Mix Friends Club is a social club and welcomes All to meet new people, socialise and make new friends. Our sports activities include playing sports like badminton, squash, lawn tennis, billiards, snooker, aerobics, cycling, cricket, football, volleyball, table tennis, bicycling, walking, board  games, cards, poker, chess, skittles, kayaking, canoeing and many more. Our social activities include night outs, eating outs, clubbing, pub nights, live music, cinema, theatre, cycling, bike rides, picni …

From Austen to Zola, by way of PG Wodehouse, George Orwell, Nancy Mitford, Bram Stoker, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Daniel Defoe, John Updike, Muriel Spark, Angela Carter and PD James...anything you flipping well like! We are a group which celebrates classic fiction, not self-published novels. Discussions take place once a month. Lots of talking, recommending, swapping books and being opinionated.

We are a friendly, London-based Aikido group that practice weekly. There is a class on Tuesday evenings from 6.30-9pm and a general practice session on Thursday evenings from 6:30-9pm. Beginners welcome! Classes are taught by Darius Norell Sensei (1st Dan) and Emile Swain Sensei (1st Dan) You can contact us at dojo [at] londonisshinkai.co.uk and find more information about the Isshinkai Association here http://isshinkai.co.uk/index.htm The founder and head of the Isshinkai Association is Denis B …

Who We Are: We are the London chapter of the Alliance for Independent Authors (ALLi), an association of the world's best self-publishing writers and advisors. Meetups are for members only so Annual Membership of ALLi is required to join our local chapter. We cordially invite you to attend your first meeting for a nominal fee -- and see how we can help you on your publishing journey. What We Do: We discuss and develop skills in all areas of self publishing a book: getting it written, getting it p …

Welcome, The Object of the Society is to publish and make known the principles of the major Buddhist Schools and traditions and to encourage the study and practice of those principles. Today, still faithful to its Objects, the Buddhist Society provides classes and courses in the teachings of the major Buddhist traditions, as well as a general introduction to Buddhism and its historical development. In the process of expanding and improving its Library it hopes that this will become an important …

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. — Marion Woodman Hello and welcome, my name is Tiffany Crosara and I am a professional Tarot Consultant, Teacher, Speaker and Published Author in Tarot. I started this group to provide a time and place for people to do deep group exploration into the Tarot, with the aim of transfo …

Calling all Authors and freelance book industry professionals! Hi everyone! The Autharium meetup group is going to be pretty awesome, we are pulling together some special guests, some excellent authors and freelance publishing professionals. This is your event to mingle with like minded folks, find support and even help others with their books. If you are an established or new author or publishing industry professional this meetup is for you - you might even win a cool Autharium T-shirt. What i …

Our mission is to offer a modern and professional environment that allows professionals to work productively whilst having the opportunity to collaborate and create new working relationships with their coworkers. Our members range from digital media consultants, garden designer, business development director, software engineer, novel writer, media lawyer, copy editor, Drupal coder, property agent, research analyst and many more.

A publishing professional who has represented writers for years as Commissioning Editor at Amazon and Head of Writers' Services for Bloomsbury and The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, I’ve learnt a few integral things along the way, and wanted to share that knowledge with fellow writers on the way up. So, here’s the service I’ve come up with: [u]Creative Writing Camp[/u] Regular marathon writing sessions [Bootcamp] with all the energy of writing in company but without the group drama or competing …

Meet other fans of author Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism - a philosophy of Reason Purpose and Self-esteem that holds human life on this earth as the standard of all values and your life as an end in itself. Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to the United States in the Twenties. She published "The Fountainhead "in 1943, and "Atlas Shrugged" in 1957; both books have been in print continuously, and are currently available as Penguin Modern Classics. Both books deal with the …

Well not really a cafe, but definitely a place for like-minded writers to meet, coffee and cake included... I would like to arrange/offer a fortnightly Saturday morning writers workshop group to encourage, support and tackle those more difficult parts of writing - whether you are a first short-story newcomer or honing your novel for publication. The first part of the session would be an interactive workshop/tuition session covering such things as plot development, character assassination and wri …

We are getting together to share our ideas and our books. A meeting for authors and those who work with authors, publishers, copy editors - we meet up and help each other to get our books out into the wide wide world.

This is a group for anyone interested in Kindle publishing/marketing and other publishing options. I would like a group where people can share ideas and offer encouragement to other members. We'll meet once a week at a coffee shop where our laptops will welcome and the atmosphere will be relaxing. Looking forward to seeing you all.

This group is for anyone who is a creative who wants to write for any genre, use social media more effectively, market their creativity authentically, but have been procrastinating about ... 'Getting Started'. We run cost effective interactive workshops with experienced tutors, networking sessions to bring you up to speed with what tools you need make progress, and will hook you into a wider network of creative practitioners, online advice, free events and approachable industry professionals who …

Ok here's the idea.... as a group of writer's we will meet regularly (at least once per week) and write a novel together. Rules (which I've just made up) The entire text will be written during group sessions. The group will contain no more than 8 authors. (If there are more than eight people wanting to join I will pick based on links to previous writing) The book will be a work of fiction. Members must commit to attending regularly. Group members will be responsible for editing sections written …

Do you live, work or practice your freelance/ self employed profession in Ealing, Shepherds Bush, Chiswick or Hammersmith? AND Have recently left a toxic corporate environment and are now embarking on your own business? OR Are a seasoned freelancer sometimes tired of the isolation of working from home? OR Are a local mum of maturing children trying to reach out to wider business circles? Well meeting at The Department of Calm is for you! The Department of Calm is my creation and helps loca …