What’s On

Please find below this month’s event calendar in full, hover over the items for more information.

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Annual Beer FestivalAnnual Beer Festival

The Wreake Valley Rotary Club 8th Annual Beer Festival will be held at the Syston Social Club, High street, Syston. £5 admission includes 1st pint. CAMRA members £4. Food available at all sessions. Thursday 5.00pm to 11.00pm, Friday 3.00pm to 11.00pm, Saturday 12noon to 11.00pm, Sunday 12noon to 3.00pm, Monday 12noon to 3.00pm. details at www.wreakevalleyrotary.org.uk
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Bring and BuyBring and Buy

10.00am to 12.00noon. Church Hall, Lower Church Street, Syston. Proceeds to Multiple Sclerosis
Annual Beer FestivalAnnual Beer Festival

The Wreake Valley Rotary Club 8th Annual Beer Festival will be held at the Syston Social Club, High street, Syston. £5 admission includes 1st pint. CAMRA members £4. Food available at all sessions. Thursday 5.00pm to 11.00pm, Friday 3.00pm to 11.00pm, Saturday 12noon to 11.00pm, Sunday 12noon to 3.00pm, Monday 12noon to 3.00pm. details at www.wreakevalleyrotary.org.uk
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Annual Beer FestivalAnnual Beer Festival

The Wreake Valley Rotary Club 8th Annual Beer Festival will be held at the Syston Social Club, High street, Syston. £5 admission includes 1st pint. CAMRA members £4. Food available at all sessions. Thursday 5.00pm to 11.00pm, Friday 3.00pm to 11.00pm, Saturday 12noon to 11.00pm, Sunday 12noon to 3.00pm, Monday 12noon to 3.00pm. details at www.wreakevalleyrotary.org.uk
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Annual Beer FestivalAnnual Beer Festival

The Wreake Valley Rotary Club 8th Annual Beer Festival will be held at the Syston Social Club, High street, Syston. £5 admission includes 1st pint. CAMRA members £4. Food available at all sessions. Thursday 5.00pm to 11.00pm, Friday 3.00pm to 11.00pm, Saturday 12noon to 11.00pm, Sunday 12noon to 3.00pm, Monday 12noon to 3.00pm. details at www.wreakevalleyrotary.org.uk
Biggest Clothes CollectionBiggest Clothes Collection

Between 1st and 30th april T.K.Maxx are collecting unwanted clothes at their stores to help raise money for Cancer Research. Step 1 Bag up your unwanted quality clothes. Step 2 Drop them off at t TK Maxx or Cancer Research UK shop. Step 3 Each bag could raise £30 for Cancer Research UK. If you gift aid your bag it is worth 25% more at no extra cost to you.
Secret Gardens of CossingtonSecret Gardens of Cossington

Bank Holiday Weekend 11.00am to 5.00pm each day Passport to Open Gardens Adults: £3.50 Children and car parking free Ady Dayman, presenter of East Midlands TV and BBC Radio Leicester's Down To Earth, will be at Derry's Nurseries to answer gardening questions. ‘Hearing Dogs for Deaf People’demonstration on Monday. Plus: Village gardens open, art exhibition in church, displays, plant and other stalls, tombola, raffle, quiz, refreshments, Pimm’s tent, hot dogs, children’s activity and much more. For more information contact: 07754 892 842 or email: pennyweston-webb@talktalk.net. All proceeds towards church repairs, extension and refurbishment. Organised by Friends of All Saints Church Cossington on behalf of P.C.C.Registered Charity No. 1057674.
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Farm Open DayFarm Open Day

10.00am to 4.00pm Following on from the success of last year's event, Pick's Organic Farm at King Street, Hamilton Grounds, Barkby Thorpe will be holding another Farm Open Day to help raise funds for Soar Valley Music Centre, a music charity based in Leicester. There will be live music from students and staff of the Music Centre, craft stalls, cream teas, barbecue, games, a bouncy castle, animals and lots more to entertain the whole family. For more information on the Farm Day, please contact Pick's Organic Farm on 0116 269 3548. For more information about the Music Centre, please call 0116 266 4153 or see the website www.musicentre.co.uk.
Annual Beer FestivalAnnual Beer Festival

The Wreake Valley Rotary Club 8th Annual Beer Festival will be held at the Syston Social Club, High street, Syston. £5 admission includes 1st pint. CAMRA members £4. Food available at all sessions. Thursday 5.00pm to 11.00pm, Friday 3.00pm to 11.00pm, Saturday 12noon to 11.00pm, Sunday 12noon to 3.00pm, Monday 12noon to 3.00pm. details at www.wreakevalleyrotary.org.uk
Biggest Clothes CollectionBiggest Clothes Collection

Between 1st and 30th april T.K.Maxx are collecting unwanted clothes at their stores to help raise money for Cancer Research. Step 1 Bag up your unwanted quality clothes. Step 2 Drop them off at t TK Maxx or Cancer Research UK shop. Step 3 Each bag could raise £30 for Cancer Research UK. If you gift aid your bag it is worth 25% more at no extra cost to you.
Secret Gardens of CossingtonSecret Gardens of Cossington

Bank Holiday Weekend 11.00am to 5.00pm each day Passport to Open Gardens Adults: £3.50 Children and car parking free Ady Dayman, presenter of East Midlands TV and BBC Radio Leicester's Down To Earth, will be at Derry's Nurseries to answer gardening questions. ‘Hearing Dogs for Deaf People’demonstration on Monday. Plus: Village gardens open, art exhibition in church, displays, plant and other stalls, tombola, raffle, quiz, refreshments, Pimm’s tent, hot dogs, children’s activity and much more. For more information contact: 07754 892 842 or email: pennyweston-webb@talktalk.net. All proceeds towards church repairs, extension and refurbishment. Organised by Friends of All Saints Church Cossington on behalf of P.C.C.Registered Charity No. 1057674.
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Coffee MorningCoffee Morning

10.00 to 12noon. 6 Oriel Drive, Syston. Anne and Joanne welcome you to visit and help raise fund for the St Aiden’s Bell at St Peter and St Paul’s Church. There will be a variety of stalls including plants, cakes and tombola.
Charnwood Conservative AssociaCharnwood Conservative Associa

10.00 am till 12.00 noon. Spring Fair at The Rothley Centre. Mountsorrel Lane Rothley. Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP will be attending. Admission 50p. Raffle,Tombola, Books, Plants, Produce stalls, Games Cakes and Bric a Brac.
Spring Fair Spring Fair

10.00am to 12.30pm Syston Methodist Church HallHigh Street, SystonStalls include: New, Plants, Cards, Tombola, Raffle, Cakes Admission by donation. In aid of Cancer Research UK Syston Support.
Car Boot saleCar Boot sale

Set up 7.30am Open to the public 8.00am Rearsby Village Hall Playing Field.
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E. G. Scout Group Summer FeteE. G. Scout Group Summer Fete

1.00 to 4.00pm Jubilee Playing Fields, East Goscote. Competitions, Dog Show, Shooting, Games, Stalls, BBQ. For more details visit our new website www.eastgoscotescouts.org.uk
Biggest Clothes CollectionBiggest Clothes Collection

Between 1st and 30th april T.K.Maxx are collecting unwanted clothes at their stores to help raise money for Cancer Research. Step 1 Bag up your unwanted quality clothes. Step 2 Drop them off at t TK Maxx or Cancer Research UK shop. Step 3 Each bag could raise £30 for Cancer Research UK. If you gift aid your bag it is worth 25% more at no extra cost to you.
Charity Plant saleCharity Plant sale

New Zealand Lane Charity Plant Sale. Our Spring plant sale will this year be held on Sunday 13th May from 10.00am until 4.00pm. We hope to have the usual variety of bedding plants, perennials, vegetables, planted tubs and baskets and some native wild flowers. Many thanks to all those who have given us plants, pots and hanging baskets since the last sale and to those who continue to buy plants and put their money through the door. There will also be refreshments for sale and a raffle. For more information please ring Pat on 0116 260 0680, Carole on 0116 260 5065 or Diana on 0116 260 6722
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Biggest Clothes CollectionBiggest Clothes Collection

Between 1st and 30th april T.K.Maxx are collecting unwanted clothes at their stores to help raise money for Cancer Research. Step 1 Bag up your unwanted quality clothes. Step 2 Drop them off at t TK Maxx or Cancer Research UK shop. Step 3 Each bag could raise £30 for Cancer Research UK. If you gift aid your bag it is worth 25% more at no extra cost to you.
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LOROS Cake Bake-Off LOROS Cake Bake-Off

Office staff at local hospice are to show culinary skills in time for special garden reveal. Staff at the Leicestershire & Rutland Hospice have challenged one another to demonstrate their cooking skills by arranging the LOROS Cake Bake-Off on 18th May. Tony Edwards and Ken Bools have challenged all LOROS staff members and volunteers at the Hospice on Groby Road to enter their culinary creations in two categories small or large cakes. The categories will be judged by two local professional chefs with the overall winner of the Best Cake of the Day receiving a three course meal, with wine, for two people donated by Entropy Restaurant on Hinckley Road, Leicester. All cakes entered will then be sold to visitors at the “Colour of Ribbons” event being held at the Hospice on Sunday 20th May. Visitors will have the chance to see the newly installedGarden ofLight and Reflection and, in exchange for a donation, will be able to tie a coloured ribbon onto a designated area of the garden in memory of a family member, friend or colleague. Ribbons will be available in different colours to suit the person being remembered and there will be three time allocations available on the day; 10.30am,12 noon and 1.30pm. Prior arrangements an a booking form is available on request from the hospice. Please note that limited parking will be available at the Hospice and access to the Chapel/Prayer Room will also be possible. All funds raised from both events will be for the benefit of LOROS Hospice,a local charity providing free palliative care to over 2,500 terminally-ill patients and their families every year. For any further information please contact the Fundraising Department on 0116 231 8484.
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Hungarton & Keyham W.I. Hungarton & Keyham W.I.

Plant Sale 12.00 noon – 4.30 p.m. Great selection-shrubs, perennials & vegetables including Bees, Butterfly and Insect attracting plants in the Scutts’ Courtyard, Old Farm, Main Street, Hungarton. LE7 9JR Homemade refreshments available all day (proceeds to the Air Ambulance). Entrance £1 including raffle ticket (proceeds to Denman College).
Coffee MorningCoffee Morning

10.00 to 12noon. Methodist Church Centre, High Street. A variety of Stalls including plants, tombola.In aid of Christian Aid.Churches Together Syston.
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LOROS Cake Bake-Off SaleLOROS Cake Bake-Off Sale

Office staff at local hospice are to show culinary skills in time for special garden reveal. Staff at the Leicestershire & Rutland Hospice have challenged one another to demonstrate their cooking skills by arranging the LOROS Cake Bake-Off on 18th May. Tony Edwards and Ken Bools have challenged all LOROS staff members and volunteers at the Hospice on Groby Road to enter their culinary creations in two categories small or large cakes. The categories will be judged by two local professional chefs with the overall winner of the Best Cake of the Day receiving a three course meal, with wine, for two people donated by Entropy Restaurant on Hinckley Road, Leicester. All cakes entered will then be sold to visitors at the “Colour of Ribbons” event being held at the Hospice on Sunday 20th May. Visitors will have the chance to see the newly installed Garden of Light and Reflection and, in exchange for a donation, will be able to tie a coloured ribbon onto a designated area of the garden in memory of a family member, friend or colleague. Ribbons will be available in different colours to suit the person being remembered and there will be three time allocations available on the day; 10.30am, 12 noon and 1.30pm. Prior arrangements an a booking form is available on request from the hospice. Please note that limited parking will be available at the Hospice and access to the Chapel/Prayer Room will also be possible. All funds raised from both events will be for the benefit of LOROS Hospice, a local charity providing free palliative care to over 2,500 terminally-ill patients and their families every year. For any further information please contact the Fundraising Department on 0116 2318484.
Hungarton & Keyham W.I. Hungarton & Keyham W.I.

Plant Sale 12.00 noon – 4.30 p.m. Great selection-shrubs, perennials & vegetables including Bees, Butterfly and Insect attracting plants in the Scutts’ Courtyard, Old Farm, Main Street, Hungarton. LE7 9JR Homemade refreshments available all day (proceeds to the Air Ambulance). Entrance £1 including raffle ticket (proceeds to Denman College).
Biggest Clothes CollectionBiggest Clothes Collection

Between 1st and 30th april T.K.Maxx are collecting unwanted clothes at their stores to help raise money for Cancer Research. Step 1 Bag up your unwanted quality clothes. Step 2 Drop them off at t TK Maxx or Cancer Research UK shop. Step 3 Each bag could raise £30 for Cancer Research UK. If you gift aid your bag it is worth 25% more at no extra cost to you.
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Biggest Clothes CollectionBiggest Clothes Collection

Between 1st and 30th april T.K.Maxx are collecting unwanted clothes at their stores to help raise money for Cancer Research. Step 1 Bag up your unwanted quality clothes. Step 2 Drop them off at t TK Maxx or Cancer Research UK shop. Step 3 Each bag could raise £30 for Cancer Research UK. If you gift aid your bag it is worth 25% more at no extra cost to you.
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Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival

The Boat House, Bridge Street, Barrow upon Soar Enter a team with a Corporate package, Group of Friend’s package, Charity package for your own charity and Junior package. Trophies for Overall winning team, Women’s Team and Junior under 16’s team. All profits to go to Living Without Abuse local charity. Enter before race day by contacting Michele on 01509 550 317 or michele@lwa.org.uk
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FILMS IN SYSTONFILMS IN SYSTON

The Old Chapel, Chapel Street, Syston. SARIC will be screening the film ‘The Iron Lady’ starring Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Richard E Grant and more. Showing her later years with flashbacks to her more powerful times. Coffee shop opens 2.00pm film 2.30pm. Tickets £4.50 available from The Bookmark, Melton Road, Syston, on the door or phone 0116 260 6876.
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