Herald - Issue 474

Page 40 • The HERALD • 15th May 2025 v F @heraldpublishing v Forest Edge Travel 8 Seater Air Conditioned Vehicle We provide a personal and reliable private hire transportation to individuals, families and businesses in your area: l Local and Long Distance l Airport & Seaport Transfers l Corporate and Social Events l Sporting Events/Group Bookings l Weddings l Days Out l Very Competitive Rates Licenced by New Forest District Council, Forest Edge Travel welcomes all enquiries - please contact Jason on: 023 8087 2949 Mobile: 07720 667171 Email: info@forestedgetravel.co.uk www.forestedgetravel.co.uk OUT & ABOUT NEW FOREST SOUNDS LADIES CHOIR PRESENTS IT TAKES TWO Featuring a variety of songs from both Stage & Screen Wednesday 25th June, 7.30pm at St John’s Church, New Road, Hythe SO45 6BP Tickets can be purchased in advance from choir members or on the door for £9. Refreshments are included and there will be a raffle during the evening. A donation to Families Matter Hythe will be made from the proceeds ART IN LYMINGTON Lymington Arts Group hold meetings in the McLellan Hall at Lymington Community Centre, New Street, Lymington SO41 9BQ, on the second Friday afternoon of each month (except February and August). Meetings start at 2.30pm and normally last two hours. eir next meeting will be on Friday 13th June for a demonstration by Julie King about depicting the natural world using watercolour paints. Followed on Friday 11th July for a demonstration by Jan Gaska about Painting Figures in oil paint. Visitors are very welcome and pay £3.50. From 24th to 31st May they will be holding their Spring Exhibition at the Masonic Events Hall in Lymington. Marchwood Veterans Breakfast Club Are you a service member of the Armed Forces, a Veteran, or family member of someone serving? If so, 17th Port and Maritime Regiment RLC would like to welcome you to their monthly breakfast club which is open to all current and ex-military services, all ranks, all ages and families. e aim is to come together as an Armed Forces Family, catch up with friends, help social interaction and mental health, talk about current and past experience, support towards housing (SFA’s and social), resettlement support for civilian life, job networking and o er tness wellbeing advice. Go along and enjoy a full English Breakfast at a very small cost of £5 with unlimited FREE brews at Sgts Mess, 17RLC, McMullen Barracks, Cracknore Hard Lane, Marchwood SO40 4ZG on the fourth Saturday of the month between 10am and 12noon. e next two meet ups take place on Saturday 24th May and Saturday 28th June. All personnel attending will need to book into the Guardroom on arrival and will need photograph ID, you will then be directed to the mess. MUSIC IN ROMSEY e next concert in Romsey Abbey takes place on Saturday 24th May, 7.30pm. Join the Choir and Orchestra of University Music, Bournemouth as they perform a programme of Baroque masterpieces. Tickets available from ticketsource. co.uk/musicinromsey or from Oasis, Church Street (01794 512194). On Saturday 31st May, 7.30pm, Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2025 – Coda. e 2025 Romsey Chamber Music Festival (RCMF) showcases a remarkable lineup of internationally celebrated young artists. is year’s theme, Coda, explores music created in moments of profound re ection — works born from the brink of life’s end, shaped by war, loss, and personal transformation. RCMF 2025 will open in Romsey Abbey with Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, a rare chance to hear this immensely moving masterpiece that weaves an enduring sense of hope and humanity from the simplest of musical materials. e programme also includes Barber’s iconic Adagio for Strings and Ravel’s dazzling La Valse. Tickets for this and other events in the Festival are available from: www.tickettailor.com/events/ romseychambermusicfestival For full programme details please go to romseychambermusic.com Holbury Manor WI is a friendly group that meets on the fourth Monday of the month at Good Shepherd Church Hall, Holbury at 7.30pm. eir next meeting is on Monday 26th May for their AGM. Visitors are always welcome to go along to see (and hear) what they do and what being in the WI is all about! Please contact: holburysec@ hampshirewi.org.uk for more details, or do go along to a meeting. HOLBURY MANOR WI

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