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Stourpaine Gardening Club – Membership – Updated

Gardening Club

STOURPAINE GARDENING CLUB

MEMBERSHIP runs from 01 January until 31 December and is currently £7.50 per year.
This will increase to £10 for 2019. Membership closes 31 March each year with the exception of newcomers to the village.

Membership allows free admission to meetings, refreshments and bi-monthly newsletters.

There is a Cheese & Wine Evening, the club pays entry fees to a yearly Chosen Garden Visit in the Summer; this is usually instead of a meeting in the Hall.

We have a Christmas Social Evening with seasonal refreshments and entry into a free Members’ Christmas Raffle.

We currently have between 90-95 members from Stourpaine and the surrounding villages.

Durweston Choral Society’s 25th Anniversary Concert

Just in case you’ve missed the publicity, the Durweston Choral Society’s 25th Anniversary Concert is this coming Saturday, 17th March at 7.30pm in St Nicholas Parish Church Durweston.

We’ll be singing Britten’s St. Nicholas and a new commission by SK Twiselton – Overlooking the River Stour.

Tickets are still available and, if you would like me to get one or more for you, please let me have the money by 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday). Felicity Cox T. 07555 433513

If you’re able to come, I very much hope you will enjoy the concert.

Flyer in PDF: spring2018_poster_001_02

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St George’s Day Celebration – Child Okeford

Child Okeford’s traditional St George’s Day celebration takes place on Saturday 21st April at 12.00 p.m., with the Dragon procession.

All are invited to join the Mummers, maids and musicians as they make their way from the old Post Office to the village Cross, where the annual St George’s play is performed.

The Baker Arms will be providing pulled pork and apple sauce to feed onlookers. Come and enjoy a drink or two afterwards, with some live, traditional folk music, and sing along or dance to the local Baker Band.

Charles Upton
01258 861391

Dorset Gardens Trust – A Talk by Diana Guy

The Dorset Gardens Trust have hired Stourpaine Village Hall for a talk by Diana Guy, winner of the first BBC Gardener of the Year competition.

She is a specialist in hellebores and a highly sought after garden lecturer already known to DGT. Diana will give an illustrated talk looking at the range of species and cultivars of hellebores and how to use them to the best effect.

An added attraction is that there may be unusual hellebores for sale.

Stourpaine residents who are interested are welcome to come and pay on the door. Cost £8.

Lindyhop Dance Class – 13th January

Lindyhop Dance Class on 13th January

Strictly Swing in Stourpaine – Sunny Side of Swing, jazz/swing/blues band played in Shroton Village Hall after an introductory Lindyhop class and this was a great success, with dancers (experienced and beginners) attending from as far as Chippenham and Axminster. So Claire & Peter will be offering Lindyhop classes once a month (2 classes and social dancing with a DJ), with the band playing every 3rd month (with one class).

The next dance classes evening will be on Saturday 13th January at 7.30 p.m. [doors open 7.30, class starts at 7.45] at Stourpaine Village Hall, cost £6.
Bring your own drinks (and food, if you wish).  Some soft drinks will be provided.

Lindyhop is a partner dance that originated in the 1920’s and 30’s in Harlem. It continued its popularity well into the 40’s during the Swing era and draws from earlier Charleston and Jazz steps and precedes jive and jitterbug. The Charleston routines on Strictly include several of these and are often choreographed by  one of Claire & Peter’s dance teachers.

The name ‘Lindyhop’ comes from Charles Lindbergh flying solo across the Atlantic to Paris in 1927. It’s great fun and there’s no need to come to classes with a partner.

Tel: 07708 473568 or check www.sunnysideofswing.co.uk

New Tea Room and Gallery opens in Stourpaine

New Tea Room and Gallery opens in Stourpaine

Tea Room and Gallery
Edie-Mae’s

Saturday 2nd December saw the Mayor of Blandford opening Edie-Mae’s brand new Tea Room and first floor Art Gallery.

Now with over 30 Artists, Designers and Makers showcasing their wares in-store , the addition of a tea room is very welcome!

Shortly to be offering Breakfasts, light Lunches and full Afternoon Teas.

email: essentialediemaes@gmail.com

My Time – support for carers in the Blandford area

My Time – support for carers in the Blandford area

Are you looking after someone who wouldn’t manage without your help? Or would you like to help others by sharing your experience of having been a carer? If so, did you know that there is a drop-in session called My Time for you on the first Tuesday of every month?

It doesn’t matter who you care for – partner, parent, child, neighbour, sibling, neighbour or friend – anyone who has been, or currently is, caring for someone else is invited to these monthly My Time drop-ins. These take place at Blandford Community Centre on Heddington Drive which is easily accessible by bus or by car – the X8 service passes every half hour and there’s plenty of free parking.

You can come together or on your own. Either way you will be met with a warm welcome, a drink and cake, other carers and professionals who can help with advice and information about anything you might need some support with. Very often the questions that carers ask to are those that other carers have already found answers to, so you will find that friendly advice is freely shared!

All too often, carers report that they feel isolated and alone. The My Time drop-ins are intended to ensure that no-one in the Blandford area feels that they don’t know where they can get help or advice, or that they have no-one to support them as a carer.

For more details call the team at Blandford Centre on 01258 480762.

Keith Harrison
North & Mid Dorset CCG Community Health & Wellbeing Officer
c/o Sturminster Newton Medical Centre
Old Market Hill
Sturminster Newton
Dorset
DT10 1QU

07825 691508

Blandford Area Development Trust

Blandford Area Development Trust
Invitation to a Public Meeting Blandford Parish Centre
Friday 02 June 2017, 19:00 – 20:30

Community and civic groups, local government and business representatives are invited to attend a public meeting to be held in the Blandford Parish Centre (as above). The meeting will provide an update on progress so far and enable those attending to contribute to the formation of the Blandford Area Development Trust.

The trust would take the recently closed DT11 Forum Community Partnership onto the next level by providing a representative and independent focus to attract investment and grant funding into the Blandford area (the DT11 postcode). The trusts objectives will include support for businesses, training, start-up funding and young people, projects to promote the town and the DT11 area, and collaboration with and support for community, civic and leisure group actives and local government community initiatives.  Significantly, it will also aim to provide an essential bridge between re-organised local government and the Blandford area community.

Please come along to contribute to the discussion and register your support.

RSVP to nicnicolnms@aol.com if you are attending.

Nic Nicol
Co-founder with Alison Moore

Blandford Area Development Trust
email: nicnicolnms@aol.com
mobile: 07793 048075