Monday 4th August 2014 was the one hundredth anniversary of when Britain joined the First World War. This was also the day that we had chosen to reopen Sandham Memorial Chapel to the public after almost a year of closure. A year which has seen restoration works taking place, a paintings tour and the creation […]
WISE boys dance company are a spin off group from the annual boys dance project run at the Corn exchange each autumn for the last five years, ManMade. The company is made us of boys from schools participating in ManMade nominated by their dance teachers as exceptionally driven and committed to dance and the group works […]
It has been a month of dramatic change at Sandham Memorial Chapel. Thanks to the time and efforts of dedicated volunteers, we now have a lovely-looking reflective garden planted! Its creation is a testament to the range of different groups who have come together to help us commemorate the start of the First World War […]
The Kennet School group are a mixture of year 10 and year 7 pupils and they are taking the Resurrection Scene at Sandham Memorial Chapel as stimulus to create a piece of drama looking at young men who lied about their age to ‘join up’ during World War I. I was lucky enough to visit […]
The Young Corn Exchange -One of the three groups working on the Sandham-inspired drama project provide an update on their progress. so far. The cornerstone of the work the Corn Exchange Learning and Participation department is doing with the National Trust around Sandham Memorial Chapel this year is a focus on youth-led work. Just as the three […]
As days go by the blank space to the rear of Sandham Memorial Chapel is starting to look more and more like garden designer, Daniel Lobb’s plan. We are building a reflective garden behind Sandham for a range of reasons: We want to mark the Centenary of the First World War. The garden will provide […]
Only a few months until we re-open now and it’s been a been a busy few months for the Sandham Community stall. The Stall was developed to provide a one-stop, portable information point about Sandham for local people, during the period that Sandham has been closed for restoration works. It has been proving a real success. […]
It was a glorious evening when Newbury’s Young Corn Exchange Performers visited Sandham Memorial Chapel to work on their dramatic response to Sandham’s paintings. We were able to get a tantalising glimpse as to what their final performance may include!The group are focusing on the two Spandrels on either side of the Chapel. Two vast expanses of […]
We hope you enjoyed the warm weather recently. It’s day’s like this that all who work at Sandham pinch themselves. What a stunning wildflower display, and volunteer gardener Mike Sharp tells me that these beautiful daisys were self seeding. We can’t wait for our visitors and new volunteers to enjoy it for the first time, when […]
On Friday 9th May, we were invited to a private view of an art exhibition at Tedworth House. Tedworth House is a Help for Heroes funded recovery centre that supports soldiers recovering from the physical and psychological impacts of active service. Over the past six months residents from Tedworth House have helped clear the rear garden at Sandham, ready […]
The Sandham Project 