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Come and join us at our volunteer event

The Weaver’s House team are preparing for the upcoming season of Open Days. As part of this, there is a special volunteers’ event on Saturday 26 March.

This will be a casual get-together of existing volunteers who will be ‘waking up the house’ and is a great opportunity for anyone wondering what it’s all about to drop in and have a chat and some cake!

There’s various opportunities varying from leading tours of the house and garden, greeting visitors, gardening and selling merchandise. At the moment we especially need volunteers for our tea-room, so that we can re-open for the coming season, serving hot drinks and cakes. No experience is required.

The event runs from 10am until 2pm on Saturday 26^th, and if you are interested you can drop our volunteers co-ordinator Tina a line on volunteers @ theweavershouse.org (please remove spaces to email).

February 15, 2022
That was Heritage Open Days 2021
“Lovely garden,
knowledgeable volunteers,
couldn’t ask for more”

Thanks to David of Leamington Spa who left that particular comment for last weekend, and indeed, it sums up the weekend most aptly. We weren’t sure how the weekend would go, it was our first Heritage Open Days in two years. However we had a steady stream of visitors over the two days, rather quieter than in previous years but given the ongoing situation, just right. Thanks go to our volunteers who provided the same high quality experience as ever, and now, in costume!

Volunteers greet our very first visitor of the weekend. The costumes were made by our Chair and Volunteers Co-ordinator, Tina.

We were lucky with the weather, the garden looked lovely, and the spinners and weavers provided demonstrations throughout the weekend.
Heritage Open Days at The Weaver’s House, September 2021
We had some lovely comments, not only recorded in our Visitors’ Book but via social media:

“Thank you for a lovely tour. Your volunteers are wonderful and knowledgeable.”

“Really interesting to visit this morning. Thank you.”

“I can highly recommend it. A hidden gem just a short walk from the city centre.”

“I loved to hear about the story of the houses there, and my weaver son could have a go on a loom. It was worth visiting.”

That concluded our Open Days for this year. We hope to be open much more for 2022 – let’s raise a cup to that!
September 17, 2021
Bricks and blocks – garden improvements
Whilst we have been closed, we have made some improvements in our garden area including a brick block paved area and installing some more woven fence panels.

We reused old bricks to fit in with the rest of the garden, and we also needed quite a lot of sand and gravel!
The volunteer work was led by John Homer and we are grateful for him for donating his time and expertise to the project. Although weather wasn’t the greatest we did have a few moments of sun. Throughout, our volunteers worked really hard to get the area completed and we are hoping the weather will repay us with sunshine when we are ready for Open Days!
We’re so pleased to have been able to give these old bricks a new lease of life and to have an additional area in the garden for displays.
It wasn’t all just bricks and blocks, we also spent some time tending to the garden which needed a little post-winter care, as all gardens do. It’s a wonderful place to spend some time, and always hard to believe that it is so close to the city centre.

We have regular gardening days for volunteers and welcome new recruits. It doesn’t need to be a regular commitment – if you would like to find out more about working in our garden, or you have other skills you would like to volunteer, please see our Volunteering page. Come and join the history of this amazing little house.
May 28, 2021