Bladen Social Club raises funds for Help for Heroes (From Dorset Echo)

Bladen Social Club raises funds for Help for Heroes

8:21pm Saturday 19th March 2011 in Community

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• HELP for Heroes was the charity supported by the Bladen Social Club with a grand table-top sale, jumble sale and coffee morning in Briantspuddle village hall.

A big thank you goes to all the helpers who worked so hard, and everyone who came along to support it.

The event made a profit of £190, and Sue Jeanes tells me that the club will soon be sending off another £1,000 to Help for Heroes.

Bere Regis

• POP IN Performers are now recruiting new young members

If you are aged between six and 16 years and are interested in singing, dancing or acting and having fun you could be part of the coming summer show.

This is called Over the Rainbow, and will be staged on Saturday, June 25 at 2pm, and again at 7pm.

The show will be in aid of the British Heart Foundation.

Rehearsals are on Thursday nights from 6pm until 8pm.

If you would like to come along, or would like to talk the idea through, contact Alison on 01929 472023.

• CONGRATULATIONS to three former members of the scout group, Abbie, Koura and Rowan, as they were awarded their chief scouts Gold Award by assistant district commissioner, Malcolm Wroe.

This award is not given lightly; in fact this is the first time it has been awarded to a member of Bere Regis scout group, and is believed to be the first time it has been awarded in the Wareham and Isle of Purbeck district.

• LENT lunches go on each Wednesday at 12.30pm in the church until April 20.

Two choices of soup will be served with bread and butter and a cup of tea or coffee, and the lunches are in aid of Christian Aid.

• A SHORT communion service is to be held once a month at 11.30am for anyone unable to get to the earlier one on Sunday mornings.

If you need transport, or a wheelchair pusher, please contact church warden Sarah Welton on 01929 471562.

• A MAY Ball is to be held on Friday, May 6 at Athelhampton House.

Dine at 8pm, and dance until 1am. Dress is black tie.

This event s organised by the Friends of Bere Regis School.

Tickets cost £30, and this includes Pimms on the awn or in the great hall, a two-course dinner and coffee, and dancing to the live music of Chill.

Tickets are available from Bere Regis School on 01929 471334, or 471879.

• SCOUTS are again collecting both Sainsbury’s Active Kids 2011 and Tesco for Schools vouchers and would be grateful for all donations of vouchers.

The equipment obtained from both of these very generous initiatives really does benefit all the young people in the group, and helps to keep membership subscriptions down.

If you would like to donate vouchers, please contact Christine Whitfield on 01929 472159.

• RAINBOWS are girls aged fro five to seven years old who want to do exciting things – like playing games, making new friends and trying new activities.

Rainbows are a part of Girlguiding UK, and they meet in the scout hut in Elder Road on Mondays from 4.30pm until 5.30pm.

To find out more, contact leader Sue Bonfield on 01929 427281.

• THE AGM of the village hall is Friday, April 8 at 7pm in the lower hall.

Everyone is welcome to attend, and coffee and biscuits will be served after the meting.

• EASTER prize bingo will be held at the village hall on Monday, April 18, eyes down at 7.30pm.

Any donations of prizes with an Easter theme will be gratefully received.

Contact Alison on 01929 472023.