Coming up

Our meetings 

On the 3rd Thursday of each month, at 7pm for 7.30, at St Margaret’s House, 21 Old Ford Rd, London E2 9PL, entrance via the gate. If you are coming to one of our meetings for the first time, please contact us for more details on access to our venue. Please see the monthly coming up posts on our home page for details 

We provide the refreshments without which no EEWI meeting would be complete – tea, coffee, perhaps some cake and wine if it materialises. 

If you're interested to join, you're welcome to attend up to three meetings before joining, with a suggested donation of £5 per session. 

• 19 February 2026: talk – Virginia Orr, curator and organiser of Sy Margaret's House exhibitions and photographer

• 19 March 2026: Talk: Claire Broughton: Head of Podcasts at Hat Trick

• 16 April 2026: talk – David Bowen, Travels on the Edge of History

• 21 May 2026: AGM plus Sally Shanley with an intro to new WI VIA online learning platform and Natasha Chetwynd on women’s football

• 18 June 2026: talk – Sarah McCartney from 4160 Tuesdays on her adventures in perfume

• 16 July 2026: talk – Anna Bowles on Ukraine and the role of women

• 20 August 2026: talk – Jacky Robinson, Some Women of the 1950s who Defied Convention - and also wrote a Cookbook 

• 15 September 2026: talk – Jennifer Watt, surgeon, clinical fellow at St Thomas’ Hospital, on the periodic surgical training work she does in West Africa

• 15 October 2026: to be confirmed

• 19 November 2026: talk – Nigel Smith, cinema walk leader and part of the team that produces Screenshot for BBC Radio 4, on Tower Hamlets cinema history

• 17 December 2026: Christmas party

Coffee mornings

On Fridays of the weeks after our meetings – please see our monthly coming-up posts for details. Our meeting times are flexible, 10.30 for the early birds or join us at 11-ish.

Walks and tours

Usually on the second Saturday of the month, starting at 11am – please see our monthly coming-up posts for details.