Hambledon FC are welcoming a team from Switzerland to Badger Park this Saturday. FC Kempttal from Zurich are the visitors.
Ex Player Chris Grove brings his new team for a preseason match. As they look to prepare for the start of the Swiss season.
Hambledon v FC Kempttal
27th Feb 2:15pm KO
Come and enjoy the match from the warm and fully licensed Clubhouse.
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The Merry Book Club meets monthly on a Thursday night at 7pm at the Merry Harriers pub. We are a friendly group and welcome any new members. Combining the book discussion with a meal, we usually have a general chat when we arrive and then eat about 7.30pm. We aim to discuss the most recent book at about 8pm and then discuss other books we are reading. We also try to choose the next few books in advance to enable members to buy, order from the library or borrow. Usually we finish about 9.30pm. There are about 20 members on the circulation list but we generally have about 6-8 people attend. It’s very relaxed and informal – more ‘a supper club that talks about books’ than your more serious book club!
We are very grateful to the Merry Harriers for ‘hosting’ the Merry Book Club and always looking after us so well.
Our next meeting is on 21 May 2026.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Camilla Edmiston at [email protected]
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Hambledon Cricket Club has been busy preparing for the 2015 season and is seeking more players to join its league and friendly teams and also more juniors.
Helpers are also required to coach the junior members and to umpire matches and score for both senior and junior teams.
Hambledon Cricket Club has one of the most picturesque grounds in the county and is a lovely place to play village cricket. Players and spectators alike will enjoy a visit to the community-run Hambledon Village Shop, which overlooks the cricket green.
Junior coaching sessions take place on Saturday mornings and Monday evenings. The first team plays competitive matches in the local Village League and the Friendly XI has a more relaxed approach.
More details about the club can be found at www.pitchero.com/clubs/hambledonccsurrey
For further information please phone Tony Strudwick on 01483 428564
Why not join our friendly group to keep active and discover new places to explore within the neighbouring countryside?
Hambledon Ramblers organize two walks every month: a ‘long’ walk of no more than 7 miles followed by a pub lunch (2nd Tuesday) and a shorter walk of 4-5 miles (4th Tuesday).
Reports of our jaunts appear in the Hambledon Parish Magazine, back-copies of which can be found on this website.
The Society promotes and encourages the study of the history of the Parish of Hambledon. It encourages the conservation and preservation of buildings, memorials, antiquities, memorabilia, records, manuscripts and pictorial material relating to the Parish of Hambledon.The Society owns photograph albums going back over 100 years which are kept up to date. These are displayed at village events, and are available to Hambledon residents to borrow. The Society organizes an annual lecture on a relevant topic each spring.
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The Hambledon Heritage albums are now housed in the Sun Room at Cobblers, which means that they can be accessed by anyone interested in finding out more about the history of our village and the personalities who contributed to it. Please let Jane Woolley know if you would like to visit and browse – 01428 684213 or [email protected]. The postal address is Cobblers, Woodlands Road, Hambledon, Godalming, Surrey GU8 4HL.
Hambledon was one of the contributors to the Women’s Institute Scrapbook competition in 1952. It is made up of ‘scraps’ collected and given by Hambledon residents and was produced and maintained by Mary Parker, who lived in the village (and remained there all her life). It was kept at the village Post Office and was available for loan. By 1997 it was showing signs of wear and tear so a Hambledon Heritage Exhibition was organised to raise money for a Mary Parker Memorial Fund which enabled the Scrapbook to be conserved and re-bound.
The interest which the 1998 Exhibition evoked and the material that was contributed to it awakened a realisation that there was an on-going need for village memorabilia to be retained and recorded. This led to the establishment of the Hambledon Heritage Society, one of whose roles is to compile and maintain a meticulous collection of photographic and printed memorabilia which are contained in the Hambledon Heritage albums.
Visit http://hambledonsurrey.co.uk/scrapbook/ if you would like to look at the digitised version of the Scrapbook.
The Hambledon Heritage Society is also proud to announce the publication of the first part of their Oral History Project: video and audio recordings of villagers’ stories recounting life in the Hambledon during the 1940’s.
We wish to thank Philip profusely for treating us to such a splendid evening.
The proceedings got off to a super start with Philip’s generous supply of local sparkling cider, flowing freely with the pre-talk nibbles! Philip then shared his in-depth knowledge with an audience of nearly 50 people – delivering his light-hearted, yet extremely informative speech with alacrity, being the seasoned and expert speaker that he is. We learned of butterflies both near and far, of the history of butterfly collection, and of works in the Chiddingfold Forest to conserve local woodland species.
We all certainly now know how to recognise our Skippers from our Swallowtails, and left the village hall feeling not only more knowledgeable, but well sated, after a hearty meal of Julie’s delicious lamb shank shepherd’s pie!
With ticket sales and donations, the evening raised £750 for the Hambledon Community Fund. When matched by 50% under the government’s current charity scheme, this means that £1125 was put
into the HCF account, ready to be fed back into the community where it is needed.
Congratulations and thanks again to Philip for such a special evening. Our thanks must also go to Jon Tidmarsh for beavering away with chairs and trestle tables as we set-up and dismantled the hall after the event. The jovial audience who gave us their support also deserve a special mention – may you all have a wonderful spring, spotting (and identifying!) beautiful butterflies, with your newly learned skills as amature lepidopterists!
Hambledon Football Club has received a cheque for £99,999 from the Football Foundation at a presentation attended by officials, villagers and local MP Jeremy Hunt.
The presentation was made to Matt Kiley, club secretary, who also gratefully received another cheque of £1,000 from the Hambledon Community Fund.
The two grants have helped Hambledon FC take a significant step forward in realising its dream of replacing its delapidated “hut” with a modern club house. Both recognise the efforts the club has made in its own fund raising over the last few years. Planning permission has already been granted for the new facilities and it is hoped work can start in the New Year.
The Football Foundation grant was made under its “Grow The Game” scheme. The limited facilities at Hambledon’s Badger Park ground restricted the club’s development, with some younger players prefering to play elsewhere and the club having no prospect of promotion to higher leagues until improvements were made. It is hoped that the new clubhouse will be ready for the 2013-14 season.
A grant of £99,999 from the Football Foundation means that Hambledon Football Club will be able to start work on its much-needed new pavilion and changing rooms at its Badger Park ground in the New Year.
The award of the grant has been greeted with delight by The Dons as it makes the long-awaited new facilities a reality rather than an aspiration. Planning permission has already been obtained but work could not start until significant funding was obtained on top of that already raised.
The grant, made by the Foundation under its “Grow The Game” fund, means that the club has a good chance of having the new club house ready for the 2013-14 season.
Matt Kiley, club secretary and first team player, said: “This money, along with grants already awarded from Waverley Borough Council, Surrey Community Fund and the Surrey Playing Fields Association, together with the club’s own fund raising efforts, enables us to put our building plans into place. Exciting times area ahead for the club.”
However, fund raising will continue as another £10,000 is still needed.
Paul Thorogood, chief executive of the Football Foundation, said: “I commend Hambledon FC and the Surrey FA for working tirelessly to secure this funding and I look forward to seeing the end result in the near future.
Hambledon FC will be presented with its grant cheque at a ceremony attended by club members, the Football Foundation, Waverley Borough and Hambledon Parish councillors and local MP Jeremy Hunt.
Mic Coleman, who has done so much to support and develop cricket and football in Hambledon over many years, has had his contribution recognised with an outstanding achievement award.
At the recent Sport Godalming awards ceremony held at the Charterhouse Club he was presented with the Downs Award, which recognises distinguished service in promoting sport in the community.
Mic has been actively involved in both Hambledon cricket and football clubs for several decades, and is president of both.
The award was made at a ceremony at which Hambledon Football Club, last season’s Guildford and Woking Alliance Premier Division champions, were named senior team of the year, a remarkable achievement for one of the league’s smallest clubs.
Matt Kiley, Hambledon FC secretary, said he was delighted that the club had been recognised. Of Mic he said: “He is one of the unsung characters of local sport; he is ‘Mr Hambledon'”.
Sport Godalming is a body which exists to support and encourage sport in the area.
Hambledon FC could not be promoted, despite winning their league, because the facilitiies at the club’s Badger Park ground did not meet with requirements.
The club has planning permission for a new club house but is still fundraising before work can start.
Details of the football club, and its development plans, can be found in the Clubs and Organisations section of this website.
Mic is pictured above on the day he was introduced to Princess Alexandra, when she visited Hambledon in recognition of it being voted Surrey Village of the Year 2008-2009.
THE annual Christmas Party at the Village Hall raised £1,183 for charity – the largest amount in the history of the event.
The money will be divided between the Phyllis Tuckwell and Chase hospices.
Mary Grove, on behalf of the organisers, said she was delighted that the party had broken its previous best and thanked all those who helped make the evening such a success.
Local band Toxic Sausage again proved immensely popular, had everyone dancing, and closed to rapturous applause and demands for an encore.
Thank you to all those who supported the event in many different ways and to those who put in the hard work to make it a great evening.
The party, attended by almost 100 people, was held on Saturday (December 12th).