THE Meon Valley Lions Club has reported a successful summer. The group has helped with a range of different events across the area, including the annual Knowle Picnic in the Park, the Taste of Wickham, and the Wickham Beer Festival, where the club got a five-star food hygiene rating.

The club is now looking forward to its Santa Run. Anyone interested in joining the group or taking part in the Santa Run is asked to visit the Meon Valley Lions Club website.

ST BARNABAS Church, Swanmore, is holding a Christmas concert on December 7. Entitled Silent Night, the concert will welcome the Christmas season with a cappella music by Winchester Consort and readings by Shuna Rose and Aelwen Emmett. A bar will be available before the show and during the interval, when tea and coffee will also be served. Doors and the bar will be open at 7pm, with the concert starting at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10, with under-16s entering free. Information and tickets are available from John Sharpe (01489 892750), Susie Fellows (07969 144759) and ticketsource.co.uk/st-barnabas-church-swanmore.

THIS year’s festive performance from Swanmore Amateur Dramatic Society will be Humpty Dumpty and the Magic Wall by Limelight Scripts. It will run from Thursday, November 28 to Saturday, November 30 at Swanmore Village Hall. Curtain up each evening at 7.30pm, with a Saturday matinee at 2pm. Tickets are on sale at ticketcource.co.uk/swanmoredrama or on November 2, November 9, November 16 and November 23 from the pop-up box office by Barnaby’s Coffee Shop between 10am and 12noon. Tickets cost £10 for adults and £5 for children, with all Saturday evening tickets priced at £10.

A SPECIAL lecture on those who died during the World Wars will be held at St Barnabus Church in Swanmore on November 6. The event will be open from 6pm for tea and cake, before the talk begins at 7pm – it will last two hours with time set aside for questions. The lecture will be presented by Village War Memorial Custodian Gary McCulloch and resident Kerry Fox, as well as special guests. The talk is around the lives of those who the village remembers at this time of year as well as a bit of village history from the period of the Great War. This is going to be both an educational and an emotional evening, with introduction by Commodore Dean Bassett CBE Royal Navy and The Reverend Canon Nick Whitehead.

Tickets are limited, with more than half already sold, and are £10 each with all proceeds being split evenly between the Royal British Legion, St Barnabas Church and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Tickets can be purchased online from Eventbrite by searching The Missing Five and setting “Swanmore” as the location.

THE Greater Winchester Neighbourhoods Police Team is holding a beat surgery at Bishop’s Waltham Country Market on Friday, November 8 from 10am to 11am. Beat surgeries are an opportunity to meet the local policing team and share concerns. Officers will be happy to provide crime prevention and personal safety advice.  Ask them about the 'Let's Talk' survey to help set community priorities and ensure police are focusing on what matters most to you.