Merry Christmas!
We would like to wish all visitors to the website a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! As we approach the five-year anniversary of the site’s launch back in February 2011, we hope that you are continuing to find it useful – and please don’t hesitate to submit your comments to any of the posts. For more info, click Read more
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There are still spaces available for The Haslingfield Young Little Theatre Beginners Workshops, which start in January 2016. The sessions will take place on 3, 10, 24, 31 January and 7 February (no session on 17 January). They will be held on Sunday mornings at Haslingfield Village Hall and will last one and a half hours. Read more
Haslingfield Little Theatre are delighted to be hosting another Blue Skies Big Band Concert, following their very successful performance in February. The concert will take place at Haslingfield Village Hall on Saturday 27 February 2016, and will be in aid of The Alzheimer’s Research Fund (No.1077089). Doors will open at 7.30 pm for an 8.00 pm start. Read more
On 20 December between 11.00 am and 1.30 pm there will be a Festive Family Fun Day and Jumble Sale at Haslingfield Village Hall. The event will raise money for Save the Children to support their efforts in the refugee camps across Europe.
The day will include: Food from Provenance Kitchen ~ Live music ~ Mulled wine and mince pies ~ Cake stall ~ Raffle ~ Craft Table ~ Jumble sale of children’s clothes, toys and equipment ~ Face painting, and more.
Hope you can make it! Read more
As of 3.00 p.m. today (Wednesday), there are 6 tickets left for tomorrow night’s performance of the Little Theatre panto, Mother Goose (Thursday 26th Nov) and 3 for Saturday night (28th Nov). Ticket price £9 /£6 concessions (no concessions Saturday night).
If you’d like to buy any of them, please ring the Box Office on: 01223 514849.
Tomorrow, Saturday 21st November, from 3-7 pm there will be a Christmas Gift Event at the Little Rose. Elsa from Frozen will be there from 3.30 – 4.30pm to sing and read stories to your children.
The idea is that you can buy all your Christmas presents in one go, while supporting not only Little Owls but also local businesses. Here’s who will be there: Read more
On Saturday 12th December from 11.30 am – 1.30 pm, Haslingfield Primary School will be holding its Christmas Fayre. There will be Santa’s Grotto, Stalls, a Raffle, Carol Singing, Teas, Hot Dogs, Pulled Park, Sing-along Frozen and Mulled Wine.
Everyone Welcome – free entry.
If you haven’t yet bought your tickets for the Haslingfield Little Theatre panto, Mother Goose, which is on at the Village Hall next week, 26, 27 and 28 November – online tickets are available for the Thursday night performance only. To buy your tickets online, please click here.
If you’d like tickets for the Friday or Saturday night performances, there are still a few tickets available for these dates in Haslingfield Village Shop and Country Kitchen. However, the Saturday matinee is completely sold out.
The next meeting to make plans for a village celebration on 11th and 12th June 2016 will be held in the Methodist Church this Wednesday 11th November at 7.30pm.
Tentative plans for a fancy dress parade, round-the-village race, giant “Street Party” on the Rec, “Great British Bake Off”. “Haslingfield’s Got Talent”, Church service on Sunday and Scarecrows around the village. Read more
This event gets better every year with 19 different charities taking part. There will be lots of different things to buy – Christmas cards, Christmas puddings, books, homemade food etc. You can also help to make a quilt that will be sent to a sick baby in Addenbrookes Hospital AND you might win a big one in the raffle! As well as all the stalls, there will be a café serving delicious homemade food and light lunches.
Children, don’t forget to take your Christmas letters along to the Fair . You can post them in a special postbox, and Action for Children will send them to Father Christmas. He has promised to send you a reply!” Read more
A defibrillator has now been ordered from the Community Heartbeat Trust and will be placed in the redundant telephone box on the High Street. It can be used without any formal training because the equipment is very easy to use, and when you have dialled 999, the ambulance service operator will give you the code to open the defibrillator cabinet and stay on the telephone to assist you. Read more
Come and see Haslingfield Little Theatre’s traditional panto, Mother Goose, set in the land of the snow geese – a frozen wonderland of trolls, snowmen, woolly jumpers and even the occasional moose!
Performances are on 26, 27 and 28 November at Haslingfield Village Hall. You can buy your tickets online here. There are also some tickets on sale in the Village Shop and Country Kitchen. Tickets cost £9 per person (£6 concessions for under 16s and 65+, no concessions Saturday evening).
It was agreed by the Parish Council that a village event would take place on the weekend of the 11th – 12th June 2016 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday. The plan is to involve as many Haslingfield Villagers as possible; arranging events throughout the whole of the Saturday and concluding the celebration with a Church service on the Sunday.
A meeting is to be held in the Methodist Church this Thursday 15th October at 7.30 pm. To make this a memorable and successful event we need your ideas, help and support and we would be grateful if you could come to this meeting.