Category: Clubs and Societies

Many thanks to everyone who supported our ‘Christmas Sparkle’ concert last month. St Andrew’s Church was certainly sparkling— a beautiful, candle lit atmosphere for our audience. As part of our Christmas celebrations the choir made a donation to the Harborough Musical Memory Box. This organisation runs monthly sessions in Market Harborough for people with dementia and memory loss and their carers. It relies on donations and thanks to the generosity of our ‘Christmas Sparkle’ audience we were able to add a further £80 to our donations!

Our June meeting took a different format when we had a daytime outing to Foxton Locks. I suspect many people who live locally made visits to Foxton Locks several years ago and don’t realise how many changes have been made to the museum and how the newer pathways make it possible to appreciate the layout of the inclined plane/boat lift. We were fortunate to have a guided walk and talk from Paul, a trustee of the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust.

On Saturday 22nd November we rocked the night away singing numbers including Sweet Child of Mine, Don't fear the Reaper, Start Me Up/Living on a Prayer, and We Will Rock You. That got the audience going! We also sang a beautiful rendition of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica – check out our socials to look at lots of video clips and photos of a wonderful concert. And keep an eye out too for the total of funds raised for our chosen charity, Rainbows Hospice.

It is that time of year where it is fitting to thank all the people who have helped to make this publication a success over the last year.

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Fleckney & Kibworth Running Club are offering a FREE 9-week couch to 5k running course, starting on Thursday 15 January, and every Thursday thereafter, at 6.30pm.

The original Christmas Tree Festival of Leicestershire, and now 23 years young, again attracted crowds of visitors through its doors to witness the many and varied decorated trees.

On 29 November, MSTC performed its Christmas Production, Rhyme and Treason for the final time.

After a fantastic spring and summer term, spending nearly every week meeting outdoors on our land, our Squirrel Scouts have led our group in an exciting project to create an allotment space, within our outdoor education area.

As we do every year, we entered a tree for the Burton Overy Christmas Tree Festival.

In early November, 12 of Kibworth Town Football Club’s U9 group travelled to Merseyside, to face a group from Liverpool’s Academy.

The newly formed Kibworth & District Heritage Society, held their latest meeting in the newly opened Kibworth Community Library. Just under 40 people attended a talk by retired solicitor John Tillotson called, ‘Kibworth’s National School: Educational and Legal Background and Kibworth C of E Old Controlled Voluntary School Trust.’ A very long title for a talk, however, it was an interesting and quite complex area. 

The AGM of Illston-on-the-Hill WI took place in November.  The meeting was conducted efficiently and all business was dealt with in a timely manner.

The annual Pro Shop Christmas Golf Competition delivered a fantastic day of festive spirit, friendly rivalry, and impressive golf at the club last week. With a strong field of members, the event once again proved to be a great success.

Our November meeting began with Wendy Johnson from the Heart Trust charity giving us a talk and demonstration on how to use a defibrillator to save a life. She brought along five out of 15 different defibrillators, which can cost from £650 up to £25,000. Wendy told us that when nurses call out for one it’s “Bring me the defib” because the full word is too long! All defibs have a battery, but now one has been developed to run on solar power. The machine will indicate if the battery is running low.