Future Events
Wine Tasting - Tuesday, 31st January 2012 - CANCELLED
Sadly, this event has had to be cancelled through lack of uptake.
Zumba Evening - Wednesday, 29th February 2012
Rita Booker is putting on a Latin-inspired, easy to follow, calorie-burning, dance fitness party. Come and feel the music and LET LOOSE. Ditch the workout, join the PARTY!
Tickets are £5 per head and are bookable through Celia Riley on 01702 546476 (8.30 am - 2.30 pm). All welcome!!!
All profits from the evening are being donated to Peaceful Place - so come on down, have a Zumba and make friends!
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.
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 Colourthon - Saturday, 7th July 2012
If you would like to do the Moonlight 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 - just over 6 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 Colourthon, there is the Daylight Colourthon for under 16s which costs just £2.50 to enter, and involves doing 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..........?
Dogathon - Sunday, 22nd July 2012
Calling all dogs. Please give your human/s advance notice of the third Peaceful Place Dogathon. Starting at the usual time of 3 o'clock, from the Green at the end of St. Augustines Road, near Thorpe Bay Tennis Club. Then 'walkies' of one mile into Southchurch Park for some fun competitions and prizes. Remember those sausages from this year - mmm?!
More details and registration and sponsorship forms will be posted nearer the time.