Green Cleaning Group

The Green Cleaning Group is now up and running. We share ideas and recipes for environmentally friendly household cleaning products, and one of the products we’ve been looking at making is our own laundry detergent. It’s a really simple recipe but we need containers! We would therefore be grateful for any laundry/fabric conditioner bottles and dosing balls that you have spare and could donate to us. Please contact the group leader via this link. Thanks for your support.

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Pilates

As new leader of our friendly Pilates Group I have a place available to start as from next week. We meet on Thursday mornings 10 to 11am at St Michael’s Hall PO19 6PN.
Please contact me on ann-story@outlook.com or phone 07917 567598 if interested.

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Summer Tea 2026

9 June
This year our Members Summer Tea will be held at Oaklands Pavilion.
All members welcome, so come along and enjoy tasty food and good company at this great venue, at the same time showing support for a local business. There will be tea/ coffee available afterwards and the bar will be open to enjoy a drink on the large open balcony overlooking Oaklands Park. 

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Italian for Beginners

I have recently started to learn Italian mainly through Duolingo. I am wondering if there are any others who already are, or might be interested in, starting up this lovely language?  Learning together can be more fun and accountable, so a possible format would be informal meetings in a café, say fortnightly, to work through some grammar, easy translations or similar, following a beginners’ textbook. The exact format can be adapted to suit those who show an interest, but would only be able to support what we do at home; it is not aiming to be a taught course.   

To register your interest or to find out more, come along to the March 3rd Coffee Morning (we will have a table to meet at the end of the meeting, at 11.30am) or if you cannot make that please contact Katharine via the Groups Team link: HERE.

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Bridge – Beginners Minibridge

This group will initially offer a “Taste of Bridge”.in the hope of becoming “MiniBridge” or, eventually a course in “Basic Bridge.

VENUE – The instructor’s home in Birdham.  (Up to 8 max).  With 8 plus applicants the venue might be Donnington Parish Hall (West Wing).

TIME – Thursday 10:00 – 12:00

COST – At Birdham, 50p for tea.  At Donnington, £11.25 per hour (shared).

No previous experience of card play is required. 

MiniBridge is both an important first stage in learning Bridge but is also an enjoyable game in its own right.  It includes all the basic skills of “English Standard 4-card Acol Bridge” but with a greatly simplified way of choosing the ‘Contract’.

To register your interest please go HERE.

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Tuesday Recorders

Could this be the group for you?
Wouldn’t you like to be part of a music-making group? One that plays all kinds of music from medieval to modern times? One where, if you wanted, you could switch sizes of instrument and play different lines of music?

Of course you would! You already know that music-making is the best activity to keep the brain firing on all cylinders. And cast aside any ideas that recorders aren’t real instruments! They are alive and well all over the world and all over this country, including West Sussex and Hampshire! I myself play with the Wessex branch of the Society of Recorder Players and with the Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia. (See photo of HRS playing at Boxgrove Priory Church).

If you’ve played in the past and would like to come back to playing, why not join this friendly, supportive group? You’ll need two sizes of recorder from descant, treble, tenor & bass (there are smaller/larger sizes but these are the basic ones). This is because it’s much more fun to change instruments, and current players in the group like to do this and not be stuck on one size. Contact me at glrecorderensemble@mail.chichesteru3a.org.uk

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