| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Coordinator: | |
| Group email: | Science group |
| When: | Monthly on Monday mornings 10:30 am-12:00 pm 4th Monday of the Month |
| Venue: | Heaton Moor United Church |
The Science group was been formed to explore and learn about the wonders of science in its broadest sense; biology, physics, chemistry, engineering and maybe even some gentle mathematics.
You don’t need to have been a Scientist or Engineer to appreciate science and talks will be pitched at a level where no prior knowledge is assumed.
Visits to scientifically interesting locations (museums, visitor centres) will be arranged from time to time. The plan is to make each meeting stand alone so members need not feel obliged to come along each month, although most do.
Coffee and biscuits will be available after the talk each month.
Members who have provided their email address will be sent an email announcing each meeting a few weeks ahead and a reminder on the Saturday before each meeting
Those not already on the distribution list and who want to notification of these meetings can send a message from the "click to contact" link on this page and they will be included.

Topics will range through
• Discoveries and inventions
• The Scientists - interesting lives
• Applications of science
• Impact of science on society

Topics for recent and forthcoming meetings are:
| 28 September 2026 | Portable Defibrillator | Cecil Lowry |
| 26 October 2026 | Mass Spectrometry | Paul Humphrey |
| 23 November 2026 | Honey Bees | Damson Tregaskis |
| 28 December 2026 | NO MEETING | |
| 25 January 2027 | Photosynthesis | Anne Beswick |
DETAILED PROGRAMME
28 SEPTEMBER 2026 – Cecil Lowry will speak about his biography of Frank Pantridge the British World War II veteran and Japanese POW camp survivor who went on to create the life-saving portable defibrillator.
26 OCTOBER 2026 – Paul Humphrey will introduce us to mass spectrometry, a powerful analytical technique and describe it’s many and varied uses, it’s types, it’s history and it’s connections to the Manchester region.
23 NOVEMBER 2026 – Damson Tregaskis makes a welcome return visit to talk about the life cycle of the honey bee, the fascinating insect that has been adopted as the symbol of Manchester.
DECEMBER 2026 – No meeting.
25 JANUARY 2027 – Anne Beswick will speak about photosynthesis, the process that is fundamental to the maintenance of life on Earth.
Click here to for a printable version of the Science Group Programme 2026 It will appear in your downloads folder