Film Night at the Institute is on Wednesday next week – don’t forget!
IT’S COMPLICATED
When attending their son’s college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship… but the complication is that they’re divorced and he’s since remarried.
Starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin & Alex Baldwin
7:30pm Wednesday 29th April. Suggested donation £4. Refreshments available.
Thursday 23rd April, Village Institute at 2.30pm, Thursday Club.
Ray Slack, village historian will give a fascinating illustrated talk on our village church, followed by refreshments.
All retired, semi-retired villagers are most welcome to come and join our Thursday club.
The Taddington Singers, together with The Chorale Singers, will present a Spring Serenade…
Vivaldi – Gloria, Handel – Zadok the Priest, Mendelssohn – Hear my Prayer & music by Mathias, Balfour Gardiner and Karl Jenkins
The event will be held at Taddington Church, Saturday 25th April, 7.30pm
Tickets £5.00, available from 01298 85534
Would you like to help run the Taddington Bramwell Memorial Institute and have a hand in influencing how things are done? This year’s Annual General Meeting (at which a new committee will be formed for the forthcoming year) is being held on 16th March at 7:30pm.
Around half of the committee members (who are also trustees of the charity) are from different organisations in the village – but there are also eleven places for people from the village which includes Taddington, Priestcliffe, Blackwell and Brushfield.
The committee meets at the Bramwell Institute around 8 times a year – usually on Monday evenings, starting at 7.30pm. We are trying to develop and imrpove the Institute, make it better for our local community and have exciting plans for more village events this year so we need plenty of people on the committee to make things happen.
Feel free to come along to the AGM or contact any member of the current committee for more information. As the Institute is a registered charity, you need to be 18 or over to be a trustee and on the committee.
If you are interested feel free to contact Trevor Ride (current Chairman) 85124 or ride@btinternet.com or Deb Clifford (current Secretary) 85101 or debclifford01@gmail.com
Thank you to everyone who donated parcels and ventured out in the wet weather to sing carols around the village. Thank you also to Jane and Kirsty at ‘The Queens’ for a warm welcome before we started out and to Michael and Hilary for the ‘afterglow’. We collected 191 parcels and raised £53 which we delivered on the following morning to ‘The Wellspring’ centre in Stockport. The attached photograph shows the preparations for the Christmas lunch after which our parcels would have been distributed. Two days ago we received a letter thanking the people of the village for our continuing support and generosity.
So – we made it into 2015… Just a covering of snow; enough to look pretty for the Christmas holiday without causing any major disruption. Some sunny weather and many of us were out of doors with a camera or taking a walk to take in the crisp winter air and admire the altered scenery. And now the last mince pies have been eaten, the holly tucked behind the pictures is looking a little tired, the mistletoe hanging over the kitchen table (best place to put it) is wilting a little and the return to work and school and our usual routine is just around the corner. Some of us will be feeling a bit reluctant, I imagine, and some of us, (and especially those who do not enjoy the difficulties posed by the arrival of the snow and ice, crowded car parks and days without shopping and postal facilities or who do not have loved ones to celebrate with) the return to normal will be quite welcome.
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet? Are you decided on starting a fitness regime, joining a club or maybe even taking up a new hobby? There are plenty of activities and dance and exercise classes on offer in the village calendar, as well as a new photography class to be held by Don Stazicker (provider of many of the top class images for this website). Talking of which, there will soon be plenty of work under way to turn our new website into a fully-functioning portal for the community to come together on, access social media from, advertise via and generally make use of. All suggestions are very welcome. Just comment on this post or email bramwellinstitute@gmail.com