Social Events
For What's on in Widcombe click here
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Social events are an important part of our activities and our regular Spring AGM and Autumn Meeting are designed to be social occasions as well. In alternate years, we organise a Widcombe Festival, packing a variety of activities into June. Some of our more popular events are for members and their guests only, so if you are not a member, you should consider joining (Click Contact/Join above).
Our social events year begins on New Year's Day, when the Widcombe Mummers, sponsored by the Widcombe Association, make appearances at various venues in Widcombe.
The Garden Club meets throughout the Winter.
For this year's events to date, click here. This year we were pleased that Crowe Hall was again to be the setting for another Bath Opera production on 23rd & 24th June, by kind permission of the Lees family. Following our picnics, we were entertained by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
Prior Park Buildings residents invited us to be their guests at a Promenade Party held in front of their terrace on 2nd July, where we wandered along beside the stream and admired their beautiful and varied front gardens while enjoying wine, music, and the company of other WA members - this in aid of the maintenance fund for the stream. (This was for WA members and guests only).
On 25 June a new footpath was opened that will provide a lovely round trip walk up to the Landscape Garden and back avoiding the main road. Alistair Durie's extensive knowledge of local history and St Thomas' has been taken in hand by Sian Lewis and Tony Coverdale and fashioned into a booklet that will was launched on 1 July at St Thomas'.
The concert is by a Handful of Singers was held on 18th June in the beautiful church of the Widcombe Baptists - a wonderful setting for an outstanding choir, joined on this occasion by a choir from Widcombe CofE Junior School.
There were more gardens (Lyncombe Court & The Grove on 17th June), walks, teas, and of course The Widcombe Art Trail on 11th & 12th June - with more artists and venues than before.
We hope our social programme will make people aware of the beauty and history of the area, and will help to bring residents together to meet their neighbours and make new friends.
If you would like to receive reminders and invitations to our events by email, please follow this link: http://eepurl.com/gBI61 Note that you do not have to live in Widcombe or be a member of the Association to subscribe - so please invite your friends to join!
Also in 2008 and 2010 the Widcombe Association provided financial and moral support to the wonderful Widcombe Rising Street Party run by The Natural Theatre Company and will do so again in 2012. For information on this and other Widcombe events, check out Widcombe.net.
For photos and details of past events, click here. For forthcoming events, click 'What's On'
We should like feedback on all events and suggestions for new ventures. Contact Chris Rogers on 448171 or events@widcombeassociation.org.uk.
Considerable organisation is involved, so if any members can help in stewarding, distributing posters, or in any other way, please contact Chris Rogers as above.