Other events

Winter at teatime…from November 2025 join us online at 4 pm on selected Sundays for our online line read-along of this winter’s selection from “the twelve,” Missee Lee. Email Paul Green for the Zoom link

paul-midtars@gmx.com 

TARS Regions

Each Region is autonomous and runs its own programme, with its own committee.

Click on the Region’s name below to take you through to their pages where you’ll find community news. Do look for the other regions’ videos, quizzes, recipes – there is lots to enjoy.

Scotland All north of the official border.

Northern South of the border as far as Cheshire, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Humberside, Isle of Man & Northern Ireland.

Midland and Wales All of Wales, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, West Midlands, Hereford & Worcester, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Hertfordshire.

Eastern Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex & Bedfordshire.

South Western Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly.

Southern Greater London, Berkshire, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, Isle of Wight & Channel Islands.

Overseas

The Arthur Ransome Club of Japan Founded in 1987, the Club was the first Arthur Ransome-interest group to set up, pre-dating TARS by three years. The Club holds events and produces a newsletter, 1929. Contact Ms Mikako Tarashima

Australia & New Zealand The newsletter of the Arthur Ransome Society in Australia and New Zealand is called “Furthest South” For their website click here. AusTARS Leaflet: AusTARS Leaflet NZ membership application form: TARSNZ membership application form

North America TARSUS and North Pole news – journal of TARSUS and Canada

US and Canada use UK membership application form.