Broad Town News-September 2013

September 2013 BROAD TOWN NEWS Published by Christ Church

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Date/Day	Time	Church	Service	Readers	Sidesman	Chalice	Cleaner	Flowers
Sunday Sept 1	11am	Tockenham	Benefice Communion and Patronal Festival for 700th anniversary of St Giles, Tockenham with the Bishop of Ramsbury
St Giles			followed by Bring and Share lunch in the Village Hall
Wednesday Sept 4	2pm	Hilmarton	Communion
Sunday Sept 8	8am	Clyffe Pypard	Said Communion
Trinity 15	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion*
	11am	Broad Town	Sung Communion	C Crocker / R McLaren	J Wallis	J Drury	R McLaren	J Griffin
Sunday Sept 15	9.15am	Clyffe Pypard	Holy Communion
Trinity 16	11am	Hilmarton	Family Service*+ Baptism
	6pm	Tockenham	Evensong
Sunday Sept 22	9.15am	Tockenham	Holy Communion
Trinity 17	11am	Broad Town	Thanksgiving Sunday	R Holness / C Rendell	J Oldfield	C Green	C Marshall	J Thomson
			Family Communion*		C Green
	6pm	Hilmarton	Songs of Praise
Sunday Sept 29	9.15am	Hilmarton	Sung Communion
St Michaels and	11am	Clyffe Pypard	Holy Communion
All Angels	6pm	St Mary's Calne	Deanery Evensong

* Denotes a service that is particularly suitable for all ages.

REVEREND ALISON WAY

Harvest

‘Let us sing the God of bounty for a fruitful earth and fair, who provides for us in plenty so that all may have a share, and who loves his human family and has us in his care, our God whose Name is love!’

These hymn words from Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith sum up a number of aspects of the coming celebration of harvest. Not least the wonder of our natural world, the rhythms of the seasons, times of ploughing and harvest and our life together dependent on one another. They also importantly place our celebration in the context of God’s loving and abiding heart for us. In each parish there are plans for a celebration of harvest, alongside your harvest festival service. In Broad Town, these include a special day of celebration as part of a Village festival on October 13th. The acts of worship are as follows – so please do join in with this and the surrounding celebrations with thankful hearts:-

• Harvest Festival Family Communion 9:15am Sunday 6^th October at St Giles Tockenham
• Harvest Festival Family Service 11:00am Sunday 13^th October at St Lawrence Hilmarton
• Village Festival Songs of Praise 6:00pm Sunday 13^th October at Christchurch Broad Town
• Harvest Festival Service 11:00 Sunday 27^th October at St Peter’s Clyffe Pypard

At these celebrations across the benefice churches this year, there will be an opportunity to donate food items to Swindon Foodbank. This local charity does valuable work to feed the hungry and those who fall on tough times locally, and of late they are experiencing unprecedented demand. Please bring a donation to your harvest festival or associated social events. Here is their ‘shopping list’ to guide your gift. Fruit juice longlife, Milk longlife, sugar (500g), cereal, tinned rice or sponge puddings, instant mash or tinned potatoes, tinned meat, tinned tomatoes, tinned fruit, pasta sauce, biscuits, snacks and nibbles and tinned vegetables. At the moment they particularly need tinned meat, sugar (500g) and longlife milk.

With love in Christ, Alison Way Rector, Benefice of Woodhill, The Rectory, Wood Street, Clyffe Pypard, Wilts, SN4 7PY rectorwoodhill@gmail.com 01793 739044

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Sep 1^st Bishop of Ramsbury at Tockenham

Sep 2^nd School TD day

Sep 3^rd Start of School term

Sep 14^th Ride and Stride

Sep 14^th Coffee Morning

Sep 18^th WI

Sep 20^th Cider evening at Pub

Sep 20^th Parish Council surgery

Sep 21^st Safari supper

Sep 21^st Hilmarton Moviola

Sep 25^th Busy Bees baby and toddler group

Sep 25^th WI stall in RWB

Sep 28^th Tockenham village walk

Oct 11^th BT Social club AGM

Oct 13^th Harvest celebration

Oct 18^th Tockenham history talk

Nov 1^st Halloween party

Nov 9^th WI barn dance

Nov 22^nd Parish Council surgery

CONGRATULATIONS

Simeon Horwood and Diane Shaw of Redhills were married at Chippenham Registry Office on Monday 5^th August, and then had a Hand Fasting Ceremony in the woods at Kingscote on Wednesday 7^th August. May they have many happy years ahead as a married couple.

RIDE AND STRIDE 2013

This year the sponsored Cycle, Walk, Jog, Horse-ride around Wiltshire Churches and Chapels will take place on Saturday 14^th September between 10am and 6pm. Sponsor money raised will be shared between your chosen church and the Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust. If you feel energetic and would like to participate, further details and sponsorship forms are available from Carolyn on 852754.

CHRIST CHURCH CAFÉ

The Church doors will be open for the Café again on September 14^th. This time there will be the usual refreshments plus Bacon Butties.

Come and sample the delights of the café and have a good natter. Doors will be open from 10am to 12noon as usual.

BROAD TOWN PRE SCHOOL SESSIONS

Come and visit our fantastic preschool and forest school at Broad Town. We run morning, afternoon and all day sessions (9am-3pm).

We welcome children from 2 years old. Children are entitled to 15 funded hours a week the term after their 3rd birthday.

A range of sessions are available from September, please phone supervisor Jennie White on 731911 for further details.

UPDATE FROM YOUR PARISH COUNCIL

NEW-V Neighbourhood plan. The Online survey closes on 30th Sept. We have had 11 responses from 600+ residents, so if you'd like your voice to be heard too please take a few moments to complete this simple survey. The link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NEWVNPSurvey or got to www.new-v.co.uk/broadtown and click the link. It only takes a few minutes to do.

New: PC Surgeries. We held the first surgery in July and nobody came. We would like to think that means everyone is happy! However, that may not be the case and so we have two further surgeries booked: 20th Sept and 22nd Nov. Come along to the Village hall, get yourself a drink and have a chat to us between 20:00 and 21:00.

C-Road Review. We've finally received the outcome of this review and are very pleased to tell you that our efforts to get the small 40 mph area changed to 30 mph have been successful. Thanks go to Speedwatch for the excellent data which helped our case. However, the recommendation is that the Broad Town Road remains at 60mph. We need to hear your response to this: do you live along the Broad Town Road? Do you use the road regularly? Do you think it needs to change to 40 mph to improve safety? Please let Roy Davey know your thoughts, you can call on 01793-731154 or email on roydavey@gmail.com.

The Parish leaflet. This is due to be reprinted for the coming year. Please let Roy Davey know if there are any changes to your organisation(s), contact details as above.

BROAD TOWN WI

Our WI members have been very busy this summer. On a beautiful evening, at the beginning of July, twelve of us walked across the fields to Clyffe Pypard and held our meeting in the pub courtyard garden over a cool drink.

Later in July we had another lovely sunny day for our summer outing to the National Trust Courts Gardens in Holt, near Melksham, and following a wonderful lunch at the Glove Factory Café we walked across the fields to Great Chalfield Manor where we had a guided tour of the house and a wander around the gardens.

In August, we were outdoors again, on another pleasant evening, for an orienteering exercise at Lydiard Park. This was kindly organised by one of our members’ husbands, John Orton, and was well attended, with seventeen of our members competing for a prize of a bottle of wine. We then retired to the Bolingbroke Arms for a drink on the way home.

Our next meeting, back in Broad Town Village Hall is on Wednesday 18^th September at 7.30pm. Terry Bracher from the Wiltshire Historical Society will be talking to us about ‘Wiltshire’s Horrible History’. This is an open meeting so non-members and friends are welcome. Entry for non-members will be by donation (£3) which will include a cup of coffee or tea and cake.

On Wednesday 25^th September we will be having a cake and produce stall at Wootton Bassett market. We will be situated under the Town Hall so please come and buy something delicious.

Finally, we are holding a Barn Dance in Broad Town Village Hall on Saturday 9^th November at 7.30pm. We have a three piece band, ‘Hog’s Head’ and a light supper. Drinks will be available at reasonable prices from the bar. If you haven’t been to a Barn Dance before, all the dances will be explained by the caller. Come and have fun. Tickets are £10 and are available from Jane Rowe on 01793 731105.

BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY LED PLANNING (CLP) GROUP

Things are moving on following the most recent New-V Area Group meeting at which it was confirmed that the current online survey for Broad Town residents will close at the end of September in order to get ready for the next consultation stage. Please take this final chance to have your say by completing the survey on https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NEWVNPSurvey . Further information about this current consultation and the New Villages Neighbourhood Plan process is on www.new-v.co.uk . At the date of the meeting 11 people in Broad Town had completed the survey; please add your comments so that the list can grow a little bit more.

We have started to prepare too for the next consultation stage. Based on suggestions from our Working Group, a Work Plan has been drafted that sets out the questions we would like to raise that we hope will bring to everyone in Broad Town the facts that we need to make informed choices. The Work Plan is published on our Community Forum on www.broad-town.co.uk. We expect the date of our next meeting to be on Monday 9^th September to coincide with the Parish Council meeting and will publish confirmation on the Community Forum website. Please keep a look out for it!

Please contact me if you would like to go onto our mailing list on lorraine@mrsbillis.co.uk. Fed up with everything being online and you would like paper copies? Give Lorraine a call on 731188.

BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH

August has been a quiet month because of the holidays, despite this we have the usual maniacs driving at a ridiculous speed in the 30 mph zone. The highest speed recorded this month has been 63mph with several others being well into the 50's. At these speeds the drivers have no chance of stopping when they come across any obstacle in the road which could be a child, pedestrian, horse, animal or someone pulling out of a driveway.

Great news, our results were used by the Parish Council and the Area Board to justify a road review of the C road passing through our village. This review has just recommended that the 40mph zone outside Broadacres and Redhills should be redesignated as a 30mph zone. We together with the Parish Council, now need to concentrate our efforts in ensuring that Wiltshire Council provide the funds to enable the changes to be made.

HILMARTON MOVIOLA

21st September From Here to Eternity PG Wartime drama 118 mins 60^TH ANNIVERSARY RE-ISSUE

Fred Zinneman’s film of James Jones’s novel was the sensation of 1953 – and the Oscars: First one of the most sizzling love scenes then committed to celluloid as Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr frolicked in the Pacific surf; then Sinatra’s extraordinary and career-restoring performance as a useless wide boy; then Montgomery Clift’s dazzling show as the sensitive soldier; then Ernest Borgnine’s definitive portrayal of the sadistic sergeant. Add to all this the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, where the film is set, and you have a sensation. “How others have rated this movie any less than 10-"stars" eludes me. Combine uniformly terrific acting from all involved, an excellent script, keen editing and directing with beautiful visuals, and you do have the 10-star movie that won so many awards….The war scenes are beside the point in this movie. You know there's a war just a’ brewing. The real battlefield action happens between the characters in a way so much more important and real than a bunch of bombs dropping to blow up the latest Bruckheimer set. I'll admit the ending strains the movie's own internal logic, but that doesn't take away from its power. There's a war on and not every battlefield is equally as obvious.” Internet Reviewer

Also showing the short film ‘LETTERS FROM A SMALL TOWN’ by Hilmarton’s Richard Broadhead real life stories from Wiltshire people in World War One

TOCKENHAM ST GILES 700TH ANNIVERSARY

To celebrate this, we have produced a Tockenham calendar for 2014 price £6. It’s well worth the money for these full colour photos of the village in different seasons of the year. If you want an envelope the right size for posting it to friends, that’s an extra 50 pence. If you’d like to see one, or place an order, please ring Ken and Pauline Arnold, 01793 854157. Also on sale are copies of Mary Waters’ book with its excellent photos Come walk with me - a walk around Tockenham. This was first produced in 2004, but is still a great source of information about the village and well worth buying if you haven’t already done so. It’s £6 a copy, also available from Ken and Pauline.

On Sunday 1st September at 11am the Bishop of Ramsbury is coming to the St Giles Patronal festival in the church – it is a benefice communion, and will be followed by a bring-and –share lunch in the village hall next door. No need to book – please come and be part of this celebration.

The village walk in June was a great success and people asked for another one – so we have arranged a second walk, to be led by Michael Knight, on Saturday 28^th September. As before it will start at the church at 10am promptly, and will end back there after about 2 or 2 and a half hours.

Finally for this year– on Friday 18^th October at 7.30pm in the church we are having a talk from a local archaeologist Mr Bob Clarke, on the history of Tockenham with its Roman and Saxon connections. Save the date – this sounds great!

SAFARI SUPPER

SATURDAY 21st SEPTEMBER 2013 Three course meal plus wine – only £20 per person. Don’t miss out - less hosts this year so less tickets available.

Tickets now on sale from Sara 731114

‘BUSY BEES’ BABY AND TODDLER GROUP BENEFICE OF WOODHILL

Our first meeting will be on Wednesday September 25^th 1.45pm – 2.45pm Bushton Village Hall.

Large car park and lots of room to play. All Mothers, Fathers, Carers, Babies and Toddlers welcome.

Second and fourth Wednesdays thereafter – same time. Contact Kim Gough: 07850 933344

The FOUR WAYS : Broad Town’s Community Pub: every Friday 8pm-late: have a drink and a chat with your friends & neighbours!

The Four Ways is run by Broad Town Social Club committee – we always need more event ideas, supporters, and of course people to have fun participating in activities: come along to Broad Town Village Hall any Friday or Sunday: find out what we get up to… And get involved!

FRIDAY 20^TH SEPTEMBER – Cider/Wine tasting and making evening

If you’ve got any spare apples or a glut of any other fresh home-grown fruit: we can use it! Please give Matt a shout (contact details below) if you have any spare ingredients we can use – ready-to-drink traditional cider or country wine in exchange for all produce received!

FRIDAY 11^TH OCTOBER Broad Town Social Club AGM

Open to all: have your say in what we do in 2014. Calling all sports fans! If you would like any of your favourite sporting events to be shown on our new big screen, please come along to the AGM with dates and times so we can book the hall in advance and make sure that we’ve got plenty of beer in to celebrate!

FRIDAY 1^ST NOVEMBER Spooky Halloween party

All ages welcome 6.30pm-9pm; Bar open till late; disco, prizes for best costumes etc. FREE ENTRY for those in fancy dress; £1 otherwise

SATURDAY 9^TH NOVEMBER Broad Town Women’s Institute Barn Dance Bar open; £10 tickets from Jane Rowe on 731105 include live music & light supper.

BINGO: EVERY SUNDAY 7.15pm–10pm

· Bar always open until 8pm to non-players if you’re thirsting for a swift pint! Never played before? Our experts are happy to show novices how it’s done!

· ALL money from players paid out as cash prizes; books & stakes from just £1! Other games: Play Your Cards Right, Groceries Raffle and more

· Younger players welcome – Junior membership available to 12-18s; well-behaved accompanied younger visitors by arrangement.

· Players especially welcome from outside Broad Town: if you’ve got friends from other bingo nights itching to play on a Sunday – tell them where we are, or bring them along. We already have regulars from Purton, Bushton, Wroughton, RWB, Devizes… More players = bigger prizes!

Hiring the Village Hall for your own event?

Whether you’re just after hot drinks and biscuits, or a fully licensed bar with wines, beers, spirits – let us know: we can help!

Contact: Matt on 07890 097915 email fourwaysbroadtown@gmail.com • facebook.com/FourWaysBroadTown

BROAD TOWN HARVEST

Sunday 13^th October. This year, as well as produce, we will be celebrating the Village. The doors of the Church will be open from 10am till the service at 6pm for members of the village to see the displays about the village. Also on loan for the day will be an interesting old ordnance survey map of the village.

Light refreshments will be available all day with the harvest tea at 5pm.

Just a reminder that I am here to help with information to (hopefully) solve problems and make your life a little easier.

Please call me, Ellen Blacker on 07557 110414 or email me at rwbcrickladegnc@communityfirst.org.uk

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OCTOBER 2013 EDITION

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