Today’s Advent Calendar window opens for Glamis Hall for All, because it’s their Christmas Festival on Saturday! Entry to the festival is free, the fun starts at 9:30 and finishes at 4:00. You can meet Santa for just £5 and have your face painted for £3, plus there’s lots of other stalls, a café, a raffle, a tombola, and Wellingborough Eco Group has a pocket money games stall and teddy tombola too!
Places are now on sale to meet the main man himself; Glamis Hall are requesting that you book Santa and face painting in advance via Ticket Source to avoid disappointment. Children visiting Santa receive a Christmas stocking containing Christmas-themed activity sheets, treats and a stationary set. Reindeer food and hot chocolate cones are available to purchase on the day.
The festival includes a Christmas market for the grown-ups with food & drink stalls, handmade and specialist gift stalls include candles and crackers, pickles and jams, handmade items, and sweets. Don’t forget to visit the tombola and raffle stalls to try for a prize.
About Glamis Hall
Glamis Hall is a community centre on the Queensway Estate in Wellingborough. Run for the community, by the community, their motto is Glamis Hall for all. Home to a day centre for older people, a youth club, football and GLJ Theatre. Hall & rooms for hire. There plenty of free parking or take the W1 bus from Church Street in the town centre.
It consists of a wellbeing centre for the over 50s, a large sports hall with a kitchen and servery, a community meeting room, and sports changing rooms. After being closed by Wellingborough Borough Council in 2014, Glamis Hall reopened as a charity run by volunteers and relatives of clients in January 2015. The Hall’s many daily visitors, who range in age from 51 to 103, help to decide the programming.
Regular activities include a Monday to Friday lunch club, yoga, raffles, and bingo. They have a shop on site and host visits from hairdressers, optometrists and district nurses– making it easy for their clients to access the services they need with minimal travel. Glamis Hall’s mission is to provide an affordable community hub for the residents of Wellingborough and the surrounding area.
See you on Saturday!
Wellingborough Eco Group’s ECO HUB is also at Glamis Hall which also has a Repair Cafe on the same day 9-12. So, if you want something fixed pop along for the Repair Cafe and then stay for the Christmas Festival. See you on Saturday at Glamis Hall, 9:30-4, for some festive fun for all!