Cambridge Harmony Chorus is a ladies’ Barbershop choir. It is a friendly and exciting group with high ambitions. It has a wide age range and also a large voice range. We are always particularly pleased to welcome people with low voices. This year we have sung at the Bournemouth Convention, Mill Road Christmas Fair, EACH fundraising event, Anglesey Abbey, Wimpole Hall and various other venues in and around Cambridge.
Come and join us:
Organiser: Sue Whykes
When: Monday 7.30 – 9.15– almost every week
Where: Christ the Redeemer Church, Newmarket Road, CB5 8RS (good parking)
Contact: through our website: cambridgeharmony.org.uk and for further details.
Upcoming programme of workshops at David Parr House:
Button Making with Kate Webber
Saturday 18th January
10.30 am – 1.00pm
£50 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/button-making-with-kate-webber/
Signwriting and Gold Leaf Gilding with Carlie Allan
Saturday 25th January
10.30 am – 3.30pm
£85 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/signwriting-and-gold-leaf-gilding/
Victorian Valentine’s Puzzle Purses with Nastasha Boyce
Saturday 8th February
10.30am – 2.00pm
£60 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/victorian-valentines-puzzle-purse-with-nastasha-boyce/
Print & Make a Lampshade with Lydia Finney
Saturday 15th February
10.30 am – 1.30pm
£85 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/print-make-a-lampshade-with-lydia-finney/
The Art of Broom Making with John Bailey
Saturday 8th March
10.30am – 2.30pm
£80 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/the-art-of-broom-making-with-john-bailey/
Screenprint Monoprinting with Adam Bridgland
Saturday 22nd March
10.30 am – 1.00pm
£55 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/screenprint-mono-printing-with-adam-bridgland-march2025/
Designing & Printing with Block Print with Nicholas Hughes
Saturday 29th March
10.30 am – 4.00pm
£80 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/designing-and-printing-with-block-print-with-nicholas-hughes/
The Art of the Rag Rug with Lu Mason
Saturday 12th April
10.30am – 3.30pm
£80 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/the-art-of-the-rag-rug-with-lu-mason/
Drypoint Etching & Chine Collé
Saturday 26th April
10.30 am – 3.30pm
£75 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/drypoint-etching-and-chine-colle-with-susie-turner/
The Art of Hand Embroidery with Richard McVetis
Saturday 3rd May
10.30 am – 3.30pm
£95 per person
https://davidparrhouse.org/product/drypoint-etching-and-chine-colle-with-susie-turner/
Learn to Play Handbell Music
Follow a 10-week course, at the end of which you will be able to read and ring a wide variety of handbell music (and probably want to learn more!).
Never rung handbells before? Can’t read music, or feeling rusty? The course assumes no prior knowledge of handbells or reading music.
When? and Where? Monday mornings from 10.00 am to 12 noon, starting 6 January 2025. Pampisford Village Hall, Church Lane CB22 3 ET
Who can join? The class is run as a Sawston u3a activity. See website https://sawston-area.u3asite.uk/
Not yet a member? You can join at a reduced rate after 1 January 2025. Contact Enrolment Secretary on 07780 661118
More questions? Contact Mike on 01223 290788 or rowlandm960@gmail.com
Current as of December 2024
BALLROOM & SEQUENCE DANCES
HIAM Sports & Social Club, Putney Hill Rd. Prickwillow, Ely, Cambs. CB7 4UU. Contact details on Website: https://www.hiam.org.uk/?page=ballroom
Lovely dance floor. Great acoustics. Licensed bar. Level access. Raffle. Free Wifi. Ample free parking. Doors open at 7pm for evening dances. (1 pm for Tea dances)
Sunday Tea dances : 2 til 5 pm Members £6.50. Non-members £8.00 incl. tea/coffee/biscuits.
Saturday night dances : 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Members £7.50. Non-members £9.00.
50/50 BALLROOM & SEQUENCE DANCES at Hiam 2024/2025
All dances listed below are ‘pay at the door”.
Plus: Thursday tea dances with CDs hosted by Amanda &Richard, 2-4:30 p.m. £4 including tea/coffee/biscuits.
Walking Rugby
Would you like to join a small group to play walking rugby at Cambridge Rugby Club, Grantchester Road, on Wednesday evenings at 6pm. Under lights in the winter. This is all about fun and exercise and no recent rugby experience required. Tackling is by touch only!
If you are interested please email: paul.seviour@btopenworld.com
Current as of September 2024
St Matthew’s Primary School
Interested in volunteering?
St Matthew’s Primary School is a dynamic, multi-cultural school based in the heart of Cambridge. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to facilitate a fun conversation group with our pupils who have English as an additional language! If you can give up a minimum of 20 minutes a week, we would love to hear from you! Please get in contact to find out more details: Email: frahman@stmatthews.cambs.sch.uk
Telephone: 01223 568838
Current as of November 2024
Scruffs Salon – hair models wanted for 2025!
Scruffs runs their hairdressing training school on Bridge Street every Wednesday afternoon between 3.30pm and 7pm. Call or email the salon to book in your complimentary blow dry or a half price haircut. Email: salon@scruffs.com or call: 01223 355358
Call for participants – men invited to take part in focus groups.
About the project: PhD researcher Ellie Buxton would like to hear from men about their thoughts on different attitudes towards women. She’s recruiting for focus groups with 4-8 men per group, which can be run offline or online, and will be 90 minutes max. Participants will also be entered into a prize draw where there is the chance to win one of 7 Love2shop voucher prizes! (1x £100, 2x £50, and 4x £25). It’s also important to note that all members of the groups would remain anonymous in the write up of her study and all research outputs.
Contact E.R.Buxton@lboro.ac.uk to learn more and find out how to take part.
Volunteers sought for school place appeals panels
Parents/carers have the right to appeal if their child is not offered a place in their preferred school. We coordinate an Independent Panel to review a school’s decision to refuse a school place and determine whether one should be offered, or not.
We urgently need volunteers to be part of this professional panel – Please Apply Today! – Full training will be given. Please see further information on the following website – School admission appeals panel volunteering | Cambridgeshire County Council or contact Clare.Cronk@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Current as of October 2024
Diabetes research study
Do you know anyone living with diabetes? Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge are recruiting for a PhD study looking at the use of a blood flow restriction technique in healthy and diabetic feet. The aim is to improve the health of people living with diabetic foot, which can be a life changing condition. If you are living with diabetes with either healthy feet or diabetic feet, please consider taking part in this 4-week research study. Find out more information here: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/angliaruskin/ipcdiabetes or email Chloe French at ccaf100@pgr.aru.ac.uk by mid-November.
Information for walkers: Rights of Way and obstructions
The Rights of Way officer for South Cambridgeshire is anxious to support users of footpaths and wants to encourage members of the public to report obstructions. You can do this via the Report It page on the Council website here: https://highwaysreporting.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/
It is helpful to upload a photo if possible. The Officer’s name is Oliver and his telephone number is 07393 142 442. His email address is oliver.ayto@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.