The majority of the talks in the
2025-26 season will be held in the Hub at the Pavilion on Park Drive, Hethersett, roughly every other Monday starting at 19.30.
Non-members are welcome to attend our meetings as guests, but are expected to join NES if they attend more than 3 meetings.
Since the first Covid lockdown, when we started to hold virtual meetings, meetings have been published live using Zoom
and can be watched afterwards on Youtube using the links in Past Events.
For all meetings, a link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed out in advance of the meeting, to members for whom we have current email addresses.
Any member wishing to take part in a talk via Zoom is advised to download the 'Zoom' client,
if they don't already have the app, onto their computer/tablet/phone.
If you don't have one it takes much longer to join a meeting!
Mon 1st December 2025 at 19:30, Hethersett Hub+Zoom
Talk: Modern Fuels
by Dr Michelle Miller, Perfuels Ltd
Mon 15th December 2025 at 19:30, Zoom+Hethersett Hub
Talk: Greenpower Challenge - Developing the electric F24 car
by Dennis Coltman and Bill Anthony, Langley and Town Close Schools
Mon 12th January 2026 at 19:30, Zoom
Council: Council Meeting
by The President,
Mon 26th January 2026 at 19:30, TBA
Talk: Airship Engineering
by Tony Meacock, NES Member
Summary: A history of lighter than air flight, up to the present day; both balloon and dirigible.
Mon 9th February 2026 at 19:30, Hethersett Hub+Zoom
Talk: HM Coastguard: to search, to rescue, to save
by Prof Richard Harvey, UEA and HM Coastguard Volunteer
Summary: HM Coastguard has been a feature of UK’s coastline for over 200 years but its function has changed quite dramatically in that time. The modern coastguard has two parts - a national distributed control room with load transfer and resilience (it is the only national 999 service) and around 3500 volunteer Coastguard Rescue Officers who are stationed around the coast ready to respond to emergencies 24/7. It is a surprisingly busy service and even a small station might receive 100 “shouts” a year. Some of the more dramatic ones can been seen on the Channel 5 documentary “Coastguard”. In this talk we discuss the capabilities of the modern coastguard, including the, so called, “technical” disciplines. Many of these are quite physical and place considerable demands on the rescuer. To add interest, I will take you through a real rescue and invite you to make those split-minute decisions which our volunteers are expected to make. Rescues need a different form of thinking so please birng your "rescue brains”
Mon 23rd February 2026 at 19:30, Hethersett Hub+Zoom
Talk: In-Orbit, Service, Assembly and Manufacturing
by Stuart Catchpole, Space East
Mon 9th March 2026 at 19:30, Hethersett Hub + Zoom
Talk: Don’t Underestimate Mother Nature
by William Anthony, Entrepreneurial engineer?
Summary:
As the ex-owner of a French factory with a 16M€ turnover producing over 6,000 tonnes of natural fibre composites, Bill will give an insight into the unseen use of natural materials and composites in many engineering applications (automotive, aerospace, construction and furniture) and the barriers to market.
Mon 16th March 2026 at 19:30, TBA
Council: Council Meeting
by The President,
Mon 23rd March 2026 at 19:30, Hethersett Hub+Zoom
Talk: Quantum Computing - an update
by Andy Stanford Clark, IBM -Distinguished Scientist
Summary: About two years ago Andy presented the NES with an outline of Quantum Computing. As the topic has advanced very rapidly over this time period Andy has agreed to come back and give NES Members an update.
Mon 30th March 2026 at 19:30, TBA
AGM: AGM
by The President,
Mon 5th October 2026 at 19:30, Hethersett Hub+Zoom
Talk: Development of a medical Device:CAVA
by Prof Stephen Cox, UEA.
Summary:
The talk will be mostly about the design of CAVA, the signal processing and the findings from the signals we have obtained, with some medical background included. We have just finished clinical trials of the device and we are working on the classification of disease and should have some results by next year.
