Category: One Off

  • Terracycle collection for crisp packets, baby food and cat food pouches

    There is another Terracycle collection this weekend at The Geographer for recycling your empty crisp packets, pet food pouches and baby food pouches. Drop off your donation anytime on Saturday 24th or Sunday 25th April (collection point is outside, clearly signed). These are three separate collections so please don’t mix different types of packets!

    Baby food pouches
    – empty with lid on, bagged

    Pet food pouches
    – clean and bagged

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    Crisps

    1. Please flatten out your crisp packets (no folds or knots) and put them into a thin plastic bag. The picture shows a perfect example! Please make sure your bag is secured so that packets don’t fall out, but not so tightly that we can’t open it if we need to.
    2. Please try to use only one bag however many packets you have – you can get a very large number of packets into one bag if you squash them down. Remember that we have to get 3kg of packets into 1 box measuring 60x60x30cm!
    3. What can you donate:
      All crisp packets. please make sure they are empty (!!!)
      VERY IMPORTANT – no biscuit wrappers of any sort, no twiglets, mini cheddars, meat based snacks, nuts or popcorn bags.

    These are Terracycle rules and contamination can lead to the entire box being rejected and they won’t be able to sort through every bag to check.

    Thanks for your support and look forward to receiving your donations.

  • Histon and Impington Annual Parish Meeting

    Hear from the Parish Council Committee Chairs on projects and achievements of 2020. Monday 26th April 2021 7.00pm.

    Zoom details:
    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82917712870?pwd=SmhhNlQyaVc5UEU1TVZzc3JrK1ZBUT09

    Meeting ID: 829 1771 2870

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    Passcode: 623924

  • ‘The Mind of An Author’ by Andy Gibney – WI Talk

    Histon and Impington Women’s Institute is hosting a zoom presentation entitled ‘The Mind of An Author’ by Andy Gibney. Thursday 15th April 7.30pm – 9.30pm. New Members and Visitors Welcome.

    For more information contact Denise Brading 01223 232442 or Sophie Howson 07740422500. If you would like to attend this meeting please email sophie.howson@googlemail.com for the zoom link and joining information.

  • Colonising Inlands: Later Prehistoric and Roman North West Cambridge – HIAG Talk

    Colonising Inlands:  Later Prehistoric and Roman North West Cambridge with Christopher Evans, Director, Cambridge Archaeological Unit a HIAG Zoom Talk live on Monday 26th April 2021 7:30 pm

    In pre-pandemic days, some of you may have relatively recently visited the open days at Eddington situated between Huntingdon Rd and Madingley Road and seen for yourself the excavations.  These revealed occupation of north west Cambridge from 3500 to 1500 years ago from Bronze Age burials to a high-status Roman Villa, alongside what was the main Roman Road from Colchester to Cambridge and through the midlands to Chester – a superhighway of its time.

    This talk will outline the results of more than 20 years of fieldwork in the University’s West Cambridge lands. Focusing on the importance of water-supply resourcing, it will address the dynamics of inland colonization during the Bronze Age and the nature of its subsequent Iron Age utilization. It will also review the many Roman-Period settlements that have now been dug there. Including a villa, eight farmsteads and a major roadside centre, the programme has provided major insights into Roman Cambridge’s hinterlands. Indeed, it now amount to one of the most comprehensive excavation programmes of the Roman countryside anywhere undertaken.

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    If you would like to register for the talk please use the HIAG Contact Us page and they will send you a Zoom link 3 days in advance of the talk. There is no charge for this event and you do not have to be a member.  

    If you would like to join and support HIAG or rejoin after a gap please use the link here. HIAG members will be sent the links automatically so they will not need to register for each talk.

    Gold and silver Roman coins
    Mosaic tesserae
    Bronze Age Ring Ditches

  • Kawaii Kubs – Rainbow Rumble

    Kawaii Kubs are having a Rainbow Rumble at The Royal British legion on 17th April.

    Kawaii Kubs are a baby and pre school activity group who offer sensory, messy play activities, crafting, games, a photo corner, bubbles and a bop! 

    There are a number of different sessions throughout the day

    9:30 – 10:15amConfident walkers up to 5yrs
    11:00 – 11:45amConfident walkers up to 5yrs
    1:00 – 1:45pmBabies (sitting to toddling)
    2:30 – 3:15pmConfident walkers up to 5yrs
    4:00 – 4:45pmConfident walkers up to 5yrs

    Tickets must be purchased in advance at kawaiikubs.co.uk/booking.html

  • Christianity Explored

    This 7 week course exploring Christianity starts on 14th April at 7.30pm online organised jointly by Histon Baptist Church and the Salvation Army.

    Christianity Explored is a relaxed and informal way of sharing the best news you can ever hear, and gives people space and time to think about the big questions of life. Over seven sessions in Mark’s Gospel, you find out more about the life of the person at the heart of the Christian faith – Jesus Christ. 

    The course is free but you will need to register.

  • Flaming June Half Marathon and 10k

    Sunday 20th June on the Recreation Ground

    Organised by HI Friends with support from the village running club HI Runners the Flaming June runs provide something a little different from the usual road based courses. This year a Flaming June 10k will also be held on the same day.

    There is a website www.theflamingjunehalf.co.uk for more information and to register.

  • Healthwatch – Champions for Health and Care

    A talk for HI Type 2 Diabetes Support Group by Rebwar Hussein of Healthwatch Cambridgeshire who will talk about how Healthwatch works to improve local health.

    Plus the possible development of a new app for T2D management by Dr Daniel Bailey, Lead:Sedentary Behaviour, Health and Disease Research Group, Brunel University

    Contact mike@hidiabetes.co.uk for a link

  • Camtrust Springtime Quiz 2021

    Camtrust are running their Springtime Quiz which you can do at home. Entrance is £5 payable on collection of the quiz sheet from Roy Hancock royhancock1961@gmail.com

    All completed sheets must be handed back to Roy Hancock no later than 23/4/2021

    Correct entries will go into a draw and the winner will be drawn live on Facebook on 24/4/2021 at approx 8pm. The money raised will be split 60% / 40% between Camtrust and the quiz prize fund.

  • Cambridge at War 1939-1945 – Village Society

    On April 27th 2021 at 7.30pm

    Mike Petty is an authority on Cambridge and the fenland and has won a national award for his lectures and articles. Mike was awarded the MBE for services relating to the preservation and promotion of Cambridgeshire’s local history. Mike is best known for his talks. “Not so much a lecture, more a performance”. Mike was librarian of The Cambridgeshire Collection for 35 years during which time he assisted thousands of researchers. Cambridge at War is one of his most popular talks, bringing this turbulent period to life in amazing colour and detail.

    The talks are free to all members and membership of H&I Village Society so please contact them to register as a new member. Zoom links for the talks will be sent to members directly.