THERE will be an evening of mediumship next week at the Forest Community Centre to raise money for Ukraine.
The event is being held on Thursday 21st April at Forest Community Centre, doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
Organiser Wendy Isaacs says, “We have two really well known and popular mediums, Joanie Goddard and Mitch Garlington. We are aiming to raise at least £1,000, but need a sell-out evening to achieve it! Every penny raised will be donated to Ukraine, no expenses will be deducted. Everyone involved will be giving their time for free, the Forest Community Centre has been given to us free for the evening, and the girls behind the bar are also working for free.
“There will be a brilliant raffle, and we will be selling little hand-knitted friendship bows, at just £1 each, to wear showing support to our Ukraine guests and to show we care. We also have a few wood slice coasters, hand-painted with sunflowers for sale. Please come along and help us reach our target and help this most deserved cause.”
Wendy is also appealing to local businesses for donations of prizes for the raffle. Tickets cost £10 in advance. For more information about tickets or donating raffle prizes, call or text Wendy on 07444 644742.
Tickets are also available from the community centre – call 07708 465856 or 01225 635234.
![Melksham Times Past
A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
Read more on our website, the link is in our bio.")
