At TASO we have a wide range of guided trips planned in 2024-2025, including local walks in Oxford, visits further afield, and a residential tour. We will add to the calendar below as visits are scheduled and details confirmed.
If you would like more information, do email us at tasovisits@gmail.com.
We are also always happy to receive your ideas and suggestions for future walks, visits and trips.
Please be aware that Visits Team events work differently to lectures. They are almost always ticketed, there are limited places and there is usually high demand. For these reasons, each event is initially open only to members, then offered to those on the event’s waiting list if there are still places, and only if places remain after that are they offered to non-members. To book a ticket to a visit, press on “click here” in the visit’s entry in the calendar below.
TASO Visits Team
| 2024 | ||
| September | Fri 13th, 2pm Oxford | Visit: Wood Engravers exhibition, North Wall Gallery – talk and guided visit by the engraver, Duncan Montgomery |
| October | Thu 24th, 10:30 Cookham | Visit: Cookham Brotherhood exhibition, guided tour and walk; additional visits (2pm & 3pm) to John Lewis Heritage Centre |
| November | Tue 5th, 3pm London | Visit: “Eurydice” – Jermyn Street Theatre. |
| November | Thurs 21st, Tues 26th, Thurs 28th, 10:30am Oxford | Walk: Literary Oxford, led by Victoria Bentata |
| December | Fri 6th, 11:00am Oxford | Visit: Oxford Printworkers’ Co-operative annual exhibition, North Wall Gallery – talk and demonstration by Catriona Brodribb. To book tickets (cost £0) click here |
| 2025 | ||
| January | Mon 27th, 12pm London | Visit: guided tour of the Royal Albert Hall. See details below. To book tickets (cost £35) click here |
| February | Tues 18th Feb, 08:30 Coventry | Visit: Coventry Cathedral guided tour and Herbert Art Gallery visit. See details below. To book tickets (cost £44) click here |
| February | Wed 26th Feb, 2pm Birmingham | Visit: Cinderella – Royal Ballet, Hippodrome matinee. |
| April | Fri 18th, time tbc Hertfordshire | Visit: coach trip and guided tour of Henry Moore House & Gallery |
| May | Mon 19th – Fri 23rd Liverpool | Residential visit: guided visits to Liverpool and area. See details below. To reserve a place click here for the booking form |
The Visits Team is delighted to be offering a number of confirmed trips, with more to be added:
London – Albert Hall
We are pleased to offer members a unique visit on Monday 27 January to the Royal Albert Hall. A maximum of 40 tickets are available. The visit will be in two parts:
- From 12:00-1:00 a general tour of the Hall. You will ‘discover how the building was founded 150 years ago, the royal love story that made it happen, and how we solved one of the UK’s most enduring engineering challenges – the Royal Albert Hall echo. This tour will also include certain behind-the-scenes elements such as the royal areas, including the royal box and entrance’.
- From 2:30-3:30 a ‘Behind the Scenes’ tour. This tour is only rarely available and not open to the general public. It will ‘take you under the stage, into the dressing rooms and deep underground into the bustling loading bay’.
Please be aware that there are uneven surfaces on the tour routes and periods of time spent walking and standing.
The cost, excluding travel, will be £35 a head. Members will need to arrange their own travel to the Hall. The nearest tube is South Kensington. No lunch will be provided but members can either have lunch at the Albert Hall café (light bites, sandwiches, pastries, cakes and snacks); or bring their own lunch to eat at the café, providing they buy a drink to consume.
Coventry
Day trip on Tuesday 18 February (by coach) with guided tour of Coventry Cathedral and visit to Herbert Art Gallery. Up to 40 members.
There will be two guided tours of the Cathedral for 20 members per tour. The Cathedral’s guide will lead the group for 1 1/4 hours through the history of the ruins, the blitz and the building of the New Cathedral, and will be happy to answer questions. Whilst one group tours the cathedral, the other will visit the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, which is a few minutes’ walk from the Cathedral. A member of the Visits Team will accompany each group.
Three cafes near the Cathedral will be suggested for lunch. Members will be given details on the bus, including where to catch the return coach.
The planned timings are:
- Redbridge Park & Ride pick up at 8:30am
- Oxford Playhouse pick up at 8:50am
- Water Eaton pick up at 9:10am
- Arrive at the Cathedral approximately 10:30am.
- The first Cathedral tour: 11:00am – 12:15pm.
- The second Cathedral tour: 1:45pm – 3:00pm.
- There will be 1½ hours of free time at the Cathedral and for lunch
- Return coach pick up at 3:30pm
- Arrive in Oxford approximately 6:00pm
Liverpool
A four night residential trip from Monday 19th May to Friday 23rd May 2025 to Liverpool and the surrounding area.
The wealth of history and cultural heritage to explore in Liverpool is astonishing. From the industry of the Albert Dock to the dramatic modern architecture of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King to the works of Rubens, Rembrandt and Poussin housed in the Walker Art Gallery, it is a city brimming with impressive art and architecture. The tour will highlight the very best that Liverpool and the surrounding region has to offer. Accommodation will be in the Malmaison Liverpool four-star hotel. The full itinerary can be found by clicking here.
As a TASO member, you should have received an email on 9th September from tasoxford@gmail.com with more details and information on how to book. The team expect that this exciting tour will attract a lot of interest from members, so please book your place early by completing the booking form – attached to the email or clickable above – and paying £275 deposit per person by Friday 25th October. Booking conditions can be found by clicking here.
For more information, email us at tasovisits@gmail.com.
Best wishes
VISITS TEAM