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The next NWL Community Lottery draw is on Saturday 1st February! Get your tickets and support KHC! This time there is chance a to win a "Year of Adventures" (or £1,000 in cash!) in the Super Draw*
For more details see our page about the lottery here or go straight to our Lottery page and buy your tickets today!

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It's All Kicking Off Again - Latest KHC News
It's not even the end of January but so much has happened since my Christmas post that I wanted to let you know what we've been up to. The highlights:
- The work to bring the Fire Escape back to meeting Health and Safety regulations has been completed
- The upstairs floor has been sanded, stained and varnished ready for the new displays
- We now have a card reader so we can take payments and donations electronically (please remember to bring your cards with you when you visit or attend any of our events!)
- Our first event is already in the diary - we have a second coffee morning at St. Andrew on March 8th
- We hope to launch our new Friends of Kegworth Heritage Centre very soon
- There will be a Barn Dance in the village hall to help raise funds for KHC (link to follow)
- We've been working hard with other village groups to create a new Kegworth Village Events system
- We are now advertising for two new trustees to expand the board KHC
Lastly, (for now) we'll soon be able to unveil our new Kegworth Heritage Plaques pages where you can read all about the buildings that have been selected to sport a Kegworth Heritage Plaque.
Keep your eyes open for a more detailed update.

Chairman's update - Christmas 2024
It doesn’t feel like it, but this is only the second Christmas message I’ve written as the chairman of KHC, although there have been quarterly updates and a couple of posts as acting chairman. Looking back on my past musings, I noticed a theme of uncompromising optimism and hope. Because that has been the narrative behind KHC for the last four years, and it wasn’t until July last year that it felt like it was beginning to have some effect. It’s not the greatest business strategy, and it certainly doesn’t stand up by itself, but without hope and optimism, it can be easy to start thinking that maybe you have bitten off more than your should have done!
We had two primary objectives in 2024. The first was to finally reopen, and the second was to prove to the people of Kegworth that their trust in us was not misplaced. We also needed to get through the year with enough financial strength to start our second season in 2025! It has not been easy. There are still challenges ahead. But these were huge goals to achieve, and you cannot imagine the effort, resilience, and sheer stubbornness of our volunteers to get through the year.

On behalf of the trustees, I want to thank our volunteers and all our visitors for keeping the faith and supporting us. Special thanks also to Kegworth Parish Council, NW Leicestershire District Council, East Midlands Airport, and Museum Development Midlands for their financial and consultancy support. And shout-outs to Lovage Homes for their generous donation and last but not least, to Mr. James McKay of this parish for giving us exclusive sales rights to the 2nd edition of his Kegworth Pubs book.
Have a fantastic holiday and we look forward to seeing you again in the Spring!
Ally Gill, Chairman KHC
Prague, December 2024
TripAdvisor Updated
We recently updated our entry on TripAdvisor to represent our reopening last year. There are a few new photos - the old photos are from a visitor review from 2015 and can't currently be removed.
If anyone has any photos from last year please could you send us a copy? Or even better - write a little review and include your photos! There's a link to click on in the box on the right.
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