Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month in Filleigh Village Hall where coffee is served from 10.00am to 10.30am.
The Chairman’s Welcome and Notices are at 10.30am followed by our Speaker at 10.45am.
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| Tuesday 9th January | ‘Old Appledore in Words and Film’. We start the new year with David Carter, who, as a local historian and author, guides us through Appledore's history using old photographs and documents and includes a very special 125 year old film. | David Carter | |
| Tuesday 13th February | ‘Going 'Underground – the Cave Elephants of Mt.Elgon'.Wildlife photographer and conservationist Steven Powles talks about Mt. Elgon on the Kenya/Uganda border and its unique and fragile group of elephants who go deep into the caves to help mine salt in western Kenya. | Steven Powles | |
| Tuesday 12th March | Annual General Meeting which will be followed by a chance to see presentations from many of our Special Interest Groups. Further details will follow in the February Newsletter. (This is a Member's Only meeting). | ||
| Tuesday 9th April | Carl from 'Hedwigs Hotel', which is a local family-run hedgehog rescue organisation, will be coming along to tell us about their work saving and releasing hedgehogs. | Carl | |
| Tuesday 14th May | 'The History of the Braddick Family - Part 4.' Sharon Snell returns with the final part of her fascinating history of the Braddick family of Bideford. | Sharon Snell | |
| Tuesday 11th June | 'Devon and Somerset Fire Service: Home Safety'. A talk on how we can keep ourselves safe at home. | Sallie McKay-Roper | |
| Tuesday 9th July | 'The Wave Project'. Jasmine Bennett from the North Devon Wave Project will tell us about the work of the project which runs surf therapy courses for young people with mental health issues. | Jasmine Bennett | |
| Tuesday 13th August | 'The Work of Mercy Ships'. Mercy Ships is a faith-based international development organisation that deploys hospital ships to some of the poorest countries in the world, delivering vital, free healthcare to people in desperate need. | Ruth Croome | |
| Tuesday 10th September | '‘Not Father O’Malley’'. The hilarious story of a Catholic childhood in post-war Salford and the music that inspired a self-taught jazz pianist. | Roger Browne | |
| Tuesday 8th October | ‘Now I Belong to Me’. Acclaimed speaker, Christine Wallach, tells the inspiring story of a family’s survival and ultimate success after being excluded from a repressive religious cult. | Christine Wallach | |
| Tuesday 12th November | ‘I Bet This Never Happened to You’. Alex Leger returns with some more astonishing adventures with the BBC Blue Peter team around the world. | Alex Leger | |
| Tuesday 10th December | The South Molton u3a Christmas celebrations. | ||