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  • RNLI ‘s 200th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving

    Sherborne Abbey The Abbey Close, SHERBORNE, United Kingdom

    Everyone is warmly invited to attend a Service of Thanksgiving at Sherborne Abbey to mark the RNLI's 200th Anniversary on Sunday 10 March 2024 at 6 pm.

    Free
  • Reading the Land with Tim Laycock

    Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

    Reading the land! Tim Laycock returns to Shaftesbury Library with traditional children's tales and story-songs from the British Isles for all the family. Come along, join in and find out! Booking essential via Ticket Source. Saturday 16 March Shaftesbury Library Session one 10:30am - 11:15am Session two 11:45am - 12:30pm For more information, please call […]

    Free
  • Lunchtime Concert in Lent – Pergolesi ‘Stabat Mater’

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    Join us at St Peter's Church, Dorchester on Saturday 16th March between 12.30 and 1pm for our lunchtime concert in Lent, when we offer a performance of Pergolesi’s ‘Stabat Mater’. This plaintive choral masterpiece will be sung by vocal consort. Spend a truly restful and reflective half an hour with us in the midst of […]

    Free
  • Community Policing Drop In Surgery

    Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

    Community policing drop-in surgery PCSO 5382 Leatt will be at Shaftesbury Library to offer crime prevention advice and leaflets, and to hear any local concerns. Shaftesbury Library Thursday 21 March10:00am - 11:00am For more information: 01747 852256 [email protected]

    Free
  • All Things Shaftesbury with Cllr. Derek Beer

    Shaftesbury Library Bell Street, Shaftesbury

    All things Shaftesbury! Cllr. Derek Beer will be holding a community drop-in information and guidance session at Shaftesbury Library on all things Shaftesbury, from social wellbeing and loneliness to housing and highways, and to hear other local concerns. No need to book, just come along! Saturday 23 March 10:00am - 12 midday For more information […]

    Free
  • Wimborne Community Centre Artisan Makers Market

    Wimborne Community Centre 41 - 44 King Street, Wimborne

    The first of our 2024 Artisan Makers Markets will be held from 10am till 3pm on Saturday 23rd March 2024 here at Wimborne Community Centre, King Street car park, Wimborne. We will have an array of talented artists and crafts people here to share their work with you so why not come along to browse […]

    Free
  • Quiz Night

    Oborne Village Hall Oborne, Nr Sherborne

    Family quiz with a Ploughman's Supper provided in the interval. Maximum of six people per team. Due to limited space, places need to be reserved please by emailing [email protected]

    £10
  • Kosovo to Chocolate – An Unlikely Transition

    Caryford Hall Maggs Lane, Castle Cary

    A talk by Jane Swayne on her transition from running a charity programme in Kosovo for 10 years to starting the chocolate business, Gilbert and Swayne, in Baltonsborough. Expect free samples and a Prosecco bar! Tickets www.caryfordhall.co.uk

    £6 – £8
  • *FULLY BOOKED* Talk on the Future of Farming in North Dorset by George Hosford

    Clayesmore School DT11 8LL , United Kingdom

    This year North Dorset CPRE, the Countryside Charity, also known as the Campaign to Protect Rural England, will be holding their AGM will be at 5.30pm on Tuesday 26th March at Clayesmore School, DT11 8LL. The speaker will be George Hosford, whose talk will be on “The Future of Farming in North Dorset”. It should […]

  • Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Easter Sunday 31st March at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Haydn’s ‘Little Organ Mass’, Harris’s ‘This joyful Eastertide’ and ‘Ye choirs of new Jerusalem’ by Stanford. All are very welcome to this free service and for refreshments afterwards.

    Free
  • Milborne Port Opera presents “The Drowsy Chaperone”

    Milborne Port Village Hall Springfield Road, Milborne Port, United Kingdom

    MPO leaps into another hit musical – The drowsy Chaperone, by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, directed by Karen Pankhurst. Last year MPO proved they could do big musical numbers extremely well. MPO’s next production, to be performed after Easter in 2024, is a hit Broadway musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, which carried off 5 Tonys […]

  • Annual charity working day

    £15 per tractor, includes hot food and a drink Come along to our charity working day for ploughing, cultivating and rolling, all abilities welcome, bring your own implements (plough, cultivator etc) NO SUBSOILER’S, we may have some implements for you to borrow if you don’t have any yourself This is not a ploughing match Venue: […]