Haydon Bridge Event Claiming Day Diary 2024

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(local Events and previous years are Here)

January 2024

Thursday 18

General Havelock Food and Film Night BARBIE! Film starts at 8.00 £5. Food served from 7.15, £15 including film.

Booking essential

Tel 01434 684376

Tuesday 23

Havelock Charity Quiz Night in support of RNLI. £1.50 pp, Raffle and Refreshments

Table booking essential

Tel 01434 684376

Saturday 27

Haydonian Social Club - Crucial meeting to agree future of the club. Our current Chairman and Treasurer are retiring after 25 years' service. Can you help us to secure the future of the club and save our community run asset?

Please attend if you can 7-30pm

Shaftoe Street, Haydon Bridge, United Kingdom 0134 684383

February

Thursday 1	Haydon Bridge Nature Club 'Trekking the Inca Trail from Choquequirao to Machu Picchu' with Ian Foster 7-15pm Haydon Bridge Methodist Hall, Church Street	Contact and Full Details:- Here
Thursday 15	Haydon Bridge Nature Club 'Eco-efficient Farming: realistic goal or pie in the sky' with Chris Pollock 7-15pm Haydon Bridge Methodist Hall, Church Street	Contact and Full Details:- Here
Tuesday 20	Havelock Charity Quiz Night in support of Art4you Hexham. £1.50 pp, Raffle and Refreshments	Table booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Saturday 24	TOY SALE at the Community Centre, 10 to 12 am. Following the closure of the playgroup at the end of December. Come and grab yourself a bargain!
Wednesday 28	Travelling Poetry Event, run by NCC Libraries. At the Bridge Library in the afternoon.	Haydon Bridge Library 3-4pm Book for free via Eventbrite
Thursday 29	Haydon Bridge Nature Club 'AGM -Members Only' then 'Haydon Bridge Nurture Nature Project' with Siobhan Stephenson 7-15pm Haydon Bridge Methodist Hall, Church Street	Contact and Full Details:- Here

March

Monday 4	New Drawing for the terrified at the Community Centre. Mondays 10-12, £50 for 5 sessions	Contact sandicraig@gmail.com
Thursday 7	The village library is looking for more volunteers to enable opening as often as possible. No prior experience is necessary, all training will be given. We just need reliable people who care about this important community service. A drop-in session is being arranged for Thursday 7 March details below.
Thursday 7	World Book Day! Celebrate by coming along to the Library to find out about volunteering! Drop in from 10.30 to 2.30, and we’ll tell you all about it.
Saturday 9	Lego session at the Bridge. Free 10.30 to 11.30. Under 8’s must be accompanied
Tuesday 9	Every Tuesday – Knit and Natter at the Bridge. 1.30 to 3.30pm, free just being your knitting or crochet
Thursday 14	Haydon Bridge Nature Club 'Return of the Beavers' with NT's Helen McDonald of Wallington Ranger Team 7-15pm Haydon Bridge Methodist Hall, Church Street	Contact and Full Details:- Here
Thursday 21	General Havelock Food and Film Night 'Vivarium' Film starts at 8.00 £5. Food served from 7.15, £15 including film.	Booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Friday 22	Shaftoe Trust children singing for the Lunch Club, 12 noon in Community Centre main hall. Family and friends very welcome	Contact:- Carole admin@haydon-bridge.co.uk
Friday 22	Churches together Beetle Drive, 6 – 8 pm at the Methodist Church. All welcome, prizes, fun and refreshments for all the family. Small admission – pay on the door
Saturday 23	Toy Sale upstairs at the Community Centre, 10 – 12 am. Organised by HB playgroup
Monday 25	Easter crafts for children at the Bridge Library Church Street 10 – 11 am	Contact:- Carole admin@haydon-bridge.co.uk
Tuesday 26	Havelock Charity Quiz Night in support of Motor Neurone Disease Association. 8-15 pm £1.50 pp Raffle and Refreshments	Table booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Thursday 28	Haydon Bridge Nature Club 'Geology of the SW USA National Parks' with David Hughes (not 'Glaciers' as previously advertised) 7-15pm Haydon Bridge Methodist Hall, Church Street	Contact and Full Details:- Here
Friday 29	Churches Together Walk of Witness Meet 10.45 at the War Memorial, walking to the Old Bridge, Readings and Hymns, everyone welcome to join in
Saturday 30	Last chance to buy knitted egg cosies for Easter – Large £2.50 (fits Chocolate Orange) Small £1.50 (fits crème egg or large hens egg). A variety of chicks and rabbits

April

Friday 5	Friday Lunch Club returns after the Easter break. £5 For soup, sandwich and sweet. Community Centre Ratcliffe Road. From midday. Details of this year’s trip to Keswick will be available.	Contact: Carole Price 0793 9202930 e-mail caroleannprice@hotmail.co.uk
Saturday 6	LEGO Club on Saturdays 10.30 to 11.30 at the Bridge Library, Church Street	Contact:- The Bridge during opening hours 01434 688658
Tuesday 9	“Knit and Natter” on Tuesdays at 1.30 Free session	Contact: Carole Price 0793 9202930 e-mail caroleannprice@hotmail.co.uk
Monday 15	Squirrel Scout taster session. 16:30 to 18:00 at St John of Beverley Church Hall	Contact:- Rob Copley
Thursday 18	General Havelock Food and Film Night multi-Oscar winning “Poor Things” 2023 Cert 18 Film starts at 8.00 £5. Food served from 7.15, £15 including film.	Booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Saturday 27	Newcastle City Temple Salvation Army Band and Songsters Methodist Church, Church Street at 7.30, all welcome, pay at the door. Supper to follow.
Tuesday 30	Havelock Charity Quiz Night in support of Oak Tree Animal Charity. 8-15 pm £1.50 pp Raffle and Refreshments	Table booking essential Tel 01434 684376

May

Thursday 2	Community Centre Polling Station Ratcliffe Road H-B. Local government elections in England; Local authority mayoral elections; Combined authority mayoral elections; Police and Crime Commissioners
Tuesday 7	Railway Pub Church Street H-B. Quiz night, 8.00pm. Table booking advised
Saturday 11	Charity Football Match in support of Dementia UK, in memory of Dan Little. Kick off 2pm at Low Hall Park H-B. All welcome
Friday 17	Charity Quiz at the Haydonian Social Club, Sir Bobby Robson charity. 8pm start
Saturday 18	Annual Plant and Book Sale at the Bridge, Church Street. 9-30 - 11-30am. Proceeds support the village gardening work and the running of The Bridge. Donations of seedlings, cuttings and plants will be very welcome.	Contact:- The Bridge during opening hours 01434 688658 Carole Price with any queries and offers of help
Tuesday 21	Charity Quiz at the General Havelock in support of Christian Aid (HB Churches Together). 8.15 start, table booking essential, £1.50 per person, raffle and refreshments.	Booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Thursday 23	General Havelock Food and Film Night Carey Mulligan is “Promising Young Woman” 2020 Film starts at 8.00 £5. Food served from 7.15, £15 including film.	Booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Sunday 26	Northumberland Day 12 to 4 at Strothers Green. Music, stalls, games etc. All Welcome

June

Saturday 1	Shaftoe YFC Rally 2024 at Beacon Rigg Farm, Langley, Hexham Northumberland NE47 5LF. Open to the public from 11am. There are over 80 competitions to watch from tractor driving to tug of war.	Details Here
Saturday 1	Saturday Produce stall at the Bridge. Please bring donations and come and buy from 9.30, finishes at 12.30. House Plants etc, surplus from the recent sales, will be available too	Contact:- The Bridge during opening hours 01434 688658
Thursday 6	National Garden Scheme Hill House, Haydon Bridge, NE47 6LH. (It will be open again in September)	Pre-booking is essential via Here
Friday 7	Later this month – it will be time to get to grips with weeding the gardening projects, Ratcliffe Road and the Heatherbed in particular.	If you would like to help contact caroleannprice@hotmail.co.uk
Saturday 8	The Haydon Hundred Cyclo Sportif The 11th Anniversary of this popular cycle event 60km, 100km and 140km routes available	Details:- Check Here or Here
Saturday 8	Haydon Bridge Festival from 2 in the afternoon. Festival information and tickets on www.haydonbridgefestival.co.uk Tickets also available from the Railway Hotel, The Anchor Hotel, The General Havelock & Odd Fellows Cafe
Thursday 20	General Havelock Food and Film Night Ken Loach film “The Old Oak” 2023 The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of Northeast England, where people are leaving as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees. Film starts at 8.00 £5. Food served from 7.15, £15 including film.	Booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Friday 21	Happy Summer Solstice! The library is now opening on Fridays 3 to 6pm, come along and have a browse. Bring the children too, we are looking for ideas for the summer holidays.
Saturday 22	Gardening volunteers needed to weed the Heatherbed, an hour or so from 2.00pm. Bring tough gloves, trowels, pruners etc – if you have them. End of John Martin Street.
Tuesday 25	General Havelock Charity Quiz, for British Heart Foundation. 8.15 start, table booking essential, £1.50 per team member includes raffle and refreshments.	Booking essential Tel 01434 684376
Friday 28	H-B Friday Lunch Club trip to Keswick, free to regulars, £16 per seat for guests subject to availability. Leaving from the Community Centre, Ratcliffe Road 9am prompt. Free time in Keswick and returning to Haydon Bridge via a well-recommended Garden Centre	Contact Sandra Brough or call in on Fridays to the Community Centre

July

Thursday 4	General Election Voting in person from 7am to 10pm Langley Village Hall, Langley on Tyne and the Community Centre, Ratcliffe Road, Haydon Bridge. Photographic identification will be required	Accepted id:- Here
Friday 12	Summer visit of the Shaftoe schoolchildrens choir to the Lunch Club, 12 noon. Friends and families very welcome
Saturday 20	Hexham Male Voice Choir Summer Concert "Rhythms of Life" - a musical journey! 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Haydon Bridge Methodist Church Church Street H-B	Full details are Here Tickets £12 from Museum of Time (Haydon Bridge), on the door or online as above details link
Friday 26	Last Friday lunch club until 6 September
Tuesday 30	Charity Quiz at the General Havelock,, £1.50 per team member. In support of local charity Holly’s Hope Ltd – placing trauma kits in public venues	Table booking essential 684376

August

September

Saturday 21

Open Fun Day at the Bridge, Church Street from 10 to 4. Come and sample what goes on and let us know what you want to happen! Call out for village craftspeople to advertise their wares.

Cake and Plant stall at the Open Day - we will need donations from bakers and gardeners please. Contact the Bridge

Contact:- The Bridge during opening hours 01434 688658Contact the Bridge

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October

November

December

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