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Whitchurch Centre Badminton Club

Whitchurch residents with an interest in playing badminton may know that club badminton is played at Testbourne School Sports Hall.  The new season starts on 8th September 2022 and will run to the end of April 2023.

Membership is open to players at improver level and upwards, though not currently to juniors (under sixteen). Our annual subscription is excellent value with the average session costing less than a pint of beer!  The subscription includes membership of Badminton England for insurance and insight into the sport and is pro-rated for those joining in mid-season.

Club night is every Thursday from 8pm to 10pm with all four courts in the hall available. Teams are entered into the Basingstoke League.

For further details please contact the club secretary, Tom Forsey, on 07717 883032 or turn up one evening. There is an option to experience a number of club nights as a visitor prior to joining as a full member.

Showcasing Whitchurch on Test, North Hampshire’s Hidden Gem and the Southern Gateway to the North Wessex Downs AONB

Whitchurch Association trustees would like to thank Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council and former borough Cllr. Lucie Maitland for the generous £500 grant for the design and purchase of 2 double sided tourism pop up banners.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words; the team at Whitchurch, Hampshire are hoping their fabulous new double-sided banners will prove this correct.

Since achieving Walkers are Welcome accreditation in 2015, showcasing and promoting Whitchurch and North Hampshire to a wider audience has been an important part of the ongoing tourism development work (place shaping) being undertaken in the town. The borough Local Plan update currently underway, has presented the perfect opportunity to provide input to the Plan’s rural policies and develop a destination management plan for the town and with the recent publication of the Government’s Landscapes Review, the work locally has gained a new momentum.

Discover somewhere new in 2022…. Discover Whitchurch, Hampshire.

Commenting on the new publicity material, Jackie Browne, co-ordinator for the town’s Walkers are Welcome tourism accreditation said, ‘there’s more to Hampshire than the New Forest, the north of the county has so much to offer, not least walking and cycling without the crowds; these banners will help ‘sell’ that message at events within and outside the county and hopefully encourage more visitors to come and explore the fabulous North Wessex Downs and the valleys of the chalk streams”.

Overton Scarecrow Festival & Family Fun Weekend 15th – 17th July

The annual fancy dress Wheelbarrow Race is on Friday  15th at 7.15 pm /evening taking in the village drinking establishments, finishing at Bridge Street Recreation Ground where there will be refreshments, music and kid’s attractions. The Grand Festival Fete will be on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th at Bridge Street from noon to approx 5pm. There is different  entertainment, stalls attractions both days. Saturday evening Bridge Street is the venue for Scarecrow Rocks live music. There is a fun dog show on Sunday 17th.

More details nearer the time.

The Good Festival (formerly Hampshire Country & Garden Festival) will once again return to Bere Mill for 2022

The Festival, which supports the Hampshire Medical Fund, promotes all that is great about Hampshire, from food and drink suppliers to music, workshops and demonstrations, plant experts and nurseries.

Whether you are an avid gardener or a family looking for a wholesome day out this is the event for you. Good Festival is looking to raise a mighty £200,000 to purchase a state of the art AI (artificial intelligence) machine for intervention radiology. This machine allows minimally invasive, image guided procedures to target tumour ablation treatments in the abdominal regions (lungs, kidneys & liver). With only two of these machines in the entire UK, this machine would be cutting edge technology in cancer treatment for The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Full details are available via the event website…….  Good Festival Tickets

TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE UNLESS THE EVENT IS UNABLE TO GO AHEAD

Borough Council Elections – Your local Voting Centre is the Gill Nethercott Centre With Cllr. Lucie Follett-Maitland’s year of office up and Cllr. Ian Tilbury’s decision to retire after 20 years as a borough councillor, there will be two seats contested at these elections.

Your full list of candidates for the Whitchurch, Overton & Laverstoke ward are as follows…

Chloe Ashfield (Basingstoke & Deane Independents)

Michael Barham (Labour)

Johanna Perry (Conservatives)

Lucy Sloane Williams (Lib Dems)

Linda Stepney (Lib Dems)

Steve Williams (Basingstoke & Deane Independents)

The election count and results will take place on May 6 at the Hampshire Court Hotel.

Furlock Holmes Animal Care Adoption Day – 27th March Interested in adopting? We will be opening for socially distanced appointments for families to come and view the animals…..get in touch today to book an appointment! For adoption we have….

Pairs of rabbits Single rabbits Pair of guinea pigs Male degus Female rats Ferrets Chickens

As normal, we will also be running our nail clipping clinic from 11am to 2pm. Please visit by appointment only. We hope to see you there! http://www.furlockholmes.org.uk