UIDEFOR A PRIL 2023

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Friday April 14th

Avon Wildlife Trust ‘Working Together for Food Justice’ with Ped Askarian, 7.30pm Baptist Church Hall, High St, Keynsham. Members £3, Visitors £4.

The Mendip Society AGM 2.30pm St James’ Church Hall, Winscombe followed by a talk by Nick Green.

Open-Mic night from 7pm Redhill Village Club BS40 5SG. Details: 01934 862619.

Frome Third Age talk by Michael Danson ‘Antarctica – my journeys to the deep south’, 2pm the Assembly Rooms. Details: www.fromethirdage.com

Saturday April 15th

Claverham Market 10am-12pm Village Hall. Butcher, veg. crafts etc. 01934 830553.

Timsbury Tabletop Sale, 10am-3.30pm Conygre Hall, raising funds for St Mary’s Church. Raffle & refreshments. Entry free. £10 to book a table: 01761 471318.

Panta-Rei dance company from Norway, 7.30pm Croscombe Village Hall £12/£9 (Family 2+3: £35) Details: www.takeart.org

Nempnett Thrubwell Quiz 7.30pm, teams of four, £15 incl. hot supper. BYO drinks. Details: James 07767 244312 or nempnett88@gmail.com

Saturday April 15th – Sun April 16th

RSPCA pop-up shop with lots of bargain buys!

11am to 3pm, RSPCA Brent Knoll Animal Centre, TA9 4B. Details: dawn.pawlett@rspcanorthsomerset.org.uk

Sunday April 16th

Coffee Morning 10am-12 Tunley Recreation Centre, BA2 0DZ

Classic Car Meet Cheddar 10am-2pm Petruth Paddocks, BS27 3FS. Free entry. No min/max stay. Antony 07831 336444. Facebook Chew Valley Classic Car & Bike.

Cheddar Reservoir: Mendip Hills Area SWT walk. Meet 10am Sharpham Rd car park.

Details: www.somersetwildlife.org/events

Monday April 17th

Nailsea & District Local History Society talk: “Grandma’s Garden” 7.45pm Nailsea School.

Details: www.ndlhs.org.uk

Timsbury NATS talk by Kathy Farrell, “A

Wildlife Journey through Florida” 7.30pm Conygre Hall, BA2 0JQ. Visitors welcome £3, U16s free.

Chew Valley U3A 10am Ubley parish hall, Brian Zimmerman from Bristol Zoo.

Tuesday April 18th

Surveying for Reptiles & Amphibians talk by John Dickson for Mendip Hills area SWT, 7.30pm Cheddar Pavilion. Details: www.somersetwildlife.org/events

RAFA Mid-Somerset branch visit to Boscombe Down aviation museum, Old Sarum. Meet 10am for coffee then pub lunch at the Old Castle Harvester Inn. Details: 01458 224057 or Salisbury.rafa.midsomerset@gmail.com

Congresbury Singers start rehearsing again! 7.30pm War Memorial Hall – all welcome, no audition. Details: 07803 040175, congresburysingers@gmail.com

Wells & District Wildlife Group: Herbal Walk, 7pm to 9pm walk through country lanes with medical herbalist Bett Partridge. Details: www.wdwg.org.uk or 01749 677600.

Wednesday April 19th

Friends of Weston Museum talk: “Trenches to Trams – the life of a Bristol Tommy” by Clive Burlton, 2.30pm Weston Museum, BS23 1PR. Members £1, visitors £3. Details: www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofthemuseum wsm

Henton & District Gardening Club “Slightly Naughty Plants” by Steve Fry of Castle Gardens, Sherborne. 7.30pm Henton Village Hall (3139) Visitors welcome, £5. Details: 01749 674767 or hentongardenclub.weebly.com

Thursday April 20th

Yatton & District Horticultural Society talk Elizabeth Holman “52 weeks of colour in your garden” 8pm Hangstones Pavilion, BS49 4HS. Shipham & District Gardening Club, talk on Climate Change Gardening by Sally Morgan, 7.30pm Shipham Village Hall, BS25 1SG. All welcome.

Friday April 21st

Save the Children lunch 12.30pm Shipham village hall, £5. Come and join us! Somerset Art Works creative director Carol Carey talk at Bridgwater Arts Centre, 10am, tickets £5 for Chandos Society members, £10 guests, for SAW’s charity work.

Saturday April 22nd

Congresbury Book Sale 9am-1pm War Memorial Hall. Good quality books etc. Whitchurch Art Club Spring Exhibition

10am-4pm Royal British Legion, Charlton Rd, Keynsham BS31 2JA. We meet every Thurs 79pm, all welcome to join! Details: avril.csve@gmail.com

Tong Brothers, Piano Duo Churchill Music

19.30 St John the Baptist Church, BS25 5QW. Details: www.churchillmusic.org.uk Tunley Quiz night 7.30pm Recreation Centre, BA2 0DZ. £10pp incl food. Bar. Details: 07849 618221.

Charity concert: Welsh choir Cantorian

Creigiau with Bristol Military Wives choir

7.30pm St John’s Church, Keynsham. Tickets £10 from: rob@chelwoodbridgerotary.com

Windsor’s Royal Free Singers 6pm St Mary's Church Wedmore. Free, retiring collection for the Friends of St Mary’s. Details: 07710 079977.

Somerset group of the Hardy Plant Society annual plant fair, 10am-2.30pm West Monkton village hall, Monkton Heathfield. Entry £1. The Quorum Trio 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Yatton, Tickets £10, details: www.yms.org.uk Banwell Charities Day with: Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, Young Lives vs. Cancer, Cheddar Lions, Prickles Hedgehogs, National Autistic Society, Diabetes UK and others, 10am-2pm Banwell Scout Hut (carpark opp. primary school). Entry free, refreshments. Details: Laura 01934 863679.

Spoken word open mic night 8pm Strode

Theatre Foyer, Church Rd, Street. Free. Part of Strode Mini-Book Fest. To enter: openmic.strodebookfest@gmail.com

Concert. Solomon. First performance of 2023 season by Bath Recitals charity. Bath Abbey, 7.30pm. Tickets £15-£35 from: www.bathboxoffice.org.uk or 01225 463362.

Monday April 24th

Mendip Folk Dance Club, 8pm-10, St James Church Centre Winscombe BS25 1AQ. No experience needed. Details: 01934 742853. Wessex Stationary Engine Club meeting 8pm Old Down Inn, Emborough.

Congresbury Memorial Hall Club Friendship evening with bingo, 8pm War Memorial Hall. Visitors welcome.

Winscombe Probus talk by Terry Ransome about Yuri Gargarin, 10.30am Winscombe Community Centre. Guests welcome.

Tuesday April 25th

Chilcompton Gardening Club, talk by Gill Hazell “So you think you know Gladiolus!” 7.30pm village hall, BA3 4EX.

Wednesday April 26th

Folk Session 8.45pm City Arms, Wells. Sing, play a tune or just listen. Free. All welcome. Details: richardlm397@gmail.com

Harptrees History Society, Gina MerrettSmith on “The intrepid Marianne North –remarkable Victorian botanical artist” 7.30pm West Harptree Memorial Hall BS40 6EG. Visitors welcome £3. Booking essential:info@harptreeshistorysociety.org

Backwell & Nailsea Macular Support meeting 1.30 pm Backwell WI Hall. Details: Sheila, 01275 462107.

Thursday April 27th

Cheddar Valley U3A day trip to Stratfordupon-Avon. Details: Margaret 01934 744241 or Mary 01934 743025.

Saturday April 29th

Richard Lennox concert 12 All Saints’ church, WSM, BS23 2NL. Tickets £12 on door, incl. light lunch.

Chelvey Coffee Morning with stalls and an organ recital by Jean Routley, 10am-12 St Bridget’s. Park in Chelvey Court paddock.

Sunday April 30th

Shepton Mallet Spring Market 10am-3pm Market Place, BA4 5AZ. Live music, street food, parking free!

Classic Car Meet, Cheddar 10am-2, Petruth Paddocks, BS27 3FS. Free entry. No min/max stay. Antony 07831 336444. Facebook Chew Valley Classic Car & Bike.

Monday May 1st – Bank Holiday

Shipham & District Gardening Club plant sale on the village green 1pm to 4pm.

Tuesday May 2nd

Yatton Local History Society talk by Jonathon Holt on Architectural Follies of Bristol & Somerset, 7.30pm Methodist Church. Details: yattonlocalhistorysoc@gmail.com

The Arts Society Mendip: ‘A brief history of Bookbinding’ 11am, Croscombe village hall & Zoom. Guests welcome £6. Details: www.theartssocietymendip.org.uk