We are pleased to announce a social event organised by Chelmsford Civic Society, who will be taking a coach trip to Bletchley Park to see:
We have added a lecture to our 2017/2018 programme: please add this to your diaries! Our thanks to our partners the Institute of Physics (IOP) for this.
We are pleased to announce our next members' social. Come and join us for an informal bite to eat and/or something to drink this Christmas.
See our events page for full details and to register.
We have added a lecture to our 2017/2018 programme: please add this to your diaries! Our thanks to Dr Prasanna Tilakaratna, a CSES member, for offering to deliver this talk.
Summer may be over, but don't worry, because that means we're back with another exciting season of events for our members and the public!
Details of what we've got planned can be found on our events page. Take a look and add these to your diary. This is just the start: more events will be added as time goes on. If you are a member, make sure your communication preferences are up-to-date in your profile to receive notification of upcoming events by email.
We look forward to seeing you throughout the next year.
It's the long-awaited return of the CSES social trips and tours!
We are offering an exclusive opportunity to look around the abandoned water filtering plant at Sandford Mill, along with a private tour of the Marconi and industrial museum, with Tim Wander.
This is only the second time the filter house has been open to the public since the original opening in October 2016. Don't miss out!
We are proud to support two upcoming events celebrating our city's industrial heritage.
Chelmsford Museum will be celebrating Guglielmo Marconi's birthday on 23 April with a special Marconi-themed Birthday Bash at Sandford Mill, from 10am to 4pm.
Chelmsford Civic Society are hosting the Titanic: Honour and Glory touring exhibition in Bond Street from 8 April until 25 June, to celebrate the importance of Marconi's work in Chelmsford and the critical role it played in saving the lives of passengers on the Titanic.
Maverick TV are currently casting for a new engineering show for Channel 4, and have approached CSES to seek participants.
They are looking for exceptional individuals who have a passion for engineering and are willing to take on the ultimate challenge. They will drop the contestants into remote locations around the world and ask them to create an escape vehicle out of the debris of a fictional crash site. The series is not just about survival – it is about escaping.
We invite our members and their guests to join us for our May 2017 social, to be held on Tuesday 30 May, 7pm at the San Chinese Restaurant in Moulsham Street.
There is an all-you-can-eat deal and, having held dinners at this venue before, we can assure you that the food is excellent!
We will increase our standard membership fee from £8 to £12 (annually) by October 2017. This follows a motion approved at the society's Annual General Meeting, held at Anglia Ruskin University on 23 November 2016, to raise the membership fee.
Existing members will be charged the increased rate at their next renewal, which will be no earlier than October 2017. This change does not affect free membership categories.
We are very pleased to announce the return of our Café Scientifique series of informal speaker-led discussions.
For the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology.
Following the success of our well-attended New Year's Curry, our social calendar is continuing to grow for 2017 and February's event will be a Café Scientifique session on glass working. The union bar will be open throughout the event, serving drinks and snacks.
Visit the event page for details and to book for FREE online.
