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I am incredibly proud to announce that All About Magazines has won three prestigious national awards early in October at the Independent Magazine Publishers Conference.

We won Best Social Media Presence, I won Highly Commended Inspirational Business Owner and we won the overall Community Magazine of the Year Award for 2015. My grateful thanks go to my dedicated team, you the reader, our loyal customers, Warwick Printing and our hardworking delivery team!

24 Sascha McDonald - The Editor Nov/Dec 2015 Issue 26

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12 Enjoy Local 6 Business News 8 Community News 12 Museum of Royal Worcester 14 Roots Recipe: Roast Chicken 16 Local Talent 24 Not all Jam and Jerusalem 28 Well Being: Outputs 32 Notice Board 34 What’s On 36 & 37 Competition & Theatre News 38 Classes & Courses 38 www.facebook.com/allaboutworcester www.twitter.com/allaboutmalvern www.allaboutworcester.com

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Enjoy Local 1. bonfire & fireworks

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The annual bonfire and fireworks party on Pitchcroft takes place this year on Saturday November 7th from 5.30pm. There's lots of family fun including a funfair and money raised from the evening is donated to local good causes.

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things to enjoy locally

2. Victorian fayre The Victorian Fayre returns to Worcester at the end of November, with all the usual attractions including crafts, food, drink and entertainment. This will be the 23rd time this popular event has taken place, which this year is between Thursday 26th and Sunday 29th November.

There are plenty of festive workshops and events for families and children at the Hive during November and December. Lantern Making Workshops take place on 28 November and 5 December (10am-1pm, £2.50), there’s a screening of the film ‘Get Santa’ on and weekend performances of ‘Christmas Rat-a-Tat Tales’ during December.

For more details see thehiveworcester/whats-on

During November & December 4. christmas lights switch on The Christmas Lights Switch On in Worcester takes place on Saturday 14th November. The day begins with a street market from 10am before entertainment outside the Guildhall from 4pm.

The Switch On itself is due to take place at 6pm.

For more details see www.allaboutworcester.com

5. December Delights concert The choir of Pitmaston Primary School joins with Malvern Hills District Brass Band for a special festive concert this December. On offer is a lighthearted evening of festive music that will get you in the Christmas spirit. ‘December Delights’ takes place at Huntingdon Hall on Saturday 12th December, from 7.30pm. Tickets cost £9 for adults, £7 for Retired over 60, Students and Unwaged, with free entry for children under 12.

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Business News P & D GREEN WASTE If you're busy cutting back your garden and struggling to remove the waste, P&D Green Waste runs a regular collection service throughout the area.

Customers receive a wheelie bin to gather their garden material, which is then collected from home every fortnight throughout the year.

In just 18 months, the company has grown rapidly.

'Everything we collect is recycled' says the owner Danny Healey, 'with the waste being composted or recycled with an anaerobic digester and turned into green energy.'

And if you have larger amounts of green waste, contact Danny who can arrange for a one off collection which will be cheaper than hiring a skip.

STUDIO B There's Dance, Drama, Singing, Fitness and much more at Studio B - Performing Arts Centre in Worcester. Classes are run by professionally trained and qualified teachers and appeals to both children and adults, from beginner to those seeking a professional career in the arts. Based on the Bromyard Rd in St Johns, you can find out more by calling 07496 767454 or visit

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Enjoy a morning coffee or afternoon tea in the popular restaurant. Choose from a selection of scrumptious cakes and freshly prepared, home cooked lunchtime specials.

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KNITTED POPPIES Pat Richardson and her many helpers have so far raised £2,000 from their sales of knitted poppies. Using a straightforward pattern, hundreds of the woollen poppies are created in the lead up to Remembrance day. They are sold in local shops around St Johns as well as several in the city centre, with all money donated to the Royal British Legion.

WORCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGY DAY The popular Worcestershire Archaeology Day School takes places Saturday 21st November 10am-5pm.

Organised by Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service, it will feature talks on a range of recent projects and excavations, including Dig Lich St, Copcutt excavations, Worcester's Civil War siege works, Bromsgrove High St, fascinating finds & looking after rural buildings and landscapes.

The event takes place at the University of Worcester's St John's campus. Places are £20 and can be booked by emailing explorethepast@worcestershire.gov.uk or ring (01905) 766352 for more details.

Tree decorating in Gheluvelt Park takes place again this year on the first weekend in December.

Individuals and community groups come together. After choosing trees and re-using materials, they create eye catching decorations which are dotted around the park.

is a website listing the men and women from our area who sacrificed their lives in both world wars.

It’s the result of years of painstaking research which has revealed many forgotten stories of the names on local war memorials. In all, around 21,000 people are commemorated, most of them in Worcestershire.

The event is part of an international tree dressing weekend organised in the UK by Common Ground (www. commonground.org.uk), a charity that links communities to nature through art and culture. The idea behind the weekend is to draw attention to the trees that we walk past every day and highlighting their significance.

Funding for the project has now ended, and so to keep the website online, there’s a fundraising Table Top Sale at Lower Broadheath Village Hall on Saturday 28th November, between 10am and Noon.

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museum of royal worcester The displays at The Museum of Royal Worcester are a breathtaking reminder of a company that was once famed the world over. As well as the many examples of exquisitely decorated porcelain, is an important archive that is being painstakingly catalogued and restored.

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n a room at the museum away from the public gaze, is the museum's archive.

Row upon row of leather bound books line the shelves, from pattern books to order ledgers and other historic documents.

'There's a wealth of material here' say the collection's archivist, Sue Fairchild. 'Especially good are the pattern books which are an amazing resource.' These books, dating back a century or more, contain detailed drawings, dimensions and decoration used to make the company's dinner services, vases and figurines.

Also in the archive are the company's old order books and records of employment. 'It's a good insight into what happened here' says Sue, 'and reveals much about the life of the employees and the social history of Worcester.' Work to conserve these books and documents falls to a small but dedicated team of volunteers, painstakingly cleaning and repairing the old documents.

On the day we visit, three women are seated around a table, using an array of tools from pony hair brushes to special sponges, to clean up documents. They carry out other work including the repair of torn pages, strengthening damaged book spines and re-threading broken book bindings.

This is highly skilled work for these members of The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS). 'A small group of us is trained in paper repairs' says Isobel Nicholls as she works. 'It is delicate, specialised work and every year we receive refresher training. This is rewarding work as when repairing something, you are protecting it for future generations.'

'You never know what you'll find' says Ruth Reeves, another of the team. Last month, a

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book opened for conservation work revealed illustrations of eighteenth century fashions from revolutionary France. The book has been on display in the museum for visitors to see - after decades of sitting on a shelf it has been restored and can be marvelled at once again.

The Museum of Royal Worcester is open Monday to Saturday between 10am until 5pm until the end of October, and between 10am and 4pm from November onwards. It can be found on Severn Street close to the cathedral.

For more details, call (01905) 21247 or visit www.museumofroyalworcester.org

There are more than 10,000 pots in the museum's collection, and to date only a tiny amount have ever been photographed.

As a result, the '10,000 to 1 Appeal' has been launched to raise ÂŁ20,000 to allow this important collection to be properly photographed and catalogued. As little as ÂŁ10 will allow the photographing of five items and donations are welcomed.

If you can spare some time, volunteers are needed to help write catalogue texts for the items. Please contact Caroline Engevi at the museum on (01905) 21247 or via email: caroline@museumofroyalworcester.org

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roots roast chicken dinner There cannot be anything more comforting and satisfying than a proper Roast Chicken Dinner! Indeed nothing quite brings on the ooh's and ahh's in our house more than the aromas of such a dinner cooking. A popular Sunday lunch "go to" or a midweek treat to boost energy levels until the weekend …

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Get your oven hot to start with, 200C.Prepare some root vegetables, peeling and chunking as you go, toss in a little sunflower oil and season.Prepare the bird (if it's one of ours don't forget the giblets will be packed in the cavity, essential for good gravy).

Place the bird in a large roasting tray (big enough to leave some space for roasting veggies). Peel and quarter an onion, halve a lemon, stuff them inside the cavity with a handful of herbs. Sage is a traditional herb for roasting with chicken, but parsley and thyme will also flavour the bird well, a combination is ideal!

A Roots Chicken has plenty of fat under the skin so oil isn't needed, but do scrunch sea salt and pepper over the breast and legs that will crisp up during roasting. Last of all pour a mug of water into the bottom of the tray which I find helps to keep the bird moist during cooking and gets the gravy off to a good start too.

Place the bird in the hot oven for 20 minutes. This is a good point at which to surround it with your prepared veggies for roasting. Turn the oven down to 180C and cook for a further 30 minutes per kg plus 20 minutes.

Once cooked do allow the chicken to rest somewhere warm for 10 minutes or so before carving. This will be enough time to make the gravy with the delicious juices in the roasting tin.

With a heavy bottomed roasting tin this is easily done on the stove. Mix 3 teaspoons of cornflour and a good pinch of mustard powder with a little cold water and tip into the cooking juices. With the heat on low use a small whisk to bring the gravy together.

Allow to cook for a few minutes (cooking out the starch) and then you can let down the gravy with stock from boiled giblets, vegetable cooking water or maybe a splash of wine. Keep whisking until the gravy thickens a little. Enjoy!

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By Dave Webber

I’m Dave Webber and I present a weekly music show on Choice Radio, the service for Worcestershire Royal Hospital. This month I'd like to tell you about a group started by two talented musicians who also happen to be husband and wife.

Claire King and her husband Ian are both classically trained musicians but with a broad interest in many different kinds of music.

Claire plays the violin, and growing up in Scotland, she learned to play a lot of traditional Scottish jigs and reels. Ian grew up singing in the choir at Hereford Cathedral before he became the organ scholar at St Peter's College, Oxford and received a first class honours degree in Music.

Together, their love of music has turned into something very special. With Ian composing the music and playing piano, and Claire on fiddle, their band Kings and Folk have created a very unique sound. Often joined by other musicians, the current line up includes their son David on djembe drum and local flautist/whistle player Helen Izod; with regular guest singer Hattie Amos from Worcester and percussionist Steve Martin from Cheltenham often joining them in concerts.

Their music can't really be put into a category, and I will struggle to explain it, but it has been described as classically influenced arrangements of traditional music. Some of the folk tunes come from Britain, Ireland and Eastern Europe, but with their own clever arrangements. There are plenty of original songs at their gigs as well.

Ian has written and performed a lot of music himself. Together with Chris Jaeger from Worcester Live he wrote 'A Worcestershire Song Cycle' for the Three Choirs Festival in 2011.

He's recently been commissioned to write a new choral work which will be performed at next year's Three Choirs Festival and broadcast live on Radio 3.

Always open to new influences, Ian was introduced to traditional music during visits to Claire's family in Scotland. 'Christmas and New Year were always an excuse for a family get together' she says, 'my dad would get the guitar out and we'd have a play and a sing song.'

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Kings and Folk's latest CD, called 'Branching Out', was released at the end of last year. Claire says it took them several years to record, edit and produce. 'It took all our spare time and weekends finding the time to record - some tracks live, some tracks laying down each instrument individually'.

'We were also fortunate enough to have some wonderful guests record with us on the album including vocalist Colette Todd, a former soloist in world tours of Riverdance and Lord of the Dance and David Cowell, a guitarist and cellist from Malvern. Everyone put their heart and soul into it.'

Two of the tracks on the CD were recorded at Peter Gabriel's Realworld Studios in Wiltshire, as a result of the group winning the Bath Folk Festival New Shoots Competition in 2013. The album was engineered and co-produced by Ian and Claire's son James, who is one-half of the dance-music duo NVOY. Now based in London, they have just landed themselves an album deal with Black Butter Records.

Kings and Folk put a lot of time and effort into playing live and perform at many local festivals and concerts around the Midlands. Word is spreading fast and they get bookings all over the place.

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not all jam & jerusalem A century ago, Britain’s food supply was running out. With the outbreak of war, wheat from the USA had difficulty reaching our shores. Many men – and their horses, who worked the land for food had been sent to war. As food supplies dwindled, the newly formed Women’s Institute played a crucial role in helping to feed the nation.

This pivotal moment in history will be brought back to life in a series of events this November at The Hive. ollowing the outbreak of the First World War, panic buying quickly cleared shops of staple foods and queueing for food became a fact of life. Against this backdrop, the newly formed Women’s Institute began to organise everything from picking and preserving fruit to local Pig Clubs.

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‘There was a move from meat consumption to vegetables’ says Maggie Andrews, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Worcester.

‘There was a heavy reliance of potatoes and an attempt to encourage families to start keeping pigs.’

The absence of some food staples meant novel alternatives were found. ‘The WI experimented with new recipes including bread made from potatoes and jam made from salt!’ says Maggie, who hopes to bring some of these emergency measures back to life at an activity day at The Hive later this month. ‘Canning machinery was purchased as the WI preserved seasonal gluts of fruit and WI Markets were set up to sell it.

Nothing could be wasted.’

Lessons learned during World War One meant the WI was ready to swing into action once again for World War Two, but this time their role went beyond food production, as they began campaigning for the rights of foster mothers who were taking in evacuee children.

In the post-war era, the WI spoke up on issues of equal pay and improved housing, contributing to the Beveridge Report which led to the creation of the welfare state. ‘For some people, the WI might

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at a glance: Wednesday 18th November There will be chance to experience early WI activities including: plays, evacuation surveys, knitting & needlework, exchanging recipes and helping plan the post-war world at this Activity Day, 10am - 4pm at The Hive.

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For information and booking visit www.thehiveworcester.org or call (01905) 822866 have a twin-set and pearls image’ says Maggie, ‘but there has always been a strong campaigning element. They were set up at the same time as the Suffragette movement and many of those women went on to lead The Worcestershire Federation of WIs as well as the organisation nationally.’

That campaigning tradition is still at the centre of the WI today according to Maggie. ‘In recent years they have campaigned for everything from domestic abuse and AIDS education to the rights of carers, which is a profession dominated by women.’

A new edition of Maggie’s book about the WI, ‘The Acceptable Face of Feminism’ is being published to coincide with the centenary of the Women’s Institute and the book will be available at The Hive during November’s events.

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why health is nothing like crime reduction

By Tracy Reck, Personal Fitness Coach in Worcester In my old life, I used to manage a Crime Reduction Partnership. I know, right? Hard to imagine. Then, I used to present reports at board meetings, manage budgets and deliver projects to reduce crime. Now I bounce around in a gym, talk to people about their eating habits and present workshops about health.

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nd smile a lot more. Life is interesting how it brings you round to where you're supposed to be, huh?

Anyway, the relevance here is how we use to measure things in Community Safety. I remember we were always hot on the tail of outcomes constantly looking for outcomes. We hated outputs.

People would always try and use outputs when talking about a project's success or when applying for project funding, but it just didn't cut it. Even though outputs were lovely, tangible, measurable things, outcomes were all that mattered.

Outputs are all numbers, for example the number of young people engaged, the number of football sessions delivered or numbers of window locks fitted. We didn't want those because they didn't count towards our Home Office targets. We needed outcomes, like a percentage reduction in disorder incidents, fewer burglaries in a particular area or an increase in perceptions of safety.

These things were like the holy grail. Really hard to measure. Really hard to attribute to any particular project we might run. Subject to a time lag between what we might do and when the data was collected.

But we pushed on, trying our best to plait fog and give the Home Office the information they wanted.

Thank goodness I don't still work there - for oh, so many reasons, but also because now one of the biggest things I do is try to stop people, yes, STOP them, getting completely obsessed with outcomes.

In health, the outputs are SO much more valuable.

I want my clients to focus on their key outputs like

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the number of exercise sessions done, the number of veg portions eaten or the number of times negative self talk was swapped for self compassion or perhaps even the number of hours spent meditating.

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That's not true in crime reduction. It's too multifaceted and there are too many factors not in the control of the agencies who seek to reduce it. But whereas health, too, is multi-faceted, the great thing is that all those outputs ARE in your control.

Use your outcomes to drive your performance in your outputs, but remember the outputs will drive the achievement of your outcomes.

Even out here in the wonderful world of health improvement, there's a tendency to give weight to outcomes much more than outputs. I reckon that needs flipping around. Outputs are the key.

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Notice Board fireworks extravaganza at Red Hill Primary School, Midhurst Close, Worcester WR5 2HX. On Friday, 6 November This fun evening of family entertainment features a musical fireworks display at 7pm, with BBQ, bar, toffee apples & light sticks. Gates open at 6pm, with tickets £6 (adult) & £3.50 (child) on the night. Advance tickets available from the school office at discounted rates of £5 (adult) & £2.50 (child). School office tel: 01905 352524.

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Songs of Farewell November 21st 7.30pm, at St Martin’s Church, London Rd The Elgar Chorale gives its first performance in Worcester under new Director of Music, Piers Maxim, with a concert of music on the seasonal theme of remembrance. Tickets are £12 for adults and £5 for those in full-time education.

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Wednesday 18 November 'Not all Jam and Jerusalem' Activities and exhibition at The Hive about the vital role of the Women’s Institute in two world wars. See page 28 for more. www.thehiveworcester.org

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Tickets £12.50, call (01905) 611427 Saturday 12 December The Amazing Adventures of Librarian Lil Librarian Lil is bored with her life but you can't judge a book by its cover. Transported to other worlds, she wins the hearts of princes and audiences alike. Adults £5, children £3, babes in arms free.

Performances 3pm & 6pm at The Hive, Worcester, see thehiveworcester.org/whats-on Sunday 20 December The Sunday Assembly 11am at The Horizon Community Centre (WR5 1DS) Read more at www.sundayassemblyworcester.org.uk

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Wednesday 25th 2.15pm, Pershore Abbey, WR10 1DT

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Theatre News

the smallest show on earth Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Brian Eastman and Christabel Albery present a new musical comedy based on the StudioCanal film starring Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford, The Smallest Show on Earth. The cast of the new musical comedy will be led by Liza Goddard as Mrs Fazackalee and Brian Capron as Mr Quill.

The stage show, which has a book by Thom Southerland and Paul Alexander, contains some of Irving Berlin’s greatest songs, including Blue Skies, Shakin’ the Blues Away, Let Yourself Go, Steppin’ Out with my Baby and How Deep is the Ocean, as well as some rediscovered gems.

Director Thom Southerland said “Berlin’s music provides the perfect accompaniment to our 1950s story, not only in lyric, but in style and period too.”

Newly-weds Matt and Jean Spenser inherit a cinema and think their fortune is made. But the Bijou, better known as the fleapit, is the victim of a dirty tricks campaign from its rival flashy neighbour The Grand. The Bijou’s benevolent manageress Mrs Fazackalee and unreliable projectionist Mr Quill combine with Matt and Jean to outwit the opposition and restore the Bijou to its former glory.

The Smallest Show on Earth will be appearing at Malvern Theatres from Monday 23rd to Saturday 28th November.

Tickets are on sale at the Box Office 01684 892277 and online at malvern-theatres.co.uk

Competition

Win a pair of tickets to the smallest show on earth Win a pair of tickets to ‘The Smallest Show on Earth’ , Monday 23 - Thursday 28 November.

What is the name of the cinema that Matt and Jean inherit in the show?

Email the answer plus your name, postcode and phone number to competition@allabout-local.com by the Sunday 15th November 2015.

The winners will be drawn from the entries and notified by 16 November.

Good luck! *For terms & conditions see our website www.allaboutworcester.com

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MONDAY 23 - SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER

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