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Business	Address	Tel No	Fax	Email
arts & Crafts
Avishayes Leisure Club	9 Lower Touches, TA20	01460 62576
Chaffcombe & Chard Scottish Country Dance Club	The Cottage, Chaffcombe, TA20	01460 62806
Chard & District Modellers Club	22 Forton Road, TA20 2HL	01460 63509
Chard Amateur Theatre Society	28 Sycamore Square Glynswood TA20 1DE	01460 62841
Chard Art Group for the Disabled
Chard Camera Club	38 Chesterfield. TA20	01460 68359
CHARD AND ILMINSTER CHESS CLUB	The Shrubbery Hotel Ilminster. Thursdays 7.30pm. New members welcome	01460 53184 or 01460 73597
Chard Concert Brass	6 Millfield TA20 2DA	01460 7364
Chard Foundation of Women in Music www.chardfestival .org.uk	3 Howards Row TA20 3NQ	01460 66115	01460 66048	office@ chardfestival.org.uk
Chard Gardening Club	Catholic Church Room, TA20	01460 61544
Chard History Club www.users.globalnet. co.uk/-carterw	Long Hays,17 Kinforde, TA20 1DT	01460 62722	01460 62722	carter@globalnet.co.uk
Chard Line Dancing	Lyncroft, Touchstone Lane, TA20 1RB	01460 65007
Chard Machine Knitting Club	15 Monmouth Court, TA20	01460 62531
Chard Light Operatic Society	50 Halcombe TA20 2DT	01460 67481
Chard Scrabble Club	12 Laurel Gardens, TA20 1SZ	01460 66962
Chard Tea Dance Club	Chardstock Village Hall, TA20	01460 67717
Mrs.Caroline lee Ballet Lessons & Tap Lessons	6 Dellshore Close TA20	01460 67359
South Somerset Choral Society	6 Old Town TA20	01460 64623
Tatsworth & District Floral Group	21 Linkhay Orchard, South Chard, TA20	01460 220057
Windwhistle American Line Dance Club	32 Beckington Crescent, TA20 2BU	01460 65260
Windwhistle Country Music Club	Windwhistle Inn, Cricket St.Thomas, TA20	01460 65260

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Business	Address	Tel No	Fax	Email
Mothers ,Parents & Young People
Air Training Corps	Hurtham Farm Nursery, Chilson Common, South Chard, TA20	01460 220591
Avishayes PFTA	8 Holly Terrace, TA20 1PY	01460 68870
Chard & District Guides	3 Redstart Road, TA20 1SD	01460 63769
Chard Platoon Army Cadets	Somerset AFC ( drill Hall), Furnham Road, TA20 1AE	01460 63671
Chard Young People's Centre	Essex Close, TA20 1PZ	01460 62180
Manor Court Scout Group	Stoeyville, Whitegate, Forton, TA20 4HE	01460 220595
St. Mary's Mothers Union	22 Rackclose Park, TA20 1RE	01460 64361
Mums Time ( Meet-a- Mum Association)	118 Henson Park, TA20	01460 68870
Toy Library		01460 61915

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Business	Address	Tel No	Fax	Email
Social Services, Clubs & Associations
Age Concern	164 Druids Walk, TA20 1BN	01460 65144
Cerdic Club for Retired Gentlemen		01460 220357
Chard & District Carnival Committee Ltd	9 Bondfield Way, TA20 1LE	01460 64209
Chard Blind Club	Woodcote, Broadway Ilminster TA19 9QY	01460 53247
Chard Chamber of Commerce	c/o Lentells,26 Fore Street, TA20	01460 64441
Chard Day Centre	Bradfield Way TA20	01460 61258
Chard Cider Festival	16 High Street, TA20 1QL	01460 61416	0870 134 0103	ciderfest@chardnet.co.uk
Chard Ladies Afternoon Guild	19 Redstart Road, TA20 1SD
Chard Rotary Club	Monmouth House Fore Street, TA20	01460 63234
Chard Trade Association	16 High Street, TA20 1QL	01460 61416	0870 134 0103	cta@chardnet.co.uk
Chard Women's Institute	40 Helliers Close, TA20 1LJ	01460 62486
Chard 2000 Civic Society	The Old Barn, Snowdon Farm, High Street, TA20 1QU	01460 68090
Citizen's Advice Bureau	Holyrood Lace Mill Holyrood Street , TA20	01935 421167
Cruse Bereavement Care		01823 276402
Friends of Sunnymede for elderly people	Silverlea Culverhayes TA20 2DR	01460 62007
Ladies Evening Guild	Parkholme, Crimchard, TA20 4LB	01460 64215
Laurel Resource Centre Day Centre	Wilkins Close TA20	01460 68500
Methodist Women's Fellowship	7 Southend Mews, Tatworth Road, TA20	01460 61133
Red Cross Medical Loans	Red Cross Centre, Hospital Grounds, Crewkerne Road, TA20 1EZ	01460 61352
Royal British Legion	Fairmile, Crimchard, TA20 1JS	01460 64177
Royal Naval Association	28 Henson Park, TA20 1NG	01460 65362
Samaritans		01823 288 998 01935 476 455 0845 476 455
Stoneham Housing Association for Single Homeless	Westwood, 2 Crimchard, TA20 1JW	01460 64416
South Somerset Saturday Charity Club	78 Glynswood TA20 1AJ	01460 64003
Sunnymeade Home Care Services	Helliers Close TA20	01460 67324
Tatworth Women's Institute	4 Gulway Mead, Tatsworth, TA20 2TB	01460 220361
University of the Third Age	16 Monmouth Court, TA20 1HQ	01460 64494

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Business		Address	Tel / Fax Nos	Email
Sports Clubs
Tuesday Badminton Club		21 Ashcroft, TA20 2JH	01460 63552
Chard Badminton Club		Combe Cottage, Combe St.Nicholas, TA20 1ED	01460 63889
Chard Bowling Club		Bonds Close TA20	01460 63799
Chard Cremery Sports & Social Club		Chard Junction South Chard TA20	01460 220829
Chard Cricket Club		George Fields TA20	01460 63829
Chard Cycling Club		Vicarage Cottage, Combe St.Nicholas, TA20	01460 67614
Chard Town Football Club
Chard Hockey Club	www.chardhockeyclub. netfirms.com .	5 Monmouth Court ,TA20 1HQ	01460 62147	chardhockeyclub@ cornerview.co.uk
Chard Karate Club		6 Bracken Way, TA20 1HS	01460 66629
Chard Life Saving Club		7 Cedar Close, TA20	01460 63770
Chard Netball Club			01278 431952
Chard Rugby Club		The Park, Essex Close, TA20 1RH	01460 62495
Chard Recreational Educational Trust Association		Holyrood Community School, Zembard Lane, TA20	01460 64084
Chard & District Riding for the disabled		Ammerham House, Winsham, TA20 4LB	01460 30410
Chard & District Swimming Club		Bews Corner, Bews Lane, TA20 1JU	01460 65237
Avishayes Swimming Pool		At Avishayes School	07749 487913	website: www.uk.geocities.co.uk/avishayespool email: avishayespool@yahoo.co.uk
Kingfisher Swimming Club for the Disabled		7 Glynswood, TA20 1AH	01460 64207
Chard Tennis Club		Lindens, Tatworth Road, TA20	01460 220710
Windwhistle Company of Archers		Windwhistle Golf & Country Club, Cricket St Thomas, TA20 4DG	01460 30231
Windwhistle Golf,Squash & Country Club		Cricket St.Thomas TA20 4DG	01460 30231

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Art in Miniature
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bulldancer

Curious how many hobbies deal with items in miniature. Perhaps it's the space constraints of working in all those garden sheds. Miniature painting has a long and glorious history of course, probably dating first to the illuminated manuscripts that were the stock in trade of medieval monks. Despite a few dodgy decades after the advent of photography, miniature painting is again going strong. This site gives advice on materials, courses, finding a teacher and buying and collecting miniatures. There's also onsite inspiration in the shape of some delightful pictures both medieval and modern.

Art
www.wisecat.co.uk/art

Whether you are looking for details of the latest exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a catalogue listing for the Louvre in Paris, a dictionary to explain to you exactly what chiarascuro and picture plane mean, or simply a guide to what's good to see on your trip to Glasgow, the tersely titled Art is the site to click to. Links to sites covering every aspect of painting and sculpture.

Picasso
www..clubinternet.com/picasso/

Official Picasso web site, endorsed by his son Claude, no less. Paintings are grouped according to people rather than period. There are lists of exhibitions and other events here.

Explore Monet's World
www.events.fleet.com

See Monet on this site from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in America, which takes visitors on a tour through the great impressionist's life and work.

Art-online.org
www.art-online.org/

A door to the net for artists and galleries. Sign up for your own site or find links to organisations and artists

Feast of Leonardo
www.webgod.net/leonardo/

Everyone knows some - or at least one of the Renaissance genius's work. Here are many more. Five hundred years on, the left-handed vegetarian still leaves artists, technologists and inventors gasping.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
www.sfmoma.org

Something of a work of art in itself, this website. The SFMOMA is one of the world's greatest facilities dedicated to modern art, with a superb collection of painting and sculpture. Enter the website and you are faced with a minimalist white page, with fast-changing shots of the stunning museum building itself, its modernist lines looking stunning against the San Francisco skyline. Click further and you receive thumbnails and rubrics on the collection itself.

British Museum
www.british-museum.ac.uk

The home page 'welcomes you to one of the greatest museums in the world', and anyone who has marvelled at the Bloomsbury leviathan's unrivalled collection of artworks Classical and modern, from prehistoric and Roman coins, through medieval carvings and Oriental antiquities won't argue with that. This is an excellent site in its own right, crammed with essays and pictures. If you're planning a visit to the museum itself, start your planning on the Internet.

The Glass Painting Specialists
www.glasspainter.demon.co.uk

Stained glass was once the sole preserve of medieval monks labouring away in damp cloisters but time, and technology move on. Professional glass painter Jane Dunsterville has expanded her work with conventional stained glass to include research into making the whole process easier, cheaper and more accessible to beginners. This site is the fruit of her labours. Be inspired by examples of Jane's own work, including her professional commissions, featured on the site, and take a look at what others have come up with in the Gallery section.

Inside the Louvre
sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/wm/paint

Excellent preparation for a visit to this auspicious art gallery, or simply as education and entertainment for those who can't make it to Paris. Inside the Louvre not only lists all the paintings and sculptures within the galleries, but allows you to take a look at them and backs up your viewing with background history, so there are biographies not just of the artists themselves but of the movements they sprung from.

Stained Glass Warehouse
www.stainedglasswarehouse.com

Definitely a hobby for those with a steady hand and a keen eye, stained glass making isn't just about producing 40ft high rose windows for the west end of your local cathedral, but crafting miniature gems to sit proudly on the mantelpiece. This site appears to have been constructed by someone with an over-fondness for sky-blue and purple, but we'll let that pass. An excellent source of raw materials, and at reasonable prices. Design ideas abound, and the best feature is the stained glass search engine, routing you straight to the pick of the sites worldwide.

ART MUSEUMS

ArtRepublic.com
www.artrepublic.com

By offering affordable posters and detailing information on art galleries across the globe, this impressive site successfully appeals to the art enthusiast as well as those who don't know their Hirst from their Hogarth. There is a guide to art movements, biographies of leading artists and recommended reading lists. All featured exhibitions have pictures and descriptions so you don't have to keep leaving the site.

The Louvre
www.louvre.fr

Don't worry, there's an English language version of this website from the most famous of French art galleries. This is an impressive resource including lots of fast loading thumbnail images of the major works stored in the Parisian gallery (you just click on the images to pull up bigger more detailed pictures). If you want to familiarise yourself with the layout of the Louvre before you take a trip over there give the virtual tour a whirl - it takes in the obligatory Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo exhibits. All the sections of the site are splendidly presented with plenty of images from each of the seven main departments in the gallery.

The Museum of Modern Art
www.moma.org

Even if you can't afford the trip to New York to visit this museum take some time out to have a look at The Museum of Modern Art's excellent website. The design is fabulous and incredibly stylish. Exhibitions are backed up by plenty of online information as well as discussion areas and photographs of the exhibits. The online store is a shopper's delight, full of interesting and unusual gifts if you want to wield your credit card. Or if that all sounds a bit pricey you could always send a free electronic MOMA postcard to a friend, featuring an image from the museum.

Art.com
www.art.com

Art.com is first and foremost a commercial site that sells prints, posters, photos and lithographs, but it's also a great resource for art lovers. The reference section is impressive and includes a history of twentieth century art, written decade by decade and giving background on the artists, images of their most famous works and, of course, the opportunity to buy posters and prints of their work. The guide to museums and galleries is sadly restricted to the US but the dictionary of art terms is relevant no matter where you are. And it's worth taking time out to browse through the art work for sale - you're bound to end up buying something from this massive collection.

Van Gogh Museum
www.vangoghmuseum.nl

This gorgeous looking site is packed full of images from the Van Gogh Museum and, thankfully for us, is presented in English as well as Dutch. This museum in Amsterdam is home to the world's largest collection of works by Van Gogh (including 200 paintings, 500 drawings and 700 letters). Many of the most famous works are reproduced on the site along with works from other 19th century artists including Gaugin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Art historians should make the excellent Van Gogh's Life and Times section of the site their first stop.

Worldwide Arts Resources
www.world-arts-resources.com

Worldwide Arts Resources is a massive art search engine providing links to artists, museums, galleries and art history information housed on the Internet. This really is a comprehensive resource; over 15,000 artists are listed in the artists' index (they're sorted by genre of art) and there are thousands of links to commercial and non-commercial galleries. This site makes a fabulous starting point for any art lover or art historian who wants to learn more about a specific artist or a period of art; you can even get the latest arts news emailed direct to your mailbox by handing over your email address.

National Gallery
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

The biggest and most famous gallery in the country, the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square will take you at least a day to see on foot and the same could be said of this sprawling website.
As well as all the usual practical information, the gallery includes a stunning amount of detailed explanations on the works of art therein. You can also view many of the pictures themselves in a separate window while another fascinating feature tells you the story behind some of the more unusual items in the collection.

The Grove Dictionary of Art
www.groveart.com

The Grove Dictionary of Art is a huge work of art history and research published by Macmillan and costing a minimum of £275. The really good news is you can check out the online version of the dictionary for absolutely free for 24-hours. Hand over your email and contact details and you'll get a password and username in return that gives you access to 41,000 cross-referenced articles and over 12,000 links to images of works of art housed in galleries all over the world. All aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to contemporary paintings and photography are covered in this gargantuan online resource.

The Tate Gallery
www.tate.org.uk

Although the biggest Tate gallery is in London this site also covers exhibitions on show in the Liverpool and St Ives buildings, you also get the latest news on the Tate London expansion work in the Bankside Power Station (due to open May 2000). The Tate has worked hard at getting its works into electronic format and the web site is home to over 8,000 works of art, ordered alphabetically by artists. If budgets permit take a whirl around the Tate online store and check out all manner of art-related products, from T-shirts to stationery.

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