A wide range of inspirational courses on smallholding, horticultural and rural skills and crafts. You can choose from learning to keep bees, wildlife gardening and learn to work with felt, plus many other fascinating workshops for both men and women. A popular and original gift idea.
Tel: 01454 415296
www.mumbleysfarmhouse.co.uk
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Share your business challenges with us, and we'll use our expertise to offer a realistic bespoke training, coaching or facilitation solution... and then make it happen.
We have over 20 years experience of successfully developing people at all levels in businesses and not-for-profit organisations of all sizes.
Click below to see what we can offer an organisation like yours and people like you.
Landline: 01454 881954
Tel: 07971 426662
Tel: 07919 651464
www.reddoorcoachingandtraining.co.uk
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Held at The Chantry, Castle Street, Thornbury BS35 1HB
Tel: 07791 400362
Community Learning is part of South Gloucestershire Council and funded by the Skills Funding Agency. We offer a range of free part-time courses in community venues to help residents to gain qualifications, improve job skills, help their children’s learning and become more involved in the local community. Click below to find out more...
Tel: 01454 417364
Tel: 0117 931 2121
www.filton.ac.uk
Thornbury University of the Third Age was founded in 1997 and is now one of the largest organisations in the town with over 1500 members.
The title ‘University’ can be misleading as members do not require any qualifications to join and there are no examinations to sit or awards made. It provides a wide range of educational, social and leisure activities and is an excellent way of meeting people and making friends. There is no age limit on membership but you need to have ceased full-time employment as most groups meet during the day, either in members’ homes or halls in the local area.
However, in order to keep our size within reasonable limits, members do need to live either in Thornbury or within quite a large area around it as defined by a set of postcodes.
Annual membership, due 1st January, is £6 per person and £10 for two people at the same address. This enables members to join as many of the seventy-plus groups as they wish. There are also a number of excellent one-day visits and summer outings that are open to all U3A members.
Click below for further information and a full list of all the groups on offer.
6 Meadowside, Thornbury BS35 2EN
Tel: 01454 411421
The WEA, founded in 1903, is the UK’s largest voluntary provider of adult education, and is committed to provide access to education and learning for adults from all backgrounds, particularly those who have previously missed out on education.
The Thornbury branch is run by a group of local residents with the help of the regional organiser. Courses may be free for those on means-tested benefits or low income.
Contact James Ball on 415165 for details or click below.
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Morton Baptist Church, Horse Lane, Lower Morton, Thornbury BS35 1LF
Special Meeting: “The Design and Origin of Man”
Speaker: Professor Stuart Burgess
Professor Stuart Burgess BSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FRAeS has taught engineering design at Cambridge University and Bristol University. He has won many national awards for engineering design including the Turners Gold Medal and a Mollins Design Prize. He has published over 120 scientific articles on design in engineering and design in nature. He has seven patents and carried out design projects for industry including designing parts of rockets and spacecraft for the European Space Agency. He is author of several books. He has lectured in many countries including the USA and Japan.
This meeting is suitable for all ages and everyone is welcome. (It is not a ‘worship service’). Dr Burgess will give an audio-visual presentation and take questions in the chapel, and afterward free refreshments will be served in the schoolroom,... Read more >>
Alveston House Hotel
A networking meeting for members of the Castle School Premium Partners Scheme.
The Chantry, Thornbury
1: Encaustic, Tempera and Fresco
10.30am-4.30pm
When you look at a painting, what do you see... a view, a portrait, something abstract maybe? It is of course nothing of the sort: just an illusion made from a skin of paint.
The type of paint, and its associated techniques, has played a decisive role in major developments in the history of Art.
This richly illustrated course will run over four sessions. The first will explore the ancient technique of wax encaustic, perfect for portraits on mummy cases! Tough bright egg tempera was ideal for altar panels, and fresco allowed cost effective decoration of vast new chuches and civic buildings.
By examining a range of painting from across the centuries, we will discover the important role materials and their techniques play in our understanding and enjoyment of Art.
Former university lecturer Lynne Gibson is an experienced tutor with a vast collection of slides and her talks are always illuminating and inspiring.
Fee £28 to... Read more >>
The Chantry, Thornbury
2: Watercolour and Gouache
10.30am-4.30pm
When you look at a painting, what do you see... a view, a portrait, something abstract maybe? It is of course nothing of the sort: just an illusion made from a skin of paint.
The type of paint, and its associated techniques, has played a decisive role in major developments in the history of Art.
This richly illustrated course will run over four sessions. The second will look at the water-based paints used for illuminated manuscripts, portrait miniatures, illustration and "sur le motif" sketching. We will explore the English "National Art" of watercolour painting.
By examining a range of painting from across the centuries, we will discover the important role materials and their techniques play in our understanding and enjoyment of Art.
Former university lecturer Lynne Gibson is an experienced tutor with a vast collection of slides and her talks are always illuminating and inspiring.
Fee £28 to include tea/coffee and biscuits. To... Read more >>
