Liphook Community Magazine Spring 2022

Help Save Liphook Carnival
By
Gabrielle
Pike.
Carnival chair Sally Cameron and her team are making plans
to bring back Liphook’s biggest community event in October.
“This year will mark the 120th year of the Liphook Carnival”,
reveals chair Sally Cameron. “While I appreciate we have not
hosted the carnival for the last two years, we feel 2022 is the
year to celebrate, hopefully turning the tide on the pandemic
and its limitations and of course celebrating the Jubilee year.
The carnival provides an amazing evening of entertainment.
We raise funds throughout the year and have planned a Family
Fun Day on Saturday July 16th, a sponsored walk on Sunday,
September 4th and a quiz night on Saturday September 24th.”
The carnival always takes place the night the clocks go back,
which this year will be on Saturday, October 29th.
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day go towards local charities and good causes. One of our
main charities will be the Liphook Food Bank.
“For the carnival to go ahead each year we rely on volunteers to
support the fund-raising events and assist with the planning and
execution of the carnival. This takes time and most of our current
supporters also have full time jobs. We are desperate for new
people to get involved with the Liphook Carnival to make sure it
continues into the future and have therefore set a deadline of
Tuesday, April 19th to make a decision on the future of this fantastic,
traditional event. It would be a real shame for Liphook to lose its
carnival. It all depends on whether we receive new volunteers
and continued interest before the April deadline. Everyone is
very welcome to join the team or help out at specific events.”
“All monies raised during the year help fund the Liphook
carnival and 100 per cent of the donations raised on carnival
Please contact Sally on 07717 313440 for more details on how
to get involved.
Liphook u3a By
Gwenda Pate.
This year the national university of the Third Age is celebrating
its fortieth anniversary. The organisation was set up for the benefit
of retired people who want to learn and keep fit. It is a uK wide
collection of over a thousand locally run interest groups, with
more than 430,000 members, which provide opportunities for
those no longer in full time employment to come together and
learn for fun. Across the uK, u3a members draw upon their
knowledge and experience to teach and learn from each other
for pleasure; with learning as its own reward.
The Walkers Group
winning square.
As part of the birthday celebrations
there was a quilt competition which
was u3a-wide on the theme of
Positive Ageing with the strapline
Learn Laugh Live. This quilt is envisaged
as a Moment in History for future
generations of u3as, showing
engagement by many members,
raising local and national profiles and
demonstrating the skills and talents
of u3a members to the public. It is
intended to form part of the u3a Archive in a permanent repository.
There were to be forty squares in the quilt to represent the forty
years of its existence and
each u3a was invited to
submit a square. One of the
judges was Stuart Hillard
from The Great British
Sewing Bee. Our Walkers
Group made and sent in a
square which was a winner.
It will be included in the
finished quilt which will tour
the country during the
birthday year.
Strollers Group near Foley Manor.
It's all voluntary; a typical u3a will be home to many activity
groups covering hundreds of different subjects - from art to
zoology and everything in between. It’s local, social, friendly,
low-cost and open to all.
Liphook u3a has almost six hundred members with forty groups
covering many different interests, as well as a monthly meeting
which is held on the first Monday of each month, except where
there is a Bank Holiday when our meeting is on the second Monday.
The meeting has a speaker each month and they cover a very wide
range of topics. This is followed by a social time with tea or coffee
and biscuits, and often the opportunity to meet the speaker and
chat. In common with other u3a’s we have a wide range of interest
groups with something for almost everybody. The History Group,
which covers British History, used the December meeting to visit
the newly revamped Petersfield Museum which was fascinating
and followed this with a delicious meal at Liphook Golf Club.
The Strollers meanwhile spent one of the January meetings walking
near Weavers Down on a beautifully sunny morning. A good
meal at the Deers Hut was a just reward for their endeavours.
Some of the History Group enjoying lunch at Liphook Golf club.
New members are always welcome. To find out more contact:
Membership1@liphook.org.uk
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