Stumperlowe Probus – Sheffield
The next talk on the 23rd May, will be from John Hull and is about the Siege of Leningrad 1941 to 1944. This will be a Zoom meeting.
Click here for our 2022 schedule
Overview of Probus
PROBUS is a worldwide organisation for retired and semi-retired business and professional men, who meet together in fellowship and to make new friends. You can find out more here.
There are a number of Probus Clubs in Sheffield and our members are typically from around post code S10, Fulwood and Stumperlowe.
A warm welcome awaits you at our weekly meetings so why not join us for coffee, a chat and then listen to our speaker of the week and join in the question and answer session? Our Speaker schedule is here.
Stumperlowe Probus meets on most Mondays at 10:00am for 10:30am the commencement of the speaker’s talk. If you would like to come and see who we are, and what we do, then please don’t hesitate to call either:
- Graeme Beck (Chairman. Telephone 07860 113073
- Graham Snowdon ( Secretary). Telephone: 0114 230 2233
They will be happy to tell you more about Stumperlowe Probus. You can also learn about us by clicking here.
2022 — LOOKING FORWARD
It’s onwards and upwards for Stumperlowe Probus Club as we return to something like normality following two years of disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Onwards, in that we are gradually making the move back to face-to-face meetings after being restricted to virtual Zoom presentations since March 2020. Upwards, in that we have (temporarily at least, and probably permanently) moved slightly uphill to our new venue at Fulwood Sports Club.
The pandemic and resultant lockdowns coincided with major construction and refurbishment work at Christ Church Fulwood and we have, very sadly from our point of view, been told that there is no longer space for us in the Church Lounge which we have regarded as our spiritual home since the club was formed 45 years ago.
Various alternative venues were considered, and we held what turned out to be a successful and well-attended AGM on 9th May in the comfortable surroundings of the clubhouse at Fulwood Sports Club, enabling the committee and membership to assess its suitability as a permanent base for our meetings. General opinion was very favourable.
Our Zoom presentations over the past two years have been far more successful than we had hoped, but it will be good to get back to real meetings with ‘live’ speakers and the chance to socialise with fellow members on a regular basis. In the 12 months prior to the AGM, all but ten of our 65 members ‘tuned in’ to at least some of the Zoom presentations, usually held on the first and third Mondays of each month, and around half the membership were almost ever-present.
Because the timing of our return to a normal weekly programme was uncertain, there will be a lag before this is fully achieved and our hard-working team of three speaker finders can fill all the available dates. Zoom has taught us much, and we do not intend to close the door on it. It has enabled us to welcome speakers from as far afield as America, and it is almost certain that we will retain an element of this new (to us) technology, allowing expert speakers from far afield to be Zoomed on to the big screen television in the clubhouse, when the occasion demands, and still talk to a live audience.
These are exciting times as Stumperlowe Probus Club moves into a new era.
Graham Snowdon (Hon Sec), on behalf of the committee.