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Amazon Smile
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This week Chilworth Hall’s bank account benefited from an Amazon Smile disbursement. It wasn’t much, but every little helps. Amazon Smile enables people to raise money for charity every time they shop online. Simply use smile.amazon.co.uk rather than just amazon.co.uk. To support our Hall in this way, please just click on this link. Continue reading
A Star Is Born
On Thursday evening Chilworth Moviola is showing A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga in the role that was originally played by Barbra Streisand. Tickets are just £5, exclusively from Eventbrite. It’s important to reserve a ticket, but you may elect to pay at the door. Simply select ‘Pay at the door’ when the system asks for your credit card number. Continue reading
Guide Dogs – help needed
You may already know that the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association has a centre in Chilworth. Staff there are once again looking for local volunteer boarders willing to care for and provide temporary homes for trainee guide dogs.
Things are different this time from previous appeals. For a roughly six-month period, a dog would be collected from your home on weekday mornings, and delivered back to your home the same evening. The dog would stay with the volunteer evenings and weekends. All training, support, food & equipment is provided. Continue reading
Vodafone Broadband
Following on from the broadband item in Cllr Finlay’s January Newsletter (which you can read here as a PDF) here’s my experience so far of Vodafone’s fixed broadband as a straight replacement for BT. Continue reading
Nearby Events – Feb 2019
A monthly digest of upcoming events in our region that local residents may find interesting, and of which they may otherwise be unaware. If you know of any others that you think are worth including, please send details to the Editor.
Beginners Yoga course
Starting on Thursday, 21st February, Chi Yoga Southampton is starting a six-week Yoga course for beginners (women and men) at Chilworth Hall. Each weekly session start at 5.45pm and lasts for one hour. Chi Yoga Southampton is run by Dr Jackie Cheng, a practising GP who is also a qualified Yoga teacher. E-mail her for more details, or check out the Chi Yoga website.
Temporary Hall closure
The Hall’s management is engaging Brazier Interiors to carry out the latest refurbishment works. No new bookings are being taken for the period 8th-19th April. The current regular hirers have been informed and they will communicate with their clients and customers. Some are accepting a little bit of disruption and are able to soldier on. If you are a class member and have heard nothing, please check with your class organiser. Continue reading
Aladdin
Baddesley Barnstormers will be performing their 2019 production, Aladdin, at Chilworth Hall on Friday, 8th and Saturday, 9th February. Continue reading
Mamma Mia!
Tickets for the January, February and March Moviola evenings at Chilworth Hall are now on sale. First up is Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again on the evening of Friday, 11th January. (Our plan to show The Wife had to be shelved when the distributor changed the release date.) Continue reading
Nearby Events – Jan 2019
A monthly digest of upcoming events in our region that local residents may find interesting, and of which they may otherwise be unaware. If you know of any others that you think are worth including, please send details to the Editor.