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Live and Local
using big brush watercolour technique. Entry is free for members, £5 for visitors. Contact Jean Paterson 01234 307210 or www. bedsartsociety.co.uk for information.
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Tel: 07799 398555 or 01234 713151 23a High Street South, Olney, Bucks, MK46 4AA
FOODBANK OPEN
@Phonebox Office, Unit 2 Stanley Court, Olney, MK46 5NH
Taking donations all week, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5.30pm
Rascals Short Mat Bowls Club
MK Food Bank supply food to families and individuals who are in urgent need in and around the Milton Keynes area.
Your drop-off point is Phonebox Magazine of ce or Newport Pagnell Medical Centre. The Food Bank are now supplementing their food parcels with much-needed toiletries too. You can donate items such as shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes and soap.
@Lavendon Village Hall
The Food Bank - sowing the seeds of love.
1, 8, 15, 22, 29 July, Friday, 10am-midday 5, 12, 19, 26 July, Tuesday, 7:30-9:30pm We are a small and friendly Short Mat Bowls Club and we are looking for new members. Meeting every Tuesday and Friday. Beginners and experienced players welcome. For further details, call Dorothy on 01933 663 558.
Britain in Bloom
Olney Ward Surgeries
@Newport Pagnell
1 July, Friday 7.30pm
July/August
Held on the rst Friday of each month. If you have any concerns about services provided by MKC please come along.
There are 2 Britain in Bloom Competitions this year: one for the best front garden in Newport Pagnell, and one for the best oral display by a publican. You don’t need to register; we’ll be taking photographs of front gardens & pubs in July/August this year. But if you would like us to pay particular attention to your front garden or pub, email Janine on web@newport-pagnell.org.uk. You don’t need a large garden; even the smallest of spaces will be considered. Trophies will be awarded at September’s Horticultural Show.
From 3rd July:
@Olney Centre
North Buckinghamshire Decorative and Fine Arts Society
@Lovat Hall, Newport Pagnell
No meeting in July or August
Jazz in the Garden
@Bartlemas Farm, High Street, Pavenham, MK43 7PD
3 July, Sunday, 2.15pm
Enjoy Richard Leach’s Jazz & Swing Band playing jazz, show songs and ballads from 1920s-1960s. Licensed pay bar available. Adult ticket £13, children £5 (5-16 years old), includes a cream tea & steam train rides for children. Tickets from Derek (01234 823821) and Roger Whilding (01234 8224893). Book early to avoid disappointment. In aid of the Friends of St Peter’s Pavenham.
Usually meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month in Newport Pagnell. Coffee at 10:15, chairman’s notices at 10.50, lecture at 11am.
Hanslope & District Historical Society
@The Club, 28 High Street, Hanslope
No meeting in July or August
Meet on the third Thursday of every month (except July, August and December) Visitors and new members very welcome. Membership £5 per year. Visitors £2 per meeting. Further details on the society website: mkheritage.co.uk/hdhs.
Refreshments at the Museum
Teas at Tyringham
@St Peter’s Church, Tyringham
3 July, Sunday, 3pm
Come and enjoy a relaxing afternoon at St Peter’s from 3pm.
@Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney
3 July, Sunday, 12pm-5pm
Love2iron
Ironing Service
First booking £3.50/kilo £4.50/kilo for future bookings
Will collect and deliver within a 5 mile radius of Turvey
Hangers and laundry bag supplied
Will do weekly/fortnightly/monthly/adhoc - whatever is convenient for you
Text or ring Julie on 07766 554 173
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Olney Archaeological Society
This is the day of Olney Open Gardens. Refreshments available from 1pm onwards and the gardens will be open too! Proceeds to The Friends of Cobbs Garden Surgery and The Kitchener Centre. There will be plants for sale in the courtyard.
@Olney Centre
No meeting in July or August
(Next meeting 6 September, Tuesday)
The next meeting is on 6th September: “In Search of Alfred the Great” – Dr Katie Tucker. Members £20 (19 lectures), visitors £3 per lecture (inc. refreshments). For further details, visit mkheritage.org.uk/oas.
Olney Open Gardens
Three Hares Art Gallery - Colin Veitch
This event is supporting 2 local charities: The Kitchener Centre and Friends of Cobbs Garden Surgery. There are a variety of gardens to visit, including the gardens of St Joseph’s Convent, the community allotments & Cowper and Newton Museum Gardens. Additional activities will be taking place in the gardens, including A Capella singing, lacemaking, and a gardening expert on hand to answer horticultural queries. Plant sales and a raf e will take place and homemade cakes and refreshments will be available in the museum courtyard. Ticket to cover all the gardens will be £5 (accompanied under 16s go free). Tickets available prior to the event from CT Wilson, and the Museum. Available on the day from ‘Claremont’ 89, Moores Hill; 10 West St or the Museum. Further details from 01234 711503 or maryjcrouch@icloud. com.
@Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney
29 June-29 July, 10.30am-4.30pm
‘Out of Print and Out of Paint’’ – Colin Veitch will be exhibiting a variety of print techniques; collagraphs; drypoint and coloured relief lino-cut prints and paintings. Colin will also be demonstrating his skills in the Museum’s Gardens on 3rd July.
From 1st July:
Olney Senior Citizens Club
@Olney Centre
1 July - Whist
8 July - Bingo
15 July - 90th Birthday Tea + entertainment 22 July - Two Summers Together
From 4th July:
29 July - Cream Tea
All meetings are on Fridays at 2pm.
Milton Keynes & District 41 Club
The Two Brewers Events
4 July, Monday 7.45pm
First Monday of each month (2nd Monday if the first is a Bank Holiday)
All ex-Round Tablers are welcome. If you’re interested, contact regwright@newpag.com.
@The Two Brewers, High Street, Olney Showing all Euros games in the marquee in our beer garden on the big screen... BBQ on all England games.
1 July, Friday: Beer & Wine Festival
2 July, Saturday: Beer & Wine Festival
3 July, Sunday: Beer & Wine Festival with a Steel Band and Open Mic Night
14 July, Thursday: IndieGo Night - outside in the garden! from 8pm
21 July, Thursday: Comedy Night
28 July, Thursday: Quiz Night
The Bedford Branch of The Royal Anglian Regiment Association
@The Keep, Bedford Road, Kempston, MK42 8AJ
Monthly meetings on 1st Friday of each month. Bar opens at 7.30pm, meeting commences 8pm. If you’re an ex serviceman/woman of any arm feel free to join us.
@Putnoe Heights Church, Bedford, MK41 8EB
1 July, Friday, 7.15pm for 7.30pm start Marilyn Allis, captures light and atmosphere
Lavendon WI
1 July, Friday, 8pm
@Wilstead Village Hall, Cotton End Road, Wilstead, MK45 3BX
4 July, Monday, 7.30pm for 8pm
A friendly group of gardeners with an interest in alpine/rock garden plants. Plant sales (not just alpines) from a specialist nursery. This month’s talk is about alpine plants in Sweden. Visitors welcome, £3 including refreshments.
Bedford Art Society Meeting
4, 11, 18, 25 July, Monday, 9am-2pm
@Olney
3 July, Sunday, 12.00-5.00pm
@The Swan Revived, Newport Pagnell
Land of Tea and Glory
Vintage China Hire
Hos$ng a Wedding, Engagement, Hen or Special Party? Contact Jan Hardcastle
For tea cups, plates, tea and coffee pots, cake stands, table covers, bun$ng and more.
www.facebook.com/teaandglory landoEeaandglory@gmail.com 07876508027
@Lavendon Village Hall
4 July, Monday, 7.45pm
The group meet on the rst Monday of the month.
Alpine Garden Society, Beds Branch
Monday Lunch Club: Volunteers Needed
Could you spare one Monday morning a month as a volunteer making lunch at the Lunch Club? We are a wonderful group of elderly people and, for many of us, the lunch club is the only reason we get a hot meal or