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Dear Settlement Members and Friends, I hope you are all well!  With the half-term break imminent (Monday 28th October – Sunday 3rd November) when the Settlement will be closed (except for the odd special arrangement) it is surely time to…

Whose Wine is it Anyway? Our wine tasting / fun quiz Whose Wine is it Anyway?  Is on Friday 18th October (7-10pm) – the end of next week.  Around half-a-dozen wines will be tasted during the evening.  Three special guests will…

Pictures from Kincaid Hall refurbishment. If you have not been in the Kincaid Hall recently, here are some of the Changes: New Charles Remy Macintosh Pattern Curtains Varnished Parquet Floor and our Clavinova Fire Place Screen Players Proscenium Arch

Dear Settlement Supporters, The Settlement is always interested in recruiting new tutors to join us across the arts & crafts, humanities, and languages. Janet Capstick, our upholstery tutor, will, sadly, be leaving the Settlement at the end of this term,…

Dear Settlement Member, I hope you are all well and that you are enjoying the start of the autumn term. Thank you for your positive feedback about the refurbished hall, and the new chairs and display equipment. EVENT NEWS A…

I hope you have all enjoyed a great summer and are looking forward to returning to your Settlement! We have a wonderfully diverse range of courses and activities to choose from, starting very soon and available to book from the…

Last month Nick, our Manager, and Derek Blyth, one of our tutors, took a trip to London…..here is why! We now have a new instrument for the Kincaid Hall (currently undergoing refurbishment).  It is a Yamaha Clavinova CLP 785.  It…

Our new website has now been live for over a week – how time flies by!  We are really pleased with how the implementation has gone.  Thank you so much for using the website to enrol on our courses –…

You may not have done so yet, but hopefully by the beginning of the Autumn 2024 term, you will have!  We have started a major refurbishment of the Kincaid Hall.  Works include:  We will also be installing monitors in some…

We have already had several very successful fundraising events this year and there are more to come.  So here are some dates for your diaries:  Friday 18 October (evening)  Whose Wine is it Anyway? A quiz with and about wine. What’s…