Members' Centres and
Friends' Groups

CAMBRIDGE FRIENDS of the NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND

The Cambridge Friends of the National Trust for Scotland is one of our most sucessful Members' Centres. Its programme of meetings run from February to May and October to December.

A PDF of their October 2024 newsletter can be viewed or downloaded by following this link. October 2024 Newsletter.

Programme for Autumn 2024

Wednesday, 23rd October 2024 at 7.30 pm in Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DF

"James Gibbs: The Making of an Eighteenth-century Architect", with Dr William Aslet, Scott Opler Fellow in Art and Architectural History, Worcester College, Oxford.
 
James Gibbs (1682-1754) was an Aberdeen merchant's son who became one of the most influential architects of the eighteenth century working in Britain.
 
From the Church of St Martin's-in-the-Fields in London to the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, he was responsible for among the best-loved buildings in some of Britain's most famous urban spaces. Gibbs's work is well known to Cambridge residents through the Fellows' Building at King's College and the Senate House, both of which are fragments of larger, more ambitious schemes.
 

Through his books, particularly the 1728 A Book of Architecture, Gibbs's influence spread widely, in England and beyond, with St Martin's-in-the-Fields having claim to being the single most influential Anglican church design of the eighteenth century.
 
This talk will focus on Gibb's formative years to show what laid behind his remarkable success as an architect, not least his training in Rome - at that time without parallel in the Britain of his day.

Wednesday, 13th November 2024 at 7.30 pm in Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DF

Lance Forman, the owner of Forman & Sons, the producers of high quality Scottish smoked salmon, on 120 years of smoking - and how the business his great grandfather founded has succeeded in catering for lifestyle choices, via online selling.

Wednesday, 11th December 2024 at 7.30 pm in Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DF

Euan Dunn MBE on puffins. Euan, retired Head of Marine Policy at the RSPB, has worked not just on puffins but also other seabirds in numerous islands around the world including the Shiants and St Kilda where he helped census the declining puffin population. In 2014 he wrote Puffins which distilled the knowledge of this enduringly popular seabird for a non-scientific audience.

Spring 2025 meeting dates

Wednesday, 19th February - a special event devoted to tasting Scottish cheeses; tickets will be £15.00 each.
Wednesday, 19th March
Wednesday, 16th April
Wednesday, 21st May

Where we meet

Our regular evening meetings are at Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DF, at 7.30 for 8.00 pm.
 
Tickets are £10.00 in advance (see below) or £12.00 cash / cheque on the door - they include a glass of wine on arrival. Raffle tickets are £5.00 / strip - first prize is, sometimes, a bottle of whisky.

Ticket Application

1. Buy your tickets in advance via your bank - please let Donald know (see point two):
• £10 per person via BACS
• To Cambridge Friends of the NTS.
• Sort code 30-91-56.
• Account number 03771503.
• Reference: your name!
2. Let Donald Douglas know donalddouglas710@btinternet.com. Donald will email your tickets to you.
3. Or send a cheque ( £10 per person ) to CFNTS, Mar House,Long Lane, Fowlmere, SG8 7TG, made payable to Cambridge Friends of the NTS; please include an SAE if you would like your tickets by mail - or request tickets by email.
4. Tickets on the door will be £12.00 per person.

NB We will not pass your details on to any other organisation.

 

Committee members:
Donald Douglas, Chairman and Membership Secretary
Judy Potter, Deputy Chairman and Secretary
Jim Stewart, Treasurer
Peter Mann, Newsletter Editor
Patsy Glazebrook
Julian Landy
Jill Tuffnell

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