The Pennoyer Centre

Gardening Club
2025-09-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Norfolk
The Pennoyer Centre, Station Road, Pulham St Mary, Norfolk. UK.
Every 3rd Tuesday of the month. 7pm-9pm.
A warm welcome awaits at our monthly hands on gardening club.
Thank you to Whartons Garden Roses for supporting this community event.

Book Club
2025-09-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Norfolk
Pennoyer’s Book Club is held every third Friday of the month.
Come along – a warm welcome awaits!
Why not enjoy a coffee and cake while you’re here?
For further information call 01379 676660 or email admin@pennoyers.org.uk

School Dinner Social
2025-09-27 18:30 - 22:00 | The Pennoyer Centre, Station Road, Pulham St Mary, Norfolk, IP21 4QT, United Kingdom
As part of the Pennoyer’s VC School celebration weekend, we will be hosting a School Dinner Social – Everyone Welcome!
The evening will include a traditional school 2 course dinner, with proceeds going back to the Pennoyer Centre Charity to help maintain the building.
Tables are for 4 people upwards, but please feel free to book an individual space and we will seat you with other attendees. If you would like to join others who have already booked, please add details into the notes section of your booking. If you are an ex-pupil and would like to sit with other ex-pupils from your time at the school, please add the years you attended the school to the note section of your booking.
We are looking forward to a fun evening, celebrating the old school.
This is a fundraising event to support The Pennoyer Centre Charity Registered Charity No. 1135788

Spring Bulb Sale
2025-10-04 10:30 - 13:00 | Norfolk
Our volunteer gardeners will be selecting some top-quality Spring bulbs for you to purchase at discounted prices, and will be here to help you with your questions / selection if needed. We suggest that you get there early as the popular varieties were all snapped up by 1.00pm
Come along to grab some bargains!
Café open as usual

Cash Bingo
2025-10-07 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-12-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Norfolk
The Pennoyer Centre, Station Road, Pulham St Mary, Norfolk. UK.
All Welcome – just come along. Cash Prizes. Eyes down 7pm. £10 for 10 games.

Natural Flood Management Event
2025-10-16 17:00 - 20:00 | Norfolk
Building Resilient Communities Together
Explore positive, proactive solutions for building more sustainable and resilient communities within changing climate, environment and landscape.
Bringing together information, key-note speakers and representatives from various local organisations, agencies and authorities who can help guide, support and answer your questions

Charlie and 'The Dig'
2025-10-23 19:00 - 21:30 | Norfolk
Charlie Haylock is one of East Anglia’s leading entertainers . This is an intriguing and sometimes hilarious look behind-the-scenes in the making of the Netflix film “The Dig” . . . a film based on a novel with the same title about the famous Sutton Hoo burial ship and the people involved. Charlie will explain how a potential “scam” email from “The Dig” producer, turned out to be real, and followed by a phone call from Ralph Fiennes.
He will demonstrate his unique method and fascinating way of teaching actors, including Ralph Fiennes, how to master a regional dialect, so it sounds natural . . . and not exaggerated and “put on”. Charlie also includes a dialect tour of the British Isles showing how a deaf person can lip read and tell what dialect it is . . . and the main reason why he was selected to be Ralph’s dialect coach.
Charlie will also explain the extreme lengths Ralph Fiennes took, not only to play Basil Brown . . . but to become Basil Brown. The talk is both very informative and extremely entertaining.
Charlie is retiring from the public eye at the end of 2025 so this will be one of the last chances to see him perform in public. Don’t miss it!
Doors Open 1900 for 1930 start, there will be an interval.
PHOTO CREDIT – LARRY HORRICKS/NETFLIX © 2021

Charlie Haylock - The History of Spoken English
2025-11-27 19:30 - 21:30 | Norfolk
This is not a talk on split infinitives, and what the differences are between the past participle and the past tense. Definitely not!
Charlie will show us how the seeds of spoken English were first set.
He will also show us how each invading force affected the English language, and the different sounds they brought; from the Angles and Saxons to the Vikings and Normans.
How Shakespeare was really spoken . . . the effect of the Italian Renaissance on the English language . . . how England, by being an international trading nation, adopted words from across the globe.
Charlie will include a dialect tour of the British Isles and further afield, and demonstrate the different facial expressions of each dialect . . . and how a deaf person he knows can tell what dialect a person has . . . just by lip reading.
Recent review
” If a history of our spoken language doesn’t sound like your idea of a fun night out, then I have to assume you’ve never spent time in the company of Charlie Haylock. Combining an encyclopaedic knowledge of the roots and development of our native tongue with a rakish wit, Haylock had the audience captivated with his explanation of how the English language was first established and why it’s become the dominant linguist force in the world.
. . . . . Using nothing more than a lo-fi flip chart, Haylock demonstrated how language is inexorably entwined with history and the movement of people. Far from being set in stone, the English language owes much of its ubiquity to its fluidity. Using the building blocks of Old English, it voraciously gobbled up words from all over the world, building a vocabulary twice the size of French, the next in line when it comes to world count.”
Doors Open 6.45pm for 7.30pm start
This is a fundraising event to support The Pennoyer Centre Charity Registered Charity No. 1135788

Let the Festivities Begin...
2025-12-05 17:30 - 23:00 | The Pennoyer Centre, Station Road, Pulham St Mary, Norfolk, IP21 4QT, United Kingdom
Join us to get the festivities started! The big man himself will arrive on his sleigh and switch on the Pulham St Mary Christmas Tree Lights. Enjoy a pint at the Beer Bar or perhaps a Festive Cocktail.
Doors open – 5.30pm
Santa Sleigh – Harleston Round Table are kindly bringing the sleigh out early this year, so the big man can switch on the lights. (The sleigh is a fund raising activity for Harleston Round Table and they would appreciate donations) – 6pm
Christmas Tree Light switch on – 6.30pm
East Coast Pizza – from 5.30pm
This is a fundraising event to support The Pennoyer Centre Charity Registered Charity No. 1135788
