Probus Website – Speakers – December 2025
| Date | Speaker | Subject/Title | Overview | Lead |
| 15 | Neil Hanson | “The Ghostwriter” | Neil captivated us all last December with his story of his experiences of running the Tan Hill Inn. Now more from Neil in his role as a ghostwriter! | rw |
Probus Website – Speakers – January to March 2026
| 2026 | Speaker | Subject/Title | Overview | Lead |
| Jan 2026 | ||||
| 5 | Kevin Channer | “Is this police brutality? Insights from an inquest following the death of a man in custody” | Back by popular demand after talking to us in 2022 about developing his Devon garden and then in 2023 with his interactive case discussion, Kevin will be interacting again with us all this time. | rw |
| 19 | Ross Cameron | “The Impacts of Climate Change on Designed Landscapes and Gardens” | Ross is Professor of Environmental Horticulture. He gave a great talk to U3A last year on his fascinating work on green infrastructure mitigating the challenge of the climate crisis in the built environment. | rw |
| 26 | Chairman | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING | Please attend – it’s your club. Buffet lunch served for all attending! | |
| Feb 2026 | ||||
| 2 | Paul Collier | “Left behind: a new economics for places” | Sir Paul is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Oxford. Born and brought up in Sheffield and attending a state school he was challenged going to university in Oxford as both parents left school at the age of 12. He retains a great fondness for Sheffield and is keen to see it flourish again. | rw |
| 16 | Emily Haycock | “Reactive to Proactive; Alternative Modes of Living for an Aging Population in the Rise of Multigenerational Living” | Emily, an architectural graduate, won a project competition organised by U3A and the university and has kindly agreed to return to Sheffield to give her thought provoking talk to our Probus Club. | rw |
| Mar 2026 | ||||
| 2 | Nick Duggan | “An A to Z of the Hawley Collection” | This will be Nick’s fifth visit to us to speak about various aspects of the Hawley Collection at Kelham Island. His last one was in June 2024 to talk about The Year Knife. | ga |
| 16 | Peter Coombs | “Aircraft Accident Investigation: a retired Investigator looks back” | Colin, one of our members and Peter’s brother, kindly offered his brother to talk to us to reflect on his interesting career. Peter is a retired Senior Inspector of Accidents at AAIB and began investigating accidents in 1972. | cc/rw |