West Horsley Place Trust – the charity created to conserve and repair Grade I listed West Horsley Place and its surrounding estate so that they can be enjoyed by the public – this month welcomes its first WRAGS (Work and Retrain As a Gardener Scheme) trainee. The WRAG Scheme, launched in 1993 by charity WFGA…
Following the recent Government announcement, Stratford Literary Festival Winter Weekend will now take place online. Between 20th and 25th November audiences will be able to access an extensive programme of events on the Festival’s website, www.stratlitfest.co.uk, including: twice-Booker prize winner, Dame Hilary Mantel, talking about her acclaimed Cromwell Trilogy and her latest book of essays,…
CMC Markets Institutional – a leading provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions – has extended its liquidity distribution through a partnership with Gold-i. Brokers, banks and hedge funds using Gold-i’s multi-asset liquidity management platform, Matrix, can now access nearly 10,000 different instruments from CMC Markets across a range of asset classes, all at…
Organisers of the Awesome Book Awards have announced the shortlist for the 2021 prize, which recognises the very best works of fiction for young readers aged between 7 and 10. On the shortlist are: Malamander by Thomas Taylor (Walker Books) The Garden of Lost Secrets by A. M. Howell (Usborne Publishing) The Girl Who Stole…
Watts Contemporary Gallery’s annual In Print exhibition opens on 5 November, this year featuring work by more artists than ever before to support contemporary practitioners in what has been an extraordinarily challenging year. In Print: 20/20 Vision brings together over 100 original prints by twenty leading artists to celebrate the diversity of printmaking today. From…
To mark Restart a Heart Day on Friday 16th October 2020, life-saving charity Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is urging people to learn the simple steps required to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in order to give somebody suffering a cardiac arrest their best chance of survival. KSS is regularly called out to patients with…
Watts Gallery Trust has been awarded £421,980 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today. Watts Gallery Trust is one of 1,385 cultural and creative organisations across the country…
The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and the Salariya Book Company have opened their 2021 Children’s Picture Book Prize for submissions. The competition, which launched in 2017 and celebrates its 5th year in 2021, is open to unpublished and unrepresented writers and illustrators, with a prize value of £1000. The winner will receive career advice from a…
The Stratford Literary Festival has announced its Winter Weekend line-up with events designed to respond to any changes in Government guidelines for live events. The Weekend, which runs from 20th to 22nd November, will feature events in front of a restricted live audience, observing Covid-19 safety guidelines, with these events also being filmed for live…
A poignant, elegant and richly detailed fictional account of 19th century photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, and her quest to find and share her own creative voice. The Glass House brings an exceptional photographer to life. What is a life without Art and Beauty? Not one that Julia chooses to live. And so she searches the…