There is a musical recital in Portswood Residents Gardens, Abbotts Way, SO17 1QT from 2.30pm this Sunday 28th April 2024

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 22, 2024 in News | 0 comments Join ‘Second Wind’, Clarinet and Saxophone Quartet’ for an afternoon of light music and tea and cake, to raise money for ‘Gift of Sight’ – a local charity at the University, dedicated to funding world-class research into the prevention of blindness. Prof Andrew Lotery will also be giving a talk on the latest vision research at the University of Southampton....
read more

Police search for flasher by Southampton Common continues (article in Daily Echo, 22/04/24)

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 22, 2024 in Crime Incidents, News | 0 comments Click on the link below to view the article in the Daily Echo:   https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24267993.police-search-flasher-southampton-common-continues/?ref=ebln&nid=1092&block=article_block_a&u=b84eb5b77cb441a6e6ae451222b3d5d7&date=220424
read more

A Dead Good Day Out – Death, Dying, Life and Loss for anyone who might, one day, die: Saturday May 18th, 11am to 5pm.

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 19, 2024 in News | 0 comments All info courtesy of the Organisers. The Organisers have arranged a range of events on the theme of Death & Dying for this coming May. They have run these events several times before around Southampton. The main day is on Saturday 18th May, 11am to 5pm, and is suitable for all ages, including children and, in the words of the Organisers, this “is generally a surprisingly uplifting...
read more

The next Repair Café in our area is tomorrow, Saturday 20 April, at the Immaculate Conception Church Hall, (at the rear of the church), 346 Portswood Road

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 19, 2024 in News | 0 comments Info below courtesy of the Southampton Repair Café and Transition Southampton. Southampton Repair Cafés are places where people can bring broken items to be fixed by repairers at the same time as having a cuppa and some homemade cake! Bring your broken objects and the repairers will do their best to help: electrical, computers, ceramic, jewellery, mending and, while you wait, there are cakes and...
read more

The Caraway/Portswood Dementia Action Group programme for week beginning Monday 22 April 2024, for across Southampton

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 19, 2024 in News | 0 comments WHATS ON THIS WEEK! Brought to you by… Caraway ISSUE #1.23:  19 April 2024 Dear Friends, Here is the weekly line up for this week… With love, Caraway Dementia Action Group Advance Notice:  A Dead Good Day Out St Denys Church & Centre, St Denys Road, SO17 2ND, Saturday 18th May from 11am – 5pm A family friendly day for anyone who might, one day, die. Find out more...
read more

Incredible! Astrophysicist Dr Phil Wiseman, Research Fellow in Astrophysics at the University of Southampton, is taking on seven marathons in seven days this week

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 16, 2024 in News | 0 comments He is running from Gloucestershire to London via Southampton. His challenge will end with the London Marathon on Sunday. Dr Wiseman, whose work on the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed hit the headlines last year, is raising money for the MS Society in honour of his mum Ann, who has the condition. Info courtesy of the Daily Echo in the link below:...
read more

Made in: Here, based at 78 Bedford Place, has links to Highfield, including they offer HRA Members a 10% discount on everything in their coffee, deli and gift shop in Bedford Place

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 16, 2024 in News | 0 comments They also offer a 10% discount online too: https://madeinhere.co.uk/ Lots of locally sourced foods, drinks and local artisan products! Info below courtesy of: Made in Here “We’re huge fans of indigenous products. That’s why our motto is ‘Best of the British Isles’ . Even our tea grows here – Cornwall (Tregothnan tea) and Hampshire (Summerdown tea). Next time you pop in, why not try a...
read more

If you are a storyteller, writer or poet – this might be for you!

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Apr 16, 2024 in News | 0 comments Info courtesy of: October Books “Every month we host our open mic night, a place for all the storytellers, poets, and writers of Southampton to come and perform! If you are performing, we offer 5 minute slots and you can read whatever you’d like as long as it fits into five minutes! Come and join us from 6:15pm to 8pm every third Friday of the month. You can buy a ticket on the night or...
read more