Meeting Reports
We aim to build up a record giving brief summaries of the presentations made at our monthly general meetings. Please click on the relevant date below to call up the report of that meeting.
May 2025 - Louise Barrington - The UHI Arts Degree Course
February 2025 - Merryn Dinley - Botany Group Expeditions May to September 2024
January 2025 - Rosalind Johansson - Textiles are my life
November 2024 - Tom Nimmo - Camouflage: a photographic look at seeing and not-seeing
October 2024 - Rosemary Moon - From Brighton to Bendigo: a cook in search of her kitchen
September 2024 - Dr. Siobhan Cooke-Miller - Highlights from Orkney Museum's Archaeology collection
August 2024 - Holly Elliot - Bodies, Arthritis and Osteopathy
May 2024 - Laura Drever - Reflecting Orkney landscapes in art form
April 2024 - Annual General meeting
February 2024 - Soibhan Robertson - Supporting older adults in Orkney
November 2023 - Lord Wallace of Tankerness - The House of Lords
October 2023 - Elaine Grieve - Being Orkney's Lord-Lieutenant
September 2023 - Holly Young - Orkney Shells
June 2023 - Caroline Critchlow - How gardening can change your life
May 2023 - William Sichel - A head for running
April 2023 - Annual General Meeting
March 2023 - Fran Hollinrake - The role of the Cathedral Custodian
February 2023 - Dr Antonia Thomas - Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney
January 2023 - Tom Hadley - Orkney Native Wildlife Project
December 2022 - Christmas Lunch - Merkister Hotel
November 2022 - Malcolm Macrae - Skaill House
October 2022 Caroline Butterfield - A Norwegian Adventure
September 2022 Sheena Wenham - Wartime jottings of two Orkney ladies
August 2022 Richard Gauld - Time travelling through the Scottish Highlands
June 2022 Tom Nimmo - The Colour of Water
May 2022 Michael McLaughlin - Saving Orkney's Historic Boats
February 2020 Peter Breingan - Life in Shufat refugee camp, Palestine
January 2020 Catriona McCallum - Dietary Supplements
November 2019 David Taylor - The struggle for survival in 18th century Orkney
October 2019 Lynn Bartlett - Making stained glass
September 2019 Penny Martin - The colourful underwater life in Orkney waters
August 2019 Liam McArthur MSP - How Holyrood works
