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Having hobbies and interests is great for health and wellbeing. Finding activities that we enjoy keeps us occupied, stimulated, entertained and challenged, and gives us a sense of purpose and satisfaction, particularly if we improve at something over time. At the Virtual Village Hall, you’ll find a wide range of activities to try, most of them designed for complete beginners, including regular courses.

 

 

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Main image: a beautiful allotment greenhouse in Autumn, with orange pink and yellow flowers and fairy lights.

Allotment Diaries Part 16 – Celebrating 20 Years on the Allotment

The Allotment Diaries Episode 16

Main Image: dried apple rings, dried at home, in a jar and on plate, with fresh apples sat next to them on a table.

Allotment Diaries Part 14 - How to Dry Apples at Home and a Plot Update

The Allotment Diaries Episode 14

Main image: a selection of DIY kid's Halloween lollipop wrappers, in various different monsters, made with tissue paper, pipe cleaners and googly eyes!

DIY Kids’ Halloween Lollipop Wrappers

Main image: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 by JMW Turner, a depiction of the fire see from afar, with blues and bright oranges for the flames.

Artist in Focus: J.M.W Turner

Main Image: "The Codomas" 1946 collage by 20th-century French Artist Henri Matisse. A collage of bright abstract shapes and colours.

Artist in Focus: Henri Matisse

Main image: Painterly Architectonic - art piece by Lyubov Popova, a mix of geometric shapes in bright colours - inspired by the cubism movement.

Artist in Focus: Lyubov Popova

Main Image: A Renaissance artist's sketch of a woman looking down, on white paper with black/grey pencil.

Artist in Focus: Renaissance Artist Sketches

Main Image; Beautiful bas-relief art work by artist and ceramicist, Mary Seton Watts, aka Mary Seton (Fraser) Tytler.

Artist in Focus: Mary Seton Watts

Main image: 'Composition', painted by Piet Mondrian in 1921. A variety of blue red and yellow rectangles, with bold black lines.

Artist in Focus: Piet Mondrian

Main Image: a photo of Shirley May, Black British poet, smiling at the camera outside, wearing pink and black, beside a pink flower in the garden.

The Telling: Narrative Poetry Workshop

Black History Month 2025

Main image: black and white headshot photo of novelist and author Kit de Waal, wearing glasses looking into the camera.

Author Q&A with Kit de Waal

Listening books Q&A - Black History Month 2025

Main image: a selection of highlighter doodle art drawings, in simple, layered and abstract designs of different colours.

Highlighter Doodle Art for Beginners

Main image: a paperback book turned into a cute hedgehog using book folding techniques and buttons as the eyes and nose, with a little ribbon accessory on the head.

DIY Hedgehog Book Folding Tutorial

Allotment Diaries Part 15 With Rachel Moore Gettyimages 1432909207

Allotment Diaries Part 15 – Seed Saving and Pickled Green Tomatoes

The Allotment Diaries Episode 15 - Mindspace Week 2025

Main image: a close up photo of Rosie's Doodle Art for Beginners - in pink, purple and yellow with black doodle shapes and 'breathe' written in fancy writing.

Doodle Art for Beginners

Mindspace Week 2025