Meetings in 2018

Surrey Swans meetings in 2018 are scheduled for the Sundays listed below.

Mostly these are the last Sunday of each month, unless that falls within a bank holiday weekend.

If the last Sunday of the month does fall within a bank holiday weekend then the meeting will be on the following Sunday. These dates are highlighted with a * in the list below.

The exception to all of this is the meeting in December which is planned for Sun Dec 9.

• Sun Jan 28
• Sun Feb 25
• Sun Mar 25
• Sun Apr 29

Tonight we're expecting a visit from Tracie at the sk:n clinic in Esher. She'll be talking about some of the work that they've done and services that they offer that might be of interest to transgender people. In the email that Tracie sent, she mentioned: 

"We offer hair laser removal, which is something that potentially could benefit your members tremendously.

We have treated transgender clients in the past who have had treatments on the NHS and those who have paid privately. We have a wealth of experience and have doctors and nurses available also. Each clinic has a medical director and we are CQC registered.

We could come along and explain the treatment and the service we provide and answer any questions in groups or one to one." 

You can read about the visit here. 

• Sun Jun 3*
• Sun Jun 24
• Sun Jul 29
• Sun Sep 2*
• Sun Sep 30
• Sun Oct 28
• Sun Nov 25

Tonight we're expecting a visit from Harri, Elisha, Evie, Nate, Alex and Terrell who are students at the University for Creative Arts (UCA) who are making a documentary film as part of their course work. Harri wrote to me to say:

"We have been given a brief to create a 10 minute documentary, and my group wanted to document the community between trans individuals. As a trans student myself, this topic is close to my heart.I was wondering if your organisation would be open to being the subject of our documentary? Or perhaps if you know of individual members who would be open to discussing the trans community?" "As we are focusing on community, it'd be lovely to explore the relationships Surrey Swans builds and how it has helped individuals. We would love to conduct interviews with any member who would be happy to be filmed.
We'd also be exploring how people experience the difference between a tight-knit trans community such as Surrey Swans, and also the trans community as a wider concept." 

• Sun Dec 9 - Buffet

The meeting on Sunday December 9th will include food in the form of a buffet for which a ticket will be needed. Tickets will be available for purchase at the meetings in September, October and November 2018. Some additional details are:

Surrey Swans Pre-Christmas Buffet
December 9th 2018
7:30 pm for 8:00 pm
Lion Brewery Function Room
GU12 6BT
£7.50 includes admission and buffet
For the first 20 tickets purchased there will be cashback.
This means that if you come along you get £5.00 back on the evening. 

I'll have tickets for the buffet at each meeting between now and the buffet itself.

Please email SurreySwans@hotmail.co.uk or Andrea.Wright@hotmail.co.uk for more information.

Please click here for more background information on Surrey Swans.