Events Around Leyland

An evening of Spiritual Mediumship with Chris Stephenson and Steven Hemingway from The Purple Mountain Spiritual Centre in Fleetwood along with Pam Drury and Hilary Butler who serve many Spiritualist Churches in the Fylde, Lancashire, the Northwest and further afield..

Everyone is welcome to bring their four-legged friends to this fun-filled doggy day out in St Catherine’s Park on Saturday 21st September!

Come along and enjoy some fabulous live music performed by one of the Top keyboard players in the UK. Matthew Bason is a very talented performer so an evening of great music and entertainment is guaranteed.

Buy or sell all manner of items both useful and useless at our next Trash or Treasure Sale on Saturday 21st September 9.30-12.30 ( Sellers from 9am) Lots of bargains to be had. Tea, coffee and delicious bacon barm cakes served from 10am .

St Leonard’s (Penwortham) Gilbert and Sullivan Group present Advertising Favourites An afternoon of music and singing with tea and cakes. Tickets cost £5 A glass of prosecco can be enjoyed for an additional £2.50.

Come and enjoy a fun evening with quiz and hot pot supper in aid of Church funds. The bar will be open and there will also be a raffle.

MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING AND ART EXHIBITION South Ribble Artists are holding our 5th Annual Macmillan Coffee Morning and Art Exhibition to be opened by the Mayor and Mayoress of South Ribble.

Heritage Open Day: All that remains of a once extensive complex of buildings including a 22 bedroomed house on a former private estate, built in the early part of the 19th century to accommodate the family’s horses and carriages.

Barbara & Michael’s Country and Western Line Dancing and Live Music event returns to Walmer Bridge Village Hall on Friday 11th October 2019 at 1900 hrs for our special one-year anniversary event which will be a special DANCES OF THE WORLD theme night.

Chorley Little Theatre plays host to Manford’s Comedy Club. Come and have some fun and a real good laugh, as four amazing comedians take to the stage, all personally chosen by Jason Manford. facebook: @manfordscomedy twitter: @manfordscomedy

Thursday 17 October 2019, 7.30 pm. Gill Rossini: Our Innocence is all a Sham A talk on Children’s lives, and the growth of child welfare in the 19th century. Covering illegitimate ancestors, and social history.

Stalls selling Craft & handmade (wood turning, jewelry, ..) toys, sweets, local honey - lots more plus a bouncy castle slide & donkey rides (20 + stalls )

Comprised of music tutors from RNCM, the Victoria Quartet will play the Sunrise quartet by Haydn, and Tchaikovsky’s quartet no.1, which includes his well loved andante cantabile movement.

This hilarious multi-award winning comedy follows an amateur rugby team from the Wheatsheaf Arms pub, who can only muster a side of four and whose pride lies in their unbroken record of defeat! An outrageous bet pitches them against the most feared team in the North! Can they triumph over adversity!?

The staff of the Gwendolen Kyte School for Girls are an odd assortment of social misfits and eccentrics. On returning for a new term they learn that their many shortcomings have been reported to the Department of Education, but by whom?

Heritage Open Day: Discover Preston’s Grade I listed church - and the highest parish church spire in the UK. Climb the spire for panoramic views over Preston. And find out about St Walburge, an 8th-century English saint. The church was designed by Joseph Hansom – the man responsible for the Hansom cab.

Heritage Open Day: Visitors are welcome to wander round the grounds and enjoy a self-guided tour of the church. Austin & Paley, church architects, feature in exhibition panels, created and loaned by the Lancashire Museum Service. Piano recitals throughout the day.

A lecture about spiritual healing and help through the teaching of Bruno Groening. Through the absorption of the divine power, many people are experiencing the healing of illnesses and pain, that have been declared as “incurable” by the medical profession.

Heritage Open Day: Opened in 1867 and designed by EW Pugin, English Martyrs is a large, Grade II listed, Gothic-style church with an impressive high altar and sanctuary, side altars and stained glass. The War Memorial Chapel will also be open.

Heritage Open Day: Walk the Lancaster Canal towpath, which borders Haslam Park, with a talk about its 200 year history. Walk and talk covering the history of Haslam Park, its founder and its features dating back to around 1910. Photographic displays and information.

Have you an eye for unnoticed treasure? Come to our auction sale and seek it out! There will be a wide variety of lots for you to browse - but no large furniture. Refreshments will be served throughout the day so come and join us. Everyone is welcome.

Come along to an evening of the songs of John Denver performed by the very talented Chris Bannister. A fabulous night out is guaranteed and tickets will sell out quickly as Chris Bannister is very well known around the country for his singing.

Come along for a browse and find a bargain or two. A huge selection of items kindly donated by the parishioners in order to raise funds for the Building Project for the Church Hall. Well worth a look and no reasonable offer will be refused for any larger items.

Come and see the wonderful blooms and colours of the world of orchids, many many different types of orchids in the hundreds on display,usually there are orchid traders to buy an orchid or two you may not have seen before.

Keep active and improve your health by joining an experienced Rufford Old Hall volunteer on a guided walk. These easy to moderate walks take in beautiful scenery and explore the surrounding areas of Rufford. Week to week the route will vary across three different walks: 1. Sparks Bridge canal walk 2.