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Royston’s History – Royston Museum – Celebrating 40 years 1984-2024

Children and Families, Community News, Loving Local Living, Organisations, Royston Museum

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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Community News: Make A Difference for People and Nature by Therfield Heath and Greens

Community News, Loving Local Living, Organisations, Therfield Heath

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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Spotlight On… The Chatty Cafe Scheme

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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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Winter Welfare Check – Age UK

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Age UK Hertfordshire are supporting people again this year with Winter Welfare Checks to help with the cost-of-living impact. This will be primarily for older people, however, anyone who is vulnerable and living in hardship can be referred. We will be delivering this support via our handyperson services, where one of our handypeople can help

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News from our Clubs: Royston Touch Rugby

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Join us for a free session and give Touch Rugby a try! This fun, non-contact sport, is open to anyone aged 14+. Mixed sex, age, experience /ability. Training sessions take place every Wednesday 7.30-8.45pm on Royston Heath. Text Hugh 07766 106940 for more details also visit: www.facebook.com/RoystonTouchRugby

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Pet of The Month – Luna Animal Rescue

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Luna Animal Rescue was founded in October 2013. The main aim was to help rehome dogs who found themselves abandoned and without families, in local and national pounds. Since then Luna has successfully rehomed well over 300 dogs, who are happily living with their new families. Luna has evolved into a bigger family, and has

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Citizens Advice: Carer’s Allowance

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Are you responsible for looking after someone who has a disability, is getting old or has become ill? Carers give unpaid support to a family member, friend or neighbour, who could not manage without that help. You’re probably a carer if all of the following apply: • you do things like helping someone to wash,

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Community News: Crochet Workshop for Kids

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New for 2024, come and learn the basics to get you started at this Crochet workshop for kids aged between 10-16! The new workshop is organised by Royston’s local yarn retailer, No. 3, and taught by their crochet teacher Georgina, who is fully DBS checked. All materials provided. The workshop will be held at the

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News From NCT Royston and Villages

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We had a very successful 2023 supporting over 300 families in Royston and Villages through our antenatal courses and always popular free Baby Cafe, we are looking forward to adding new events to 2024 and finding new ways to support more parents. Baby Cafe runs 10am-12noon at the Old Bull, Royston, and not only provides

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Update from Royston Museum…

Community News, Loving Local Living, Organisations, Royston Museum

The last few months have seen some exciting changes at Royston Museum. In December we welcomed Emma, our new Museum Manager. Emma has worked for a range of different museums and heritage sites, primarily in learning and engagement. She loves nothing more than chatting to visitors and creating fun activities and events for everyone to

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Spotlight On… Royston Repair Cafe – Repairing Royston

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The Royston Repair Café is ten years old and there’s much to celebrate. In the past decade at 33 Repair Cafes sessions, 32 different volunteer repairers attempted 1100 repairs and were successful with over 600 of them. Compared with The Repair Shop on TV, the stars of the show are less the owners and their

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Out and About… Jazz at The Old Bull

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In 2017 Dave Rance and the Rockin’ Chair Band started playing jazz on Monday lunchtimes in Royston on a monthly basis. The band play Traditional, New Orleans and Dixieland-style jazz along with providing great humour. At the time, some people queried lunchtime on this day of the week but it became a great success. Unfortunately,

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