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Friday evening: Our Choice went to the golfing range and practiced best shots. We enjoyed great experience at Stansted Golf World. Aim at large targets on the range. The balls have tracking technology, so the system scores your shots based on where they land. #FridayFeeling #startoftheweekend #outandabout #AllAboutChoice #MakeADifference

A Friday night at The Temeraire JD Wetherspoon was the birthday trip choice tonight! Choosing from the menu and then practicing communication and life skills by paying for our own food! Great work Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund and #lotteryplayers #livingthedream #fridaynights #MakeADifference #startoftheweekend

An evening of Autumn and Halloween crafts tonight! Crafts are really fun to do! Get creative, use your imagination and make something special with your own hands. Our favourite thing about Autumn and Halloween crafts is that there's no right or wrong way to make them. You can make them cute, spooky, colourful or completely silly! #wednesdayvibes #sidebyside #crafting #MakeADifference

This week, we practised for our showcase next week, as well singing and signing to songs. We used our Instruments to tap to the beat of ‘One day’ from the musical Les Miserables . We had great fun using our drums to Chitty Chitty bang bang too! Supported by the Postcode Lottery UK, awarded by #thepostcodetrust #musiclovers #musicislife #lovinglife #MakeADifference

A couple of birthday trip choices tonight for the GWOFers. Bowling is a firm favourite, so bowling at Tenpin with dinner at McDonald’s afterwards. Great competition with a joint score at one point! Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund and #lotteryplayers #FridayFeeling #FridayNight #makingmemories #MakeADifference #startoftheweekend

Jumble Sale Fundraiser raised an incredible 644.50 Thank you so much to all of our volunteers, members, donators, browsers and customers! We had a huge amount of second-hand items—clothes, books, toys, household goods, and bric-a-brac—at bargain prices. #fundraiser #supportlocal #MakeADifference

This week we held our popular games and puzzles night for our members. Everyone got ready for an evening of fun, friendly competition, and great company! #GamesNight #sidebyside #MakeADifference #makingmemoriestogether

What a fantastic evening we all had! Everyone practiced their conducting skills after receiving instructions from Nicky. We worked hard at learning the words for some of our new performance songs, and we absolutely loved using the glockenspiels to play along to Doh a Deer!! We felt like an outsize Van Trapp family!! Then there were two birthdays to celebrate! Congratulations to Noah on his 21st and happy birthday also, to our lovely Joel! Supported by the Postcode Lottery UK

We love our monthly get togethers at Fairycroft House in Fast Eddie’s Bar! Tonight we are celebrating three birthdays! Plus karaoke, socialising and planning. Such a great night as always! Supported by the The National Lottery Community Fund and #lotteryplayers #fridaynight #celebrate #startoftheweekend #MakeADifference

After our very exciting and successful performance on Saturday at Saffron Walden Community Day, we were straight back to work, rehearsing for an extra special performance in 2027!! Everyone has so much to learn over the coming months, but we know that this incredible group of hard working and talented individuals, will rise to the challenge with flying colours. We are so proud of you all Saffron Walden Music Man Members 🤩 Supported by the Postcode Lottery UK awarded by the

An amazing £366 raised at our Charity Tombola today! Thank you so much to all our volunteers, members, parents and customers who supported us today! We hugely appreciate it! #supportlocal #charityevent #fundraiser #MakeADifference

Our members love bowling Tonight, we headed to Tenpin for the evening. Choosing a ball, aiming intensely and hoping for a strike! We then headed to Five Guys fir a celebratory burger Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund and #lotteryplayers #fridayfun #MakeADifference #startoftheweekend #makingmemories #bowlingfun

Another lovely session at GrowAbility this week. It was a quieter session on Wednesday, but it was really brilliant to welcome Matt back with us. We were also lucky enough to enjoy some sunshine on the plot. The compost was once again a huge team effort, with everyone playing their part. Noah and Joel were busy saving countless sunflower seeds, while Julie put her skills to great use sowing colourful chillies ready to hang and dry. The harvest was enormous, with plenty of fre

Another joyful evening at Music Man! Smiles, laughter, listening and respect, all contribute to making our sessions so amazing. Everyone worked so hard at practicing our songs for this Saturdays live performance at Saffron Walden Community Day on the Common at 2.45 pm. Please come and support us. We would love to see you there Supported by the Postcode Lottery UK awarded by #postcodetrust #musicismagic #makingmemories #MakeADifference #mondaymotivation #musicismedicine

Tonight, we are at the Common in #saffronwalden completing our sponsored walk. We are so proud of our GWOFers for taking up the challenge! They are smashing it! Thank you so much to Burtons Butchers Saffron Walden who donated the burgers and sausages for our delicious BBQ! Huge appreciation to Alicia’s dad, Nigel Cornell for cooking our celebration meal! Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund and the #lotteryplayers #MakeADifference #makingmemories #fridayfun

Another incredibly busy and brilliant week at GrowAbility! The plot was full of activity today, with lots of lovely visitors joining us and plenty going on throughout the session. It was a real team effort when it came to our composting this week. We carefully added layers of greens, browns and chicken manure to our existing Toby compost, making sure everything was well balanced and ready to decompose. Every member played their own part in this. Tristan was our very own weedi

We’re back…and it feels so good!!! Happy, smiling faces, achievements and birthdays to celebrate, wonderful voices rang out, instruments were played with passion, and we remembered the one and only, Dolly Parton, by singing 9 to 5. Practically perfect in every way! Supported by the Postcode Lottery UK awarded by the #postcodetrust #musicismagic #mondaymotivation #lovinglife #backtoit #MakeADifference

Friday nights are all about choice! Last night, Our Choice chose to go bowling Tenpin in Cambridge. They had a lovely time. It was so lovely to see everyone supporting each other! Great team work Supported by Saffron Walden Golf Club. #fridaynight #teamwork #MakeADifference #lovebowling #weekendvibes

We love to learn new skills at GWOF on a Friday night! So tonight we went fishing with Jack Culpin from Angling Trust, at Bordeaux Pit in Little Chesterford. Wow! What an amazing evening! The GWOFers loved every minute of the experience. Jack showed us how to use red maggots to bait the hook, how to cast and retrieve the catch! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the evening! We were all so excited when one of the last catches was a massive carp! Our group is supported by The Nati

Another busy and brilliant week at GrowAbility! We had lots of members joining us and plenty to keep everyone busy. After all the recent rain, we got stuck into some overdue weeding. The wet weather had certainly encouraged everything to grow, so it was great to get the beds tidied up and looking much neater. It was lovely to see the healthy soil underneath too, ready to support all the plants growing around the plot. We also enjoyed a fantastic harvest this week. We picked p