It's Spring Craft Fair time at the Hall – Saturday 6th April – will see a collection of very different stalls selling everything from superb photographic prints via food, to gifts for all those birthdays and special occasions. Do come along and have a cup of coffee/tea and a piece of home made cake and wander amongst the colourful array on offer and then there’s hot bacon rolls and tasty soups to savour at lunch time.

It is with enormous sadness that All Hallows’ board of trustees has to announce that All Hallows Healthcare Trust and all of its services are likely to close, subject to staff consultation. They have been forced to accept that it is now impossible to balance income and costs on an ongoing basis.

Further to the article in last month’s edition, the Club is still recruiting players at all levels and also would welcome support and sponsorship under several schemes, starting from as little as £ 25 a year.

Were you born in Westhall or brought up in the village?   How often do you sadly attend a funeral and meet childhood friends, old school mates and past neighbours who you haven’t seen for a while, sometimes years?  But when you do, it is always on such an occasion, and where it is so often suggested that “…we must all get together in happier circumstances …”

The latest Fisher Folk & Acoustic session took place in the atmospheric cellar of the Fisher theatre, Bungay on Wednesday March 27th.

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OVER the coming months there are speakers at U3A events across East Suffolk on numerous topics, covering history, science, the natural world and exciting and, sometimes, controversial lives!

“Spring Serenade” Friday 17th May 2019 at St Mary’s Church.

6.00 pm Fizz and Canapes, Concert Commences at 7.00 pm.

IT'S open house at Slaughden Sailing Club and Aldeburgh Yacht Club (AYC) on Sunday 5th May and Sunday 19th May respectively and everyone is invited to come and have some fun. This is a chance to try sailing and learn some new skills; experience the beautiful river Alde in a boat – under wind or engine power. Sailing is an activity that can be enjoyed at any age and many levels.

Stuff of Dreams Theatre Company present An Honest Gentleman

On Tour from March 29th – May 24th

NORFOLK-based theatre company,Stuff of Dreams, will be visiting venues across the Eastern region this Spring with their latest touring production.

THE theatre show ‘The Story of Doo-Wop’ by the UK’s premier Doo-Wop quartet, The TestostaTones, visits the Fisher Theatre in Bungay on Friday 12thApril.

The 10th Annual Plant Sale at Ilketshall St Andrew will take place at the Village Hall on Saturday 27th April 2019 from 9am-12pm.

There will, as usual, be flower and vegetable plants, bulbs and assorted garden items for sale. This is a good opportunity to buy reasonably priced local plants for the coming season.

Gippeswyk Singers, Phoenix Singers and Beccles Choral Society are delighted to announce they will be joining forces under the musical direction of their conductor Geoff Lavery to present:

Verdi “Requiem”  

Saturday 11th May 2019 at 7:30pm

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Rosedale Funeral Home  in association with Barclays Bank are holding a Charity Golf day in aid of  Nature and Nurture  children's bereavement charity and Emmaus  a charity that aims to combat poverty and homelessness, at Bungay & Waveney Golf Club on Thursday 13th June.

WE'VE seen in the New Year, we’ve long since forgotten all those ambitious and potentially life changing resolutions – except for one!

Our U3A members are continuing their quest for knowledge, for stimulating and lively new topics to discover and debate.

THE February meeting of the Alde Valley Suffolk Family History Group will hear from Berry Mayall about childhood during the Second World War. Bringing in the harvest. Watching for enemy aircraft. Rescuing survivors from the wreckage of bombed houses. Keeping the family business running when parents were enlisted into war-work. These are just a few examples of how children and young people made substantial contributions to the war effort during the Second World War.  

TRACE YOUR MILITARY ANCESTORS!  

LORETO and Suzanna are returning to give another concert for organ and flute. The concert will be a lively mixture of classical organ and flute repertoire played alongside some well known music taken from some of the most famous films.

DO you fancy: Getting fitter and more active? Making new friends? Learning new skills? Haven't played since school or for 30+ years? No problem, all abilities welcome. Then come along to Adult Social Netball Sessions every Tuesday between 7-8pm at The Venue at Sir John Leman High School. 1st session free, thereafter £4 a session.

Beneath the ‘Sacred Oak’ on Rendham Knoll, Friday 21st December.

“Dust your lamps! Prime your wicks!

  Make ready your tankards! The Long Night draws near!

Now is the time for mists, magic, merriment, mayhem and Mummers!” cries The Speaker.

THE doors of the new Woodbridge Museum opened for the first time at Maritime Woodbridge in October. Visitors were able to see the Reception area and shop. Following this the museum closed in order to start the fitting out in earnest. Work is progressing well and before long it is hoped that the Friends of the Museum will be able to visit and see the complete building. The museum will open its doors to the public in April 2019.

NEW Horizons, the club for older people in the Woodbridge area, has been able to purchase some new games due to a very generous grant from District Councillor Caroline Page. Funding from the Locality Budget has enabled us to buy a floor basketball set, a Bean Bag target game together with a Music Quiz and Musical Bingo. These have proved very popular and we are very grateful to Caroline for her continued support of the Club. This month, members also enjoyed attempting a Japanese style flower arrangement using twisted willow, catkins and ferns.They produced some attractive and cheerful displays to brighten their homes during these dull winter days.We also enjoyed a slide show on Chile entitled ‘The Long Thin Country’ by Chris Parfitt.

£2,000 to local childrens charities – At our meeting on 14th Feb, we presented funds from Santa’s Sleigh to Mid-Suffolk Holiday Opportunity Play Scheme and Suffolk Family Carers.

ON Thursday 25th January 2018 - Dunkirk (Thriller/Drama) 12A.  In May/June 1940, the German army has advanced into France, trapping 400,00 Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk.  Britain sends civilian boats to try to evacuate the beleaguered forces.  This is the story as seen through the eyes of one soldier amongst those trapped forces. Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, and Harry Styles, with an impressive score written by Hans Zimmer.

With Julian Harries as Holmes & Dick Mainwaring as Watson.

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Holmes and Watson faces their stiffest challenge yet, in the shape of the Hooded Lance, their newest and deadliest adversary, who is hell bent on spoiling everyone’s Christmas and being really annoying!

THIS is the questioned being posed by organisers of Leiston, Saxmundham & Aldeburgh Community Car Service.

The car scheme has been established since 1990, but is in urgent need of new drivers to meet the current demand, people who are willing to give a few hours of their time to drive local residents on straightforward but essential journeys.

THE 100-voice Woodbridge Choral Society will present its annual Christmas season concert at 7.30pm on Saturday evening 2nd December, in St Mary’s Church, Woodbridge. 

AT the time of going to press we are up to our eyes with kittens, some with Mums, some not.  We have been kept very busy, having currently homed a total of 102 cats and kittens this year. 

Beccles is turning Japanese and temperatures are rising in the town – as ‘Hot Mikado’ – the colourful and lively take on a classic, kicks off this month at the Public Hall.

Tickets are now on sale, for Waveney Light Opera Group’s latest show ‘Hot Mikado’ – a very different version of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan tale.

SATURDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2017

THE PAGEANT FIELD, BADINGHAM ROAD

Gates open at 6pm

Bonfire lit at 6.30pm

Firework Display at 7.30pm

THE film evening starts by showing a Trailer followed by the feature film: “ Another Mother’s Son” starring Jenny Seagrove (Drama based on a true story) on Friday 17th November at Alburgh Village Hall, Low Road, Alburgh. 

GIPPESWYK Singers are delighted to present “Anthems for Advent” – a concert featuring special guests Nightingale Wind Quintet and organist John Hutchings, conducted by Geoff Lavery.  They invite you to join them for an evening of uplifting music to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season; including beautiful anthems and carols, a superb organist, special performances from the Nightingale Wind Quintet and delicious refreshments to send everyone home glowing with seasonal good will!

Leiston and District Branch OCA

EIGHT members of the OCA were present in our new surroundings of the Leiston Day Centre, on Friday 1st September and all were welcomed by our Chairman, Alf Watson. There had been no apologies. Alf expressed our gratitude to David Bailey for arranging with the Council to hire the Day Centre for the morning of the first Friday in each month. Future meetings would be held here on Fridays 6th October, 3rd November and 1st December.

THE October meeting will be held on Tuesday 10th October at 7.30pm in Kirton Church Hall. When Wendy Munnion from Maldon, Essex will be demonstrating “Tempus Fugit.”

FOLLOWING the massive success of previous competitions, Leiston Film Theatre will once again be producing another talent contest, which will offer the lucky winner an opportunity to perform at a national talent showcase.

BECCLES Society of Artists meets on the first Wednesday of each month, 7.30pm, at the Waveney Centre, Beccles for talks and demonstrations by professional artists or other experts in art, with our popular annual exhibition being held each August. Entry is free for members and £3 for visitors – everybody welcome!