What's On Loughton

Annual General Meeting. Organised by Epping Forest & District Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Roger Pearce(Secretary).

Photographer Tim Mitchell will be running a photography workshop to help you take beautiful and dramatic photographs of the Forest in spring. Let him take you on a journey to improve your photography. You just need to bring a digital camera or mobile phone to take pictures.

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.

Are you looking for leisure time with health benefits? Would you like to meet new people? Look no further – attend a local tea dance!

A secluded S-facing cottage style garden, developed over 25 years for yr-round interest. Areas incl 2 lawns, a rock garden, small wildlife pond with bog garden, shade borders and a gravel garden, linked by several paths. Throughout are mixtures of trees shrubs perennials bulbs bamboos grasses and climbers.

Gravelled front garden and three differently styled back garden spaces with planting changes every year. Places for you to sit, relax and enjoy. Start with themed flower borders - planting influenced by Beth Chatto, Penelope Hobhouse and Christopher Lloyd.

Get your glitter on for our brand new women’s 10k walk and be part of the sparkliest event in town! Grab a team of friends and family, add some glitter and sequins, and walk in our ’sparkle parade’ of local women for an unforgettable night out.

Large, tranquil walled garden behind Queen Anne house. Well structured with York stone balustraded terrace leading to formal lawn and rose garden separated by an informal glade.

There will be something of interest to everyone from beginners to gardening for the more advanced. Meet the garden volunteers who look after the garden and find out more about the plants and produce that we grow. There will be fresh museum grown produce to taste and refreshments provided throughout the event.

Vintage Fridays present The Guest List Come down and experience finger lickin’ Jamaican soul food in a quality venue featuring a Rolls Royce DJ line up to none on weekly rotation: 5th avenue Fatman & Colonel Special Touch JB crew Back to Basics The System Brothers inc Roy Medallion Sir

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE #SNL Join us for an exclusive Sunday Night Live experience. We are bringing you spectacular talent from across the UK, all to one stage!! Quality ooozes the atmosphere, with the best unsigned acts in town!

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.

Plant Sale with other stalls i.e. Refreshments, Cakes, jams and pickles, Tombola, Bric-a-brac, Raffle etc.

Seychelles & Mauritius (R. Salmon). Organised by Leytonstone, Wanstead & District Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Richard Wood (Secretary).

Explore and enjoy a heroic Bank Holiday weekend filled with magical moments at Lee Valley Park Farms! Discover the natural powers of the farmyard animals, embark on our quest and get into character with a spot of face painting. You can even meet real life characters every day between 11:00 and 12:00.

Forty Hall has a variety of habitats and microclimates and the insects within them have their own adaptations and superpowers! Get outside with a magnifying glass and explore the different insect habitats of the Estate and then invent and make your own Super Creature using clay and natural materials! Ages 4 – 11.

Learn all about beetles including the mighty Stag! Explore their habitats, play a crazy beetle game and then make a home to encourage beetles in your garden. Ages 4 – 11.

Following on from the success of last year, the Forty Hall Village Fete is back again. Come and browse through our Craft Market in the historic courtyard or enjoy all-time favourites including, Punch and Judy, Morris Dancing and don’t forget to bring your Teddy, so he can have a go on the Teddy Zip Wire!

Come and visit Forty Hall after hours, when the office workers have gone home for the night. Sneak around the period rooms that have been lit by candlelight as it would have been in the 17th Century. As you walk around, you may come across the servant cleaning, the cook or a member of the family!

???????????? Come along to the children’s wristband funfair. Where you ride all rides for free for a whole session! ????WRISTBANDS ARE £6.99 24th and 25th march ONLY????

Join the biggest pyjama party in Enfield. Wear you pyjamas, have fun with friends and family and help raise money for The Nightingale Cancer Support Centre (Reg. Charity No: 1094435) too! This 15 km walk starts and finishes at Enfield Civic centre and travels through Enfield via Southgate.

Faure Requiem Concert Adoramus Choir and Orchestra, conductor David Hooke, present a concert which features the orchestral version of the sublime Faure Requiem on Saturday 12th May 12.30 at the Latymer School Edmonton N9 9TN at 7.30p.m. The soprano soloist is Nicola Hooke and the Bass Baritone Ashley Mercer.

Join us in Arty Madness. Create a Tea Cup Wonderland. Gaze into your own Looking Glass. Make a Mini Mad Hat. Pom pom Flamingo making. Then off to the Tea Party for refreshments followed by Bonkers Games that only Alice could imagine. Hosted by Characters straight out of the magical book.

Chairman’s Night (G. Mallett). Organised by Goodmayes Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Cliff Cashman (Secretary).

The Eurovision area (Members’ displays). Organised by Goodmayes Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Cliff Cashman (Secretary).

Display by members of Goodmayes society. Organised by Cheshunt & District Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Mike Cording (Secretary).

Colin Tobitt displays. Organised by Cheshunt & District Philatelic Society. Contact for details: Mike Cording (Secretary).

Antiques, collectibles and curios - retro jewellery and accessories, ceramics and glassware, coins, postcards, stamps, pens, books, kitchenalia, tools and toys. Over 20 stalls Cafe, disabled access, free car park at venue. Close to Enfield Chase station and Enfield bus station.

After the success of the first edition last month, A Sardinian Feast in East London returns to Mora on 16th May!

Ilford & West Essex Model Railway Club is holding it’s usual monthly open day with train rides (sometimes steam) for all the family. The train rides will be on our 7¼ inch outside railway for 50p a ride (£3 all day pass) and refreshments available. Children positively encouraged.

Chadwell Heath Community Centre / Robert Jeyes Community Library presents YA Fest! Sunday 13 May 2018.

The Chicken Shack is back with an incredible night planned for May, as always, an upbeat 50s Rock ’n’ Roll night filled with jiving, bopping and strolling. Looking for a good night out? Look no further!! Held on Saturday 19th May 2018 from 8.00pm till 1 am.

Nazeing History Workshop present a Free Exhibition to commemorate the end of the Great War. St Giles Hall will be open 2-6 on Saturday, 12 -4 on Sunday, 10 -4 on Monday. Their new book, A Purely Agricultural Parish ? will be launched at the exhibition. This new book complements their previous publications.

Large model railway exhibition, both general and fine scale, presented by Ilford & West Essex Model Railway Club, featuring 20+ layouts supported by trade, society stands and a Ride on Railway. FULLY WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY to all layouts. Refreshments. Large FREE car park.

From pig farm to pastoral idyll spanning 3 acres, reclaimed over 30yrs. Romantic woodland glade, burgeoning arboretum, relaxed planting around sloping lawns, stone ornaments. Walled garden leads to vegetable plot, greenhouse, chickens, small orchard. Martin built the house, Genine the gardens.

Working Model Railway Layouts ‘G’ Scale, ‘0’ Gauge, ‘00’ Gauge and ‘N’ Gauge. Radio Controlled Model Trucks & Boats. Train rides for children. Sales Stand, Tombola and Refreshments Free parking for disabled adjacent to club site. Free parking for other users off Nazeing New Road (B194), at EN10 6TD.

Blink. Blink again. What do you see? Reds and blues, yellows and greens. Twinkling lights that glisten and gleam. Inspired by research into how a baby’s sense of sight develops and how they instinctively begin to categorise colour, watch as your baby enters the multicoloured world of Kaleidoscope.

It’s almost New Year and little Mochi Man, tired of being bullied because of his small size, decides to run away.

Flowing water, whistling winds and the beautiful call of a bird - new sounds are discovered in unlikely places. Journey through mesmerising worlds blending sights and sounds that will set imaginations alight.

2018 marks 30 years since the premiere of Our Country’s Good at the Royal Court, now recognised as a modern classic exploring themes of crime, punishment and rehabilitation.

Rifco Studio present a sparkling new comedy by Sukh Ojla - Pyar Actually. After its SOLD OUT run last year, Rifco’s hilarious comedy returns to Stratford East. Polly has a reliable husband, two bright children, a well-paid job at the council and detached house with a double garage. She’s got it all.

Want to do something unique this May bank holiday? We have the perfect way to wind down, make a difference and experience something truly memorable! Join us as we abseil the UK’s tallest sculpture, the Orbit.

12pm, 3.15pm & 4.05pm Friday – Sunday Every day during School Holidays: 10.15am, 11.05am, 11.55am, 12.45pm, 1.35pm, 2.25pm, 3.15pm, 4.05pm. Sessions last approximately 40 minutes.

Lower Clapton is an area of mid Victorian terraces sloping down to the River Lea. This group of gardens reflect their owners tastes and interests. No. 77 Rushmore Rd features a fruit and vegetable garden and wildlife pond. At No.

Love, Bombs and Apples is the comic and poignant new play from award winning playwright Hassan Addulrazzak (Baghdad Wedding, The Prophet) - a tale of four men, each from different parts of the globe, all experiencing a moment of revelation.

Mum2mum Markets are award winning indoor nearly new sales. At this sale in Harold Hill we will have 25 stalls of high quality, nearly new items and a small selection of businesses offering goods and services of interest to parents. Want to sell?

Find out more about our Teletubbies live show

The epic tales of Norse Mythology are ones that have inspired storytellers, writers and artists for centuries. Rich in complex, amusing and often bewildering themes, these tales shine a light on a peculiar and ancient people and their belief system.

Thornton & English present in association with Forman’s Lost Street Chicken Showcasing Artist’s Lilly Vasil, Rosie Mcginn, Marie L Gerard, Lusky and Anudarani. There it stands, a golden pinnacle of being.