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Welcome to the Plymouth Morris Website!
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Plymouth Morris are currently being supported by Summerskills Brewery
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Each year we make a donation to a charity and have raised over £6,000 over the
last 10 years.
Our nominated charity for 2018 is Friends and Families of Special Children Ltd.
Friends and Families are a non-profit organisation unique to Plymouth, providing information, support and services for families with disabled children.
last 10 years.
Our nominated charity for 2018 is Friends and Families of Special Children Ltd.
Friends and Families are a non-profit organisation unique to Plymouth, providing information, support and services for families with disabled children.
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We were proud to present a cheque for £1,000.00 on May Day Morning, on Plymouth Hoe, to the Mesothelioma UK asbestos cancer charity for whom we collected during 2016. Many of our former local dockyard workers have been affected by Mesothelioma.
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Our Mummers Play will be revived again this December. Venues will be arranged later in the year. Check our Mummers Play pages for more details.
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Members of the Mummers Play cast
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What's happening next?
Our provisional programme for 2018 is currently being put together and can be downloaded here. Please note all dates are provisional unless otherwise stated, and subject to change.
On Saturday 21st April 2018 we will be on our annual trip with King John Morris Men in Southampton and environs.
On Monday 23rd April we will be celebrating St George's Day at the White Thorn, Shaugh Prior, from about 7.30pm.
Our provisional programme for 2018 is currently being put together and can be downloaded here. Please note all dates are provisional unless otherwise stated, and subject to change.
On Saturday 21st April 2018 we will be on our annual trip with King John Morris Men in Southampton and environs.
On Monday 23rd April we will be celebrating St George's Day at the White Thorn, Shaugh Prior, from about 7.30pm.
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Foreign Trips
Plymouth Morris Men have had several foreign trips in recent years, including Holland in 2005, a trip to Hungary and Serbia in July 2006 and Jersey in May 2007. In August 2009 we went to south-western France for the 50th Annual International Folklore Festival at Montrejeau. We have had several trips to Brest in conjunction with the Plymouth-Brest Twinning Association, including the Maritime Festival held every 4 years. Charity Each year we make a donation to a charity and have raised over £5,000 over the last 9 years. On Sunday 21st March 2010 members of Plymouth Morris Men danced their way around the Plymouth Mile course for Sport Relief. We raised over £900! Thank you for your support! We presented a cheque for £300 to Devon Freewheelers at our ceilidh on Saturday 27th February 2016. That makes £800 we have given them over the last 2 years. Our nominated charity for 2016 was Mesothelioma UK, an asbestos cancer charity. Many of our former local dockyard workers have been affected by Mesothelioma. We presented them with a cheque for £1000 on May Day Morning on Plymouth Hoe. At our 48th Annual Ceilidh on Saturday 24th February 2018 we presented HeartSWell South West with a cheque for £500 which will be used to provide defibrillators locally in Plymouth. More details of our charitable giving can be found on our 'Charitable Donations' page. If you've seen us recently, have found this site helpful or have any comments to make about the site, please e-mail us via the 'Contact Us' page. It would be great to hear from you. Our practices are now held at The School of Creative Arts, 22 Millbay Road, Millbay, Plymouth, PL1 3EG (the big red building opposite the entrance to the Brittany Ferries port) from 7.30pm until 9.30pm on Wednesday evenings from October until the end of April. We are looking for new recruits, male or female, either dancers or musicians, to train up ready for the Mayflower 400 celebrations in 2020, when we will also be celebrating our 50th anniversary. We would particularly love to start an 18 - 30 Morris Side to take part in the Mayflower 400 celebrations. Everyone is welcome at any time to come and have a look or maybe have a go. Check our programme for details and just turn up! |
Some Summer Doings
Plymouth Morris Men at The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum, Dorset, on
St George's Day, 23rd April 2017.
Recently we were in Southampton for the annual Day of Dance hosted by our great friends of King John Morris Men.
On Sunday on our return home we stopped off to celebrate St. George's Day at Tolpuddle in Dorset to visit the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum and to have lunch at The Martyrs Inn. On return to Plymouth we thought it only fit to have a photo taken where the plaque to commemorate the return from exile in Australia of 4 of the Martyrs on 18th March 1838 is situated, near the place where they came ashore, at Mayflower Steps on Plymouth Barbican. 
Plymouth Morris Men at the plaque at Mayflower Steps on Plymouth Barbican
On Saturday 1st July we performed at The Horse and Groom, Bittaford, for their annual Charity Fundraising weekend, and raised over £73.00 for the Brain Tumour Charity and Riding for the Disabled.
On Friday 28th July we travelled to Kent for the 355th Morris Ring Meeting hosted by Ravensbourne Morris Men. They took us on a tour around London's South Bank where we performed at various famous landmarks culminating in a massed dance of all the invited Morris sides at the Tower of London. 
Ratass goes to London
Thirsty work for furry animals
Our display boards showing off what we do
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Site last updated 13th April 2018 08:17
