Meetings
Poole Bobbin Lace Circle meets at St. George's Church Hall, Oakdale, Poole, BH15 3EU
The next meeting is on Saturday 5 September 2026 at St George's Hall.
PBLC programme September 26 to July 2027
Poole Bobbin Lace Circle meets on the first Saturday in each month excluding August.
Please see the programme for which Saturdays are all-day Pillow Parties and which are Pillow Parties in the morning and Meetings in the afternoon. Times are shown on the programme. There is a charge for Pillow Parties and for visitors to meetings.
Charges are:
Meetings - visitors pay £3.50
Morning Pillow Parties - members pay £4.50, visitors pay £5.25
All-day Pillow Parties - members pay £7.00, visitors pay £8.00.
All Pillow Parties and Meetings are open to Members and Visitors except for the Annual Meeting on July 3rd at 2pm which is members only.
Tuesday Self Help Group for PBLC Members of all abilities meets every week from 10.00am to 12.00 noon again at St George's Church, a charge of £3.00 is paid. Beginners are also welcomed at these meetings as there is a small tutored group, for which an additional charge of £4.00 is payable.
For more information please contact: [email protected]
Click on the Programme link below for more details.
PBLC Constitution - click here for the link
PBLC holds an annual Lace Day in June.
Click here to view the Programme for 2026-27
Lace Challenge 2025-26
This is PBLC's 4th Lace Challenge.
The challenge was to make a square in any lace, any colour, and max 3.5in square. It could be a coaster, a Christmas decoration, or anything you could think of.
Lots of patterns were available, particularly in the Christine Springett books. There were some on our website too.
There were 4 prizes of Chocolate Oranges as before. This time the groups were
The winners were
The challenge was to make a square in any lace, any colour, and max 3.5in square. It could be a coaster, a Christmas decoration, or anything you could think of.
Lots of patterns were available, particularly in the Christine Springett books. There were some on our website too.
There were 4 prizes of Chocolate Oranges as before. This time the groups were
- an unmounted square
- a mounted square (a coaster, wire surround for a Christmas decoration, a frame.....)
- your own design
- and your ticket number ‘raffle’
The winners were
- An unmounted square - Jean Organ
- A mounted square - Jenny Lewis
- Own design - Jane Cox
- Ticket number raffle - Sue Baker
The photo below shows a collage of many of the entries
The gallery below shows the three winning lace entries.
Click on the photos for more details.
Click on the photos for more details.
Some Events from 2026
January 2026
At the first meeting in January the speaker was Emma Cross, the Chair of Trustees for the charity Downright Perfect. PBLC's charity for the year is Downright Perfect. Emma gave us such an informative talk explaining that Down Syndrome is not a disease or illness but a condition. Down Syndrome was first described by an English physician John Langdon Down in 1862. Hence the name Down Syndrome or Down's Syndrome.
Photo of Emma and advertising information for Downright Perfect. Click on the photos for the full image.
Photo of Emma and advertising information for Downright Perfect. Click on the photos for the full image.
May 2026
Members of PBLC enjoyed a delicious cream tea at the May Meeting. A big 'Thank You' to the committee for organising this.
September 2026
Our speaker for September was Keith Dibden, a fundraiser from the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance (DSAA). This is PBLC's charity for 2026/27.
Keith gave us a very informative insight into the work of DSAA. Over a one year period nearly 3,000 missions were undertaken, with Saturday being the busiest day and May the busiest month.
The operational costs for one helicopter is over £10 million per year and each mission cost approximately £3,500.
For a day shift the Critical Care Team consists of Pilot, Co-Pilot, Doctor and a Specialist Practitioner and they are airborne within 5 minutes of a call. The Critical Care Team for a night shift is the same but it takes 12 minutes to be airborne. More time is required as the team has to fit extra night-time vision equipment.
The helicopter can be anywhere in Dorset or Somerset within 20 minutes of take-off.
Looking to the Future - a second helicopter has been operational since summer 2026
- a state of the art airbase is planned at the Leonardo helicopter airfield in Yeovil - a vision to be operational 24 hours, 7 days a week is their target
Thank you Keith, we, at PBLC, are proud to be sponsoring such a worthwhile charity.
Click on the photos for more details.
Keith gave us a very informative insight into the work of DSAA. Over a one year period nearly 3,000 missions were undertaken, with Saturday being the busiest day and May the busiest month.
The operational costs for one helicopter is over £10 million per year and each mission cost approximately £3,500.
For a day shift the Critical Care Team consists of Pilot, Co-Pilot, Doctor and a Specialist Practitioner and they are airborne within 5 minutes of a call. The Critical Care Team for a night shift is the same but it takes 12 minutes to be airborne. More time is required as the team has to fit extra night-time vision equipment.
The helicopter can be anywhere in Dorset or Somerset within 20 minutes of take-off.
Looking to the Future - a second helicopter has been operational since summer 2026
- a state of the art airbase is planned at the Leonardo helicopter airfield in Yeovil - a vision to be operational 24 hours, 7 days a week is their target
Thank you Keith, we, at PBLC, are proud to be sponsoring such a worthwhile charity.
Click on the photos for more details.
