Category: All Past Events

A talk by Rosalind Freeborn Saturday 14th February 2026 at 11am (coffee served from 10:30am). St Anne’s Parish Hall, Kew Green.  See under events for further details.

A talk by actress Joanna McCallum. Saturday 6th December 2025 at 11am (coffee served from 10:30am). St Anne’s Parish Hall, Kew Green.  See under events for further details.

Wednesday 1st October 2025 at 71 Kew Green, Richmond TW9 3AH 7:30pm wine, 8:00pm recital by the Philharmonia Chamber Players. Tickets now available

Steven McRae is Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet and was the subject of a recent BBC documentary, Dancing Back to the Light.  The proceeds of this event will go to support both The Friends and London Children’s Ballet.

Saturday 24 May 2025 at 10:30 a.m. in St Anne’s Church Hall.  Further information to follow shortly.

Lee Davies, Fungarium Collection Manager at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will present a fascinating talk on the Fungarium at Kew, its collections, and fieldwork in Madagascar.

Val Bott, curator and local historian, will give a richly illustrated talk on The Greening Family of Brentford End, Georgian Royal Gardeners.

Talk by Susan Bailes, member of the St Anne’s congregation who has given previous talks to the Friends on The Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration in Mid-Victorian England (February 2019) and Edwardian England (April 2022).

Julia Korner is a specialist and lecturer in fine art conservation and restoration.  She will speak on the history and evolution of frames in Europe, with insights into their design, selection and gilding techniques through time, and then look at their construction, conservation and how they can transform a painting.