Clubs/Groups/Events
Local groups meeting for leisure activities in local villages
Art Group
Unfortunately, the Art Group is no longer running at the Village Hall. If it starts up again, you will read about it on this page.
Ashwren Players
The Annual General meeting will be held on Wednesday 16th July 2008 at 7.30 pm in the Margaret Preston room of Wreningham Village Hall. This is a public meeting and anybody interested in joining the group are most welcome to attend.
“Bumped Off” – A Murder Mystery is being performed 3 times by some of the Ashwren Players. The first performance took place on Saturday 5th July at Ashwellthorpe Village Hall, in aid of funds for that village hall. An account of that evening's entertainment, will appear on the Events > Write Ups page.
Tickets are available for the second performance which is on Saturday September 6th at Wreningham Village Hall and in aid of funds for that hall. It is planned to change the caste and the plot so this will not be exactly the same as the first performance. Tickets are £5.00 and there will not be any food.
The third performance will be at Mulbarton Village Hall an aid of our own funds. We have a choice of 3 dates in October 4th, 11th & 25th. As we hope to be rehearsing for a pantomime by October it would probably be ideal to go for the first date so unless I have several people say that they can’t manage Saturday 4th October, I will get Karen to book that date. Get back to me if you want us to book one of the alternative dates. Details of that performance and tickets will be available at the AGM.
Rehearsals will start in the early Autumn for the 2009 Panto.
News - 6 April 2008 A small profit was made from Panto 2008 which will go towards the cost of storage for all our equipment. We are currently looking for a large shed either complete with site or to relocate, so if you know of one we would be pleased to hear from you on 01508 488123. The Players are looking to put on a play or similar this year and a pantomime in Spring 2009.
Panto 2008 This February's production was "Aladdin" - a splendid entertainment. For a review see Leisure> Events Write Ups etc. page; for pictures see Photo Album.
The proceeds of the Wreningham Witch and Wren Festival of 30 June/1 July 2007 are to be split three-ways, with the Ashwren Players being one of the recipients.
Panto 2007 - "Little Red Hiding Hood – the Panto" was the 2007 production. For write up see Leisure > Events Write Ups etc.; for pictures see Photo Album.
Exercise Club at Ashwellthorpe Village Hall The six week sessions for the Exercise Club, which first started in December 2007, run from 2.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. in Ashwellthorpe Village Hall on Monday or Friday afternoons. Each six-week session costs £21.50 payable on the first day of that session. For further details, contact Sid Weiner.
First Wednesdays
The new-look coffee morning which started on Wednesday 5 September 2007 at Ashwellthorpe Village Hall took over from the weekly With Us on Wednesdays. It will only be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 10.00 a.m. until Noon, so the next one to be held will be on Wednesday 6 August 2008.
There will be a Bring and Buy Sale or a Cake and Produce Stall at each of these coffee mornings so come along and enjoy a cuppa and a chat with friends and neighbours in the centre of the village.
Line Dancing
The Line Dancers step away the evening every Thursday from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. at Ashwellthorpe Village Hall, at a cost of £3.00 each. There is some space for more of you to come along and enjoy the undoubted exercise and pleasure that stepping along to all kinds of music can give.
Mobile Library
The next visits to Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall by the Mobile Library van will be on Friday 11 July 2008 for the library points in Ashwellthorpe only and on Monday 14 July 2008 for the library points in Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall, and it visits every three weeks. Full details for the times of each visit to each library point are given in the Events Calendar.
Don't forget - any books you borrow from the mobile library on its visits to Ashwellthorpe can be returned to Wymondham, Norwich or other libraries within the Norfolk County Library area and vice versa.
SHUFFLEBOARD CLUB
THE NEXT COMPETITION NIGHT WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST 2008.
Competition Night Reports - See Leisure > Events Write Ups Page for all the details
MONTHLY COMPETITION NIGHTS
The Shuffleboard Club held its first monthly competition night on Wednesday 27 February 2008 in the Village hall from 19.30 to 21.30; thereafter the monthly competiton nights will be held on the last Wednesday of every month. The charge will be the usual £2.00 per head.
For the format of each competition night See Leisure > Events Write Ups etc.
Gordon Robbie
NEWS FROM 6 FEBRUARY 2008
Fees lowered to £2.00 per person for two hour session; results of full questionnaire - see Leisure > Events Write Ups etc.
NEWS FROM JULY 2007
The Club got off to a great start with 18 people at the first Club Night on Wednesday 4 July 2007 and is continuing to be enjoyed by the players. Each Wednesday evening meeting has settled down to a regular number of 9 or 10 players; but the gratifying thing is that this number often has differing players, new players and occasional players. This gives the Shuffleboard Group a core of about twenty players but, as ever, new members are always welcome.
8 players at a time can use the two courts available whilst the others relax, watch, make observations on the tactics and standard of play - both humorous and serious, tongue-in-cheek and constructive - and talk about many things. Games are now played for 8 ends, usually doubles, so that everyone can make a real match of their game and further ideas of having an end of year trophy match (singles and/or doubles) are sometimes discussed. The two display scoreboards and two adjustable-length cues which were paid for by a third loan from a village family are now well in use.
So every Wednesday evening from 19.30 to 21.30 is the time, the Village Hall is the place and £2.00 a head is the price – All welcome - hope to see you there!
Table Tennis
The Table Tennis Club meets on Monday evenings with the exception of Bank Holidays, in Ashwellthorpe Village Hall at 8 p.m. and new members are always welcome. The standard of play ranges from the brilliant to the bizarre - often from the same player - so anyone is welcome from beginners to experts. The Club provides bats and balls so if you don't have your own kit, all you need bring is a pair of trainers. There is no Club subscription, but there is a charge of £1.50 per head per evening to pay for the hire of the Hall and the supply of balls.
Whether you are starting from scratch or reviving the remembered skills of a lost youth, or anything in between, just turn up any Monday and give it a try – good company, good exercise and, often enough, a good laugh!
Women’s Institute
The new programme for WI Meetings in 2008 has now been posted on the Events Calendar for next year. The charity of interest to our WI in 2008 is PACT - the People for Animal Care Trust, an animal sanctuary covering Norfolk and North Suffolk which undertakes the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of all animals. It is based at River Farm, Woodrising, near Hingham. Mr G Rockingham of PACT attended the meeting on 8 January 2008 to tell us more.
The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 12 August 2008. The Wreningham & District Women’s Institute meets at 7.30p.m. in Ashwellthorpe Village Hall on the second Tuesday of each month. New members will always be very welcome so why not come along to one of the forthcoming meetings to see if it’s for you.
The East Coast Truckers Charity was Wreningham & District W.I.’s charity of interest during 2007. These are the Truckers who organise various events to raise so much money to help children and their families. They also organise the famous Children’s Convoy held every year during the August Bank Holiday; this year's event taking place last Sunday, the 26th. Some 84 trucks, with excited children as passengers, progressed in convoy from County Hall in Norwich to the seafront in Great Yarmouth. The children then went on to spend the afternoon on the various rides at Pleasurewood Hills - all on a perfect summer's day.
