Broad Town News-February 2012

February 2012 BROAD TOWN NEWS Published by Christ Church

Sponsored this month by Centimony

Date/Day	Time	Church	Service	Readers	Sidesman	Chalice	Cleaner	Flowers
Wednesday Feb 1	2pm	Hilmarton	Holy Communion	Service at 48 Poynder Place
Sunday Feb 5	8am	Clyffe Pypard	Said Communion
3rd Sunday before	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion*
Lent	11am	Broad Town	Sung Communion	Mrs Marshall / C Green	J Wallis	C Green	Mrs Marshall	Mrs Rendell
Sunday Feb 12	9.15am	Clyffe Pypard	Family Communion
2nd Sunday before	11am	Hilmarton	Family Service*
Lent	5pm	Tockenham	Evensong
Sunday Feb 19	9.15am	Broad Town	Family Communion	D Marshall / Mrs Green	D Marshall	Mrs Drury	Mrs Marshall	Mrs Richardson
Sunday before	11am	Tockenham	Communion
Lent	5pm	Hilmarton	Evensong
Wednesday Feb 22	7.30pm	Clyffe Pypard	Benefice Communion
Ash Wednesday
Sunday Feb 26	9.15am	Hilmarton	Book of Common Prayer Communion
Lent 1	11am	Clyffe Pypard	Family Communion
	5pm	Broad Town	Evensong	Mrs Richardson / Mrs Crocker	C Green		Mrs Bastin	Lent

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

REVEREND ALISON WAY

It is gratifying to see the hours of daylight gently increasing, particularly at the end of the day and by the end of this month I am looking forward to it being light until at least 6pm. The increasing moments of daylight each day visibly reminds us that time is always moving on. As we travel onwards this month – we reach the church’s annual time of preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday on 22^nd February. Do come to our special benefice communion at St Peter’s Clyffe Pypard at 7:30pm that day, as this is a great way to get started with Lent and to be reassured of God’s amazing forgiveness.

In our services in Lent we will be thinking about the key themes of proclaiming the gospel, worship, service, solidarity and confidence, all of which should be visible in our hearts and our lives as Christians. As a part of Lent discipline this year, each of the churches will be having a communion service using the Book of Common prayer, so do watch out for that. The first one is on Sunday 26^th February at 9:15am in St Lawrence’s Hilmarton – with the ones in the other three churches of the benefice following along in March. Also in March we are hoping to have Lent groups meeting weekly across the benefice looking at our key themes and using the Old Testament story of the Israelites in their wilderness and desert times, after they had escaped from Egypt and before they reached the promised land. We will be using a Bible Reading Fellowship Lent book entitled – The Way of the Desert by Bishop Andrew Watson to help us with this (ISBN 978 1 84101 798 3), but you do not have to read the book to participate in a group. Details of the groups will be in the churches by mid-February and in the March village newsletters.

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

10^th Feb School TD day

10^th Feb BT Community Led Planning Group meeting

12^th Feb Half term holiday

18^th Feb Pancake coffee morning

20^th Feb Back to school

22^nd April London Marathon

PANCAKE COFFEE MORNING

On Sat 18^th Feb we will again be opening the café for home-made pancakes. Do come and join us for refreshments and a chat.

BROAD TOWN SCHOOL

On Monday 30^th Jan. a team of children from the school will be taking part in the Rotary Youth Speaks Competition. We wish them well.

BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH Activity summary 30 July – 31 December 2011

171 respondents to Broad Town’s Parish Plan cited traffic speed as a very serious concern. Your eight-strong Community Speed Watch (CSW) team has so far conducted more than 100 survey sessions in our village since July 2011: an unpaid, voluntary commitment of over 265 man-hours monitoring traffic volumes and speeds; and 60 man-hours administration (data capture/verification, training, reporting, kit transfer etc.) NOTE: all CSW sessions are conducted in the 30mph zone

Facts from Broad Town CSW’s five-month, 12,061-vehicle tally include:

Owners of 1,283 vehicles logged travelling at speeds deemed dangerous by Wiltshire Police have been sent warning letters (11% of daylight traffic, on average)

The fastest – a white BMW – was logged at a shocking 73mph

82 drivers that repeatedly, unrepentantly speed are being targeted by Wiltshire Police’s Operation Payback initiative

In the last week alone, 21% of all vehicles were speeding

0600–0700: 33% of all vehicles speed in Broad Town

Average speed of all offenders is in excess of 40mph 40% of speeders drive through your village at over 40mph

48 people under 18 live here, and yet more attend Broad Town Primary, but less than half of local CSW volunteers are parents or grandparents with school-age offspring. When (not if, when) a long-overdue tragedy happens – innocent pedestrians inevitably killed or maimed – do you think that our village’s children will understand that we were all too busy with ‘more important things’ to spare just two hours a month to protect them?

1100-1200 Sunday morning CSW sessions in February are open to all: we welcome both our supporters and detractors! Come and meet us in the Post Box lay-by for a few minutes’ chat, take part in a session, and find out what you and your family can do to help make our village safer.

In common with the other thirty Wiltshire villages and towns currently operating CSW schemes, your Broad Town Community Speed Watch team is fully vetted and formally trained by Wiltshire Police to operate the exact same speed detection equipment used by professional traffic officers.

Broad Town CSW is supported by Broad Town Parish Council and Wiltshire Council.

To volunteer, or for more info, please phone Matt on 01793 731499 or email oscar.littlelad@gmail.com

ANDREW HARRIS IS RUNNING THE LONDON MARATHON

Andrew from Broad Town Cars is running the London Marathon this year. He is looking for sponsors. The Charity he is running for is THE ADOLESCENT AND CHILDRENS TRUST (TACT). If you would like to sponsor him please go to www.justgiving.com/andrew-harris1 or text hman99 to 70070, where you can find out much more about the charity and what they do. Alternatively just call into the garage anytime.

BIG GIG

Following on from our donation of £1,000 to Help for Heroes, Capita Group PLC gave H4H an additional 25%, increasing our contribution to £1,250 and our overall funds raised for good causes increased to just under £3,500 – a fantastic effort for such a small village.

Planning for the 1^st September is under way but in the early stages, so no real news to share….. yet. Watch this space!

www.broadtownbiggig.co.uk / www.facebook.com/BroadTownBigGig

BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY LED PLANNING GROUP

A committee has been formed to represent the Broad Town Parish in the development of the Royal Wootton Bassett & Cricklade Area Plan. Broad Town is one of about 14 rural parishes in this area & will have 2 representatives on the committee of this area plan: one from the Parish Council (Veronica Stubbings) & one from the Community Led Planning Group. The current intention is to produce this Area plan in 2012.

The concept of an area plan is that there are issues that happen in one parish that might impact another (e.g. residents of Broad Town are impacted by planning decisions in places like Wootton Bassett). There maybe issues that are raised in the Area Plan that were not considered in the Broad Town Plan & one of the main roles of the Broad Town Community Led Planning Group will be to decide what policy to adopt on these issues.

The Initial volunteers for this group are: James Harvey-Samuel, Keith Newman, Chris King, Lorraine Billis, Anthony Richardson, Mike Broomfield, June Broomfield, Sylvie Smith & Bridget Long. Any other volunteers will be welcomed at any time. The first meeting of this group will be in the Village Hall on Friday 10^th Feb at 8pm. Everyone is welcome to come along to participate.

The Interim representative on the Area Planning Committee will be Mike Broomfield. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact James Harvey-Samuel (01793 731108 or jharveysamuel@hotmail.com)

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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MARCH 2012 EDITION

Will organisations or anyone wishing to have news, etc. included in March edition please note that items must be submitted to Mrs M Green, 1 Broadacres, Broad Town, cliveggreen@waitrose.com BY 6pm FRIDAY 24^th February. It is regretted that submissions after that time cannot be included.