Category: Community

Welcome to the 2026 National Year of Reading and our local bookshop’s involvement.

After Christmas, I’d like to reflect on recent events in our village. We held a successful Christmas Fayre with lively chatter and laughter. The following Wednesday, Helen Benton, our village Pilates teacher, organised a well-attended ‘LOROS’ Coffee morning, raising another £500 for a deserving charity. This added to the £200 raised from CoCo mornings and £300 from the Christmas Fayre.

Leicestershire Parkinson's Choir welcomes all people living with Parkinson’s, your family, carers and friends.  You can join at any time. Singing not only boosts mood, it helps with breathing, posture and helps keep pathways open in the brain for speech.

If you are a regular watcher of wildlife programmes, you will be familiar with “trail cams”. These are small cameras attached to a tree or post that are triggered by movement. They capture images of shy and nocturnal mammals moving along forest trails, often at night.

This year Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust celebrates seven decades of Nature Recovery across Leicestershire and Rutland, five decades of Rutland Water Nature Reserve, and three decades of Ospreys reintroduced to Rutland.

Would you like the chance to be a bigger part of the community? Are you looking for new friends? Or something to fill your time? Then please consider volunteering at Kibworth Community Library. We have been a Community Library for ten years this year, and a Charitable Trust for eight. During this time, we have had close to a hundred volunteers help run it. We come from different walks of life, are different ages, have some or no experience in libraries, but we all love it. And we are all passionate about keeping the library running!

“Every person can make a difference, and every person should try.” – John F. Kennedy

The club has recently reopened its dining room after a full refurbishment, creating a brighter space for members, guests and the wider community to enjoy. The upgrade has modernised the interior while retaining the welcoming atmosphere the club is known for, making it suitable for casual dining, social events, and post-round gatherings.

Due to excellent support from Harborough District Council and from Crouch’s Recovery, Kibworth Village Hall has recently obtained 75 new chairs for use during all the activities that take place at the village hall. These kind donations are very much appreciated by the Village Hall’s Committee and will ensure that popular events such as the regular film nights and villagers’ birthday parties, will continue to flourish.

On Saturday 22nd November we rocked the night away singing numbers including Sweet Child of Mine, Don't fear the Reaper, Start Me Up/Living on a Prayer, and We Will Rock You. That got the audience going! We also sang a beautiful rendition of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica – check out our socials to look at lots of video clips and photos of a wonderful concert. And keep an eye out too for the total of funds raised for our chosen charity, Rainbows Hospice.