Category: Events

Gardening Club: Highgrove Gardens

Gardening Club
Gardening Club
Gardening Club

Visit to Highgrove Gardens
Wednesday 28 August
Please ensure those of you with tickets bring photo ID with you. Passports preferably.
You will not be allowed to take cameras or mobile phones into the shop, café or garden, so to avoid disappointment please leave them at home where possible.
A coach will pick us up and return us to the White Horse. Should you need to drive to the collection point please park your car in the grounds of the village hall.
You will notified of times nearer the date in the next Newsletter.

Gardening Club: Demonstrations

Gardening Club
Gardening Club
Gardening Club

Demonstrations with hands on experience
(Softwood Cuttings by Pete Palmer and Flower Arranging by Jan)
Friday 9 August 7.30 at The Village Hall
This is by special request. There will be a small charge for compost and oasis used, but surely it is well worth it to gain some experience. It will be most helpful if you could bring your own scissors or secateurs. If taking part in the flower arranging you will need some flowers and a container. Come and have some fun!!!

Gardening Club: Cheese & Wine

Gardening Club
Gardening Club
Gardening Club

Cheese and Wine (with Skittles)
Sunday 14 July 12.30pm @ Stourpaine Playing Fields.
Everyone is welcome but non-members will have to pay £10. Please contact Jan on T: 01258 453470 to book a place whether you are members or not, as we need numbers for catering purposes.

Gardening Club: Kingston Lacey Picnic

Gardening Club
Gardening Club
Gardening Club

Kingston Lacey Picinic
Sunday 16 June (Fathers’day) 2pm for 2.30
This event is open to everyone. Please bring food to share, but drink for just yourselves. Members who do not have national trust membership, will be required to pay for entry into the grounds but once inside give your receipt to Jan, Pete or Jean who will then arrange a refund for you. (This will not include entry into the house).
There will be yellow balloons from the car park, guiding you to the meeting point as well as some committee members watching out for you. Games will be provided for children by Peter Jones, so that the adults can enjoy the surroundings in peace.
Some lifts are available and in the event of bad weather please ring Dave Williams T: 01258 488825.

DT11 Partners Meeting: 11 June 2013

DT11 FORUM
Community partnership

TUESDAY 11 June 2013

6.30 REFRESHMENTS 7PM START

PARISH ROOMS BLANDFORD FORUM

Public Meeting

All Welcome

Keith Harrison, Public & Patient Involvement Development Worker (CCG) will be doing a presentation telling us the ways local residents can voice their views on newly formed Clinical Commissioning Group (Primary Care Trust)

Come and have your say!!

Patient Participation Week : 3-7 June 2013

PPWFind out more about joining your local Patient Group at one of these events:

  • SHERBORNE Grove Medical Centre, Monday 3rd, 10am – 3pm
  • BLANDFORD Eagle House Surgery & Whitecliff Surgery, Tuesday 4th, 9.00 am – 12.00pm
  • SHAFTESBURY Town Hall, Thursday 6th, 9.30am – 5.30pm

DID YOU KNOW? YOU CAN JOIN THE ‘VIRTUAL’ PATIENT GROUP AT
YOUR LOCAL PRACTICE BY SIMPLY PROVIDING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!

For more about these events contact Keith Harrison, Patient & Public Involvement
Development Worker – 07825 691508 / Keith.Harrison@dorset-pct.nhs.uk

Stourpaine 2013 Village Fete – Donations

Stourpaine Village Fete

Press release contact: Derek Gardiner, 1 Hod Drive Stourpaine Dorset DT11 8TJ T: 01258 488 455

Stourpaine 2013 Village Fête
Sunday, 30th June 2013
Noon until 4 p.m.

We are looking for anything for the various stalls that we can sell or give as prizes such as books, unwanted gifts or household items you no longer have a use for, bottles of wine, cakes, plants, preserves etc, etc….

If you can help, please contact the following directly according to the items that you are happy to donate:

Books Jacky 480 982
Bric a brac Sue Hughes 488 855
Cakes, bakes and local produce Caroline 458 557
Plants Peter 453 470
Raffle Gyda 450 649
Tombola Vanessa 456 002
Toys Trudi 480 568

For all other enquiries about donations, please ring Jacky Fairweather on 480 982

Stourpaine Gardening Club – Open Gardens 2014

Gardening Club
Gardening Club
Gardening Club

This is advance notice that next year The Gardening Club will be organising a Stourpaine Open Gardens event to be held on the 14th and 15th June (Saturday and Sunday) 2014. Please put these dates in your diary – more information will follow nearer the time.

Stourpaine 2013 Village Fete

Stourpaine Village Fete

Press release contact: Derek Gardiner, 1 Hod Drive Stourpaine Dorset DT11 8TJ T: 01258 488 455

Stourpaine 2013 Village  Fête
Sunday, 30th June 2013
Noon until 4 p.m.

It may seem early days to let readers know that the Stourpaine Village Fête will be held in the village at the end of June this year.  Hopefully the awful weather we have been having will be a distant memory and that visitors to the fête will be able to enjoy a great summer’s afternoon of entertainment.  Apart from the more traditional stalls offering books, bric a brac, cakes, bakes and local produce for sale, a number of events are being organised for all to enjoy.  Mr Mark Farwell will be bringing his two magnificent steam engines to the fête – a miniature version of the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

 Also plans are in hand to welcome back to Stourpaine, the Shooting Stars Theatre Company who staged their own version of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” last year at the White Horse pub.  This year they plan to stage their stage version of “The Wind in the Willows” at the fête.  Other forms of entertainment will include a ferret racing, an impromptu dog show, a collection of vintage cars, tug of war and lots of entertainment for children.

With the Trailway now open between Blandford and Sturminster Newton, people will be able to stop for refreshments at the Stourpaine Village Fête.

Please put a note in your diary to come to the summer fête and help us make this fête a great success!

Stourpaine Open Gardens

sunnyThe committee have decided to have another go at opening members gardens in aid of charity. To give everyone plenty of notice, as it can be hard work getting your garden up to scratch, or you may have an area you want to re-develop.

The plan is to hold the event over a weekend in June 2014, in conjunction with a Flower Festival in The Church.

All members living in the village will be approached to open their garden, members living outside the village will be approached to marshal and assist with refreshments.

Pete will be looking for volunteers to help him with the organisation as I, Jan , will be assisting Fran with the Flower Festival.