Annual Village BBQ

The Annual Village BBQ will be held at the field opposite the Village Hall on 13th August this year. Be sure to bring a chair or blanket and enjoy the evnt.
More information will follow nearer to the day.

Friends of Garboldisham Village Hall

A new way to support your community service will be launched from August this year, become a Friend of Garboldisham Village Hall. 

The Hall is a community asset and to make it open and affordable by local groups hire charges have to be set at fair rate. Despite being recently rebuilt the hall still needs ongoing maintenance to ensure it continues to be a desirable venue for visiting artists.

  For a nominal annual subscription you will be able to help ensure that Garboldisham Village Hall is kept in tip-top condition, complying with all legislation and with additional services that make it so attractive to potential users, thus making it a sustainable community asset.

See the August parish magazine for more information and a subscription form.

Garboldisham Village Hall to host "Diss Corn Hall on Tour"

Garboldisham Village Hall will be a stage coach stop for Diss Corn Hall when it goes ‘on tour’ this Autumn while planned improvements as part of the £3 million Heritage Triangle project take place. 

We continue with the co-operation with Diss Corn Hall during its restoration and will have productions through to 2017. Please refer to the events page

Garboldisham loses Village Supporters and Welcomes New Store Owners

It has been an interesting start to this New Year in the village, with  Bill & Cheryl Hamblin moving to Thetford and leaving vacancies for a Parish Councillor and a member of the Village Hall. Management Committee. We wish them well in their move and thank them for their services to our village, which included creating and supporting F.R.O.G.S. our school PTA, organising and setting up the licensed bar for our Village Hall, representing villagers as a Parish Councillor and actively supporting the cry for re-opening the Fox public house.

We also have new owners of our Garboldisham Post Office & Stores. Robbie, Kelly, Dorothy & Dylan have arrived and are making great positive moves to get our village store back to the thriving business is was, offering good produce at competitive prices. Don't forget Use It or Lose It (see the Fox) more about the store later.

First Aid Course for Villagers

 

September saw nine participants enjoying a light hearted yet informative First Aid course where each achieved a Level 2 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work, learning some very useful skills. 

 

If anyone else is interested in doing the course, please contact a Garboldisham Vllage Hall committee member.

 

 

 

Liz Simcock returns to Garboldisham

It wasn't quite Rick's bar in Casablanca at the Village Hall on 14th September - no white piano or Humphrey Bogart for a start - but we were able to sit at our tables sipping cocktails enjoying some very sophisticated music, courtesy of Liz Simcock and her back-up duo of Dave Ellis and Boo Howard, playing a variety of instruments in a variety of styles.

Many villagers will remember Liz appearing at the hall on the same bill as The Churchfitters. She has a sweet voice and great skill as a lyricist, performing expertly, movingly, and often humourously, songs which speak of incidents in her life, often coming from experiences in Norfolk and elsewhere in East Anglia. 

John Sears

Live Theatre Returns to Garboldisham

Garboldisham Village Hall will again play host to the Eastern Angles production company for their presentation of Private Resistance a play set in rural East Anglia during the second world war. It copes with the question of how would we survive under the Third Reich? 

This is a story of how Churchill’s guerrilla army or Auxiliary Units would have harassed, harangued and resisted the invasion and also of the effect it had on the individuals involved. An Interesting play that will draw you in.  

Private Resistance, by Ivan Cutting, can be seen on 24^th March 2012. Curtain up at 7.30pm. The licensed bar will open at 7.00pm

Tickets are on sale from the Garboldisham Village Post Office shop or by telephoning 01953 681481

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes to Garboldisham

Forget the Oscar's and BAFTA's we now have the Garby's.

Through the patronage of Breckland District Council and Creative Arts East, Garboldisham Village Hall will become the only local venue showing the latest adaptation of this classic John le Carre novel starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt & Benedict Cumberbatch.

This film evening is scheduled for Wednesday 14^th March 2012 curtains up at 7.30pm , there is a licensed bar from 7.00pm.

Early booking is essential for this event as tickets at £3.00 each are limited

Tickets are available from Garboldisham Village Shop or by phoning 01953 681416 

The Summer Quiz - 11th June 2011

Well you have bought and sold, both prifitably we hope, during the day.

Nows the time to sharpen that old Grey Matter and be prepared to show more than a passing knowledge on all manner of things.

Yes its the Summer Quiz.

Doors open @ 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start for teams of up to 6 persons and there is a licensed bar to help oil the brain.

Cost is £3.00 per person.

Places are limited so book your team early

Please contact either Belinda on 01953 681416 or Cheryl on 01953 688184 to register your team place

Spring Car Boot Sale - 11th June 2011

OK - so you have been talking about clearing out the shed - attic - wardrobe for ages

                                                           Now is the Time

The Spring Carboot Sale is taking place at Garboldisham Village Hall from 11.00am until 4.00pm on Saturday 11th June.

Cost of a stall is £5.00 per car (sic) or £10.00 for a trade space.

If you are hungry after all these transactions enjoy either Cream Teas or a Bar-B-Que  before getting ready for the Village Quiz

To book a pitch ring Belinda on 01953 681416 or Cheryl on 01953 688184

Denny Newman returns to Garboldisham

Denny Newman and the Regulators return to Garboldisham on 29th April to round of a day of celebration for the wedding of Prince William & Katherine Middleton.
Denny will be joined by Max Middleton on keyboards, Jeff Allen on drums and talented bass playing son Scott Newman to entertain us with numbers from their wide catalogue of music including new songs yet to be released.
Tickets can be obtained from Garboldisham Post Office, the Diss Tourist Centre and other outlets to be announced.  'Cant get to these places'  - well phone 01953 688184 or email bookings@garboldishamvillagehall.co.uk   
Places are limited, so book soon to avoid disappointment


More information on other Event's planned for the day will be published soon.

Up Out o' The Sea - by Andrew Holland Comes to Garboldisham

Garboldisham Hall again plays host to live theatre.  Wednesday the 30th March see's the Eastern Angles production of Up O'The Sea a play by Andrew Holland 

In a small town on Suffolk’s eroding coastline, life goes on pretty much as usual until Carrie arrives investigating a 30-year-old lifeboat tragedy. As lost lives and loves are dredged to the surface the past gradually becomes clearer and locals learn to face up to the future…

Suffolk-based playwright Andrew Holland was introduced to Eastern Angles through the National Theatre Studio. He has written plays for radio and stage. .

Up out o’ the Sea will be directed by Eastern Angles founder Ivan Cutting whose most recent directing credits include the stunning site-specific production Bentwater Roads and last year’s best-selling Christmas show Mansfield Park & Ride.

Show times: Monday 30 March 2011 at 7.30pm
Tickets: All seats £7.50
Student & Children tickets: £5.00
Why not  #retweet or facebook this event and help spread the word!

An evening with Melanie Parr

Well what a pleasant surprise!

Melanie Parr Hosted a One Woman Show at Garboldisham Village Hall on 27^th November.  A really entertaining evening beautifully aimed at the ‘Musicals’ audience full of songs, anecdotes and memories of 60’s and 70’s London’s West End theatre and some of its lovable characters.

The audience of over 100 people were held spell bound by Melanie relating her experiences in first getting and then growing into the part of Gretel in Rogers & Hammerstein’s production of The Sound of Music.

“Characters were really brought alive by the use of original costumes and life like images” commented one audience member during the break, “Well worth the money” commented another “ It was just like inviting Melanie into our sitting Room for a chat” 

The Management Committee have expressed an interest in having Melanie return to enthral us with more tales of the theatre.

Fox Planning application goes before Breckland D.C. Planning Committee

The fate of Garbodisham Fox to be decided by Breckland District Council.
Monday 11th October will be a important day for the community of Garboldisham, a rural country village on the Norfolk/Suffolk borders, for it is the day that Breckland District Council’s Planning committee sit to decide whether to let an asset (stripping) company obtain a Change of Use order that would allow the 17th Century Fox Inn public house to be transformed into 5 private dwellings.

There is a lot of support for the “Save the Fox” action group, both within and outside of this community.

It is reported that previous attempts from both the group and interested individuals to purchase the freehold as a going concern have been thwarted by Criterion Asset Management who would seem to have a separate agenda than supporting rural enterprises as expressed by the current coalition government

Liz Simcock returns to Garboldisham

Following on from her recent visits supporting the Churchfitters, Liz Simcock is pleased to announce "An Evening with Liz"
Ably assisted by Warwick Jones on Guitar & Ian Newman on Bass, Liz will revel us with her own brand of easy to listen folk music.
Supporting Liz this evening will be Dave Ellis & Boo Howard

Date: Saturday 20th November from 8:00pm

Full Bar, Tickets £8 from Garboldisham Post Office or online http://www.lizsimcock.com/

Denny Newman & the Regulators play Garboldisham

What a Great Night, The band played to a packed house, there was listening and dancing and air-drumming everywhere.
See The Garboldisham Village Hall website  for some pics (taken by our resident paperazzi Nigel Mildwater) and  a taste of Denny and the gangs music.

Garboldisham becomes Venue for Blues Fans

The 24th September this year will see the village hall become a venue for one of the UK’s legendary Blues guitarist's.


Denny Newman and the Regulars featuring, Max Middleton on keyboards, Jeff Allen on drums and talented bass playing son Scott Newman will be entertaining us with numbers from their wide catalogue of music.


Frequently described as "The best kept secret in British Blues", guitarist/vocalist/song writer Denny Newman fronts a superb band that delivers sophisticated guitar led blues - a cross between Peter Green and Mark Knopfler.


Click here for a taste of Denny's style of Blues


The session starts @ 8.00pm and goes on till 11.00pm. There will be a full bar with guest real ale

There are a limited number of tickets for this event so early booking is advisable

Tickets cost £10 in advance and will be available from:
Diss Tourist Centre
Bar13 - Diss
Botesdale -Greyhound
Thelnetham -White Horse
Garboldisham - Post OfficeOr online ticket-info@garboldishamvillagehall.co.uk
or £12.50 on the Door sales
It is hoped that the Village Hall will become a regular venue for both local and national bands

Garboldisham Village Hall Website launched

The updated Garboldisham Village Hall website was launched today.
Following an interesting and sometimes highly charged AGM (another Blog), a new Village Hall Management Committee was formed with the intention of increasing the public's use of this community venue and attracting more activities into the hall.

Part of this programme was to launch the updated and interactive Garboldisham Village Hall website.
This will keep visitors informed of events not only taking place in the Village Hall but also as a central repository for other Village groups that wish to use the website to keep their followers informed

 http://www.garboldishamvillagehall.co.uk/

Save Our Village Pub Campaign -The Battle Lines are Drawn

Well the battle lines have been drawn.

Subsequent to the Save Our Village Pub meeting on Monday the 14th December, according to a report in the local newspaper the Diss Express, Peter Gullis of the Wellington Pub Company has said: "They are in discussions with the council, a proposal is being considered to retain the building and possibly convert it into three cottages, this is subject to receiving consent from the planning officer.
follow http://www.dissexpress.co.uk/news/39No-option39-over-pub39s-future.5922158.jp   to read the article in question

If we want this to happen we should sit on our thumbs - OR - write to/email your local ward councillors at Breckland District Council and voice your dismay at such a decision
Their details are publicly available and are listed  below:
Councillor Roy Kemp
Hill Harling
East Harling
Norwich
Norfolk
NR16 2LL
Email: roy.kemp@breckland.gov.uk

Councillor Lady Fisher
Kilverstone Hall
Kilverstone
Thetford
Norfolk
IP24 2RL
Email: karen.fisher@breckland.gov.uk

Please help us to Save our Village Pub

Monday evening saw a turnout of over 180 local people attend a meeting held at the Garboldisham village hall to discuss ways to re-open our sadly decaying Village Pub - the Fox Inn.
This Grade II listed pub which has been in existence since 1774 originally called the Fox and Goose has been closed, vandalised on a number of occasions and finally boarded up for over two years.

Despite a number of attempts from local interested parties to negotiate a lease and more recently outright purchase of the premises the owners have allowed the pub to fall into a state of disrepair - rumour has it - to ease their application for change of use to private dwellings.

Fleurets, the agency initially employed to market the Fox Inn as a going concern were, according to an insider, frustrated at every stage by the owners when trying to place the pub and have subsequently taken the Inn off their lists.

Should you wish to help us save this –once delightful and profitable- village pub please add your name to our growing list of Objectors or write to the following businesses
The Wellington Pub Company, who are a trading arm of Criterion Asset Management, who are in turn a group company of Reuben Brothers - the ultimate owners.

Peter Gullis
Criterion Asset Management
Parkway House
Haddenham Business Park
Haddenham
Bucks
HP17 8LJ
Email: peter.gullis@criterionasset.co.uk
Telephone: 01844 293250
Fax: 01844 291307

Stephane Nahum
Reuben Brothers Limited
Millbank Tower
21-24 Millbank
London
SW1P 4PQ
Email: snahum@motcomb.co.uk
Tel: +44 (20) 7802 5000
Fax:+44 (20) 7802 5002