Wainsgate Chapel

15/06/2026

A big Midsummer’s bonanza of activities and events for the whole family this Sunday 21st at Summer at Wainsgate. 🌞
Loads to do and see, all served up with lip smacking food, drinks and even some delicious cocktails to round off this special day.
We would love to see you… come for the events, or just to hang out and enjoy the day with us.
🌱All of the proceeds go to keep Wainsgate safe and thriving for future generations. 💚
All the details here:
https://wainsgate.co.uk/summer-at-wainsgate/

15/06/2026

🌞Here‘s the schedule for Summer at Wainsgate this Sunday🌞
Book onto individual events or just come along, hang out, enjoy the food and the vibes.
it will be a lovely way to spend your day.
🦋🍹 🍔 🍰 🌭 🎶 ✍️ 🕺🏾💃🏼 🪴 👕

14/06/2026

Looking for a different kind of Father’s Day?

Skip the crowded pubs and come to Summer at Wainsgate. Share a walk on the moor, make something together, watch a performance or two, eat delicious food, discover new music and finish the day with cocktails in the chapel as the midsummer sun begins to dip. Whether you’re bringing your dad, your kids, your chosen family or just yourself, it’s a day built around spending time well.

All the details: https://wainsgate.co.uk/summer-at-wainsgate/

12/06/2026

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09/06/2026

☀️ SUMMER AT WAINSGATE ☀️

Sunday 21 June | 11am–7pm

For Midsummer's Day, Wainsgate's doors will be thrown open for a big bold celebratory day of creativity and conversation, food and music, mooching and making.

Throughout the day there'll be workshops, performances, walks, family activities, delicious food and drink, plants and Wainsgate goodies for sale, plus cocktails and tunes as the day winds down.

Join us for:

✍️ Creative Writing with Amanda Dalton
🌿 The High Sun Walk with Paul Knights
💃 Family Dancing with Lucy Suggate
🎨 Family Drawing with Jo Gorner & Charlie Ford
🌱 Willow Weaving with the Wainsgate Gardeners
🎤 Alternative Sunday Sermon with record breaking beatboxer, Testament
🤸 Sunday Session with Hugh Stanier & Charlie Morrissey
🍸 Cocktails & DJ set from Yadava

Or simply come along, enjoy the food, the views, the atmosphere and spend the day with us.

As always, everyone is welcome.

Full details and booking:

https://wainsgate.co.uk/summer-at-wainsgate/

03/06/2026

Come along for a big bright day of Summer Celebrations for all ages on 21st June at Wainsgate.

SUNDAY 21ST JUNE 11AM-7PM For Midsummer’s Day, Wainsgate’s doors will be thrown open for a joyful day of creativity, conversation, food, music and making.Throughout the day there’ll be workshops, performances, walks, family activities, delicious food and drinks,

03/06/2026

For Midsummer’s Day, Wainsgate’s doors will be thrown open for a joyful day of creativity, conversation, food, music and making.

Throughout the day there’ll be workshops, performances, walks, family activities, delicious food and drinks, plants and Wainsgate goodies for sale, plus cocktails and tunes as the day winds down.

Book onto the events that catch your eye, or simply come along, soak up the atmosphere, enjoy the building and views, and be part of this lively midsummer celebration.

With special guest Testament - acclaimed writer, rapper and Guinness world record breaking human beatboxer giving an Alternative Sunday Sermon.

https://wainsgate.co.uk/summer-at-wainsgate/

23/05/2026

Just getting set-up for tomorrow’s Sunday Session with Matthew Hawkins
Matthew has been dancing his whole life, and all over the world.
From his early years training and then dancing with the Royal Ballet, through to dancing with Michael Clark and a host of other comapnies including his own; dancing is an essential part of who he is.
This Sunday 24th May as Matthew approaches 70, come and see him practice what he practices every day.
It’s a beautiful, idiosyncratic and precise thing that he does.
One man who has dedicated himself to movement, and who keeps on keepng on - endlessly engaged in something rigorous, curious and precise.
It’s a thrill to have him at Wainsgate.
Come and spend an hour in his company.
And there’s delicious home-made cake, tea coffee, and whatever tipple you might fancy from the bar.
https://wainsgate.co.uk/matthew-hawkins-ready/

14/05/2026

Come along and experience the work of Matthew Hawkins (which spans several decades from the Royal Ballet to the Michael Clarke company to forming his own company and much much more) via these two contemporary dance workshops on Saturday 23rd May. All Welcome.

Up in Scotland, in a normal week, Matthew gives contemporary dance classes for the Inclusive community and for elders. He also teaches ballet at adult-beginner level. On a Wednesday he lectures in choreography and contemporary technique amid late-teens at Glasgowclyde college. Fridays find him running through his solo work in a vacated retail unit in a shopping mall. Most Mondays, he joins an informal improvisation/research group run by Curious Seed.

All these regular experiences and exchanges will compress into the workshops he is offering at Wainsgate dances.

The sessions will feature chances to work and move, but also watch, talk and unpack questions. Where (if anywhere) do Matthew's initial achievements in the realm of ballet sit in his current practice? Why Beethoven?

Many of Matthew's teaching sessions proceed almost wordlessly. His current material survival rests on his ability to physically demonstrate all his proposals. How is this maintained as he approaches his seventieth year? What is it about his working (and remedial) process that could inspire a wide-range of practitioners?

Throughout the day at Wainsgate, Matthew will show workshop participants episodes of his solo performance READY. In between, he will instigate a planned agenda of exploration and also respond to questions and requests - allowing a focus that will fit those present, be they primarily involved in dancing or more tangentally inclined.

Matthew trialled this showing/sharing procedure at a recent event in Fife.

More information here:
https://wainsgate.co.uk/matthew-hawkins-workshop/

11/05/2026

Coming up on Sunday 24th May - with tea and cake of course, an exquisite, intricate and quirky dance performance from Matthew Hawkins whose incredible and varied career has moved from dancing in the Royal Ballet to dancing with Michael Clarke in his early genre bending years to having his own highly acclaimed company and much more. He’s also a great teacher, and will be teaching a workshop on Saturday 23rd.

https://wainsgate.co.uk/matthew-hawkins-ready/