One Chippenham

Community Lunch & Pop-up Pantry - every Wednesday in August!
2025-08-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-13 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Kingsley Road Community Hall, Kingsley Road, Chippenham, SN14 0AS
Join us at Kingsley Road Community Hall (SN14 0AS) for a warm welcome and chance to connect with neighbours. Enjoy a cuppa &/or a light lunch and friendly chat.
Weekly Schedule:

11.30am–12pm – Tea, coffee and access to pantry
12pm–1pm – Help yourself cold lunch

Pop-up Pantry: If you have any spare fruit or vegetables, produce from your garden or in-date tins from your cupboard you won’t use, feel free to bring them along to swap and share – someone else might really appreciate them!
Why come?

Meet new people & catch up with neighbours
Enjoy a friendly, relaxed lunch
Share and discover fresh food from the community

Everyone is welcome – come along, bring a friend, and enjoy some good food and good company.

Waste-Not-Wednesday
2025-08-20 10:30 - 20:00 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
Join us on Wednesday 20 August at Chippenham Museum for Waste-Not-Wednesday, a day of free workshops and activities dedicated to slowing down fashion as part of our ‘Threads’ summer of fun!
👕 T-Shirt Bag Activity
📅 Wednesday 20 August
🕥 10.30am – 12.30pm
🎟️ Free, drop-in
Take part in a simple no-sew activity where you’ll learn a fun way to give an old T-shirt a new life. We’ll have some materials for use on the day, but to make the most of the activity bring along your own pre-loved t-shirt from home. Suitable for ages 4+, under 10s must be accompanied by an adult.
🪡 Visible Mending Workshop
📅 Wednesday 20 August
🕥 1.30pm – 3.30pm
🎟️ Free, booking essential: bit.ly/VisibleMendingWorkshop
Learn how to repair your clothes with a professional seamstress. You’ll be taught basic hand stitches, how to sew a patch, and ways to creatively embellish old clothing to give it a new lease of life. All materials and equipment will be provided. Suitable for ages 13–17.
🧵 Sewing Machine Workshop
📅 Wednesday 20 August
🕥 6pm – 8pm
🎟️ Free, booking essential: bit.ly/SewingMachineWorkshop
Got a sewing machine and want to start making or repairing clothes but not sure where to begin? Join our beginner-friendly workshop with a professional seamstress to learn how to use your machine, troubleshoot common issues, and build confidence. You’ll practice basic techniques while making a drawstring bag to take home. Please bring your own sewing machine, a few bobbins, and any sewing kit you have. Fabric will be provided. Suitable for ages 18+.
Book your tickets here 👉 bit.ly/ChippenhamMuseumEvents
For sold out events, email 📧 heritage@chippenham.gov.uk or call 📞 01249 705020 to join a waiting list.

CAP Cafe
2025-08-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-08-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Station Hill Baptist Church, SN15 1EG
A cafe with a warm welcome, chance to chat, free tea/coffee and cake, craft activities, children’s toys.
Christians Against Poverty (CAP) debt coaches will also be available to talk if you feel you might need a free, professional debt advice service.
CAP’s debt counselling helps thousands of people become debt free every year. They are committed to providing a service that takes into account the client’s wider circumstances and emotional needs as well as their financial situation, which means it is particularly suitable for those who are more vulnerable and in need of additional support. Their service is completely free and available to everyone.
CAP Money courses also available here (money management and budgeting).

Summer Holidays: Creative Activities
2025-08-19 10:30 - 15:30 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
Get creative in style! Join us every Tuesday and Thursday during the summer holidays for free ‘fashionable’ activities inspired by our summer exhibition Threads: Clothing, Memory and Identity.
Activities are suitable for all ages. Under 10s must be accompanied by an adult. Please note, activities on Tuesdays and Thursdays will be the same each week.
Week 4: Function to Fashion
Join us to explore how status can be expressed in our clothing and have a go at making your own epaulettes.

Rocket Powered Workshops
2025-08-19 10:00 - 16:00 | REME Museum, Calne Road, MOD Lyneham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 4XX, United Kingdom
If you like a challenge, you’ll love our STEM Workshops designed to get young people using the principles of engineering while having fun!
Design and launch your own bottle rocket or air powered car, using the same principles of engineering in rocket science!
Check our website for other workshop/activities during the Summer Holidays.
STEM workshops included in museum entry fee, simply drop-in to these sessions.

Arts Award Workshops
2025-08-19 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-12 10:00 - 16:00 | REME Museum, Calne Road, MOD Lyneham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 4XX, United Kingdom
We’re excited this Summer to be able to offer young people the opportunity to achieve their Arts Award while exploring the art we have on display around the museum.
These sessions are led by our Education Officer and Education Assistant and must be pre-booked due to limited space.
Arts Award sessions cost £5 per family group, which covers the cost of the certificate you will receive and the materials used throughout the session. Simply book your admission tickets on a workshop date, then add the workshop ticket onto your booking.

Make-up for stage - (11-14's) with Anna Randall
2025-08-19 10:00 - 15:00 | Central Methodist Church, Monkton Hill, Chippenham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1EP, United Kingdom
Come along and work with: Anna Randall – Film and TV make-up artist
Come and learn how to safely sever your finger with latex moulding and bruise yourself up with the magic of makeup.
Session 1: 10 – 12pm
Pizza (provided): 12 – 1pm
Session 2: 1-3pm
Anna is a Hair And Makeup Effects Artist, with a Masters Degree in prosthetic effects. She has worked in TV and Film industry for over seven years, on films, commercials, music videos, feature films and short films, and her work has led to nominations and awards for Best FX.
In this session you will go behind the scenes for both stage and screen and what it takes to make someone look a bit battered and beaten up. Get completely hands on with a variety of bruises and burns as well as textured cuts and even severed digits.

Acting improvisation and stage combat - (14-18's) with Rebecca Osborne
2025-08-19 10:00 - 15:00 | Central Methodist Church, Monkton Hill, Chippenham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1EP, United Kingdom
Come along and work with: Rebecca Osborne – Actor, improvisor and stage combat instructor
Come and learn the secrets to great improvising and stage combat skills through a wide variety of games and activities aimed at improving your improvising. In this session you will learn through a variety of fun, accessible and constructively challenging games and activities with the addition of professionally trained stage combat skills and techniques for anyone to master.
Session 1: 10 – 12pm
Pizza (provided) from: 12 – 1pm
Session 2: 1-3pm
The founder of Brazen Steel, and a core member of the teaching team at Rebel Action, Rebecca has spent time instructing at the Royal Shakespeare Company, LAMDA and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Rebecca is nearing the end of her stage combat instructor apprenticeship with the Academy of Performance Combat, and has helped to guide a plethora of students from their first taste of combat to daring fight scenes and everything in between.

Summer Holidays: Autism Friendly Quiet Time
2025-08-19 09:00 - 10:00 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
Experience our fashion-themed drop-in activities in a quieter way before the museum opens to the public. Sessions run from 9am-10am (last entry 9.45am) and are limited to four accompanied children.
Ideal for those who would find the busy nature of our drop-in sessions uncomfortable, these sessions offer a relaxed environment. Please book a space for each accompanied child attending.
Please note, activities on Tuesday and Thursday will be the same each week.
Week 4: Function to Fashion
Join us to explore how status can be expressed in our clothing and have a go at making your own epaulettes.

Threads: Clothing, Memory and Identity
2025-08-18 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-12 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-11 10:00 - 16:00
Celebrate all things fashion in our summer exhibition and explore ideas
of memory and identity through the clothes we wear.

Collection Conversations: Jane King and Judith Beeby
2025-08-16 14:00 - 15:30 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
In our next Collection Conversation, we will be joined by Jane King and Judith Beeby.
Jane King studied for her Masters in ceramics at Bath Spa University’s Corsham Court Campus. King’s ceramic sculptures combine opposites of form, texture, and colour as metaphors for perfection and imperfection, control and chaos.
Judith Beeby studied at Bath Spa University. Living in Wiltshire she is continually inspired by its beauty. Her most recent work is inspired by the encroachment of urban and industrial elements into the rural environment. She is fascinated by the debate about man vs nature and the soft beauty of an English landscape being enhanced by strong industrial shapes.

Yelde Hall Morning Openings
2025-08-16 10:30 - 2025-09-20 13:30 | The Yelde Hall
Chippenham’s medieval Grade I listed Yelde Hall has recently undergone major repairs by traditional building conservation experts. The work included timber repairs, restored plasterwork, limework, and the installation of a new pentice board, which will help preserve the building’s frontage.
This beautiful and iconic building can now be enjoyed once again in all its glory during our summer morning openings. Visit the historic Yelde Hall on select dates in August and September, where you can meet characters from the town’s past in the council chamber and pirates from 1709 in the lock-up!
👉 Yelde Hall Morning Openings
📅 August & September
⏲️ 10.30am – 1.30pm
🎟️ Free entry
Follow the link to view the full list of opening dates.

Yelde Hall Summer Morning Opening
2025-08-16 10:30 - 13:30 | The Yelde Hall
Visit the historic Yelde Hall on select dates in August and September, where you can meet characters from the town’s past in the council chamber and pirates from 1709 in the lock-up!

Big Chippenham Bash
2025-08-16 10:00 - 2025-08-17 01:00 | The Neeld
If you love the Big Bath Bash then you will also love the Big Chippenham Bash!!! All day event!
EVENT DESCRIPTION
From 10am – 1am with workshops during the day from top weekender teachers, along with a tea dance in the afternoon and then the big 2 room freestyle in the evening till 1am with amazing DJ’s!
This event sells out every year so get your tickets quick!
This is a ticketed event and limited tickets are on sale now!
Full day price at just £47 per person. Just £6 per masterclass.
Teachers & DJ’s to be confirmed
Tea/coffee and home made cakes available throughout the tea dance.
Tea/coffee/cakes served late on during the evening freestyle.
EVENT TIMING AND PRICES
11am – 6pm – Masterclasses on the hour in the Chill Out Room
10am – 3pm – Main room classes on the hour (part of the all day package)
3pm – 6pm – Tea Dance
6pm – 8pm – Dinner Break
8pm – 1am – Two room freestyle
Advance tickets only
£47 for the whole day (includes 5 main room classes, afternoon tea dance & evening freestyle)
£16 tea dance only
£17 2 room evening freestyle only
£6 per masterclass – details to be advised
TRAVEL & PARKING INFORMATION
Lots of all day parking in the town centre or travel in by train. Just a 5 minute walk from the train station.
There are lots of Pay and Display car parks within a 3-6 minute walk. Please note all charge fees until 6pm even on Bank Holidays. Please check the website below as some are only valid for 2 hours.
Details of all car parks and charges at https://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/parking-chippenham
All day parking available at the following Car Parks:
Bath Road Car Park – 220 Spaces – Open 24 Hours
Cocklebury Road Car Park – 167 Spaces – Open 24 Hours
Train Station Car Parks – 590 Spaces – Open 24 Hours
Wood Lane – 70 Spaces – Open 24 Hours

Sparkly Singers
2025-08-14 20:00 - 21:15 | Lansdowne Hall – Derry Hill
Alongside our sessions in Chippenham (‘lighter’ Monday lunchtimes) and Royal Wootton Bassett (Tuesday evenings), the Sparkly Singers meet every Thursday evening from 8:00pm at the Lansdowne Hall in Derry Hill. Founded with the simple aim of bringing the joy and benefits of group singing to everyone, our emphasis is on singing in a way that is, above all else, fun.
Rather than splitting into parts and learning harmonies, we prefer instead to sing in unison, infusing songs with our own rather unique mix of humour, movement and the occasional wacky prop.
So if you simply love to sing, but have yet to find the choir that perfectly complements your sense of fun, why not come along to one of our FREE taster sessions and see what we’re all about.

Summer Holidays: Creative Activities
2025-08-14 10:30 - 15:30, 2025-08-12 10:30 - 15:30 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
Get creative in style! Join us every Tuesday and Thursday during the summer holidays for free ‘fashionable’ activities inspired by our summer exhibition Threads: Clothing, Memory and Identity.
Activities are suitable for all ages. Under 10s must be accompanied by an adult. Please note, activities on Tuesdays and Thursdays will be the same each week.
Week 3: Shapes and Colour Palettes
Explore the expression of power and meaning in colour and pattern, then blend ideas to create our own pattern colour wheel.

Dance - (11-14's) with Aisha Sanyang-Meek
2025-08-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Central Methodist Church, Monkton Hill, Chippenham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1EP, United Kingdom
Creative dance session that will include some basic contemporary & hip hop dance technique suitable for anyone, regardless of previous experience. There will also be an opportunity to create your own movement and try out your own creative ideas.
Aisha is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses dance, physical theatre and writing to create work and connections. She has worked on professional dance works and created her own work for film and community performance spaces. She enjoys creating fun and energised experiences for people where they can feel connected to themselves and each other. Her class will be fun & creative.
Session 1: 10 – 12pm
Pizza (provided) 12 – 1pm
Session 2: 1-3pm

Make-up for stage - (14-18's) with Anna Randall
2025-08-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Central Methodist Church, Monkton Hill, Chippenham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1EP, United Kingdom
Come along and work with: Anna Randall – Film and TV make-up artist
Come and learn how to safely sever your finger with latex moulding and bruise yourself up with the magic of makeup.
In this session you will go behind the scenes for both stage and screen and what it takes to make someone look a bit battered and beaten up. Get completely hands on with a variety of bruises and burns as well as textured cuts and even severed digits.
Session 1: 10 – 12pm
Pizza (provided): 12 – 1pm
Session 2: 1-3pm
Anna is a Hair And Makeup Effects Artist, with a Masters Degree in prosthetic effects. She has worked in TV and Film industry for over seven years, on films, commercials, music videos, feature films and short films, and her work has led to nominations and awards for Best FX.

Summer Holidays: Autism Friendly Quiet Time
2025-08-14 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-08-12 09:00 - 10:00 | Chippenham Museum, 9-10 Market Pl, Chippenham, SN15 3HF, United Kingdom
Experience our fashion-themed drop-in activities in a quieter way before the museum opens to the public. Sessions run from 9am-10am (last entry 9.45am) and are limited to four accompanied children.
Ideal for those who would find the busy nature of our drop-in sessions uncomfortable, these sessions offer a relaxed environment. Please book a space for each accompanied child attending.
Please note, activities on Tuesday and Thursday will be the same each week.
Week 3: Shapes and Colour Palettes
Explore the expression of power and meaning in colour and pattern, then blend ideas to create our own pattern colour wheel.

Writing (and performing?) your words - (11-14's) with Saili Katebe
2025-08-12 10:00 - 15:00 | Central Methodist Church, Monkton Hill, Chippenham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1EP, United Kingdom
Come along and work with: Saili Katebe – professional actor/writer/poet
In this session you will learn how to express yourself through spoken words even if you think that writing poetry or rap is an impossible dream. This could be traditional poetry, performance poetry, lyrical poetry/rap or any other medium you can think of, all through an engaging and creative workshop where the only limit is your own creativity.
If you’re keen to write but don’t want to perform, that’s fine too.
Come along and have a go with Saili – he’ll find a way of getting the best out of you.
Session 1: 10 – 12pm
Pizza: 12 – 1pm
Session 2: 1-3pm
Saili Katebe is a writer, performer and workshop facilitator. Born in Zambia and now based in the South West of England, his work celebrates the musicality of language, the possibilities of performance and the power of storytelling.

Make your own musical - (14-18's) with Emily Malcolm
2025-08-12 10:00 - 15:00 | Central Methodist Church, Monkton Hill, Chippenham, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1EP, United Kingdom
Come along and work with: Emily Malcolm – musical theatre writer and performer.
Emily is the Founder and Creative Director of Yesterday’s Story CIC, an organisation that brings history to life through creative projects.
Learn about what makes a musical and how to devise your own from scratch.
Session 1: 10 – 12pm
Pizza 12 – 1pm
Session 2: 1-3pm
Do you love musical theatre? Ever dreamed of creating your own show? Now’s your chance! Join us for a fun, fast-paced day where you’ll work as a team to create your very own jukebox musical. You’ll shape the plot, develop characters, choose music, and add movement to bring it all to life. Whether you’re a performer, musician, choreographer, or budding director, there’s a role for everyone in this collaborative, creative experience. No experience needed – just bring your ideas and energy!

Sparkly Lite singing group
2025-08-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Pewsham Community Centre, Lodge Road, Chippenham, SN5 3SY
Sparkly Singers is the award-winning Wiltshire-based choir experience, founded with the simple aim of bringing the joy and benefits of group singing to everyone, regardless of age, experience or ability.
Launched in September 2023, our ‘lighter’ daytime sessions are perfect for anyone who just fancies popping out for an hour or so each week to meet new people and sing a fabulous selection of feel-good songs. No part-singing, no practising, no performing in public – just turn up each week and sing!
So if you love the idea of simply singing for the fun of it, why not come along to one of our FREE taster sessions and see what we’re all about.
