The Hertford and Ware Flyer Magazine December ’25
Inside the Hertford and Ware Flyer magazine December ’25 edition. There’s a great choice of things to do in this issue, alongside your community news.
Hertford and Ware Flyer Magazine December ’25 Welcome
Letter from the Editor
Welcome to your December issue, which I hope during this very busy time, is a useful source of community information to navigate these next few weeks!
St Mary’s Church in Ware and Holy Trinity Church in Hertford Heath each tell us about their December services and events, including a Family Christmas Celebration at the Farm on Christmas Eve! Ware Museum’s new exhibition explores the history of Ware’s Southern Maltings and Hertford Museum has festive events for children and a new exhibition called Smashing Pots, which showcases its ceramics collections.
Concerts from Ware Choral Society and Hertford Choral Society take place this month, and library activities include the Winter Reads Challenge for all ages. Courtyard Arts has its Members’ Show until the 23rd December, as well as a Christmas carols event. We also have an informative monthly update from Hertford Town Council about events and activities plus Dan from I Love Hertford tells us Father Christmas is in town on Saturday 13th December. Dan will also be running “Shop Local Saturday” on that day. All the details about these events and updates are inside.
Ware Christmas Together welcomes anyone who might be without company on Christmas day to join them as a guest, or a volunteer guest. Email: christmastogetherware@gmail.com or call 01992 531833. It sounds a wonderful community event. Also, we hope Ware Dickensian Evening on the 5th December has gone well (or goes well, if you see this ahead of time) – such an enjoyable community event for everyone!
Local club news includes kindly donated bikes, spares and accessories being recycled to Africa by the Rotary Club of Ware, with help from the Rotary Club of Hertford Shires. Hertford Rotary has updated us on its Christmas Toy Boxes, with recipients being children spending Christmas in refuges. Plus, Rotary Clubs are participating in “Wrap Up UK”, to collect coats for distribution to charities supporting people across the UK. Collection boxes are across Hertford and Ware (I saw one in Wodson Park recently).
Square dancers, Barbara and Maggie, organised a charity Square Dance event at the venue of the Waggoners Square Dance Club, which raised £1,225.00 for Alzheimer’s Society. We also hear that the Jailbreak from Hertford Castle fundraiser raised £7,500 for Hertford Museum – fantastic achievements.
Members of the Friends of Evron – Hertford’s French twinning association – share news about a recent visit. If you’re part of a Hertford club or organisation and would like to link up with an equivalent organisation in Evron they’d be pleased to hear from you. Additionally, Hertford Men’s Shed tells us about the Bike Repair Café, a community space where people can meet, socialise, and work on practical projects. Everyone welcome — no experience needed.
Have you heard the incredible story about May Savidge? An engineering draughtswoman, who in the 1960s took her 15th century hall house in Ware apart and reconstructed it in Norfolk – eventually completed after her death by her niece-in-law Christine Adams. Christine recently visited Ware to unveil an interpretation board at the entrance to the Baldock Street car park; the board was designed and arranged by The Ware Society.
All of us at the Flyer would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for your support and to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
With best wishes
Stephanie Adams, Editor