The Lymington Society is pleased to announce its new Social Programme of events for members starting in September 2021 and running through to the Summer Garden Party in June 2022. Following a year of meetings of on Zoom it’s a great pleasure to be able to re-commence actual physical events in person.

The first of these events is a very special event at St Barbe Museum where the Society is proud to be able to arrange for LymSoc Members to have a first look at the amazing new St Barbe exhibition entitled: Unsettling Landscapes: The Art of The Eerie. See here for details 

St Barbe describe the exhibition as follows “An exhibition exploring eerie representations of rural landscapes from the aftermath of the First World War to the present. In his essay for the catalogue Robert Macfarlane explains that the eerie ‘involves that form of fear which is felt first as unease then as dread, and it tends to be incited by glimpses and tremors rather than outright attack. Horror specialises in confrontation and aggression; the eerie in intimation and intimidation.”

The Private View which costs £5.00 to include refreshments, starts at 6.00 pm and takes place at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery at 6.00 pm on Tuesday the 28^th of September. Tickets are available on the door or on Eventbrite. Click Here to buy tickets on Eventbrite

New Members. We are offering anyone joining the Society before the event or on the night, free entrance to the Private View.  New Members can buy a year’s Subscription on Eventbrite which will entitle you to a free entrance to the Private View.

To buy a year’s Subscription and get your free Ticket to this event , please click here and select Tickets followed by New Members Subscription. Once you have done this could you kindly click here Join The Society and fill in a membership form. In order to maintain your membership in future years please go to your online banking and complete a Standing Order form.

Full details are on our website www.lymsoc.co.uk or call Don Mackenzie on 07860 106120

Tickets are available for the LymSoc Private View on the door or through ticket booking site Eventbrite Click Here

The Lymington Society has published its latest Update Email for Members which was sent out to Members on the 16th of September. The full update can be seen here:

LymSoc Members’ Update September

The Update included as usual a message from our Chairman Clive Sutton, and news about the many current issues the Society has been involved in in the last year.

The Society was also very pleased to announce that following the end of lockdown restriction are resuming our Members’ Social Programme with a series of events starting with a Private View of this years major St Barbe Exhibition – Unsettling Landscapes: The Art of the Eerie. Full detail will follow on a further post.

Tickets are £5.00 for Members and can be bought on the door or on Eventbrite

6.00 pm Thursday 8th of July – East Grove – Grove Road – Lymington

The Lymington Society is pleased to announce that we will be holding our first real event in almost 18 months, namely the famous Lymington Society Summer Garden Party.

The Garden Party is going to take place by kind permission of Robin and Georgina Craufurd on Thursday the 8th of July at their beautiful Georgian house and garden at East Grove, Grove Road, Lymington.

Featuring Prosecco and Pimms and the usual delicious canapes produced by well known caterer Diana Morley, the party will start at 6.00 pm and we look forward to meeting Members in person for the first time since early last year.

Due to Covid restrictions, we will initially be only selling 30 tickets but hope to increase the numbers once the government’s decision on the 21st of June has been announced.

We will be selling the tickets on Eventbrite in line with Covid precautions, instead of taking cash on the door and the tickets will cost £10.00 with a small fee to the company to cover fees.

Please Click on this Link to buy Tickets. Summer Garden Party Tickets

The Eventbrite site will also keep a waiting list of people once we reach 30 ticket sales and will automatically advise Members once we increase the ticket numbers.

Do call me in you have any queries about this event.

Don Mackenzie. 07860 106120

The latest LymSoc Email Update for Members was published through Mailchimp on the 16th of March and should be already in members Inboxes awaiting opening.

Members can access the full email online here March Email Update.

The Society, with the Support of the Town Council and the Chamber of Commerce, has relaunched its “Shop Local – Save Shops”  campaign with the slogan – “Support Lymington This Christmas”

Commitee Member Pam Morrissey, who  came up with the idea of the Society launching a “Shop Local” initiative in the town, together with Town Mayor Anne Corbridge and Society Deputy Chair Don Mackenzie, were on hand in the High Street at the start of the campaign to unveil the first of four banners placed around the town.

We also had the support of the Lymington Times who kindly reported our campaign and in fact invited the Society to write the editorial for their Lymington Christmas Shopping supplement  

In addition, over 100 posters were distributed in local shops to help emphasise the “Think Before You Click” – “Support Lymington This Christmas” message.

The Society really hopes that as many residents as possible will take this the chance to “Shop Local” and support our retailers this Christmas. 

https://www.lymington.com/business-dir

The Lymington Society has launched an “I Love Lymington – Shop Local -Save Jobs” campaign to persuade local people to support retailers and businesses and reboot the local economy after the 3-month lockdown. This initiative is supported by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and we very much welcome their support.

The Shop Local – Save Jobs campaign will involve banners in the town and on the approaches to town, as well as posters and flyers being in shops and community facilities. Local people and retailers are invited to download the poster and display it in your shop windows to show support for this important initiative.

Contact Chamber of Commerce Members. In order to contact a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to enquire about a service they can offer, please click on this link:https://www.lymington.biz/member_list/

Lymington.com Business Directory. The Lymington.com website has a fantastic Directory of businesses in the Lymington area which can be searched by clicking on this link: https://www.lymington.com/business-dir

The Shop Local – Save Jobs banner is also available for download here

The Society has welcomed the important change of heart by the Hampshire County Council (HCC), which has now deferred parking charges until at least September, after the Society urged the HCC to scrap those charges in a letter to HCC Deputy Leader Councillor Humby earlier in the month.