Out and About - Winter 2021

Friday, November 26 Beenham Primary School, PTFA Christmas Fair, 5pm-7pm. Stall holders £15. Saturday, November 27 Christmas Market, Pineapple Café, Rowan Drive, Newbury, 10am-4pm. (And Sunday, 28) Local artisan businesses and crafters selling gifts. Plus refreshments Christmas Fair, Sherborne St John Village Hall, 2pm-4pm. Fundraiser for the Grange nursing home. An evening with Darren Higgins, psychic medium, Portal Hall, Church Lane, Burghclere, 7pm-11pm. Organised by Burghclere Pre-school and Toddler Group. Tickets from Eventbrite. Woolton Hill Christmas Market, St Thomas’s Church, Woolton Hill, 10.30am. Festive market with local foods, home made crafts and Christmas gifts. Basing House Christmas Fayre, Basing House, 11am-4pm. More than 25 stalls offering local made crafts, produce and gifting ideas. A DAY AT THE RACES Newbury Racecourse For more information and to book tickets visit www.newburyracecourse.co.uk NOVEMBER Thursday 25 Ladbrokes Winter Carnival Preview Night Friday 26 Ladbrokes Winter Carnival – Gentleman’s Day Saturday 27 Ladbrokes Winter Carnival – Ladbrokes Trophy Day DECEMBER Wednesday 15 BetVictor Christmas Raceday Wednesday 29 MansionBet Challow Hurdle Day Alder Bridge School Advent Fayre, Mill Lane, Padworth, 12noon-3pm. Seasonal crafts, artisan stalls, raffle, puppet show, refreshments and live music.

Santa Run, Newbury from 2019

Christmas Market, Spurcroft Primary School, Thatcham 12noon-2pm. Organised by Friends of Spurcroft. Quiz night, Midgham Village Hall, 7pm Teams of up to six. Tickets £12 includes a fish and chip supper. Tickets from jer. harding1@gmail.com Sunday, November 28 Christmas Fair, National Animal Welfare Trust, Trindledown Farm, 11m-3pm. Variety of stalls selling goods, gifts and local produce and festive food and drink available to buy. Santa Claus will be making a special appearance for the event and children will have the chance to visit Santa’s Grotto for some Christmas related activities. Entry into the event is £2. All funds raised through this event will go towards the care of

elderly animals at the centre.

Newbury Santa Fun Run, Market Place, Newbury, check in 9am-10am for 10.30am start. Registration before the event is essential. Visit www.newburyrotary.org Yateley Common Sunday Conservation Group, Stroud Lane Car Park, 10am-1pm. Join the volunteers to help carry out winter scrub cutting on Yateley Common and help to conserve and maintain the heathland habitat.

Thatcham Litter Pickers, meet Thatcham Scout Hut, 10am-11am

Spring bulb planting, Walton Way Play Park, 10am-2pm. In support of the Puple4Polio intitiative created by the Rotary Club of Great Britain.

Ladbrokes Winter Carnival 2019

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O&A WINTER 2021