What’s On during April...

2 April, Sunday - Sponsored Dog Walk starting between 10.00am and 10.30 am in the Whitehall Rec near the Children’s Play area. Free Hot dogs on your return. See Community News Poster for full details.

2 April, Sunday - 11.00am - 3.00pm. Handmade Arts & Craft Fair. Churchover Community Centre. Patchwork, bags, easter gifts, jewellery, bunting, pottery, wooden items, candles and much more. Cake stall with proceeds to charity - donations welcome. Refreshments, tea coffee and softdrinks or something stronger from the bar. For vendor enquiries please call Julie on 07342 338849.

2 and 26 April - Cawston Community Coffee Club get together and chat,all welcome. Free Admission £1 coffe/ tea/biscuits. Proceeds go to c helat Cawston Community Hall. All proceeds go to charity.

4 April, Monday (and every Monday & Wednesday) 10 - 4 pm (November - March). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints - Oliver Street, Rugby, CV21 2LE. Get warm, enjoy a hot drink, play games, charge your phone and free WiFi.

6 April, Thursday - Grandborough Farmers’ Market

– On the 1st Thursday of every month at St Peter’s Church CV23 8DH from 10.00 am – 12.30 pm. We have 6 regular stallholders selling, bread, cakes, cheese, Manx Loaghtan lamb, Dexter beef, honey, jam and pickles, ice cream, butter and plants. There is a Cafe with home made cakes and sausage rolls, tea and coffee, all of which are £1 each.

7 -8 April - U9 and U11’s Rugby Club Festival held at Rugby School.

8 April, Saturday (Second Saturday of every Month) Community Cafe with free table tennis 10.00am - 1pm held at Rogers Hall, Hillmorton. Run by the Community for the Community. Home made cakes and hot food available. www.heartcg.org.

8 April (Easter Saturday) - Easter Egg Hunt/Trail/Face painting at Caldecott Park 10 til 2pm. Rugby themed 200th anniversary of the game. £3.50 per child (prize & activity leaflet). No need to book. Run by Rugby Round Table all proceeds go to local charities & good causes.

8th & 9th April - Easter Art Exhibition. Napton Art Group are holding their Easter Exhibition of members’ work at Napton Village Hall (CV47 8LS) on 8th and 9th of April between 10am and 5 pm. There will be about 200 paintings in all mediums including oils, watercolour, acrylics and pastels and greetings cards of some of these will be available. Admission is £1 with free entry for children and there will be light refreshments in the pop-up cafe. Everybody who comes can vote for The Best in Show. The art group has a membership that now stands at over 60 and meets every Thursday afternoon at Napton Village Hall and has a programme featuring a wide range of demonstrations and weekend workshops.

15 April, Tuesday - Rugby Repair Cafe January - November 3rd Saturday of every month. 10.0012.00pm St.Andrew’s Church, Rugby Town Centre, repaircaferugby@gmail.com.

15 April, Saturday - TeachRex, The T-Rex Show at the Macready Theatre. 10am & 12.30pm shows. For children aged 3+ Teach Rex uses life-like dinosaurs to perform their 45-minute show, teaching children about the anatomy and life of one the most mesmerizing creatures that have ever roamed our planet. The show is teamed with effects, music and gives children and their families the chance to get up close and personal with these fantastic, realistic beasts. See www. macreadytheatre. co.uk/

16 April, Sunday - Daffodil Sunday at Newnham Paddox (Monks Kirby, CV23 0RA) By kind permission of the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Daffodil Sunday is held again this year at Newnham Paddox, Monks Kirby. Open from 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. admission costs £5.00 , but free for those under 16 years Proceeds go to the Friends of the Revel C of E. Churches. Free parking, toilet facilities, woodland and lakeside walks, preserves and plants for sale, ice cream, wood turners, pottery, archery, alpacas, owls, Dunchurch Silver Band, Choirs. Vintage motor vehicles, Hot Dogs, Ocho Rios Steel Band, refreshments and much more. www.revelgroup.org/Daffodil. Sunday for further information.”

18 April, Tuesday - Rugby Gardeners Guild meeting held at Thornfield Indoor Bowling Club, Bruce Williams Way, Rugby, every third Tuesday of the Month with a Speaker.

19 April, Wednesday - Rugby Myton Hospice 250+ Club Coffee Morning 10 - 12noon held at the Sacred Heart Church Hall, Bilton, CV22 7QT. To Book call 01788 461991 or email hurst.s@yahoo.com. Tickets £4.00 (Pay on the door)- Raffle.

16 April, Sunday - St Nicholas Church Scarecrow Festival 1.30 - 4.30pm Prize for the best Scarecrow, Children’s Crafts, Refreshments, Fun For All The family - St Nicholas Curch, Brooks Close, Willoughby, CV23 8BY. Contact Karen - 07866 5722209

20 April, Thursday - Rugby Floral Society, Overslade Community Centre, Buchanan Road, Rugby CV22 6AZ 2pm. Demonstration by Linda Smith (Area Demonstrator) “Amazing Places”. Visitors £5, Members free. Raffle of arrangements. Ring Heather (01788 522286), for any further details.

23 April, Sunday - Rugby Rokeby Lions Club Duplicate Pairs Bridge Competition at The Railway Club, Hillmorton Road, Rugby, CV22 5AL. 12.30 start - approx 8.00pm finish. £19 pp including supper. Proceeds in aid of Our Jay Foundation. Call 01788 561779 or 07774 891669 for more details and tickets.

23 April, Sunday - Held at the Rugby School on the Close as part of the bicentenary celebration join the attempt of a world’s largest uncontested scrum see rugbyschool. co.uk

28 April, Friday - Long Lawford Garden Club meets on the last Friday of each month at Church Lawford Village Hall at 7.30 pm with speakers and social events. Contact 01788 811387. New members very welcome. Do pop along for an enjoyable friendly evening.

29 April, Saturday - Willoughby Village Jumble Sale held at the Willoughby Village Hall. 2 - 4 pm. Clothes/ books/bric-a-brac and much more. 20p entrance fee. All welcome.

Have you a community event that you would like to promote? mail: catherine@rugbyregister.co.uk