Sherborne Town Events

Admission is free and there is a wide variety of jam,s chutneys and marmalade as well as Jo Osment's wonderful Lemon Curd. There are lots of cakes and biscuits on offer, a Dairy sections with a small selection of goods, local free-range eggs and duck eggs. Scrumptious savouries - pies, sasuage rolls, Moussaka to name a few. There is a wonderful craft section with home knitted, crocheted and sewn goods, and a plant, vegetable and flower section. We also provide an opportunity for tea and coffee at nominal rates.

A weekend filled with surprises -Aura Camera.. Reiki - Runes - Light Therapy - Colour therapy - Reflexology - Indian Head Massage -Tarot -Animal Communicator - Crystal Ball Reader  and Internationally renowned Psychic Mediums Marcus Burnett and Sue Hudd.  Healers - stalls a plenty with Crystals - Fairy Houses -handmade soaps - Grannys Attic Stall - Books - Talks and Demonstrations throughout the day.  

Light refreshments served all day -donations to Somerset and Dorset Rescue Centre. Entry cost is one pound.

Great Family weekend event, we have the Dog and Duck show as seen on BBC Countryfile, Sherborne Vale Dog Traing and Family Fun Dog show.

Punch and Judy along with Bob Grave Horsemanship, Falconary, and loads of great exibits and working displays including our very first Steam Engine music and beer tent for all to enjoy we also for the first time have a Chef Demo Area with competive cooking by three well known Chefs.

All monies raised for Future Roots based at Rylands Farm

The Glowing, Colour-changing Rocks of Greenland and Safeguarding the Pound in your Pocket talk to be given by Professor Mark Weller, President of Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Division, Prof of Energy Materials. 

Town Band and Youth band, great music, entertainment and audience participation. Tickets from Sherborne TIC. 

Admission is free and there is a wide variety of jam,s chutneys and marmalade as well as Jo Osment's wonderful Lemon Curd. There are lots of cakes and biscuits on offer, a Dairy sections with a small selection of goods, local free-range eggs and duck eggs. Scrumptious savouries - pies, sasuage rolls, Moussaka to name a few. There is a wonderful craft section with home knitted, crocheted and sewn goods, and a plant, vegetable and flower section. We also provide an opportunity for tea and coffee at nominal rates.

Somerset Art Weeks is an annual countywide celebration of the variety and quality of contemporary visual art that can be found in Somerset.  Since its inception in 1994, it has become an important event in Somerset's calendar delighting art lovers from near and far.

Please click on the website for more information.

An illustrated talk in aid of the Friends of Holnest Church.

Patron of the Friends, Adrian Tinniswood OBE, will uncover the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles. Drawing on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls, unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, he gives a voice to the people who inhabited the world of the English country house, both above and below stairs.

Adrian is the author of fourteen books on social and architectural history. His most recent being, "The Long Weekend", was a Sunday Times bestseller, a New York Times bestseller and a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.

Doors open 7.15pm. Tickets cost £5 from Sherborne TIC.

The Yeovil & District Philatelic Society will be holding its Annual Stamp & Postcard Fair at the Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road from 10am until 4pm.

There will be both stamp and postcard dealers attending and refreshements (including light cheese ploughman lunch) will also be available. 

Robert Nantes, Postgraduate Reasearcher at the University of Exeter, joins us to present this year's Gerald Pitman Memorial Lecture.

In the late 1820s, John Slade borrowed heavily in order to set up as a maltster and brewer in Sherborne. In the few years he traded something was to go very wrong, and he began to be pursued for debt. The situation became so bad that he fled Sherborne at Easter in 1830....and was never heard of again.

Discover fresh insights into this darker aspect of Sherbornian life.

The top part of a human skull, with an association to Lord Byron, is one of the more unusual lots going under the Charterhouse hammer today.

Please click on the attached PDF to read the full article.

Put your thinking caps on and get the old grey matter working! Come along to our quiz night and join in the fun or get serious!

Tables of six - £3 per person. Bring your own drinks and nibbles. A raffle will held.

Call for more information or to book a table.

Much loved Great British Bake Off contestant and Cake Whisperer Val Stones is joining us for a very special Big bibic Bake Off event at family friendly Vida Comida in Sherborne, today.

A retired headmistress with a fondness for talking to her cakes, Val is the perfect baker for us to partner with. Val’s passion for baking is infectious and magical.

Val will be with us from 10am-12pm. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to meet Val whilst supporting a great cause.

There will be fun for all the family, games, raffle prizes, a cake auction and BBBO goodies to buy.

Fancy sharing your baking passion with us? Take part in our #bibicshowstopper competition on the day. Val will be judging entries, all ages welcome!

Tickets will be £5 per adult (no advance purchase) to include a delicious cake and hot drink. Donations for children please. All proceeds to bibic – you will help change children’s lives.

Val has also kindly donated her Virtuous Cake recipe to the Big bibic Bake Off. Find the secrets to Val’s delicious and nutritious recipe in your free fundraising pack.  ORDER YOUR PACK TODAY from the website.

Admission is free and there is a wide variety of jam,s chutneys and marmalade as well as Jo Osment's wonderful Lemon Curd. There are lots of cakes and biscuits on offer, a Dairy sections with a small selection of goods, local free-range eggs and duck eggs. Scrumptious savouries - pies, sasuage rolls, Moussaka to name a few. There is a wonderful craft section with home knitted, crocheted and sewn goods, and a plant, vegetable and flower section. We also provide an opportunity for tea and coffee at nominal rates.

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Gates open from 6pm. Fireworks at 7pm.

A family event open to all.  Come and enjoy our bonfire, with a spectacular fireworks display provided by Imperial Lotus Limited.  There will also be food, refreshments and a sweet stall! 

To book please visit www.leweston.co.uk/events

Admission prices: Adults £5, children £3

This year is our 38th Annual Sherborne Castle Fireworks Event.

Gates open and Entertainment featuring the cast of Cinderella from the Octagon Theatre from 5pm.

Bonfire is at 7.00pm and Fireworks at 7.30.

There will be Refreshments/ food and live music from ‘Headland’.

TicketPrices:

Adult- £8.00
Children (5-16) and Senior Citizens: £6.00 - Under 5’s: Free and Car Parking: £4.00

120 minutes - TBC 

A visually studnning biopic exploring Jacques Cousteau and his adventures aboard the Clypso.  Staring Lambert Wilson and Audrey Tautou. In French with subtitles. To be Confirmed.

Tickets are £6 and available in advance from the Sherborne Tourist Information Centre on Digby Road, Tickets may also be purchased on the door if we have not sold out!

Join Saba Douglas-Hamilton, the highly acclaimed elephant conservationist and wildlife TV presenter of This Wild Life and Big Cat Diaries for an evening of exciting animal stories and intimate behind the scenes tales of life in Kenya with her young family.

This young, vibrant and dynamic group of musicians met during their years of study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Royal College of Music. As members of Live Music Now, they have channeled their enthusiasm to bring concerts and workshops to SEND schools and care homes, enabling as many people as possible to have access to classical music. With Rachael Elliot and Alison Boden on violin, Jennifer MacCallum on viola and Beatrice Newman on cello, this new programme celebrates the wonderful sonority of classical chamber music, featuring Hadyn’s Sunrise and Dvorak’s ‘American’ string quartets.

Touring through Dorset with Artsreach, the counties touring arts charity

Admission is free and there is a wide variety of jam,s chutneys and marmalade as well as Jo Osment's wonderful Lemon Curd. There are lots of cakes and biscuits on offer, a Dairy sections with a small selection of goods, local free-range eggs and duck eggs. Scrumptious savouries - pies, sasuage rolls, Moussaka to name a few. There is a wonderful craft section with home knitted, crocheted and sewn goods, and a plant, vegetable and flower section. We also provide an opportunity for tea and coffee at nominal rates.

Blackmore Vale and Yeovil NT Association presents The Trinity Entertainers who will get the Christmas season off to a festive start.

The Flicks are presented in association with Moviola - Film Rating 12a, 106 minutes.

Drama based on the final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten and the transition of British India to independence.  Starring Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson.

Tickets are £6 and available in advance from the Sherborne TIC and Tickets may also be purchased on the door if we have not sold out!

Blackmore Vale and Yeovil NT Association presents a talk by Shaun McCormack.

Shaun will entertain us with a descriptive talk on how he became a Yeoman, what it entailed and how the Queen’s Bodyguard came into existence.

Blackmore Vale and Yeovil NT Association presents a talk by Susan Vincent (Member of the Lawrence Society).

Susan's talk will cover the time T E Lawrence spent in Dorset from 1923 to his death in 1935. She will focus on his time as Private Shaw at the Army Barracks in Bovington, why he bought Clouds Hill nearby and who he had as visitors there, and his closest friends in Dorset, who included Thomas Hardy and his wife.

Blackmore Vale and Yeovil NT Association will hold its AGM @ 2.30pm at the Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne.  After tea and cake there will be a talk by Emily Utgren (NT Stourhead).

Tree care is core to a lot of the work at Stourhead, ensuring that there are young trees preparing to be magnificent one day. They are currently re-visiting the past to explain why Stourhead was built and how it was conserved since the 1700 to make the estate we see today.