2025 Meeting Dates

 

 

 

4  November 
18.00Gin tasting with Andrew Cheung – more details soonFace to face

Date

Speaker

Venue

Thursday
9 January 2025
NED Special Interest Group

 

postponed
Tuesday
28 January 2025, 6 – 7.30pm
2025 – a year of political and economic upheaval? Online Meeting
Via Zoom
Tuesday
11th February 2025
NED Special Interest Group
Jean-Phillipe Perraud, NEDOnBoard
“What makes for NED success, from the skills needed, applying for roles and then executing them effectively (warts and all)”
Online Meeting
Via Zoom
20 March 2025 “CYBER RISKS – A Boardroom Priority”

A panel with

Susanne Alfs, independent consultant (governance and cyber security expert) and Chris Potter (NED and Digital expert) More information here

Face to face meeting at El Vino, Fleet Street
3 April 2025, 3-5pm Michael Winslow on “Building Effective Value Propositions”.

How do we best guide boards into getting the funding and value they need.

More details here

Face to face: Santander Venue, Warren Street/Euston Road
12 May 2025 “Bridging the Gap: Youth Representation in Leadership Spaces”

Maria Owusu-Mensah will discuss the challenges and rewards of being a young voice in traditionally older governance structures and how to encourage intergenerational collaboration so that older and younger people can learn and adapt from each other.

Online Meeting via Zoom
Register here
18 June 2025 Tour of Grocer’s Hall with on site historian followed by drinks and a few nibbles – donation also made to Speaker’s Trust, a charity that helps young people to speak and be heard. Grocer’s Hall

 

July 2025 XTEND summer networking drinks at Truckles

Reserved space outside

Truckles 
August 2025 Holiday

 

 
Wednesday
17 September 2025
18.00 onwards
XTEND AGM

Followed by a session led by Janine Gill “Practical ideas that will follow-on from the cybersec NED SIG session (although you don’t need to have attended that session and this will be of interest to all)

El Vinos, Fleet Street
14 October 2025

18.00

Special Interest Group

“Leading from Identity to Shape the Future”

an XTEND Coaching SIG hosted by Matt Goddard; presentation by Arjan Visser (BusinessRevivalists.com)

Online Meeting

Registration link here

 

22 October 2025

18.00 – 20.30

Becky Dell, FRSA on Community, Choir & Creative Leadership:

An evening with the CEO of Citizens of the World Choir

Face to face

The event is free but you can book here

4 November 2025

18.00 – 20.30

Gin tasting with Andrew Cheung Face to face

To book click here

3 December Special Interest Group

“How will the autumn budget affect you and your family?”

an XTEND Lifelong Finance SIG hosted by Richard Owen

 

Online Meeting

 

4 November 2025 Face to face meeting at the Copper Club

£38.50 for 2 courses

Copper Club