“All are welcome to try for free. Please bring flat soled shoes or trainers” for the Centenary Recruitment Day at Ruddington Bowls Club on Elms Park. If you’d like more information about this event, please call 07890 713 517. Around half of the club are from Ruddington. You can find out more about the Ruddington Bowls Club, celebrating its 100th year >>HERE<<. The Open Day is on Sunday 5th May between 2pm and 5pm. There is off road parking. Disclaimer: RUDDINGTON.info publish all diary events in good faith and can’t be held…
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FREE weekly wellbeing walks are at our Country Park. Rushcliffe ‘Move And Mingle’ health walks take place every Wednesday at 10.30am (unless otherwise advised). Just turn up and meet at Rushcliffe Country Park lakeside. Organisers say the Rushcliffe ‘Move & Mingle’ event “offer free, safe and sociable walks with trained leaders to improve your health and wellbeing. Walks start at 30minutes and are a steady pace to suit everyone. Whether you’re used to enjoy walking but have lost your fitness or want to get started to improve your wellness, we’re all in it…
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If you haven’t already voted by post, here’s a timely reminder of the names on the ballot papers for villagers to choose from at this week’s (two) local elections. On Thursday 2nd May 2024, we’re urged to have our say on both who we’d like to lead the ‘Combined County Mayoral Authority’ and which candidate should be our next ‘Police and Crime Commissioner’. It’s Ruddington’s chance to help choose the first-ever elected East Midlands Mayor; after local councils gave the green light for a £1.14billion devolution deal for our region. We’re also voting…
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Ruddington and District Choral Society (RDCS) presents ‘The Creation’ by Joseph Haydn on Saturday 18th May at 7.30pm in St Peter’s Church. RDCS says its Spring Concert will be “with the Ruddington Chamber Ensemble and director Paul Hayward. All welcome to come and listen to an evening of glorious and uplifting music.” This ticket event is £15 and you can buy yours at the door on the evening. Also tickets are available from Perkins Hardware on High Street or from choir members on 07590 311 992. Contact the registered charity, RDCS if you’d like more information…
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Free entry to the Volunteer Art Exhibition at the Framework Knitters’ Museum Chapel, which runs from the start of this month to Thursday 18th April, during the museum’s usual opening times. Please note: If you’re planning to go weekdays, do email office@fwk.org.uk to check what’s on, because the Chapel may have other activities taking place, given it is a multi-hire space. At the award winning museum, its cafe at Parker’s Yard, run by The Split Screen Food & Drink Co, will be open. See the FWKM website for more information >>HERE<<. Disclaimer: RUDDINGTON.info…
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Benjamins Estate Agents is welcoming the initial release of three, newly-built, shared ownership plots introduced by The Longhurst Group in Ruddington. These plots of affordable housing are available to help local buyers onto the property ladder. To qualify, a connection to the Rushcliffe area is preferred – those who currently live or work here, or have done so in the past. Benjamins’ Director, Ben Featherstone, says: “Shared ownership is a much-needed scheme aimed at those struggling to afford to buy a home; the Government and associations promoting a realistic pathway to…
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The Minister of Ruddington Methodist Church has confirmed that the future of their historic, village centre building is in doubt due to the rising cost of maintaining it. Reverend Tony Simpson replaced Reverend Nichola Jones as our Methodist Minister in 2023 when she was rather unexpectedly moved to another circuit in Cornwall last July. He also looks after the Methodist Churches in Clifton, Bradmore, Keyworth, and Tollerton, so usually only takes services here in Ruddington around once a month. After Christmas, rumours started circulating that the 150-year-old building on Church Street…
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The end of the Easter holidays heralds another period of disruption for Ruddington’s long-suffering residents and motorists due to the long-term junction remodelling work at the Kirk Lane/Loughborough Road/Flawforth Lane crossroads. From Tuesday 2nd until Friday 26th April 2024 the current one-way system between Flawforth Avenue and Loughborough Road is replaced with the complete closure of Flawforth Lane at that point for Cadent Gas to complete its mains pipe work under the road. As well as this meaning a long way around for through-traffic, residents and businesses along Flawforth Lane and Flawforth Avenue, and…
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Rushcliffe’s Member of Parliament is promising to take action after being contacted by residents across our village complaining about the many potholes and deteriorating road surfaces here in Ruddington right now. On a flyer delivered to Ruddington households, Ruth Edwards MP says: “Working with your local county councillor, l have been collating these issues. In particular, Asher Lane, Mere Way and Flawforth Lane have all been highlighted. l also know there are some more general concerns about road maintenance and the deterioration of the road surface across the village, particularly between Ruddington and…
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Another special milestone in our village history will be reached during 2024 – when Ruddington Bowls Club celebrates a hundred years. When it was founded in 1924, it was originally called ‘Ruddington (Paget) Bowls Club’, as the land it occupied had been donated by the Paget family. However, just ten years’ later, the club moved to the Green at Elms Park, on grounds owned by Ruddington Parish Council, where it remains to this very day. Outrageous as it seems now, women were not allowed to play bowls there until 1960,…
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