Every Wednesday, starting 14 February 2018 12 noon – 2pm Open to everyone, food available until it runs out Soup £3 a bowl; cake of the week £2.50 Volunteer Nat Di Maggio, and his alter ego Big Buddah’s Thai Kitchen, will be relaunching our weekly Souper Wednesday on 14 February! Nat will be fresh from […]
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The Mill is deeply saddened by the loss of Joyce McQuarrie
We are deeply saddened to hear that Joyce McQuarrie passed away in the new year after a long illness. Joyce was a close friend of The Mill. Along with her husband Jim, she was one of the first people to get involved in bringing the old library building back into community use, as soon as […]
Announcing our exciting new projects to build community skills
With thanks to funding from St James Street Big Local and match funding from The Co-op Local Community Fund we’re excited to announce two new projects at The Mill: Grow Your Idea 2 – a community competition to enable six new groups to start at the Mill, whilst supporting existing groups and their leaders. We […]
Share what The Mill means to you!
In 2018, we will have a new website, you might have noticed some changes already. Our aim for the site is for visitors to get a real feel of what The Mill is all about, one way will be to have lots of photographs. Please help us by putting up your shots of what The Mill […]
Christmas and New Year Closing
The Mill will closed for Christmas and New Year holidays on Wednesday, 20 December 2017 at 6pm, the Knitting Group will meet as normal that evening. We will reopen on Thursday, 4 January 2018 at our usual opening time of 9.30am. We would like to thank all our supporters in 2017 and wish you […]
Thank you to Co-operative Members for your support!
A big thank you to all the The Co-operative Members whose support helped raise £6001 for The Mill through the Local Community Fund! The Mill Trustee Alison Griffin collected the cheque last week from the staff at Higham Hill Coop.
Our annual Halloween Party was a roaring success!
A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween event. It was very busy, and we hope you will agree, lots of fun! We raised over £400.00 for The Mill! Thank you to our volunteers who helped make the day spooktacular! There are more fantastic pictures on our Facebook page.
Thank you for growing your tenners!
Huge thank you to everyone who donated to The Mill during our week long campaign! Localgiving, an online donations site, gave us the opportunity to take part in this exciting campaign. For every £10 or more that was donated to us, Localgiving match funded up to £10. We raised an impressive £355! If you’d like […]
Souper Wednesday’s is going weekly!
Every Wednesday 25 October – 29 November 2017 12 noon-3pm £2.50 per bowl with bread Come early before it runs out! Souper Wednesday’s is going weekly! Due to popular demand, Nat Di Maggio, or his alter ego Big Buddah’s Thai Kitchen, will be running his Souper Wednesdays every Wednesday from 25 October to 29 November […]
Meet George the Chameleon
Thank you for all the suggestions to name the new resident of our Children’s Room. The name picked out of the hat on Apple Day for our beautiful, gloriously coloured Chameleon is George! George was made over one weekend in the Summer holidays by about 50 children, parents and carers. Vanessa Brightwell, artist, designer and […]