Future Events
Quiz Night - Friday, 20th April 2012
Another of our brain-taxing quizzes at Cupids in Great Wakering. Teams are in tables of 10, £6 per head. Bring your own nibbles, drinks from the licensed bar. To download a booking form click here
The Orpheus Singers Grand Charity Gala - Saturday, 21st April 2012
We have been given the opportunity to sell a block of tickets for two concert performances by The Orpheus Singers ladies choir, with all profits from tickets purchased through Peaceful Place going to the charity. The concerts are both on the same day - the earlier performance being at 2.30 pm, and the evening performance at 7.30 pm.
This well-known and much loved local choir will cover songs from both stage and screen, together with traditional and other forms popular music. They perform regularly within the Essex area and have also undertaken tours.
Tickets for the concerts are available from Peaceful Place at a cost of £7 each. If you wish to attend the concert please click here to download a booking form.
Fun Quiz - Closing Date 15th April 2012
If you like quizzes, dingbats, crosswords etc., then you'll like our Fun Quizzes. Entry to the next one is just £1 and the highest correct entry will win £20. In the event of a tie, the names of the highest scored entries will go into a hat and one person drawn. To download the quiz click here
Open Garden - Shoebury Hall
6th of May 2012
This is your opportunity to have a look around a delightful, established 1-acre walled garden surrounding a Grade 2 listed house (not open to the public) and bee house. There is an ongoing extension of borders. In April the garden is ablaze with 3000 tulips and fritillaria, July shows 90 varieties of agapanthus. There are unusual trees, shrubs, rose borders, plus 30 year old plus old geraniums, Mediterranean and Southern Hemisphere planting in dry garden.
There will teas and coffee with scrumptious home-made cakes, and a plant stall to help you start your own Kew Gardens.
If you have green fingers and could grow some plants for us, we would be very grateful for all contributions for our plant stall. Home-made cakes or biscuits to sell will also be very welcome.
Admission is £3.50 per person.
Further details to be advised nearer the time.
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Street Party - Sunday, 3rd June 2012 (5 pm - 9 pm)
If you were one of the approximate two and a half thousand people that came and enjoyed the Royal Wedding Street Party in Thorpe Bay Broadway on 30th April 2011, then keep the 3rd of June free to join in celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012......
Another street party is being planned on a slightly larger scale from the first.......
Music is being provided by the fantastic HEARTBEAT, along with other fantastically talented local talent, heaps of children's entertainment including a pets corner and the opportunity to learn some circus, lots more side shows, a Grand Raffle, Tombolas, food and drink, celebration cakes etc., etc. We already have a Queen and a Prince Philip lookalike, but corgis seem to be in short supply, so if you know anyone with a corgi (it doesn't have to have an Equity card), please ask it to get in touch....
We are already collecting tombola prizes for both adults and children, raffle prizes, and looking street entertainers, singers, dancers, sponsors and help of all sorts.
If you'd like to get involved in any way, would like a side stall, can offer entertainment, can help with printing leaflets or posters or can help in any other way please give Celia Riley a ring on 01702 546476 (8.30 am - 2.30 pm Monday to Friday).
This year's street party raised a fantastic £6,000 - let's see if we can beat that next time!
Pure-nostalgia Classic Car & Retro Show, Sunday 24th of June 2012
This event, organised by Tim Bussell on behalf of Peaceful Place, is now entering its third year, and just keeps getting BIGGER and BETTER every year. It's tempting fate, but let's see if we can have a heatwave on the day of the show for the third year running....
The Classic Car Show takes place at The Lawn, Hall Road, Rochford, SS4 1PJ. There will be hundreds of classic cars from the bygone years of motoring, vintage fashions and apparel, automotive art, side shows and stalls, refreshments, music and dance, and the new Orangery will also be open with cream teas and champagne. So ......... polish up your car, put your glad rags on and have some good old fashioned fun!
The show is on from 10.30 am - 5.00 pm. Admission to the public is £5 per adult, under 14's go free. If you register your car however only costs £10 and this includes admission for four adults in the car.
How do I register my car?
All show cars must pre-register for entry onto the show ground. Vehicles must be insured, with current MOT and driven to the event (No trailored vehicles allowed). All show vehicles must be registered pre-1970 to be eligible. £10 per show vehicle (includes entrance for driver and all passengers). Trophy & Champagne prizes for ‘Best Vehicles at Show' plus ‘Best Period Dressed Passenger'. All classic vehicles welcome. To register a car click here
Trade stands are available at £50 per stand. If you would like to enquire about attending the event as a tradesperson, please contact Tim Bussell on 07775 733911.
Hope to see you there - It's a Revival!
Moonlight, Twilight and Sunlight Colourthons - Saturday, 7th July 2012
If you would like to do the Moonlight, Twilight or Sunlight Colourthon on our behalf, please keep this date in your diary.
As well as the usual 13.2 mile walk, next year you will also have the opportunity of doing a quarter marathon - 6.2 miles. Both walks will begin at the same time and the same place, with those doing the shorter version veering off back to the start (not via the pub!) at a strategic point.
To take part in the Moonlight Colourthon, all you have to do is register and start collecting sponsorship money. Registration costs £15 which includes a colourful t-shirt, water and a medal to show that you finished the course. Details of when you can register (which will be around the beginning of April) will be posted here when known.
As well as the Moonlight and Twilight Colourthons, there is the Daylight Colourthon for under 16s which costs just £2.50 to enter, and involves doing 0.25 mile laps of Chalkwell Park.
You don't have to do the Colourthon in a mankini, but if that's what you want to wear, who are we to argue..........?
To register for any of the Colourthons click here
Dogathon - Sunday, 22nd July 2012
Calling all dogs@ Fancy putting your four paws forwards for a stroll along the seafront? Fancy a bow-wow with your mates? Looking to meet that 'special dog'..........? Then download a registration form by clicking here for the Peaceful Place sponsored Dogathon on 22nd July 2012 (and don't forget to bring your human!).
Route: From the green on the seafront by St. Augustines Avenue (near Thorpe Bay Tennis Club), along the seafront, turn right into Elizabeth Road and into Southchurch Park (just follow your nose).
Travel arrangements: If you suffer from any health condition; disability, old-age or you just don't fancy walking, you may travel by pushchair, pram or designer handbag.....
Canines, please use all your doggy charms - young hang dog expression, your shaggy dog stories and your dogged determination to try and raise a minimum of £15 in sponsorship for people with young onset dementia. To thank you for bringing your two-footed friend, you will receive your own personal doggie bag with some fantastic edible treats - oh boy!!
PLEASE NOTE ONLY GOOD DOGS REGISTERED IN ADVANCE WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO ENTER THE COMPETITIONS TO WIN PRIZES.
Competitions include: The smallest dog / The largest dog / The cutest puppy / The most diverse pair (in the same family) / The dog that looks most like its owner / The fittest senior citizen / The most heart-warming story / The best sausage catcher / The best jumper / Fancy-dress competition on an Olympic or Royal theme.
This event is limited to the first 100 dogs.