Coombe Keynes Trust AGM 2022
2022-05-28 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | The Coombe Keynes Church, Church of the Holy Rood, Coombe Keynes, Dorset, BH20 5PS, United Kingdom
Join us for the Trust Annual General Meeting – open to all members. Find out what the Trust has been up to over the previous 12 months and have your say on our plans for the future.
Tea and cake will be served.
Time TBC.
Any enquiries, please contact events@coombekeynes.com

Great British Pub Night and Jubilee Beacon Lighting
2022-06-02 20:30 - 2022-06-03 00:30
Kick off the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend in style!
From 7.00pm, the Church will be hosting a ‘Great British Pub Night’. Come along to enjoy traditional bar snacks and pub games including skittles, darts and dominos. Beer, wine, cider and soft drinks will be available at our bar.
Then at 9.30pm please join us for the lighting of the Jubilee Beacon in the field by the Church. This is part of the worldwide event where hundreds of community beacons will be lit to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
This is a free event, but donations will be very welcome on the night.
For any enquiries, please contact events@coombekeynes.com

Coombe Keynes 10k Race
2022-06-19 11:00 - 13:00
For more details, please visit our dedicated website:
www.ck10k.com
Volunteers are invited for a drink after the race.

Summer Picnic
2022-08-13 15:30 - 19:00
Starting from 2.30pm will be a village picnic – two barbecues will be provided (one for meat and one for vegan). All you need to bring is yourselves and a picnic (or dish to share) and anything you would like to cook. Following the picnic will be a fun filled skittles competition for all the family.

Harvest Festival
2022-09-24 20:00
This year’s Harvest Supper is on Saturday Sept 24th.

We’re laying on a Ploughman’s supper with all the usual fare along with some hot pasties and a glass of Robin’s cider to help wash it down.

To accompany the Ploughman’s, we’re asking for contributions to a ‘Community Cheeseboard’. If you’d like to take part, please bring along a small wedge of your favourite cheese and hopefully that will result in a delicious selection for the whole group.

If you have any other home produce you’d like to contribute – eg tomatoes, homemade chutneys, blackberry and apple crumbles – that would be most welcome, please do get in touch.

Suggested donation £8 per person.

Really hope you can all make it – please RSVP via email to events@coombekeynes.com.

Purbeck Film Festival - Film Night
2022-10-28 19:00 - 22:30
Book now for Film Night at Coombe Keynes Church!
The Coombe Keynes Trust is taking part in the Purbeck Film Festival this year, with a showing of ‘Summerland’ (rated PG) on Friday 28th October.
The film is set during World War II and is about an Englishwoman who opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him. It’s a moving journey of womanhood, love and friendship featuring Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtney.
The film kicks off at 7.30pm – but we’ll be serving food and drinks beforehand.
Please do join us from 6pm to enjoy a drink from Barman Jan and a bowl of chilli with nachos and guacamole. Freshly made popcorn will be available for the film.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Bookings should be made through the Purbeck Film Festival website:
https://www.purbeckfilm.com/product/summerland-pg/

Burns Night Supper 2023
2023-01-28 19:00 - 23:30
The Coombe Keynes Trust will be hosting a traditional Burns Night Supper from 7pm in the church.
The ticket price includes a three course dinner and a dram of whisky.
Tickets: Adults £10 and children £5
Please note, in future we will be offering a discount to the Coombe Keynes Trust members. This is the last event that will be the same price for Trust Members and Non Members. Please head over to our membership page to learn more.
To reserve your place please email events@coombekeynes.com or phone 07727 123 157.
When booking, please do let us know of any dietary requirements.
To supplement your dram of whisky, we recommend you bring along a drink of your choice to complement your haggis, neeps and tatties.
Contributions of a dessert, a poem or a song (or all three!) are most welcome, please let us know if you’d like to help.

Pub Night
2023-03-25 19:30 - 23:30
The Royal Rood is back in business!
After the success of the Jubilee Pub Night last year, we’re hosting a series of Pub Nights across the year.
They’re casual, drop-in evenings where you can enjoy a glass of wine or a pint of beer and packet of crisps with the neighbours. We’ll also have cards, darts and other pub games.
It’s completely free, but please bring your own drinks and we’ll provide pub games and good company.
Pub Nights this year are:
Saturday March 25th from 7.30pm
Saturday May 6th – Coronation Pub Night and Curry Supper from 7pm
(please bring a contribution to our curry feast)
November 25th from 7.30pm
There’s no entry fee and no need to RSVP, but a small contribution towards the heating bill is always appreciated. We can take donations here or on our card machine on the night.
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for more information, please email events@coombekeynes.com

Annual General Meeting
2023-04-22 11:00 - 18:00
All Coombe Keynes Trust members are invited to join us from 10am for our Annual General Meeting.
Find out what the Trust has been up to over the previous 12 months and have your say on our plans for the future.
Tea, coffee and cake will be served.
Not yet a member? Please sign up and have your say!

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for more information, please email events@coombekeynes.com

Pub Night - Coronation Curry Night Special
2023-05-06 20:00 - 2023-05-07 00:30
The Royal Rood is back in business!
After the success of the Jubilee Pub Night last year, we’re hosting a series of Pub Nights across the year.
They’re casual, drop-in evenings where you can enjoy a reasonably priced glass of wine or a pint of beer and packet of crips with the neighbours. We’ll also have cards, darts and other pub games.
Pub Nights this year are:
Saturday March 25th from 7.30pm
Saturday May 6th – Coronation Pub Night and Curry Supper from 7pm
(If you’d like to bring a contribution to our curry feast , that would be much appreciated. Please drop us a line at events@coombekeynes.com or sign up on our google sheet to see what everyone’s bringing.)
November 25th from 7.30pm
There’s no entry fee and no need to RSVP, but a small contribution towards the heating bill is always appreciated. We can take donations here or on our card machine on the night.
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for more information, please email events@coombekeynes.com

Coombe Keynes 10k Race
2023-06-18 11:00 - 18:00
For more details, please visit our dedicated website:
www.ck10k.com
Volunteers are invited for a drink after the race.
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for more information, please email events@coombekeynes.com

Summer BBQ
2023-08-12 16:00 - 19:00
Dear Residents and Friends,
A quick reminder about the Coombe Keynes Annual Summer BBQ.
Saturday 12th August – 3pm.
We are working on the premise that we will have a glorious summers day with sun and warmth a plenty! With this in mind, the party will take place on the lawn in front of Highfield and the village green. Should the weather fail us we will relocate to the church, but let’s be optimistic!!
For safety reasons the BBQs will be situated in the yard outside West Coombe Farm House and guests are requested to bring whatever they would like to cook. We will have one vegetarian BBQ and one for meat.
Nearer the time there will be a shout out for salad/sides/desert contributions. Please also bring a bottle of your chosen tipple to help the afternoon go with a swing.
Friends, family and acquaintances all very welcome!
Looking forward to seeing lots of you then.
All the best,
Nicola,
on behalf of the Coombe Keynes Trust
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for more information, please email events@coombekeynes.com

Harvest Supper & History Night
2023-09-23 19:30 - 2023-09-24 00:30
Please join us for a Harvest Supper & History Night on Saturday 23rd September from 6.30pm.
We’ll be launching the “Coombe Keynes History Project” and to celebrate, we’ll start the evening with a brief talk from Peter Brachi, “Where did they go? Following the village population pendulum over the last two hundred years”.
After the talk we’ll be serving up a special ‘Ten Mile Menu’ featuring local & seasonal produce sourced from within 10 miles of Coombe Keynes.
There will also be a chance to peruse a preliminary display of historical maps, news articles and photos and share your thoughts on the creation of a new history display for the church.
We’re also asking everyone to contribute an item to display for one night only in our “Pop Up Museum of the People”. Please bring an item (or items) that represents some aspect of your life in Coombe Keynes today or in the past; it could be a clay pipe dug up in the garden, or an old wi-Fi booster to get signal through thick cottage walls, or a photo of your house when you first moved in. Feel free to be as creative or abstract as you like: it just has to mean something to you!
We’re not asking for payment up front but would appreciate donations after the event – we’re recommending £12pp (please adjust as you see fit for concessions).
We look forward to seeing you there – please RSVP if you can come.
BYOB!
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For more information, please contact events@coombekeynes.com

Purbeck Film Festival - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
2023-11-03 19:00
Coombe Keynes is delighted to be taking part in the Purbeck Film Festival.
There will be a showing of Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (PG) introduced by our very own Olivia Hetreed.
Tickets are £7.00: £5.50 (students and under 25s) and can be purchased from the Purbeck Film Festival website.
A French-themed supper and drinks menu will be available in the church from 6pm and Olivia will begin her introduction at 7.30pm.
This event is sure to prove very popular, so please book your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (PG)
Director: Antony Fabian
Starring: Lesley Manville, Jason Isaacs, Rose Williams
Comedy | Drama | UK | 2022
1 hr 55 mins
A historical comedy-drama with a fabulous cast, directed and produced by Anthony Fabian, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Olivia Hetreed, Carrol Cartwright and Keith Thompson. Based on the 1958 novel Mrs ‘Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico, it tells the story of a widowed9 cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.

Pub Night - CANCELLED
2023-11-25 19:30
Hi all, we’ve decided to cancel the November Pub Night as it fell a little close to the Purbeck Film Festival showing this year.
We’ll be back with more Pub Nights in the new year.
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for more information, please email events@coombekeynes.com

Carols Around the Tree** now in the Church
2023-12-24 18:00
***Update! Carols will now be held in the Church from 6pm***
Meet in the church for mulled wine and carols by candlelight.

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For more information, please contact events@coombekeynes.com

Cancelled! Burns Night Ceilidh
2024-01-27 19:00 - 23:30
** We’re very sorry to say we’ve had to cancel this event due to a lack of availability of villagers! We’d still love to organise a Barn Dance or similar, but we’ll try again a different time of year***
Join us for night of music and dancing, with bagpipes and a haggis supper followed by toe-tapping ceilidh music from Arish Mel Ceilidh Band.
Entry includes dinner, dancing and a dram of whisky for toasts. There will be a pay bar available on the night (card payments preferred).
We’re delighted to be welcoming a live band to the church, so we’d encourage you to bring friends and relatives to swell the ranks and make it an evening to remember.
You can purchase you ticket here but if you have any problems or questions, please email events@coombekeynes.com .

AGM & Pub Night with chilli dinner – 6.30pm
2024-04-20 19:30 - 22:00 | The Coombe Keynes Church, Church of the Holy Rood, Coombe Keynes, Dorset, BH20 5PS, United Kingdom
Join us from 6.30pm for the Trust’s Annual General Meeting followed by a pub night & chilli dinner from 7.30pm (earlier if we race through the agenda).

Contributions of food would be very welcome, please get in touch if you’d be happy to contribute a dish. BYOB.

SPAB Dorset Regional Group Meeting
2024-05-18 12:00 - 18:00
Peter Brachi, the current temporary Chairman of the group invites Members in Dorset (and surrounding areas) to Coombe Keynes for a special meeting, which will be centred in the Church of the Holy rood.

The day will include a talk about the church and the Trust and a walkabout in the village to learn its history and development and experience it’s character, focusing on the way local geology has influenced the character of its historic buildings.

Programme:11am – Meet at Holy Rood Church for refreshments and discussion 12pm – Talk about the church and the establishment, achievement and ambitions of the Coombe Keynes Trust 1pm – Buffet lunch 2pm – Introduction to the history of the village and local geology, followed by a short walk to see the village and look at one or two of the older buildings

It may be that these elements of the day will merge together to some extent; and it is imagined that the meeting will fizzle out naturally during the afternoon.

If you would like to attend for the whole day, please reserve your spot through the SPAB website (see below). Alternatively, trust members and friends are encouraged to come along at 2pm and enjoy the walk for free.

Purbeck Art Weeks – Private View – 7pm
2024-05-24 02:30 - 21:00
We’re delighted to be taking part in Purbeck Art Weeks this year. Local artist Kimberley Day has been invited to put on an exhibition in the church. We’re inviting Trust members and friends to come to the church for drinks, nibbles and a chance to see the exhibition and meet the artist the day before it opens to the general public.

The exhibition will be on display for the following two weeks (25 May – 9 June).

Learn more about Kim and her work here: https://purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk/artist/kimberley-day/

Entry is free, but please RSVP to events@coombekeynes.com if you’d like to attend.

Purbeck Art Weeks - Free Exhibition
2024-05-25 11:00 - 2024-06-09 17:00
Join us to see a selection of landscape works by Kimberley Day in the beautiful setting of Coombe Keynes Church.

Kim’s work is both a celebration of the Dorset landscape but also an exploration of the human condition – the constant search for meaning, which seems almost always over the next horizon. Through her work she tries to capture that innate curiosity and desire to make clear what evades us. Her painting is both a literal interpretation of the Dorset landscape but also an expression of feeling through mark making, composition and colour – as an attempt to capture both our internal and external landscapes. Ever changing, shifting and surprising us.

Kim will be on hand in the church every day, working on her paintings.

Tea and coffee will be available.

Coombe Keynes 10k – 10am
2024-06-23 11:00
It’s back! Our annual 10k race. The usual help with marshalling and making cakes would be greatly appreciated – get in touch at hello@ck10k.com

We’ll email with more details nearer the time, or visit the Events Page of our website for updates.

All the best,

The Coombe Keynes Trust

Summer BBQ
2024-08-17 16:00 - 19:00
Join us for the Coombe Keynes Annual Summer BBQ on the Green.

3pm til whenever you fancy (after all you won’t need a taxi!)

We are planning an Olympic theme for our food – pick a country and create your cuisine!

Any questions, contact Nicola or email events@coombekeynes.com

Harvest Supper and Music Night
2024-09-28 19:00 - 23:30
Harvest Supper and Music Night at Coombe Keynes Church

September 28 @ 7:00 pm – 11:30 pm

Join us for a baked potato supper and live music from the fabulous Phil Mills and his band Smokestack.

There will be a pay bar on the night.

Book your tickets below!

Purbeck Film Festival: Past Lives
2024-11-01 19:30 - 23:30
Book on www.purbeckfilm.com

Friday Night is film night!

We’re delighted to be taking part in the Purbeck Film Festival again this year.

The film will be ‘Past Lives’ – an American / Korean film highly recommended by our very own Olivia Hetreed!

Celine Song’s beautifully crafted debut film tells a decades-spanning love story preoccupied with all the fine details of life that decide the destination of one’s adulthood. The things we decide for ourselves and those that are chosen for us, the people you know now and those you once knew, the feelings that fade and the ones that remain with achingly sharp clarity. It is not a failed love story, but it is a lost love story, as its characters fall victim to the realities of time and circumstance and are left wondering what may have been if either of those things had been different.

“Past Lives isn’t quite the woozy, lovelorn drama that its trailers have sold… But it is an eloquent attempt to understand how our memories can end up turning other people into projection screens for our own, confused desires.” The Independent

“Past Lives may be a weepie, but it’s a hyper-sophisticated one.” The FT

“Song finds the political in the personal and avoids seeming indulgent or niche.” London Evening Standard.

There will be a pay bar and we will be serving Korean Rice Bowls on the night.

You can pre-book your meal on the Purbeck Film Festival website.

Book on www.purbeckfilm.com

AGM and Pub Night
2025-04-26 17:00 - 22:00 | The Coombe Keynes Church, Church of the Holy Rood, Coombe Keynes, Dorset, BH20 5PS, United Kingdom
Join us for the Coombe Keynes Trust Annual General Meeting followed by a BYO Pub Night at The Royal Rood.

Purbeck Art Weeks Exhibition
2025-05-24 00:00 - 2025-06-08 23:59
We’re delighted to welcome four local artists to take over the church as an exhibition space as part of Purbeck Art Weeks.

The exhibition will be open in the church everyday from 10am – 4pm and tea, coffee & cake will be also be available.

On the evening of Saturday May 24th at 7pm, we’ll be holding a Private View Event for friends & members of the Coombe Keynes Trust who will be invited to join us to meet the artists and enjoy a canape or two and a glass of fizz.

Find out more about other exhibitions nearby at purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk

This is a free event.

Purbeck Art Weeks Private Preview
2025-05-24 19:00 - 21:00
This year, the church will be hosting a mixed media exhibition by four local artists as part of Purbeck Art Weeks.

On the evening of Saturday May 24th at 7pm, we’ll be holding a Private View Event for friends & members of the Coombe Keynes Trust. Join us to meet the artists and enjoy a canape or two and a glass of fizz.

This is a free event but please RSVP to events@coombekeynes.com.

Find out more about other exhibitions nearby at purbeckartweeksfestival.co.uk

CK10k Race 10th Anniversary with Village Fete
2025-06-22 08:00 - 14:00
Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CK10k.

The race kicks off as usual at 10am after which we’ll be holding a village fete in the Vicarage gardens – join us for tea & cake, tombola, cider & pasties, welly wanging, splat-a-rat and all the fun of the fair!

Sign up to run our 10th Anniversary 10k Race (www.ck10k.com) or just come along to show your support and enjoy a traditional village fete.

8.30am: Coffee & Breakfast BBQ opens

10am: Race kicks off

11am: Fete opens

Please be aware if you arrive by car before 11.30am you will be asked to approach via East Lulworth to avoid the race route. Please follow the signs and the marshals’ directions.

Garden Tours
2025-07-12 10:00 - 14:00 | The Coombe Keynes Church, Church of the Holy Rood, Coombe Keynes, Dorset, BH20 5PS, United Kingdom
Actual Gardens TBC
