Wellingborough & District

Events

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This is your events page. If you need advice on social or travel events, then check out the information on the subject on the Documents page - link at the top of this page. If your group has an event, or it has had to change an event venue or time, then please contact the Web Co-ordinator to make the amendment.

MONTHLY MEETINGS

We have now moved away from the Tithe Barn, and returned to the United Reformed Church.

However, in some instances we will use Zoom or other venues, so please keep checking this website, or look in your Newsletter to confirm the venue.

Format - Doors open at 1:00pm, with a cuppa available from 1:30. The meeting begins at 2:00pm. The First Wednesday of the month

Free Tea and Coffee - Another new innovation is to make our meetings as environmentally friendly as possible by asking members to please bring their own mugs.
There will be a choice of teas and coffee available.

We will be running a raffle so make sure you get there early to enjoy your cup of tea/coffee and buy your raffle tickets.

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CORONAVIRUS

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Although all Covid restrictions have now been lifted, Covid is still highly contagious and so if you or your family feel unwell before or on the day of the meeting, we would request you to remain at home.

Garden Visits will start again soon, book your place with Pat Devereux.

Helen Grant will be running some Coach Trips this year, don't forget to book your seat.

Dates for your Diary
Meetings
Wed Apr 3rd Zing will be returning to entertain after their PA system broke down at the February event.
Wed May 1st Brian Heathcote is giving us a talk called Go West about the pioneers who took the Wagon Trains into the American Wild West.
Wed Jun 5th Let us Entertain You. Performances by our own Groups including Play Reading, Singing for fun, the Ukelele Group and the newly formed Guitar Group
Wed Jul 3rd 50 Mysterious Postcards. A talk by Kathryn Baird about strange postcards she has discovered written in Pitman Shorthand.
Wed Aug 7th Ian Anderson will introduce us to some Poems for People who Hate Poetry. He says that he enjoys the challenge implicit in the title of his talk.
Wed Sep 4th This talk is by Ian MacAulay who takes tours at Phipps Brewery. The History of Brewing in Northampton which was very big business in Victorian times.
Wed Oct 2nd We will learn the about the life and career path of Morcea Walker. She travelled to the UK from Jamaica as a child and became Vice Lord Lieutenant of Northampton, a post which she held until very recently.
Wed Nov 6th When Hygiene was a Dirty Word. David Bell gives a tongue in cheek talk on the Plague Village of Eyam in the Peak District. Expect some hilarity whilst learning how people stayed fit and well 350 years ago.
Wed Dec 4th AGM This will be followed by entertainment from our own Jayne Osborn who will read us some of her clever and amusing poems and also perform some magic for us.