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Our New Meeting Venue!

We have a new venue with a name confusingly very similar to our previous one. Please note that the Civil Service Recreational Centre, Chadwick Street is now closed so please don’t go there!

Instead we have a new home at the Civil Service Club, Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, London SW 1 A 2 HJ, telephone 020 7930 4881.

All members and their guests are welcome to attend Society meetings at the Civil Service Club, Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, London SW1A 2HJ which will run from at 7.15-9.30 PM generally on the second Thursday of each month from September to May inclusive. However, please see the notice of meetings, venues, speakers and dates published elsewhere in the Argus. This may change month by month.

The Civil Service Club, Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, London SW1A 2HJ bar serves hot and cold snacks up to 9.00 PM and is on the ground floor. We are welcome to use this facility. The bar will remain open all evening with prices considerably less than those in nearby pubs.

The nearest stations are Charing Cross and Embankment. There is very limited parking along the Embankment from 6.30 PM for the time being and this is free but please check.

Given the strategic location of the venue and the inevitable concerns about security in London, members will be required to sign-in against a current Society membership list which will be held by reception at the main door. This need not deter non-members accompanying guests or prospective members. As long as an ExCom member can vouch for the visitor he/she may sign in and proceed to the meeting. These precautions are necessary in the atmosphere and location in which the Civil Service Club is placed. It would be sensible therefore to have to hand the mobile telephone numbers of ExCom members which are on the back cover of each issue of Argus in case they need to verify your membership and/or connection with the Society.

We shall be using one of two rooms at the CSC: Trafalgar and Elizabethan and both are capable of taking up 35 sitting in cinema-style formation. We plan to hold 5 meetings at the CSC in the coming season on the following dates:

2011: 8 September; 17 November; 8 December and in 2012: 9 February and 10 May.

A further 4 meetings are being arranged at the following locations:

Old Salesians FC [probably 13 October]; Alexandra Park FC; Norseman FC [and a new location] St John Ambulance, Old Deer Park, Richmond. Dates are being negotiated for these venues.

The important thing is to follow closely the announcements in Argus and any trigger e-mails coming your way. Please ensure that you have rejoined the Society and that we have your correct contact details.