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

Thank you for accessing the Ashdown Probus Club website and I sincerely hope that this welcoming message will provide you with an overview of the interesting range of activities organised by members within the Club.

The Ashdown Probus Club is centred on Crowborough, but our membership covers the wide area of the The Weald.

Paul Black,
President, Ashdown Probus Club

Recent Events

March 2025: Drapers’ Hall and lunch in a City pub

January 2025: Wings Aviation Museum

December 2024: Christmas lunch

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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