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Blackthorn Wood Pool Team |
The Blackthorn Wood pool team plays matches every Wednesday evening
in the Welland Valley Pool League. For more information, contact
George Barker
on
07904 954040. |
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Cottingham & Middleton Community Choir |
Cottingham
and Middleton Community Choir meets every Tuesday at the
Methodist Church Hall from 7.30pm and
9pm. Subs are just a £1 a week, and anyone aged 16 and
over is welcome to come and join in! Contact Pete Smith
on 771273, email
psmith1309@supanet.com
or Kath Vargerson on
kath.vargerson@aol.com,
or just come along. |
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Cottingham Crafters |
Monthly club meeting at the Village Hall Annex from 10am to
4pm on a Saturday.
The idea is for people into card
making, scrapbooking and jewellery-making to work on their
current projects with others, share ideas and make friends.
Admission costs £7.50 for a full day (£5 for OAPs, students and
under 16s) or £5 for half a day. Contact Emma Davies on 771221
or 07776 084190, email email@ejdavies.net |
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Crafty Monkeys |
A local craft
club for pre-school children, launching on Tuesday 20 April
2010.
‘Crafty Monkeys’
is a non-profit making venture organised and run by two local
mums to allow young children the freedom and opportunity to
express their creative ideas in a fun and safe environment.
There will be at least six different activities including one
main focus for each week and the children will be able to take
home everything they make.
The club meets
every Tuesday during term time, from 1.45pm to 2.45pm at Drayton
Village Hall. The cost is £18 for a 6-week term, payable in
advance, to include a drink and cake for each child. All
children will need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.
To book a
place, please contact
Nicola
Gumbeer, Church Street,
Cottingham on
770563,
email
nicolabond@tinyworld.co.uk
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Garden Society |
Your local
garden society meets at Great Easton Village Hall at 7.30 pm on
the 3rd Wednesday of each month. New members and visitors are
always welcome. During the year the Society has a variety of
interesting speakers and visits to some wonderful gardens. For
more information and details contact Ro Freeman on
770283 or by e-mail at
tonyfreeman48@aol.com. |
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Heritage Group (Cottingham and MIddleton) |
The Cottingham and Middleton
Heritage Group has been formed to help preserve the villages’
history and recent past for future generations. The Group is
looking to talk to people with knowledge of village
personalities, long-established village families, history of
buildings (standing or gone), past businesses and professions,
celebrations, events, groups and societies, Wartime involvement,
farming, land ownership and management, transport, ghost
stories, crime, humorous anecdotes….you name it!
The Group is also looking to
gather photographs of bygone days, recent pictures that show
significant changes in the villages, old maps, books, plans or
documents of interest and any artefacts relevant to the history
of the villages.
If you can help, know of anyone
no longer living in the village who may have useful information
or would like to join the Group, please contact Del on
771353, Dryden on 770950 or Jane on
770821. |
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Kick Fit Classes |
Currently
taking place on Monday evenings and Wednesday evenings at 6.25pm in the Village Hall
Annex. Each session costs just £3. For more information contact
class instructor Andrea Gillan on
407449, email andreagillan@merley.com,
or just pop along to the VHA to see what you think. |
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Minerva Group
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The Minerva ladies discussion group meets every other Tuesday
from 7.45pm to talk about anything and everything, from ‘my
favourite holiday’ to politics and current affairs. The ladies
meet at each other’s houses. If you’d like to come along, call
Pam Moore on 770022.
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Mums
and Tots
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Meet every
Thursday during term time from 1.30 to 3.00pm in the Methodist
Hall. Contact
Sandra Battersby on 770184. |
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'New Cottingham' Football Club |
New Cottingham
FC plays in Division 1 of the Kettering Area Sunday League with
home games currently taking place at West Glebe Park in Corby.
Most of the team live in, or originate from, Cottingham and the
lads are helping to revive a tradition of football in the
village that stretches back at least 100 years. They are playing
in the original Cottingham FC colours of yellow and green and
are being generously sponsored by The Royal George. For more
information, contact club secretary and treasurer
Neil Jarman
on
07708 323077
or visit their website at
www.clubwebsite.co.uk/newcottinghamfc/ |
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Over
60s Club
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Meet every
other Tuesday in the Village Hall Annex from 2 to 4pm
to chat and play bingo and whist. If you’d like to come along, contact Audrey
Ashworth
on 771084. |
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Pilates Classes |
Madeleine Clarke
currently runs Pilates courses in the Methodist Hall on Tuesdays
(10-11am), and Wednesdays (2-3pm). She is also looking to start a new beginners' class on Tuesday mornings. The classes cost £5
per session and you’ll need to wear loose clothing and bring a
yoga mat, if you have one, and a couple of towels to support
your head and back. If you’d like to join any of the classes,
call Madeleine on 01572 822700. |
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Rockingham Forest Wheelers |
Rockingham
Forest Wheelers cater for all ages and all kinds of cycling
including touring, racing and mountain biking. The club meets
for a run every Wednesday (7pm) and Sunday (10am) from their
premises on Ashley Road, Middleton. If you’d like to
know more, call Norman Needham on 771356. |
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Royal
George Golf Society |
The Royal George Golf Society meets up on the first Saturday of
every month to play competitions throughout the region. If
you’d like to join, contact Treasurer
Norman Golding
on
771081,
mobile
07768 536344,
email
nrmgolding@ aol.com
or pop into the Royal George and have a word with landlord Mass
Farabella.
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| Sunday
Clubs |
There are
two growing Sunday clubs at St Mary Magdalene for children
aged under 11 and 11+ to learn about religion in a fun and involving
way. New members are always welcome. Contact Ruth Colby on
770178. |
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Wesley
Guild
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The Wesley
Guild meets every other Thursday from 7.30pm in the Methodist
Hall. The meetings start up again on 14 October with a social
featuring members’ favourite music. Contact Cyril Licquorish on
771401. |
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Whist Drives |
Whist drives
take place on the first Saturday of every month from 7.30pm in
the Village Hall Annex, costing just £1 per person. If you'd
like to join in, please contact Pam Moore on 770022. |
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Writing Group |
Have you ever
fancied turning your hand to a bit of creative writing?
Cottingham’s Rita Haas is looking for fellow aspiring
writers who’d like to meet up, read out and discuss their own
work at a regular group that will meet every other Tuesday
between 10am and 12 noon. If you’ve got a story, an article or a
poem just waiting to get onto paper, give Rita a call on
772338 and she’ll tell you more about it. |
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The Women’s
Royal Voluntary Society is a charitable group that looks out
for elderly and vulnerable people in the two villages. They
send flowers and chocolates to villagers coming back from hospital,
so if you know of any villagers who have spent one or more nights
in hospital recently, contact Sue Jefferson on
771822. |
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Yoga classes |
Free yoga
classes are currently being held at the Village Hall Annex on
Thursday mornings, funded by Corby Borough Council. All ages,
abilities and new members are welcome. Just come along or, for
more information, contact
Sue Webster
on
710603.
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Youth Club |
Cottingham
and Middleton Youth Club for children aged 7-12 meets every
Wednesday in the School Hall from 6 to 8pm to enjoy
a range of activities, from arts and crafts and Nintendo Wii to
table tennis and other sports, including Dodgeball. There’s an
entry fee of 50p which includes all activities, a packet of
crisps and free drinks all night. Contact David Swallow
(Club Secretary) on 771796 or email david.swallow4@virgin.net. |
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East
Carlton Cricket Club
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East Carlton Cricket Club currently runs four youth teams - under 11s, 13s, 15s
and 17s - and an adult team. Youngsters can get involved from
the age of six. Call Sharon Jantzen on 771371,
email
sharon@ivanember.free-online.co.uk
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