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Raisins To Be Cheerful: To add your event to our listing, click here!* Tank Experience Day 20-04-2010 Put your driving skills to the test and help raise funds for Weldmar Hospicecare Trust at The Tank Museum in Bovington. * Places limited! * Open to ladies and men * Minimum sponsorship required: £500 (this covers the cost to the charity for each tank driven) * £20 registration fee Register online now! The Tank Museum Experience Day is the best way to get hands on and dig deeper into the unique Collections and do your bit for Weldmar Hospicecare Trust In a full and energetic day long experience, fully endorsed by the Royal Tank Regiment, participants will discover more about the history of armoured warfare and get the opportunity to learn how to drive one of the awesome metal monsters. Supported with the right knowledge, experience and equipment the Bovington Tank Museum team adds drama to their armour! Breakfast, lunch and afternoon refreshments included. If you'd like more information, contact them on 01305 215315 For more info visit: www.weld-hospice.org.uk/support-weldmar/donate/events-calendar/tank-experience-day/ Blandford Allotment Community Gardening 10-05-2010 ARE YOU A BUDDING PERCY THROWER WHO WOULD LIKE TO GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET A FRIENDLY GROUP OF LIKE MINDED PEOPLE? WE ARE STARTING A GARDENING GROUP ON MONDAY 10TH MAY 2010 10.00am – 13.00pm Cost £1.50 per session Must be over the age of 16 FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:- North Dorset Sport and Leisure Activity Programme (NDSLAP) Community Resource Team, Peacemarsh Surgery, Marlott Road, Gillingham, Dorset. SP8 4FA Tel 01747 823 035 or Julie on 07522 458570 Or visit the North Dorset Raisin website. www.northdorsetraisin.org.uk For more info visit: www.northdorsetraisin.org.uk Dawn Chorus 15-05-2010 Field Trip, Blandford Forum Dawn Chrous Saturday 15 May, 5 am Contact Jill Naylor for booking details: tel. 01258 861040. ND Bere Marsh Farm, Shillingstone Cycle Ride in North Dorset 03-06-2010 Cycle Ride in North Dorset Thursday 3rd June 2010 At 10am We plan to take a circular route from Blandford through Spetisbury A fairly level route including part of the old S&D railway (the “Trailway”). We will start from the Blandford Bungalow (Salisbury Road) Meeting at 10.00am. You can make your own way and meet us at Blandford, or there will be a limited number of places on the minibus (usual collection times and places). What will you need? A Bike! (You may rent one from Hope2Cycle for the day at a cost of £8. Please let us know in advance if you need to do so). A cycle helmet A reflective jacket or equivalent. You may also like to bring a pack lunch and some water or soft drink. Please note: This is a physical activity, appropriate level of fitness needed! Poor weather will cause us to cancel this activity, please phone in to check if this seems likely. Interested? Please let us know if you are coming. Resource Team office 01747 823035 or Team Leads: Jenny 07970 583 938, Julie 07522 458 570, Kevin 07717 701 655, Mary 07729 632 461 Contact details for Hope2Cycle: 01747851397 Dorset Art Weeks 13-06-2010 Starting 29th May through to 13th June sees DAW’s 10th biennial event, the largest Open Studios Event in the country, and this year will be one of the most lively and interesting to date. This website showcases all the artists taking part. Browse by category or filter your results by area. You can even switch to a map mode, where you can explore a map of Dorset and see what’s happening near you. At almost all venues the artists, designers or makers will be on-hand to help you engage with the work, keen to talk to you about the extraordinary range of materials, skills and traditions that inform their work. For more info visit: northdorsetraisin.org.uk/ Bournemouth air festival 19-08-2010 Bournemouth Air Festival - Even bigger and better Address: Bournemouth seafront Date: 19 Aug 2010 to 22 Aug 2010 Time: Price: Free Description: Bournemouth Air Festival 2009 - Even Bigger and Better Awesome air displays, attractions and fantastic evening entertainment - Bournemouth is ready to welcome you to the UK's biggest free aviation Festival! 20th - 23rd August - BY THE SEA & COMPLETELY FREE! The More Bus Bournemouth Air Festival is shaping up to be bigger and better than 2008. With more aircraft, more on the ground attractions and more awesome ‘Night Air' evening entertainment it promises to be a must-see 4-days of breath-taking aviation action! Sponsored for a second year by More Bus, the Festival will bring a spectacular line-up of entertainment to hundreds of thousands of visitors from Thursday 20th - Sunday 23rd August. For 2009 Bournemouth is the regions premier event for the Royal Navy Fly Navy 100 Naval celebrations - with plenty of fantastic interaction, hands on action, displays and demonstrations. Watch out for an incredible line-up of civilian aircraft including: the world's only formation wing walking team - Team Guinot, Yakovlevs Aerobatic Team, The Blades Aerobatic Display Team, The Matadors, Spitfire, Mustang, Sally-B, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Eurofighter Typhoon and three displays by the Red Arrows. On the ground, between the Piers there will be 1.5 miles of stalls, attractions and displays. 'Night Air' 2009 from 7pm, includes The Band of Her Majesty Royal Marines, a hot air balloon glow, displays by the Royal Marines Combat Display Team, street entertainers, world record attempt Roar on the Shore, fireworks display.. something to keep everyone entertained! Did you know, the Air Festival is the only event in the country that .... * Is by the sea and completely free - no ticket's, no cost it's a free event! * Has fantastic cliff side views giving you an eye level vantage point of the great air displays with the bay as a stunning backdrop. * Has an award winning prime beach viewing area the size of 25 football pitches! Not forgetting the 1.5 miles of stalls and attractions between Boscombe and Bournemouth Piers. It is believed that last year over 750,000 visitors flocked to th event spending over £25 million in Bournemouth. The event takes place between Boscombe and Bournemouth piers with plenty of stalls and attractions on the beach nearby, and in Bournemouth's Lower Gardens. Despite being in only its second year, the Air Festival will be receiving more RAF assets than any other event in the UK this year as the regions premier event for the Fly Navy 100 Naval celebrations. This year Bournemouth will be receiving RFA Mounts Bay as well as HMS Cattistock, Black Cats Helicopter Display Team (featuring Lynx helicopters), beach assaults, demonstrations from the Royal Marines Commando Display Team and music from - The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines who will "beat retreat" in the award-winning Lower Gardens every evening. Night Air will include amongst other highlights a hot air balloon show featuring 23 hot air balloons which will be accompanied by a laser show on Friday and Saturday night: displays by the Royal Marines, street entertainers and fireworks display on Saturday night. Jon Weaver, Air Festival Director said: "We are building our evening entertainment programme, and boosting the already brilliant day displays - we look forward to welcoming everyone back to Bournemouth this August." * Red Arrows * RAF Typhoon * RAF Hawk T1 * RAF Chinook * RAF King Air * BBMF (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane * RNAF Agusta Bell * Mustang * Spitfire * P-40 * F-86A Sabre * Vulcan TBC Watch out for the Royal Navy Village as well as the RAF Village which will feature a Eurofighter Typhoon cock-pit, Signals marquee and weapons engineering and performances by the RAF Dog Presentation Team. There will also be a funfair, a Veterans Tent, trading stands and interactive Army ground displays. Did you know, the Air Festival... Is by the sea and completely free - no tickets, no cost it's a free event! Did you go last year, what did you think of the Air Festival - why not let us know your views by blogging us at www.guide2dorset.com South Dorset Bikeathon 12-09-2010 Bike ride starting at Crossways Village Hall over 30, 20 or 9 miles. All sponsor money is for Leukaemia Research. Free t-shirt and refreshments. 10:30 - 15:30 Crossways Village Hall Crossways Dorchester DT Tel: 01305773950 or 07890047244 Email: Bike ride starting at Crossways Village Hall over 30, 20 or 9 miles. All sponsor money is for Leukaemia Research. Free t-shirt and refreshments. 10:30 - 15:30 Where: Crossways Village Hall Crossways Dorchester Tel:01305773950 or 07890047244 Price:£3 and £1.50 for under 16 spbuckrell@aol.com beach clean Kimmeridge 19-09-2010 Beach Clean Family event, Kimmeridge Practical beach clean, all equipment provided. FREE EVENT. Sun 19 Sep, 10am - 12pm, at Worbarrow Bay (SY 865 803). | |
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