Cromwell Museum Spring Online Lecture Programme
The Cromwell Museum is delighted to announce the next series of its popular online lectures, with the Spring 2025 Lecture Series, again being held via Zoom.
These talks will be recorded and put on a private channel after the ‘live’ talk for ticket holders to view at their leisure if they miss the live talk or wish to view them again.
We are delighted to welcome over four successive Wednesdays:
Season tickets for the whole programme can be booked online at: https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromwell-museum-spring-online-lecture-series-2025 and cost £24 for the season (£18 for Museum Members and Students). Individual talks can be booked separately by following the links from the above page.
Our Members Scheme provides a great way of supporting the Museum’s activities, as well as getting invitations to exclusive events and discounts to our public programmes including these online series (held twice a year). You can find more details at: https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/support/cromwell-museum-membership and now even sign up online!
St Ives Community Information Day – Saturday 17th May, 10am to 1pm at St Ives Corn Exchange and Free Church
Discover what St Ives has to offer. Explore local stalls, meet community groups and find out about activities and support for all residents. Everyone welcome.
If you have questions, please contact Jane on
stivescares@stivestowncouncil.gov.uk or 01480 388929
Conference announcement: Bob Edwards centenary: His life, work and legacy, 26th September 2025
Organised by the family of Bob Edwards (IVF pioneer), the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Cambridge University Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience), and Churchill Archives Centre (Churchill College), this conference will comprise two sessions.
2-4.30pm: Science and clinical practice (Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).
Talks and a panel session on current science and clinical practice influenced by Edwards’ work. This session will include Dr Kay Elder (Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridge); Dr Marta Shahbazi (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge); Julie Tang (recipient of the 2024 Johnson Woodman-Loke CTR PhD Studentship); Dr Geraldine Jowett (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge); Ana Orsi (recipient of the 2023 Loke CTR-Sir Robert Edwards Churchill College PhD studentship); Dr Kamal Ahuja (Scientific and Managing Director of London Women’s Clinic, first met Bob Edwards as a PhD student in the Marshall Laboratory in the 1970s); Professor Alan Handyside (pioneer of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and had PhD examined by Bob Edwards); and Professor Peter Braude (Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King’s College, London)
5.30-7.30pm: Life and legacy (Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College).
A panel session featuring Emma Barnett (British Broadcaster and Journalist with a young IVF child), Fiona Bennett (former Executive Editor of Reproductive BioMedicine Online journal which Bob started), Louise Brown (the first IVF baby), Professor Sir Richard Gardner (Bob’s PhD student and Oxford University Lecturer), Dr Jenny Joy (Bob’s daughter and creator of his archive), and Dr Mike Macnamee (former CEO of Bourn Hall Clinic who knew Bob well).
The panel session will be followed by a drinks reception and a chance to see a display of facsimiles from the archive of Bob Edwards
You can register for either, or both, sessions. Please register to guarantee your place.
Find out more and register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/churchillarchivescentre/1649990
Opera – Eugene Onegin at Elveden Hall
Sun 6 Jul 2025 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM Elveden Hall, IP24 3TG Wild Arts comes to Elveden’s stunning hall for the first time, with Tchaikovsky’s passionate exploration of life, death, love, and pride – directed by the former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Dromgoole.
Conducted by Orlando Jopling, the opera is fully staged in period costume, with a new English translation, and arrangement for chamber orchestra.
You are welcome to arrive from 12pm to set up your picnic lunch on the south lawn, and bring food, drink, rugs, chairs, tables, friends, and candelabras. You will be ushered into the hall for the performance at 3pm, and there’ll be 30-minute interval for pudding at 4pm before Act II, which will end at approximately 5.30pm. You are then welcome to stay after the show to enjoy a drink with the Wild Arts company.
You are welcome to wear black tie, or please dress however you feel comfortable or is appropriate for the weather on the day.
Tickets
Front Rows £125 | A ticket to the opera £85 Under 25s £50 Indoor tables are available (fitting groups of up to 10) for £30 – with complementary sparkling water and nibbles.
Please email estate.shop@elveden.com if you would be interested in ordering a pre-made, locally-sourced picnic. The closing date for picnic orders is 29 June 2025.
Please get in touch with estate.office@elveden.com, should you have any questions about accessibility.
Directions to the venue
Entry to Elveden Park is via the gate from London Road, Elveden, IP24 3TG. What3Words: waltz.amaze.large. This gate will be signposted and directional signs will show the route to Elveden Hall from the gate. All other gates will be locked.
Booking website
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wildarts/1565395
English Conversation
We are a small charity based in North Cambridge (NCCP). We are seeking volunteers for 4 hour,s 1 hour per week, for 4 weeks to allow non-native speakers practice their speaking and listening skills. This is not a teaching role, just practise. The groups are small 4-6 participants and the meeting are held in local libraries.
Please reply to eileen@nccp.org.uk
HIAM Sports & Social Club,
Putney Hill Rd. Prickwillow, Ely, Cambs. CB7 4UU.
Contact details on Website: https://www.hiam.org.uk/?page=ballroom
Lovely dance floor. Great acoustics. Licensed bar. Level access. Raffle. Free Wifi. Ample free parking.
Doors open at 7pm for evening dances. (1 pm for Tea dances)
Sunday Tea dances : 2 til 5 pm Members £6.50. Non-members £8.00 incl. tea/coffee/biscuits.
Saturday night dances : 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Members £7.50. Non-members £9.00.
Ballroom and Sequence dances at Hiam: MAY & JUNE 2025
All dances listed below are ‘pay at the door’ and 50/50 ballroom & sequence, UNLESS marked with an asterisk*.
Saturday May 17th – David Ingley
Saturday May 24th – Paul Hadley
Sunday June 1st – Tea dance with Gary Cole
Saturday June 21st – David Last
Saturday June 28th – Nick Martin BEM
Plus: Thursday tea dances with CDs hosted by Amanda & Richard, 2-4:30 p.m. £4 including tea/coffee/biscuits.
Free upcoming courses with The Mindful Life Group
The Mindful Life Group are a clinician-led non-profit organisation that focuses exclusively on older adult mental health care. All courses are 6 weeks long, are accessed online and are completely free of charge.
Their Mind Cog Programme is designed for those with Mild Cognitive Diagnosis to improve memory and overall brain health.
They also have the Mindfulness for Older Adults who Care, a programme tailored to the needs of carers to support mental health, relaxation, wellbeing and foster community.
To find out more visit: https://the-mindful-life.com/
All are welcome to attend a concert by the Cambridge Philharmonic at West Road Concert Hall at 7.30pm on Saturday 24 May, supporting the work of Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign by raising funds to support their work in our local community.
A trio of works exploring the theme of sanctuary in this special concert to celebrate Cambridge’s refugee community, featuring the world premiere of a new Concerto for Kamancheh and Orchestra by Iranian composer and virtuoso Rouzbeh Parsa. This new work has been commissioned thanks to the generosity of local sponsors, arranged and orchestrated by Cambridge-based composer Jonathan Brigg, supported by Harry Sever our Music Director.
Rouzbeh Parsa Concerto for Kamancheh and Orchestra
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Jonathan Dove Odyssey
More details here: https://cambridgephilharmonic.com/whats-on/refuge/
Upcoming Screening of Short Film about David Parr
The Man Who Painted His House Screening at All Saints Church, Tue 20th May, 7.30pm All Saints Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BP
https://davidparrhouse.org/whats-on/the-man-who-painted-his-house-screening-at-all-saints-church
Women of Note in performance led by Chloë Allison
Songs for a Day in May
12 noon Saturday 17 May at St Clement’s Church, Cambridge
Starting at midday, Songs for a Day in May is an hour-long concert of unaccompanied songs and short readings that will lighten your day. The programme offers an a cappella selection broad enough to please all tastes.
Women of Note will lead you from traditional Scottish melodies and a prayer for unity in Ireland, via a Zulu women’s beer-drinking song and a musical setting of Walter de la Mare’s poem Trees, to evergreen love songs. These will include: Can’t Help Falling in Love – recorded by Elvis Presley, You Send Me – a song written by the legendary Sam Cooke and, from The Flying Pickets, the number one hit of 1983 – Only You.
The concert takes place at the historic St Clement’s Church, which originates in the 13th century. Women of Note, led by their musical director Chloë Allison, will perform against the backdrop of a magnificent mural, painted by Frederick Leach, the Victorian church artist (and the employer of David Parr of Gwydir Street).
For afterwards, there is a wide range of eating places and pubs nearby. And there’s a choice of bus services (including P&R from Madingley Road) for transport to and from St Clement’s and parking at the newly rebuilt Park Street Car Park.
We look forward to welcoming you!
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There will be a charity collection for the Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre.
Seats are unreserved. Tickets at £8 (under 16s free) are available in advance from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/women-of-note or 0333 666 3366
‘The Wandering Minstrels’
There will be a treat for G&S fans in Cambridgeshire when ‘The Wandering Minstrels’ visit St. Neots Parish Church on Saturday 31 May at 7.30pm for ‘THE WORLD OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN’. They will sing, act and dance their way through popular excerpts from the Savoy Operas including ‘HMS Pinafore’, ‘The Gondoliers’, ‘The Pirates of Penzance’, ‘The Mikado’, ‘Ruddigore’ and ‘Utopia, Limited’. Artistes appearing in this Gala concert include Alexandra Ferrari, Emma Stratton, Charles Mills, Stephen Godward and Tim Hurst-Brown, with Peter Hewitt at the piano. Tickets are £15 and can be obtained from bruceelam45@gmail.com, from jarogus@msn.com, on 01480 473820, on 01480 476314, or at the door. Refreshments will be served during the interval. The artistes will perform in period costume and the excerpts will be staged in traditional style. Don’t miss what promises to be a fun-filled evening!
Connecting Nature and Heritage
A hands-on, creative, programme that nurtures health and wellbeing. Designed for everyone, with accessibility at its heart.
Connecting Nature and Heritage is a FREE 8-week programme for adults (aged 65+) aimed to support social connectedness.
Creative activities throughout the programme will be inspired by the Museum’s collection – with a focus on drawing connections with one another and items in the collection.
More info
FREE 8-week creative programme for adults aged 65+.
Booking required as places are limited.
Tuesdays (10:30 – 12:30) – 13th May to 1st July 2025
Everyone is welcome, though the programme particularly welcomes older adults experiencing isolation, living with a chronic health condition and those who haven’t previously participated in a programme at the Museum.
For more information and to book, please contact Christina Bulow:
cb2293@cam.ac.uk or call 01223 333 230.
Cambridge Harmony Chorus is a ladies’ Barbershop choir. It is a friendly and exciting group with high ambitions. It has a wide age range and also a large voice range. We are always particularly pleased to welcome people with low voices. This year we have sung at the Bournemouth Convention, Mill Road Christmas Fair, EACH fundraising event, Anglesey Abbey, Wimpole Hall and various other venues in and around Cambridge.
Come and join us:
Organiser: Sue Whykes
When: Monday 7.30 – 9.15– almost every week
Where: Christ the Redeemer Church, Newmarket Road, CB5 8RS (good parking)
Contact: through our website: cambridgeharmony.org.uk and for further details.
Wicken Fen Nature Reserve Needs Your Voice
We’re inviting our local community to take part in the Wicken Fen Nature Reserve Community Conversation 2025 — a vital opportunity to shape the future of the reserve together.
Whether you visit regularly, live nearby, or simply care about nature, we want to hear from you. This short survey will help us understand your views on important issues like the decline of wildlife, the climate crisis and how accessible the reserve is for everyone. Your insights will guide us in developing services, activities and conservation work that truly reflect the needs and aspirations of the community.
Take the survey here: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScJp6nsOXX…/viewform…
Completion deadline: Monday 26th May
Thank you for helping us make Wicken Fen better for people, for nature, and for future generations.
Current as of May 2025
Cambridge Cyrenians looking for a new Chair
For over 50 years local homelessness charity Cambridge Cyrenians charity has provided accommodation and support to single, homeless, men and women in Cambridge. We currently provide accommodation and support to over 150 individuals and each year we help around 25-30 people to transition out of our supported accommodation and into independence. We also provide an in house mental health nurse, employability support, a therapeutic allotment project and outreach support to over 40 people living in the community.
We are a small but active charity looking for a new Chair to lead us. If you have an interest in what we do and you think that you have the right skills and experience to fill this role please look here for more details www.cambridgecyrenians.org.uk/careers
Current as of January 2025
My name is Muhammad, and I am from the Engineering Design Centre within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. We are currently seeking participants to take part in an interview session aimed at improving in-vehicle interactions.
The purpose of our study is to understand drivers’ learning experiences with in-vehicle technology. We believe that members of your community could provide invaluable insights for our research. We would be most grateful if you could share this invitation with anyone in your network who might be interested in contributing to the future of in-vehicle interactions.
Eligible participants should:
The interview will be conducted in the car, lasting approximately 40–60 minutes. As a token of our appreciation, participants will receive a £10 voucher for their time.
If anyone is interested or would like further information, they can contact me, Muhammad Hussain, at mh2312@cam.ac.uk.
Current as of January 2025
Hayley Ogilvie: Piano Tuition
Looking for a new challenge? Wanting to return to the piano after a break?
I offer engaging and inspiring tailor-made piano lessons to all ages and abilities in Cambridge. Vacancies currently available during the day time, with some availability during the evening.
I have a particular interest in teaching adults and believe that all students have the potential to be musicians. Making music is at the heart of all my lessons and my teaching brings together all the essential elements to develop confident, expressive and imaginative musicians.
If you would like to come along and give it a try, I would be delighted to hear from you. To find out more or to contact me, please see my website: hayleyogilvie.co.uk
Current as of January 2025
Information for walkers: Rights of Way and obstructions
The Rights of Way officer for South Cambridgeshire is anxious to support users of footpaths and wants to encourage members of the public to report obstructions. You can do this via the Report It page on the Council website here: https://highwaysreporting.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/
It is helpful to upload a photo if possible. The Officer’s name is Oliver and his telephone number is 07393 142 442. His email address is oliver.ayto@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Current as of October 2024