What we’re all about

  • Monthly Social Gatherings
  • Guest Speakers
  • Official functions
  • Activities and Outings
  • Wide catchment area
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Are you a retired or semi-retired professional or business person?

Why Join Us?

  • Fellowship & Conversation
  • Expand Your Interests
  • Inclusive Community
  • Diverse membership

President’s Message

It is a great honour to serve as your President for the 2024/25 year. Alongside our dedicated Committee members, I am excited to take on new responsibilities - always seeking to strengthen our vibrant community within the Club.
Phil Watson
President, Ashdown Probus Club

Recent Events

September 2024: Golf society, Weald of Kent

September 2024: Visit to the Armourers Hall and City Pub lunch

July 2024: Outdoor theatre performance by the Rude Mechanicals, Wadhurst

PROBUS - WHO WE ARE

A Probus club is an association of retired and semi-retired professional and business people. Clubs meet regularly for fellowship and an extension of their interests.

The name is an amalgam of the abbreviation of the words PROfessional and BUSiness. Probus is also a Latin word meaning honest or virtuous, from which the English word “probity” is derived.

Probus is a non-sectarian, non-political club for retired and semi-retired professional and business people. Probus clubs are local to towns and districts. Each Probus club is autonomous. There is no central organisation and each club sets its own rules.

The first Probus Club was set up by a group of ex-Rotarians in Caterham, Surrey, in 1966. The idea gathered strength and today Probus Clubs are to be found in many parts of the English-speaking world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India.

Ashdown Probus Club is one of more than 2,200 Probus Clubs throughout the UK. World-wide there are over 300,000 members in approximately 4,000 Probus clubs.

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