Local Tour of Epsom & Ewell to celebrate St George's Day

The Friends of Horton Cemetery has been awarded a grant by Historic England for the Out of Sight, Out of Mind digital, arts-based project, revisioning the life histories of patients in Europe’s largest asylum cemetery. Led by Dr Alana Harris on behalf of the charity, we seek to recapture the stories of patients and create a crowd-sourced memorial, overcoming historical amnesia, neglect, and inaction.

As a part of this project, we are painting 900 ceramic flowers to commemorate the 9000 patients buried through regular arts-therapy-based craft workshops.

All welcome. Free of charge.

The event includes discussions about mental health past and present.

The Friends of Horton Cemetery has been awarded a grant by Historic England for the Out of Sight, Out of Mind digital, arts-based project, revisioning the life histories of patients in Europe’s largest asylum cemetery. Led by Dr Alana Harris on behalf of the charity, we seek to recapture the stories of patients and create a crowd-sourced memorial, overcoming historical amnesia, neglect, and inaction.

As a part of this project, we are painting 900 ceramic flowers to commemorate the 9000 patients buried through regular arts-therapy-based craft workshops.

All welcome. Free of charge.

The event includes discussions about mental health past and present.

Simply Greek, South Street, Epsom, Wednesday, 26th April at 7 p.m.

We will be holding a Greek Night on Wednesday, 26th April at 7 p.m. where you can enjoy a truly Greek Meal – 3 courses including a hot and cold Meze, main course, and selection of Greek desserts. Drinks will be extra. The cost will be £32 per person. With luck you can enjoy a display of Greek Dancing, maybe even joining in! Why not come and enjoy the fun. Book early to reserve your place. Tel: 020 8337 8181 or Mobile 07713979234.

Join local expert Graham Cotten for a morning walk across the Common to see and hear a variety of birds, both residents and summer visitors. Please wear suitable clothes and footwear - the Common is wet - and do bring binoculars.
If travelling away from Epsom, Stew Pond car park is on the left several hundred yards beyond the Horton Lane roundabout. It is NOT the car park by the church.
Very occasionally we are forced to cancel a walk at short notice, so please check our website before setting out.

The Nonsuch Town and Country Show is the event with something for everybody, book discounted tickets online now
https://www.nonsuchcountryshow.co.uk/

Epsom Jazz Club kicks off their Summer programme of concerts with the Neil Angilley Trio, whose live show brings a unique take on infectious rhythms from Brazil and Cuba to the audience.

Pianist and Composer Neil Angilley "has long been one the UK's best-kept secrets
in the Jazz world" declared Blues & Soul Magazine. Completing his Trio are Davide Mantovani (Babba Maal, Jim Mullen, Andy Sheppard) on Bass and Davide Giovannini (Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood) on Drums.

They work regularly in the London Jazz scene and across the U.K. making frequent appearances at Ronnie Scott's, The Stables, The Verdict Jazz Club and the 606 Club. Go support a fabulous new live music venue for Epsom, featuring monthly live jazz gigs from Nationally & Internationally renowned artists in an intimate cabaret setting with licensed bar.

Tickets on sale now - just £18.

The ME/CFS Specialist Service at the Malvern Centre, Sutton Hospital is hosting an open afternoon on Wednesday 10th May 1-3pm during ME Awareness Week. 

The open afternoon is to raise awareness of ME/CFS as a long-term condition with a wide range of symptoms, not only extreme tiredness.  Come along and find out more about the other symptoms, how it is diagnosed and what evidence-based interventions we offer.  

All welcome, people with ME, their family members/friends and health professionals including GP's and hospital staff.  We have invited a speaker from the ME Association which you can listen to whilst enjoying coffee and cake.  We will have information stands and staff will be available to answer any questions.

Free Bowls Taster Sessions every Friday evening , Saturday and Sunday morning during May

Fortune spins her wheel, who will win, who will lose?

Two classics of the 20th century choral repertoire are on the menu for our summer concert.

Most famous to many as the soundtrack for the Old Spice aftershave advert and films such as The Omen, Carmina Burana has become one of the most celebrated and performed works in recent history. Inspired by Orff's instant infatuation with a collection of medieval poems that he chanced upon in an antiquary in 1934, this popular work explores life’s delights, unpredictability, and excesses. Between its explosive opening, insistent tribal rhythms and beautiful melodies, it remains a monumental choral work which never fails to give us the chills even now - perhaps because it makes us feel that the world is much bigger than ourselves.

The Armed Man is a relatively new work which has become a choral classic in its short life. Commissioned by the Royal Armouries to mark the new millennium, it was dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo conflict whose tragedy was unfolding as it was being composed in 1999. An extraordinarily thrilling piece of music, The Armed Man fuses words and music from many different centuries and cultures in condemnation of war and the misery it brings. It takes us on an epic journey from the beginnings of war, faith to see us safely through, to the bloody reality of war, its devastating aftermath and the final realisation that 'Better is Peace'. A message that rings as true today as ever.

Andrew Storey (conductor)
Kent Sinfonia
Ana Beard Fernández (soprano)
Richard Decker (counter tenor)
Rupert Pardoe (baritone) tbc
Tickets are £18, £20 on the door, half-price for under 25s. Ticket includes a programme and interval drink. Ticket Source 0333 666 3366 (£2 fee)

On Sunday May 14 2023, Citizens Advice Epsom & Ewell will be walking, skipping, riding or rolling to raise funds for our community service. Join us for a 5- or 10-mile walk in the countryside around Epsom, Surrey and help us meet our target!

We are walking the extra mile to raise £6,000 so we can support and give advice to people, families, neighbours, young and old, who need our help. It costs, on average, £60 across the year for each client that we help. Raising £6,000 could help an additional 100 clients this year.

The cost of living crisis is having a devastating impact on people in our community. As food costs and energy bills rise, families are struggling to make ends meet. It’s stressful, isolating and frightening. Every day our advisers go the extra mile for these clients to help solve the problems they face.

So will you join us on Sunday 14 May 2023 and together we can walk, skip, ride or roll those extra steps and raise a few extra much-needed pounds for Citizens Advice Epsom & Ewell with Go the Extra Mile – a walking event that’s a little extra challenging and a little extra fun!

Register now for a self-guided 5 or 10 mile walk in the countryside close to Epsom (exact routes confirmed shortly). Entry is £5 per adult and children go free. All entrants are encouraged to gain as much sponsorship as possible. By raising £60 you could enable us to help another client this year. You may wish to set yourself a more ambitious target of £100, compete with your friends to see who can raise the most or even walk in fancy dress.

Please visit our website for more information, where you can register via Eventbrite, download a sponsor form or create a Just Giving fundraising page.

Every day we go the extra mile for our clients. Will you go the extra mile for us?

Netherne Mental Hospital, Coulsdon was opened by Surrey County Council in 1909. Initially accommodating 960 patients, by 1950 numbers had increased to 2,000. The hospital closed in 1994. The surviving archive, now preserved at Surrey History Centre, includes 19,500 patient case files and around 10,000 photographs taken c.1959, exploring all aspects of the hospital's life. From the wards to the airing courts; the art therapy unit to the operating table, these vivid images provide a rare glimpse of daily life inside a Surrey psychiatric hospital, allowing us to take a tour of the hospital on a typical day at what was a turning point in its history.