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June 1st-27th
The Strutts – Exhibition
Belper Library, Derwent Street
A display of portraits of the Strutt family who built and managed the Belper and Milford Mills. Bring your phone and download information from a QR code which will tell you more about each member of the family.
Free entry
Fri-Sun June 5th-7th
Belper Goes Green
Belper Meadows Cricket Club | Daily times TBC
Belper Goes Green a three day family festival returns after a year away bigger and better, to celebrate everything the local community has to offer in an environmentally conscious way.
Belper Goes Green is an eco, community and arts festival in the heart of Belper, Derbyshire. Organised by Transition Belper www.transitionbelper.org/belper-goes-green/ – it is a celebration of local living, which aims to share ways of reducing our impact on the planet, whilst connecting the local community in a relaxed, safe and uplifting way.
£5.50 for the weekend, day tickets are available
Friday June 5th
Walks Festival – Belper 1776
Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-4pm
Part of the Belper Walks Festival 5th-21st June. What was Belper like when the Strutts first arrived in the town? Adrian Farmer explores this small 18th century community. This two hour 1.5 mile walk involves some steep climbs.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Belper Well Dressings
Belper Memorial Gardens, King Street
A Belper 250 theme for the anniversary year.
Free entry
Saturday June 6th
Belper Goes Green: Cycling Activities
Family Ride and Quiz – Wyver Lane | 10am
A Family ride and Quiz along Wyver Lane, a quiet (and flat!) country road skirting the edge of the nature reserve. Cyclists will ride in small groups with a marshal to guide them.
Total distance: 4 miles.
Registration in car park opposite the Talbot Hotel, Bridge Foot.
Free Entry
General Cycling activities – Belper Meadows | 11am
Cycling activites on Belper Meadows Main site
- kiddies slalom
- slow bike race; the slowest wins!
- Dr Bike: bring your bike to the Ayup Bikes stall for advice and minor repairs
- bike security marking by Derbyshire Constabulary
Belper Goes Green Festival Ticket require for over 18
Walks Festival: 250 years of Waterpower – A Strutt legacy
Start from the River Gardens Bandstand | 2pm-4pm
Join experienced guide Dr Ian Jackson for a stroll around the waterways of the Belper Mill complex to hear about Belper's industrial mill owners and renewable energy generators who, for nearly 250 years, have continually improved the harnessing of the power of the Derwent. Their stewardship of the river is a story of conflict, compromise and collaboration.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Sunday June 7th
Walks Festival: On the Trail of Slater the Traitor
Start from Belper North Mill | 1.30pm-4.30pm
Join Ian Hill on this 5.25 mile picturesque countryside walk to discover the early life of notorious Samuel Slater (‘Slater The Traitor’) and other areas of historical interest along the way. Starting at the North Mill, the walk takes you to the site of Slater’s family home, ‘New Mills’ (Milford) and the historic Holly Bush Inn for a refreshment break before returning to Belper via The Derwent Valley Heritage Way. Customers will also receive a Souvenir Map based on original hand drawing by local artist Andrew Spriggs. Well behaved dogs welcome.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £10, Under 18s £5
Wednesday June 10th
Walks Festival: The Hutfall
Start from Belper Market Place | 7pm-8.30pm
Part of the Belper Walks Festival. Includes one steep climb. Uniquely, Belper's village field was called The Hutfall. Adrian Farmer takes an evening walk around and through this pre-enclosure space. Includes one steep climb
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Friday June 12th
Walks Festival: Belper and the Beasts
Start from The Triangle, Belper | 11am-1pm
Part of the Belper Walks Festival. There is a rich history of strange animal encounters in the town. Join Christine Smith on this 2 mile walk to explore some of the weird and wonderful tales of centuries past. There is some walking uphill and one flight of steps.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Saturday June 13th
Walks Festival: Beth’s Poetry Trail.
Start from the River Gardens Bandstand | 10.30am-1pm
The trail is named after Beth Fender, a local poet who died in 2002. As a tribute, a trail was installed with poems in various locations around Belper that take into account the setting and displayed using a sympathetic medium. The installations were commissioned from Derbyshire artists and some local poets.
The walk will be led by two of the founders of the trail and all profits will go towards supporting the maintenance of the trail.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Talk – Renewable Energy at Belper
Derby Museum and Art Gallery | 1.30pm
Talk by Dr Ian Jackson on '250 years of renewable energy generation at the Strutt's Belper Mills: An extraordinary story' at Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
Sunday June 14th
Walks Festival: Feeding Belper
Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-4pm
An exploration of how people have been fed in Belper over the past 1,000 years, with Adrian Farmer.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Music: Bob Cheevers
The Queens Head, Chesterfield Road, Belper | 7pm
Bob Cheevers American singer songwriter – Country, folk and Americana
Places can be reserved via mjones572@hotmail.co.uk
Entry £10, £8 unwaged
Tuesday June 16th
Walks Festival: Tales and Trickery
Belper North Mill car park, by the Weir | 6.30pm-8.30pm
A 3.5 mile country walk with Liz Haslam, visiting sites associated with characters from Belper folklore; a mermaid, a fairy, a witch and a ghost! On this walk we climb steep hills and it may be muddy after rain.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Thursday June 18th
Walks Festival: History of Belper Market Place
Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-2.45pm
A gentle stroll around this key area of the town with Christine Smith, looking at how it has changed and hearing about some colourful local characters.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Friday June 19th
The Struttybanger
Have a go at one of the two Strutty Banger competitions from Belper 250 in conjunction with G B Maycocks & Sons butchers, Openwood Gate.
1.
The Strutty Banger – to come up with a sausage recipe that is inspired from the name previously used for students of Herbert Strutt School. It should capture the flavour and character of the Belper.
2.
The childrens (11 years and younger) competition to design and draw a sausage making machine.
Entry forms can be picked up at:
– Belper Library, Derwent Street, Belper
– 45 Degrees Design & Print, Campbell Street, Belper
– G O Coopers Ltd (Butchers), King Street, Belper
– Comford Mill shop, Cromford
Download the entry forms here:
The Strutty Banger entry form (Adults)
The sausage making machine entry form (Children)
Forms can be printed in black and white, grey scale or colour
All entries can be handed into Belper Library
The Strutty Banger Recipe can be scanned and submitted to info@belper250.co.uk
Closing Date: Friday 17th July
Entry Free
Saturday June 20th
Music: RAMSHACKLE
St Peter's Church, Belper | Doors at 6.30pm
Singers of traditional and contemporary folk and shanty songs. Refreshments at the interval
Booking essential: from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk from (booking fees may apply) and St Peter's Church, Belper.
Entry £10
Sunday June 21st
Walks Festival: The Search for Belper’s Lost Manor House
Start from Belper Market Place | 2pm-3.30pm
Part of the Belper Walks Festival. Trevor Griffin leads a one-mile circuit in parkland from Belper Market Place to find clues to the mystery of what happened to the manor house, which was once the headquarters of the royal hunting forest of Duffield Frith. We will find associated buildings, the location of a garden and water features in the setting of this beautiful ancient woodland.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Friday June 26th
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
Saturday June 27th
The Big Read
River Gardens, Belper | Arrive between 10.30am and 11am
Belper Book Club & Dormouse Books present The Big Read, aiming to gather 250 people in the River Gardens to read. To celebrate Belper 250 and also The National Year of reading. Turn up at 10.30am with a book and take part in Belper's first book flash mob.
Free Entry
The River Runs
Christ Church, Belper | 7.30pm
A tribute to Jedediah Strutt and the mills which made Belper famous. Lester Simpson leads Raise Your Voices choir in a performance of combined elements from some of his previous musical projects; a millennium CD celebrating Belper’s history, commissioned by Belper Town Council, and music composed for two short films for Milford’s ‘Maypole Promotions’.
Tickets from TicketSource and www.raiseyourvoicesww.com
booking fees may apply.
£10 per person
Derwent Brass - Last Night at the Proms
St Peters Church, Belper | 7.30pm
Derwent Brass present 'Last Nighet at the Proms
Tickets available from St Peters Church office
Entry £12/£10/£6
Sunday June 28th
Walk: Belper Ghost Walk
Belper Triangle | 2pm-4pm
Dare to uncover the secrets of the unseen in Belper town centre, and share your own stories as we wander the haunted streets on this easy 1 mile walk.
Booking essential, booking fees may apply via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk.
Adults £7.50, Under 16s free
Talk: William Strutt, FRS: A Tradesman of some eminence
No.28, Market Place | 6pm
Third of five talks at organised by the Belper North Mill Trust. Talk by Dr Ian Jackson, the third in a series of five from the Belper North Mill Trust. The work and legacy of William Strutt, FRS, (1756 to 1830) as told by his family, friends and visitors to Derby and the Strutt's Derbyshire mills.
Booking is essential to ensure a seat, booking fees may apply online via www.belpernorthmill.org.uk
£6 per person
Earthed Up! Permaculture Course
Various | 10am-5pm
An Introduction to Permaculture inspired by our town and the Belper 250 celebrations. This unique course will consider permaculture ethics of Earth Care, People Care, Fair Shares.
We will explore industrialisation and the Strutts social systems, reflecting on the ethics and learning about worker conditions. As a workers co-op, we are well placed to cover these topics.
This is where the industrial revolution took hold, where the Strutt family created new industrial communities in a pastoral landscape.
There will be practical activities in meadows, by river, in town, and a community garden.
Teas and water provided, bring your own lunch.
https://earthedup.com/learn/introduction-to-permaculture has full info; booking details and queries on pricing.
Entry £52 – £77