The Stansted Flyer Magazine March ’26
Welcome to the Stansted Flyer magazine March ’26 edition. Amongst the community news and local events in this magazine issue there’s a great choice of things to do. With many events coming up, alongside your community news, this is a full issue as usual.
The Stansted Flyer Magazine March ’26 Update and Welcome
Letter from the Editor
Welcome to your March Flyer. As we move gradually into early spring and then Easter time (which is early this year), it’s lovely to see more flowers appearing and to know our clocks change to British Summer Time on Sunday 29th March!
Community updates and events include the opportunity to come to the Stansted Millers AGM (18th March) where you can find out more about the work of the Millers. The Mill’s first open days of this year are over Easter (Sunday 5th and Monday 6th April) and they include an Easter Egg Hunt and face painting for the children. Find out more inside!
The Gardens of Easton Lodge opens for its main season from the 2nd April (it will be open on Thursdays and monthly Open Days). They would also love to welcome new volunteers, it’s a pretty season right now and there is lots of work pending. If you like Gardens and fancy volunteering, please get in touch: enquiries@eastonlodge.co.uk Thank you to Let’s Talk Stansted! for a ‘Spring Wellness Tip’ to try a mindful spring walk. Pick a short route and simply notice three things you can see, hear, and smell. This can help you feel more grounded in the moment, especially as nature begins its annual reset. You may also like to know that there are free walking routes on the Hundred Parishes Society website, if you’re interested in exploring short or longer routes and discovering more about the area: https://hundredparishes.org.uk/walks
Saffron Walden Museum highlights its object of the month. Why not call in to find out more? It’s an absolute treasure trove of a place! Events at the museum take place in term time and the school holidays. Plus, if you enjoy music, there’s a concert in Bishop’s Stortford (21st March, Bishop’s Stortford Choral Society) or the Stansted Bowls Club – which is currently getting the green ready for the summer season – is running a Bingo event and all are welcome.
Other local group and charity news includes a thank you from St Clare Hospice to everyone who supported the Hospice’s Christmas Tree Collection. A team of volunteers gathered just under 1,500 trees and over £26,500 was raised for the charity’s work. An incredible achievement. Sustainable Stansted tells us it has been awarded funding by Uttlesford District Council’s Zero Carbon Communities Grant Scheme to undertake a 12-month monitoring project of the upper Stort and Stansted Brook. This ‘citizen-science’ project will monitor the health and biodiversity of the waterways.
This month we hear from Cathy, chairperson of Human Roots since January 2024. Cathy totally supports the Human Roots moto, ‘We grow to share and share to grow’! If you would like to join Human Roots volunteers, please email Cathy at: humanrootscommunity@gmail.com Plus Stansted Mountfitchet u3a shares details of some of its March meetings; a tiny glimpse of the wide range of activities they offer: www.stansted.u3asite.uk In addition, the Herts and Essex Boundary Flower Club reports on its recent AGM with longstanding member Pat bring presented with her 50 year badge. “Congratulations to Pat on a great achievement”. Visitors are always welcome at the Flower Club. School news is also included in your Flyer.
Thank you very much for your support and we hope you enjoy this springtime issue.
With best wishes
Stephanie Adams, Editor