Broad Town News-May 2014

May 2014 BROAD TOWN NEWS Published by Christ Church

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Date/Day	Time	Church	Service	Readers	Sidesman	Chalice	Cleaner	Flowers
Sunday May 4	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion*
Easter 3	11am	Broad Town	Sung Communion	J Drury / C Crocker	D Marshall	D Marshall	M Manley	P Lewis
	6pm	Clyffe Pypard	Evensong
Wednesday May 7	2pm	Hilmarton	Prayer in the day
Sunday May 11	9.15am	Broad Town	Family Communion*	C Green / M Manley	J Wallis	C Green	R McLaren	M Manley
Easter 4	11am	Tockenham	Holy Communion
	6pm	Hilmarton	Evensong
Thursday May 15	7.30pm	Broad Town	Guitar Led Service		TBA
Sunday May 18	9.15am	Clyffe Pypard	Holy Communion
Easter 5	11am	Hilmarton	Community Corner Blessing Service
	6pm	Tockenham	Evensong
	6pm	Broad Town	Evensong	M Green / C Rendell	C Green		R McLaren	M Manley
Sunday May 25	8am	Broad Town	Said Communion	S Richards / R Holness	S Richards	S Richards	J Rendell	M Hatherall
Rogation	9.15am	Hilmarton	Holy Communion
	11am	Clyffe Pypard	Holy Communion
Thursday May 29	7.30am	Hilmarton	Benefice Communion followed by Breakfast
Ascension Day

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

Where are we now?

This is a funny time of the year. We seem to be in limbo between spring and summer. We’ve planned the summer holiday and now there’s nothing to do except wait.

Well, not really; within the Church calendar we have Ascension Day. We celebrate the ascending of the risen Christ to his rightful place in Heaven. It is a time of rejoicing that He is there to represent us. It is also a time for looking at ourselves and strengthening the mantle of discipleship, which was given to the first Apostles, to carry on His work on earth.

INFORMAL GUITAR LED EVENING SERVICE 15^th MAY

An informal worship service in church where the focus is on receiving God’s amazing love for us. There will be an extended time of guitar and keyboard led worship, interspersed with prayer and sharing of bible readings, it will finish with refreshments and there will be a retiring collection.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

5^th May Plant fair and open garden at Bushton Manor

9^th May Community Led Planning Meeting

12^th May The Annual meetings of both the Parish and the Parish Council

15^th May Informal Guitar Led Evening Service

16^th May Fish and Chip supper

17^th May Coffee Morning

17^th May Hilmarton Moviola

19^th May “Old Herbaceous” at Memorial Hall

21^st May WI

29^th May Ascension Day

13^th June Little Gig

27^th Sep Italian Evening

14^th/15^th June Whitehorse Cleaning

30^th Aug Big Gig

27^th Sep Italian Evening

WILTSHIRE SOLDIERS NEWS

During the past 24 months Finding the Forgotten has been responsible for gaining the commemorations for 12 service personnel whose death were caused due to their service for their country in the Great War. They will now receive the recognition they deserve and will be listed among the dead with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
From our research we are currently working on a further 60 cases and estimate that for every town in the country 5 to 10 service personnel who gave their lives in the conflict remain forgotten. While our culture, arts and heritage are funded and millions of pounds are available in grants, nothing available to research the forgotten and the cost is met out of our own pockets.
During the next four years of the Centenary of the Great War it would be a fitting time to commemorate the forgotten. The cost is far less that many projects and museum galleries that are funded at present.

Please sign the online petition to ask the government to commemorate these forgotten soldiers, it is a shame they have been forgotten for so long.

Wiltshire First World War

Community Briefing Event
You are invited to attend a community briefing event on Thursday 1 May, 9.30am to 12noon, at Tidworth Garrison Theatre. This event will focus what’s planned Wiltshire-wide throughout 2014-2018 to mark and commemorate the sacrifice made by 10,000 soldiers from Wiltshire during the First World War. We hope you will be able to attend and to hear of the county-wide plans, as well as local events and projects that are taking place in communities across the county. From theatre productions, poppy planting, researching fallen soldiers and working with schools to mark those who sacrificed their lives - Wiltshire will remember.
If you wish to attend please email events@wiltshire.gov.uk with your attendance and if you have any dietary or access requirements.
We look forward to seeing you on the 1 May. Jane Scott OBE, Leader Wiltshire Council and Brigadier Piers Hankinson, 43 Wessex Brigade
Finding The Forgotten, need you!

Editor’s remarks. Unfortunately this item arrived too late for the last publication. If you would like to know what is happening and cannot get to the meeting, please contact the e-mail address above.

BOOKS AND PLANTS COFFEE MORNING – AND CAKES

The Church café will be open again on Sat 17^th May from 10am to noon for you to come and browse the books, potter among the plants and relish the refreshments. Proceeds from this morning of delectation and scintillating conversation will go to Church funds.

PARISH COUNCIL

The Annual meetings of both the Parish and the Parish Council are being combined in one event this year, and will be held before the normal monthly Parish Council meeting on Monday May 12th, starting at 6:30pm in the Village Hall. If you represent any village organisation, please attend this meeting to present your organisation's annual report.
The concrete blocks which were placed in Thornhill, at the Whiteways end, to keep traffic away from the collapsed road, have been removed, allegedly by a BT crew. They have since been replaced by Wiltshire Council. The road is legally closed and it is therefore illegal to use the closed section of road
as a thoroughfare. Please note details of any vehicles or persons engaged in similar removal of the concrete blocks, and pass the information to Wiltshire Council.
The development of the Broad Town section of the NEW-V Neighbourhood Plan continues, with the CLPG and Parish Council working together to develop our options list as best we can, although with reduced support from Common Places (the project managers). Please contact the Parish Council or any representative of the CLPG if you wish to become involved.
Councillor Nigel Crocker MBE has resigned from the Parish Council with immediate effect, due to personal circumstances. The Parish Council would like to place on record its gratitude for the many years of service which Cllr Crocker has given to the village through the medium of the Parish Council, and its acknowledgement of the value to its work of Cllr Crocker's local knowledge.
The Parish Council has been told by the school that the mini recycling collection point at the school is due to be removed, in a cost-cutting exercise, by Wiltshire Council. This may have already happened by the time this Newsletter is issued, but the disapproval of the Parish Council has been passed to WC.

BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY LED PLANNING (CLP) GROUP

The neighbourhood planning process can be a slow business! Along with the parish council we are evaluating the best way to proceed – should the policies in our section of the New-V Neighbourhood Plan be drafted using information already available from the Parish Plan, or should there be a push for a fresh consultation that will provide more up-to-date information but that will also be more costly? If you have an opinion please contact us or come along to our next meeting to be held on Friday 9^th May 8.15pm to 9.15pm at the Village Hall when we plan to explore this issue and also confirm the outcome of the next New-V Area Steering Group meeting that will be held on 7^th May. If you are interested in the process there is a new presentation by Common Places, the project managers, on www.new-v.co.uk and there is also an ongoing consultation on the Wiltshire Core Strategy (the overall plan that our Neighbourhood Plan should comply with) until 27^th May.

Please contact us if you would like to go onto our mailing list on lorraine@mrsbillis.co.uk. Would you like paper copies of documents if you don’t have access to e-mail?

Give Lorraine a call on 731188. More information is on our Community Forum on www.broad-town.co.uk or from Common Places www.New-V.co.uk .

WILTSHIRE MOVIOLA

PHILOMENA 12A Starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan. Saturday 17th May, Hilmarton Parish Church Hall, 7.30pm with doors opening at 7pm. Tickets are £6.00.

They are available from Birsemhor, Church Road, Hilmarton (next to the hall), tel 760576, Breda Cottage, 34 Church Road, Hilmarton (opposite chapel), tel 760312 or 07775505401 or email hilmartonmoviola@hotmail.co.uk.Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) and Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) breaking old promises and making new ones,Martin Sixsmith is depressed. He’s lost his job and is feeling washed up. Then at a drinks party, he hears about a woman who has kept a secret for 50 years. When little more than a child herself, retired Irish nurse, Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), was forced by nuns to surrender her son for adoption in the USA. Now she wants to find him. Martin (Steve Coogan) doesn’t do 'human interest' stories, he says, but Philomena’s strikes a nerve. A lapsed Catholic himself, he cannot restrain the reporter’s urge to find out more, and soon he is not only meeting Philomena, but agreeing to help her find her son.
Based on the 2009 book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith, ‘The Lost Child of Philomena Lee’. “A moving and exhilarating film, and the strange chemistry between Dench and Coogan ferments into a 120-degree proof emotional drama.” Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
“A terrific, sophisticated comedy that tackles serious issues with a lightness of touch and a spirit of steel, Philomena is the British film to beat come BAFTA time.” Damon Wise – Empire Magazine

PLANT FAIR & OPEN GARDEN BUSHTON MANOR

Bank Holiday Monday 5^th May 11am-4pm in aid of St Peter's Church Clyffe Pypard. Plants, Shrubs, Bedding Plants, Pots & Planters, Gift Ware, Artisan Foods, Games, Cakes,

BBQ Butties, Refreshments, Free Parking. Admission £1 (under 12'sfree).

BROAD TOWN MILK DELIVERY

We are sorry that Mike Rawlins did not feel able to continue with the milk round. We pass on to him the thanks of the village for the effort and care that he put into it.

The round has now been taken over by Adrian and Carol Robins. If you wish to be added to the round and have the convenience of fresh milk on your doorstep each day please contact mark@bassett46.freeserve.co.uk and he will pass on your address.

BROAD TOWN WI

WI meeting 16th April 2014, at this meeting members and one visitor divided into teams for a musical quiz devised by Richard and Beatrice Brazier. The challenges from a number of written clues together with short bursts of music caused much discussion. The music ranged from the 1950’s through to the 1980s including past TV series themes and classic films. It created an interesting and enjoyable evening.

Our next meeting is May 21st which is a visit to Toomers garden centre for a practical demonstration on hanging baskets. Please note the early time and meet in Toomers car park at 6.50pm for a prompt 7pm start. New members welcome to our meetings, contact Rosie Law tel. 731472 for details.

BROAD TOWN BIG GIG -SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST 2014

Thanks to those of you who’ve taken advantage of the early bird discount and bought your tickets already – a record for us! For those that haven’t, you can purchase tickets on our website via PayPal using either a PayPal account or a debit / credit card. The regular prices are: £17.50 age 18 and over, £7.50 age 12 to 17 inclusive, under 12s free, however, remember: until June you can buy at 2010 prices - £15 and £5 respectively!

The already excellent line-up has been further enhanced by the addition of the Kelly Lee Band, a Country and Bluegrass outfit with double bass, banjo, fiddle and dobro guitar, who played for us at the village hall on Good Friday – a great performance and they truly are top notch in their genre. We also welcome back Theo Altieri who is now making his name nationally as an up and coming artist, having been named best male unsigned artist by Amazing radio in 2012 and best acoustic act at 2011's Exposure Music Awards. We still have a couple of slots to fill but we are being very selective to bring you nothing but the best. We’ve also added more tracks from the Kelly Lee band, Theo Altieri and The Vooz to the website, so get online and get listening.

The Little Gig is back! Friday 13^th June, 7pm onwards in the garden of The Crown, Broad Hinton (weather permitting, otherwise inside). This is a FREE event, headlined by the AK Poets (tracks on our website) and three great additional acts, BBQ and a lot of fun – more details including transport arrangements in next month’s newsletter.

If you have any suggestions or comments, please get in touch! www.broadtownbiggig.co.uk / www.facebook.com/broadtownbiggig

BUSY BEES

We meet in Bushton Village Hall on second and fourth Wednesdays 1.45 to 2.45pm. We welcome all babies and toddlers and their parents or carers and any other family visitors who happen to be around at the time. Do come for a coffee, a chat, and a play. Plenty of parking and lots of room to play.

Please contact Kim Gough on kim.gough@rocketmail.com or on 07850933344. We look forward to meeting you.

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

WHITE HORSE CLEANING

The White Horse cleaning event will be over the weekend of 14/15 June. The problem we have is that the recent (6 months) of rain have rendered the horse unsafe. By June the site should have dried out. More info next newsletter. Contact Bob Clarke on 01793 731853.

SPINAL INJURIES ASSOCIATION GREAT BRITISH FISH AND CHIP SUPPER – FRIDAY 16^TH MAY 2014

Want to eat Fish and Chips, while raising money for charity? Hold a fish and chip supper on Friday 16^th May 2014 whilst raising awareness of spinal cord injury and supporting SIA’s vital services. You can hold a fish and chip supper in your own home, at work or hold a larger supper at your local community centre.

SIA will provide a fundraising pack containing hints and tips, recipes, invitations and donation envelopes. By inviting 8 friends and asking them to donate an additional £5.00 means you will raise at least £40.00 from your supper but we will also give you additional fundraising ideas to raise even more money for SIA.

In 2014 SIA is celebrating its 40^th anniversary and so we want to make the batter matter and raise £25,000 from everyone holding suppers. Last year we raised £12,500 from the suppers.

The money raised from the suppers will help the Spinal Injuries Association offer support to individuals who become paralysed and their families, from the moment a spinal injury occurs, and for the rest of their lives by providing services and publications which enable and encourage paralysed people to rebuild lives after spinal cord injury.

Every year in the UK over 1,000 people experience a spinal cord injury and there are an estimated 40,000 spinal cord injured people in the UK alone.

Community Fundraising Manager, Elizabeth Wright, says, “The Fish and Chip Supper is a wonderful opportunity for a great evening with friends and family. We are also encouraging people who work to hold a Fish and Chip Lunch in their work places to raise even more funds. You may be even a local community group wanting to run a fun evening with your group. For more information or request a fundraising pack call Elizabeth Wright on 0845 071 4350 or email fundraising@siafishandchips.co.uk or visit www.siafishandchips.co.uk

ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL HILMARTON 14^th and 15^th JUNE 2014

To all artists We invite you to take part in the parish Arts and Crafts Festival. You will be able to enter up to three pieces of work, not shown in the village before, of any size.

Please: have each work ready for hanging – suitably framed with wire or string to hang by – or otherwise displaying, have a label attached to the back, which will show beneath the work when hung, label to show title of work, medium, price or NFS and your name, bring to the Church Hall on Tuesday 10^th June between 7 and 8pm or on Wednesday 11^th June, between 2 and 3pm and bring £2 entry fee per work. This applies also to three-dimensional work, which will be displayed in the Chapel.

The exhibition will be open from 10am until 4pm on both Saturday 14^th June and Sunday 15^th June 2014.

Work may be collected at the end of the exhibition, ie from 4pm on 15^th June. Payment taken for work sold will be passed on to you then. If you cannot come at that time, please let either of the organisers (below) know and we will make other arrangements with you. For further details or any queries, please contact

Sally Fox 01249 891442 sally_fox@btinternet.com or Shirley Gilleard 01249 760361 stephen.stott2@btinternet.com

We do hope you will enter and also come to enjoy the exhibition. If you know of any other local artist who might like to participate, please tell them about it. Thank you.

Please also let us know if you are able to help with stewarding the exhibition.

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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JUNE 2014 EDITION

Will organisations or anyone wishing to have news, etc. included in the June 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 25^th May.23^rd It is regretted that submissions after that time will not be included.