What a great start to the New Year!

We are delighted to announce that the Baldock Arts & Heritage Centre has won the right to screen Naonal Theatre Live. Naonal Theatre Live brings you shows straight from the West End stage to local screens, allowing you to seeing the drama just as it unfolded on the stage.

Last year we invested in new sound, lighng and screen equipment to improve the film experience we could offer. This investment has enabled the Baldock Arts & Heritage Centre to screen NT Live shows; a huge boost to this community volunteer-led centre. Last Autumn, we also launched a new movie club which is already proving popular and now we are able to offer a discount on NT Live to our movie club members as a great new benefit for them.

2023 is also the year of our 10th anniversary. Ten years ago, a group of determined volunteers came forward to peon the Council to retain the historic Old Town Hall and turn it into a valuable asset for the local and surrounding communies. With the support of the town and hard-working volunteers, the building is now a thriving Arts & Heritage Centre offering a soughtaer Gallery, a Museum rich in Baldock heritage, regular workshops and classes, and a multude of events. In just the first six months of this year we have monthly NT Live screenings, regular Castaway's Choice (our take on Desert Island Discs), our many and highly popular History in the Aernoon talks, a comic book masterclass, a Disney children's event, a murder mystery evening, a poery masterclass, a quiz night, videography workshop, a cream tea concert, a children's puppet show and last but not least, a huge 10th year celebraon is being planned for June.

The Arts & Heritage Centre runs solely on volunteer me and effort and we are always looking for more support. There are lots of excing opportunies to get involved given our great programme of events and NT Live contract. Technical sound and lighng support, running the NT Live screenings, front of house, and building maintenance are but a few of the many opportunies we offer. We are holding a volunteer open aernoon on the Saturday 18th March 12 -3pm. Drop in any me but there will also be a formal presentaon at 1.30pm. If you can't aend but want to be involved then please drop us a line at contactus@bahc.co.uk.

This is a great Centre offering so much for the community. All our events can be viewed at www.bahc.co.uk/event or beer sll, join our mailing list to stay updated with all event details as they are released: go to www.bahc.co.uk/mailing-list.

Maureen Maddren