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LECKHAMPTON

» The film of a live performance by the National Theatre of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov will be shown at 7pm tonight, Thursday November 3, at the Bacon Theatre, Dean Close School. Box Office 01242 258002.

Ballet Theatre UK perform the ballet “Beauty and the Beast” at 2.30pm on Sunday November 6. Also at the Bacon Theatre.

» Charlton Kings Library is restarting its monthly Library Club tomorrow, Friday November 4. It’s a free social group where people can meet new people and have regular monthly catch-ups. It is always on the first Friday of the month. It’s a joint project with Community Connexions who provide transport for anyone who needs it. If you or someone you know needs assistance with transport to enable them to attend this social group, please get in touch with the Library and they can connect you to the right people.

» Charlton Kings Film Society is showing the film “King Richard” at 7.45pm tomorrow, Friday November 4, at Sacred Hearts Church Hall. This interesting film is about sisters Venus and Serena Williams who rose to fame and dominated the world of women’s tennis with the help of their supportive father Richard. Doors open at 7pm and tickets cost £6. Light refreshments will be on sale and drinks from the bar.

» The Belgian National Orchestra conducted by Roberto Gonzalezmonjas will perform a concert of music by Glinka, Tchaikovsky and Franck tomorrow, Friday November 4, at 7.30pm in the Town Hall. Pianist Paul Lewis will be the soloist. You can book online or at the Box Office in the Leisure Centre, Tommy Taylors Lane.

» Cheltenham Repair Cafe’s next session is at 10am Saturday November 5. Repairs take place on the first Saturday of the month between 10am to 1pm (apart from January when there is no session), at St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier St, Cheltenham, GL501SP. Repairs are free, but donations are gratefully encouraged to keep the project going.

The Regeneration Repair Cafe is a collaboration between the University of Gloucestershire, Vision 21, St Andrew’s Church and Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team. People are invited to bring in their broken small electrical items, textiles, knives and tools for sharpening.

By sitting with the volunteers as they carry out the repairs, you can pick up valuable skills which will mean less and less items being discarded as ‘unfixable’. Email to: office@vision21.org.uk for more information

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Cheltenham Philharmonic

Orchestra is performing a concert of Scandinavian music by Greig, Nielsen and Sibelius at 3pm in the Pump Room on Sunday November 6.

» Regency Probus Club Cheltenham for retired men meet from 10am on Wednesday November 9 at the Bowling Club in Suffolk Square for coffee and a get together. The talk next week will be given by Barry Simon on the subject of Local Aviation History. Contact secretary Paul Havard on 07970836907. or 01242 231002 for more information. Visitors and new members are very welcome.

» It is T4U Christmas shoebox time again. Drop-off dates are: Salem Baptist Church, 129 St Georges Road, GL50 3EQ until tomorrow Friday November 4, 4pm to 6pm and on Saturday November 5, 10am to noon.

Later at Charlton Kings Baptist Church, 38 Church Street, GL53 8AR - Monday November 7 to Friday November 11, 2pm to 4pm and on Saturday November 12, 10am to noon.

» Charlton Kings Parish Council is holding a Community Open meeting in Stanton Hall at 7pm on Thursday November 10. All members of the Parish are welcome to attend.

» Cheltenham Horticultural Society meet from 7.30pm on Thursday November 10 at Century Hall, Bishops Road, Shurdington for their AGM.

» Cotswold Savoyards are performing “The Gondoliers” at The Playhouse Theatre from November 8 to November 12 each evening at 7.30pm with a matinee on Saturday November 12 at 2pm.

» Cheltenham Choral Society are singing Rossini’s Petite Solenelle and Schubert’s Mass in G at 7.30pm on Saturday November 12 at the church of St Philip and St James, Grafton Road, Leckhampton. Tickets for both these events can be bought online from The Playhouse Theatre or their Box Office - 01242 522852.

» Notice of upcoming works in Charlton Kings. Veteran ash tree work: November 9-11 and November 15-17. Five veteran ash trees on the boundary of Lillybrook golf course and Charlton Kings Common are having work carried out to try and preserve and protect them for the future. These trees are several hundred years old and the number of such trees in the country now, is much less that it would have been before the agricultural improvement, commercial planting of conifers and disappearance of large country estates after 1940.

Many of these trees have developed hollow trunks with large amounts of dead and rotting wood. This wood is the essential habitat for certain invertebrates and fungi and therefore we have a responsibility to try and preserve these trees. A specialist contractor has been employed to carry out the work and this will involve burning some of the canopy wood and stacking the rest on site. Footpaths will remain open.

More interesting information about the background to this type of work can be found on Charlton Kings Parish website.

BISHOP’S

» Rose Ashton 01242 262042 ashton.r@btinternet.com

ALL SAINTS CHURCH, CHELTENHAM

» As part of Community outreach, All Saints Church is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays 2pm - 7pm and Saturdays from 10am - 7pm.

All welcome to come into one of Cheltenham’s most beautiful Churches for private prayer or just to sit for a moment of quiet.

» Organ Recital - Renowned organist Dr Peter King, Organist Emeritus at Bath Abbey will give a recital at All Saints Church at 7.30pm on Saturday November 12. Tickets are £10 available on the door or on Eventbrite.

» All Saints Bookshop Swap. Books donated to swap, read, borrow or buy. Drop off at All Saints, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 2pm - 7pm.

This is a new venture, as part of an outreach to the general public.

If you feel so inclined, leave a small message in the book you are donating, saying what you thought of the book. Everyone welcome to the Church come in and see one of Cheltenham’s hidden gems.

CLEEVE

» St Michael’s Centre, Bishop’s Cleeve, is holding a Christmas Market on Saturday November 12, from 10am-2pm, at the Centre in School Road.

There will be gifts, home made jams and cakes, books for all ages, crafts, toys, collectables. pre-loved jewellery and more at affordable prices. Raffle prizes include a festive hamper and a luxury Christmas cake. Tea, coffee, hot bacon baps, homemade cakes and scones also on sale.

Proceeds to support the community work of the Centre.

» Free Flu vaccination is being offered to everyone aged 50 and over at Badham’s Chemist, 23 Church Road, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8LR. No need to make an appointment just walk in.

For more information telephone 01242 672653, email: pharmacy. frn12@nhs.net

» There will be a Christmas Fayre at Denley Hall, Bishops Cleeve, on Saturday November 19 from 2pm-4pm. There will be Fancy Goods, Jewellery, a Raffle, and

Tombola. Refreshments are available and admission is free.

» Events at the Tithe Barn Bishop’s Cleeve - the next event for Rendezvous at the Tithe Barn is, Friday November 11, from 8pm until 11.30pm. Fully licensed bar open at 7.45pm, large free car park. Rusty Bones playing a selection of 50’s, 60’s and 70’s with a mixture of Jive and Rock & Roll. Pay on the door £10.

Friday December 9, Peter Gill & The Good Time Charlies present ‘A Swingin’ & Rockin’ Christmas Evening’, a perfect start to the festive period. Pay on the door £15.

For more information contact Kelvin Freer on 01242 604546 or email: kelvinfreer@hotmail.com

» The Methodist Church in Bishop’s Cleeve has launched a Friendship Club. The club will meet in the Methodist Church, off Tobyfield Road, every Monday 2-4pm.

» The Methodist Church Christmas Fair will be held on Saturday November 12, between 2pm and 4pm.

» The Methodist Wednesday Fellowship has resumed its regular fortnightly meetings at 2pm. November 9, Rev Steve Ward. November 23, Rev Jayne Webb. December 7, Chris Bird. December 21, Christmas Outing. All are welcome.

» The Dramatic Villagers are preparing to launch their new Pantomime, Batman and Robin Hood. There are many opportunities to assist with this great production, both front and back stage. For more information contact 07823 883203, or online: admin@thedramatic villagers.co.uk

» Bishop’s Cleeve Foodbank. Please can you take any donations to Bishop’s Cleeve Parish Office (next to Tesco’s car park) any Friday morning between 9am and noon.

Please refer to the latest shopping list for further details of shortages on the donating food link at https:// northcotswold.foodbank.org.uk and also details for making direct monetary donations.

» The Cleeve Common Trust News. The Memorial Programme has been running for several years now and allows local residents to donate in memory of a loved one that will support the conservation of Cleeve Common. A plaque is then placed on the Memorial Wall in their honour.

On the existing Memorial Wall, the upper two faces are full, but the lowest tiers of the long sides are vertical and can be used for narrower plaques. We are also building a second Wall near the iconic ‘Three Sisters’ or ‘Twin’ beech trees, and we hope to be able to accept plaques by the end of the year. For more information or to apply for a plaque, please see our website.

For information on events and how to support the Trust contact, Parish Office, Church Road, Bishops Cleeve, 07471 687 877 – Ranger: 07756 828 458.

» Gotherington, Woolstone and Oxenton WI, host monthly meetings on Wednesdays, in Gotherington Village Hall at 7.30pm.

November 23, Craft Demonstration and Annual Meeting.

New members welcome. For more details contact 01242 317276.

» The Bishop’s Cleeve WI host meetings in the Tithe Barn on the third Tuesday of each month, 7.15pm - 9pm.

November 15, AGM, auction and competition results.

For more information about meetings, contact www.bishops cleevewi.org.uk or 01242 676647.

WOODMANCOTE

» A Christmas Craft Fair will be held at Woodmancote Village Hall on Saturday November 12 from 11am until 4pm. Twenty two stall holders will be offering a wide selection of gifts for sale from pottery to clothes; crafted wood and jewellery to glass art, Christmas decorations and greeting cards to handmade bath soaps and scented candles and much more.

As not all stall holders have card readers please bring cash to avoid disappointment. Free Entry and doors open at 11am prompt. Organiser, Francesca Aranovich, email: f.aranovichcraftsanddesign@ gmail.com

» Sing Christmas carols with your pets! Come along to Woodmancote New Village Hall on December 3 at 2pm for early Christmas fun. Come and sing Christmas Carols with your pets indoors, please bring photographs of cats etc. if they do not like to travel.

Live music to sing to. Why not let your pets enjoy Christmas as well? Please bring a dog blanket for your dog’s comfort. Free admission.

» Woodmancote WI, host meetings at Woodmancote Village Hall on Thursdays at 7.30pm.

November 17, Annual Meeting, our 60th birthday.

» Woodmancote Probus Club host meetings on Tuesdays at Woodmancote New Village Hall.

Meetings start at 9.30am, followed by the talk at 10.30am. November 8, Cuba. November 15, Machu Piccu. November 22, All at Sea. November 29, Mercy Ships. For more information contact 01242 702573