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SEPTEMBER 2026

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Hope for Belper

We have a Citizens Advice advisor at the Food & Community Hub Tuesday & Fridays so please get in touch if you need any advice.

Advice sessions are:

Tuesdays 9am-12pm - appointments only

Tuesdays 12pm - 2pm - drop in session

Fridays 12pm - 2pm - drop in session

We are based at the Baptist Church on Bridge Street. To book an appointment call the free phone adviceline on 0808 278 7954.

Citizens Advice Derbyshire Districts

Tuesday  1st

THE STRUTT FAMILY’S GLOBAL COTTON CONNECTIONS – BELPER 250

An exhibition looking at the Strutt connection to global cotton markets, and the plantations

which used enslaved workers. Includes a display of artefacts relating to enslavement,

labelled ‘The Cruel Cost of Cotton’.

Venue: Belper Library, Derwent Street, Belper

Time: During normal library opening hours  –  Cost: Free

Wednesday  2nd

Thursday  3rd

Friday  4th

Saturday  5th

ALCHEMY LIVE – A Tribute to Mark Knopler & Dire Straits

St Peter's Church, Belper | Doors at 6:30pm

Alchemy Live are all about the music, no lookalike competitions here. They recreate the music of Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits as accurately as possible, with a painstaking attention to detail. It is over thirty years since Dire Straits last performed but their music and legacy lives on with Alchemy Live who will feature two hours of music including Money For Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Telegraph Road and Sultans of Swing.

Booking essential: from livetickets.org (booking fees may apply) and St Peter's Church.

£25 Per Person

WALK: THE 1842 STRIKE – BELPER 250

A walk led by Roger Tanner. As strikes swept across the Midlands and the North in the summer of 1842, the Chartists stepped up their campaign for the Vote. The people of Belper and its surrounding villages, like Holbrook, were at the centre of these events. This walk will tell their story as it unfolded through August 1842. It will follow in their footsteps, crossing fields and pathways on the walk to Holbrook Moor.

Venue: Start from Belper Market Place  –  Time: 10.30am

Cost: Free to all, donations welcome  –  Booking: No need to book – just turn up.

Sunday  6th

Monday  7th

Tuesday  8th

Wednesday  9th

Thursday  10th

Friday 11th

Saturday 12th

Belper Farmers Markets are held on the 2nd Saturday

of every month on the Market Place

from 8.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

There is free parking in the adjacent Coppice Car Park.

Café and crafts at No.28. Free entry.

Wiith

GLYN  MADDEN

playing live at The Congregational Church

Church Walk, Green Lane, Belper

Saturday 12/9/26 St. Peter's, Belper with Karen England

 

AN EVENING OF MUSICAL CELEBRATION WITH KAREN ENGLAND, OPERA BABE – BELPER 250

Born in Derbyshire, Karen was a member of The National Youth Choir of Great Britain before doing a degree in Music and English at the University of Leeds, followed by a Postgraduate Vocal Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Karen has her roots firmly in Belper and enjoys singing in the Royal Opera House as well as on the football pitch for the cup final.

Also performing will be The Dalesmen Male Voice Choir, A Choir D’Taste, and the Derventio Mixed Voice Choir.

Venue: St Peter’s Church, Chesterfield Road, Belper, DE56 1FD  –  Time: 7.30pm

Cost: Tickets  £10, available from St Peter’s Church. All profits for Hope for Belper

PRESERVING BELPER’S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

A project coordinated by Belper Historical Society (BHS), aiming to engage with communities in and around Belper who may have relatives who worked in the many Belper factories and have treasures hidden away in cupboards and dusty attics. Volunteer BHS ‘curators’ will help to collect, organise and preserve factory-related photographs, documents and artefacts, creating virtual scrapbooks.

Once catalogued and digitised, original materials will be offered to the Derbyshire Record Office for long term storage. Donated artefacts will be added to the secure BHS store, to be used in future research and exhibitions.

A BHS team will attend the monthly Belper Market, to promote the project, offer advice on materials being organised before donation, and collect donated materials. Later market dates for 2026 are 11th April, 9th May, 13th June, 11th July, 8th August, 12th September, 10th October, 14th November and 12th December.

Venue: No.28, Market Place, Belper – Time: 9am – 1pm  –  Cost: FREE

Sunday  13th

BELPER 250 EXHIBITION – BELPER 250

An exhibition reflecting 250 years of history in Belper, the World’s First Cotton Mill Town. Drop in during public events to see the displays. Venue: No.28 Market Place, Belper Time: Drop in during public events to see the displays Cost: FreeMon 6th Jul/Sun 13th Sep

WALK: WHAT ARE THE STRUTT LINKS TO THE PENTRICH REVOLUTION? – BELPER 250

The Strutts supported the rebels declining jury service and pushing for pardons. Joseph Douglas Strutt wrote to his cousin Edward about the executions: ‘People are flocking into Derby… good God, are these things to be suffered much longer in our once free and happy land.’   There’s much more…Venue: Start from outside the Ritz Cinema, King Street, Belper  –  Time: 2pm

Cost: Free walk, donations welcome.

Monday  14th

Tuesday  15th

Wednesday  16th

Thursday  17th

 

WILLIAM STRUTT, FRS: A TRADESMAN OF SOME EMINENCE – BELPER 250

Talk by Ian Jackson for Belper Historical Society. As William Strutt left no journals or diary, we need to look at contemporary, third party, accounts of his work and legacies, to understand why he was so respected by his peers, including his appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

This talk traces his life, both personal and work, with the progression of his more famous improvements, such as fire-proof mills and the stove heating system, and other less well-known activities. Whilst William Strutt was recognised widely during his lifetime he is not on the list of great British Engineers today, and this research hopes to change that.

Venue: Room 107, Strutts Community Centre, Belper

Time: 7.30pm (door open at 7pm)

Cost: Free to members; £5 for visitors. Annual membership available for £15.

Friday  18th

Saturday  19th

 CROMFORD 250: A SHARED CELEBRATION – BELPER 250

Cromford, further north within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, is also celebrating important anniversaries in 2026, with the 250th anniversaries of the first industrial workers’ housing on North Street and Arkwright’s second mill on the Cromford Site. There will be celebrations at Cromford Mill, and the Landmark Trust will be opening 10 North Street for a rare chance to take a look inside a very early millworker’s cottage.

More details to follow.

Sunday  20th

 CROMFORD 250: A SHARED CELEBRATION – BELPER 250

Cromford, further north within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, is also celebrating important anniversaries in 2026, with the 250th anniversaries of the first industrial workers’ housing on North Street and Arkwright’s second mill on the Cromford Site. There will be celebrations at Cromford Mill, and the Landmark Trust will be opening 10 North Street for a rare chance to take a look inside a very early millworker’s cottage.

More details to follow.

Monday  21st

Tuesday  22nd

Wednesday  23rd

ENSLAVEMENT AND THR STRUTTS OF BELPER: UNDERSTANDING, ACKNOWLEDGING AND REPRESENTING THE HISTORIES AND LEGACIES OF COTTON TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN THE DERWENT VALLEY MILLS WORLD HERITAGE SITE – BELPER 250

An illustrated talk by Dr Susanne Seymour, from the School of Geography and Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Nottingham. This talk will draw on historical research and collaborative heritage interpretation work on enslavement and the Strutts undertaken as part of the Global Cotton Connections projects since 2014. Event sponsored by Unite and UNISON Trade Unions Together.

Venue: Belper Library, Derwent Street, Belper  –  Time: 7pm

Cost: Free entry, donations welcome.

Booking: Places are limited so booking is essential – either by coming into the library, by ringing 01629 533192 or emailing belper.library@derbyshire.gov.uk.

Thursday  24th

Friday  25th

Saturday  26th

THE STRUTT FAMILY’S GLOBAL COTTON CONNECTIONS – BELPER 250

An exhibition looking at the Strutt connection to global cotton markets, and the plantations

which used enslaved workers. Includes a display of artefacts relating to enslavement,

labelled ‘The Cruel Cost of Cotton’.

Venue: Belper Library, Derwent Street, Belper

Time: During normal library opening hours  –  Cost: Free

 

BERKINS COURT – A COMMUNITY MADE AND SHAPED BY THE STRUTTS – BELPER 250

Visit the courtyard where some of the first housing to attract millworkers to Belper was built.  See how settlement design was used by the Strutts to induce (and keep) a workforce in Belper.  Find out who came here and how our community changed over time. Historical information and pictures on display in Stones Garage with guided tours on the hour from 11am – 2pm.

Venue: Berkins Court, Stones Garage, Belper

Time: Open 10.30 – 4pm. Guided tours on the hour from 11am – 3pm

Cost: Free to enter  –  Booking: No need to book.

Sunday  27th

BELPER IN THE FRAME: FROM THE 1920s TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR – BELPER 250

Fifth in a series of six talks by Adrian Farmer, looking at the past 250 years in Belper through historic images. This session concentrates on images from between the wars, and during the Second World War.

Venue: No.28, Market Place, Belper  –  Time: 6pm  –  Cost: Entry £5

Booking: Essential. Refreshments available for a donation. To book, email belpertalks.walks@gmail.com with your name and number of places required. Pay on the door.

Monday  28th

Tuesday  29th

Wednesday  30th

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