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Lapworth Elderberries

Lapworth Village Hall – 2.00pm – 4.00pm

Tuesday 17th February 2026

We are a friendly group of ladies and gentlemen, young and not so young, who come together for a cup of tea and a biscuit, meet old friends, make new friends and generally spend a couple of hours in good company.

We try to give our members something different each week, and our programme includes such activities as occasional lunches in the Village Hall, and sometimes we go to various local venues for lunch.  We also invite speakers to entertain us, we play simple card games as a group (with prizes for winners), we have easy quizzes, again with prizes, we have painting sessions (pictures, not walls!), and sometimes we just sit and chat.

If all this interests you, then just come along, we make everyone welcome.  All we ask is that you are able to get to the Village Hall.  You don’t have to live in Lapworth, we have members from as far afield as Wootton Wawen, Knowle, Shirley and Dorridge.

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Come and join us.  We play every Friday 12.00pm – 2.00pm.  You don’t need any equipment.  You don’t need to know how to do it.  All you do need is a pair of clean flat-soled shoes.

Why not just turn up and try it?

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Lapworth Village Hall

7.15pm for 7.45pm

The Penguin Lessons

 

Tom Michell’s 2015 memoir chronicles his experience as a British teacher who travelled to South America to teach at a boys’ boarding school in Argentina in the 1970s. On a trip to Uruguay, he visited a beach in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este where he stumbled on many dead penguins soaked with oil. He noticed one penguin still alive, and so he decided to rescue it,

 

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Lapworth Elderberries

Lapworth Village Hall – 1.00pm – 3.00pm

Tuesday 24th February 2026

We are a friendly group of ladies and gentlemen, young and not so young, who come together for a cup of tea and a biscuit, meet old friends, make new friends and generally spend a couple of hours in good company.

We try to give our members something different each week, and our programme includes such activities as occasional lunches in the Village Hall, and sometimes we go to various local venues for lunch.  We also invite speakers to entertain us, we play simple card games as a group (with prizes for winners), we have easy quizzes, again with prizes, we have painting sessions (pictures, not walls!), and sometimes we just sit and chat.

If all this interests you, then just come along, we make everyone welcome.  All we ask is that you are able to get to the Village Hall.  You don’t have to live in Lapworth, we have members from as far afield as Wootton Wawen, Knowle, Shirley and Dorridge.

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Lapworth Local History Group

Lapworth Village Hall – 7.45pm – 9.30pm

Tuesday 24th February 2026

Two Newdigate Ladies

A talk by David Patterson

Two widowed ladies of the Warwickshire gentry, in similar circumstances, 100 years apart, ran the same 8,000 acre estate, on behalf of their young sons and contributed substantially both to the family fortunes and the well being of the area. Lady Elizabeth Newdigate in the 1730’s and Mrs Maria Newdigate in the 1830s had temporary charge of the Arbury estate: both showed determination, competence and insight in equal measure, making a major contribution to the development of the area around Chilvers Coton.  

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Come and join us.  We play every Friday 12.00pm – 2.00pm.  You don’t need any equipment.  You don’t need to know how to do it.  All you do need is a pair of clean flat-soled shoes.

Why not just turn up and try it?

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Lapworth Elderberries

Lapworth Village Hall – 2.00pm – 4.00pm

Tuesday 3rd March 2026

We are a friendly group of ladies and gentlemen, young and not so young, who come together for a cup of tea and a biscuit, meet old friends, make new friends and generally spend a couple of hours in good company.

We try to give our members something different each week, and our programme includes such activities as occasional lunches in the Village Hall, and sometimes we go to various local venues for lunch.  We also invite speakers to entertain us, we play simple card games as a group (with prizes for winners), we have easy quizzes, again with prizes, we have painting sessions (pictures, not walls!), and sometimes we just sit and chat.

If all this interests you, then just come along, we make everyone welcome.  All we ask is that you are able to get to the Village Hall.  You don’t have to live in Lapworth, we have members from as far afield as Wootton Wawen, Knowle, Shirley and Dorridge.

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Come and join us.  We play every Friday 12.00pm – 2.00pm.  You don’t need any equipment.  You don’t need to know how to do it.  All you do need is a pair of clean flat-soled shoes.

Why not just turn up and try it?

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 Lapworth Parish Council

      Monday 9th March 2026

       Lapworth Village Hall – 7.30pm

Clerk Contact details – phone 01564 660 or email clerk@lapworthpc.org.uk

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Come and join us.  We play every Friday 12.00pm – 2.00pm.  You don’t need any equipment.  You don’t need to know how to do it.  All you do need is a pair of clean flat-soled shoes.

Why not just turn up and try it?

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Lapworth Local History Group

Lapworth Village Hall – 7.45pm – 9.30pm

Tuesday 24th March 2026

State Visit of Henry VIII to Warwick

A talk by Aaron Manning

This talk reveals for the first time the forgotten state visit of Henry VIII to Warwick in September 1511. Drawing on archival research, this talk will cast light on a lost chapter of Warwick’s history, evidence for the King’s itinerary in the town and why a visit from England’s most iconic king was lost to the history books.

 

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Come and join us.  We play every Friday 12.00pm – 2.00pm.  You don’t need any equipment.  You don’t need to know how to do it.  All you do need is a pair of clean flat-soled shoes.

Why not just turn up and try it?

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Lapworth Elderberries

Lapworth Village Hall – 1.00pm – 3.00pm

Tuesday 31st March 2026

We are a friendly group of ladies and gentlemen, young and not so young, who come together for a cup of tea and a biscuit, meet old friends, make new friends and generally spend a couple of hours in good company.

We try to give our members something different each week, and our programme includes such activities as occasional lunches in the Village Hall, and sometimes we go to various local venues for lunch.  We also invite speakers to entertain us, we play simple card games as a group (with prizes for winners), we have easy quizzes, again with prizes, we have painting sessions (pictures, not walls!), and sometimes we just sit and chat.

If all this interests you, then just come along, we make everyone welcome.  All we ask is that you are able to get to the Village Hall.  You don’t have to live in Lapworth, we have members from as far afield as Wootton Wawen, Knowle, Shirley and Dorridge.

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Come and join us.  We play every Friday 12.00pm – 2.00pm.  You don’t need any equipment.  You don’t need to know how to do it.  All you do need is a pair of clean flat-soled shoes.

Why not just turn up and try it?

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Lapworth Elderberries

Lapworth Village Hall – 2.00pm – 4.00pm

Tuesday 7th April 2026

We are a friendly group of ladies and gentlemen, young and not so young, who come together for a cup of tea and a biscuit, meet old friends, make new friends and generally spend a couple of hours in good company.

We try to give our members something different each week, and our programme includes such activities as occasional lunches in the Village Hall, and sometimes we go to various local venues for lunch.  We also invite speakers to entertain us, we play simple card games as a group (with prizes for winners), we have easy quizzes, again with prizes, we have painting sessions (pictures, not walls!), and sometimes we just sit and chat.

If all this interests you, then just come along, we make everyone welcome.  All we ask is that you are able to get to the Village Hall.  You don’t have to live in Lapworth, we have members from as far afield as Wootton Wawen, Knowle, Shirley and Dorridge.

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Come and join us.  We play every Friday 12.00pm – 2.00pm.  You don’t need any equipment.  You don’t need to know how to do it.  All you do need is a pair of clean flat-soled shoes.

Why not just turn up and try it?

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Lapworth Local History Group

Lapworth Village Hall – 7.45pm – 9.30pm

Tuesday 28th April 2026

Mary Dormer Harris 1867-1936

A talk by Jill Kashi

Mary Dormer Harris was a Warwickshire woman to her core. Born in the village of Stoneleigh in 1867, she became a local historian of repute in her own lifetime and has left a legacy that endures to this day through her academic work, as an educator, suffragist, heritage campaigner, dramatist and more besides. The talk looks at her life and examines aspects of her cultural legacy, reflecting her passions and concerns as well as the influence of her Warwickshire roots.

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COMING SOON TO A VILLAGE HALL NEAR YOU …………..

Exciting News!!! 

Lapworth Players’ next production is ‘Ladies Day’ a very funny play about luck, love and living life to the full and written by Amanda Whittington. 

A little taster ………. Four fish factory workers swap their hairnets for hats and fascinators and head off for a day at the races ………..

………. the four friends (Pearl, Shelley, Jan and Linda) arrive at the racecourse for an unforgettable day out.  Secrets are spilled whilst they down champagne and friendships are tested to the limit and tempers fray as the day continues . BUT ‘good news’ as in the background the ‘accumulator bet’ keeps quietly winning and  the ladies could hit the jackpot ………. if their nerves hold.  

 

Dates for your diary 14th/15th/16th May 2026

 

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