Key events are listed below.
We’ve also included weekly events in the Village Hall, which can be found after the key events section. If there is an event not listed please let us know, we’d be happy to include it.
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JANUARY 2025 EVENTS
Tuesday 14th
Mobile Police Station van will be visiting Codford as part of its efforts to bring police services closer to local residents.
11:00 - 12:00 - Codford Village Hall.
Wednesday 15th
Codford and district gardening club AGM.
19:30 Codford village hall. Bar will be open from 19:00.
Friday 17th
Pizza night at Codford village hall grounds. Back by popular demand Carpe Diem Catering are back to provide a variety of delicious pizzas.
16:00 - 20:00 - Codford village hall car park.
Sunday 19th
Morning prayer church service (Epiphany 2).
09:30 - Codford St Peter church.
Sunday 19th
Sunday market at The Ginger Piggery. Lots of stalls and shops, and Ginny’s cafe will be open.
10:00 - 14:00 - Ginger Piggery, Boyton.
Sunday 19th
Woolstore theatre opens it’s doors for monthly drinks.
12:00 - 14:00 - Woolstore theatre.
Friday 24th
Mo’s Thai street food will be returning to Codford village hall grounds. Lots of delicious thai food will be on offer so why not come down and give it a try.
16:00 - 20:00 - Codford village hall grounds.
Saturday 25th
Codford and district gardening club VegEdible day, in association with Lakeside garden centre.
This is your opportunity to get all you need for the growing season ahead from compost to herbs, potatoes to fruit trees. Other garden related stalls will also be in attendance. The small (£2) entrance fee will also entitle you to your first cup of tea and slice of cake.
10:00 - 12.00 Codford village hall.
Saturday 25th
The Big Corton breakfast. The Fane Hall committee invites you to come along as a family, invite your friends and relatives and enjoy a freshly cooked breakfast of your choice. Cost is £7 for adults (full english), £4 for children (under 10), and under 5’s free. Please email in advance for any dietary requirements (thefanehall@cortington.co.uk).
09:00 - 11:00 - The Fane Hall, Corton.
Saturday 25th
Charity quiz night. Free to enter and teams can be up to 6 people. There will be a raffle and donations of raffle prizes would be greatly appreciated. All money raised from the raffle will be donated to the winning team’s charity of choice.
19:30 Codford Village hall - Broadleaze bar.
Sunday 26th
Parish communion church service (Epiphany 3).
09:30 - Codford St Mary’s church.
Tuesday 28th
Codford Local History Society talk on Local photos and postcards, early c20th by Julian Frost. Bar opens at 19:00.
19:30 Codford Village Hall.
FEBRUARY 2025 EVENTS
Saturday 1st
The Friends of St Mary’s church ploughman’s lunch.
Delicious ham, pate, cheese or a pork pie and salad ploughman’s lunch, followed by amazing home-made desserts and coffee and a raffle. All very welcome.
12.00 - 14.00 Codford Village Hall £6 pp, children under 12 free.
Sunday 2nd
Codford tea rooms hosts the ‘Freepeace’ band. Come along and enjoy some food or a drink or two!
13:30 - Codford tea rooms.
Monday 3rd
Men’s Fellowship Breakfast. Speaker is Mark Bunting, who is a local supporter of pickupsforpeace.co.uk, a charity that pulls together a convoy of donated 4 WD vehicles, ambulances and quad bikes every few months to deliver aid and equipment directly in to the hands of the Ukrainian army. As well as explaining what the charity does, the talk may also be a bit of a recruiting drive. So if any of you fancy a road trip to Lviv…. Breakfasts cost £12, of which £2 will go towards the charity of the speaker’s choice. Please contact the organisers via email (uwvmfb@gmail.com) before the preceding Friday at the latest, if you’d like to attend.
08:00 for 08:15 start at The George Inn, Longbridge Deverill.
Wednesday 6th
Film night at the Woolstore theatre. This months film is titled ‘The Critic’. In 1930s London, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is the drama critic of the Daily Chronicle and is known for his savage reviews, most recently of actress Nina Land (Gemma Arterton). David Brooke (Mark Strong) has recently taken over the paper and would dearly like to get rid of Jimmy: he seizes his opportunity when Jimmy, who is gay, is arrested one night. Out for revenge, Jimmy lures Nina into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences. Tickets are £7, and are available online from www.ticketsource.co.uk or from the Thursday community cafe on the last Thursday of each month.
19:30 Woolstore theatre. Bar will be open from 19:00.
Sunday 9th
Codford park run.
10:00 - Codford village hall grounds.
Wednesday 12th
Ladies circle meeting.
15:00 - Codford village hall
Saturday 15th
Winter Warmers (soup, roll, drink & biccy) run by Codford fete committee.
This popular event will run during the winter months. Pay what you can to whatever charity is being supported on the day.
12:00 Broadleaze Bar
Sunday 16th
Ginny’s monthly arts and crafts market.
10:00 - 14:00 - Gingery Piggery, Boyton.
Sunday 16th
Woolstore theatre opens it’s doors for monthly drinks.
12:00 - 14:00 - Woolstore theatre.
Wednesday 19th
Codford and district gardening club meeting and talk titled ‘border design - plan it - plant it’. The guest speaker will be Felicity Down.
Felicity is co owner of Cleeve nursery and a qualified florist, having trained at the ‘Constance Spry’ school in London. Constance ‘did’ the flowers for the weddings of the Duke of Windsor, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11. With the co-owner of her cookery school she invented ‘Coronation chicken’, and the David Austin rose was named after her.
19:30 Codford village hall. Bar open from 19:00. Members free, guests £3.
Saturday 22nd
The Big Corton breakfast. The Fane Hall committee invites you to come along as a family, invite your friends and relatives and enjoy a freshly cooked breakfast of your choice. Cost is £7 for adults (full english), £4 for children (under 10), and under 5’s free. Please email in advance for any dietary requirements (thefanehall@cortington.co.uk).
09:00 - 11:00 - The Fane Hall, Corton.
Saturday 22nd
Codford Tennis Club’s Super 70’s and 80’s Supper and Dance.
Dress up if you wish and dance to the music of the band ‘19Eighties’. Enjoy a three course meal from the era. Cost is £25pp which includes a welcome drink, 3 course meal and live music. Accompanied under 18s are half price. Tickets are available from Codford Post Office, Broadleaze bar, or by calling 01985 850239.
19:30 Codford village hall. Doors open at 19:00.
Saturday 22nd
Steeple rocks choir will be performing at the Woolstore theatre. They are a community choir with a difference, performing pop classics, rock and a little gospel. The performance is in aid of Wiltshire tree house, which benefits bereaved children and young people living/educated within Wiltshire. Tickets are £12, and are available online from www.ticketsource.co.uk or from the Thursday community cafe on the last Thursday of each month.
19:30 Woolstore theatre. Bar will be open from 19:00.
Monday 24th
Codford parish Council meeting.
19:00 - Codford village hall.
MARCH 2025 EVENTS
Wednesday 5th
Film night at the Woolstore theatre. This month’s film is Conclave. Based on Robert Harris’s best-selling novel about a papal election, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope’s wake - secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church. Tickets are £7, and are available online from www.ticketsource.co.uk or from the Thursday community cafe on the last Thursday of each month.
19:30 Woolstore theatre. Bar will be open from 19:00.
Saturday 15th
Winter Warmers (soup, roll, drink & biccy) run by Codford fete committe.
This popular event will run during the winter months. Pay what you can to whatever charity is being supported on the day.
12:00 Broadleaze Bar
Wednesday 19th
Codford and district gardening club meeting and talk titled ‘The creation of Exbury gardens’. The guest speaker will be Tom Clarke.
Tom is the head gardener at Exbury. The gardens are over 100 years old, covering 200 acres of the New Forest, is home to one of the greatest woody plant collections and boasts its own miniature railway.
19:30 Codford village hall. Bar opens at 19:00. Members free, guests £3.
Saturday 29th
The Big Corton breakfast. The Fane Hall committee invites you to come along as a family, invite your friends and relatives and enjoy a freshly cooked breakfast of your choice. Cost is £7 for adults (full english), £4 for children (under 10), and under 5’s free. Please email in advance for any dietary requirements (thefanehall@cortington.co.uk).
09:00 - 11:00 - The Fane Hall, Corton.
APRIL 2025 EVENTS
Wednesday 2nd
Film night at the Woolstore theatre. This month’s film is Gladiator II. After his North African home is conquered by the tyrannical twin emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum as a gladiator under the control of Macrinus (Denzel Washington). He must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people. Tickets are £7, and are available online from www.ticketsource.co.uk or from the Thursday community cafe on the last Thursday of each month.
19:30 Woolstore theatre. Bar will be open from 19:00.
Wednesday 16th
Codford and district gardening club meeting and talk titled ‘The Wardian case and other bright ideas that changed gardening’.
The guest speaker will be Abigail Wills. Abigail is a writer and editor with an interest in gardening and the arts. This talk is based upon one of her books ‘The remarkable cases of Dr Ward and other amazing gardening innovations’ and ‘a rollicking potted history of horticulture from the roman empire to the inspired innovators of 19th century’.
19:30 Codford village hall. Bar opens at 19:00. Members free, guests £3.
MAY 2025 EVENTS
Saturday 17th
Codford and district gardening club annual plant sale and coffee morning.
This year the sale will be held at Ashton Gifford House, by kind permission of Mr Paul Donnovan. Come along to buy lots of plants to fill your garden with colour and enjoy a coffee and some cake.
10:00 - 12:00 Ashton Gifford House.
Wednesday 21st
Codford and district gardening club and talk titled ‘Unusual plants available to british gardens’. The guest speaker will be Roger Hirons.
Roger, aka the plant doctor, trained at Pershore college and has a wealth of plant knowledge. He is a published author, worked in plant nurseries, run garden centres and owns his own design and landscaping business.
19:30 Codford village hall. Bar opens from 19:00. Members free, guests £3.
JUNE 2025 EVENTS
Wednesday 18th
Codford and district gardening club first summer trip.
An afternoon coach trip for members to see the gardens of ‘The hospital of St Cross and the almshouses of he Noble poor in Winchester. The hospital was founded circa 1134 by Henry of Blois.
Times and costs will be available closer to the date.
JULY 2025 EVENTS
Wednesday 16th
Codford and district gardening club second summer trip.
Members cars to ‘Westwind’ in Marlborough. An informal four acre country garden full of herbaceous plants. Carsharing is a must as space is limited to six (6) cars. Address for Google maps/satnav: Manton drive - SN8 4HL.
Times and costs will be available closer to the date.
SEPTEMBER 2025 EVENTS
Wednesday 17th
Codford and district gardening club meeting and talk titled ‘The historic front garden’. The guest speaker will be Dr F Burroughs BEM.
Dr Burroughs is a lecturer and after dinner speaker of some renown and in high demand. From the castles built in the middle ages to the 1930 semi. The front garden has always provided an area for display and eccentricity. Here is a celebration of some of the most memorable and stunning examples of english gardening.
19:00 Codford village hall. Bar opens at 19:00. Members free, guests £3.
OCTOBER 2025 EVENTS
Wednesday 15th
Codford and district gardening club meeting and talk titled ‘Putting plants to bed for winter’. The guest speaker will be Ray Broughton.
Ray is a highly qualified horticulturist, has worked at Sparsholt college where he was a senior lecturer and head of department. His talks are packed with information and seasoned with a sprinkling of humour.
19:00 Codford village hall. Bar opens at 19:00. Members free, guests £3.
NOVEMBER 2025 EVENTS
Wednesday 19th
Codford and district gardening club meeting and talk titled ‘Finding the Theatricum botanicum in Salisbury cathedral. The guest speaker will be Gill Pelton.
Gill lives in Salisbury, is a speaker with the national association of flower arrangements societies. She has a particular interest in art history, has studied at Sparsholt college and has been a guide at Salisbury cathedral for many years. She will tell us all about the familiar flowers and trees depicted in the unearthed document!
19:00 Codford village hall. Bar opens at 19:00. Members free, guests £3.
Weekly Events at the Village hall
Tuesday
17:00 - 18:00 PILATES (Rosie Poolman 07760 496291 / 01985 211431)
19:00 - 21:00 SHORT MAT BOWLS
Wednesday
0930-1030 PILATES (Rosie Poolman 07760 496291 / 01985 211431)
1300 - 1500 CHOIR
1800 - 1900 FIT CLUB
Thursday
0930-1130 COMMUNITY CAFE
1600 - 1700 HAPPY HEARTS (circut based exercise for those suffering from heart & respiratory disorders)
1830 - 1930 CLUBERCISE
2000 - 2130 BADMINTON