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Dame Catherine Harpur’s School
Bring your antiques, and collectables for valuation by Nigel Kirk of Mellors and Kirk Auctioneers and Valuers. An evening of interest and entertainment – including cheese and wine.
An evening of toe-tapping country music with HARTLAND.
Fundraising in support of Motor Neurone Disease: MY NAME’5 DODDIE Foundation.
Tickets £10 (cash only) available from Ashby Toolbox or at the door.
Opportunity to buy raffle tickets. Prizes included: Sunday lunch for two, 2 tickets to Lyric Rooms tribute night inc meal, Fishing experience for two, Car MOT, Voucher for local café, a bottle of Doddie’5 own tipple.
Please bring your own glasses and drink
For more information contact JChilvers461@gmail.com
There will be a Table Top Sale to raise funds for The Parkinson’s UK Fund. The fundraising event will be held on Thursday, 26th October between 10.00 a.m. and 12.00 Noon at Smisby Village Hall. Attendees will be able to enjoy coffee and freshly baked cakes.
With Geoff Hodge, freelance gardening and horticultural writer, author, editor and broadcaster.
Our annual Christmas Tree Festival will be on December 9th and 10th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm PLUS a Christmas Bazaar (also in church) on the 9th with Father Christmas Grotto, Preserves, Wreaths, Decorations, Pottery etc etc.
Refreshments will be available on both days of homemade soup and cakes PLUS on Saturday, Homemade Beef Baps.
Our annual Christmas Tree Festival will be on December 9th and 10th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm PLUS a Christmas Bazaar (also in church) on the 9th with Father Christmas Grotto, Preserves, Wreaths, Decorations, Pottery etc etc.
Refreshments will be available on both days of homemade soup and cakes PLUS on Saturday, Homemade Beef Baps.
A community event to get us into the festive mood, we are holding a Christmas themed Bingo session, on Tuesday, 12 December starting at 2:00 pm at the Methodist Chapel, Ticknall.
Admissioin is free to all although donations are much appreciated.
Members’ Christmas Social with returning Speaker & Horticulturist, Doug Stewart.
Yes, it’s that time again! This year’s big event is almost upon us, and at a mere £15 a pop, is not to be missed.
There will be music and glancing, so tinsel your zimmer and don’t forget your meds.
Please confirm with Mary Magson or one of the team to secure your place at our 2023 Festive Lunch.
The Dower House garden has been actively developed over recent years and is looking better than ever.
Admission is £8, children are free, the doors open at 10 am and close at 4 pm. There is no need to book in advance although if you wish you can do so by going to the NGS website. The National Gardens Scheme receive all the proceeds from admissions and teas to support their charitable giving to (mainly) Macmillan, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, The Queen’s Nursing Institute, the Carers Trust and Parkinson’s UK.
The Dower House garden has been actively developed over recent years and is looking better than ever.
Admission is £8, children are free, the doors open at 10 am and close at 4 pm. There is no need to book in advance although if you wish you can do so by going to the NGS website. The National Gardens Scheme receive all the proceeds from admissions and teas to support their charitable giving to (mainly) Macmillan, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, The Queen’s Nursing Institute, the Carers Trust and Parkinson’s UK.
With National Trust volunteer, Roy Mitchell
We will be serving a delicious selection of
- Soups and Breads
- Cheese and Wine
- Coffee and Cakes
Encouraging Bees into the Garden; with award-winning David McDowell, ‘The Bee Farmer’.
Sales at this meeting.
Dark & Desirable; with Paul Green of Green Leaves Nursery.
Sales at this meeting.
Chamber Choir Viva La Musica has become recognised locally as one of the more exciting vocal ensembles performing across the East Midlands. The Loughborough-based choir attracts singers from a wide area. Its repertoire ranges across the centuries and embraces both sacred and secular music in various styles. Simon Lumby conducts the choir.
‘Now is the month of Maying’ is a concert celebrating nature and the season. It will include a selection of madrigals and works by Lauridsen, Finzi and Rachmaninoff.
This late-afternoon concert will last approximately an hour and a quarter. There will be refreshments to follow.
A diverse selection of 12 gardens will open during the Milton Open Gardens event this year. Gardens will be open on 2 June in the afternoon between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm in the normally quiet hamlet of Milton, South Derbyshire. There will be 9 along Main Street and 3 at The Waterworks. This year there are 3 gardens new to the event and one that has been ‘resting’ for a few years.
Sizes vary from a small courtyard to extensive gardens with styles ranging from cottage garden, low maintenance and some with more formal features.
There will be free parking in the centre of Milton and at The Waterworks. Admission is £5.00 for adults, and accompanied children under 16 are free. (Some gardens do not allow dogs). Tickets are available on the day adjacent to the car park.
Expect to find trees, shrubs, lawns, flowers, vegetables and ponds – something for everyone, and all the gardens, in Milton and at The Waterworks, are within easy walking distance of each other.
There will be live music courtesy of Boss&CO with refreshments including homemade cakes available in the Village Hall, with Tombola, stalls and plants for sale on the grass opposite.
Profits are in aid of the local Air Ambulance and Milton Community Lunch Club.
A warm Milton welcome awaits visitors old and new.
Growing Flowers & Floristry (with a demonstration); with Marie of The Flower Patch, member of ‘Flowers From The Farm’.