"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 all these 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
Arthritis Care
Ashdown Evergreens
Association of Carers (numerous times!)
Barclay’s Spread Eagle Club, Brighton branch (x 2)
Barclay’s Spread Eagle Club, Eastbourne branch (x 2)
Bereavement Support Group, Herons Ghyll
Bexhill 100 Motoring Club (x3)
Bexhill Horticultural Society
Burwash Ladies Group
British Legion, Little Common
British Queen, Polegate, AoC Fundraiser
Buxted Court, Buxted
Cambridge Union
Cardiff Ladies’ Lunch Club (x2)
Carers For People
Catenian Association
ChatterBex Club, Bexhill
Christ Church with St Philip (x 3)
Civic Centre, Telscombe Cliffs
Coffee Corner, Eastbourne
CommunityWise Ladies Group
Concentus Chorale
Cranbrook Business Association
Danny House, Herstpierpoint
Darby & Joan Club, Crowborough (x2)
Denton Island Indoor Bowls Club
Devonshire Club, Eastbourne
Eastbourne Area Epilepsy Group
Eastbourne Arts Circle
Eastbourne Cardiac Support Group (x 2)
Eastbourne Masonic Friendship Club
Eastbourne Rambling Club
East Dean Village Hall Trust (x 2)
East Preston Festival (x 2)
Edenbridge Active Retirement Association (x3)
Edwards Coaches (Cardiff) Lunches (x 4)
FAiR Charity (Friends Altogether in Rother)
Friends of Clapham & Patching Churches
Friends of Devonshire Park Theatre (x 2)
Friends of Eastbourne Hospital
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 5)
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 (x4)
NSPCC Fundraiser, Danny House, Hurtstpierpoint
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
Parris Lawn Care Home, Ringmer
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 (x4)
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
Robertsbridge Seniors Lunch Club
Rother Seniors Forum
Rother Valley Arts Society
Rye Harbour Sailability charity
Sainsbury’s Veterans Association, Bexhill (x 4)
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
Staplecross Village Hall Fundraiser
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
WAFFLE Group, Rustington
Wealden Senior Citizen Partnership
Wealden Woodturners
West Chiltington Arts Club
Willingdon Community Hub Library (x2)
Wolsey Place, Hailsham
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 & Penshurst WI (x2)
Bexhill Seagirls WI
Butts Brow WI (x2)
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
St Wilfrid's 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 (x3)
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
The Con Club, Lewes
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 Horne's 80th Birthday Concert 'Life Begins at 80'
David Mills's 80th Birthday, Horsham
Alan Rothery's 80th Birthday, Hydro Hotel, Eastbourme
Trevor Duke's 90th Birthday, Hydro Hotel, Eastbourne
Rosemary Price's 90th Birthday, Royal Eastbourne Golf Club
Carol Tomkies's 90th Birthday Tea, Chalk Farm Hotel, Willingdon
Doris Gardner's 95th Birthday Lunch, Horsebridge
Shirley Wallas's 95th Birthday, Seaford
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 Southdown Strollers
25th Anniversary of Southdown 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
for American television.
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