• Sign up for our wildlife photography workshop, Sunday 20th July 2025

Please get in touch  as soon as possible using the website contact form if you would like to book a place on our wildlife and flower practical photography workshop in the Dovecot Meadow run by local photographer André Neves. This will be a great opportunity to learn, improve or advance your skills photographing our local flora and fauna. The morning workshop will be open to all levels of experience and equipment but limited to 20 participants (minimum age 16) and cost £5. In the afternoon, there will be a free to attend print exhibition and sale in the hall of some of André’s local wildlife images.

Tentative schedule:
09:30 – 09:40 Greetings and brief introduction of programme and speakers
09:40 – 10:00 Introduction to conservation activities in the Dovecot Meadow
10:00 – 10:20 Introduction to flower and insect photography
10:30 – 12:00 Practical session in the Meadow
12:00 – 13:00 Review w/ refreshments and exhibition browse
13:00 End of practical workshop
14:00 – 16:00 Local Wildlife Photography: exhibition and print sale by André

• Village Show, Saturday September 13th 2025

Every house will receive a copy of the show schedule in August so don’t forget to put the date in your diary! The categories for the Photography and Craft categories at the Village Show to be held on Saturday, September 13th 2024, are as follows:

Photos:

1. 1. 1. Wildlife
      2. Village life
      3. Urban life
      4. Night life
      5. Home life

Craft, and an example of:

1. 1. 1. Painting
      2. Embroidery or tapestry
      3. Knitting or crochet
      4. Sewing
      5. Greetings card in any medium
      6. Mosaic in any medium

• Return of the 2024 cups

Cup holders from last year’s Village Show are asked to return them for engraving to IAN CONSTABLE, 11 Illingworth Way. tel 871508 (ian.constable1@ntlworld.com) as soon as possible and certainly by the end of July.

• Open gardens

Our Open Gardens event was a great success! We would like to thank everyone who joined in, whether you opened you own garden, visited the gardens in the village, enjoyed tea and cake in the church (thanks to all our cake-makers and to Catherine Cairns in particular for her selection of homemade jams!) or made donations.  More than £400 was raised for this year’s chosen charity Help for Heroes!