Summer at Beth Chatto Gardens

Summer Events at Beth Chatto Gardens

The Beth Chatto Gardens have recently been in touch with a summer offer:

We’ve come to realise that a lot of the local community have never visited the Beth Chatto Gardens before and so we’re offering free entry to the garden for children under 14, throughout the summer holidays (3 children per paying adult at £6.95), and we’d also like to invite you to a FREE evening of music and art on the 20th September.
It would be lovely to welcome members of your parish to the gardens and if you’d like to sign up for the events newsletter, please do here: http://eepurl.com/bmfHyb.

More events are listed on their website at: http://www.bethchatto.co.uk/events/.

Beth Chatto Gardens are based on the ecological and creative principles of their founder. They aim to provide an inspirational and sustainable, quality experience for all visitors. Education and enjoyment underpin the gardens’ philosophy. They are located at: Elmstead Market Nr Colchester Essex CO7 7DB.

Contacts & links are:

20th July 20158th December 2015

Summer Reading Challenge 2015

Help make this a record breaking summer

Every year the national Summer Reading Challenge aims to keep the country’s children reading throughout the holidays and as this year’s theme is ‘Record Breakers’, Essex Libraries wants as many pledges of support as possible to set a new Guinness World Record™ for ‘the most number of pledges received for a reading campaign’, and to contribute to an Essex record.

Children pledge to visit their local library, read six books of their choice and collect stickers in six categories to secure medals. Adults and volunteers pledge to support children to read. Older children can take part in a reading and arts programme called ImagiNation.

Councillor Roger Hirst, Essex County Council Cabinet Member for Customer Services, Libraries, Planning and the Environment said:

Getting more children to read for pleasure during the summer holidays will be a fantastic achievement. This record attempt will be used to highlight the importance of reading for pleasure as well as the importance of libraries in communities. I want to see Essex playing its part in creating this new world record.

The Summer Reading Challenge is produced by The Reading Agency in association with Guinness World Records™ and delivered by libraries, bringing together fact and fiction and helping young readers to discover some wonderful and truly amazing records from around the world.

Record Breakers and ImagiNation run from 11 July to Saturday 5 September in all Essex libraries and mobile libraries.

Note – the Mobile Library’s next visits are scheduled for 29th July, 12th August, 26th August and 9th September visiting The Glebe (Peldon), Creek View Cottages (Gt Wigborough) and The Street (Salcott) on each of those mornings.

21st May 201427th November 2015

Support East Anglian Children’s Hospices

Colchester Abseil 13th July 2014

This is just one of many events that East Anglian Children’s Hospices (EACH) are organizing to support their work supporting families and providing care for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. They provide care and support wherever the family wishes – in families’ own homes, in the community or at one of their hospices in Ipswich, Milton and Quidenham. Their care teams help children and their families with the emotional and physical challenges they face, helping them to make the most of life.

EACH had already arranged an abseil at Colchester Town Hall in June and that has already sold out so they are now organizing this extra date to Abseil approx 100ft from the roof of Colchester Town Hall!

Entry fees £15 per person, plus minimum sponsorship of £85 for participants aged 17 yrs and over, and £30 for those aged 16 yrs and under (payable on the day or via an online fundraising page).

Event managed by Creation Climbing Centre.

Minimum age 14 years.

For more information please contact the Essex fundraising team on 01206 848450 or email [email protected] or, if you are already convinced, enter with their online entry form.

If abseiling is not for you then to find other events visit the EACH events pages.

11th January 201227th November 2015

Beauty & the Beast

beauty-and-the-beast Beauty and the Beast by Stuart Arden adapted for the Peldon Players, will be performed in Peldon Village Hall for 5 performances; Wed 25 to Sat 28 Jan starting at 7.30pm and running to about 9.50pm. The Saturday Matinee starts at 2.30 pm and should be over by 4.50pm.

The two Saturday performances are already sold out with a waiting list, a few tickets remain for Thursday and Friday nights with plenty still available for Wednesday but we do tend to sell out so it is best to contact Mel Newton on Email: [email protected] Tel: 01206 736118/07738 000378 if you fancy coming along.

Prices are:

Adults – Wed & Thu – £5.00; Fri & Sat – £7.00
Concessions – Wed & Thu – £3.50; Fri & Sat – £5.00 (OAPs, children 14 and under)

Adapted and Directed by Alison Biegel, Angela Buckley and Mel Newton, this annual entertainment has been a part of the village calendar for 25 years, involves local residents from 7 to 70 and is a terrific way to spend a dreary January evening. Oh yes it is!