June '25 Magazine
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Horses at Old Basing Common Paul Kirby
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New Foal - Denise Adams |
Sunrise (26 May 2025) - Brian
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Basinga Extras (May '25 - June '25)
Seagrass returns to the River Hamble for the first time in decades... Pioneering project aims to restore lost underwater habitat, and one of the UK’s most threatened habitats. Seagrass has returned to the River Hamble for the first time in decades, thanks to a major restoration effort by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, marking a landmark step forward for marine conservation in the county. – Read More ... June 2025 |
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Basingstoke Voluntary Action Newsletter; Read More ... June 2025 |
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A donation of £500 was made by the Oakley Chapter of Royal Arch Masons to the Riding For the Disabled at their premises in Dummer. The cheque was presented by Grant Chivers the recent head of this section of local Freemasons founded in Basingstoke in 1861, that operate from the Masonic Centre in Victoria Street, at the Top of Town. Read More ... June 2025 |
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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 ... June 2025 |
 Swift and house martin tower being installed at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve © Chris Fairchild New nesting tower... gives swifts and house martins a lifeline. A specially designed nesting tower has been installed at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve to support struggling populations of swifts and house martins. It marks Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust’s first nesting tower across its estate, and provides much-needed secure nesting sites for these red-listed bird species. Swifts and house martins have experienced significant population declines in recent decades, due to habitat loss and a reduction in suitable nesting sites. The UK breeding population of swifts have declined by 66 percent between 1995 and 2022, while house martins have declined by 44 per cent. – Read More ... June 2025 |
 Home Start – New Home in Oakridge - A New Home In Oakridge for Family Support Charity Home Start, Basingstoke & Deane. After nearly seven years at Rucstall Community Centre, local family support charity Home-Start Basingstoke & Deane has relocated to a new base at Oakridge Hall. For All — a move that marks an exciting new chapter in its mission to work alongside parents and give children the best possible start in life. – Read More ...
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 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 |
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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 ...
May 2025 |
 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 |
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