DOWN YOUR WAY
10.30am to 1pm with coffee and light lunches served; Thursday, Slimming World from 6.30pm. Trinity Sunday falls one week after Pentecost Sunday and is the day set aside to honour the most fundamental of Christian beliefs – the Holy Trinity.
A friendly bridge club is looking for new members, partners not needed. Members meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1pm to 4.30pm in the lounge of Beaumont Lodge, Toward Road. For further information, ring 0191 597 1941.
Book an afternoon tea for you and your friends (six or over) at the Donnison School, which is a grade II listed building. Cost is £7 per person and includes coffee or tea with scones, sandwiches and cakes and an illustrated talk. For more information or to book, ring 0191 565 4835 to book.
A toddler group meets on Tuesdays in Sunderland Minster from 9.30am -11.30am. Refreshments are available for parents and children.
Hendon Karate Club meets in Cheers pub on Wednesdays and Fridays from 6pm7pm. For further details, ring 07932 724720.
Hendon Community Association, based in Seafarers Way, Moor Terrace, runs a drop-in luncheon club on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8.30am to 3.30pm. Bingo is played on Mondays from 6.30pm to 9.30pm (over 18s). For further information, ring 0191 565 5648.
Foyle Street Writers meet weekly in Sunderland City Library on a Thursday from 10am-noon.They share ideas and support fellow creative writers. New members are welcome.
Sunderland Antiquarian Society Archives at the Sunderland Antiquarian and Heritage Centre, 6 Douro Terrace, is open for research on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 9.30am-noon.
At Sunderland Maritime Heritage, work is progressing well on the Willdora cabin. All are welcome to go down to have a look. The website was launched last week. tre will hold a coffee morning tomorrow at 10am. This will be followed at noon by the luncheon club. A twocourse meal followed by tea orcoffee is served at a cost of £3.50. On Wednesdays Rainbows and Brownies meet from 5pm-7.30pm followed at 8pm by the ever popular bingo club. Every Monday from 10am-noon there is an IT, sessions, which covers everthing from beginners onwards. From 9.30am -11.30am there is a children’s section. Tuesday evenings there are a variety of dance classes at various times from 5.45pm through to 8.30pm. Dance classes continue on Thursday evenings at 6.15pm and 9.30pm. For further information, call into any of these sections or telephone 0191 534 3910.
South Hylton Local History Society will meet in The Tansy Centre on Monday, May 16, at 7pm. Speaker will be Dave Walmsley with RAF Usworth Squadron. Annual subs of £4 are now due. New members are always welcome and also guests.The society meets on the third Monday of each month. Entrance is £1.50, which includes a door raffle and tea, coffee and biscuits. Doxford Park bowls played Grangetown bowls club and had a most enjoyable night. Unfortunately, the club did not win but members are hopeful for next time.
Every Sunday St Wilfred’s Church meets in the community centre and everyone is welcome.
A photographic class meets on a Thursday from 1pm to 3pm in the centre. Weightwatchers classes are on every Friday from 9am-11 30am and Slimming World meets Mondays from 9am-11am and Tuesdays from 3.30pm9pm. Line dancing is on every Wednesday from noon1.30pm and sequence dancing Wednesdays from 7.15pm -8 15pm. For more information on these and other activities, ring Val on 5979227. Sunderland Forge electricians will hold its summer reunion in the Gunners Club in Sunderland on Friday, May 27 from 7.30pm. All are welcome.