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7:00pm, Friday 3rd of May, Polpo Soho
Wine, food and fabulous conversation about current affairs. We’ll select a handful of the week’s top stories to discuss and debate, helpfully guided by our expert guest. This is the perfect opportunity to meet fellow Trouble members and share your views on global issues.
6.30pm, Tuesday 7th of May, Conduit
Lucy Worsley is one of the most famous historians in the country! The joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces can regularly be found presenting fascinating shows on the BBC, and she’ll join us to talk about her favourite women of history, including Agatha Christie.
7:00pm, Thursday 9th of May, BAO Kings Cross
Renn Yu-Chieh Lin is a Taiwanese journalist based in London and she'll join us for a deep dive into Taiwan, it's history, it's people and it's politics. Join us as we eat Taiwanese food and get an insight into the past, present and future of this fascinating country.
7:00pm, Wednesday 15th of May, Kindred
A leading member of the King’s Counsel, Cherie will join us to discuss her extraordinary career, her commitment to women’s rights and why mentorship and guidance are as important as money when it comes to empowering the next generation of leaders.
7:30pm, Tuesday 21st of May, Central London
Claire will join us to discuss her Cabinet position, her day to day life as a member of the front bench and the Government's revised plans for reaching Net Zero.
7:00pm, Wednesday 22nd of May, The Hearth
Shalina will join us at Trouble to explore the History curriculum that her students experience today, from the Romans to the Second World War via Tudor courts, giving insights from all walks of life and a deeper and wider view of history.
7:00pm, Friday 24th of May, Humble Grape
Wine, food and fabulous conversation about current affairs. We’ll select a handful of the week’s top stories to discuss and debate, helpfully guided by our expert guest. This is the perfect opportunity to meet fellow Trouble members and share your views on global issues.
7:00pm, Thursday 6th of June, London
The incredible journalist and advocate will be joining us at Trouble to discuss her powerful, honest, hilarious and furious memoir, which looks at life at the intersection; the struggles, the joys and the unseen realities of being a disabled woman.
7:00pm, Tuesday 24th of September, Central London
In her two decades researching organisations, Michelle King has discovered that people who succeed possess a particularly unique skill: They know how workplaces work. More specifically, to get ahead, they do not rely on the often generic and outdated written formal rules that for a century have defined the workplace.
7:00pm, Friday 26th of April, The Hearth
It’s time for another Trouble Book Club! This time, featuring Meg Mason’s novel Sorrow and Bliss! Winner of The British Book Awards 2022 Fiction Book of the Year, Mason’s book tackles the issue of long-term mental illness with wit and candour.
7:00pm, Thursday 25th of April, The Hearth
We’ve teamed up with the wonderful people at Intact Creatives to host another Trouble STORY SLAM: A safe stage for you to share your story in any creative medium comfortable to you, or have the privilege of sitting back and listening to others.
7:00pm, Tuesday 23rd of April, Ladbroke Hall
Bay Garnett has over two decades’ worth of experience in the fashion industry and she'll be joining us to discuss why what we wear really matters, the favorite pieces of our icons and why the sustainable choice is always the best choice.
7:00pm, Wednesday 17th of April, Home Grown
How much do professional hit men charge? How much debt would you need to be in to fake your own death? We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice.
7:00pm, Friday 12th of April, Century Club
Hadley Freeman is one of our favourite journalists, not just because of her brilliant columns and juicy celebrity interviews, but because she's not afraid to speak about her struggles and her life with anorexia. Hadley will join us to talk about the trigger that sparked her illness and four hospitalisations as well as offer extraordinary insight into her struggles.
7:00pm, Tuesday 9th of April, AllBright
Despite the push back against sexism and exploitation in our own time, even revolutionary efforts to bring about equality have often ended in failure and backlash. Angela Saini will join us to talk about her research and share what part we all play – women included – in keeping patriarchal structures alive.
7:00pm, Wednesday 3rd of April, The Hearth
It's time to pick up a needle! Fast fashion is one of the biggest contributors to climate change, and one of the best ways we can combat the problem is by mending and upcycling our own clothes.
7:00pm, Wednesday 27th of March, The Hearth
In this group coaching session, we’ll discuss what we mean by emotional intelligence, its relevance to us personally, and why it matters now more than ever.
9.00am, Monday 25th of March, Arboretum Charing Cross
We asked and your answered! Our very first Trouble coworking day is live on the schedule. Working at home can get a bit lonely and de-motivating sometimes. Join us for a Trouble coworking day where we’ll connect, grab coffee and maybe even get some work done.
2:00pm, Sunday 24th of March, Mayfair
If you are tired of walking in the footsteps of the male, pale and stale then join us for a guided history walk that will focus solely on London’s most brilliant women.
7:00pm, Thursday 21st of March, The Hearth
Alice Loxton knows how to make history fun! The historian, presenter and author has over two million followers across social media and she'll be joining us to talk about her passion for the subject and specifically her research into the thrilling and hilarious satirists from the late Georgian period.
7:00pm, Tuesday 19th of March, London
Join us for an intimate dinner with one of the rising stars of the Labour party. Lucy Powell is the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons in Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet.
7:30pm, Friday 15th of March, The Star of Kings, Kings Cross
Do you love to dance but find nightclubs sticky and crowded. Us too! We're teaming up with Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet a night out that's been featured everywhere from Stylist and The Guardian to Time Out & the i. It's been described as Mamma Mia meets Saturday Night Fever in a glorious mash up and they are throwing a party just for The Trouble Club.
7:00pm, Wednesday 13th of March, Mortimer House
In the 1980s, Lynne Jones joined thousands of other women at Greenham Common to protest against nuclear weapons. Today she stands with Extinction Rebellion to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Lynne will join us to share her compelling, ground-level account of the last five years of UK protests.
7:00pm, Monday 11th of March, The Ned
Whether you get your news via radio, TV or social media, you'll no doubt be familiar with the brilliant Cathy Newman. Cathy is the first female main presenter of Channel 4 News and has also found time to write several phenomenal books, including Bloody Brilliant Women and now The Ladder.
7:00pm, Tuesday 27th of February, Century Club
A decade on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effect it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in?
7.00pm Thursday 22nd of February, The Museum of Comedy
Back by popular demand, it’s another Trouble comedy night! Welcome to a hilarious evening at The Museum of Comedy as comedians from all over the UK come together for an unforgettable night of laughter and, of course, trouble.
7:00pm, Friday 16th of February, The Prince Regent Marylebone
Wine, food and fabulous conversation about current affairs. We’ll select a handful of the week’s top stories to discuss and debate, helpfully guided by our expert guest. This is the perfect opportunity to meet fellow Trouble members and share your views on global issues.
7:00pm, Thursday 15th of February, AllBright
Introducing Emma-Louise Boynton; writer, broadcaster and Founder and Host of the award-winning, sell-out live event series and podcast, Sex Talks. Join us at AllBright for a reflection on the biggest and baddest themes in sex from 2023! It’s going to be a juicy one!
7:00pm, Tuesday 13th of February, Mortimer House
Conversations From Calais aims to re-humanise those affected by the refugee crisis by using public space to share conversations volunteers have had with migrants met in Calais. It is a way of bearing witness for the thousands of displaced people stuck in Calais and trying to reach the UK.
7:00pm, Friday 9th of February, Century Club, Soho
In 2008 the Playboy mansion became Crystal Harris's sanctuary - a shimmering vestige of opportunity. Within months she had ascended its hierarchy to become Hugh Hefner's top girlfriend. But her new home came at a cost. Forced to follow strict rules that governed everything from her appearance to behaviour, she began to lose her identity.
7:00pm, Tuesday 30th of January, The Ned
Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy - or eliminate them from our diets altogether. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading - or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change.
