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Crystal Clear Cambridge is a welcoming group that hosts a variety of cultural events and social activities to help people in Cambridge improve their conversational English skills. We offer a fun, supportive environment where members can practice speaking English, share cultures, and make new friends. From casual meetups to exciting local activities around Cambridge, we provide opportunities to learn, connect, and grow together. Whether you're a learner or simply looking to improve, join us to build your confidence and communication skills. Let’s improve together and enjoy the journey!

Welcome to our London activities meetup group! Join our WhatsApp group to stay updated with the latest events : https://chat.whatsapp.com/FfI6pRwv40iL7ZGatOONJS We are all about bringing people together for exciting experiences filled with laughter, great food, and drinks. Our events range from exploring the vibrant nightlife in the city to indulging in delicious food and attending captivating cultural events. We focus on embracing diversity and connecting with like-minded individuals who love to travel overseas. Join us to enjoy unforgettable moments, make new friends, and create amazing memories!

A very warm welcome to Colchester Friends This is a social group for singles and couples who want to make the most of their spare time - whether its a coffee, walk or something a bit more adventurous!! This is your group and we actively encourage members to host events - the more variety we have in the group the better it will be. There are very few rules but we do insist on:- 1\. A **full face picture** ( no cartoons, pets or others in the pic) 2\. A name \( nickname or name you are known by\)\. No initials please\. 3. **RISK**: All members and non members of Colchester Friends attending any event do so at their own risk. The event Organisers/Hosts shall not be liable for any injury or loss to persons or their property that might occur as a result of your participation in or attendance at the event. 4\. Any concerns you have with events or members are to be taken up with event organisers and not voiced in direct messaging\, social media\, or similar\. Thank you If event organisers ask for payments to the Group Bank account, details are below: Name: Colchester Friends Lloyds Bank Sort Code: Name: Colchester Friends Sort Code: 30-99-50 Account Number: 23417168 Enquiries to:- meetupcolchester@gmail.com

We are making this group so we can make some friends from all over the world and locally. Anyone interested in travel, exchanging stories/experiences making new friends and having fun this is the place for you :D. We are open to trying lots of different types of events. From languages exchanges to dance parties. Let's have fun together! If you have any suggestion for events or want to host one, please message us!

Join a ride organised by Highway Cycles Bishop's Stortford, whether it's one of our relaxed social rides to meet new friends or our expert lead road or mountain bike rides we're sure that you'll have fun! *Minimum age for adult supervised riders is 14yrs old, minimum age for unsupervised riders is 16yrs old.*

A monthly social night for board games at Britain’s most extraordinary home. Book a table. Bring a game. Order food & snacks. And experience a gaming venue unlike any other. This is a monthly board gaming group in a unique location. On or around the last Monday of the month. For all levels of talent and experience. Either to bring and host a game, or join a game looking for players. We are a group of gaming enthusiasts who enjoy exploring new and favourite board games. Join us for our monthly meetup where we gather to socialise, strategise, and have fun. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or new to the hobby, everyone is welcome to come play, meet new friends, and escape into exciting adventures. YOUR HOST John Tarrow is an author, award-winning games master and creator of Britain’s most extraordinary home; Talliston House & Gardens. THE VENUE The meetings are held in a unique and amazing house and gardens. Talliston was a 25-year project that took the UK’s most ordinary house and transformed it, room by room, by ordinary people on an ordinary budget, into Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home. Starting as a three-bedroomed, semi-detached, ex-council house in Essex, today not a single square centimetre of the original house remains. In its place is an extraordinary labyrinth of locations, each set in different times and places. Talliston is a once ordinary house and gardens in Essex where its thirteen rooms have been transformed into extraordinary locations each set in a different time and place. Magnolia living rooms have been recreated as Welsh watchtowers. Garages as log cabins in the woods. Box-rooms as 1920s investigator offices. A former pink bedroom is now a dark and haunted Scottish chamber. Talliston – a name that means ‘the hidden place in the wood’ – in the medieval market town of Great Dunmow, just minutes from Stansted airport, is another world hiding on a perfectly normal street, inviting you to step inside and discover its secrets.

Here Paul Selvey founder of Powerflowyoga.co.uk and Simona Zedda partner and collaborator. We opened this group to connect and share with alike people our passions. We will offer here many events from yoga classes, meditation, workshops, chanting, gong bath, picnics and also some yoga events abroad for the adventurous ones 😊 Our goal is to grow our community by meeting new people and learning from each other. Our aim is to offer affordable yoga and wellness activities so that anyone can benefits from it.

Hi there, We are here to help creatives in Bishops Stortford and the surrounding area build their network and make new friends with similar interests. If you work in the creative industry or even just have an interest in things such as Art, Design, Illustration, Architecture, Music, Fashion, Cinema, Photography, Writing or Creative Entrepreneurship then join us! Join our WhatsApp group - [https://chat.whatsapp.com/DMjhG41Ce49Gl5bUpE9rpq](https://chat.whatsapp.com/DMjhG41Ce49Gl5bUpE9rpq)

This meetup group is open to anyone who is interested in making new friends. It's purpose is to provide a friendly environment for all of its members to attend events such as pub nights, restaurants, book club, cinema, walks and various other activities and we are always open to new suggestions.

If you are looking to join us please ensure you have a profile picture of yourself. This is so we can recognise you when you arrive to events.

Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/E8QVNqeB9AW3TQ4NwO8Phb For people in and around Chelmsford who are a little too old to be joining the teenagers down at the rave, but a little too young to be joining Gladys at the knitting club. Casual social events, usually ending up with drinks in town but all activity suggestions welcome. Meet new people, make friends and/or romantic interests and have a great time. Come alone or come along with friends - everyone is welcome.

We're a community of people living in Essex who have created a Discord server with the aim of making local friends. The server is aimed at creating a place where people can connect with other people in a safe and friendly space online, and help people arrange in-person events. It's a very friendly and welcoming community, we hope to see you there! New link vvv Please let me know if this has expired! Updated as of 05/09/2024 https://discord.gg/CCmgwhJbea

**Welcome to Chelmsford Book Club!** We are a friendly and inclusive group who meet once a month to discuss a book we have collectively read over the previous month. We invite suggestions for books to read and ask the group to vote on those which are nominated.  We try to cover a wide range of genres including classics, fiction and non-fiction and seek to make membership as inclusive as possible. From time to time we try link the reading of plays with broadcasts by the National Theatre and showing at the local cinemas, arrange social meals and gatherings.  Previous events include a walk at Wivenhoe to coincide with reading The Essex Serpent, a history trip to Manningtree in relation to The Witchfinders Sister, and a walk along the Essex Way referenced in A House for Essex at Wrabness and a link with the reading of Grayson Perry’s Portrait of the artist as a young girl. **Book Club Admin** Because we are a group run by volunteers we seek to minimise administration burdens and ask members to pay a yearly subscription of £10, which helps cover the Meetup website fees.  Payment options can include either £5 every 6 months or £10 per year and we ask for these to be paid in June and December. If you are new to the book club, we invite you to attend 2 meetings before paying the subscription fees providing you an opportunity to see if this is a group you would like to regularly participate in. We request new members pay £2 per meeting for subsequent meetings prior to the June or December subscription being paid. Please note that any money we receive over and above the cost of Meetup fees is given back to the book club and either put towards the cost of our Christmas and summer outings or spent on Meetup drinks during book club events.  We do not aim to make a profit from the group. **Book Club events** We ask members who have nominated books to run the sessions, so that the nominee has an opportunity to explore aspects of the books which they feel are important, and to share the running of the group.  This is not compulsory.  Please contact one of the organisers in advance if you either cannot make the session your book was nominated for, or if you do not wish to run the session. The meetings are very informal and we often go off topic. We do not aim to be a high-brow set of intellectuals – just a group of friends doing the things we love. **Similar groups you wish to explore** Please see other local meetups including Chelmsford Ladies’ Book Club.  There are also several reading groups and writing groups in the local public libraries (visit https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/events/  and search under Event type: Book Groups).  Or you could start a book club yourself?  You are welcome to contact us if you would like advice on this. Thanks for taking a look at Chelmsford Book Club.  We hope to see you soon! Paul, Becky, Jill and Maria, your Chelmsford Book Club organisers

Welcome to Chelmsford Friendship Group. As we move into our fourth year, the club is all about making friends and having fun. We now number over 800 members! Over the last three years we have created a happy and safe environment where people can meet and have fun. We have hosted many events, from restaurants evenings to pubs, clubs, and local events. Our more popular events are the mid-week and weekend hosted walks, pub quizzes, cocktail and drinks evenings and fish and chip picnics which are always great fun. We also have a book club and many interesting and highly enjoyable walks, several meals out for all tastes and plenty of informal weekend drinks gatherings. Open to anyone of any age although the bulk of our members are in the 40/50 age range. Be involved as much as you wish, be it suggesting and hosting new events or sitting back and just enjoying yourself with new friends. We are always looking for new hosts so if you would like to join our team please get in touch with one of the leadership team and we can guide you through the process. As a club our number one concern is safety and we operate strictly within our Code of Conduct and we expect all our members to agree to this. We are very welcoming and value inclusivity whilst having a zero-tolerance policy for any unacceptable behavior from our members that would make anybody feel uncomfortable or excluded. To cover the admin costs there will be a small, one off fee of £5.00 (payable by all new members) into our (Community/Business) bank account: **Bank**: MetroBank **Account Name**: Chelmsford Friendship Group **Account No**: 44126710 **Sort code**: 23-05-80 This fee is mandatory to all new members after your first event. Our organisers generously give their time free to administer this, so please assist them in actioning this payment promptly. We are incredibly proud of our club and the 100’s of fantastic friendships it has made. Going into 2024 this is going to be our best and most active year so far, so come and join us, we can’t wait to meet you all. The Leadership team ———— **CODE OF CONDUCT** Our group is about friendship and fun, our organisers willingly give their time to ensure all our members get the most out of the group and it is with this in mind that we have a few simple codes we would expect all of our members to adhere to. **1\. Subscription \-** This is just £5.00 when you join the group and this covers the group's administration. We would expect all new members to pay this after you have attended your first event. It would be unfair to make our leadership team have to chase this, as failure to pay this after a reasonable amount of time would result in your membership being put on hold. **2\. Age range \-** Although this group is open to anybody, it is ideally suited to people aged 40 and above. **3\. Event booking \-** Most of our events are very popular and have large waitlists attached to them. If you booked one and do not turn up or cancel at the very last minute, it is very disappointing as another member on the Waitlist would have happily taken this spot and the organiser can waste large amounts of time waiting for you to arrive. All you need to do is change your RSVP to 'Not Going'.  We realise that things happen unexpectedly and this is sometimes unavoidable. However, if a member consistently does not turn up to events they will automatically be removed from event lists. **4\. Profile Photo \-** We do ask for your profile photograph to be a recognisable likeness of yourself, as this aids our organisers finding you at busy events. **5\. Photo and Video \-** We all like capturing and uploading memories from many of the fun events we have. Out of courtesy we would advise you to ensure the subject of your pictures are aware and give you their permission before uploading or tagging them in social media posts. **6\. Unsolicited use of the database \-** As a group we are able to direct message each other through the MeetUp platform. Please do not abuse this facility and note that we have a zero tolerance policy for the following: * Promoting goods and services via the app * Unsolicited approaching of members for personal relationships * Using the database to directly message members and organise events outside of the Meet Up Group. In all cases the member will be removed from the group once a final warning has been issued. **7\. Personal details \-** We actively encourage using this group to develop closer friendships. However, please use caution when disclosing personal contact details with another member. If in doubt please see one of the leadership team for guidance **8\. Respect and courtesy \-** We are all ambassadors of the group and as such we expect everybody to be polite and respectful to staff at venues where we have organised events. Many of the venues we go to are regular events where we are well known to the staff, who very often go the extra mile to give us a great event. It is with this in mind that we ask that if you have an issue with food or service, please offer that feedback in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions regarding any event please contact the host and not the venue. Also, our organisers give up their free time and often put a lot of work into these events. If you feel the event was not as you expected, please feed that back in a respectful and constructive way. Once again, we take a zero tolerance to this and persistent or serious breaches of this will result in the member being removed from the group following the issue of a final warning. **9\. Behaviour** - Safety and comfort of our members is our number one concern. Below is a list, although not an exhaustive one, of what will not be tolerated. * Aggressive behaviour/bullying * Degrading comments around race, politics, culture, sexual orientation, and gender identification * Any unwanted behaviour or comments towards a member that would make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe * Failure to comply with government guidelines around the control of COVID 19. If you require further clarity around any of these points, please contact one of the group leadership team. As this is a private group the Organiser reserves the right to remove a member if they are deemed to be having a negative effect on members within the group. Leadership team

The problem with the busyness of life is that it can be just as busy inside our heads, as in our calendars. Often more so. Often tainted with self doubt and criticism.

This affects our ability to think clearly and/or feel confident in our skin and of our place in the world, amid others and the frequent buffeting of daily life.

This group and when we meet are to be somewhere to stop, step off the world for a while, and step into You. Perhaps reconnect with the who You were 'before life took over'... Remember her?

I'll be inviting discussion on topics such as what brings us joy, what causes us frustration, the matter of relaxing, really relaxing... and how that can influence our minds and bodies; likewise those friends called stress and anxiety, and how we manage them.

Who am I?
I'm Helen, I live in Stortford, I’m 49 and having had my own struggles with body-image issues, finding my voice, losing confidence, and wondering who I was supposed to be at times in my life, I’m passionate about women feeling (at the very least) ok with themselves: just. as. they. are.

Being completely ok with oneself is too uncommon in our 'not good enough' society. For us, and our younger generations. The way humans are designed means that that critical voice is always there, but we can tame it to barely a whisper with knowledge and some techniques, to avoid the crushing self-doubt and pain we can all experience at times, and to lead 'lighter' lives.

One day there will be talks, workshops, maybe spa days and other trips if that’s what you want...

But for now, let's just Meetup and talk/discuss/learn. Bring an open mind, a friend, your mother, your daughter, your sister, or (no 'just' about it) You.

I really look forward to meeting you.
Helen

The Talliston Writers' Circle A monthly social night for authors, writers and poets at Britain’s most extraordinary home. This is a supportive and challenging creative group in a unique location. On or around the second Monday of the month. We welcome people of all levels of talent and experience, with the aim to inspire their best, most engaging new work, and to share stories that delight and surprise. Attendees will discover a creative hub of feedback and support, while newer creatives will gain the confidence to craft their story. Plus, there will be talks and workshops that focus on the topics that matter, forging conversations and developing ideas, all with the aim of creating unforgettable literature. • The benefits of joining include: \- Increased motivation and inspiration to keep creative \- A way of interacting socially with other authors\, writers and poets \- Focusing activities around your work\, including access to competitions and festivals \- Mixing new with established creatives to share stories and experiences \- Regular meetings in an inspirational environment

We are a fun and nerd based board gaming group we meet at the orange tree pub every other week our next meeting is 16 june from 7pm always on a friday bring your games and come along

Greetings fellow dungeon delvers! I'm a DM looking for a bunch of enthusiastic, RP lovin' adventurers to embark on a new D&D 5e journey together... right here in Bishop's Stortford! We'll focus on light-hearted roleplay with plenty of opportunities to shape the story as we go. My DM style: I include plenty of character development and RP (but try ensure the spotlight is shared). Give me 5 pages of PC backstory and it will come up in game. Long-lost brother? Showing up. Dead lover? Definitely showing up. Running feud with another family? Guess who's giving your next quest? Newbies absolutely welcome: If you're new to 5e, but dying to try out that new accent you've been secretly working on when nobody else is around, then this is the group for you! Behaviour and table etiquette: I like to keep things pretty relaxed, but it’s important to me that everyone feels comfortable at the table. So, before we dive in, here are a few ground rules we’ll set before session 0: * DM ruling is final, we keep the game moving and pause for the occasional rule check. * No premature dice rolls: Player describes their character actions, DM calls for appropriate dice rolls. * Patience and kindness: Be willing to help others at the table. * No PvP (i.e. no rolling against one another). * Phones and other digital devices: Let's keep it about the game. Device use is discouraged unless it's for character sheets, the odd rule check. Urgent or important calls should be taken away from the table. * Disruptive topics: Be respectful. No need to discuss politics, sex, religion etc. DM vitos any uncomfortable topics of conversation. * No Min/Maxing, obsessive number-crunching or obnoxious system abuse. Time & Location: The exact time and location are still to be determined, but it'll be somewhere local in Bishop's Stortford. Age: Adults only, please. Join In: I like to have a quick chat with everyone interested—just to make sure we click and that we're all on the same page first. If that sounds good, drop me a message to register your interest, and we'll set up a time to chat!

Are you a company Director of at least two companies listed at Companies House? If so Essex Directors could be for you. If you have at least two companies then it's likely you are entrepreneurial by spirit. The idea behind the group is for company directors to come together to discuss work, ideas, opportunities and of course some networking. Although this will not be one of those awful breakfast meetings. Meetings will be informal and could even be in pubs. Maybe you have a business idea that you'd like some extra help to get off the ground.

Welcome to my page! I am an instructor and aesthetic coach. My instrument is a proven scientific ART and PSYCHOLOGY method NEUROGRAPHICA. DRAW-MODEL-IMPROVE YOUR LIFE Solving tasks , gaining insights, personal growth, stress release and more. Drawing is easy and enjoyable. The hardest thing is to want to change. We learn to manage our state and emotions, we gradually accumulate vital energy for new achievements. Everything we draw comes to life in the best possible way!