Sunday April 5th

Ripley Morris Annual Easter Tour 

Belper Town Centre | Time TBC

Ripley Morris annual Easter Tour in Belper, dancing at various spots in the Town Centre 

Free entry
 

Saturday April 11th

Preserving Belper’s Industrial Heritage

No.28, Market Place | 9am-1pm

A project coordinated by Belper Historical Society (BHS), engaging with communities in and around Belper who may have family artefacts from Belper factories. Volunteer BHS ‘curators’ will help to collect, organise and preserve factory-related photographs, documents and artefacts, creating virtual scrapbooks. 

Once catalogued and digitised, original materials will be offered to the Derbyshire Record Office for long term storage. 

Free entry

Music: Ma Polaine's Great Decline

The Queens Head, Chesterfield Road Belper | 7pm

Pete Beth Packer and Clinton Hough, and orignal band based in Somerset.

Places can be reserved via mjones572@hotmail.co.uk

Entry £10, £8 unwaged

Sunday April 12th

Belper at War walk

10am and 2pm, meeting point on booking 

This three-hour walk around the town tells the story of Belper's military history, from the 1700s and the steps taken by the Strutts to protect the mills, to the 20th Century and one of the biggest secrets of the Second World War.

Booking via: https://derbysheritagewalks.com/belper_secret.htm payment via PayPal (other options availble). Prices £3 per person, family rates £5 for 1 adult and up to 4 children, and £8 for 2 adults and up to 4 children.

Thursday April 16th

75 years of Belper Town FC

Room 107, Strutts Community Centre | 7pm for 7.30pm

Talk by Mike Smith for Belper Historical Society. Mike has been researching the history of the current Belper Town Football Club, The Nailers. This is a brief look at the highs and lows of the Town's premier football club since its reformation in 1951 – from changing in the Talbot and trotting over the bridge, to the floodlights and fancy scoreboards of the 21st Century!

Free to members, £5 for visitors
 

Friday April 17th

Acoustic Concert - Dale Rowle and Friends

St Faiths Community Centre, Belper lane End | 7pm-9pm 

Acoustic Concerts featuring Dale Rowles and friends. 

With Professional Sound and Light. Helping to Commemorate 250 years of the Belper Mills. Sponsored By Steampunkrecords. All profits go to the upkeep of the hall.

Entry – Donation on the door

Saturday April 18th

International World Heritage Site Day – New Belper Book 

From this day, there’ll be a new book in town, telling the story of Belper and its mills, and the influence of the Strutt family on the community.

Monday April 20th

Nordic Walk in the Derwent Valley

Meeting point will advised on booking.

Limited places on 3 sessions: 5-5.45pm, 6-6.45pm, 
7-7.45pm. 5pm – With Nordic Stride 2 Thrive.

Join a FREE adult beginner friendly Nordic walking taster session. You’ll be learning at the picturesque Belper River Gardens, with views over Belper Mills.

If you can walk unsupported, you can Nordic Walk. Pay & display parking. No dogs please.

Booking essential. Text 07967 727780 or email nordicstride2thrive@gmail.com. 

Free entry

Friday April 24th

Welcome Meal Project

No.28 Market Place, Belper | 12-2pm

The Welcome Meal Project is a monthly community meal run by volunteers and offers pay-what-you-can for soup, bread and a pudding is supported by Transition Belper 

No need to book – Pay what you can

Sunday April 26th

Sir Arthur Heywood and his Railways 

No28, Market Place | 6pm

Talk by Trevor Griffin, the second in a series of five talks from the Belper North Mill Trust. Sir Arthur Heywood built at least three miniature railways in the late nineteenth century. He built the locomotives, carriages and wagons in a workshop at Duffield which was a small scale version of Derby Locomotive Works. This is the story of this amazing man and his eccentric railways.

Booking is essential to ensure a seat, booking fees may apply online via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk

Entry £6

TBC April-July

Belper250 lines 

Open call-out by Fleet Arts for people to submit one line about Belper, that then is put together as one poem on a decorated scroll to perform and display. TBC