What’s On – Essex Rock and Mineral Society

All are welcome!

If you like us, you can become a member.

Find our Shenfield and Stanway locations on our meetings page.

Visitors – £5.

For visits, non-members can enroll as a temporary ERMS member for the duration of the visit (£5 per person) when using the online booking form.

On phone? – scroll table to right to see details

August 2026

Type	Title	Date	Time	Location	Speaker or Team Leader	Affiliation
Meeting	Members’ Finds	Tue 4th	7:30 for 8pm	Shenfield		ERMS
Meeting	Members’ Finds	Thu 20th	7:30 for 8pm	Stanway		ERMS
Visit	Highwood Quarry	Sat 22nd	11 am	Office car park	John Walmsley	ERMS
EVENT!	FAMILY DAY	Sat 29th	TBC	Stanway – Tollgate Hall		ERMS

Type	Title	Date	Time	Location	Speaker or Team Leader	Affiliation
Meeting	Rock Solid 10 – Rock Chemistry	Tue 1st	7:30 for 8pm	Shenfield	Ian and Ros	ERMS
Visit	Gestingthorpe – Hill Farm	Sat 5th	TBA	Hill Farm	Farmer Ashley Cooper
Meeting	Native Non-Metals and Metalloids	Thu 17th	7:30 for 8pm	Stanway	Alistair Rickards	ERMS

Type	Title	Date	Time	Location	Speaker or Team Leader	Affiliation
Meeting	Crystals	Tue 6th	7:30 for 8pm	Shenfield	Ian Mercer	ERMS
Visit	Chafford Gorges	Sat 10th	TBA	EWT Car park	Peter Allen	ERMS
Meeting	Radiometric Dating	Thu 15th	7:30 for 8pm	Stanway	Mark Matthews	ERMS

Type	Title	Date	Time	Location	Speaker or Team Leader	Affiliation
Meeting	Rock Solid 11: Volcanoes	Tue 3rd	7:30 for 8pm	Shenfield
Visit TBC	Church walls	TBC	TBC	TBA	John Walmsley	ERMS
Meeting	AGM	Tue 10th	7:30	Zoom		ERMS
Meeting	Coast To Coast across northern England	Thu 19th	7:30 for 8pm	Stanway	Anne & Denis Kell	ERMS

Type	Title	Date	Time	Location	Speaker or Team Leader	Affiliation
Meeting	Christmas Gathering	Tue 1st	7:30 for 8pm	Shenfield	quiz, mince pies etc.
Visit	NHM Mineral Department	Tue 8th	11am	NHM	Jonathan Spencer/Aimee Smith	NHM
Meeting	Christmas Gathering	Thu 17th	7:30 for 8pm	Stanway	quiz, mince pies etc.