Sports and Social

Great Baddow Community Care Group

Great Baddow United Reformed Church

The Great Baddow Community Care Group is a community group which helps people get around by offering free volunteer led transport to hospitals, clinics and surgeries. This club also runs the Tuesday Luncheon Club at the United Reformed Church, which cooks meals for up to 35 local elderly residents. As well as transport group volunteers help people…

Royal British Legion Club and Hall

Royal British Legion Club and Hall with the Meadgate Allotments behind.

The Great Baddow and District Royal British Legion Club (Great Baddow RBL Club Ltd.) is a private member club that operate separate to the The Royal British Legion charity. It is a social venue with a bar for the armed services and their families. The club hall can also be hired by local social groups.  Membership…

Arthritis Care

Arthritis Care

Arthritis Care meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 8pm in The United Reformed Church, High Street, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex. Arthritis Care is a national charity that was set up to help empower people with arthritis. They are the biggest arthritis charity in the UK and welcome people with all forms of arthritis. Arthritis Care…

Jazzercise fitness classes

Jazzercise

Jazzercise classes are a great way to exercise while having fun. A class is held in Great Baddow at hall in Baddow Hall Junior School on Monday nights at 7pm and Wednesday nights at 7pm. The first class is free! Jazzercise classes provide a total body workout that combines dance-based cardio with strength training. Jazzercise is a combination of jazz…

The Sound Collective free launch night on Thursday May 1st

Chorus A4 Flyer

If you thought nothing much happens on a Thursday then you’d be wrong as from May 1st, you are invited to come out and build up a new exciting modern choir, The Sound Collective Chorus. There couldn’t be a better time to start singing than at the free launch night on Thursday May 1st 8.15 to…

The Youth Drop-In

The Youth Drop-In

The Youth Drop-In is a YMCA run youth centre working in partnership with Great Baddow Parish Council which provides a friendly place for youngsters to socialise and find support, seek advice or just enjoy some music and make friends. It is on the ground floor of Marrable House, accessed via the car park to the…

Chelmsford Organ and Keyboard club

Jeanne Rongier's César Franck at the Organ

The Chelmsford Organ and Keyboard club meet at 7.15pm on the third Saturday of each month at the United Reformed Church to perform a concert. They formed in 1972 and since February 1992 they have been meeting at the same Baddow venue ever since. Before moving to the URC they met in pubs, clubs, hotels and village halls.…

Dabbling Doodlers – Art & Crafts for Kids

Dabbling Doodlers art class in Baddow

Dabbling Doodlers is a fun art and craft class for pre-school children on Thursday and Friday mornings at the Bell Centre. Classes are for kids aged from 9 months to 5 years. They are held during term time only from 9.45am until 10.45am. Lots of messy play activities and games too. Bell Centre, Bell Street,…

Great Baddow Cricket Club (GBCC)

Great Baddow practise news

Great Baddow Cricket Club is based at the Great Baddow Recreation Ground off Baddow Road. There are nine adult teams and eight junior teams. Contact the club via their website contact form. In 2013 they had a new set of practice nets built, after five long years of planning, at a cost of £46,000. The…

Girlguiding – Brownies and Guides

Girlguiding in Great Baddow

Great Baddow has several Brownies and Guides groups in and around the village. The Girlguilding groups ask that you always contact them via their website, www.girlguiding.org.uk, to make an appointment for a first visit. Unfortunately these clubs are very popular and some may already be full. Rainbow Units Rainbows are the youngest Girlguiding units for girls aged…