Tring’s independent retailers welcome you all day to indulge in endless Christmas shopping. Visit Tring Together at the Farmers’ Market from 9am – 1pm. Enter to win a goodie bag when you shop local (Ts & Cs apply) plus a mince pie bake-off.
Potten End Village School, Church Lane, Potten End, Berkhamsted HP4 2QY. Also Sun 9 Dec. 10am-1pm. £40 includes tea, coffee, home made mince pies and biscuits.
The Forge public car park off Tring High Street, HP23 5AG (parking fees may be payable). 2pm. Free, 75-90 minute walk led by qualified volunteers.
Riverside Shopping Centre, Hemel Hempstead. Paint the town red and join a jolly sea of Santas as they dash around Hemel Town to raise vital funds for The Hospice of St Francis.Celebrate the festive season by taking on the 2.5-mile festive route around Hemel in aid of the Hospice of St Francis.
Chilterns Dog Rescue Society Rescue Centre, 12-3pm. Hot drinks and food, mulled wine, stalls selling a selection of Christmas cards and gifts, toys and treats, art, tombola, jewellery, pottery and raffle.
Chilterns Dog Rescue Centre, 12-3pm. Christmas music, cards, Christmas gifts, mulled wine, mince pies and more. Stalls available.
Adeyfield Community Centre, Hemel Hempstead. 1-4pm. Free. Buy Christmas gifts (or a treat for yourself!), win prizes at the tombola and enjoy festive snacks and seasonal drinks. There will be lots of Christmas games for children to enjoy, so come along and join the fun. Stalls available for £15, email for details.
St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Tring. 4pm. Dedicate a light as a positive way of remembering someone special. Your light will bring comfort to others and will shine on Rennie Grove’s Christmas tree.
St. Mary’s Church, Ivinghoe, 6pm. £10, children free. Sing along to your favourite carols with the Beacon Community Choir, in a beautiful candlelit setting. The choir will be joined by children from the Tring Park School of Performing Arts, and the Breakspeare Signing Choir, Abbots Langley. Accompanist Craig Nathan with Aylesbury Grammar School Brass Ensemble.
The Vyne Theatre, Berkhamsted. 6pm. Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.
Berkhamsted Civic Centre, 8pm. Also 11 Dec. Non-members £5 at door. A warm, literate comedy. Two actors, friends at odds with one another in almost every way, plan a production of Molière's The Misanthrope. Dir: Philippe Le Guay/2013/France/Cert 15/104min/Subtitles
Nora Grace Hall, Faversham Close, Tring. 7.30-9.30am. Put on your Christmas jumper for a festive edition of the award-winning networking breakfast and meet over 40 like-minded local business people. Email to register.