MONTHLY MEETINGS
The club meets once a month on the first Wednesday at 10:00 for a 'business' meeting in 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 3 Feb | Hugh Burnett | The High Sheriff in Sussex |
| Wed 7 Apr | Ian Rumley-Dawson | Wild Life of the Welsh Coastline |
| Wed 5 May | Jayne Edmonds | Uplands - and changes in education in England |
| Wed 2 Jun | Tony Farnham | Romance of London's River |
| Wed 7 Jul | John Russell | My life |
| Wed 4 Aug | John Mills | Capital Punishment |
| Wed 1 Sep | Ian Hughes | A Life Enjoyed |
| Wed 6 Oct | David Payne | Transition Wadhurst |
| Wed 3 Nov | David Clark | The last voyage of the RMS Queen Mary |
| Wed 1 Dec | Stuart Clark | A Jester's Life |
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