Greenwich Society Events
Upcoming Events:
Conversations with distinguished local residents
The Greenwich Society is following last year’s Conversations with Distinguished Judges with a similar series of monthly Conversations with Local Residents. They will be hosted as last year by Tim Barnes KC.
The third conversation will be with the award winning cartoonist Jeremy Banks, whose work appears daily as Banx in the Financial Times.
Jeremy Banks is well known to many Society members for his cartoons in our newsletters and design of our Christmas Card. He has been the cartoonist in the Financial Times since 1989 and has also contributed to Private Eye ,The Spectator and many other publications. The conversation will involve a discussion about the history of cartoons as well as their topical significance. Many of Jeremy's current crop of cartoons will be on show.
Thursday 16th April at 7pm at St Alfege Church Hall.
Advance booking is required, and tickets will be £5 per person via the button below. Tickets include a glass of wine or a soft drink.
PAST EVENTS
1st April
Coffee & Chat
7pm on Thursday 19th February 2026
Those taking part include Matthew Pennycook MP; Jeremy Banks, the cartoonist Banx of The Financial Times and Private Eye; Sir Nigel Sheinwald, UK Ambassador to Washington at the time of the Obama Presidency and Lt.Col.Veronica Sefton of the Royal Artillery who is the first woman Commanding Officer of Woolwich Barracks.
The first of these conversations - with Matthew Pennycook MP - will be on Thursday February 19th at 7pm at St Alfege Church Hall.
The Second conversation was with with Sir Nigel Sheinwald, UK Ambassador to Washington at the time of the Obama Presidency at 7pm non 26th March at St Alfege Church Hall.
Penny Matheson - Exhibition
26th January - 28th February 2026
West Greenwich Library
Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN
Coffee& Chat
Wednesday 4th February 2026
Parkside Café (1st floor), National Maritime Museum, London SE10 9NF
New Year Supper at Davy’s Wine Vaults
Friday, 23rd January 2026
Conversations with Judges
30th April 2025
Judge Ben Gumert QC
Stockwell Street Lecture Theatre at 7pm.
On Wednesday 30th April 2025 the University of Greenwich and the Greenwich Society jointly hosted the fourth and final conversation with distinguished Judge Ben Gumert QC.
Derek attended a State School and after University served with the British Army for a year, training at Sandhurst. He later was a reservist with the Special Air Service (SAS), and ran the Marathon de Sables ( the most testing of all marathons - across the Sahara Desert.) He practised as a Barrister at 7 Bedford Row where he was my Pupil before going on comfortably to eclipse professionally his Pupil Master! As a Junior, Derek did a variety of criminal and civil work but increasingly in Silk he concentrated on computer linked litigation and civil claims arising out of alleged war crimes in Iraq ( where he acted for the MOD). He became Chairman of the Bar in 2021-2022 where he made a major effort to increase the number of women and those with ethnic backgrounds coming to the Bar. He became a High Court Judge in 2022 and was assigned to the Kings Bench Division ( then the Queens Bench Division), meaning that he does a range of work including judicial review, criminal and civil cases and sitting in the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division).
26th February 2025
Lord Sumption
Stockwell Street Lecture Theatre at 7pm.
Former Justice of the Supreme Court, and Reith Lecturer in 2019 on Law and the Decline of Politics. He has expressed strong views about the legality and political propriety of aspects of the Covid lockdown as well as giving informed opinions on contemporary moral and political issues. At the same time he has earned universal respect as an historian writing a 5 volume history of the Hundred Years War.
St.Alfege Secret Spaces Tour
Tuesday 8th April
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