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       Crafts and Easter activities at Stanton Park           Mental first aid course for armed forces community
       Every Cloud Arts & Crafts co-  both days with Cadbury’s crème   Swindon Trauma Group is   Asda West Swindon Community
                                                                                          Training Room on the 19 and 20
                                                              welcoming Doctor Richard Castle to
       operative is organising themed   egg for those completing it.                                                                                                                                              
       events in March.           The craft shop and farmhouse   run a mental health first aid Course   March.
       Saturday 5th, 1.30pm - 2.30pm:   tearoom will be open every   for the Armed Forces Community.       Doctor Castle - independent
       Make a Mother’s Day card and gift.   week-end from Easter. For the   Mental first aid teaches people how   mental health practitioner, trauma
       £2 per child, no need to book. Drink   event programme mail: info@  to recognise and support people   rehabilitation consultant and
       and cookie included.       everycloudartscrafts.com    with mental health issues, the same   Clinical Psychologist, survived The
       Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th,   www.everycloudartscrafts.com  way as we learn physical first aid.  Paddington Rail Disaster in 1999.
       10.30am to 4.30pm: Craft shop                            The course will take place at the   Retired from the RAF as a Group
                                   The future of the park
       and tearoom open.                                  
       Saturday 26th and Sunday    On Thursday 31 March,10am,   Barn Dance in Wroughton for Prospect Hospice
       27th: Easter shop and tearoom   Justin Tomlinson MP officially   Prospect Hospice’s Wroughton   10.30pm. Live music by the
       open with a free hot drink for   opens the farmhouse tearoom   Fundraising Support Group is   Cowshed Ceillidh Collective. Tickets
       all visitors. Eye-spy trail for 3 to   and launches a visitor survey and   holding a Barn Dance at Ridgeway   cost £8, contact Hilary:
       8 year olds around the lake on   public consultation on the future   School, Inverary Road, Wroughton   01793 813069 or hilaryfleming@
                                   of the park.               on Saturday 12 March, 7pm-  live.com
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        Jane Rutherfoord, conserving the Rerodos in St Mary’s, Lydiard Park
       The last in the series of lectures run by the Friends of Lydiard Park in   Kitchen, Bedroom
       association with Lydiard House, during the three month closure of the   & Bathroom
       house, takes place on Wednesday 16 March, 7pm when conservator Jane
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       Rutherfoord talks about Uncovering History with specific reference to the   displays for sale
       ancient wall paintings in St. Mary’s Church, Lydiard Tregoze.
        The evening is free but a donation to St. Mary’s Conservation Appeal   to make way for
       would be welcomed. Places are limited. To book, contact: Charlotte   new ranges.
       Thwaites on 01793 465277 or email: [email protected]
                                                               No reasonable offer  refused
       Christianity: superstition or a guiding set of
       relevant principles? Questions that face all                                      • Standard & made to measure kitchens
       Swindon Churches Together ‘Eye of the Needle’ Lectures in March focus             • Wiltshire’s largest range of made to
       on the question: Is Christianity an irrelevant outdated superstition or a           measure replacement cabinet doors
       wonderful guiding set of principles inspired through a belief in God and          • Extensive bathroom range - from
       completely relevant to us in the 21st Century?                                      cloakrooms to walk in showers and
       The talk by two emminent speakers at the Phoenix Theatre, New College               wet rooms
       are open to all people of any faith and of none. Admission is free with
       contributions towards costs invited.                                              • Bedrooms by Daval & Bella,
       Wednesday 2 March, 7pm: Former Bishop of Swindon Rt Rev’d Michael                   with a range of sliders
       Doe on ‘Being economical with the truth or truthful about the economy?’           • Fully project managed installation
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