Culture

The Arts Society Moor Park provides a wonderful way of making new friends while pursuing a love of the Arts.

Our lectures, given by great speakers who are experts in their field, cover a wide range of arts subjects – from painting to architecture to music to sculpture and everything in between!

Where We Meet
Monthly Morning Lectures take place at Winston Churchill Hall, Pinn Way, Ruislip HA4 7QL, typically on the third Wednesday of the month.  These are also available to watch live via Zoom, for members unable to attend in person.

Afternoon Lectures, Days of Special Interest and other Special Events are held at Moor Park Mansion, Rickmansworth WD3 1QL.

We also run Outside Visits – full day coach excursions to places of cultural and historic interest – as well as UK and Overseas Five Day Tours.

Interested?
Full details of membership and all events, as well as information about our thriving Volunteer programmes, are on our website: www.moorparkdfas.com

For membership enquiries please email: membership@moorparkdfas.com or fill in the enquiries form on the website.

Registered Charity Number (England & Wales): 1111942

During the early 70s, a group of budding gardeners in the Eastbury part of Northwood felt that the gardens in the area were such a valuable contribution to the quality of life for its residents, that a local horticultural society should be created.  In 1971 the Eastbury Horticultural Society germinated; it grew well, expanding to enable residents in other parts of Northwood to join.  It now has approximately 110 members.

A small committee ensures that members have plenty of engagements to put in their diaries for every season.  During autumn and winter we usually host 5 or 6 speakers, who cover a wide range of subjects.  Meetings take place at Eastbury Farm School, starting at 8pm and preceded by tea and biscuits.

The arrival of Spring sees the start of activities such as day outings to gardens, both private and charitably owned (National Trust, etc.).  Events organized by the society also include ‘Bring and Buy’ plant sales, one in the spring and one in the autumn, where plants grown by members are sold.  These sales top-up our finances and, once coffee and cakes are served, become happy social occasions!  Most members quite understandably enjoy sharing their experiences and efforts with others and viewing hosts’ own gardens.  We have one or two ‘Open Gardens’ every year and they too are popular.

Our Annual Show is staged at Eastbury Farm School in either early Summer or Autumn. We are not professionals so all members are encouraged to submit entries!

Members are kept up-to-date with all our activities mainly through email, supplemented by physical letter for those who do not have such a facility.

We are always pleased to hear from local residents who wish to become members.  The annual subscription for the current year is £7.  Please email the Membership Secretary to request joining details: ehs.members@gmail.com

A warm welcome awaits “Women from all corners of the world” at the Northwood Area Women’s Club. If you are resident in the Northwood and district area on a temporary or permanent basis, you are invited to join us for friendship, fun and fundraising.

Newcomers immediately feel at home at our informal multinational, social club meetings. There is a lot to both interest and entertain you in our wonderful varied programme of meetings, outings, events and interest groups. We invite you to join us as a guest at any general meeting or event to learn more about the club.

We look forward to meeting you at our informal club meetings held at St. John’s United Reformed Church Hall, Hallowell Road, Northwood, HA6 1DN on the first Thursday of the month from 9:30am until Midday.

For more information visit us at www.northwoodareawomensclub.co.uk
or contact info@northwoodareawomensclub.co.uk

We are a friendly choir of around 30 singers who rehearse on Sundays at 7.30 p.m. in St. John’s URC Church, Hallowell Road, Northwood.

We welcome all new voices!

For more information, please visit:  www.northwoodchoralsociety.com

is an organisation for those not in full time employment to meet socially and for ‘self-help’ learning, with over 70 interest groups. Some of these meet in people’s homes, others in local halls according to size/activity.

A monthly meeting with guest speaker is held on the first Wednesday morning of each month at Fairfield Church, Windsor Close, Northwood Hills.

For more information:
visit our website: https://northwood.u3asite.uk/
contact the membership secretary:
45 Ivy House Road, Ickenham UB10 8NG (large SAE please)
or email ripen11@hotmail.com

• contact Susan Toms (Secretary) on 01895-637134 or send an email
• visit http://rnelhs.org.uk/

The Society exists to encourage interest in the history and conservation of the area and the study of local history generally. Members meet monthly from September to April. Visitors and new members are always welcome.

• Contact 01923 823897 for further details.
• Venue: Fairfield Church Hall, Windsor Close, Northwood Hills HA6 1PD, on the first Tuesday of the month (except January and August). Doors open 7 pm for 7.30 pm start.

At the Ruislip-Northwood Flower Arrangement Society, a warm welcome awaits, and you can relax and watch excellent flower demonstrators each month, using their skills to produce beautiful designs to delight and inspire you.

It is an entertaining evening with many anecdotes and useful gardening tips, so if you are green-fingered and love flowers, it’s just the place to come, and bring a friend along. Tea and coffee are served in the interval when you will have an opportunity to chat and make friends and, at the end of the demonstration, the arrangements are raffled, so you may go home with a beautiful flower arrangement into the bargain!

Visit www.ruislipos.org

The Society performs two shows a year and are always looking for people to join them onstage, backstage or in the audience.

Usually known as WRAP this is a registered charity and a member of the Reuseful UK national network of scrapstores.  In October 2015 WRAP moved to Units 2-6 Ryefield Crescent behind Northwood Hills station.  Here you will find the random collection of commercial and industrial bi-product donations that over 4,000 schools, small groups and families have discovered in WRAP’s 20 year history.

WRAP is run almost entirely by volunteers, a loyal bunch who turn out week after week to prepare the pick-ups and brought-in donations for presentation. For an annual membership fee WRAP offers its members a more or less unlimited supply of materials – foam, cardboard, fabric, tiles, leather off-cuts to name a few, and also run site-specific and theme-based workshops for groups, which can be booked on application.  Items made by volunteers and members are displayed throughout the building to give inspiration, and volunteers pride themselves on being able to root out suitable materials for proposed makes.  When going to WRAP it is always best to arrive with an idea rather than a shopping list, as what is available may not always be an obvious fit but can sometimes be a better one!

Do get in touch if you have any queries or have items to offer for donation. Donations are vetted and volunteers may turn down items they are not permitted to store or know will not be used readily. Keep an eye on the website for up-to-date details.  Come and visit; we may be what you are looking for!

Email: watfordscrap@btconnect.com
Facebook: Watford Scrapstore
web: watfordscrap.wix.com/wrap