Event Calendar
Here is our full calendar of upcoming events (excluding private hires) - we update the calendar regularly so please check back or join our mailing list to stay up-to-date!
Event Listings
Get Pickled Masterclass
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Following the huge success of Paula's talk in our Rural Voices series in November 2025, we have invited her to come back and run a half day masterclass for those who want to get a real hands-on experience.
Discover fermentation techniques to make the best of the seasonal harvest and re-set your gut!
Join us as we delve into the world of food fermentation.
We will explore 4 different fermentation techniques:
Milk Kefir
Wild sodas
Fermented condiments
Fermented vegetables
Includes a deliciously fermented plant based lunch, incorporating all different kind of ferment ingredients.
You will understand what is happening in the jar, why fermentation is so good for your gut and your taste buds, and, of course, how to make your own ferments. We will talk about culinary used of our ferments and how to incorporate them in your everyday life.
After the workshop, you will return home with four jars of your new ferments to develop at home, with support from Paula and the Get Pickled WhatsApp group.
Jack and the Beanstalk - Village Panto
Horningsham Theatre Group Presents Jack and the Beanstalk - The Pantomime
Join Jack and friends on an adventure bursting with magic beans, laughter, and gloriously silly fun!
With much-loved faces from the village and beyond, this January’s pantomime promises entertainment for the whole family.
Friday 30th January 2026 at 6pm (doors open at 5.30pm)
Saturday 31st January 2026 at 2pm (doors open at 1.30pm)
Adults £10
First child £5, additional children £3.50
Under 4’s free
Bar and delicious refreshments available.
All funds raised support the Village Hall.
Jack and the Beanstalk - Village Panto
Horningsham Theatre Group Presents Jack and the Beanstalk - The Pantomime
Join Jack and friends on an adventure bursting with magic beans, laughter, and gloriously silly fun!
With much-loved faces from the village and beyond, this January’s pantomime promises entertainment for the whole family.
Friday 30th January 2026 at 6pm (doors open at 5.30pm)
Saturday 31st January 2026 at 2pm (doors open at 1.30pm)
Adults £10
First child £5, additional children £3.50
Under 4’s free
Bar and delicious refreshments available.
All funds raised support the Village Hall.
Rural Voices: Nick Patel
RURAL VOICES with NICK PATEL
Saturday 6th February 2026, 9am
REWILDING THE FUTURE: What Local Wildlife Can Teach Us About a Resilient Countryside
As winter loosens its grip and the first signs of spring begin to stir, our fields, hedgerows and woodlands quietly prepare for a season of renewal. It’s a perfect moment to ask: what might the future of our rural landscapes look like if we gave nature the space it needs to thrive?
In this February edition of Rural Voices, lifelong birdwatcher and former nature reserve warden Nick Patel invites us to explore the extraordinary biodiversity on our doorstep and what it can tell us about building a healthier countryside for generations to come.
Nick has spent his life championing British wildlife, sharing the wonder of everything from overwintering birds to the first emerging insects and wildflowers of spring. Drawing on decades of field experience, he’ll offer an inspiring look at how these seasonal signals reveal both the fragility and incredible resilience of our ecosystems.
He will also introduce the pioneering work of Heal Rewilding, the 460-acre site where he now works, dedicated to restoring nature by allowing land to recover at its own pace. From scrub formation to the return of key species, Nick will show how rewilding can transform landscapes and what lessons such projects hold for the future of rural communities like ours.
How might we support wildlife on the land we live and work on? What could our countryside sound like, look like, and feel like if we embraced more nature-led approaches? And how can we read the early signs of spring - breeding birds, emerging insects, the first blooms - as clues to the health of our wider environment?
Join Nick for a hopeful, grounded and fascinating journey into the wild future that could be possible if we choose to care for the life around us.
Please arrive promptly at 9am for breakfast, the talk will begin at 9.45am.
BOOK NOW! Tickets are £15 or £12.50 for Horningsham residents- All profits go to the Village Hall Regeneration Fund.
If you need any help with booking please contact events@horningshamvillagehall.com
Rural Voices: Tamsin Westbrook
RURAL VOICES with TAMSIN WESTBROOK, Estates Manager at Vallis Farm
THE NEXT GENERATION OF LANDWORKERS
What will it take to grow food fairly, sustainably, and locally in the years ahead — and who will be skilled and supported enough to do it?
In this talk, Tamsin, Estates Manager at Vallis Farm, shares her vision for the future of learning on the land. Having transformed the farm through a thriving veg box scheme, biodiversity-led growing, and a dedicated apprenticeship programme, she now asks a bigger question: how do we train and empower the next generation of growers?
As Vallis Farm prepares to launch a new Community Interest Company, Tamsin is working to expand their accredited training opportunities for young people — from teenagers exploring their first steps in land-based work to young adults seeking a meaningful, hands-on career. Her aim is clear: to build a pathway into landwork that is skilled, respected, and fairly paid.
Drawing on the farm’s experience, she’ll speak candidly about the true cost of food and why cheap supermarket prices hide the human labour behind real, sustainable farming. Healthy soils, no chemicals, low food miles and hand-grown produce require more people, not fewer — and that means investing in training, wages and long-term learning.
In her own words:
“Everyone understands the human cost of fast fashion — but not of fast food. When you buy a veg box, you’re not just choosing chemical-free, freshly harvested produce; you’re supporting apprentices, paying fair wages, and helping young people build a future on the land.”
This session invites us to rethink not only how our food is grown, but who grows it — and how rural communities like ours can support the landworkers of tomorrow.
Expect an inspiring and grounded conversation about skills, stewardship, and building a resilient rural future from the soil up.
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Please arrive promptly at 9am for breakfast, the talk will begin at 9.45am.
BOOK NOW! Tickets are £15 or £12.50 for Horningsham residents- All profits go to the Village Hall Regeneration Fund.
If you need any help with booking please contact events@horningshamvillagehall.com
Rural Voices: Dr Garry Phillipson
RURAL VOICES with Dr Garry Phillipson, Astrologer
ASTROLOGY AND THE FUTURE RURAL
For many of us in the west today, astrology brings to mind the daily star-sign column — a light read over morning coffee. This however is a much simplified variant of a craft that has assumed many forms in different parts of the world and has fascinated humankind for millennia.
In May’s Rural Voices, Dr Garry Phillipson invites us to look again at this ancient craft and its relevance to rural life today. Drawing on vivid moments from the history of Western astrology, he’ll explore how people have long used the skies to make sense of change, uncertainty and the future.
Garry will also turn his attention closer to home, asking what astrology might reveal about the future of the Horningsham community— and how symbolic ways of thinking can open up new possibilities for imagining what comes next for small rural communities.
Dr Garry Phillipson is the author of Astrology in the Year Zero and earned his PhD for research into astrology with the University of Wales Trinity St David, where he now tutors in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology.
Expect a thought-provoking session that blends history, storytelling and fresh perspectives on how we navigate the times ahead.
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Please arrive promptly at 9am for breakfast, the talk will begin at 9.45am.
BOOK NOW! Tickets are £15 or £12.50 for Horningsham residents- All profits go to the Village Hall Regeneration Fund.
If you need any help with booking please contact events@horningshamvillagehall.com
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Horningsham Christmas Market
Join the Friends of Horningsham Primary School for the annual 🎅✨ Horningsham Christmas Market ✨🎅
🛍️ Christmas shopping
🎯 Games & a children’s festive adventure
🎟️ Raffle (with amazing prizes to be announced soon! 🎁)
🍰 Delicious food & drink
📅 Sunday 7th December
🕚 11am – 2pm
📍 Horningsham Village Hall @horningshamvillagehall
🎁 Free Entry!
Come along, support our school, and soak up the Christmas cheer with friends, family, and a few festive surprises!
Rural Voices: Old Songs
OLD SONGS: STORIES OF LOVE AND DEATH FROM TRADITIONAL BALLADS
Saturday 6th December, 9am
Amy Jeffs, author of the Sunday Times bestseller Storyland and Wild, artist Gwen Burns, and musician Natalie Brice combine forces to create a rich compendium, singing of mystery, magic and, above all, humanity.
At December’s Rural Voices, the three will celebrate their illustrated and music-infused book, Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads, which fuses short stories, histories, lyrics, and illustrations in an enthralling reimagining of traditional folk ballads. At this very special breakfast edition, we’ll be able to hear all about these stories from Amy Jeffs, as well as enjoying Gwen Burns rich visuals and live performances of the ‘Old Songs’ themselves with Natalie Brice.
Featuring iterations of fairy tales and sinister descendants of Greek myths and bible stories, Old Songs threads a tapestry of Britain's landscape, history, and cultures. Signed copies of the book will be available to buy after the talk.
Dr Amy Jeffs is an author, artist, and medievalist. She worked in the British Library's department of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts.
Gwen Burns has a background in costume design and social history. Her work is informed by fine art, western symbolic traditions, historic artefacts, and nature.
Natalie Brice is an actor-musician, composer, and teacher – she’s sang with The English Touring Opera and arranged music for film, theatre, commercial voiceover work, with collaborations with various artists.
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
BONFIRE NIGHT!
Our yearly traditional village bonfire and fireworks night
With HOT DOGS + BAR + REFRESHMENTS in the Village Hall
and BONFIRE AND FIREWORKS in the field
Rural Voices - Paula Neubauer
FERMENTATION: THE CULTURE OF CULTURES with Paula Neubauer
In November we’ll welcome Fermentation guru Paula Neubauer, all the way from Friggle Street (just the other side of Longleat)! From her very base there, Paula runs Get Pickled Somerset, whose mission is to empower people by teaching them how to make fermented food in a sustainable way that reduces food waste, limits harm to the environment, and benefits British farmers. She does this through education – both private classes and group workshops – advocacy, and by creating food products from surplus supply.
Paula will be talking to us all about how she marries her passion for hyper-local and seasonal produce with the ancient traditions of fermentation, many of which have far more international roots. This includes her research with communities in South America and connecting to her own Brazilian heritage.
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Village Coffee Morning
10am -12 noon
19th October
Come and join us for tea, coffee and a chat with your friends and neighbours.
All are welcome!
Autumn Supper
Come and enjoy a delicious seasonal feast at the Village Hall with your friends and neighbours.
Two courses of tasty locally produced food generously provided by September House Smallholding (vegetarian option available).
There will be a bar selling beer, wine and soft drinks.
£15 adults
£5 children
If you need any help with booking please email events@horningshamvillagehall.com
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Rural Voices - Teffont Archaeology
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RURAL VOICES with Teffont Archaeology - THE CHALKE VALLEY ROMAN VILLA: A COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT
4th October 2025
Welcome to Rural Voices, our monthly series of carefully curated talks served with a full cooked breakfast!
Get your weekend off to a fantastic start - arrive at 9am for a delicious home-cooked breakfast (vegetarian/vegan/gluten free options available) made with locally sourced produce. We work with what is seasonally available, so alongside bacon & sausages from Horningsham’s own September House smallholding, we have also used produce from Pythouse Farm, Till Valley Eggs, Moonacre Farm, Vallis Veg, White Row Farm and Ivy House Dairy. Whilst you enjoy a cup of fresh-ground coffee, we will lay on a talk exploring our theme of 'creative and resilient rural communities'. We are inviting a range of fascinating and eclectic speakers including farmers, writers, artists, historians and much more - many of them local - who are collectively weaving an amazing narrative tapestry about rural life and resilience.
This month's speakers are Dr Denise Wilding and Dr David Roberts, co-founders of Teffont Archeology which began in 2008 as a research project collaborating with the local community in Teffont and has grown into a major archaeological research effort. In recent years their scope has expanded to cover Roman sites across South-West Wiltshire, including widespread geophysical surveys, recording legacy metal-detected finds collections, and the excavation of Iron Age and Roman settlements at Coombe Bissett, and a Roman villa in the Chalke Valley.
Denise and David will be talking to us about the Chalke Valley Roman Villa, their most recent project in which their excavation - conducted with the support of community volunteers - uncovered the remains of an amazing main villa, a bath house and a large barn. They will be able to tell us about the history of the site, the amazing luxury that the villa and bath house afforded its Roman residents, with painted plaster on the walls and a mosaic on the villa floor and they will also talk about the process of working on a community dig!
Please arrive promptly at 9am for breakfast, the talk will begin at 9.45am.
BOOK NOW! Tickets are £12.50 or £10 for Horningsham residents (use promo code 'horningsham' at checkout) - All profits go to the Village Hall Regeneration Fund.
If you need any help with booking please contact cherry@horningshamvillagehall.com
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Village Coffee Morning
10am -12 noon
21st September
Come and join us for tea, coffee and a chat with your friends and neighbours.
All are welcome!
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Luncheon Club
LUNCHEON CLUB
every Thursday, from 12 noon
for the over 60s
£5 for dinner, pudding and tea or coffee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Margaret 01985 844756
or
Lesley 01985 211355
Rural Voices with Dr Tom Lewis
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A YEAR FOLLOWING THE WILDLIFE ON LONGLEAT ESTATE
After arriving at Longleat at the end of 2023 Tom spent 2024 getting to know the wildlife found all over the estate. From following a family of beavers as they create a biodiversity oasis around their incredible system of dams and pools, to surveying the estate for bats and getting familar with the birds and other animals that call the farmland, woods and parkland home it was a fasinating year. Tom will take you on a tour of all things, large and small, showing you some of the incredible wildlife that call the estate home but also some of the wildlife we are missing.
Dr Tom Lewis is a conservation biologist with a PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of Sheffield, an MSc in Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation from Nottingham Trent University and a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Southampton. His doctoral research focused on using bioacoustics and direct monitoring to improve assessments of threatened species in tropical regions. He started his career bird ringing with the BTO in Berkshire, but since then, he has worked on projects in Mauritius, Sao Tome, and Costa Rica. At the end of 2023, Tom moved to Frome and has been leading Longleat's Conservation and Research programmes.
Coffee Morning
All are welcome at our monthly community coffee morning
This month we will be joined by reflexologist Cath Sensi for a taster of the sessions she’ll be offering as part of our Wellbeing Tuesdays.
WELLBEING TUESDAYS
Community exercise and yoga classes - open to all. Part of our Tuesday wellbeing focus - GET HORNINGSHAM MOVING!
‘La Traviata’ presented by BATH OPERA
For the first time ever at Horningsham Village Hall, we are thrilled to be presenting an evening at the opera! There will be a bar serving wine, beer and soft drinks and an opportunity to picnic in the village hall field - more info on that in due course.
“Bath Opera presents a radical new present-day take on Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’ for its 2025 June-July tour.
Led by an international cast, this saddest and most musical of Verdi’s operas will enthral, and is a worthy successor to Bath Opera’s previous popular performances of Don Giovanni, and previous years with ‘Tosca’, ‘The Barber of Seville’, and ‘The Marriage of Figaro’.
Cast :
– Violetta – Mehreen Shah
– Alfredo – John Haque
– Germont – David Palmer
– Flora/Annina – Bethan Maria Evans
– Doctor (Marquis) – Neil Schofield
– Baron Douphol. TBC
Performances
All performances will start at 7.30pm
WELLBEING TUESDAYS
Community exercise and yoga classes - open to all. Part of our Tuesday wellbeing focus - GET HORNINGSHAM MOVING!
Coffee Morning
All are welcome at our monthly community coffee morning
This month we will be joined by reflexologist Cath Sensi for a taster of the sessions she’ll be offering as part of our Wellbeing Tuesdays.
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