Windmill Hill Community Centre

At last we can reopen some classes from w/c 17th May! All classes will be subject to reduced capacity so please prebook your place by contacting the class organiser.

Post Natal Fitness Pilates – Mondays 10.30-11.30am – A Pilates class for post natal mums and babies to get your strength, flexibility and body back. Contact Sarah Langford on 07920408013

JumpFit  – Mondays 7.30-8.30pm Jumping Fitness for all, rebounding reduces body fat, tones your body, increases agility, strengthens muscles and provides an aerobic effect on your heart, rejuvenates you when you’re tired but best of all makes you smile!    Contact info@jumpfituk.com

Martial Arts – Jeet  Kune Do – 8-9.30pm – Get fit and learn to protect yourself! – contact Paris on 07846687129 or at @backoff.club on Facebook 

Post-natal Fitness – Weds 10.30 to 11.30am. Classes suitable for 6-10 weeks after birth and for all levels of fitness, it’s a combination of strength and conditioning exercises – Contact Sarah Langford  07920408013

Bright Sounds – A Bristol based community street band bringing together people of all ages and abilities to share the joy of participatory music making. Weekly music making sessions for wind and percussion players. Fun, friendly and inclusive. All tunes are taught by ear – no sheet music. Percussion instruments provided (wind players will need to bring their own) .

Youth rehearsals – aged 9-18 at 6-7pm Wednesday evenings

Adult rehearsals – aged 18+ 7.30-9pm Wednesday evenings

Please get in touch with Lara-Marie Insull for more info. Contact email  brightsoundsbristol@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/BrightSoundsCIC or visit the website www.brightsounds.org.uk

Baby Sensory Bristol South are running various classes all day on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during June. Baby Sensory is a baby development class for babies aged 0-13 months.

Please visit www.babysensory.com/bristol-south for more information or call 07306 665623

The Creation Station – Tiny Treasures , a relaxed keepsake creation and social session with your baby. Wednesday 9^th June and Wednesday 23^rd June 1.45pm-2.45pm. Call Janey on 07305 455956 . www.Facebook.com/thecreationstationbristol

Raving Fit  –Thursdays 8-9pm HiiT workout to dance music!£7 on MoveGB.To bookcontact Farrah 07800 597718 .

We’re making the most of lockdown closure to revamp some of the building.

Our builders have redesigned and rebuilt the kitchen and corridors to allow full disabled access (including wheelchairs) through the Small Hall into the kitchen, toilets and Large Hall. We’ve also updated the kitchen, storage areas and done lots of repainting!

Huge thanks to our committee members Christine and Simon who have been project managing the whole effort, and to Lynn and Robin who have worked their way through the whole building repainting everywhere so it’s all smart for reopening time, Steve for lending us his carpet cleaner, Tony for reconstructing the electrical cupboard

Thanks to our builders Mark and Gary for their expertise, attention to detail, good advice and their good humour! Also thanks to Spiros the plumber for sticking with a difficult job till late, Kai for making a great job of patching the kitchen floor, Ben and his team for the electrics, the plasterers, and Paul the plasterer for replastering a horrible area. We also need to thank Ricky the roofer, our neighbour, who is always there when you need him. Thanks to Carl our cleaner, who has been patiently cleaning up after everyones mess!

The Community Centre will be closed from Thursday 5 November as per the government’s lockdown guidance. This includes the members’ bar, all groups and classes, and venue hire.

We look forward to welcoming you back as soon as we can.

The Windmill Hill Community Association and Social Club AGMs are next Thursday 24th September, commencing at 8pm. All members are invited to attend.

We will be having the meeting in the Large Hall with socially distanced seating and sanitisers available.

Some classes and groups are restarting at the Community Centre – please check with individual organisers for the latest information.

The bar is also now open for Social Club members with revised opening times:

• Mon 20:00 – 23:00
• Tues 18:00 – 23:00
• Weds CLOSED
• Thurs CLOSED
• Fri 18:00 – 23:00
• Sat 20:00 – 23:00
• Sun 18:00 – 22:30

The Community Centre is closed for now due to Covid-19 measures, but we’ll let you know when we’re open again.

Look out for each other!

WHCA’s unmissable board games night is back on 16th November. There is more to life than climbing ladders and sliding down snakes, or sitting through two excruciating hours of Monopoly, and we’ll show you.

Gather around a table with great people, enjoy some of the best modern board games, and Windmill Hill’s foremost games experts will help you get up and running fast. We’ll bring the games, you bring your brain – there’s something for everyone, from fast-paced card games to high-concept cardboard, from nimble-fingered manipulation to quick-witted deduction, with games suitable for all ages 11 up.

Fancy piloting a mysterious alien race and conducting intergalactic subterfuge? Try the 40-year-old classic Cosmic Encounter. Want to build a tenuously-balanced road network using your bare hands, and possibly some tweezers if things get really tricky? Give Tokyo Highway a go. Try your hand at being an undercover agent (or sniffing one out) in the inventive Spyfall, rebuild civilisation on the red planet with Terraforming Mars, bloody up your axe in Viking smasher Blood Rage, point an actual foam gun at an actual stranger’s head while playing Cash ‘N’ Guns – you get the idea.

The next board games night is on Saturday 16th November, starting at 7.30pm, ages 11+. Come along, have a drink, enjoy some great company and, whether you’ve not played a board game since last Christmas or you’ve just packed away Catan, learn and enjoy some great new games.

Do you know we have a book club that meets on the third Monday of the month at 8pm in our bar. Contact Christine Higgott for further details on 07901 874375.

These are the books for the next few months:

21/10 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

18/11 Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

16/12 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

20/01 The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

17/02 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

With our AGM this week, we’d love to hear more from local people about how we’re doing and where we can improve.

Please click on the link below and fill in our short survey:

https://forms.gle/sBQ6fPdhjFEbNw1v9

We have some new classes starting this Sept and Oct:

Lara is starting The Brass Disciples Youth Band on Mondays 16.45-17.30 A community street band for brass, woodwind and percussion players aged 8-16. Please email lara_insull@hotmail.com to book a place. Begins on 7th October

Farrah is running a Bollywood Workout – Mondays 18.30-19.15pm An easy to learn Bollywood Dance class suitable for all levels and abilities. She will also be starting Feel Good Friday! on Fridays 09.30-10.30 A Dance fitness class to get you ready for the weekend! Contact Farrah 07800 597718  for details of either class.