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What’s on in Bishopswood during January and February?

Sunday 2nd February – 9:30am to 10:45am Big Breakfast is back from the Christmas break!

Saturday 8th February – 10:00am to 12:00 noon Café Bishopswood.

Sunday 9th February – 11.00am Holy Communion (at the Village Hall)

Thursday 27th February – 7:30pm curtains up at the Bishopswood Pantomime.

Friday 28th February – 7:30pm curtains up at the Bishopswood Pantomime.

Saturday 1st March – 2:30pm curtains up at the Bishopswood Pantomime Matinee.

Saturday 1st March – 7:30pm curtains up at the Bishopswood Pantomime.

Oh, and coming up in March …

Friday 7th March – 7:00pm Quiz Night!

Saturday March 15th – 10:00am to 12:00 noon Café Bishopswood – A change to our normal 2nd Saturday of the month as we are being visited by The Ross Men’s Shed and the theme for the swap will be “Tool Swap”.

Sunday 23rd March – 12:30pm Community Lunch, the first of 2025.

If you would like to volunteer to help out at any village hall events please click: HERE

Back after the Christmas break! All Saints Church “The Big Breakfast” at Bishopswood Village Hall, 09:30am to 10:45am on Sunday 2nd February – All proceeds to All Saints Church, Bishopswood.

Enjoy a hearty fried breakfast, with cereals, orange juice and toast with vegetarian options available. Join your friends and neighbours for a great start to any Sunday.

Still just £6 per person and £3 for under 14’s.

It would be wonderful to see you there!

Note: There is no Big Breakfast in March.

Following on from their previous run of hugely successful sell-out shows, The Bishopswood Pantomime Players are delighted to present their exciting new production for 2025 of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”.

This is the captivating tale of a poor wood-cutter named Ali Baba and his rich elder brother Cassim. Ali is deeply in love with the servant girl Safiya and desperately wants to marry her. However, he doesn’t have the money to buy her freedom.

Despite the help and interventions of the hapless Mum Baba (Ali and Cassim’s mother) and their family camel Kamil, Ali still has to overcome the evil Mustafa Leikh and his ever decreasing number of thieves!!

One day, Ali Baba is out collecting firewood in the forest, and happens upon a group of thieves visiting their treasure store. The treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is opened and sealed by a magic phrase – which he overhears. When the thieves are gone, Ali enters the cave himself and discreetly takes some bags of gold coins home so that he can buy the freedom of his beloved Safiya.

As the thieves try to recapture their treasure by any dastardly means possible, a frantic fun-filled adventure ensues that will undoubtedly enthral and delight audiences of all ages.

There are evening shows on Thursday, Friday 27th and 28th February and Saturday 1st March all at 7:30pm at Bishopswood Village Hall. There will also be a one-time matinee on the Saturday at 2:30pm.

Ticket prices are being held at the same level as the last pantomime…so £7 for adults and just £3 for children under 16.

You can order tickets via email for one of these brilliant shows right now at: treasurer@bvhonline.co.uk

Or by phoning the ticket telephone hotline via 01600 891277

There is even a bar open before each show and during the interval. So do come and enjoy some hilarious family entertainment and support a terrific local ensemble of wonderful thespians.

But hurry – tickets are sure to sell fast!!

The Friends of Bishopswood Village Hall is a group whose members volunteer to help make the Community events held at Bishopswood Village Hall possible.

Volunteering is a great way of help your community thrive and getting to know new people. How much volunteering you do is entirely up to you.

Volunteering opportunities are managed through a purpose-built website accessible from PCs, Tablets and phones, all under your own control.  You can volunteer to help as much or as little as you wish, there is no obligation. The village hall is your space, why not have the satisfaction that being involved in one of our communities’ greatest assets brings.

To what help is needed click: HERE.