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Cobbett's Wey DFAS - The Farnham evening NADFAS Fine Arts Society was formed in January 2004. The aim is to provide top quality lectures on the arts for people who are perhaps working and only able to attend in the evenings. Visits to places of interest, often only open to groups, are also organised.  We plan to keep the Society small so that the members can get to know each other and so that the lectures are a social occasion as well as an informative one.  For that reason a glass of wine is included in the membership fee.  We fully agree with the founder of NADFAS, Patricia Fay, who said  “Above all, NADFAS must be fun”. We chose the name 'Cobbett's Wey DFAS' to remind us of William Cobbett one of Farnham's more famous sons and, of course, the River Wey which flows through the town.

Cobbett's Wey DFAS - The Farnham evening NADFAS Fine Arts Society wants to encourage enjoyment of the arts among young people and awards two annual bursaries to art students. We also offer a limited number of students’ free admission to our lectures. In 2007 we took part in an Arts project together with the PTA group at a local primary school, to enable the students to explore art, in their classes.

There are opportunities for members to become involved in Church Recording, nationally over 1,000 churches have had their furnishings and fabric recorded by this group, and with the Heritage Volunteers, who preserve and conserve books, textiles and works of art.

A copy of the national magazine, The NADFAS Review, is delivered to members’ homes quarterly. This provides news of NADFAS activities nationally and ideas of what is available for members’ participation, including courses at both national and local level.

Members are welcome to bring guests along to the lectures for a small fee.