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Bubble Festival<br />
Fun for all the family is promised at a festival with a<br />
difference; the Haigh Bubble Festival, which takes place<br />
on Saturday 11th <strong>September</strong>. Hosted at Haigh Woodland<br />
Park in the Walled Gardens and Walker Gardens by Haigh<br />
Parish Council, the Festival runs from 11am to 4pm.<br />
Come as a family, watch the show and join in making your<br />
own bubbles. Experience the biggest bubbles you have<br />
ever seen from some of the finest bubble performers in<br />
England, and just maybe you’ll decide to unleash your<br />
inner child and run through and pop them.<br />
Or you can act your age and simply browse through<br />
the stalls instead. The stalls will include makers, bakers,<br />
vintage, craft and local community groups.<br />
This is a not-for-profit event with any money raised going<br />
toward the Haigh Parish Council’s nominated good<br />
causes. The suggested donation is £1 per person and you<br />
can pay the friendly bucket collectors at the entrance to<br />
the Walled Gardens.<br />
If you’d like a stall at the event then please email Haigh<br />
Parish Council at clerk.haighpc@gmail.com for full details.<br />
Big Gig<br />
Upholland’s Big Gig is back this weekend. The Victoria<br />
pub, on Ormskirk Road in the village, will host the twoday<br />
festival on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th August. A<br />
total of 16 bands and artists will be performing over the<br />
two days including Kinky Oyster, Hyena, Crimson Image,<br />
Rivers of Rome, Richard Hart and The Figments.<br />
The festival will be raising funds for Stable Lives, a Parboldbased<br />
charity that uses horses and ponies that have<br />
been exposed to mental and physical trauma, to help<br />
individuals or children struggling with low self-esteem,<br />
anxiety and depression. For more up to date details about<br />
Upholland’s Big Gig, visit the venue’s Facebook page @<br />
thevictoriapub12.<br />
Bargain Grab<br />
Don’t miss the Nearly New sale being held at the Bispham<br />
Methodist Church this Saturday (28th August). The sale<br />
runs from 10am-12 noon at the church on Crank Road in<br />
Billinge. You can grab a bargain or two on the day and<br />
indulge in a few refreshments too. Stalls include nearly<br />
new clothes, toys, books jewellery and lots more.<br />
Chance to Dance<br />
Lovers of sequence dancing will be pleased to hear that<br />
two fortnightly tea dance events have re-opened.<br />
The tea dance at Our Lady’s Social Centre in Downall<br />
Green Road in Bryn, which has been running for over<br />
twenty years, re-started this month and the next date for<br />
this event is Bank Holiday Monday 30th August and every<br />
second Monday thereafter.<br />
Tuesday<br />
shevington<br />
Shevington Methodist Church, 1 Gathurst Road, WN6 8HA<br />
9am, 3.30pm, 5.00pm & 6.30pm<br />
Wednesday<br />
Billinge<br />
Bispham Methodist Church Hall, Crank Rd, WN5 7DT<br />
8.30am & 10.00am<br />
Wednesday<br />
Pemberton<br />
Lamberhead Green WM Club, White St<br />
(Behind White Swan)<br />
3.30pm, 5.00pm & 6.30pm<br />
For further details<br />
call Karen on<br />
07789 227 871<br />
The event is mostly sequence dancing with a bit of line<br />
dancing, it runs from 1-4pm, and the admittance cost of<br />
£2 includes tea and biscuits.<br />
The second tea dance takes place a short distance away at<br />
the Methodist Church Hall in Victoria Road in Garswood.<br />
This event, which offers strictly sequence dancing,<br />
resumed at the end of July and the next date for this event<br />
is Friday 27th August and every second Friday thereafter.<br />
Admittance to the tea dance, which runs from 1.30pm-<br />
4pm is again £2 and that includes tea and biscuits.<br />
For more information, call Pat Chisnall on 01942 717883.
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