"There were hoots of laughter as we listened to her often outrageous slant on life and stories of her experiences and advice. Her talk ended with a rousing round of applause; everyone commenting on their enjoyment of such a wonderful speaker. After more than 36 years Lady Crabtree is still wowing audiences . What a wonderful ending to the year, with smiles all round." KINGSTON WI Lady Crabtree has been booked to entertain many different organisations
and attend special events, including: Active Leisure Club (x 4) After 8 Club, Burwash (x2)
Age UK, Hastings All Saints Monday Wives, Hastings
Friends of Devonshire Park Theatre (x 2) Gables Court, Eastbourne (x 4)
Go-Getters Women's Club, Uckfield Hailsham & District Flower Club
Hailsham Festival Hailsham Rotary Club
Harbour Friends, Eastbourne (x 3)
Hawthorns, Eastbourne (x 3)
Healthy Living Centre, Worthing Heartsease, Seaford Hillborough House, Little Common (x3)
Homegate House, Eastbourne Hydro Hotel Ladies’ Luncheon Club
Hydro Hotel private lunches & dinners (numerous)
Inner Wheel President’s Night Dinner
Ladies’ Executive Club, Rochford
Ladies Who Lunch, Bexhill (x 3)
Ladies Who Lunch, Rustington
Ladybirds, Henfield
Langham Hotel private lunches & dinners (numerous)
Langham Ladies’ Lunch Club (x 9)
Lioness Annual Conference, Maidstone 2015
Little Common Community Association 70th Anniversary
Little Common Horticultural Society London & South East Region Trefoil Guild Annual Meeting Mannings Heath & District Horticultural Society
Maples Care Home, Bexleyheath
Mayfield Bonfire Society
Meads Ladies’ Circle (x 3)
Meet And Greet Group for Carers (x 2) Midhurst Gardening Club
MORE Club, Eastbourne
MS Society, Southwick
National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies National Association of Occupational Pensioners National Association of Retired Police Officers, Eastbourne & District National Association of Retired Police Officers, Hastings & Rother National Federation of Royal Mail & BT Pensioners
National Trust, Horsham (x 2)
NHS Retirement Fellowship (x3)
Oddfellows Friendly Society (x 3) Paddock Wood & District Active Retirement Association Park Centre Wives Group, Burgess Hill
Parkinson's UK, Hailsham
Parkinson's UK, Eastbourne
Parkinson’s UK, Worthing
Past Rotarians Peasmarsh Lunch Club Pevensey Area Gardeners' Club
Pevensey Bay Wives Group
Pevensey Castle Masonic Dinner
Polegate Gardeners' Society
Polegate Ladies’ Circle (x 2)
Polegate Tuesday Fellowship (x 2)
Polegate Wine & Social Club Princes Park Fun Day, Eastbourne Queen Alexandra Cottage Homes, Eastbourne R.A.S.C.A.L.S. Pevensey Bay (x 2)
RAF Lunch, Arundel (x 2)
RAFA, Hailsham
Riverside Club, Lewes (x 2) Red Hat Society, Worthing
RNLI (x 4)
Robertsbridge Historical Society Rother Valley Arts Society Rye Harbour Sailability charity
Sainsbury’s Veterans Association, Bexhill (x 3)
Sainsbury’s Veterans Association, Crawley
Sandhurst Friendship Club (x 2) St Barnabas Hospice, Worthing
St Catherine’s Court, Littlehampton
St John’s Guild (x 2)
St Mary’s Church, Willingdon, Harvest Supper
St Michael’s Hospice, Hastings
St Wilfrid’s Church, Pevensey (x 2)
St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Eastbourne
Saffrons Ladies’ Club
Second Hartley & District Active Retirement Association
Sidley Friendship Club (x 3)
Southdown Strollers (x 3) Sovereign Harbour Friends (x2)
Sovereign Harbour Yacht Club, Eastbourne (x 3)
Sovereign Rotary Club
Starfish Project
Stratford-Upon-Avon Ladies’ Lunch Club Sussex Strollers Tangent Club, Horsted Place The Thursday Club, Sedlescombe
Trefoil Guild, Hailsham (x 2) Trefoil Guild, London and South East Region AGM, Bexhill Trefoil Guild Sussex East
Tuesday At Friends, Brighton (x2)
Twenty-Ten Club, Little Common (x 2) University of Dundee Reunion
Willingdon Community Hub Library Wooden Spoon Charity Lunch
Crowborough Wolfe Bowls Club Gildredge Park Ladies' Bowls Club Gildredge Park Bowls Club Hampden Park Bowls Club
Westfield Bowls Club, Hastings
Burgess Hill Flower Club East Preston Floral Club Ferring Flower Club
Hailsham & District Flower Club (x2) Horam & Heathfield Flower Club Horsham Flower Club Littlehampton Flower Club NAFAS Group Meeting (Haywards Heath) Patcham Flower Club Peacehaven & Telscombe Flower Club (x2) Rustington Flower Club Steyning Flower Club Willingdon Flower Club (x2)
Cooden Beach Golf Club
Ham Manor Golf Club
Highwoods Golf Club
Royal Eastbourne Golf Club (x4)
Anderida WI Angmering Green WI
Ashburnham & Penhurst WI Bexhill Seagirls WI Butts Brow WI Buxted WI (x2) Castle Group WI (Ringmer) Catsfield WI (x3) Chiddingly WI (x2) Cross-in-Hand WI (x2) Crowborough Centenary of WI in Sussex Crowborough Vale WI Durrington WI Group Meeting East Grinstead Meridian WI East Preston WI East Sussex Federation Centenary Garden Party 2019 Fairwarp WI (x2) Ferring WI (x2) Ferring Downs WI Findon Village WI (x2) Firle & Beddingham WI Forest Row WI (x2) Hailsham Nightingales WI Hailsham Rope Makers WI Harbour WI - Women's Institute 100th Anniversary Harbour WI - Queen's 90th Birthday Hastings Ore WI Heffle WI Hellingly WI (x2) Herstmonceux WI Holbrook Horsham WI Group Meeting
Hove WI Jevington & Filching WI 60th Anniversary Kingscote WI, East Grinstead Kingston WI Langney WI Lashmar Ladies WI Lewes Group WI Spring meeting Lewes Westgate WI Little Common WI Mannings Heath WI Meads WI (x 4)
Micheldene WI Patcham WI Peacehaven WI Playden WI Polegate WI (x2) Polegate Sundowners WI Regency Group WI Robertsbridge WI Rother WI Group Meeting (Battle) Rushlake Green WI Rustington WI Scaynes Hill WI Shoreham Beach WI Southdown Group WI Spring meeting (Hove) Southdown Group WI Spring meeting (Mile Oak) Sovereign WI Telscombe Cliffs WI 80th Anniversary Wadhurst WI 100th Anniversary Waldron WI (x2)
Wannock Downs WI Warnham WI 100th Anniversary West Adur Group WI (x2) Westham WI
Westham Evening WI Willingdon WI St Wilfrid's WI (x2) Wivelsfield WI Worthing WI
90th Anniversary of the Townswomen's Guild 2019 Bexhill Down Townswomen's Guild 50th Anniversary (x2) Blatchington Hill Townswomen's Guild (x2) Crowborough Evening Townswomen's Guild Devonshire Park Townswomen's Guild (x 2) Meads Afternoon Townswomen's Guild West St Leonard's Townswomen's Guild
Arun East U3A Arun West U3A Battle & District U3A (x2) Brighton Five Deans U3A (x2) Crawley U3A Crowborough U3A (x2) Eastbourne Meads U3A Edenbridge U3A (x2) Hastings & Rother U3A Heathfield & District U3A Horley & District U3A Horsham U3A (x2) Newhaven & Peacehaven U3A Pembury U3A Wadhurst & District, U3A
Adur East Lions Club, Southwick (x2) Newhaven, Peacehaven & Seaford Lions Club
Ferring Probus Club Fryern Ladies Probus Club Horsham Weald Probus Club
Lewes Probus Club Probus Shelley Club, Horsham
Adelphi Hotel, St Leonard's Aston Hotel, Eastbourne Cavendish Hotel, Eastbourne Chalk Farm Hotel, Willingdon Chatsworth Hotel, Eastbourne Chatsworth Hotel, Worthing Cooden Beach Hotel, Cooden Beach Falcon Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon Hilton Hotel, Cardiff Hydro Hotel, Eastbourne Langham Hotel, Eastbourne Lansdowne Hotel, Eastbourne Park Hotel, Paignton Random Hall Hotel, Slinfold Roysdean Hotel, Bournemouth Rustington Manor Hotel, Rustington The Lawn, Rochford The View Hotel, Eastbourne Tottington Manor Hotel, Henfield
Has appeared in stage shows such as: NOT The Royal Variety - St Philip's Hall, Eastbourne Dowagers Reunited - St Philip's Hall, Eastbourne The Good Life Show - Winter Garden Theatre, Eastbourne Oh Lovely! What A War! - Under Ground Theatre, Eastbourne Lady Crabtree & Friends: A Morning at the Music Hall - Under Ground Theatre Lady Crabtree's 40th Anniversary Show - Under Ground Theatre De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Spoken at special Birthday and Anniversary Celebrations: Lizzie Gilks's 60th Birthday, Arundel David Fears's 70th Birthday, Cinque Ports Club, Uckfield Angela Gooch's 70th Birthday, Grand Hotel, Eastbourne Lois Hughes's 75th Birthday Tea, Langham Hotel Ann Bangert's 80th Birthday Lunch, Sussex County Cricket Ground, Hove David Burston's 80th Birthday Dinner, Hydro Hotel Joyce Barrette's 80th Birthday Tea, Langham Hotel Maureen Bunclark's 80th Birthday Lunch, Cooden Beach David Mills's 80th Birthday, Horsham Carol Tomkies's 90th Birthday Tea, Chalk Farm Hotel, Willingdon Doris Gardner's 95th Birthday Lunch, Horsebridge
Lizzie & Tony Gilks' 20th Wedding Anniversary, Arundel Sandra & Stuart's 40th Wedding Anniversary Lunch, Langham Hotel Jill & John Hughes' 45th Wedding Anniversary Lunch, Seaford Denise & John Hearns/Pam & Graham Tingley joint 50th Wedding Anniversary Lunch Ann & Les Bucks' 60th Wedding Anniversary Shirley & Colin Nash's 60th Wedding Anniversary, Cumberland Hotel Smith 70th Wedding Anniversary 20th Anniversary of Sussex Strollers 25th Anniversary of Colonel Stevens Court, Eastbourne 30th Anniversary of St Wilfrid's Hospice, Eastbourne 40th Anniversary Show, Under Ground Theatre 50th Anniversary of Bexhill Down Townswomen's Guild 50th Anniversary of Charter (Newhaven, Peacehaven & Seaford Lions) 50th Anniversary of East Preston Floral Club 55th Anniversary of Ferring Flower Club 55th Anniversary of Horsham Flower Club 55th Anniversary of Steyning Flower Club 55th Anniversary of Willingdon Flower Club
60th Anniversary Hailsham & District Flower Club 60th Anniversary of The Forum Society, Hove 60th Anniversary of Tuesday at Friends, Brighton 70th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's Accession 75th Anniversary of Royal Eastbourne Golf Club, Ladies' Section 80th Anniversary of Ferring WI 80th Anniversary of Sussex East Trefoil Guild 80th Anniversary of Telscombe Cliffs WI 90th Anniversary of Townswomen's Guilds 1929-2019 90th Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen, Harbour WI 100th Anniversary of Chiddingly WI 1918-2018 100th Anniversary of East Sussex Federation of WIs 1919-2019 100th Anniversary of Hellingly WI 1918-2018 100th Anniversary of Wadhurst WI 1921-2021 100th Anniversary of Warnham WI 1918-2018 100th Anniversary of WI in Britain 1915-2015 100th Anniversary of WI in Sussex 1917-2017
Lady Crabtree has regularly broadcast on radio, has appeared in television programmes
such as "Pebble Mill at One" (BBC), "The James Whale Show" (ITV),
"The Scott Spears Show" (USA) and even made two commercials
