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Events & Trips

The OU Club offers a wide range of social trips and events both on and off campus.

Over the years we’ve had everything from trips Stately Homes to Cadburys World, Ascot, Alton Towers, children’s Christmas parties and safari park barbeques to weekends overseas.  The OU Club has an Entertainments Chair and a sub-committee of the OU Club main committee to organising when and where we go, in addition to suggestions from club members. We’ve tried to give you a range of events – For the last 2 years we sent out a doodle poll to get feedback on the sort of events you wanted to see and the events are currently being planned with this in mind. If you haven't participated in this years Doodle Poll here is the link http://doodle.com/rnxh5vpz3w4rysb4

However, we ALWAYS want ideas from you, so if you have an idea for a trip, perhaps you are a member of an affiliated club that wants to run a trip and happy to open it up other members of staff,  the Theatre Group Bookers Club, RocSoc and the Gardening Club have run jointly-organised but OU Club funded trips. Please bear in mind however it takes usually about 2 months to plan and organise a trip, so we can’t go to something next week!  

We do try not to run the same trip each year giving us some variety although saying that we went to Cadburys World this year again! 

The OU Club has a budget allocated to subsidise these social events so we aim to plan something for everyone.

Please get in contact via our ou-club-social@open.ac.uk address.

What's coming in the future?

We are currently planning the new season so do watch this space.

This is a list of some of the trips in the planning phase!


London Dunegons
Afternoon Tea and a West End Show (Theatre Group Bookers Club organised)
Chatsworth House
Murder Mystery on a Train
Bournemouth Airshow
Repeat trip to Harry Potter
Highgrove gardens

 

 

What’s happened so far

Duxford Air show in July and we have a group went chocolate making and tasting as well.

August and September saw the heavily oversubscribed trip to Buckingham Palace Diamond Jubliee Exhibition and Afternoon Tea at the Royal Horse Guards hotel. 

In November we had a range of driving experiences at Silverstone and a trip to Warner Brothers Studios: the Making of Harry Potter, and chocolate making, and in December we went to Bruges for a long weekend, Christmas shopping in London and the Good Food Show!
 
In January, the RocSoc organised a Ceilidh which included traditional Burns night fare including the Piping in of the Haggis and the address to the Haggis, and energetic dancing! and February was the trip to Strictly Come Dancing!