FCDOA is organising an online talk Chevening: a centre for diplomacy with Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Colonel Alastair Mathewson on 10 May 2023 at 11.00 on ZOOM Ticket is £5 Chevening House in Kent, home to the Stanhope family for 250 years, soldiers, statesmen and patrons to the arts, played a significant role in the political […]
FCDOA is organising Visit to Milton’s Cottage & Museum 21 Deanway, Chalfont St Giles HP8 4JH On Friday 19 May at 11.30 Ticket cost £8 20 places available Milton’s Cottage was built in the late 16th century for the estate manager of The Vache – a nearby country house once owned by George Fleetwood, one […]
DFID Alumni/FCDO Association Joint Webinar After the DFID/FCO Merger - Picking up the International Development Pieces Wednesday 24 May 2023 at 1200 noon UK time on ZOOM The decision to merge the FCO and DFID in the summer of 2020 was designed, amongst other things, to support the UK government’s Global Britain agenda – by […]
FCDOA is organising Visit to The Queen’s Gallery: Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians Buckingham Palace Road on Thursday 1 June 2023 at 11.00 Ticket cost £16 20 Places available The revolutionary life and style of the Georgians will be explored in a major exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery. This exhibition will bring together over […]
Dear FCDOA member Please join us on Friday 16 June at 11.00 on ZOOM for our AGM. Your support is greatly appreciated and your presence is important. Many thanks. Your FCDOA
The event is now fully booked The Evolving Role of Women in Diplomacy Lessons Drawn; Challenges Ahead Monday 19 June 14.00-17.00 Locarno Suite To mark International Day of Women in Diplomacy, the Women in Diplomacy Network (London), in partnership with FCDO Women, the FCDO Historians and The FCDO Association, will host an inter-generational and international […]
Visit to Arundells on Wednesday 13 September at 11.30 20 places available Price: £12 A guided tour of the former home of Sir Edward Heath – former prime minister, yachtsman and musician –has been arranged for Wednesday 13 September. There will be two guided tours, one at 11.30 and the second at 12.00. The […]
The FCDO Association is organising an online talk by Tom FLETCHER CMG with the title How diplomacy can save education, and education can save diplomacy on 27 September 2023 at 11.15 on ZOOM Ticket £5 In this talk, Tom will discuss the ways in which education is being transformed to meet the challenges of […]
The 2023 FCDOA Annual Lecture This year's annual lecture will be delivered online and free of charge by Baroness Catherine (Cathy) Ashton on Friday 6 October at 11.00 am. She will be introduced by our president, Lord Ricketts. I had hoped it would be possible for the lecture to take place in King Charles Street […]
The Writer’s Corner Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept: Why Women Walk In conversation with Jane Clarke on ZOOM Tuesday 17 October at 11.00 am Annabel Abbs is an award-winning author and journalist. She writes regularly for a wide range of newspapers and magazines and lives in London, with her husband and four children. Her novels, The […]
