUEST SPEAKER: RON POWELL

After 32 years in the Royal Air Force, from which he retired as a Group Captain (full Colonel) pilot commanding the first stage of flying training for the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, Ron Powell moved to South Wales to pursue his long held ambition of becoming a writer.

Since then, he has written an illustrated history of events in the skies above Britain in the summer of 1940, The Battle of Britain, Hitler’s First Bloody Nose; an acclaimed novel, Wings Over Summer, set in the same period; a sequel, Wings Over Malta; and two volumes of memoir, Shropshire Blue: A Shropshire Lad in the RAF, the first, Preparation For Flight, about growing up on the English/Welsh border and his early years in the RAF, including working on Vulcan nuclear bombers on a Cold War air base, the second, On The Buffet, about his RAF pilot training. He has also written numerous short stories and articles and gives talks on a range of topics, including the Battle of Britain.

COMMEMORATIVE BIRTHDAY LUNCH

JUNE 2026

Details TBC

ANNUAL DINNER 2026

FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2026

ANNUAL DINNER 

FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2026

6.30pm

CARDIFF AND COUNTY CLUB, CARDIFF

Guest Speaker TBC