May '25 Magazine
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Basinga Extras (April '25 - May '25 )
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Summer starts here with the return of Basingstoke Festival for 2025 Start your summer with Basingstoke’s award-winning free annual celebration of art, culture, heritage, community and outdoor arts. Join Basingstoke Festival over three weekends from Friday 20 June to Sunday 6 July as they fill the streets with creativity and energy. Performances will pop-up in Basingstoke town centre and other locations across the borough and will be free to watch. Read More ... May 2025 |
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We would like to invite you to the next Charity Chat session, which is a chance for local community groups to meet, network and discuss any collaborative solutions to issues currently being faced.. – Read More ... May 2025 |
 We will begin this month on Wednesday 14 May on our local main line as Neil Drury, Engineering and Infrastructure Manager of South Western Railway, presents The Class 701 'Arterio' Fleet. Neil will examine these new multiple-unit electric trains and explain some of the background to their much-delayed introduction into service. – Read More ... May 2025 |
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Crime Prevention Bulletin - Edition 75, April 2025 Details on a range of topics, including Sextortion, Remote Access Scams, Safe4Me website, Marking and registering your power tools, Recruitment Fraud Alert and more ... Read More ... May 2025 |
The vanishing call of Britain's lapwing
 Spring in the British countryside once echoed with the distinctive, trilling call of the northern lapwing (Vanellus Vanellus), a striking black-and-white bird with a shimmering green back and a wispy crest. Also known as the peewit - after its haunting call - lapwings were once a common sight but today, their numbers are in serious decline. – Read More ...May 2025 |
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National Women's Register Make the most of life and join nearly 5000 others who have discovered the relatively unknown National Women's Register. NWR provides a wide range of talks and activities in small local groups typically less than 20 members. Each is unique, arranging activities and meetings to suit their members. Chineham and Old Basing NWR meets at 2.00pm on the first Monday of the month in each other's houses. Read More ... May 2025 |
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.If you're finding it hard to pay your mortgage, you might be able to: - Reduce your household costs or increase the money you have coming in - Switch to a cheaper mortgage deal - Reduce your mortgage payments... Read More ... May 2025 |
 Connor Selby - Performance on Saturday 17 May 2025; at Central Studio, Queen Mary's College Basingstoke, England, RG21 3HF. – Read More ...
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 National Trust - The VyneLittle People, BIG DREAMS® activity trail at The Vyne encourages kids to be bold, be brave and dream big. From late spring, a new interactive trail at the National Trust’s The Vyne in Hampshire celebrates some of the world’s most outstanding people, using artworks from the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS® picture-book series. The outdoor trail invites you into the stories of little authors, activists, pop stars and scientists from all over the world. – Read More ... May 2025 |
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Hampshire Armed Forces Breakfast Club We meet on the 1st Saturday of each month for Breakfast & banter at 9.30 - 11am at Basingstoke Golf Club.RG25 2AD (Formerly Dummer Golf Club). The next meeting is Saturday 3rd May. All ex-service Personnel ( and their partners if they wish ) are welcome. – Read More ... May 2025 |
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Forty years! That’s how long our language school has been going! It wasn’t always called Linguatastic and of course, it has changed a bit since it first started, but the ethos is still very much the same: promoting intercultural understanding through language-learning. Read More ... May 2025 |
News from your local Prostate Cancer Support Group The speaker at the recent North Hampshire Prostate Cancer Support Group monthly meeting was Fiona Labrooy from Heartburn Cancer UK, a national charity based here in Basingstoke. It was founded in 2003 by Mimi McCord after her husband passed away only 9 weeks after diagnosis. Their mission is to inform and give hope to sufferers of persistent heartburn and acid reflux, Oesophageal cancer, and Barretts disease. Their aim is to give more hope for Oesophageal cancer survivors; working together to keep more people alive; and raising awareness with people that persistent heartburn can be dangerous. – Read More ... May 2025 |
Turning Over Stones ... one turnstone at a time. Turnstones are fascinating shorebirds which are easily recognisable due to their distinctive behaviour and striking plumage. The scientific name of the bird, Arenaria interpres, refers to its unique habit of 'turning' over stones and debris in search of food, so is of course, where the name 'turnstone' originates. – Read More ... April 2025 |
A Celebration of Parish Life St Mary’s Church are very excited to announce our 2025 summer festival. We will be bringing this forward a little this year to Friday 16th May – Sunday 18th May. The fun begins on the evening of Friday 16th May with a ‘Hymns & Pimms’ evening. All are welcome to join us for an evening of singing favourite hymns old and new. We will be serving Pimms or fruit cups on arrival, and there will be a licensed bar serving a variety of soft and alcoholic beverages during the interval. – Read More ... April 2025 |
 Probus - War Time Commemorative Sign Investigated  Chris Perkins MVO, a member of the Probus Club of Basingstoke and retired RAF Squadron Leader, came across a memorial dedicated to Spitfire pilot Sgt Bernard Bryn Goodall on a grass verge close to the church in Weston Patrick, south of Basingstoke. Goodall, from New Zealand, crashed and was killed outright in August 1942.. – Read More ...
April 2025 |
 Getting Repairs Done (As a Tenant)
Your landlord is responsible for most major repairs in your home. Write to them as soon as you notice a problem, as you could be held responsible if it gets worse. It’s best to put it in writing and send to your landlord, keeping a copy yourself. If a letting agent manages the property for your landlord, write to them and they should talk to your landlord. The letting agent will be responsible for making sure your landlord does the repairs. – Read More ... April 2025 |
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