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Forecourt sale at the URC

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From URC

Yes folks, we’re holding the first of our 2025 forecourt sales on Saturday 3rd May, from 10am to 12 noon, ADMISSION FREE.  There will be the usual exciting variety of goods available, including our famous plant stall, quality bric-a-brac, hundreds of books from 50p to £5, toys and games, and anything else you give us – except clothes and shoes – PLUS for the first time, a table of quality crafts!  It will as usual be accompanied by a friendly coffee morning with homemade cakes in the Oasis, plus tables of curios and quirky items.  
Proceeds will be shared with our two external charities for 2025, which are The Brain Tumour Charity and Sight Savers, so please come and support. 
If you have items to donate, please bring them to the church on Friday 2nd May between 2pm and 5pm, or phone Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection.  This is also the number for enquiries and offers of help.
 

Fashion show May 16

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Fashion show at St Giles in aid of the Click Rukiga charity 16th May
St Giles church hall
doors open 6:30 p.m.
start 7:00 p.m.
tickets £10 including welcome drink to be purchased in advance

for more info and to book
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/click-rukiga-fashion-show-tickets-1257440050039?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile&fbclid=IwY2xjawJgoXxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiG0ipIE1MWLaKSideA0zGO0geiEKhkK1ZQEreP7poqBD9sz8ZeHxF9FVrkP_aem_F_DeogjnRuhhe2nvPFYGAw

Spring Concert URC 22 Mar

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Eastcote & Ruislip Choral Society Spring Concert 
Handel
Solomon   (including The arrival of the Queen of Sheba)
Conductor: Robert Jones with Orchestra and soloists
Saturday 22nd March 2025 at 7.30pm 
at Ickenham United Reformed Church, Swakeleys Road, Ickenham
Tickets –  £15 on the door- cash only.  (Under 12s free)

Christmas Concert URC 14 Dec

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EASTCOTE CHOIR concert

Our Christmas Concert is on Saturday 14th December at 3.30 at Ickenham United Reformed Church, Swakeleys Road Ickenham, Middlesex UB10 8BE. We will be singing Geoffrey Bush’s “Christmas Cantata”, and there will be carols for choir and audience. Tea will follow in the church hall.
Tickets: £15, under 12s free, from a choir member or on the door, (where only cash can be taken).
We welcome new members. We rehearse on Tuesdays at 8.00 pm in Ruislip Methodist Church Hall, Ickenham Road, Ruislip. Go to our website for more details and to contact us.
Our Summer concert was a blast! We sang a very challenging work: Will Todd’s “Mass in Blue” but we pulled it off, thanks to hard work by choir members, a brilliant soprano soloist and a great jazz combo who pulled it all together. If you don’t know this work, have a listen to it on Youtube.

Thanks from the URC

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Thanks from the URC for the record!
 
Our forecourt sale which helped to launch the Festival enjoyed a fantastic attendance and a great atmosphere and raised over £1100, a record for us for an event of that type, so many thanks to all of you who came along and/or provided things for us to sell.  The money will go to the work of the church, Smile Train and Papyrus prevention of young suicide and we will be looking to add to it with a similar event on the forecourt and the Oasis café at the URC, Swakeleys Road UB10 8HE on Saturday 7th September, 10am to 12 Noon, admission FREE.  We will again have plants, quality bric-a-brac, lots of books, boxed games and puzzles and anything else that you give us, apart from clothes and shoes.  There will be an accompanying friendly coffee morning with homemade cakes.  Please bring donations of any of the things we are selling to the church between 2pm and 6pm on Friday 6th September or phone Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection.  This is also the number for any enquiries or offers of help.

For wannabe citizen scientists

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From: let’s go outside and learn
We have teamed up with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to help you take your first steps to become a citizen scientist.
Find out what that means and have a go at some pond dipping in one of our workshops along the Crane
Catchment.
Saturday 20th July
3pm-5:30pm
Elephant Park (Hillingdon, UB10 9BA)
For more information or to register interest
please contact: gaby.docker@lgoal.org.uk
 
location just south of the A34 slip road google maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Elephant+Park/@51.5487727,-0.4442912,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x48766db0e372eddb:0x5ad75c11529b2550!8m2!3d51.5481056!4d-0.440343!16s%2Fg%2F11g9fmtnwx?entry=ttu

Colne Valley Park Festival Fortnight

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From Colne Valley Regional Park

Festival Fortnight 19th July – 2nd August 2024 The Colne Valley Festival Fortnight is a full programme of events and activities for everyone to enjoy across the whole Regional Park.

From Rickmansworth to Staines, Langley to Uxbridge, we are partnering with volunteer groups, organisations and charities to offer you a variety of Guided Walks, Talks, Activities for Children and Families, Open Days, Exhibitions and more.
Now is the perfect opportunity to explore somewhere new in the Colne Valley Regional Park. For full programme on what’s happening during those two weeks check our festival page. 
https://www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/festival-fortnight/

Two events on June 8th

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Two events for you to enjoy on Sat 8th June

Ickenham Residents’ Association
Centenary exhibition
in the village hall from 10:00 to 16:00
free entry – come along and see what’s happened
around us in the last 100 years plus

at the URC
Start the Festival in Style at the URC!

We had a great forecourt sale in May, with a good crowd in enjoying themselves and raising over £800 for the church, Smile Train and Papyrus prevention of young suicide. So, we’ve decided to go again with the same formula of plants, bric-a-brac, books and jigsaws, anything you give us in fact except clothes and shoes, accompanied by a friendly coffee morning with homemade cakes. The event, on Saturday 8th June, runs from 10am to 12 Noon and is free. Because the last sale was so successful we would welcome your donations even more than usual, including of the sort of small, quirky items that sold like hot cakes in our new Curio Corner! Please bring things to the church between 2pm and 6pm on Friday or ring Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection. This is also the number for any queries or offers of help.

Spring into Spring at the URC!

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Come Saturday 4th May the sun will be shining [terms and conditions apply] and we’ll be holding our Spring Forecourt Sale from 10am to 12 Noon, admission FREE.
There’ll be our famous plant stall, bric-a-brac, hundreds of books, toys and games and pretty well anything we are given, except clothes and shoes.
Inside there will be a friendly coffee morning with homemade cakes alongside the higher quality books, collectables and a table of small, quirky objects including an otoscope [look it up!], a miniature travelling tool set, an RAF medal ribbon and some rather fine WW2 Red Cross certificates.
Proceeds will go to the work of the church and to our external charities for this year, which are THE SMILE TRAIN and PAPYRUS [prevention of young suicide] so there are extra reasons for grabbing a bargain.
The date is a change from the one previously announced but the two later dates of 8th June and 7th September still apply.
If you have items to donate please bring them to the church on Friday 3rd May between 2pm and 6pm or ring Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection.
This is also the number for any enquiries or offers of help.
Our earlier Coffee Morning and Coin Mountain raised £158, so many thanks to those who contributed to that and we look forward to your continued support on 4th May and during the rest of the year.