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Kindly sponsored by Bradleys Estate Agents April 2015 Events, Activities and Notices using the play area in Barn Park we have had Rural Skip Service to restrict the age of children using the park to Please note, the Rural Skip under 12s. This is for our insurance purposes. Service will take place at Victoria Woodholme We hope that the older boys playing football in car park on Saturday 18 April, 10.00-4.00pm. the park will use the football pitch at This service is for bulky household waste Duckspond. only. Please do not deposit any waste at the We are looking for a volunteer caretaker to site before the skip has arrived. help with the upkeep of the park - anyone For more information, contact the Town interested, please call Barbara on 642089. Council, or call the free recycling helpline, The winner of our Christmas Quiz was 0800 731 0323 , or visit Irene Ireland, who won a £10 shopping www..gov.uk/ruralskip. voucher. The following materials can NOT be accepted:- trade waste, plasterboard, Crafting Group for Grown Ups asbestos, demolition & construction waste, Crafting and chatting over a cuppa! To be oils and other liquid waste, tree branches in held monthly in St. Luke’s lounge, and excess of 1.5m. Please note, TVs and covering tapestry / embroidery / paper crafts / computer monitors are accepted by the rural crochet / knitting / card making / stamping / skip service. decoupage - and anything else you would like to share. Coffee Morning at Dean Prior An opportunity for adults of all ages to get A coffee morning will be held in the Village together and share equipment and skills, and Hall, Dean Prior on Saturday 11 April, at learn some new ones! 10.00 am. We will be selling fantastic plants, If you would like to find out more, please scrumptious cakes and great coffee. Come contact Elaine Jenkins on 644632 or e-mail and see what else is in store!! [email protected] All proceeds to St. George the Martyr Church, Dean Prior. Plant Sale Village Hall Annual Plant Sale, to be Buckfastleigh Residents’ held this year on Saturday 9 May, 2.00- 4.00pm in the village hall. Bedding and Association vegetable plants; pre-loved gardening books; Our AGM will be held on Wednesday 15 cakes & goodies; raffle. Admission £1 to April, 7.00pm in the Town Hall. If you are a include tea / coffee and biscuits. For further tenant of Teign Housing, please come along information, and to offer plants, please contact and meet members of staff who hopefully will Carol Harper on 631044. have answers to any questions you may have regarding your home. We would also like to advise everyone that due to older children

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Library News Saturday Somatics Easter Bunnies in the Library!! The Three workshops in gentle, guided Friends of Buckfastleigh Library are arranging movement, explorations in breathing and an Easter prize competition called ‘Guess constructive rest including simple floor based which rabbits will be pulled from the hat’, exercises taught at a slow and gentle pace. which will feature fictional and local rabbits! It 25 April, 9 May, 10.00-1.00pm in the will cost 50p per go, and monies raised will go Town Hall, £25 waged/£15 low waged/£10 towards library funds. The results will be student or unwaged. Teachers - Rosalyn announced in the cafe on Thursday 9 April, Maynard and Sarah Gray. Open and when we are hoping to have a guest accessible to anyone interested in body-mind appearance by some local bunnies, and, for integration techniques. Tea/coffee provided, children, there will also be a paper flower wear warm comfortable clothes to move in and making activity, and a find the bunny hunt, bring a blanket/mat. with small prizes. Bookings and enquiries to Rosalyn 07966 We now have a collection of adult DVDs 403574, e-mail [email protected] available to hire, which have been kindly loaned to us. One week’s hire will cost £1, Come and meet the French! which helps to reduce our costs by increasing Scoriton and Buckfastleigh Twinning our income. Association are hosting a fun evening to We are hoping to start some computer welcome our French friends on Saturday 11 classes after Easter, so if you are interested in April, at Scoriton Village Hall. Like to find out attending, please contact Angela at the library, more about the twinning, and how you could 642638 during opening hours, or on 07849 join us in Normandy as a guest of the French 644534 at any other time, or visit the library to next year? Then why not come along for the discuss. evening, entry is free, but please bring your Your support is greatly appreciated, and own food and drink. E - mail the more the service is used, the greater [email protected], or call chance we have of being able to continue. 642008 to reserve your place. Although we have a 12 month breathing space before the next stage of the Council cuts we do still need your support through taking out Therapeutic Yoga books, DVDs and using the computers. It is A 5-week course for all ages and abilities - very important if we are to continue that the try-out session Thursday 16 April. Includes library is well supported. Don’t forget you can postures and sequences for building strength order books online to be delivered to the and tone of the muscles, balanced with library, and we are trying to arrange a scheme flexibility and mobility of the joints. These where we can arrange for books to be practices help increase your energy, whist delivered to you, especially if you are unable encouraging relaxation and ease. Breath to get to the library during opening hours. awareness will be taught, including deep The Summer Reading Challenge this year relaxation, in every class. The practices is to do with World Records. If anyone has improve health, wellbeing and much, much any record breaking ideas we could possibly more. Feel revitalised, re-energised and try to achieve, please contact Angela on the rejuvenated every week. Expertly guided by a above numbers. Massage and Yoga Therapist with 15 years teaching experience. To be held in the town hall, 9.30-11.00 am, on Thursdays, 16/23/30 Dart Vale Vets April, & 14/21 May. £5 try-out option for first We would like to reassure our clients that session. Booking in advance essential. If you the Buckfastleigh surgery is NOT going to are interested in pre or post natal yoga class, close, despite a couple of rumours we have and/or pregnancy and therapeutic massage, heard that this may be the case. We would please call Uma for prices and to book, on remind all our clients that the surgery opening 07985 013085 / 388529, or e-mail times are:- Monday - Friday, 9.00-9.40 am for [email protected]. consultations.

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St Mary’s Primary School Afternoon Concerts with Tea There have been a number of special The Methodist Church in Chapel Street is events this month at the school, including Red hosting three afternoon concerts, which will Nose Day, which saw every class transformed take place in May, June and July. The first into a sea of red. Pupils heard all about the concert will be on Thursday 14 May, 2.30- sort of projects their money would help to 3.15pm, when Mrs Myrna Luff from support around the world in assembly. World will be playing the harp, followed by a Book Day also took place in March, and this performance by Myrna and Martin Luff on the year we decided to do something a little Northumbrian small pipes. A light afternoon different to mark the day and the importance tea will be served from 3.30pm in the forum. of reading, so each class looked at a different There is no entrance fee, and we welcome all traditional tale from around the world. During who wish to come. For more information, the afternoon, children found out about that please call Sandra Coleman on 643699. country and created their own artwork associated with its culture. They celebrated Buckfastleigh WI their work in the weekly achievement At our March meeting, Sarah Parson won assembly. the ballot to represent Buckfastleigh WI at a We have also participated in a number of Special Royal Garden Party, in the presence sporting events, including badminton, football of HRH Duchess of Cornwall, to be held in and cricket, all of which have been led by local June at Buckingham Palace, to mark 100 sports coaches. Congratulations to Burrator years of the WI. pupils who prepared a fantastic dance, based The rest of the meeting was a hands-on around the theme of coast and moorland, as session for all the ladies in the art of glass part of the Body Language Dance Festival at etching, with everyone going home with a South Dartmoor Community College. personalised etched glass. Flower of the In preparation for Easter, children from Month was won by Maywyn Wilkinson, with each class enjoyed an Easter hunt in the Joan Masters second and Ann Tapper third. Abbey, and everyone had the chance to make A team of four ladies entered the WI County an Easter bonnet for the annual Easter Quiz and came 9th out of 20. Bonnet Parade, which always results in some Our group meeting with Ashburton and outstanding artwork! After all this hard work, Parke WIs will be a fish and chip supper, with I’m sure staff and pupils alike will benefit from a talk by an ex-lighthouse keeper. the opportunity to recharge their batteries over Our next meeting will be on 14 April, and the Easter break, ready for the busy summer the theme will be ‘Keep Fit in a Chair’, with term ahead. Judith King. Our meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, in the Town Wildspace Buckfastleigh Hall, 7.00pm for 7.30pm start. Come and This is a community garden for wildlife and give us a try, you will be made most welcome. people, behind the Town Hall, on Bossell Road. We welcome everyone to join us for The Collati Singers volunteer gardening sessions once a month The Collati Singers, based in on the 2nd Sunday, from 2.00pm. At the Buckfastleigh and conducted by Trefor moment we are particularly in need of Farrow, are giving a concert ‘Motets Ancient volunteers with skills such as carpentry and and Modern’ in Buckfast Abbey on Saturday conservation work, as we have a bench to fix, 11 April. The a capella chamber choir sings fencing to put in, and a pond to manage. music from the Renaissance and the modern Please bring your own gloves and hand period, with works by Victoria, De Lassus and tools. Supervised children in wellies are Gabriella, plus Poulenc, Lukaszweski and welcome. We are planting and maintaining Jenkins from the modern era. The concert native plant species, and creating a haven for begins at 7.30pm, and admission is free with wild animals. Come along for pond dipping, donations invited. More details from 643134, bug hunting and muddy play. Each session or [email protected] will close with a bit of cooking on the fire bowl.

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Help for Uganda It was with great sadness we learned of We will be raising money for children and the decision to disband Buckfastleigh & vulnerable adults in Uganda over the summer, District Society, and would thank their through the sale of plants. If you have any old members for all their work over the years for pots or plants to donate we would be very the benefit of the Green, and in organising the grateful. Please leave a message on 642469 Annual Fun Day. However, in addition to our (Nirvikalpini), and we will get back to you to current programme, the Trust is keen to arrange collection if needed. organise a family-friendly summer afternoon fayre, which will include the famous Duck Race, and this will take place on Sunday 28 Fire Station News June. We are very keen to hear from anyone It’s been a busy time of late, with the who would like to ensure we can keep this station attending a number of emergencies - annual tradition alive. road traffic collisions, chimney fires and also We shall be starting the monthly the first gorse fire of the year. We have also maintenance days on Saturday 4 April from taken part in a ten appliance training exercise 10.00am. Any members of the community are at the now empty Buckfast Spinning Mill, welcome to join us to do tidying, gardening where fire appliances from as far as and other maintenance jobs. Please bring practised breathing apparatus wearing, and your own gloves and favourite fork/trowel/ dealing with hazardous materials on a large secateurs if you wish. scale. Our thanks go to Buckfast Abbey for Anyone keen to contribute to the success allowing us to use such a brilliant training of the Green is encouraged to contact trustee venue. Celia Lebbon, on 07925 325128, Janet Stocks We are always looking for ways to improve on 07941 578861, or speak to a trust the service we provide to our local representative during any of the events. communities, and were pleased to receive a We look forward to welcoming you to the new defibrillator for the fire appliance, making Green very soon. a safer working environment for the firefighters, and also providing another valuable lifesaving resource to the town. Buckfastleigh Bowls Club Stay safe, from the team at Station 22. This year our green will be opened by David Mercer from Bowls on Saturday 18 April, 2.00pm. On Sunday 10 May we are Orchard Millennium Green holding a ‘Bowls Taster Day’, specifically to The Orchard Millennium Green Trust is encourage new bowlers. Sessions will be pleased to announce that its flagship ‘Tea on from 11.00-1.00pm, and 2.00-4.00pm, free the Green’ events will be kicking off another coaching and refreshments available, all exciting programme of events for the equipment provided, although flat shoes are a upcoming season. must. We will shortly be launching a website, Please do come along every Sunday and further details of which will be announced Bank Holiday Monday from Easter onwards soon. and enjoy a refreshing cuppa, with homemade cake, in the beautiful surroundings of the Green. We would like to thank everyone who Bariatric Support South Devon has helped make ‘Tea on the Green’ the Have you had, or are you planning to success it has been, and would like to invite have, any form of Bariatric Surgery? keen volunteers -both new and existing- to If so you will be pleased to know there is a become Friends of the Green and join us for thriving support group to help you on your an exciting programme of events this year, journey to a new you. We are an informal, including another Youth Community Art friendly group of people, all of whom have Showcase, another classic Christmas Carol had, or are waiting to have, surgery. evening, plus we are planning to stage a jazz We welcome you to come and join us in afternoon. an atmosphere of confidentiality and trust on the first Sunday each month, 2.00-4.00pm, in

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Rydon Community Centre, Rydon Road, . The professionals who look after you provide our group with expert help and guidance, although, of course, they do not pass on any details of your medical records which remain strictly private. For further information, please contact Debbie on 01803 866878 / 07933 950820 or Elaine on 644632 / 07766 674295.

SSAFA in Devon As the UK’s oldest tri-service charity, SSAFA understands the unique challenges of military life. We provide lifelong support for those who are serving, and for anyone who has ever served, in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British Army or Royal Airforce, and their families. Now almost 130years old, SSAFA continues to offer professional health and social care services, as well as practical, emotional and financial support to over 90,000 members of our forces, veterans and their families every year. This is achieved through our network of trained volunteers and professional staff. At SSAFA we believe that the loyalty and courage of those who serve and have served in our forces deserve lifelong support, and we are committed to providing that vital support wherever and whenever it is needed. To contact your local branch, please telephone 01392 254611, or e-mail [email protected].

Contacts Page Might I ask everyone involved with any organisations in the town to check our Contacts Page and ensure that the details we hold for you are up to date? Also, if anyone spots anything listed that no longer exists, please let me know, so that I can remove them. If you would like your organisation included (not businesses, please!), then let me have the details so we can tell everyone about you. Thanks in advance.

Copy Date for May issue is 18 April, please.

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Faith Notices Methodist Church Church of Buckfastleigh 10.30am Holy Trinity 5 Apr 6.15 am Sunrise Service 5 Apr Easter Day - Mrs M Luff 12 Apr Local Arrangement. St Luke's Church 19 Apr Mr D Greet 5 Apr 10.45 am Holy Communion 26 Apr Mrs D Hibberd 7.00 pm Evening Worship 3 May United Service at St. Luke’s, 10.45 12 Apr 9.00 am Early Birds & Holy am Communion 10.45 am Holy Communion 19 Apr 10.45 am Morning Prayer & Holy Buckfast 3pm Communion 4.00 pm Messy Church 5 Apr Easter Day - Mr P Metcalfe 26 Apr 9.00 am Early Birds’ Service. 12 Apr Miss P Stokes 10.45 am Holy Communion 19 Apr Rev D Bament

26 Apr Rev M Lawrence, with Holy Other Notices Communion 3 May Maria Alsop  Bible Study Tuesdays, 10.00 am  Coffee Morning - Tuesdays, 9.30 - 11.30am.,  Prayer Meeting Wednesdays 10.30am with homemade cakes and bric-a-brac stalls., .  Coffee morning Thursdays, 10.00-12.00 noon, with  United Prayer Meeting - 10.30 am at St. Luke’s Cake Stall on 3rd Thursdays, and Mothers’ Union every Wednesday. Stall every 2nd Thursday  United Short Service at Redmount Nursing  Mothers’ Union 2.30 pm first Thursday in month. Home, second Tuesday in the month, 2.30 pm.  Early Birds Service 9.00 am, second and fourth  Palm Sunday - 29 March, 6.00pm in St. Luke’s, Sunday of each month, followed by coffee and Songs of Praise with the Culm Valley Crusade croissants. Choir. Retiring collection in aid of the Farm  Cradle Days - 10.00am on Wednesdays, during term Community Network, and St. Luke’s Parish time. A group for all parents/carers with pre-school Church. children, £1 per child, babies under a year free.  Friends Together Tea - Thursday 2 April, 2.30- Activities include cooking, crafts, singing, and ending 4.00pm in the Methodist Church Vestry. with a substantial snack.  Good Friday Meditation - Friday 3 April, To find out about events, times of services and 2.00pm in St. Luke’s activities check out our website at www.stlukeschurch.buckfastleigh.org.uk on which there is also information about hiring the hall and lounge and a Catholic Church page about Holy Trinity Church. Church contact Service times for both the Abbey and St. telephone number is 643120 Benedict’s can be found on the notice boards in both churches. Church of St George the Martyr, From the Catholic Church:- Dean Prior It’s a blessing that in the northern hemisphere the climate seasons correspond to the liturgical

seasons. We begin lent in the cold, dark and damp 5 Apr 9.15 am Holy Communion 19 Apr 9.15 am Holy Communion time of winter. As the weeks flit by, the gradual 26 Apr 9.15 am Morning Prayer anticipation of the coming of Easter is accompanied (with Rev Tom Benson, Vicar) by the first signs of renewed life in the ground: buds on the trees, bulbs sending their green shoots peeking into the daylight, and, if you’re lucky, spring lambs frolicking in the fields. It all helps me to enter into the spirit of Easter, and really feel in my bones that Jesus Christ is reason from the dead. It may seem counter intuitive, but the other thing which helps me to appreciate the miracle of Jesus

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risen from the dead is to use this time of preparation Messy Church we call Lent to ponder again the awful death which Messy Church this month is on Sunday 19 Jesus accepted in order to bring us new life. April, 4.00-6.00pm at St. Luke’s Church. Come As we live our lives, perhaps the hard things we and enjoy a range of activities which are fun for all experience, if we can accept them - if we can the family, a short, informal, child friendly service, embrace them and rise above them by the love we and finish the time with a two course meal - no show to God and our neighbour - might just become need to go home and cook! There is no charge our entry into new life; a new way of living, a new for anything, but a small donation towards costs is appreciation of the wonders Jesus has worked for us, appreciated. For more information, please showing us the way to our own resurrection. The contact Rev. Tom Benson on 644875, or Heather prophet Hosea wrote this about what God does for and Roger Hopper on 644799 people who try to love Him: ‘I will love them with all my heart, for my anger has turned from them. I will fall like dew on Israel. He shall bloom like the lily, and thrust out roots like the poplar, his shoots will spread far; he will have the beauty of the olive and the fragrance of the Lebanon’.

The Christian Community 23 Chapel Street Act of Consecration of Man - Sundays & Wednesdays 10.00 am, and every day during Holy Week Please contact the Community direct for details of the many events taking place during Lent and the Easter period.

Meditation / Spiritual Healing Weekly free meditation group open to all, and free healing available. Contact Nirvikalpini on 642469 / 07722 021296, or e-mail [email protected]

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7 Local Contacts Emergency Numbers:- Buckfastleigh Women’s running Orchard Millennium Green 07786 Ashburton Hospital - 652203 group 642271 176603 (Andy Rudgley) Buckfastleigh Medical Centre Buckfastleigh Youth Club 642641 Pantomime Group 643022 642534 Buckfastleigh Youth Project Petanque Pitch 642336 Derriford Hospital - 08451558155 644481 Purely Play 643164 Devon Doctors (out of hours service) Buck the Trend 698101, e-mail Residents’ Association 642089 - 111 [email protected] Ring & Ride Transport 01392 Hospital - 01626 Car Share Devon 08700 111199 382123 324500 www.carsharedevon.com Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal NHS Medical advice - (non life- Catholic Church 645526 643623, 642370 threatening) 111 Christian Community 644272 St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Hospital - 01803 614567 Church of England 643120, Buckfast, 642389 Police - non emergency -101 www.stlukeschurchbuckfastleigh.o Scoriton & Buckfastleigh emergency only - 999 rg.uk Twinning 643728, e-mail Teign Housing 01626 322722 Church of England Children’s [email protected] Teignbridge District Council 01626 Society 643660 Scoriton Flower Show 642436 361101 Circuit Training - 07925 385618 Scoriton Village hall bookings ------Computer Club 643428 631658, e-mail ABC Childrens Centre 644200 Counselling - 644596 (Lucy Pearce) [email protected] After School Club 07867 672282 Crime Stoppers 0800-555111 Sculpture Group 642786, 07840 Age Concern Devon 0845 2967810 Curious Goose Nursery 07796 759215 Arthritis Support Group 01803 169317 Seed Sowers Trust 642206 732664 (evenings) CustomerFirst 01392 381381 Sharing -Transport 643723, Ashburton & Buckfastleigh Hospital Cycling club 643428 Luncheon Club - 643646, Sunday League of Friends 07753 605902, Dartmoor National Park 01626 T-Set - 643561 Bariatric Patient Support - Elaine 832093 www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk Befriending - 644557 Jenkins, 644632 / 07766 674295 Devon Cave Rescue Organisation South Devon MS Society - 0845 602 Buckfastleigh Befriending - 644557 - 07748 762580 0805 Brainwave Charity Shop - 642010 01392- Southpark Hall - bookings 07928 Buckfast PO - 643034 382000 www.devon.gov.uk 620122 Buckfast Residents Society 642007 Devon Domestic Abuse Support SSAFA - 01392 254611, Buckfast Short Mat Bowling 644570 Service 0345 155 1074, e-mail [email protected] Buckfastleigh Bowls Club [email protected] Stagecoach Bus Information 01803 642435 Devon Spelaeological Society 664500 Buckfastleigh Caving Group - [email protected] Taijiwuxigong - Katie White, 07846 644256 Www.devonss.org.uk 482611 Buckfastleigh Chamber of Trade Fellowship of the Way 642206 Tennis club 642922 643206 Football (Under-14s) 642872 Tiddlers Movement Workshop Buckfastleigh Community Forum Friends of Buckfastleigh 642323 643478, Swimming Pool 643846, e-mail Teignbridge & Totnes Cats [email protected] [email protected] Protection: General 0845 Buckfastleigh Community News Gosling, Alan - re Muscovy Ducks - 3712723, Lost & found 0845 Sheet 643553 , 642922, 643428 643918 3712727. Buckfastleigh Cricket Club 07769 Guides & Brownies 642922 The Gambia Fellowship - 642503 655707 Holne Community Shop & Traveline (public transport info) Buckfastleigh Drama Group Tearoom 631188, 0871 200 22 33 642509 [email protected] Vet 644441 (24 hours) Buckfastleigh Human Rights Group Home-start Teignbridge 01626 Valiant Soldier Heritage Centre 643699 353700 644522 Buckfastleigh Ki-Aikikdo Club Horticultural Society 642280 Women’s Institute 642732 07962 432317 Jellyfish Productions 642662, Yoga - 642150, Buckfastleigh Library 642638 07906 099498, [email protected] Buckfastleigh Patchwork & Quilting www.jellyfishprod.com Therapeutic yoga - Uma 388529, Group 642690 Ladybirds Playgroup (Buckfast) 07985 013085, Buckfastleigh Post Office 643369 07886 183735, 07719 660394 [email protected] Buckfastleigh Primary School Little Ducklings Nursery 644074 643304 Methodist Church 644564 Buckfastleigh Ramblers 643895 Stamp Club 643843 Buckfastleigh Rangers Social Club Mothers’ Union 643627 642853 Newton Abbot Community Buckfastleigh Town Council/Town Transport 01626 335775 Hall 642576 The Buckfastleigh Community News Sheet is published by the Wigram Community Association and delivered by volunteers. Donations are gratefully received by cash or cheque to the collection boxes at Buckfastleigh & Buckfast Post Offices. Copy date for May issue: 18 April. Please include items for beginning of June, as the June issue may not reach all homes by end of May. Copy should be sent either by e-mail (preferred) to [email protected] or by hand or post to Chris Doidge, 1 Glebelands, Buckfastleigh TQ11 0BH, telephone 643553, or via the website as below. We reserve the right to edit articles as necessary according to space available. The News Sheet is now available on line at www.bflnews.org.uk Printed by Bradleys Estate Agents Ltd, 01364-642642, www.bradleys.tv 8