WORTHY Park Tennis Club is at risk of closing if it doesn’t find more supporters before its next AGM in January.

The club which began in 2012 is recruiting volunteers to join the committee to help run the club and keep it going as a low-cost opportunity for locals to play tennis.

A notice in the latest edition of the Itchen Valley News read: “If we don’t find enough people to support the club before the next AGM, then we will take the necessary measures to dissolve it.

“Once the club ceases to exist, it will not be possible to reform it and the tennis courts currently available to those in the local community will be lost forever.”

The club is organising a quiz at the Cart and Horses on Wednesday, November 22 at 7pm for a 7.30pm start, to welcome potential new members and committee members. For more information contact coachrachelmagory@gmail.com or jenny@sloan-home.co.uk.

ITCHEN Abbas’s Christmas Fair will be at the village hall on Saturday, November 18.

From 2.30 to 5pm visitors will be able to meet Father Christmas, try some crafts and games, enjoy a café and take part in the raffle and tombola. Proceeds will go to Itchen Abbas Primary School.

EASTON Supper Club’s first meeting had a full house. Organisers Naomi, Sue, Sarah and Joanna had a lot of fun planning and hosting the evening at the village hall.

The next supper club is planned for Saturday, February 3.

THE Martyr Worthy Lecture Series re-starts on Tuesday, November 28 with author and historian, Jessie Childs, who will speak about her book The Siege of Loyalty House, a new history of the English Civil War, through the story of the siege of Basing House from 1643-45.

Events start at 6.30pm in Itchen Abbas and Avington Village Hall for drinks and canapes before lectures commence at 7.15pm.

Tickets cost £25. For more information on the whole series or to book go to tickettailor.com/events/martyrworthylectures. Any enquiries should be sent to Sophie Parry at martyrworthylectures2023@gmail.com.

THE Annual Remembrance Sunday Parade at Easton War Memorial is welcoming members of the Royal British Legion (RBL) and anyone else who has served in the Armed Forces to take part.

The group will be meeting at 10.45am on Sunday, November 12 and people are encouraged to wear medals if they have them.

The Remembrance Service will at St Mary’s Church Easton shortly after the two minute silence and wreath laying.

SPARSHOLT College is hosting a lecture on the future of farming on Tuesday, November 14.

Speakers include Mark Thomas from the Farming Community Network, Ian and Louise Nelson of Sunnyfields Farm Shop, Mike Smales of Lyburn Cheese and Ellie Banks and Alison Tabot from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).

The evening is in memory of Hampshire-born and bred Jenny Gray who set up farming business with her husband Howard.

The Jenny Gray Lecture runs from 6.30 to 9pm in the Hampshire Rural Business Centre. Free tickets are available at sparsholt.ac.uk/events/jenny-gray-lecture/.

THE Defence Infrastructure Organisation is holding two community events to hear residents’ ideas on the Sir John Moore Barracks development near Littleton.

The first event is from 3pm-7pm, on Friday, November 10 at Littleton Millennium Memorial Hall. The second will be at The Henry Beaufort School on Saturday, November 11 from 10am-2pm.