Royston in Blue Entries are open – sign up now! Sunday 23rd June 2024, starts at 11am Royston In Blue is a 5k trail run over Therfield Heath, Royston. The event was started in 2012 and raises money for Teenage Cancer Trust. It is a fabulous community event with runners from age 2 to […]
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Royston-based author Damien O’Dell, who runs the popular Royston Ghost Walks, in association with Royston Library, is writing his next book all about Royston. Damien is including a chapter on ‘Haunted Royston’ and he’d like readers of The Listing to contact him with their true-life experiences in both Royston and the surrounding villages. Damien has
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World Book Day is on 7th March. We have £1 books in store for children aged 5-12 years, to come in and exchange with their tokens. As part of the celebrations, we have local author Maria Sproulle joining us on Saturday 16th March. This event is for children aged 6-10 years old. DISCOVER
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The Mobile Warden Scheme helps the elderly and vulnerable people living in the Mordens, Litlington and Bassingbourn to be as self-sufficient as possible and continue to live happy and independent lives. Mobile Wardens telephone each person every weekday morning to confirm that they are safe and well. If they can’t get a reply, then there
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March is a time of preparation for Royston Cave. The team have been busy making final repairs and ensuring everything is ready for the new public visiting season which starts on the 6th April. The cave will be open every weekend, and bank holidays, and tickets are only available online via the website. The Cave
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It’s been another busy month at the Museum. Sophie has been creating the first of two temporary exhibitions celebrating Royston Museum’s 40th Anniversary this year. This first exhibition explores the Royston Institute Museum, which opened 168 years before the current museum. Rhian has spent a day in London discovering how to create immersive experiences using
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By the time you read this, we will have had our annual elections, a big volunteer group from Capel Manor clear scrub on the Rifle Butts and a joint venture with Royston Golf Club. Volunteers assisted the Golf Club to clear Sycamore, Hawthorn and Bramble from Church Hill. With the winter months almost behind us
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Thriplow Daffodil Weekend returns this year on 16th and 17th March and preparations are in full swing for a fun weekend. Volunteers are being recruited, attractions and stallholders have been booked and the committee are super busy with final preparations. The committee planted a further 50,000 daffodil bulbs last autumn to ensure another stunning display
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Children in Year 1 at Icknield Walk First School have been enjoying their ‘Superheroes’ topic. Children came into school dressed as their favourite Superhero which was very fortunate as they had a special mission to complete. Wicked Professor Spade had stolen some classroom dolls and buried them in the mud. Taken from the exciting and
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When the Royston Repair Cafe initially opened in 2014 not only was it the first of its kind in Hertfordshire, but it joined just 11 other such outlets in the entirety of the U.K. Today there are over 500 community repair groups open across the Nation. On Saturday 10th February there was a constant flow
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Why not venture out for a walk this Easter to see the Pasque Flowers? The Pasque Flower is a very rare plant in the wild and Therfield Heath has one of the largest populations of them all, up to 60,000. Pulsatilla Vulgaris is the rather uninspiring name for the bright purple and yellow flower featured
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The Chatty Cafe scheme aims to combat this, simply by encouraging people to chat more. Often people will venture into a coffee shop or cafe and sit alone, but as the Founder of the scheme wondered; what if one of those people approached someone and the two strangers enjoyed chatting over their coffee and then
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