Clubs & Groups As at July 2017

Clubs & Groups as at July 2017

Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Althorne Friendly Circle Althorne/ Harvest/Christmas lunches 01621 741 737 Annual £7 Every 3rd Thursday of The Parish Hall, - Southminster/ etc, tea & cake/biscuits, bingo, Entrance £1.50 month (except Summerhill Mayland talks, table-top sales, outings, incl Raffle December) 2pm-4pm (Burnham Road), raffles, lotto Althorne, CM3 6BY Castle Point Probus Club Benfleet & Social Club for retired men 01268 753 649 Joining Fee Meet on 3rd The Old Vienna Hadleigh mainly £15, Lunches Wednesday each Restaurants, 162 but men from other £15 month at 12 noon for Eastwood Road, local areas 12.30pm lunch. Two Leigh SS9 3AG welcome ladies lunches mid June/December. Three outings per year. Silver Threads Berechurch 1st Wed - Tea & Company 01206 576 859 Nil - All 1.30-3pm Except St Margaret's www. 2nd Wed - Crafting Companions 01206 530 586 contributions 4th Wed - Food for Church Hall, stmargaretscolchester. 3rd Wed - Fun & Games appreciated Thought starts 12.30 Stansted Road, org.uk 4th Wed - Food for Thought pm Colchester CO2 5th Wed - Film 8RA Billericay Good Companions Billericay Social club offering 01277 654 319 £5 annual fee, 2nd and 4th Billericay Day Club entertainment and afternoon £1.50 meeting Wednesday of the Centre, Chantry tea fee month 1.45pm - 3.45 Way, CM11 2AT pm South Green Thursday Club Billericay Weekly meetings, bingo 01277 657 741 Quarterly subs Thursday 1pm - 4pm Billericay games, raffle, summer coach Memorial Hall, trips, buffet lunch, social South Green, evenings CM11 2NS St Johns Midweek Break Billericay various speakers entertainers 01277 656 948 £1 per session 1st and 3rd St John The occasional outings quizzes in including tea Wednesday of the Divine Church house entertainment and cake month closed in Centre, Outwood August Common Road, Billericay CM11 2LE

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Action Learning Billericay We provide services and 01268 711677 £20 per person Mondays 9am-2pm Action Learning http://www. activities for over 55s who find includes Centres actionlearningcentres.co. themselves in circumstances refreshments, Fairlight Farm, uk/ such as retirement, tea, coffee & Hawkswood Road bereavement or loneliness to biscuits Downham, meet new people or learn new Billericay skills or brush up on older CM11 1JZ ones - animal care, arts & crafts, basic computing, carpentry, gardening, mechanics Allington Court Residents Billericay - Allington Numerous events for edward. £6 per annum Allington Court, - Association Court, Outwood residents [email protected]. Outward Common Road uk Common Road, Billericay CM11 2JB Birch & Layer Breton Get Birch/Layer Breton Afternoon tea & biscuits. 01206 330 095 £7 a year 3rd Wednesday of Birch Memorial Together Club Speakers, outings to various each month at 2pm Hall, School Hill places, 3 events in the CO2 0LZ summertime. Blackmore 60 Plus Group Blackmore Bingo, outings and Christmas 01277 824 318 £1 per meeting, Every other Monday Blackmore Village lunch 50p raffle, 30p 2pm - 4pm except Hall, Nine Ashes bingo bank holidays Road, CM4 0QR The Riverside Club Braintree Carpet bowls, raffle, use of 01376 321 316 £40 per year Bowls 10.30am - The College, library, fish and chips, 12noon Refectory Church entertainment, day trips, 12noon Lane, Braintree holidays CM7 5SN Braintree Pensioners Action Braintree District Open meeting with speaker, 01376 323 783 £3.50 annual 1st Tuesday of each Gateway Hall, Group Council summer outings and membership month 10.30am - Charles Leeks Christmas party 12noon House, Coggeshall Road, Braintree CM7 9DB

2 Clubs & Groups as at July 2017

Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Hearing Help Essex Braintree, Walk-in Hearing Help 01245 348 440 Various Various www.hearinghelpessex. Burnham, Sessions - trained volunteers org.uk Braintree, will be available to: Clean and Chelmsford, retube your NHS hearing aid / Danbury, Dunmow, Talk about specialist Finchingfield, equipment / Offer help and Maldon, Saffron advice Walden, Southminster, SWF, Stansted, Thaxted, Witham, Writtle Bradwell Over 60s Club Braintree, Stisted, Regular speakers and 01376 584 179 £6 yearly Throughout the year Stisted Village Bradwell entertainers, fish and chips, membership, Hall, The trips to shows and a each meeting Street, CM77 Christmas annual bazaar £3 8AW Age Concern Brentwood & Brentwood Quarterly meetings, summer 01277 372 070 Free Jan/Apr/Aug/Dec Brentwood District outings, Christmas carol service Brentwood for Visually Impaired Brentwood Weekly social club on 01277 226 152 £3/£4 including Tuesday 10am - 1pm St Georges Court, Persons Tuesday morning with various transport High Wood Close, activities Pilgrims Hatch, Brentwood CM14 4YF Tipps Over 55 Club Brentwood In-house lunches, scrabble, 01277 823 976 £1.50 includes Every Thursday 2pm - Tipps Cross (Doddinghurst and coach outings and Christmas tea and biscuits 4pm Remembrance Blackmore) dinner Hall, Blackmore Road, Hook End, Brentwood CM15 0DT Coronation Companionship Brightlingsea Visiting Entertainers, Teas, 01206 305 095 £3 per month Every Thursday YMCA Hall, High - Club Party, Coach Trips, Holidays, afternoon 1.30pm-4pm Street, Quizzes, Bingo Brightlingsea, CO7 0AQ

3 Clubs & Groups as at July 2017

Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Bures Darby and Joan Club Bures Hamlet and Various dates throughout the 01787 228 417 Member Friday 2pm - 4pm Bures Community Bures St Mary week attending every Centre, Garrad week £20 per Room, Nayland year Road, CO8 5BX The Burnham Day Centre Burnham and Refreshments, cooked lunch, 01621 784 586 £5 per visit Wednesdays 10am - Burnham District socialising, craft activities, 3pm Resource Centre, games, bingo and Minniecroft Road, entertainment Burnham, Slough SL1 7DE Burnham Darby and Joan Club Burnham on Speakers, bingo, quiz, 01621 783 136 £2 subscription 1st and 3rd Friday in United Reformed Crouch birthday party and annual yearly and 50p month 2.15 pm to 3.45 Church, Clark- outings per week pm Lewis Room, Station Road, Burnham CM0 8HR Age Concern Luncheon Club Canvey Island Lunch tea/coffee and biscuits 01268 515 883 £5 per year Tuesday & Thursday The Paddocks 12-2pm Community Centre, Long Road, Canvey Island SS8 0JA Goodwill Club Canvey Island Social Club and Sequence 01268 680 275 £3 per week Wednesday 7.30pm- The Paddocks Dancing 10.30pm Community Centre, Long Road, Canvey Island SS8 0JA OAP No 2 Club Canvey Island Socials, holidays, day trips, 01268 699 681 Annual Monday 1pm - 4pm No 2 OAP Club, theatre membership £6 112 Central Avenue, Canvey Island SS8 9RH Kennington Avenue Senior Castle Point Talks, sing alongs, raffles, 01268 793 442 £1.50 1.30pm-3.30pm Methodist Citizens Club entertainment Church, Kennington Avenue, Benfleet SS7 4BS

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website New Thundersley TownwomensCastle Guild Point Meet twice a month for our 01268 794 694 £30 per year 1st & 3rd Wednesdays St George's Hall, ladies to hear speakers, play in the month (Closed Rushbottom board games, bingo, chat and AUGUST) 1.30-3.30 Lane, Benfleet generally to be with each pm SS7 4DW other. Coach trips to various destinations. Birthday, Christmas & Strawberry teas during the year. We also have auction and coffee & cake afternoons The Salvation Army 'Silver Castle Point Over 60s Club, days out, 01702 558 913 £40 annual or Every Monday at 2pm Salvation Army, www.hadleightemple.org. Service Club' borough but no holidays, weekly 'bring and £45 if paid in (except Bank London Road, uk restriction buy', Christmas lunch increments (Jan Holidays) Hadleigh SS7 & July) 2PF Springfield Stitchers Chelmsford For those who would like to 01245 358 951 Thursdays 9.30am- Springfield Park www. help or if you would like to (Roger) 12noon Baptist Church, springfieldparkbaptistchur learn to knit, crochet or sew or Springfield Park ch.org.uk have any unwanted wool or Road, Chelmsford haberdashery CM2 6EB Wet Your Whistle Chelmsford A drop Community Centre for 01245 358 951 Free Every 1st and 3rd Springfield Park www. all. All welcome for a cup of Wednesday afternoon Baptist Church, springfieldparkbaptistchur tea and chat 2pm-4pm (check for Springfield Park ch.org.uk exclusion dates) Road, Chelmsford CM2 6EB Wednesday Over 60s Club Chelmsford Days out 5 times a year. On a 01245 600 383 50p per week Wednesday 2pm Chelmsford (Moulsham Lodge) Wednesday there is tea and Scouts Hut, biscuit and bingo Gloucester Avenue, CM2 9EW Chelmsford Retirement Action Chelmsford and Regular speakers, members 01245 461 932 £10 1st Wednesday of Friends Meeting Group Districts only day in July, buffet lunch membership each month 9.15am - House, Rainsford and quizzes and a December 12.30pm Road, get together Chelmsford, CM1 2QL

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Age Concern Chelmsford, Day Chelmsford and Social gatherings, lunch club, 01245 262 589 £4 two course Mon-Fri 10.30am - Chelmsford Day Centre & Luncheon Club surrounding areas advice and info centre, deaf meal, tea/coffee 2.30pm Centre, club, bingo, outings 50p, scones 17 Cottage Place, 50p CM1 1NL Moving On Chelmsford and Tea, talks and speakers. 01245 258 848 £10 annual Every 3rd Saturday Christchurch, 164 within 20 mile Sunday lunch club with events membership, £2 10am - 12 30 pm New London Rd, radius and outings. for tea and Chelmsford CM2 biscuits 0AW Games Afternoon Chelmsford mostly General Games 01245 450 056 £1 per week 1st Wednesday of Chelmsford but no limit month Winter 13.30pm - 15.30pm Summer 2pm - 4pm. Moulsham Lodge Methodist Chelmsford Tile Bingo, talks, quizzes, tea and 01245 602 004 50p per session Mondays 2pm (except Chelmsford Church Kiln and biscuits bank holidays) Methodist Church Galleywood Hall, Lime Walk, Moulsham Lodge, CM2 9NA Lawns Senior Citizens Club Chelmsford, Members play whist or bingo 01245 463 527 £15 Yearly Mondays at 1.30pm- All Saints Church - Springfield subscription 3.30pm Hall, Springfield £1 weekly Green, Chelmsford CM1 7HS Bosom Pals Clacton - Harwich Meeting & Discussions. Local £2 each 4th Wednesday each Holland Hall, support group for breast meeting month Frinton Road, cancer sufferers Holland on Sea Clavering District Over 60s Club Clavering District Lunch club, chiropody clinic, 01376 561 368 Lunch £5.50 Lunch Mondays Clavering Village outings and over 60's lunch Chiropody Chiropody Mondays Hall, Hill Green, club £10.50 Over 60s Wednesday CB11 4QS Over 60's group afternoons £2.50 Autumn Leaves Club Colchester Talks & social afternoons. 01621 810 619 £14 per annum Alternate Wednesdays The Community Two yearly outings 2pm Centre, Caxton Close, Tiptree CO5 0HA

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Mount Zion Monday Colchester - but all Christian organisation with a £1 per visit 1st & 3rd Monday of The Salvation Fellowship welcome variety of interesting topics the month 2.15pm- Army, 328A from talks to participating 3.45pm Ipswich Road, activities in a relaxed and Colchester CO4 friendly atmosphere 0ET Colchester Monday Colchester - but all Christian organisation with a £12 annually 2nd Monday of the The Salvation Fellowship welcome variety of interesting topics month 2pm-4pm Army, Butt Road, from talks to participating Colchester CO3 activities in a relaxed and 3DA friendly atmosphere Coffee, Cake & Company Colchester Coffee morning, bingo, coach 07770 365 331 Donation per Thursday 10.30am - Forest Road (Greenstead) trips, theatre trips, social (Sam) meeting less 12.00noon Meeting Hall, 121 meetings for retired people than £5.00 Forest Road, Colchester CO4 3XG The Evergreens Colchester (North) Lunch club, bingo, raffle 01206 868 357 £6.50 lunch inc Lunches - every Lunches - St John Greenstead (for lunches) pudding, 2 Wednesday at 11.45 Payne Hall, games of bingo, am Blackthorn tea & biscuits Club - 2nd Friday of Avenue CO4 3QD every month 1.45-3.45 Friday Club - pm Greenstead Community Centre, Hawthorn Avenue CO4 3QE The Good Companions Colchester and Friendship and an enjoyable 01206 735 451 £10 per year Meetings 1st Village Hall, villages afternoon for a chat, quiz, 50p a month for Wednesday of the Langenhoe, bingo, raffle, trips out, cups of tea & biscuits month Colchester CO5 tea Winter 1.30-3.30pm 7LU Summer 2pm-4pm Friendship Club Colchester CO1, Christian organisation with a Lunch £1.50 or Wednesday morning: The Salvation www.salvationarmy.org. CO2, CO3 variety of interesting topics £4.00 Bowls Club 10-12noon Army, Butt Road, uk/colchester-citadel from talks to participating Light Lunch 12.30pm Colchester CO3 activities in a relaxed and Friendship Club 1.45 3DA friendly atmosphere pm

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Dedham Good Neighbours Colchester, Lexden Social afternoons via post: Bycote, Members pay at 2nd Friday of each Sports Pavilion, - & Winstree Ardleigh Road, each meeting month The Drift, Dedham, Dedham, Colchester, CO7 Colchester CO7 6EE 6AH Copford WI Copford, Marks We are a small friendly group No need to book £3.50 per visitor Third Wednesday of Copford Village copfordwi.weebly.com Tey and of ladies that enjoy sharing just turn up or £37.50 per every month at 7.30 Hall, School surrounding areas stories and learning new yearly pm Road, Colchester things from soap making to membership CO6 1BX beekeeping Danbury Over Sixties Club Danbury & District Various speakers, raffles, 01245 225 435 Membership 4th Thursday of each Danbury Village - beetle drives, lunches, outings £10 month (except August) Hall, Eves Meetings £1 2pm-4pm Corner, Main Road CM3 4QE The Mothers Union - Deanary of Prayers, discussions, £18.50 per year 2nd & 4th Wednesday Cloister Hall, Holy www.parishofrayleigh. Rayleigh Branch Rochford speakers and craft days of every month 10.45 Trinity Church, org. am Rectory Garth, uk/Groups/MothersUnion Rayleigh SS6 8BB Dunmow Disabled Club Dunmow Meetings with tea/biscuits, 01371 874 049 Subscriptions Meetings 2nd URC Hall, New speaker, entertainer and £10 per year Thursday of each Street, Dunmow outings month 2pm - 4.30pm CM6 1BH Methodist Social Afternoon Elmstead and We have a speaker then light 01206 826 178 £1 per meeting Once a month usually Trinity Methodist nearby places refreshments and a 3rd Wednesday of the Church, Bromley competition each month for month at 2.30pm Road, Elmstead which points are gained Market CO7 7BY The Marketeers Elmstead Market Friendship - help with the over No cost First Monday of every Elmstead 60's month 9.30am-12noon Community Centre, School Road, Elmstead CO7 7ET Epping Senior Citizens' Epping Town Refreshments, speakers, 01992 573 385 £2.50 per Every Thursday 2pm - Pelly Court, Association (ESCA) entertainment and activities in month 4pm Hemnall Street, the afternoon . Epping CM16 4NJ

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Fordham Friendship Club Fordham and Eight Social afternoons, quizzes 01206 240 034 £5 per annum 2nd Thursday in each John Owen Barn, Ash Green and outings and teas 50p month 2pm - 4pm Church Road, Fordham CO6 3NL Welcome Break Frinton, Walton, Quizzes, speakers, musical sandyburnett22 Free - donation Wednesdays 10am- Frinton Free http://www.frintonfree. Kirby Cross events, activity mornings @gmail.com box every week, 12noon school term Church, com/ (keep fit, boules, board games or meals £4 times Connaught etc) Meal once a month, 01255 675 433 Avenue CO13 Coffee/tea homemade cakes 9PW weekly Loftineers Great Baddow Quizzes, dominoes, guess 01245 262 445 50p per week Tuesday 2pm - 4pm St Paul's Church, who games Loftin Way, Chelmsford CM2 9TW Dunmow Flitch Friendship Club Great Dunmow Live music, dancing, bingo, 07966 884 852 £10 annual 6 pm -9 pm July and Foakes Hall, raffles, refreshments and membership, December 6 pm - 10 Stortford Road, summer buffet £2.50 per guest pm 2nd Tuesday of Great Dunmow not joining the month no meeting CM6 1DG January Dunmow Blind and Housebound Great Dunmow Talks, musical entertainment, 01371 872 112 Annual fee £6 14.15 pm -16.15 pm Rowena Davy Social Club plus radius of about raffle and general social plus cost of every other Tuesday Day Centre, 5 miles gathering. transport (if in two sessions march Chequers Lane, required) to July and September Dunmow CM6 to December 1EQ Great and Little Horkesley Great Horkesley Monthly meetings with 01206 271 445 Annual fee £8 Third Thursday in the Great Horkesley Friendship Club and Little entertainer or speaker and month 2pm - 4pm WI Hall, The Horkesley parishes outings. Causeway, CO6 4EG Great Totham WI Great Totham & Social meeting for ladies. £39 per annum 2nd Thursday of each Great Totham www.greattothamwi. Wickham Bishops Monthly talks with tea/coffee & month at 8pm except Village Hall, weebly.com cake August Maldon Road CM9 8NH

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Great Waltham Friendship Club Great Waltham Meetings for the older 01245 360 945 £10 per year 3rd Monday of the Great Waltham village only villagers to get together for: month 2.30pm Village Hall, music quizzes, talks of South Street, interest, cream teas, day trips, CM3 1DG fund-raising auction, Christmas meal & craft afternoons The Friendship Club Gt Bentley and Speaker/Entertainer at each No need to book, First visit free, 4th Wednesday of the Village Hall, Great surrounding meeting, Strawberry Tea in just arrive subsequent month 2pm-4pm Bentley, villages the summer, christmas visits £2, Colchester CO7 buffet/post Christmas lunch, Annual 8LW outings if viable cost wise membership £10 Halstead Day Centre Halstead and within Housebound elderly people 01787 476 253 £9.80 a day Monday/Friday 9.30 40 Bridge Street, 7 mile radius who want to come and join us plus £60 am - 2.30pm Halstead CO9 once a week quarterly 1HT membership fee Age Concern Halstead, Senior Halstead postal Socialising, tea and coffee, 07779 502 721 £1 entry and Monday Wednesday The Bull Hotel, Citizens Club area chat, quiz, bingo and a cooked activities Thursday 10am - 4pm Bridge Street, lunch from the Bull Hotel approx. £1.50 Halstead CO9 1HU Salvation Army Lunch & Harlow Friendship and Lunch Club 01279 441 581 Lunch Club - £4 Lunch Club 12-1pm The Hall, Friendship Clubs Friendship Club Friendship Club 1.30 Tendring Road, - 50p pm- 2.30pm Harlow CM18 Bowls Club - Indoor Bowls - 6RN 50p Wednesdays 7.30- 9pm Tea n' Togs coffee morning every Tuesday 8.45-11am

10 Clubs & Groups as at July 2017

Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Church Langley Womens' Harlow & 01279 453 248 Annual 8pm on 3rd Community Institute surrounding area Subscription Wednesday of every Centre, Tesco £34.60 although month, except Neighbourhood visitors are December when we Centre, Church welcome to see meet on 2nd Langley Way, if you like us Wednesday Harlow, CM17 before joining 9TG Happy Go Lucky Harlow and Social, tea, raffle, bingo 01245 427 638 Entrance Fee Every Monday except New Hall Moot - surrounding area £1.50 Bank Holidays 1pm- House, The Stow, 3.30pm Harlow CM20 3AG Harlow Latton Ladies Harlow and Weekly programme of 01279 869 806 No joining fee. Tuesdays 2pm New Christian surrounding area meetings and visits for senior Activities at cost Once a month day trip Fellowship Hall, ladies. One week at hall next price vary Tumbler Road, week out. according to Purford Green, event Harlow, CM18 6HP (Alternate weeks) Harlow & Epping Forest Harlow, Epping, Support group for people with 2nd Tuesday of each Purford Green, www.blf.org.uk Breathe Easy Club North Weald lung conditions from asthma month 2pm-4pm Tumbler Road to lung cancer. Outings. Local (Hall behind support group for the British Church) Lung Foundation. Harwich Chess Club Harwich Chess Club for all ages and 07908 031 248 Monday 7.30pm Parkston Railway www.harwichchessclub. experience levels Club, Hamilton co.uk Street, Harwich CO12 4PQ Age Concern Harwich and Harwich and Coffee/tea and a chat, lunch 01255 880 261 10am for drop in and 34 Rectory Road, District District club and bingo 12 noon for lunch club Little Oakley, and 2pm for bingo CO12 5JU Over 60's Yoga Class Hockley 07714 467 750 The British Legion karpmorg@sky. Hall, White Hart com Lane, Hockley SS5 4DQ

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Hockley & Hawkwell 55+ Hockley, Hawkwell, Day Centre for the older 01702 206 208 £5 lunch, £3.50 Open from 10am-4pm 55+ Centre, Centre Rochford, person and provides 2-course return transport Monday-Friday Library Car Park, Hullbridge, lunches with door to door Southend Road, Rayleigh transport in our mini bus and Hockley SS5 4PZ have afternoon activities every day. Hullbridge Senior Citizens Hullbridge Village Bowling, patchwork group, tea 01702 232 060 £1 per activity Monday - Friday 1st Hullbridge Day Welfare Council and Surrounding dance, keep fit to music, line except and 3rd Monday Centre, Areas dancing and dance tuition Saturdays evenings Saturday Windermere £3.50 for 2 Avenue SS5 6JR course lunch Jaywick Community Jaywick but no limit Social, crafts, visits to craft 01255 476 529 Yearly £2 and 1st & 3rd Wednesday Golf Green Hall, - Handicraft Club centres £1 each visit each month 2pm-4pm Golf Green Road, Jaywick CO15 2RH Kelvedon Good Companions Kelvedon and Fish & Chip meal, AGM, trips 01376 572 215 £7 annual fee Every other Monday Kelvedon Labour Feering to the theatre and other clubs Club, High Street, for tea. Entertainment, CO5 9AA singers, auction, bingo, birthday tea, Christmas dinner Kelvedon Hatch Senior Citizens Kelvedon Hatch Two course lunch, social 01277 822 233 Lunch £3.50 Wednesday during Fane Hall, Church Lunch Club contact, friendship group. term time: 12noon Road, Kelvedon -2.30pm Hatch CM14 5TJ LINKS Leigh LINKS - A group for active 01702 478 698 LINKS - LINKS - Monday LINKS - The www.lrbc.org.uk retired people living in Leigh. Recommended mornings 10am-11.45 Stables Lounge, We have a programme of donation £1 per am Chalkwell Park guest speakers and week BARNABAS - Drive, SS9 1LX opportunity to make friends OASIS - no cost Tuesday afternoons OASIS - Coffee over a cup of coffee. 2.15pm-3.30pm House 189 Leigh BARNABAS - Hymns, prayer OASIS - Wednesday Road, SS9 1JE and guest speaker - usually afternoons 2.30-3.30 Christian content pm OASIS - 'Drop-in' for the elderly

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Ladies Fellowship Leigh - Hadleigh - Fortnightly meetings, usually a 01702 551 470 £14 annually or Fortnightly on a Salvation Army - Benfleet speaker, coach trip, film show, £1 per week Thursday 2.30pm (opposite tea/coffee - refreshments Morrisons), London Road, Hadleigh SS7 2PF (ample parking at rear) Glendale Over 60 Club Leigh-on-Sea Weekly programme of musical 01702 716 607 £3 per month Monday 2pm - 3.30pm Salvation Army, entertainment/speakers/refres Elm Road, Leigh hments On Sea SS9 1SF National Jazz Archive Loughton and Archive holds the UK's finest 020 8502 4791 No cost to visit Archive open 10am- National Jazz www.nationaljazzarchive. surroundings but collection of written, printed Archive. 1pm Mon, Tues, Wed Archive, Loughton org.uk no limit and visual material on jazz, Concerts & Fri. Talks and Library, Traps blues and related music from typically cost concerts are usually Hill, Loughton, 1920s to present day. Talks £15 and talks on Saturday IG10 1HD on jazz and blues are held in £5 afternoons the Archive and fund-raising concerts given in Loughton Methodist Church 3/4 times a year Parkinsons UK - Harlow Loughton, Theydon 07982 094 194 Annual Every Wednesday The David District Bois, Epping, corinne. Membership £3 11am-3pm Livingstone Club Harlow & hall42@virginme + £5 per week (behind Sawbridgeworth dia.com includes lunch Livingstone House), 11 Potter Street, Harlow CM17 9AE Thursday Friendship Club Mainly St John's 1st Thursday - traditional Free Various - generally St John's Church, www.stjohnscolchester. Estate Communion Service 10am Thursday St John's Close, org.uk 2nd Thursday - Evergreen morning Colchester CO4 Lunch Club - members over Lunch Club 12noon 0HP 70 only 3rd Thursday - Discipleship Thursday 4th Thursday - Thursday Friendship Club 5th Thursday - various activities

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Age Concern Luncheon Club Maldon Meet for tea or coffee and a 01621 852 950 £4 for 2-course every Thursday The Quaker Hall, two-course lunch. Special lunch with Butt Lane, annual outing and Christmas tea/coffee Maldon CM9 5HD Lunch also arranged. Please call to secure your place. Steeple Evergreens Maldon (Dengie) Talks, Bingo, Quizzes 01621 774 296 £7.00 per year 1st Monday of the Steeple Village £1.50 per Month 2-4pm not Bank Hall, Garden month Holiday Fields, Southminster CM0 7JY Woodham Walter Silver Maldon (Woodham Programme of quizzes, bingo 01621 860 451 Tuesdays 2.30pm Woodham Walter Threads Walter) and raffles Village Hall, Rectory Road CM9 6RD Maldon and Dengie Maldon and Dengie To provide information and 01621 742 833 None Every 3rd Monday, 10: Maldon Peninsula Breathe Easy social support for patients, 30-12:30pm Community family and friends of people Centre, Sudbury living with Lung conditions. Way, Maldon, We also have a Christmas CM9 6YH dinner which the group pays 50% of the cost and we go on outings during the summer. Manuden Friendship Club Manuden and Monthly meetings, jumble 01279 814 145 £3 annual fee, Third Tuesday of the Manuden Village Farnham sale, spring/summer lunch, £2 at monthly month 2.30pm - 4pm Hall, The Street, Christmas lunch and bingo/tea meetings CM23 1DS party every October Melbourne Ladies Club Melbourne and Various speakers 10 months a 01245 344 710 £9 annual Second Tuesday St Andrews surrounding areas year. Social fish & chips and membership afternoon in the month Church Xmas buffet. Always time for 1st visit free, £1 starts at 2.30pm til Hall, Melbourne tea and a social chat. per visit after 4pm, except August & Avenue, Raffle/book stall. Small but December Chelmsford CM1 friendly group Bus no 54 stops 2DT outside Mersea Blind Spot Mersea Island Informational talks, 01206 383 925 £5 yearly fee £1 1st Saturday of each Harrison Court, entertainment and occasional per meeting month: mornings Grays Close, outings West Mersea CO5 8QR

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Tea & Support Group Misley/ A practical support and 01206 391 918 None Every 3rd Wednesday Mistley Church Manningtree friendship group for those on 2-4pm (unless Hall, New Road, their own. Various talks, otherwise stated) CO11 1ER visits, lunches, including free afternoon tea Benfleet Hard of Hearing No restriction (no Social Club for the hard of 01268 793 580 Joining fee - Meetings on Third Benfleet RVS Club transport available) hearing £7.50pa Friday of each Month Hall, Richmond Monthly - £1 to (excl August) 2pm- Avenue, SS7 5HE cover 4pm refreshments, speakers, etc Ramsey War Memorial Hall & Ramsey/Harwich Ladies Club, Scottish 07786 040 598 Various Ladies Club (1st Ramsey War Recreation Ground peninsular Dancing, Bingo, Yoga, Thursday monthly Memorial Hall, Camera Club 7pm) Church Hill, Regular fundraising Scottish Dancing (Oct- Ramsey, CO12 events/activities including May Thursdays 8pm) 5EX coffee mornings - please see Bingo (2nd website for details Wednesdays monthly) Yoga (Thursday weekly 5-7pm - 2 classes) Camera Club (Mondays weekly 7pm) Rayleigh Castle Rayleigh 01702 554 488 £28 annually. 4th Wednesday of the Rayleigh Townswomen's Guild Activities costed month 10am-12noon Methodist separately Church, Eastwood Road, Rayleigh SS6 7JP St Michael's Luncheon Club Rayleigh and Over 55's Club 01268 781 044 2nd & 4th Thursday in St Michael's http://www. surrounding areas the month from 11am- Church, Sir parishofrayleigh.org.uk/ 2pm including lunch Walter Raleigh Drive, Rayleigh, SS6 9JB

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Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Coffee, Cake & Chat Rayleigh and Opportunity for people who 07952 148 636 Voluntary Thursdays 2pm-4pm Rayleigh WI Hall, surrounding district are on their own to come 07504 114 762 donation Bellingham Lane, along for coffee, chat and SS6 7ED cake Hullbridge Fellowship Rayleigh, Talks, day trips, holidays, 01702 231 294 £13 per year 85 Friday afternoons Hullbridge Hullbridge, dancing, bingo, quizzes, and over are 12.30pm - 3.30pm Community Hockley, theatre, places of interest and free Association, Ashingdon Christmas dinner Pooles Lane, SS5 6PA Gt Wakering OAP Club Rochford and Gt Social afternoons with various - Yearly Fortnightly wef Gt Wakering Wakering District entertainment, quizzes, subscription £1 Tuesday 27/1/15 Memorial Hall, Council special tea afternoons, fish & per meeting High Street SS3 chips, bingo 0EF Faith Hope & Charity Over Rochford/ £1 (50p buys Last Tuesday of each Faith Hope & 65's Youth Group Ashingdon Coffee/Tea, 50p month 2pm-4pm Charity Shop 39, to designated Hedingham charity) Place, Ashingdon Road, Rochford SS4 1UP Saffron Walden Over 60s Club Saffron Walden Bingo, speakers, lunch, raffles 01799 501 021 £5 joining fee Alternate Thursdays Saffron Walden and outings. £20 annual 2pm - 4pm Day Centre (The membership Garden Room), Hill Street, CB10 1EH Silver Circle Shoeburyness Speakers (low cost) and £2 paid on entry 3rd Wednesday in the St Peter's Church varied activities month 2pm-4pm Hall, Hinguar Street, Shoeburyness, SS3 9AN South Ockendon Over 60s Club South Ockendon Weekly quiz/raffle/bingo tea 01708 856 172 £2 per month Mondays 1pm - 3.30 South Ockendon, and biscuits and annual pm Village Hall, North Christmas dinner Road, RM15 6QD

16 Clubs & Groups as at July 2017

Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Tuesdays at Two South Opportunity for people to 01702 292 778 No cost but Every Tuesdays 2- St Andrew's www.southshoebury.org/ Shoeburyness meet-up and have a chat. donations are 4pm (holiday periods Church Hall, Refreshments are provided. given to help excepted) Church Road, Open to all and does not fund Shoeburyness require church refreshments SS3 9EU membership/attendance. We try to have a speaker once a month. Most of the Group are 70+ JACS - Jewish Association of Southend, Westcliff Speakers, Entertainers, £4.00 per year Every Wednesday - Southend & www.jumpingjacs.org.uk Cultural Societies & adjacent areas Quizzes, Discussions £2.50 per week doors open 12.45pm. Westcliff Hebrew for members/ Programme from 2pm- Congregation, £3.50 for 3pm then light Finchley Road, visitors refreshments Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 8AD Hadleigh Temple Luncheon SS postcode area Lunch on Mondays 12 noon 01702 558 913 £2.50 per lunch Lunch on Mondays at Hadleigh www.hadleightemple.org. Club 12 noon Salvation Army, uk London Road, SS7 2PF Stanway Ladies Group Stanway/ Speakers, competitions, 01206 543 931 No annual fee, First Thursday in the Stanway Village www. Colchester quizzes etc pay on visit month at 7.30pm Hall, Villa Road, stanwayladiesgroup.co. £2.00 incl (except Jan & May) 10 Stanway CO3 uk coffee & meetings per year 0RH biscuits Stock Over 60s Club Stock area Speaker or musical 01277 840 063 £3 per month Tuesday 2.15pm- 4pm Stock Village Hall, including West entertainment each week, and £2 for non Common Road, Hanningfield three outings per year and members CM4 9NF four parties per year Takeley Day Centre Takeley and Lunches every Tuesday and 01279 870 932 Lunch is £3.50 Every Tuesday and Takeley Day surroundings Friday at 12.30pm Friday at 12.30pm Centre, South Road, CM22 6RB Age Concern Clacton, Day Tendring Lunch tea/coffee and biscuits 01255 475 913 Lunch £3.50 Lunch 2 sittings 99 Carnarvon Centre & Luncheon Club 12noon and 12.30pm Road, Clacton Mon-Fri Tea/coffee CO15 6QA and biscuits from 10.30am - 11.30am

17 Clubs & Groups as at July 2017

Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Great Bromley Friendship Club Tendring Speakers, music, 01206 230 578 Membership 3rd Thursday of each Great Bromley entertainment, refreshments, £10 month 2.30pm Village Hall, competitions and raffles Parsons Hill, Great Bromley, CO7 7JF The Oakstones Tendring (Great Monthly meetings, tea and 01255 870 552 Members £2 First Wednesday of Great Oakley Oakley and Stones coffee and outings. per annum, £2 each month 2pm - Village Hall, The Green) per meeting 4pm Street, CO12 5AD Tendring Specialist Stroke Tendring (North Provide therapeutic activities 01255 815905 Attendance fee Monday-Friday 9.30 85 Frinton Road, www.tendringstoke.org. Services East) for stroke survivors & contribution to am-2pm Holland on Sea, uk transport costs CO15 5UH Home from Home Tilbury Discussion, board games 01375 409 355 £1 per week Every Thursday 1pm - St Johns Centre, quizzes and outings 3pm Dock Road, Tilbury RM18 7BY Tiptree Active Living Centre Tiptree and Trips to local pubs, 01621 819 281 £30 per day Days vary: 10am - United Reformed Surrounding areas restaurants, garden centres, 3pm Church Hall, theatre and clubs. Craft, Chapel Road, dancing, quizzes and games. Tiptree CO5 0HR Windmill Green Club Tiptree and Light entertainment, speakers, 01621 813 095 £5 per annum Every Tuesday 2pm - Tiptree Parish surrounding quizzes and bingo plus £1.50 4pm Hall, Church villages weekly Road, CO5 0SN Tolleshunt Autumn Leaves Tiptree and Bi weekly entertainment and 01621 813 095 £6 annual plus Wednesdays Tolleshunt Tolleshunt Knights speakers voluntary fortnightly 2pm - 4pm Knights Village participation in Hall, Top Road, raffle CM9 8EU Jubilee Club Uttlesford Bingo, outings and speakers 01799 541 306 £5 yearly Every other Thursday The Garden membership Room, Jubilee £1 each session Gardens, Hill Street Saffron Walden CB10 1EH Wimbish Good Companions Uttlesford (5 mile Monthly meetings, social 01799 599 540 £5 annually 1st Monday of the Village Hall, CB10 radius of Wimbish) gatherings and outings month 2pm - 4pm 2XG

18 Clubs & Groups as at July 2017

Name of Club/Group Area covered Description Booking line Cost Time/dates of events Meeting Place website Little Waltham Good Walthams/ Programme of Meetings, 01245 442 113 £6 per annum First Tuesday of the Little Waltham - Companions Broomfield & other Outings and Special Events 50p entrance month 2.15pm-4pm. Memorial Hall, areas incl tea/coffee & No meetings in Brook Hill CM3 biscuits January due to 3LN possible bad weather Time Together Westcliff - but all For everyone who is 'young at 01702 334 877 £1 for general Thursdays - meet at Earls Hall Baptist www.earlshall.com welcome heart' offering a lively and expenses. 1pm with own packed Church, 120 varied programme of £5 when lunch if cooked meal Hobleythick Lane, activities. cooked lunch is not provided. Westcliff on Sea provided Activities commence SS0 0RJ at 2pm Shotgate Wednesday Club Wickford Shotgate Tea biscuits and cakes, cards, 01268 733 621 £3 per month Wednesday 1.30pm - Shotgate bingo, raffle, multiple choice 4pm Community Hall, quiz, team skittles Bruce Grove, Shotgate, SS11 8QL Concorn Ladies Club Wickford/Chalkwell 01268 784 406 £2 joining fee Wednesdays 1.30pm- United Reform Mrs E Jewell £2 per week 3pm Church, Crown Hill, Rayleigh SS6 7HA Young at Heart Club Witham and Raffles and bingo 01376 516 619 Average cost is Every Wednesday Witham Football surrounding areas 75p per week 2pm - 4pm Club, Spa Road, CM8 1UN Friday Fellowship Witham mainly Lunch club for senior citizens 01376 500 958 £4.50 for meal Friday 10.30am-2.30 United Reformed and includes some form of pm with entertainment Church, Newland entertainment in the in the afternoon Street, Witham afternoon, which varies week CM8 1AH to week Dementia Tea Party Writtle - anyone Tea Party once a month for No need Free 4th Monday of the The Christian who attends Writtle those with Dementia and their just turn up month 2pm-3.30pm Centre, Small Hall surgery carers to come along for (01245 423189 (no club August or adjacent All tea/coffee & cake with talks for info) December) Saints Church, and company for all Pump Lane, Writtle