3Hs Gardening Club AGM – Tuesday 12th September

The next meeting of the 3Hs Gardening Club is Tuesday 12th September at 7.30pm in Horton Pavilion.  This is nominated as the AGM when members will get the opportunity to hire or fire the Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer or committee members.  

See below for a message from Mike Patching:

‘We are all gathering and probably giving away most of the fruits of our collective labours to those who have not or cannot, sample the delights of gardening, so possibly all prospective members.  The produce show was a great success and thanks to all who organised, entered, helped or who simply attended.  Lets make next year’s even better, so if you have a friend or acquaintance in any of the Ironstone parishes, bring them along as potential members.

Remember too to bring stuff along for the bring and buy, some topics for the ‘Gardening ideas of what me might do instead, Forum. Our Speaker is Russell Attwood, who will speak on the subject of ‘No dig gardening’.

Finally remember the October 10th meeting will be the Pumpkin Contest, so now’s the time to be feeding your prized specimen and guarding it from hungry Badgers.  From comments I’ve heard some suggestions there are some ‘Big-Guns’ being secretly nurtured!

I look forward to seeing you all next Tuesday, but meanwhile keep cool and enjoy this amazing autumn.‘


Ironstone Chamber Music Festival this weekend (8th and 9th September) and Festival Mass on Sunday

A reminder that the Ironstone Festival will take place at St Etheldreda’s Church in Horley on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th September, followed by a Festival Mass on Sunday 10th September.

This year’s programme for the weekend includes concerts on Friday (evening) and Saturday (lunchtime and evening), a free Children’s Music morning on Saturday and a sung Mass on Sunday. Full details are in the flyers below.

You can book for some or all of the concerts through the website http://www.ironstonechambermusic.com or by calling 01295 738566 (office hours). 

We hope you can join us at one or more of these events to enjoy the amazing music on offer over the weekend.

If you have any queries, please call 01295 738566 (office hours) or email theironstoneconcerts@gmail.com ‘

Progressive dinner – Thank you!

An enormous thank you to everyone who helped to make Horley’s Progressive Dinner such a success.

£1485.50 was raised for the church which is hugely appreciated and the camaraderie and community spirit the evening engenders cannot be underestimated.

Our hosts all surpassed themselves, we know how much planning and hard work it takes and as always, we simply couldn’t have done it without you.

Thank you so much to Dave and Natasha for allowing us to descend ‘en masse‘ and then disappear into the night only to return slightly less coherently later in the night.

We will be deciding on next year’s date quite shortly and will let you know as soon as it’s confirmed. We have already had offers to host next year which is great.

With many, many thanks to everyone for such a wonderful evening from all the Progressive Dinner team.

Progressive dinner on 2nd September – places still available

We now have our full number of hosts for the Progressive Dinner on 2nd September.

This means we a have a couple of spare places for anyone who would like to come as a guest.

Please contact Helen Ellis on helenellis101@gmail.com

Children’s Music Morning, Saturday 9th September 2023

As part of this year’s Ironstone Chamber Music Festival, there will be a free Children’s Music Morning on Saturday 9th September at 10:30 in St Etheldreda’s Church, Horley.

For more information please call 01295 738566 (office hours) or email theironstoneconcerts@gmail.com

Details of all the Festival Concerts are below:

Progressive dinner on 2nd September – another host needed

Due to a fantastic response to our forthcoming Progressive Dinner on 2nd September we are looking for another host.

Even if you haven’t hosted before we will happily guide you through the process and it really doesn’t need to be ‘Cordon Bleu’ cooking.

Please contact Helen Ellis on helenellis101@gmail.com

20mph speed limit through the village?

Oxfordshire County Council is inviting applications for 20mph speed limits from communities who currently do not have them.  The County Council would fund all the legal work as well as signage etc.

The Parish Council discussed this subject at their recent meeting and makes a strong recommendation that the application process be started. If successful, the limits should be in place by the end of 2025.

The Parish Council would welcome the residents’ views on this subject. Please send your comments to the Parish Clerk.

David Beck horleypc@gmail.com or 9 Gullivers Close Horley OX15 6DY. 

0785 2998172

3Hs Gardening Club – Annual Produce Show and Children’s Competition on Saturday 12th August

The ‘Three H’s Gardening club’ will be holding their annual produce show at the Hornton Pavilion on Saturday 12th August, and for the first time there will be a children’s competition open to the children and grandchildren (up to age 16) of residents in Horley, Hornton and Hanwell.

There is no charge, but entries must be in place between 09.15 and 11.15 on the day of the show and not removed until after 3.30pm.

Judging will take place between 11.30 and 2.30 and the judges decision is final.

The category is for.

1. A garden in a seed tray

2. A decorated gingerbread man.