Community groups in Cambridge

Drawn to nature

Meet at the (red) Cutter Ferry Bridge (South side of the river near the footbridge), on Midsummer Common at 10am. I plan to sketch in the Community Orchard nearby (lots of blossom): https://midsummercommon.org.uk/orchard/ You can also sketch the river, trees on the common, swans or other random wildlife (e.g., rowers), plus boats and boat houses. It’s fine to come later, please just look for the people sketching. We will meet up again by the bridge at 1pm to see each other’s work. Afterwards, we

Photo Talks – Campkins Cameras

Campkins Cameras

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE: From football to freelancing — Oli Kane shares how he built a content career without university, plus honest advice and live Q&A. Doors open - 18:30 Talk starts - 19:00 Tickets 🎟️ - £5 (Must be booked via eventbrite) 🎬 Building a Career in Content Creation (Without Going to University) A Talk with Oli Kane What if you didn’t take the traditional

Silicon Drinkabout Cambridge

We're also at https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-VHPDNE8Q51fw1bO Silicon Drinkabout Cambridge is an inclusive community for the tech network of Cambridge. We get together on the last Friday of every month to relax and catch up with friends. There's no agenda, no restrictions, and no pressure. We discuss tech, but other topics too. It's just a casual way to unwind with the other people who work alongside you here in Cambridge. Everyone is welc

Cambridge Skeptics

Everybody knows what a cold feels like: miserable. The first cold virus was detected in a milk tooth shed over 30,000 years ago and ever since, the common cold has been a bane. Yet while sore throats and blocked noses are annoyingly familiar, the processes that lead to them are not widely known and often misunderstood. Processes like the misdirected immune response that makes us ill with a cold instead of protecting us from illness. Like the way heating a building enhances cold virus transmissi

Cambridgeshire IVC – In Very good Company

In Very good Company

Join Ros for a lively discussion of Nita Prose's gripping whodunnit, which became the 2023 winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best mystery/thriller. It begins like any other day for Molly Gray, silently dusting her way through the luxury rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel. But when she enters suite 401 and discovers an infamous guest dead in his bed, a very messy mystery begins to unfold. And Molly’s at the heart of it – because if anyone can uncover the secrets beneath the surface, the fingerprints amongst the filth, it's the maid... Lisa Jewell described The Maid as: "Smart, riveting, and delicously refreshing." We will meet in the Castle Inn on Castle Hill at 7pm in the hour before IVC Pub night - feel free to stay on for drinks afterwards! The Castle is a quaint traditional pub offering a full range of drinks, including real ales and pub food. Please bring along £1 (or £12 for the year) as a contribution to Meetup fees - this £1 is only payable by non-fully-paid members of IVC (and can be reclaimed if you decide to join the CambsIVC membership group). Parking is free in the Shire Hall car park from 7pm. Books to look forward to in the coming months: The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis Murder at the Fitzwilliam by Jim Eldridge Death and Croissants by Ian Moore A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

The Socialist Party of Great Britain (London Branch)

An informal meetup of party members and sympathisers with a view to starting regular public meetings in the Cambridge area. The Socialist Party of Great Britain has one single aim: the establishment of a society in which all productive resources – land, water, factories, transport, etc. – are taken into common ownership, and in which the sole motive for production is the fulfilment of human needs and wants. To read more news, views, and analysis please visit: worldsocialism.org/spgb

Cambridge Product Management Network

Your roadmap is not the problem, your reviews are. How to build authority by avoiding four mistakes I made. When stakeholder alignment breaks down, we blame the roadmap. But after mistakes across two companies, Cei learned the real problem is how we run product leadership reviews. This is a story-driven talk about what each mistake cost, the system he built from them, and why reviews, not roadmaps, are where authority gets built. Product leadership reviews are the meetings where your work gets funded, deprioritised, or killed. They're not sprint reviews. They're not design reviews. They're decision forums where senior leaders test your product bets against money, time, and risk. Most product people walk into them unprepared. This is not because they haven't done the product work, but because they don't understand what the meeting actually is, or don't know when they are in one. In this session Cei will share how he learnt this the hard way: Four mistakes with real costs, each building on the last. He will share the system he’s built from these mistakes - decision documents, stakeholder pre-meetings, live decision logs, business translation. This is not a transformation story, it charts the slow accumulation of hard lessons over a number of years. Cei will leave us a real 2025 example where the system worked. Speaker background Cei Sanderson is VP of Products at Bango, where he leads product in fintech payments and subscriptions. He's spent nearly two decades building enterprise B2B products across six domains, from energy and financial crime prevention to the subscription economy. Cei believes product thinking, not domain expertise, is the transferable superpower. Cei coaches and mentors product people through the messy, nuanced reality of enterprise B2B, and writes about his messy journey to help raise the bar for product leadership.

Free English Class at Stafford House: Online and In-Person

Hello there! We are launching our brand new Face-to-Face Free English Class in Cambridge this April - May! Are you learning English as a second language and looking for an opportunity to practise your English? Interested in free, in-person classes? We’ve got you covered! Here at Stafford House, our teachers-in-training are gaining hands-on experience by teaching enthusiastic English learners. Each lesson is interactive and fun, with plenty of opportunities to practise speaking, meet other learners, and improve your English along the way. We also offer free online English classes. Check out our other events for more information! Please see the updated details below! 🕑 When: From 20th April - 14th May (4 weeks) ➡️Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ➡️Fridays 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m 📍 Where: Stafford House Cambridge, 15 Round Church St, Cambridge CB5 8AD (just opposite the Round Church) 📚 Level: Both levels available Pre-Intermediate (A2-B1) Upper-Intermediate (B2) Spaces are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive 15- 30 minutes early to secure your spot. We will ask for your name and email upon arrival. ⚠️Please note: confirming attendance on Meetup does not guarantee a place in the classroom. Please note that class times or dates may occasionally change due to the nature of the course. If this happens, we will inform you by email. We look forward to seeing you all very soon! Got Questions? send us an email at []

Friends International activities for international students

Meet new people, discover new cultures and practise speaking English. Free activities organised by volunteers from local churches.

The Cambridge School of Improv

Join us for a night of hilarious, made up on the spot comedy with Lily and Jack! Tickets: Come join us for a night filled with laughter at The Boathouse! Lily and Jack will be hosting a cast of seven guest improvisers for an evening of totally original comedy, 100% made up on the night with the help of suggestions from YOU the audience! This comedy has never been seen before and will never be seen again. Don't miss it! Tickets starting from just £5! Starring: ⭐️Andrew Hewitt ⭐️Joseph Mitchell ⭐️Jude Edison ⭐️Lee Denison ⭐️Lisa Käshammer ⭐️Tiest Vilee ⭐️Veronica Cherdyntseva £1 from every ticket sold will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Cambridge big picture conversation group

This group is for people who love big picture conversation. We meet for facilitated discussions, socials, and occasional meals and walks. Our facilitated discussions are on Sunday mornings in Cambridge, in groups of five or six so that each of us has plenty of talk time. We alternate between a philosophy and a current affairs topic. (The group is particularly suited to people with Myers-Briggs "N" personalities.) We suggest a contribution of £2 at each event, to help cover the Meetup fee of over £200 a year. Either by bringing cash, or by sending a BACS with your name as the reference to account name AJ Stanton, account number 20456094, sort code 23-05-80. Thank you.

Cambridge Content Creators – YouTube, TikTok

YouTube, TikTok

A brand new group for everyone who is interested in content creation or has already been creating content for a while. No matter if you want to talk about how to create a perfect tiktok, how to structure your youtube videos better or just want some honest feedback on your videos, this is a place for you!

Cambridge 5/7 a side Football Meetup Group

A group of likeminded mixed ability casual footballers that want a kick around every week & don’t take themselves too seriously. We are a mixed gender group & have people of all footballing abilities involved. We alternate each week between the 3G at PlayFootball Cambridge Abbey (CB5 8NT), and 3G pitch at St Mary’s/Homerton (CB2 8PX) for 7-a-side games If interested please do join! 😀

Cambridge Dog Lovers

#nodogneeded 😃🙂 or #bringyourdog 😃🐾 We offer free to attend events as a group of super fun people who love dogs and the company of dogs. The main purpose is to bring people who do and don't have dogs together 🙂. Maybe you are missing your family dog, are thinking about getting a dog, just love being around dogs, or maybe you have a dog and would like them to meet and play with other dogs. The group will have regular meets and dog walks. We all look forward to meeting fellow dog lovers! 🙂

Cambridge Skeptics

Cambridge Skeptics is a not-for-profit community organisation which is on a mission to promote science, positive skepticism and critical thinking skills via public engagement.  We host monthly Skeptics in the Pub events with speakers on various subjects as well as social events. We also run events in conjunction with the Cambridge Science Festival. Our events are open to everyone, whether you consider yourself to be a skeptic or not. If the subject matter is of interest, please come along and join the discussion.

Health with Corinna

Join us for thoughtful discussions and insights on health, dating and relationships. Corinna brings together thoughtful people who want to live, love, and relate. Through guided discussion, psychological insight, and health practices, we explore what it means to build healthy lives and relationships that are stable, and meaningful.

Cambridge Ayn Rand Meetup

Join us for monthly discussions aimed at improving our understanding of Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, and how to apply it.

Birds of East Anglia

A group for anyone who is interested in seeing wild birds, getting a bit of exercise outdoors, and of course meeting other people. We are based in Cambridge but often have trips further afield. Most events are walks with lots of stops (to look at birds), either at a nature reserve, or just in an attractive countryside or coastal location. A café or pub stop is usually also involved. Everyone is welcome, beginner or experienced (we usually have one or two spare pairs of binoculars for attendees who don't have their own).

Cambridge Veg*ns

This is a group for the vegetarians and vegans of Cambridge, anyone who wants to get out of the house and do something social. It doesn't just have to be foody outings, we can do cinema trips and country walks, whatever you lot want.Generally, listings will be events that someone wants to host and expects to be at, however sometimes we will list events purely because we think they're likely to be of interest to the community. In these cases the page can still be used for people to organise a meeting, but there won't be a host as such.We are sponsored by The Cookie Place, offering fantastic vegan cookies at the market stall every Tuesday, or delivery by arrangement