August 2013 BROAD TOWN NEWS Published by Christ Church
Sponsored this month by the Parish Council
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Readers
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Sidesman
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Chalice
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Cleaner
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Flowers
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Sunday Aug 4
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9.15am
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Tockenham
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Family Communion*
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Trinity 10
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11am
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Broad Town
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Sung Communion
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S Richardson / M Green
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J Wallis
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J Drury
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W Cameron-Street
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S Richardson
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6pm
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Clyffe Pypard
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Evensong
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Wednesday Aug 7
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2pm
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Hilmarton
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Communion
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Sunday Aug 11
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10.30am
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Hilmarton
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Benefice Communion & Patronal Festival
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St Laurence
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Sunday Aug 18
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9.15am
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Tockenham
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Morning Prayer
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Trinity 12
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11am
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Broad Town
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Family Communion*
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C Marshall / C Green
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D Marshall
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D Marshall
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M Green
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Wedding
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6pm
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Hilmarton
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Evensong
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Sunday Aug 25
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8am
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Broad Town
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Said Communion
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F Holness / S Richards
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S Richards
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S Richards
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J Rendell
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M Manley
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Trinity 13
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9.15am
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Hilmarton
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Sung Communion
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11am
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Clyffe Pypard
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Holy Communion
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Sunday Sept 1
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11am
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Tockenham
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Benefice Communion and Patronal Festival for 700th anniversary of St Giles, Tockenham with the Bishop of Ramsbury
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* Denotes a service that is particularly suitable for all ages.
REVEREND ALISON WAY
700 CELEBRATIONS!
I recently talked to the children at the ‘Who put the colours in the rainbow’ work shop about St Giles’ Church 700th anniversary celebrations. They were suitably impressed at something being 700 years old! Actually we know that parts of that particular church building are older than that and many of the materials it was made of certainly are too! The building includes stones from a roman villa and interestingly at times in its history this church was dedicated to St John the Evangelist. We are celebrating this year as the list of rectors of St Giles’ Church goes back to 1313 and the first rector detailed was John Durraunt.
I do hope you will be able to join us for a special celebration of St Giles day at 11am on 1st September – The Bishop of Ramsbury, The Right Reverend Dr Edward Condry will lead the worship on this occasion. This will be his first visit to one of the benefice churches since he took up this role in 2012. All will be most welcome at the ‘bring and share lunch’ afterwards – just bring something to share!
In our benefice as well as St Giles Church, we have three other beautiful, historic and special church buildings (Christ Church in Broad Town, St Peter’s Church in Clyffe Pypard and St Lawrence’s Church in Hilmarton). We must record our very grateful thanks to the many, many people who work hard to maintain and cherish each church in each community.
St Lawrence’s Church in Hilmarton also has its patronal festival celebration in this month of August (at 10:30 on August 11th) – so don’t miss that too.
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
Aug 2nd Four Ways Pub closed
Aug 3rd Rectory garden rescue
Aug 17th Rectory garden rescue
Aug 31st Broad Town Little Gig
Sep 1st Bishop of Ramsbury at Tockenham
Sep 2nd School TD day
Sep 3rd Start of School term
Sep 14th Coffee Morning
Sep 20th Cider evening at Pub
Sep 21st Safari Supper
Sep 25th Busy Bee baby and toddler group
Oct 11th BT Social Club AGM
Oct 13th Harvest Service
Nov 1st Halloween Party
Nov 9th WI Barn Dance
BROAD TOWN SCHOOL
On Thursday the school said “Goodbye” to 8 children who are going on to secondary school. All the children were presented with their Bibles, mugs (with sweets) and a composite picture of their life at school. We wish them well as they venture out into the big wide world.
CONGRATULATIONS
We send congratulations to Niamh Rawlins who has gained a scholarship to Lipscombe University, Tennessee for 4 years to study Exercise Physiology. Whilst she is out there Niamh will also be playing Women’s Soccer in the University League.
UPDATE FROM YOUR PARISH COUNCIL
· NEW-V Neighbourhood Plan online survey – please fill in the questionnaire if you have not already done so. As with the consultation events in February, it is essential for the village that Broad Town’s engagement with this is as high as possible. The survey (click on the link at http://new-v.co.uk/broad+town/ ) needs to receive as many inputs as possible from Broad Town, in order to make sure that your views are represented in this, the latest stage of the consultation process, as the project managers (Common Places) draw up the Neighbourhood Plan.
· The Neighbourhood Plan’s project manager (Mark Goodman of Common Places) will be invited to Broad Town soon, to discuss how the village (and its specific concerns, issues and interests) can be best represented in the final version of the Plan. To start this discussion, the CLPG has produced a consultation document which describes and explores these concerns and interests. Please contact any member of the CLPG or the Parish Council if you would like to read this document and input your ideas to the document, ideally before it is sent to Common Places.
· The CATG details, which primarily concern road classifications and speed limit reviews (eg, past the school and through Thornhill), are still unavailable from Wiltshire Council. These were promised in the Spring, then April, May, etc...We’re still patiently waiting, but the delay is apparently caused by a problem with vital traffic information supplied by the Council’s consultants and we have no influence on accelerating this process.
· The proposal for a 77m wind turbine on land at Marston Farm has been withdrawn by the developers, Murex Energy.
· The Parish Council meetings are still in the Village Hall on the second Monday of each month, but the move to an earlier start (1830) has met with universal approval and so has been made permanent by a change to our standing orders. We look forward to seeing you in the public gallery soon!
FOUR WAYS BROAD TOWN:
your community pub, village hall bar open EVERY FRIDAY 8pm-late, BINGO every Sunday 7.15-10pm
FRIDAY 2ND AUGUST – Closed
FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER – Cider tasting and making evening: £4 contribution includes at least four different ciders from local professional and amateur millers
FRIDAY 11TH 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 LIVE on our new big screen, please come along to the AGM with dates and times so we can organise it.
FRIDAY 1ST NOVEMBER Spooky Halloween party! All ages welcome 6.30-9pm; Bar open till late; disco, prizes for best costumes etc.
SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER Broad Town Women’s Institute Barn Dance – Bar open; £10 tickets from Jane Rowe on 731105 include live music & light supper.
Families Welcome! Official-size table tennis table, pool table, dartboard and table football – all FREE TO PLAY every Friday for folks aged 12+. Also: bring your own CDs or hook your MP3 player up to our professional sound system. We’re cheaper than most pubs: pints from £1.80; spirits & mixer from £1.40; fruit juice, squash, fizzy drinks, cappuccino & Aero hot chocolate, Tetley teas, Nescafe coffee & decaf, snacks & sweeties always on sale.
BIG THANKS this month to Andy Ody and family for donating professional disco lights and sound equipment to The Four Ways: we love it!
Contact: Matt on 07890 097915 email fourwaysbroadtown@gmail.com • ‘Like’ us on facebook.com/FourWaysBroadTown for the most up-to-date info and silly pics!
BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY LED PLANNING (CLP) GROUP
The online survey that is part of the consultation process for our Neighbourhood Plan continues to be available, so we do encourage you 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 as well as on our own Community Forum site on www.broad-town.co.uk .
At our last meeting we focused on the type of questions and issues that we would like to propose for the final stages of the local consultation, to ensure that it brings us all the facts that we need to make informed choices. We are keen to see a work-plan for both the overall Neighbourhood Plan and Broad Town-specific items that sets out actions with agreed milestones. To that end we are inviting Mark Goodman, the Neighbourhood Plan Project Manager, to our next meeting to put our questions to him. As usual the meeting will be open to all Broad Town residents and we will publish the date together with our questions as soon as we can.
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. Finally, please keep a look out for the date of our next meeting that will take place at the Village Hall.
BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH
FACTS: Over 1,500 vehicles pass through Broad Town every day. At certain times, 60% of these vehicles exceed the 30mph speed limit, yet just 1% of recorded speeders live in the village. The average speed logged is 40mph in the 30mph zone: meaning half of all speeders exceed 40mph. Top speed recorded in July 2013: 59mph
Summer 2013’s most prolific speeders recorded travelling at over 45mph: Commercial trucks belonging to an RWB company: 17 speeding occurrences.
Blue Vauxhall Signum with a personalised plate: 10 speeding occurrences. Silver VW van towing large catering trailer: 9 speeding occurrences
QUESTION: What are YOU going to do about it? Contact: Matthew on 01793 731499 email oscar.littlelad@gmail.com or come talk to us anytime you see us out on the road.
If you feel that speeding is a problem and want your voice heard, please contact Broad Town Parish Council so your concerns can be recorded.
You may have noticed that there have been fewer sessions since Christmas. The police requested this because a key member of staff left just when the number of participating villages had exceeded 70 with many more waiting to join.
The Police Commissioner Angus Mcpherson heard of this and has now provided the resources to support and significantly expand CSW in the County. In September two full time Police staff will be appointed and many new schemes will be established. A new computer system will be installed which will ensure offenders receive letters from the Police within days of the offence. For the first time the Police will have access to a County wide list of vehicles which are regularly driven at high speed. These vehicles are the most likely to be involved in injury related accidents. The information will enable the Police to locate regular offenders and target them. We can only speculate just how useful this list will prove to be in detecting those responsible for road crime.
At certain times of day the number of speeding cars exceeds 50%, with the worst location being outside the school, as cars speed up before the 40 limit or fail to slow when leaving. Many are travelling at over 50mph. We will need to expand our efforts if we are to provide the information to support the police. If you would like to help and are able to spend a few hours a month please contact Mike Broomfield as follows:- Email (preferred) michaelbroomfield@btinternet.com Phone 01793 731893 Mobile 07818253604
We would like to take the opportunity to thank our local community police who regularly attend our sessions when possible, carry out their own sessions and also arrange for traffic police attention.
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
THE LITTLE GIG 2013: SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST 2013 – 4pm till late at The White Horse, Winterbourne Bassett, SN4 9QB
SIX BANDS FOR SIX QUID! Following the Glasto tradition, we’ll be unveiling the secret line-up over the next week or so. Fans of all music genres catered for: folk, original rock, pop favourites, acoustic, ska and indie bands all appearing… Latest news & line-up online: www.broadtownshow.co.uk www.facebook.com/BroadTownBigGig
Tickets £6 adults, £4 12-17yrs, under 12s Free! Available in advance from 31st July onwards at: The White Horse, Winterbourne Bassett; Four Ways, Broad Town village hall on Friday/Sunday evenings; Broad Hinton Post Office, Cloth of Gold and Bassett Books in RWB High Street; Holmes Music in Swindon and Sound Knowledge in Marlborough. If we sell out before the event, there will be no entry on the gate, so get your tickets TODAY! Fundraising for Kev Thomson’s Wellington to Waterloo Bike Ride (Grenadier Guards charity) www.justgiving.com/kev-Thomson , Goldenhar Family Support plus contributions to other local causes.
Courtesy of Bradies’ Taxis, a shuttle bus service to and from the White Horse will run for a small extra fee 1600-1900. Pick-up/set down points: Royal Wootton Bassett, Broad Town Village Hall, Broad Hinton Village Hall. Also: night-time taxi returns at day rates. All trips must be reserved with Bradies Taxis. Book your journey NOW on 01249 890794
HELP NEEDED: Bank Holiday Weekend to pitch marquees, assemble stages etc at White Horse. ALSO: additional bodies needed to help out on the day: short shifts, free entry and beers for willing volunteers! Contact Matt at Four Ways above or Andrew Law on 731472.
CHRIST CHURCH CAFÉ
The Church doors will be open for the Café again on September 14th. 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.
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 25th 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
BROAD TOWN HARVEST
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 6.pm 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 5.pm.
THE GUILD OF WILTSHIRE ARTISTS
Run workshops at the Village Hall on every third Saturday of the month from 10am to 4pm. All are welcome including painters who are beginners.
Tea and Coffee provided but do bring a packed lunch.
Help will be given to those who request it.
Contact telephone numbers 731154, 731519.
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SEPTEMBER 2013 EDITION
Will organisations or anyone wishing to have news, etc. included in the September edition please note that items must be submitted to Margaret Green 5 Eastwood Avenue, Royal Wootton Bassett, Wilts. SN4 8BX. cliveggreen@waitrose.com BY 6pm FRIDAY 23rd August. It is regretted that submissions after that time cannot be included.
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In July we had a good turnout, and a lovely evening, for our walk across the fields to Clyffe Pypard. After a refreshing drink at the Goddard arms we strolled back to Broad Town.
On Wednesday 21st August we are meeting at Lydiard Park for an evening of orienteering.
We are a friendly group and welcome new members. If you would like to join us and would like more information please contact Rosie on 731472 or Jane on 731105.