EVENTS + GROUPS
Chorleywood Film Club
Join us for our next screening Friday 17th January 2025 – ‘SCRAPPER’ Chorleywood War Memorial Hall, 7.30pm for 8pm screening https://cwfilmclub.org/buy-tickets/
Chorleywood Film Club is the villageβs Community Cinema run by local volunteers and we are dedicated to bringing high quality films to the village. Please visit the film club website https://cwfilmclub.org/ for more information and join our newsletter cwfilmclub@mail.com. We organise the villageβs annual Film Festival and an annual film-making competition for local 7-18 year olds.
www.facebook.com/ChorleywoodFilmClub
The Chiltern Choir
We are a friendly choir of around 65, meeting to rehearse on a Tuesday evening at the Free Church in Hillside Road. We perform three or four concerts a year, with music ranging from Monteverdi and Bach to Will Todd and Cecilia McDowall, including well loved anthems, gospel, jazz and rock as well as more substantial choral pieces. The choir undertakes tours at home and abroad. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining us.
www.facebook.com/ChilternChoir/
www.chilternchoir.org.uk
Chorleywood Orchestra
www.chorleywoodmusic.com has 35 members and has just celebrated its 6th year. The registered charity is committed to bringing quality amateur music to the local community. We perform regular concertsΒ in the village, for example Elgarβs Cello Concerto, Symphonies by Beethoven, Dvorak and Mozart. In 2019 Chorleywood Orchestra took over the running of the Rickmansworth Young Musician of the Year competition. This prestigious event has been the launch pad for many competitors reaching the finals of the BBC Young Musician Competition and other international events. The orchestra has vacancies if you are grade 7 and up please do get in touch.
German “Stammtisch”
Next Date: Monday 18th November 2024
Are you a German speaker?Β Whether you’re fluent, rather rusty or something in between, there is an opportunity to chat in German – or just listen – at our “Stammtisch meetings” at THE STAGΒ in Chorleywood at 7.30pm, Get in touch with Eileen deutschfuerdichcwd@gmail.com for more information and to be put on the distribution list for future meetings.
‘Salon Francais’
The Chorleywood Twinning Association runs a monthly ‘Salon FranΓ§ais’ at Costa Coffee in Chorleywood from 10 to 11.30am on the second Saturday of the month. This is a great chance to come and practice your French: all levels are very welcome.
The Chorleywood Twinning Association organises regular exchange visits with a small town just outside Lyon called Dardilly, in addtion they run many other events during the year. Please contact Caroline at twinning@tumblewood.co.uk for details.
Chorleywood Aid for Ukraine CAFUKR
https://www.cafukr.org/
We collect both cash and goods (see our Donate & Needed pages), and assist genuine charitable operations near Kyiv, Ukraine, with an emphasis on special needs children, orphans, displaced mothers with children & babies, families who have lost fathers, military & other hospitals, and the genuinely very needy which includes previously occupied towns north of Brovary (see our Partners page) read more…....
Drop donations at PCFixup, 1A Shire Lane, Chorleywood WD3 5NQ, Tel.01923282928 or for collection email cafukr.clothes@gmail.com
Chorleywood Twinning Association
Calling all Francophiles and French speakers…
– we have a thriving organisation in Chorleywood which is just for you.Β The Chorleywood Twinning Association was set up 25 years ago to enable regular exchange visits with a small town just outside Lyon called Dardilly.Β Last year we visited our French friends there, and they will be returning to us in October this year: a wonderful chance to make new friendships and practice our French.Β T CTA runs many other events including an annual pΓ©tanque (boules) match, dinner in a local French-owned restaurant, wine tasting, French cultural trips to London and country walks. Speaking in French at such events is optional. Membership of the CTA costs Β£10 p.a. – please contact Caroline at twinning@tumblewood.co.uk for details.
Friends of Carpenters Wood
Mission Employable
https://missionemployable.co.uk/
The Cafe on the Common is open every day 10am-3pm. For more information visit the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MissionEmployAbleCW
Mission EmployAble is a social enterprise charity working in partnership with The Chorleywood Cricket Club, located on Chorleywood Common. Mission EmployAble and the Chorleywood Cricket Club have built a new cricket pavilion on the site of the old pavilion which also houses the new Mission EmployAble cafΓ© and training centre staffed by people with learning disabilities and run for the benefit of cricketers and the local community. They are looking for volunteers https://www.missionemployable.co.uk/recruiting.php
Chorleywood Choral Society
We are a mixed-voice choir of around 65 enthusiastic singers of all ages and backgrounds, united by a love of music and choral singing. We put on three performances a year, predominantly of sacred music, as well as an annual tour to either UK or Europe. We rehearse in Christ Church on Chorleywood Common every Monday 8-10pm.β¨In addition to our concert performances under the leadership of our Music Director, Graham Wili, we have recently started to collaborate with Chorleywood Orchestra,. If you are interested in joining us, please email: chorleywoodchoralsociety@gmail.com
Β www.chorleywoodchoral.co.uk
