Tetbury business finds new home

1. Return of Music for Miniatures 

Tetbury Good shed Arts Centre are delighted to present the return of the always popular Music for Miniatures on Sat 21 Sep.

Music for Miniatures presents baby-friendly concerts where there’s no need to sit still, dancing is encouraged, and everyone is welcome. 45 minutes of live classical music for you to enjoy with your little one.

Although predominantly classical, they showcase a wide range of music – folk, world, classical, jazz, and have featured orchestral instruments, choirs and instruments from around the world.

Suitable for ages 0–4 years and their grown ups.

Music for Miniatures give regular family concerts across B&NES, Wiltshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire, and visit schools to inspire, educate, excite and connect children with live music.

Doors open at 10:15am Starts at 10:30am Tickets: £6.00 Adults, £4.00 Children.

Family ticket for 4 to include one responsible Adult £15.00 The Whistle Stop Cafe will be Open.

For tickets and further information visit the website the new website:www.tetburygoodsshed.co.uk However lease bring your own cushions.

2. New folk series at the Goods Shed 

4 Tetbury Goods Shed are delighted to present on Sunday 22 September this month’s sessions in the new Sunday Folk series.

Starting at 3.00pm with Miranda Rutter and Rob Harbron, plus Detta Kenzie Enjoy a relaxed Sunday afternoon of music with three of the finest folk musicans around.Fiddle player and composer Miranda Rutter is joined by Rob Harbron on concertina to present Bird Tunes, an exquisite new suite of folk tunes with birdsong at their core.

Miranda has crafted every tune in the project out of fragments of birdsong which she recorded on her phone during woodland walks near her home. The suite is both a love song to the intricacy and beauty of birdsong, and a timely reminder of the struggles with habitat loss and human made dangers faced by migrating birds today. Miranda is a fiddle and viola player, composer, performer and teacher.

She performs with Methera, who focus on making folk music through the voice of the string quartet. She has also performed with the English Acoustic Collective and Morris Offspring in ‘On English Ground’ and with Chris Wood in his ‘Listening to the River’.

Rob, described by The Guardian as a ‘concertina wizard’, is a uniquely skilled player of the English concertina, renowned for his highly individual and harmonic style of playing. He is a member of Leveret (alongside Sam Sweeney and Andy Cutting), with whom he has toured extensively and released four landmark albums.

Known for his work with a wide range of artists including Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings, Emma Reid, and The Full English, Detta Kenzie, creates original songs alongside reworking traditional music.

With both Irish and Scottish heritage, Detta is committed to collecting, restoring and sharing songs passed down in the oral tradition. Having worked as a secondary English teacher before transitioning into music, Detta’s love of language shines through in her storytelling. Her words capture the diversity of the landscape and its ability to both mould and reflect human experience. For more information or to book your ticket, please visit the new website:www.tetburygoodsshed.co.uk . Tickets cost Adults 10.00 Under-16s £2.00. There will be a selection of tables and chairs set out in the hall for you to choose from on arrival.

3. Invited to iSing Pop Celebrate 

You are all invited to iSing Pop Celebrate, on Sunday, the 22nd September in St Marys’School Hall starting at 4:00 pm until 5:30 pm

This is for all the Family where are you will be exploring the best of bible stories and ask questions big and little, and enjoy time together with crafts, chatting and sharing iSingPOP song and prayers.

And if that's not enough there will be a special Easter chick hunt in the churchyard. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.Please bring your own cup. All are welcome as this is run by Tetbury Area Churches together : Saint Mary's, Christ Church, Five Valleys Christian Fellowship and Saint Michaels Catholic Church.

Revd Dr Steve Bullock said ISingPop Celebrate is a service for all the family that is held either in St Mary’s primary school or St Marys church on a Sunday afternoon every 3 out of 4 months.

We have a fabulous time, starting with a relaxed cuppa and a song as we introduce the days theme.

Families are then invited to try a variety of craft activities before we come together again for some more singing and a Bible story.

We then provide some food and refreshments and chat around the tables as the children enjoy some food.

We would love to have one or two more people to occasionally run a craft activity and perhaps think about coming onto the leadership team. Please note you may need a dbs check.

If you think you would like to help please contact the church office Sarah Parton for a chat and more details.

4. Next gathering of the Shed Piano Club 

6 The Shed Piano Club at The Goods Shed, Tetbury. Are pleased to announce their next gathering will take place on Wednesday 25 September .

Offering a wonderful opportunity for amateur musicians who have worked hard at their music to finally be able to play for other people.

Since acquiring the Steinway grand piano the Goods Shed has hosted hugely successful and popular Tea Concerts on Wednesday afternoons with local amateur musicians playing for an appreciative and interested audience while incorporating the warm social atmosphere of these gatherings with the opportunity to play for a group of peers.

The Whistle Stop Café will also be open from lunchtime and during the afternoon offering a range of refreshments. And they request that, for the time being at least, all participants book in advance.Anyone wanting to perform should contact Maggie Dyson. maggie.dyson@btinternet.com. or telephone 01666 837 358 and she will be able to confirm availability and performance time slot.

They do hope you can come along and maybe bring a guest. There is just a small charge (Tickets: £2.50) for all who attend, whether playing or listening and tickets can be booked by visiting the good shed website and clicking the ticketSource link on the description of the event.

Please note on the day on the door tickets will cost £4.

5. Talk as part of Tetbury Wool Festival 

 On Wed 25 Sep 2024 Shed Talk with Richard Martin of Cotswold Woollen Weavers As part of Tetbury Wool Festival, Richard Martin of Cotswold Woollen Weavers will take you through the various aspects of sheep, wool, and weaving in The Cotswolds from the perspective of someone who cares for history and has made a lifetime’s living from wool.

As Richard says: “They used to say ‘Half the wealth of England rides on the back of a sheep.’ So does mine!”

Richard Martin has lived in the West Oxfordshire Cotswolds for 40 years and has been weaving woollen cloth for nearly 50.

He came to textiles in a roundaboutish way. He read Chemical Engineering and then Medieval and Modern History at UCL, followed by a few years teaching science and Latin in a prep school. But he has been involved in woollen textile making ever since.

He began by reviving a derelict Cardiganshire mill in 1976. Six years later, he moved to West Oxfordshire and established Cotswold Woollen Weavers, later re-opening the Blanket Hall in Witney to the public in 2015.

In the ‘90s, against the grain of gentle decline in the industry, he started a new woollen weaving factory in West Yorkshire!

Richard also has a very small stone banker masonry business in Filkins, and is very pleased to straddle wool and limestone Licensed bar. Doors open at 7pm. Talk starts at 7:30pm. ADVANCE TICKETS £8.50. UNDER-18/STUDENT/UNWAGED £6.50.

For more information or to book your ticket, please visit the new website:www.tetburygoodsshed.co.uk Please note that on the door on the night tickets will cost £9.50 and £7.50 respectively.

6. Exhibition at the Goods Shed 

The next ongoing Tetbury Goods Shed exhibition will be A Sense of Place.

Alison Adams Mixed media and collage and will run from Thu 26 Sep 2024 to Sun 3 Nov 2024 It is free admission! Open Wednesday through Sunday, 10am-4pm. Sometimes the main hall may be closed for other events. Please check before travelling especially Free admission.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-4pm, from 26 September until 3 November.“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper. Alison is an expressionistic contemporary, mixed media artist whose colourful and vibrant work is mostly inspired by the natural world.

For many pieces, she employs a unique way of working using initial random mark making to guide the creative process – so that she literally has no idea where any given piece is going and revels in that exploration and challenge.

This results in an eclectic mix of subjects including animals, plants, people, landscapes, and abstract art.

She particularly likes the organic shapes created by nature and sometimes embellishes those to produce fantastical fauna and flora. She regards her art as adult play and doesn’t take it too seriously and she hopes that it will add colour, interest, and joy to any space.

The exhibition opening times are 10-4pm Wednesdays through Sundays. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays and occasionally for other events in the main hall: we recommend you call first if travelling a distance to avoid disappointment.

7. Specsavers in area needs your help 

At the end of August Jake Henderson manager of Specsavers launched an online appeal on Experience Tetbury Facebook page (which has over 11,500 members) where he said 'We need your help.

The team would like to choose a nominated charity for the rest of the year who will benefit from our fundraising.

We’ve come up with a shortlist of three options and wanted to put the final decision in your hands! The charities are, The Friends of Tetbury Hospital, Guide Dogs UK, Tetbury Area Youth and Community Trust Please vote for the charity you’d like the Specsavers team to support by commenting with the relevant emoji.

These are included next to each of the names.

The vote will close at 5.00pm on Wednesday 4 September and the charity with the most votes will become the store’s chosen cause! In the event of a tie, colleagues at the store will have the final decision.’

And a delighted Jake has just announced the winner he said 'Congratulation Tetbury Area Youth and Community Trust! Tetbury Youth Club. We were completely blown away by the number of responses. Thank you all for contributing and keep a look out for fundraising events soon! From Jake & the team at Specsavers Tetbury’ 10 Well done and a big thank you must go to the fantastic and welcoming team at French Gray in Tetbury a rightfully pleased and proud Jackie Stead proprietor said 'SAVE THE DATE!!!!!

SO thrilled were we of the success of our Cake sale last September, and the £550 our lovely customers helped us raise, we’ve decided to do it all again so we hope you will pop in to French Grey on FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER where, once again, our main display table will be heaving with yummy cakes & treats. we look forward to seeing you and in advance, THANK YOU.’ Do pop in not that you need an excuse to visit this absolutely enchanting shop in the centre of Tetbury, and for such a good cause is the icing on the cake literally!

8. Several businesses to host late-night shopping extravaganza 

Several of the local Tetbury businesses, who are involved in the local Chamber, have expressed an interest in having a late-night shopping extravaganza.

So, with that in mind there will be a meeting to discuss and organize such an event. Obviously, it will be for shopping and will complement the existing Christmas light switch on a different day.

The meeting will be on an open to all and hosted at the impressive New Specsavers store in the center of town located in the former Lloyds bank building on 2nd October 2024 at 6pm.

The aim is to discover what businesses would like and to have a combined approach to this event, so therefore it will be driven by the businesses themselves.

Coreen, the Chamber secretary said 'Tetbury's local businesses are the heart of our Beautiful, exquisite town and organizing a Tetbury’s late night shopping is a great opportunity to shop, socialize, enjoy and experience Tetbury.”

We are organizing our first informal get together to discuss the potential opportunities for a late-night shopping experience will it be over various days or a single day/ evening, the main thing is to get the businesses on board in the run-up to Christmas.

What are the advantages of organising this. one is obviously car parking should be free after 6.00pm so you can peruse and shop hassle free in what is one of the prettiest, unique market towns in the Cotswold's, and of course there's so many places for you enjoy and eat so if you have any ideas or would like to get involved please contact Coreen,by phone 07780143160,or Email admin@tetburychamber.org, as this was one of the items brought up by the New relaunched Tetbury Chamber.

The idea is to have an event to complement the community Christmas light switch on. Coreen added with her always warm smile 'Whoever said money can't buy happiness, simply did not know where to go shopping' Gertrude Stein. 'Welcome to Tetbury, Home of Happiness.’

9. Tetbury Wines finds new home 

Tetbury is noted for the quality of its independent shops and when Tetbury Wines needed a new home in 2023, a vacancy on Church Street was an obvious choice for owner, Paul Brown. Since opening, the shop on Church Street has become a destination for wine enthusiasts and casual drinkers alike. Paul has curated an exceptional selection of wines from around the world, offering everything from local favorites to rare finds.

He explained, “Tetbury Wines has been supplying restaurants and hotels in The Cotswolds since 2020 but the shop required some additional stock. Our gift boxes of gin miniatures are popular with tourists mindful of their luggage weight allowance and being opposite Hobbs bakery means our individual cans and plastic bottles of wine can round off the perfect picnic.”

In the year since opening, the team has grown to include a delivery driver and a shop assistant which has allowed Paul to focus on developing his offering. After the success of their first Christmas tasting and smaller tastings through 2024, he has put together a delicious autumn of events. Recognising the support from their customer base, on 7th September, Tetbury Wines gave away glasses of Castelnau to celebrate the shop’s anniversary. Castelnau is a complex, feather-light champagne aged for a minimum of five years in the cellar, is a personal favourite of Paul and proved popular with the customers, many of whom took one of the distinct Castelnau boxes home with them.

While the shop is a charming reminder of a caviste on the continent, the best way to explore wine is by tasting it so Paul will be opening a variety of bottles to help his customers find their new favourites. On 21st September, he will be sharing wines as part of his Bordeaux Month promotion. October 12th will be wines from the Haut-Medco then 23rd November will be a tasting for Rioja Month. Finally, 28th November will see a repeat of last year’s popular Christmas tasting. For information visit tetburywines.co.uk or call into Tetbury Wines at 25 Church Street.