It’s the St Denys Repair Café this Saturday 17th May from 10.30am to 1pm at St Denys Community Centre, Priory Road, (car and bike parking available)!
Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in News | 0 comments If you have a portable item that needs repairing – electrical items, computers, sewing repairs, jewellery, bikes – their expert volunteers will see if they can fix it for you in exchange for a donation. Tea, coffee and cake will be available while you wait! Just turn up and stop your items from going to landfill! Southampton Repair café is a project initiated by Transition Southampton and you...read more
The Friends of Portswood Rec play area was opened on Friday 9th May!
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Not far from us and quietly hidden away at Unity 12, 9-19 Rose Road, Southampton SO14 6TE, is ‘The Sewing Hub’!
Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in News | 0 comments The Sewing Hub is a fully accessible community space offering sewing classes for beginners, refreshers and, for the more advanced, they have overlocker courses and a regular ‘Sewing Circle’. They also provide local people with an alterations and bespoke design/make service. The workshop is very well equipped. The Sewing Hub have the following Workshop coming up: Free-Motion Embroidery Workshop...read more
This is a very interesting historical account by Matt Davey from The Echo of The Phoenix Film Society, “Southampton’s Oldest Film Society” which was founded in 1931
Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in News | 0 comments The Phoenix is run as a charity by volunteers and showcases the best of world cinema with 26 films screened each year. It has more than 150 members that meet weekly on Wednesdays at 7.30pm during University term time, at the University of Southampton Students’ Union cinema. The cinema has 225 “comfy, fully raked” seats and “cinema-standard digital projection with surround...read more
Agenda: HRA Committee Meeting – 7pm, Tuesday 13 May 2025
Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 12, 2025 in Meeting Agenda, News | 0 comments Agenda HRA Committee Meeting Tuesday 13 May 2025 Supporting paper: Piri Piri APPEAL DECISION Dismissed – 3347923read more
More delightful pictures of the ‘Wildlife Garden’ in the court yard of Highfield Church
Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 10, 2025 in News | 0 comments All photos by Moira Heather, HRA Member (early May 2025)read more
HRA’s Chair – Professor Roger Brown – is gving a talk on ‘What future for our Universities’ at 7pm on Sunday 18 May 2025 at The Pavilion, Portswood Residents’ Gardens, Abbotts Way, Highfield SO17 1QU
Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 10, 2025 in News | 0 comments Following a career in education and politics at the cutting edge (Downing Street!), Roger became Vice Chancellor of Solent University, a position he held until retirement. It promises to be an interesting and stimulating talk! All welcome, free entry, donations to Speaker’s chosen charity. Courtesy of South Hants Humanistsread more
