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The Stroudwater Textile Festival continues until May 21 with stunning exhibitions in Stroud Subscription Rooms, Stroud Museum, The Space and Kendrick Street Gallery. Talks and workshops have been well attended and attracted many visitors to the town. In Stroud Museum, families are invited to drop in on Saturday May 17 and help create a crazy quilt, and on Sunday May 18 at 2pm, Deidre McSharry talks about Eastern costume. Shop windows hold clues to a textile competition, as well as colourful textile displays and poems. More poems are pasted up around town, and it is good to see many town centre shops are sprucing up their paintwork. And it doesn't all end this month. In October there is another mini-festival to launch a book of poems by Jane Weir, inspired by the work of Barron and Larcher, with an exhibition of new textiles by Linda Brassington, talks, workshops and trips to places connected with the two 'modern misses' who lived in Painswick in the 1930s.

Help is available this week for gardeners eager to get on with spring planting. Stroud Valley School hold their annual sale of garden plants on Friday May 16 from 3-5pm, proceeds to the PTFA. Please park in Parliament Street car park. Stroud Methodist Church is holding its annual plant sale on Saturday May 17 from 10am to 12.30pm in the Wesley Rooms of St Alban's Church. All kinds of plants will be available from bedding to vegetables, herbaceous perennials to shrubs and indoor plants, as well as garden bric a brac and home made refreshments. Proceeds towards building improvements at St Alban's. And on Wednesday May 21 at 7.30pm, Radio Gloucestershire's Reg Moule gives a talk in Stroud Congregational Church Hall, Bedford Street, on growing vegetables. This has been arranged by Stroud Horticultural Society. Visitors welcome, admission £1.50.

A talk on water and why fluoridation would be bad for Gloucestershire is open to the public on Saturday May 17 in the British School in Slad Road at 1.15pm. It will be followed by the AGM of the Safe Water Campaign. More information on 01453 755451.

Stroud Brass Band Festival continues with a concert by the champion Fairey Band on Saturday May 17 at 7.30pm in Stroud Subscription Rooms, tickets on 01453 760900.

Following the sell-out success of 'Oliver!' by the Cotwold Players, the Cotswold Playhouse is making good use of its new facilities by hosting performances by visiting groups. On Saturday May 17 the Duo Nocturne, who specialise in 19th century works for two guitars, but also play Spanish, Latin American and modern pieces, present a concert, tickets on 01453 760900. And on Saturday May 24, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School present Nick Darke's stage adaptation of Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie. Tickets, if not already sold out, on 01453 760900.

Two local music groups combine for a special commemorative concert for the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Stroud Choral Society and Stroud Symphony Orchestra perform his Sea Symphony and Elgar's Enigma Variations in Tewkesbury Abbey on Saturday, May 17 at 7.30pm.

This is Christian Aid Week, when door to door collections are made by people from local churches for the world-wide work of relief in time of disaster, and of projects to help the poorest peoples of the world become more self-sufficient in the basic necessities of life, food, water, shelter and work. Stroud churches are holding a united informal open air service on the bandstand in Stratford Park on Sunday May 18 at 6.30pm with a Christian Aid theme. Praise in the Park this month has music by the Psalm drummers, and the speaker is Graham Collins from Holy Trinity. Churches Together in Stroud hold their AGM on Wednesday May 21 at 7.30pm in Minchinhampton Baptist Church.

TOTCA (Top of town community association) reports that the recent AGM went well with the following people being elected onto the committee: Chair Vivienne Davis, Vice Chair Nancy Hancock, Treasurer Lewis Watt, Secretary Mick Jones, Tenants Rep Tony Hancock, Committee Members Ange Watt, Ann Jones, Sue Okey, Frank Okey, Shirley White, Clive Pearce, Phil Flight, Andy Wilson and Tim Taylor. They have now set a date for the fete. If anyone wishes to have a stall or attraction, the date is Saturday June 7. It will be held in conjunction with a youth club open day, details can be had by phoning Mick Jones on 01453 753994. The youth club is laying on a coach to take members and their families to Weston for a day trip in a fifty two seater which is now full. The bingo is going quite well but they are always keen to welcome new members. The free members' draw now stands at twelve pounds and the weekly tote is over sixty pounds at the moment.

Stroud Carers Group have a lunch outing on Tuesday May 20, but there is no meeting on Monday May 26 as this is a bank holiday.

Stroud Valleys Project Hold 3 Wildwatch events this week. The two Sues lead a butterfly walk at Daneway on Saturday May 17 from 11am to 12.30pm, book on 01453 750251. On Tuesday May 20 from 10am to 1pm volunteers are needed to replace the fence at Stratford Mill at the back of Tesco, damaged in last year's floods, book your place on 01453 753358. And on Wednesday May 21 you can attend a pond-dipping workshop in Cainscross, book early on 01453 753398.

Stroud town council holds its annual meeting on Thursday May 22 when all residents are invited to come along to St Laurence church hall in the Shambles at 7.30pm, to hear reports on the year, and ask questions. Town awards will also be given out to the top trader, the young person of the year, and community and civic awards. Stroud Civic Society also nominates the design award for the best building.

Stroud Businesswomen's Network meets again at 9.30am in the Star Anise cafe in Gloucester Street on Thursday May 22. Contact: Lynda on 01453 872759 if you are interested.

The Green Party sponsored discussions continue at Star Anise cafe in Gloucester Street, with coffee and cake, open to all. The next, on Friday May 23 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm,asks, 'Is CO2 rationing the best way to stop climate change?'

4:51pm Thursday 8th May 2008

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