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Capel Sports Pavillion

The recent race night done in conjunction with the Youth Club was a great success with £3,700 raised. Thanks to all who attended and our sponsors. Upcoming events: Tuesday  12th April: Dine and Bingo in the Village Hall from 7:00 Entry is £I0.00 which includes all your Bingo plus a meal. We have room for a few more attendees and you could win cash prizes. Simply turn up on the…

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Congratulations Capel!

Dozens of Capel residents turned  out on a bitterly cold Saturday morning (5th March) to help .. Clean for the Queen… Organised by Capel Horticultural Society, Scouts  and Brownies  joined villagers to collect a staggering amount of litter  from surrounding roads, ditches  and pathways. At the last count more than 56 bags were filled with rubbish – a huge thank you to everybody who found the time to join in and…

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Flix In The Still – A Walk In The Woods

On Tuesday 2nd February we are showing “A Walk In The Woods”,  based on the book by Bill Bryson and starring Robert Redford as Bill Bryson.   On returning to the US after 20 years in Britain, Bill discovers a 2000 mile trail which passes near his home. The Appalachian Trail runs from Georgia to Maine and Bill decides he would like to follow it. As usual the doors open at 7.30pm…

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Music In Dorking For February

4th at 6.45, opera screening at Dorking Halls, £17.50, 01306 881717 4th  II th 18th  25th  at 8.30, Watermill jazz at Aviva social club, £18-21, 07415 815784 6th at 5.00, Dorking Chamber Orchestra at St Nicolas, Great Bookham, £12, 01306 877176 6th at 12.00, lunchtime recital at St Martin’s, free, 01306 884229 13th at 2.30, Puccini concert screening at Dorking Halls, £ 16.50, 01306 881717 21st at 3.00, Heath string…

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Celebration Coffee Morning

Dorking Friends of Cancer Research UK are celebrating their 40th anniversary at a Coffee Morning at Betchworth Park Golf Club on Wednesday I Oth February between 9.30 and 11.30am. There will be local artisan stalls selling handmade gifts and cards. Tickets are £10 available from 01306 711688 or 01737 842084, or email dfcncerresearchuk@btinternet.com.  Please come and join us.

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Dorking Museum In February

The centenary of the Great War has yielded many poignant stories about the lives -and deaths – of the people of Dorking and the surrounding villages during those difficult years.  Reflecting the impact that the War had across the whole community, those revealed in the Museum’s programme ofWWI Home Front exhibitions and in our War Memorials Project have recently marked the centenaries of two very different local casualties. Valentine Joe…

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Leith Hill Place

Time is speeding by and it is now not long until Leith Hill Place opens for the newSeason on 4th  March. Although the house has been shut for many weeks, work has not stopped.   We have a group of dedicated and talented DIY volunteers who give up their time and expertise to help bring the house back to life again. Over the winter their most important  job has been making…

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‘Dine and Bingo’

The next Bingo event is in the Village Hall on Tuesday  9th February.  If you haven’t been before this is a real fun evening with the chance to win a little money. (You will love it when 88 gets called Wobble Wobble). The entry cost is £I 0.00, which includes a hot meal.   Feel free to bring your own drink too if you wish. We will also have a raffle.…

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Capel Trees

Christmas has passed we’re into New Year Gone are the trees that gave such cheer Much fun was had on a bright December day With AI the saxophonist there to play The day before our three elves appear David, Norman and Richard to make it quite clear With  mallets they bash in many a stake That’s where the trees go, make no mistake Mince pies from our friendly shops without…

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CHS Quiz Night & Supper

Saturday 12 March 2016 Capel Memorial Hall, 7 for 7.30 pm start Yes, it’s that time of the year again; you can now book your places for the Horticultural Society Quiz Night and two-course Supper. Terrific quiz (don’t worry, not all the questions are of a horticultural nature!), good company from the village and further afield, great raffle and (if we say it ourselves) amazing food, all followed by tea…

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