Bring your lunch and share in an infomal discussion of what’s happening in the world ... if you wish, bring a relevant newspaper article to discuss

Our last session before Christmas is on Thursday 19th December ... we will be back again on Thursday 9th January 

World at Lunch - Thursday 5th March 1pm tp 2pm 

Sarah Ahemah and Ernest Boateng, Fairtrade Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, will talk about the work of their cooperative.

Kuapa Kokoo has over 100,000 registered members who are primarily smallholder cocoa farmers organized into about 1,300 communities in 6 cocoa growing regions.

Divine Chocolate was founded by Kuapa Kokoo in 1998

Gown meets Town - Monday 10th February 7pm to 8:30pm 

Climate Crisis - There is no Plan A

Humankind is at a stage in which we have a good scientific understanding of the climate crisis and many technological solutions to halt and even reverse global warming

But we lack a coherent plan that bridges the gap between the scientific understanding and specific steps that governments and individuals must take to solve the climate crisis.

Mark Baldwin, Professor of Climate Science at Exeter University, will explain the fundamentals of the climate crisis, and why none of the solutions we read about in the news will actually work. Rather than individual behaviour changes, we need policy changes to stop the extraction of fossil fuels.