The club organises trips to events of all kinds, based on the interests of existing members.

Brunch@Badgemore in May: Our regular, informal get together over a delicious cooked Breakfast met on Tuesday 7th May. The date for June will be announced soon when, as usual, we will meet around 9.30 a.m. at Badgemore Park for coffee and then Breakfast.

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Plans to Celebrate the Club’s 500th meeting

You’ll be aware from recent meetings that we are approaching our 500th meeting and we plan to celebrate this noteworthy even on August 13th 2024 by holding this year’s summer lunch in a beautiful setting on the riverbank at the Henley Business School in its delightful grounds, Greenlands, which you may know lies along the river on the A4155, opposite the Henley Showground.

Members will meet and socialise with drinks on the terrace, followed by a meal in the Heyworth Restaurant, and then resume socialising in the garden with coffee and tea.  if the weather is kind, short trips on boats (kindly provided by members) may be included.

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Previous Events

During recent years Henley Probus Club members have also enjoyed visits to:

• Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, the centre for World War 2 secret code breaking.
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• Brooklands Motor Museum near Weybridge, with displays of aviation, motor sport, cars, motorcycles, buses, aircraft.
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• An original Concorde plane
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• Saville Gardens, Britain’s finest ornamental garden, part of Windsor Great Park which followed a talk from the garden designer at a previous Henley Probus meeting.
• The Bremont watch factory in Henley-on-Thames.
• Kew Gardens, which included lunch prepared from plants grown in the gardens.
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• The Royal Horticultural Society gardens in Wisley (near Guildford), which included conducted garden tours specially for our group.
• The SS Great Britain in Bristol Dry Dock, where the ship was originally built.
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• The Soldiers of Oxfordshire museum in Woodstock, a few weeks after the museum opened.
• The British Legion Poppy Factory in Richmond, including all group members making poppies for Remembrance Day.
• A narrow boat in Hungerford, for a trip on the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Overseas outings have been to:

• Bruges in Belgium, including visits to WW2 war graves, WW2 trenches and attending a very moving ceremony at the Menin Memorial Gate in Ypres dedicated to the 54 thousand missing soldiers killed in Flanders in WW2.
• Killarney in west Ireland.

Visits to theatre performances at:

• The Mill at Sonning.
• The Watermill at Newbury.
• The Yvonne Arnaud at Guildford.
• The RSC at Stratford on Avon, to see King Lear.