Broad Town News-Dec 2010 / Jan 2011

Dec 2010 / Jan 2011 BROAD TOWN NEWS Published by Christ Church

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Date/Day	Time	Church	Service	Readers	Sidesman	Chalice	Cleaner	Flowers
Wednesday Dec 1	2pm	Hilmarton	Holy Communion Service at 48 Poynder Place
Sunday Dec 5	8am	Broad Town	Said Communion	Mrs Green / A Richardson	C Green	C Green	Mrs Cameron-Street	Advent
2nd Sunday of Advent	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion*
	11am	Clyffe Pypard	Family Communion
Sunday Dec 12	10.30am	Broad Town	Benefice Communion	Mrs Marshall / G May	D Marshall	D Marshall	Mrs Cameron-Street	Advent
3rd Sunday of Advent	4pm	Tockenham	Christingle Service*
	6pm	Hilmarton	Carol Service
Thursday Dec 16	6pm	Broad Town	Carol Service	TBA	C Green		Dr Bliss	Advent
Friday Dec 17	1.15pm	Broad Town	BT School Carol Service
Sunday Dec 19	10.30am	Hilmarton	Benefice Communion
4th Sunday of Advent	5pm	Clyffe Pypard	Carol Service
	7pm	Tockenham	Carol Service
Friday Dec 24	5pm	Hilmarton	Family Service*
Christmas Eve	11pm	Clyffe Pypard	Midnight Mass
Saturday Dec 25	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion*
Christmas Day	11am	Broad Town	Family Communion*	Mrs Drury / Mrs Green	C Green	Mrs Drury	Dr Bliss	Christmas
Sunday Dec 26	10.30am	Hilmarton	Benefice Communion
St Stephen
Sunday Jan 2	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion*
Epiphany	11am	Broad Town	Sung Communion	D Marshall / Mrs Richardson	D Marshall	D Marshall	Mrs Green	Mrs Richardson
	5pm	Clyffe Pypard	Evensong
Wednesday Jan 5	2pm	Hilmarton	Holy Communion Service at 48 Poynder Place
Sunday Jan 9	9.15am	Clyffe Pypard	Family Communion
Plough Sunday	11am	Hilmarton	Family Service*
	5pm	Tockenham	Evensong
Sunday Jan 16	9.15am	Tockenham	Communion
2nd Sunday of Epiphany	11am	Broad Town	Family Communion*	Mrs Drury / C Green	J Wallis	C Green	Mrs Green	Mrs Rendell
	5pm	Hilmarton	Evensong
Sunday Jan 23	9.15am	Hilmarton	Holy Communion
3rd Sunday of Epiphany	11am	Clyffe Pypard	Family Communion
	5pm	Broad Town	Evensong	Mrs Crocker / C Rendell	C Rendell		Mrs McLaren	Mrs Rendell
Sunday Jan 31	10.30am	Tockenham	Benefice Communion
4th Sunday of Epiphany

REVEREND ALISON WAY

Christmas

Over the next few weeks there will be the usual round of special services to mark the coming of the Christ child, the Emmanuel – which means ‘God with us’. If you would like to come to church with your children, can I particularly recommend the following:-

• Our annual Christingle service supporting the Children’s Society on Sunday 12^th December 4pm at St Giles Tockenham
• Our special family service on Christmas Eve at 5pm at St Lawrence’s Church, Hilmarton. Please wear a nativity head-dress.
• Our Christmas Day family communions at 9:15am in St Giles’ Tockenham and 11am in Christchurch Broad Town. Please bring an opened present.

More aimed at the ‘grown ups’ are our traditional carol services, one in each church across the benefice (12^th December 6pm at St Lawrence’s Hilmarton; Thursday 16^th December 6pm at Christchurch Broad Town; 19^th December 5pm at St Peter’s Clyffe Pypard and 7pm at St Giles’ Tockenham. Midnight mass this year is at 11pm on Christmas Eve at St Peter’s Clyffe Pypard.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a peaceful new year, and I look forward to seeing you at the special worship for Christmas across the benefice of Woodhill.

If you would be interested in preparing for confirmation which marks the point in the Christian journey at which young people and adults take on their faith commitment for themselves and become full members of the Church, please get in touch with me by 24^th January. The deanery confirmation service for 2011 is planned for evening of June 15^th 2011, and will be hosted by St Bartholomew’s in Wootton Bassett.

With love in Christ, Alison Way

Rector, Benefice of Woodhill, The Rectory, Wood Street, Clyffe Pypard, Wilts, SN4 7PY alisonway@tiscali.co.uk, 01793 739044

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Dec 8^th WI

Dec 9^th Pre-school Christmas Bazaar

Dec 10^th School carol singing round village

Dec 16^th Christ Church carol service (corrected date)

Dec 17^th School carol service and end of term

Dec 17^th Social Club Avon party

Dec 19^th Social Club bingo and draw (revised date)

Dec 24^th Social Club bar open

Dec 31^st Social Club bar open

Jan 4^th TD day

Jan 5^th Children return to school

BROAD TOWN C OF E SCHOOL

Congratulations to the school for a very good Ofsted. The School came out with a Good with some outstanding areas. Many thanks are due to the dedicated staff at the school for all their hard work.

On Friday 17^th December the School will be having their carol service in the Church at 1.15pm. All parents are welcome.

2010 SCOUT POST FOR CHRISTMAS

Do you have post to send to these local areas. Save money by using the Scout Christmas Post. Stamps are available from Clive at1 Broadacres (731511) and post can be left with Clive until Tuesday 14^th December 12 Noon at the latest. Deliveries between 18th and 22nd December

Delivery Areas Swindon Borough

This includes all areas of Swindon, Badbury, Bishopstone, Blunsdon, Burderop, Chiseldon, Draycott Foliat, Elcombe, Hannington, Highworth, Hinton Parva, Hodson, Inglesham, Langton Park, Liddington, Overtown, Red Barn, South Leaze, South Marston, Stanton Fitzwarren, Stratton St Margaret, Thomey Park, Wanborough, West Leaze, Wroughton.

Other Towns and Villages:

Wootton Bassett, Purton, Lydiard Millicent, Bushton, Clyffe Pypard, Tockenham, Broad Town, Cricklade, Latton, Ashton Keynes, Shrivenham, Watchfield, Bourton, ldstone, Ashbury & Kingston Winslow.

We CANNOT deliver to any other location.

About the scheme, Since 1981, Scouts across the UK have been licensed to deliver Christmas Cards as part of a Scout Post between the 25th November and 1st January. This helps to raise funds for Scout Groups all around Swindon and raises the profile of Scouts within the local community.

BROAD TOWN PARISH PLAN YOUTH CLUB GROUP

Thank you very much to everyone who put in lots of time and effort to try to get a Youth Club up and running in Broad Town. Unfortunately, although we had good offers of help for running the Youth Club sessions and events, it proved difficult to find people with sufficient time to complete all the paperwork and policies that are necessary in order to receive funding and insurance. The decision was therefore regretfully made to disband the group and discontinue the effort to provide a Youth Club for Broad Town. Special thanks to Niki, Teresa, Dan, Stewart, Brian, Hazel, Carol and Julie for their help and support, and also to Broad Town Social Club for providing a venue for our meetings. I hold lots of information and contact details provided by Wiltshire Council so if anyone would like to continue this work please let me know. Lorraine Billis tel. 731188

BROAD TOWN WI - Brayden Ales opening evening.

The Broad Town WI had its second open meeting in two consecutive months with yet another great attendance - it's amazing how many people will turn up when you mention the word 'beer'! Paul Harrison from Brayden Ales gave an absorbing talk about the company, which was set up by himself and two friends; he is clearly passionate and immensely knowledgeable about his subject. There were so many questions for Paul, as people clearly engaged with the topic, that we risked severely reducing the beer-drinking time. Fortunately, the questions dried up and the beer began to flow - Gaily Bagger and Pot Walloper being the two brews on offer. The beer names are all chosen from the Wiltshire dialect and include YerTiz, Gibbles and Mooned-up, which we all agreed were a wonderful idea.

Broad Town WI meets every 3rd Wednesday in the month, apart from this December when we will meet on 8th for a fun night of jewellery making. Visitors and new members are always warmly welcomed, so please feel free to contact Jenny (President) tel: 739268 or Jenni (Secretary) tel: 731716

BROAD TOWN SOCIAL CLUB

On Friday 17^th December we are holding an Avon party from 8.30pm. This will be a clearance sale, so why not come and pick up a bargain.

The Christmas draw has now started and is selling well, this is open to all members. The Christmas draw and bingo is NOW SUNDAY 19^th and not the 18^th December. Doors will open 7pm. This will be the last bingo for 2010 and will restart on 2nd January 2011.

The Social Club will be open on Friday 24^th December and Friday 31^st December. Doors open 8pm.

Membership is due on the 1^st January. The social club is open on Friday's from 8pm. Why not come along and try our NEW pool table and enjoy cheap bar prices, we are also open on a Sunday evening for bingo which starts at 8pm. Doors open 7:30pm. Membership is only £2 for the year (Jan to Dec)

Broad Town Social Club would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

BROAD TOWN BIG GIG

Following on from the great success of the Big Gig in September, your committee have considered the applications for funding from local groups. We had already invested over £2000 in the new stage cover earlier in the year and we donated nearly £750 to Help for Heroes. This has meant that the sum available for other village organisations and good causes is less than previous years. However, we have still distributed £760 as follows:

Broad Town Colts £100 (for shelter)

Broad Town WI £150 (for speakers)

Broad Town School £150 (for speakers)

Broad Town White Horse £150 (for upkeep lime)

Broad Town Christchurch £150 (towards notice board)

Newsletter £60 (production costs)

We hope that these contributions to such worthy causes are helpful. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who contributed to this year's event and would encourage all organisations to take an early interest in next year's Big Gig - we hope to offer groups the opportunity to promote themselves and raise funds through their own efforts on site - watch this space. www.broadtownshow.co.uk

LINK 6 GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEME - 01249 892558

Are you stuck at home and looking for something to do? We are looking for somebody to join our Good Neighbour Scheme as a volunteer co-ordinator. The job involves being on a telephone answering rota maybe one week a month, taking calls from clients and finding volunteers to help out. You need to have a good telephone manner, be reliable and get back to clients in a timely manner. There is a small amount of computer work involved if you are able to do it, and full training will be given.

We are a good team that aims to provide a service to the community and we hope to hear that you want to join us! Please ring Allison on 01793 854421 if you are interested.

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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FEBRUARY 2011 EDITION

Will organisations or anyone wishing to have news, etc. included in the February edition please note that items must be submitted to Mrs M Green, 1 Broadacres, Broad Town,

BY 6pm FRIDAY 21^st January. It is regretted that submissions after that time cannot be included.

A Happy Christmas and A Joyous New Year to all our readers