2025 Village Hall Bookings and Activities

Our upcoming events and regular bookings are detailed below – for more information about village hall bookings, please use our contact us form or get in touch with Helen on 01300 341777/07455 165746 [email protected]

Regular weekly bookings:

Mondays: 

15.00 – 18.00 Band practice

Tuesdays:  

10.30 – 12.00 Drop by for Coffee and Chat 

12.30 – 14.00 Ploughman’s lunch on third Tuesday each month. Contact Sonia Newman at [email protected]

18.00 – 19.30 Table Tennis Club – no need to book, just drop in

Wednesdays:  

10.00 – 13.00  Pilates (3 x one hour sessions) with Carole Bradshaw, telephone 01300 341861 or email [email protected] 

18.00 – 19.00 Yoga with Markéta Vymetalova, [email protected]

Thursdays:

09.30 – 12.30 Watercolour Painting with Norma Coward, contact [email protected]   

Fridays: 

11.00 – 12.00 Strength and Balance with Sally Cunningham, telephone 01300 341092, [email protected] 

2025 Events

24th April – An evening with professional artist Laurence Belbin from Sherborne.

Laurence will be displaying many of his pictures as he talks us through his journeys, paintings and sketches over many years on the road from Sherborne to Sandford Orcas.  This forms the title of his beautifully illustrated and narrated book, copies of which will be available on the evening. This will be a fascinating evening for artists and non artists alike. There will be a bar open before and after the talk. Doors open at 6.30 pm  for 7 pm start.

4th May – Duck Race – ducks will be on sale soon

16th May – singer and song-writer Alex Hart – 8 pm – tickets available from Philip Hanson 07975 917506 or Jayne Hanson 07791 464149 – www.alexhart.com

25th/26th May – Open Gardens

Many beautiful gardens, big and small, will be open from 2pm to 6pm. Tickets from the Village Hall on the day, £5 entry, cash or card, children under 16 free.  Tea and cakes on sale as well as lovely plants and shrubs.

20th, 21st, 22nd June – Giant’s Head Marathon  

23rd October – SAVE THE DATE – The Newt House &  Gardens – a talk by Arthur Cole, Head of Programmes – details to follow

Past events

Open Gardens 2020 – Just to give you a flavour of our annual event, here’s a virtual browse round some of our lovely gardens filmed in 2020 when Open Gardens was cancelled because of the Covid pandemic.

Food and drink – recipes created during lockdown –  YouTube demos for you to try at home.