Centre News Stories
Below are a few stories which may be of interest to anyone who attends the centre regularly.
There is now a Facebook page for the Community Centre.
If you are on Facebook, please visit and consider adding a follow or a like, thanks,
or at www.facebook.com/nmdca
NIGHT AT THE MUSICALS
by Encore! Theatre Productions
Was on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st May 2023
It featured songs from Chess, Hairspray, Wicked, Funny Girl, Miss Saigon and many more.
These were performed live by some of the area's top singers and musicians.
It took place on Saturday at 7.30pm and Sunday at 2.30pm.
Included in the price was cheese
and wine in the evening and a cream tea in the afternoon.
Spring 2023 Arts & Craft Fair
Was on Saturday 15th April 2023
Hybrid & Electric Car Roadshow 2022
Was on Sunday 21st August 2022. 10 - 5pm
New Milton Community Centre proudly hosted the first ever Hybrid and Electric Car Roadshow,
The first of its kind in the region.
This was a rare chance to see many brands and models at the one location. Twenty-four of the latest hybrid and electric cars were on display. Ten retailers were there to explain the Hybrid/Electric car concept which has been clouded in confusion at times.
A lot of technical improvements have been made over a short time and like it or not, this will be the shape of motoring to come. The public is seeing ever increasing numbers of these environmentally friendly vehicles on the road every day. There is no turning back the clock, the future is here. One sales person at the Show stated that 'it was an excellent chance for the public to gain better understanding of the new technology'. One dealers stated 'such was the interest, we just did not stop all day. Great event!'
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It is estimated that 1500+ visitors attended from around the region. New Milton Mayor, Keith Craze attended and stated that it was an excellent Show and well executed. Visitors also were very pleased and a number commented that there should be more of these events in New Milton and congratulated the Centre on its forward thinking.
The cafe within the Centre was very busy and the staff took the opportunity to speak to the visitors to explain what was on offer at the Community Centre and its expansion plans to provide a wider range of activities aimed at all age groups.
This was the first of a number of ground-breaking events that the Centre will be hosting. The Show may well return in the Spring of next year.
The Centre Marketing Manager, Paul Berkeley stated that they are looking for more volunteers to help plan a greater number of innovative activities and events in the future. For more details, anyone interested should email publicity@newmiltoncommunity.org.uk
There was also a report about it, in the New Milton Advertiser & Lymington Times.
New Booklet
History of New Milton Community Centre 1960-2020
This booklet was published in July 2021 to celebrate the Centre's Diamond Jubilee.
It marks 60 years of providing social and recreational activities to people in the New Milton area and includes:
- A summary of our history during 1960-2010.
- Some of the events during our Diamond Years 2011-2020.
- Old photos from the Milton Heritage Society, provided by our local historian Nick Saunders.
- A snapshot of the Community Centre in September 2020.
- The names of as many volunteers as possible, from available lists.
- Some recollections from some of them.
This has been converted to a Web Version and includes old maps and photographs, both then and now, mainly in Section 5 and The Appendix.
Click the cover image or the link Web Version, to start.
The booklet was at a draft stage awaiting photos of the various celebrations of our Diamond Anniversary and the outcome of the AGM but was shelved when the celebrations did not go ahead. The idea was revisited, though, when Nick Saunders provided an additional series of black and white photos of the building of the Centre, submitted by Mr C. Cubbage.
It may be downloaded as a compact version to Print on 28 pages or more like the website edition to Print on 34 pages. Both are PDF files and around 1 MB in file size each.
Our grateful thanks go to the contributions from the Milton Heritage Society which aims to collect together photographs, maps, postcard images and other documents which tell the story of Milton.
New Milton Community Centre celebrates its Diamond Days
The coronavirus has put paid to many a celebration this year, but the Community Centre in New Milton was able to find a way to celebrate its Diamond Anniversary.
In September 1960 it was proposed that New Milton should have its own Community Centre and eventually it first occupied former Council offices in Station Road.
After much fund-raising, the New Milton Community Association bought property in Osborne Road on which it was able to build a home of its own.
On 1 October, a rose, Diamond Days, was planted in the Community Centre's garden by Alvin Reid, the Mayor of New Milton, to celebrate all the hard work that the Centre's volunteers have undertaken over 60 years, to provide social and recreational activities to the people of New Milton:
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The Mayor Alvin Reid planting the rose, with Marie Morgan (Chairman of the Community Centre) and Genevieve Sagar.
Lockdown at the Centre May 2020
While the Centre is closed there is a lot going on outside.
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Centre Open Day
26th October 2019
Many of the groups had table to show visitors what they had to offer.
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2020 Centre Brochure Available
View or download the PDF file of the 2020 Brochure
Click the cover picture to view all the pages in the Brochure on a web page.
Macmillan Coffee Morning 2019
As part of the Largest Coffee Morning in the World, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Care, on Friday 27th September the Community Centre was the venue for a coffee morning. What a splendid and well attended occasion it turned out to be.
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The coffee morning was hosted by Mary Bishop one of the Centre's volunteer Receptionists. Who wishes to thank all the help she received, with a total that exceeded that of last year, well done.
There is even more on the Previous Centre News Stories page.