The Village Room book club, held on the third Wednesday of the month, from 2.30 - 4.30pm now has 11 members. The books we have read so far are: 10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak; Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi; Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Long Island by Colm Toibin and Playing Army by Nancy Stroer. All very different books which have promoted lively and interesting discussions.
The book for November is The Women by Kristin Hannah. We will meet to discuss this book, in the Village Room on Wednesday, November 19th. Why don't you come and join us?
Hampsthwaite Village Writing Circle - for those who write or want to write. Absolute beginners to experienced writers welcome. We learn writing techniques, practice writing, and build a warm, inclusive circle of fellow writers. If you are interested in learning the art of writing with pleasure, for diary writing, journaling, memoirs, family history, local history, fiction or non-fiction, you are cordially invited to join. We will meet at the Hampsthwaite Village Reading Room on Wednesday afternoons from 2-3.30 as scheduled each month.
Writing Circle membership is free - there is no charge to participate. For further information, please contact Maggie Gamberton at 07710463153.
The author Clare Grant grew up in Hampsthwaite and the first in her series of Ada Fawkes mysteries - Winter of Shadows - has kindly been donated by the author. Clare has many links to the Village Room through her family, many of who were involved with the Village Room.
The Queen has congratulated the Village Room on its first anniversary!
We've been very lucky to secure a copy of one of Liz Hatton's photographs for the Village Room. At the first anniversary party for the Village Room, in April, we raised further funds for her family's charity set up to raise awareness and fund research into desmoplastic small round cell tumour.
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of VE Day, 30 keen history enthusiasts attended a fascinating talk at the Village Room last Sunday (4th May) by local local author Julian Horrocks talking about his book Alanbrooke: The Reluctant Warrior. Refreshments with wartime Anzac biscuits were served and the author sold out of the books he brought! This was the first author's talk in the Village Room - we hope there will be many more!!
on 26th April 2025 we celebrated one year on from the renovations. Around 100 people attended and £500 was raised for 2 charities.
Do you like playing Scrabble, Rummikub, Backgammon, Cards, Dominos, Bananagrams, Chess or doing Jigsaws?
Come & join us for games in the Village Room on the First Monday of every month from 11am - 1pm.
Coffee, tea, biscuits and cake.
For further information contact: Janet Hurst 01423 771367
or Joyce Lundell 01423 771661
Ad hoc meetings, get togethers & visits. Some recent events have included a talk about the renovation of Kings Cross Station & a trip to RAF Fylingdales. On 26th February there is a trip to Menwith Hill. Suggestions for other topics and trips are welcome. For further details please contact Maurice Brown: 07725 189158
