What's on in Eccleshall?

What's On calendar of events

There is usually a lot going on in the bubbling small country town of Eccleshall, with live music in many of the public houses and occasionally in the restaurants. Singing groups are abundant in the area and musical quartets and soloists abound.

The Eccleshall Singers meet every Tuesday, the Saints Alive Company rehearse for annual performances. Serendipity play at many of the local events and outside the area. The Folk Club meets monthly in town. The Ladies Handbell Ringers stage concerts throughout the year and rehearse in town,

There are two large country shows each year at the Lower Parks showground in Sugnall, one in August and one in September. The Tern Valley Vintage Machinery Trust and the Eccleshall Show.

With a community centre in the towns Shaw's Lane which is often fully booked from month to month you can be assured that there will be something happening their most weeks.

From prize bingo sessions, evening and afternoon classes in subjects as varied as yoga and furniture repairs; a badminton club and indoor bowling club and the country music club meets monthly.

The Eccleshall Cricket Club meets in the season at the Dog Croft ground on the Loggerheads Road with training for juniors and several senior and junior teams.

Eccleshall Football Club plays its home games just outside the town centre at Pershall with lots of other junior teams operating around the town.

Eccleshall Rugby Club trains and plays its home matches at the Baden Hall ground on the Swynnerton Road, Eccleshall.

Eccleshall Tennis Club has facility just on the edge of town with regular matches and friendlies and occasional with training sessions from professional coaches.

There are a number of fisheries within easy reach of the town centre catering for keen amateurs and junior anglers.

The Allotment Association has a site in Shaw's Lane where a number of plots are rented annually to vegetable and flower growers from the community.

The local Bridge Club meets twice a week, once in Eccleshall and once in Offley Hay.

There are scouts, explorers, guides, brownies and junior groups meeting every week in various locations throughout the town.

A Day Centre for senior citizens meets three times a week at the community centre.

Our local amateur dramatic society, the Eccleshall Players meets in the Methodist Church rooms for rehearsals when a performance is near.

Meetings of a number of clubs such as Eccleshall Wives, Eccleshall W.I., Mothers Union, Over Sixties Club, Third Age Club, Happy Circle, Rotary Club, 41 Club, Trinity Men's Fellowship, Historical Society,  Methodist Women's Fellowship, National Women's Register  and the Neighbourhood Watch.

Eccleshall has a fair number of churches of differing denominations all of whom arrange religious and social events within the churches for their members and also open to the public.

The library in the High Street can usually be relied upon to provide some entertainment for poetry lovers and small children with readings and competitions throughout the year, apart from the obvious services that they regularly offer.

To round off an a - z summary of Eccleshall's goings on we have the Wine Circle and the Young Farmers.

Almost seventy organisations and clubs in the town -  not bad for a small country town?

clubs & societies