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  • Wedding Showcase

    The Fonthill Estate The Fonthill Estate, Tisbury, United Kingdom

    ✨Wedding Showcase ✨ Join us for an enchanting Wedding Showcase at the stunning Fonthill Estate! Whether you’re newly engaged or looking for fresh ideas, our showcase is the perfect opportunity to […]

    Free

  • Free Lunchtime Concert

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

    Join us at St Peter's Church on Dorchester Saturday 12h April between 12.30 and 1pm for our free lunchtime concert. This is a thirty-minute programme of music for violin and piano performed by Ariana Cossey and David Beeby. Ariana has recently been offered a place to continue her violin studies at the Royal Welsh College […]

    Free

  • Choral Eucharist for Easter Sunday

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

    You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Easter Sunday 20th April at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The joyful music reflects the celebratory occasion and includes Harris’s ‘This joyful Eastertide’, Mozart’s ‘Spatzen-Messe’, Stanford’s ‘Ye choirs of new Jerusalem’ and Handel’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus’. All are very welcome to this […]

    Free

  • Tabletop Fundraiser

    Vicarage School Room Gillingham, Dorset Queen Street, Gillingham

    Join us at our Tabletop Fundraiser at Vicarage School Room in Gillingham on Thursday 24th April from 2.30pm - 5pm *Jumble Sale* Come and have a look around our pre-loved clothes, books and toys - a gold coin donation for anything that takes your fancy! *Cakes, Hot Drinks and a Lemonade Stand* Browse our gorgeous […]

    Free

  • Wimborne Community Centre Artisan Makers Market

    Wimborne Community Centre 41 - 44 King Street, Wimborne

    Come along and join us for our April Artisan Makers Market here at Wimborne Community Centre.  You will find lots of beautiful art and craftwork for sale, handmade by a wide array of local, talented artists and makers.  Why not come to browse and shop and maybe enjoy a tasty treat from our café too.  […]

    Free

  • Bluebell Woods at Peaceful Lane

    Little Rodmore Farm Peaceful Lane, Kings Stag, Dorset, United Kingdom

    We are opening our beautiful bluebell woods for visitors to enjoy. Everyone welcome including well behaved dogs in leads. Entrance free but any donations to charity would be appreciated. Woodland […]

    Free

  • Choral Evensong

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

    You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 26th April at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes Purcell’s ‘I was glad’, the ‘Preces & Responses’ by Thomas Tomkins, Stanford’s ‘Evening Canticles in C’ by Vaughan Williams’s ‘Antiphon’. Admission is free and there is a glass of […]

    Free

  • Charity Concert

    Marnhull Village Hall Burton St, Marnhull

    Concert by The Phoenix Cafe Orchestra in aid of Read Easy Blackmore Vale North.  Playing music from the 1920s and 1930s.  Free refreshments.

    £10.00

  • TALK & GUIDED TOUR – CANFORD SCHOOL ARBORETUM

    Canford School Canford Magna, Wimborne, Dorset

    The arboretum at Canford School has been nationally recognised and has several unusual and rare tree species and two National Collections.  A limited number of tickets have been made available for this special event kindly hosted by Canford School on behalf of the National Garden Scheme. It includes a talk and guided tour with Andrew […]

  • OPen House Shaftesbury Charity Dinner & Auction

    Father's House, Christy's Lane, Shaftesbury, SP7 8PH Christy's Lane,, Shaftesbury, Dorset,

    Open House Shaftesbury is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a Charity Dinner & Auction on Friday, 9th of May from 7:30 PM to which all and everyone are most warmly invited. Available from Eventbrite, tickets for this event are £25 per person and will include a pre-dinner drink upon arrival, dinner, live music, a bar […]

    £25

  • Murder At Upton Manor

    Upton Country Park Upton Country Park

    Murder At Upton Manor- A Regency Mystery Date: Thursday 15th May 2025 Time: 7pm-10.30pm Location: Upton House, Upton Country Park, Poole Rd, Upton, Poole BH17 7BJ, UK Join us on Thursday, […]

    £32

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