Spring 2015 The Revels are Coming! function band offering a stage show and rd th performance that won't be beaten’! 23 —24 May Between them, they've worked with famous names such as Robbie Williams, Tickets are now on sale for the sixth run throughout the autumn and winter Jools Holland and Westlife. With their Peppard Revels that will take place on months. repertoire of over 500 songs, featuring the Peppard Common over this May Bank The 2015 event will begin with a family best of 50's and 60's Rock 'n' Roll, 70's, Holiday weekend (Saturday 23rd May and day on Saturday 23rd May with many 80's and modern pop classics, a Sunday 24th May). The Peppard Revels activities on the Common including a memorable evening is guaranteed for all! originally took place on the Common on Human Table Football competition and In addition to Decades, there will be a Whit Monday during the 17th and 18th a variety of other games for all the jazz quartet to entertain guests during the centuries. They were somewhat drunken family to enjoy. Refreshments and cake drinks reception and dinner. and bawdy affairs which involved cud- stalls will be available throughout the A wonderful three course dinner will be gels and other dangerous implements. day, with a family disco and BBQ in the prepared by Greens Catering and an Needless to say, the Revels did not evening. excellent range of red, white, rosé and survive (nor, possibly, did some of sparkling wines, cask beers and ciders the participants!). from Laithwaites, Loose Cannon In 1997, a committee of local resi- Brewery and Wyfold Vineyard will be dents, under the chairmanship of Sir available for purchase from the bar. David Money-Coutts, planned a Wine can be booked in advance when celebration for the millennium. On purchasing tickets. Tickets for the New Year’s Eve 1999, 420 Dinner Dance are £75 each and are ‘revellers’ sat down to dinner in a available now from: Linda Collison on marquee on the Common followed 07747 762871; by a barbecue the next day and an e-mail: [email protected]. ecumenical Church Service on the For more information on the Peppard Sunday. It was so successful that the Revels and the At the Movies event see: villagers demanded more! www.peppardrevels.org.uk. Two other events were held - in 2002 Geoff Pitcher (on left) and Gavin Brooks The Peppard Revels have now become to mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee when an established feature of village life with On the Sunday morning, the popular the name Peppard Revels was revived, a reputation that extends as far as Space: ecumenical Church Service will be held and in 2005 to mark 200 years since the The Final Frontier. We hope to see you at 11:30 in the 500 capacity marquee, Battle of Trafalgar. Under the leadership there on 23rd and 24th May! with the Service being led by the of our immediate past Chairman, Dr John Gavin Brooks Hasler, there was a Revels in 2008 for the Bishop of Dorchester. centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth with a On Sunday evening, we will be hosting New Team Member James Bond theme; and, in 2012, to mark the final event of the weekend – the Required both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Peppard Revels Dinner Dance. This will London Olympics. showcase the movies theme and include Would you like to join our friendly To continue this recent tradition, the cur- fireworks and the lighting of the Editorial Team of volunteers using rent Peppard Revels Organising Commit- beacon. At the dinner, each table of ten DTP software to produce Peppard tee, comprising: Geoff Pitcher will bear the name of a famous film News? All software will be provided (Chairman), Gavin and Kathy Brooks, title, with guests being able to select and full training and support will be Linda Collison, Nigel Downing, Tess their own favourite film title and wear given. fancy dress to reflect their choice if they Ferguson, Tony and Will Laithwaite, Or, would you like to help design and Steve Malcolm, Damian Mayer, Chris wish. For those guests not in fancy develop our new website and then Miller and Suzanne Skelton, have been dress, the dress code will be black tie. carefully planning this year’s event. The We have booked an excellent eight- manage it? theme for 2015 is At the Movies which piece function band, Decades, who will For more information call Rita recognises, in part, the hugely successful play throughout the evening. Decades Hadgkiss on 01491 629996 or e-mail Peppard Revels Film Club evenings that describe themselves as ‘the ultimate [email protected]
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Parish Council News New Chairman Parish Council The Peppard News Editorial Team Some readers may wonder what the Par- Chairman: Barry Wood congratulates Barry Wood on his election ish Council does and I thought that I 01491 629982 to the Chairmanship of the Parish Council would comment on just two of our many e-mail: [email protected] and send our very best wishes to Tony activities in the last quarter. Parish Clerk: Linda Collison Cotton who, once again, takes up the All parishioners are welcome to our coun- 7 Grange Avenue, Rotherfield Peppard, position of Vice-Chairman. cil meetings which are normally held on Henley on Thames, Oxon RG9 5LD the second Monday in the month in the 01491 629676 From John Howell, MP Sports Pavilion on Stoke Row Road at e-mail: [email protected] Our constituency MP praises all those who 19:30. The Agenda is published at least Website: www.rppc.org.uk have worked to get the District Council three days in advance and can be found on SODC Councillors: Paul Harrison services running again after the arson at- the notice boards in the Parish, on the 0118 972 2665 tack at the offices at Crowmarsh Gifford; website (www.rppc.org.uk) or issued on & Alan Rooke—01491 572919 he thanks the fire service and police for the Village Email*. The format of our OCC Councillor: David Bartholomew the excellent work they did on all three meetings is strictly governed by Local 07769 808773 incidents of arson. Mr Howell is pleased Government Act 1972 – for example, the e-mail: to note, apart from those incidents, from Parish Council cannot lawfully decide any david.bartholomew@oxfordshire.gov.uk 2010 to 2014 crime in the Thames Valley matter which is not specified in the Rotherfield Peppard Parish Council usually Policing area is down by 30%. meets on 2nd Monday of the month at 19.30 agenda. He welcomes the announcement of nearly In the final quarter of the calendar year, in the Pavilion. Parishioners may attend and observe, and may briefly raise issues of £17 million of new funding for Oxford- the councillors have the most important concern to them. All may attend shire roads which is part of £87,143,000 of task of deciding what funding they require intermediate planning meetings as well - see funding allocated for road maintenance up for the following April to March. This is Diary for dates and times. to 2020/21; much needed money to tackle known as the Precept. This year your potholes and improve our roads. councillors have voted for a precept which, for the average house (Band D), considered more than once. These in- Peppard Litter Blitz will be a 1% increase on the current year. cluded 20 extensions to existing proper- Please join us to help keep Peppard tidy This follows a lot of work by our Clerk ties, nine new build homes on subdivi- on the annual Litter Blitz on Saturday 18th and the Finance Committee with input sion of existing properties and five dem- April from 10:00–12:00. Meet outside the from all councillors reviewing the current olitions of properties and the building of Unicorn, Colmore Lane and please bring year’s spend and considering the hopes one or more homes on the land. RPPC your own gloves; picks and rubbish bags and wishes for the coming year. Our Pre- recommended 30 of these for approval, will be provided. For more information cept includes funds for a number of vil- in seven cases requesting conditions. In contact the Parish Clerk on 01491 629676 lage projects including the maintenance of 14 cases our recommendation to SODC or email [email protected] was for refusal and we always give our Carlings Orchard (opposite the Unicorn) Linda Collison, Clerk and RFO to RPPC and the Sports Field and Pavilion. As in reasons. SODC refused one. previous years, we will also have funding As well as building applications we will e-Petition to support the upgrading of the much used draw SODC’s attention to building work The Council for the Protection of Rural War Memorial Hall. that does not appear to have approval or England (CPRE) Oxfordshire and the Ru- Another aspect of councillors’ work is conditions such as reinstatement that ral Oxfordshire Action Rally (ROAR) are making recommendations to South Ox- have not been complied with. petitioning Secretary of State Eric Pickles fordshire District Council on planning Tree Preservation Orders (TPO) are an- and local MPs to protect rural Oxfordshire applications. For this we have a Planning other area where we make our views from unsustainable development. They Committee which normally meets twice a known to SODC and we were extremely believe current planning rules are unfairly month – once after the council meeting disappointed when a temporary TPO penalising some villages and greenfield and once on a Saturday morning between was lifted on a landmark beech tree in sites, a situation that will deteriorate with those meetings. Members of the public are Shiplake Bottom; the tree has now been the proposed increase in housing by 2031. again welcome at these meetings. The ring barked, effectively killing it. More affordable housing for local people Committee always makes a site visit to So a brief note of some of the council’s is welcome but developers are frequently assess the surrounding areas as well as the recent activities and I hope that we will advancing large and inappropriate devel- plans submitted by the applicant. To give see you at one of our meetings. opments that threaten to swamp existing communities and infrastructure. Please an indication of the volume of work: from Tony Cotton, Chairman April 2014 to January 2015 we considered add your signature and make your voice * To sign up to the Village email, con- 45 different applications, some of them heard. Go to www.cpreoxon.org.uk to tact The Clerk on [email protected] sign the petition or phone 01865 874780
www.PeppardNews.co.uk Page 5 Snippets My Favourite Cycle Ride station on the left. Turn right here and if Our Oldest Resident is 106! There are a multitude of delightful cycling routes starting from Peppard that you are in need of sustenance, turn left It was the birthday of Mrs Mollie Walker are mainly on quiet country lanes. The over the railway bridge into Goring where earlier this month and, according to her wind direction is usually my deciding there are a number of cafés and pubs. If daughter Sheila, she remains in good factor, starting out against it and hope- not, keep on up the slight rise and then health at her home in Kingwood where fully with wind on my back on the way down the hill to Cleeve where you turn she still enjoys the company of her faith- home. If the wind is from a westerly right at the bottom before reaching open ful border collie Meg. direction then one of my favourites is a country. After about a quarter of a mile Mrs Walker received her first birthday circuit of just twenty miles. turn left. With the fire station on your th right, continue to the top of the hill to card from the Queen on her 100 birthday Setting off from the crossroads at the open country and you will see a large wa- and has now added two more to her col- junction of Gravel Hill (B481) and th th ter tank. There are some lovely views lection on her 105 and recent 106 birth- Blounts Court Road, you get a nice from here (ignoring the large open range day. Belated birthday wishes from all of downhill start to Wood Lane. Turn right piggery). Continue downhill and up a us, Mrs Walker! here and proceed past the Sonning Com- short rise flanked by trees - again be wary Sue Nickson mon shops to the junction with Ken- of potholes. There is a really glorious view nylands Road: go straight across to across open countryside and you will need Improvements in Mobile Kidmore Lane and thence to Kidmore to pause to take it all in. Network Coverage End. At the end, by the pond, turn right Follow the lane down to the crossroads Parts of this area suffer from poor mobile and almost immediately left by the and turn right. This is signposted to coverage. The Culture Secretary has se- church and pump. Continue until you Woodcote and will take you there by way cured legal requirements from the four come to Rokeby Drive and turn right of the wonderfully named Catsbrain Hill. mobile networks to tackle poor signal and thence to the junction with the In Woodcote, go straight across at the issues in so-called 'partial not-spots' in a A4074. Turn right here for a short crossroads with the village hall and green £5bn investment deal into the mobile in- stretch on this busy road until you reach on your right; this will take you to the frastructure. This will give guaranteed the Pack Horse pub. Just past the pub is junction with the A4074 (again). Don’t voice and text coverage from each opera- a left turn signposted ‘Tinkers Green worry, but take care, with a right turn and tor across 90% of the UK by 2017. Full Only’: go down here to the end. At the almost immediately left you are now on coverage from all four mobile operators end, almost opposite, is the road down to your way to Checkendon. The surface of will increase from 69% to 85% by 2017. the House and Mill at Mapedurham. You may wish to go down to Mapledur- the road through Checkendon is very ham or, to continue on my ride, turn rough so, again, take care. Volunteer Drivers Wanted right. This road will take you past Nuney On through Checkendon to the junction A local charity is looking for volunteer Green, Goring Heath and the turning with the road to Nuffield and turn right to drivers for a pilot project helping people down Path Hill to Whitchurch, but con- Stoke Row, here you may wish to visit the live well and successfully after a spell in tinue on this road to Cray’s Pond. rather ornate Maharajah’s Well. Inciden- hospital. The aim of the Circles of Support Go through Cray’s Pond and on to Gor- tally, the church clock in Stoke Row is project, which runs until May 2015, is to ing, on the way marvel at the vista in permanently set on twelve o’clock so I ensure ex-patients are supported in their front of you with views across the River suppose it’s right at least twice a day! Just activities, helping to build relationships Thames to Streatley Hill and the Berk- after you pass the Cherry Tree pub turn and reduce isolation. This might involve shire Downs. Just before you reach the right where the road is flanked by mature journeys to see friends, families, lunch derestricted speed signs after Cray’s beech trees, a truly wonderful sight on a clubs, etc., and this is where a volunteer Pond look out for a large timber framed bright autumn day. Continue on, which is driver – who will be reimbursed for mile- house on the left and see if you can spot now mainly downhill, through Kingwood, age – will help. For more information, the totem pole in the garden. Look out past the Unicorn and the cricket field until visit the ORCC website: also, for the potholes in the road! you reach the B481 at the top of Gravel www.oxonrcc.org.uk or call Emily or Sue Hill which is back where you started. Continue down the hill until you reach on 01865 883488. Colin Garnham the junction at the bottom with Goring
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Page 6 www.PeppardNews.co.uk Our Village Award for Founder In Common Memory Another Role of Our Member of Wyfold RDA Do you love where we live and would Local PCSO Pippa Hughes, a founder member of like to read about the lives of local peo- You may be familiar with the sight of our Wyfold RDA, was presented with a Life- ple and events on Kingwood Common Police Community Support Officer, Colin time Achievement Award at Oxford Town and Peppard Common over the last 75 Boyes, who can often be seen in and Hall on 4th February. years? If so, you might be interested in around our locality helping to keep us a new book about the commons that I For the past 45 years, the indefatigable safe. have written. It comprises interviews Pip has dedicated her life to building up We have discovered he also has another with lots of local people who talk about the group from its grass roots to the large, interesting role as the Curator of the their lives and the events that have taken successful and thriving organisation it is Thames Valley Police Museum at the Po- place on the commons as well as lots of today. She is supported by a wonderful lice Training College in Sulhamstead, near local photos. band of over 80 volunteers whose com- Theale, Reading. The book, which will be about 120/130 mitment helps more than 75 disabled Colin is keen that local people should be pages, will be published in May. I will adults and children from all over South aware of the museum and take time to be able to let you have details of price Oxfordshire and Berkshire to share her visit it. Contact Colin by email and how to buy a copy in the summer love of horses. [email protected] edition of Peppard News. Pippa has seen the group through all its or by phone 07968992523. All profits from the sale of the book will trials and tribulations since the 70s and For more information on the museum see go to our village charity Peppard Relief still turns up and volunteers every week, www.PeppardNews.co.uk in Need registered charity No 241001. despite the fact that she is now 75 and the Sue Nickson work is very physical. Sue Nickson Her love of horses has guided her through Health Walks FISH Bus Trips her life and she has made sure that every- The FISH Volunteer Centre runs regular one, despite their disabilities, can share With spring here it’s good to get out into door-to-door shopping trips to Tesco in this with her. the beautiful local countryside for a brisk walk to banish the winter blues. Henley every Monday morning and to Pippa remains a quiet and unassuming Henley Waitrose, Henley Farmers’ Mar- lady who is totally dismissive of her The Health Walks timetable provides a programme of walks (ten in all, and all ket, Morrisons in Reading and Reading achievements which she puts down to a Town Centre every month. team of loyal and dedicated helpers. free!) to suit every level of fitness and ability. From 7th April, i.e. after Easter, Leisure trips planned for the spring in- For more information see the new timetable will have new starting clude visits to London’s South Bank, www.wyfoldrda.org.uk places, and we hope to include as many Highgrove, Kelmscott Manor, Hampton Gill Rushworth ( Fundraiser ) bluebell routes as possible to take advan- Court, Swindon Outlet Centre and a Barge tage of the natural beauty around us. trip on the Kennet and Avon Canal. The programme of shopping and leisure trips The Chiltern Players The timetable is available from the li- for each month is published and distrib- brary, the Health Centre and the Herb The next production by the group is The uted on 20th of the preceding month and Farm, or on the website at Weekend, a hilarious comedy by Michael bookings are taken from that date. Palin, at 20:00 on Thursday 23rd, Friday www.sonningcommonhealthwalks.co.uk 24th and Saturday 25th April at Peppard /timetable. If you’d like to talk to some- Copies of the programme are available at Memorial Hall, Gallowstree Road. one about the Health Walks, phone the FISH Volunteer Centre, Sonning Com- mon Library, the Christian Community Tickets £7 from Occasions in Sonning Colin Davies on 0118 972 2527. Rosemary Dunstan Action shop, Pet Country Supplies, and on Common, by phone from 0118 972 2632 request from Carson’s Chemist. or on the door. The Ways and Means Trust Heather Cannan The monthly programme of trips is posted The Tea Kiosk in Caversham Court, St on noticeboards in both Peppard and Library News Peter’s Hill, will be opening for the 2015 Sonning Common. Details of all minibus season on 12th March. The Ways and trips can also be found on the FISH web- Keep an eye out for posters advertising Means Trust are looking for volunteers site www.fishvolunteercentre.co.uk. For special story and craft sessions in the to help once a month. more information and to book any trip call library on Saturday mornings: there will Anyone interested should contact Denise 0118 972 3986 any weekday between be one before Mothering Sunday (14th Jones on 01491 628933 or 09:30 and 11:30. March), one around Easter (not sure of the [email protected]. John Pearman, Bus Manager date yet!) and others as we come up with ideas! Don’t forget that we have ‘Friendly Fri- days’ on Friday mornings, where people can play Scrabble, or knit, or just sit & TANDOORI chat with friends. Connoisseur Please note that the library will be closed from Friday 3rd – Tuesday 7th April inclu- An Emporium of Indian Cuisine sive, that’s the whole of the Easter week- Fully Air-conditioned end. Open 7 days a week, including bank holidays Rosemary Dunstan Take-away menu - prompt service 21 Wood Lane, Sonning Common - Phone: 0118 972 3104/1054 www.PeppardNews.co.uk Page 7
Peppard War Memorial Hall Beating the Bounds of We trust that 2015 will be as successful Rotherfield Peppard for the hall as last year. We have many Keep the ancient tradition alive by joining organisations and groups using this great the Beating the Bounds walk on Rogation facility which, in turn, adds to the com- Sunday 10th May. We leave the Unicorn munity. Peppard School continue to use at 14:00 and go south west along Wyfold the hall and we look forward to this ar- Lane, turning south through New Copse rangement continuing. then north back across Wyfold Lane and Peppard Unplugged was the big success Stoke Row Road through to Kingwood story of 2014.The first Saturday evening Common, returning to the Unicorn of the month (at 19:30) sees a number of through Little Bottom Wood and Colliers folk singers, guitar players, singers and KPCV Lane. The walk will last about one and a general entertainers meet with an audi- half hours. More information from the ence to take part in a relaxing and appre- One of our volunteers of the Kingwood and Peppard Commons Volunteers has Parish Clerk 01491 629676 or email ciative club atmosphere. Last year the [email protected]. evenings raised £2000 for the New Roof built a new bench on Kingwood Com- Fund. For further details please contact mon. It seats two comfortably and three Moraig 0118 972 3609. in cosy fashion. Look out for it - and if you find it, you can sit down and enjoy We continue to develop our plans for re- the sights. On Your Bike Join our annual feel-good family ride placing the roof, having recently had an Elizabeth Smeeton Energy Audit undertaken. Funding will be through Oxfordshire’s leafy lanes on Sun- the main issue! To date we have been Commons News day, 26th April; choose 6, 12 or 20 miles. Pedalling starts at Sonning Common Pri- allocated funds from the Parish Council We were delighted with the turnout for mary School at 10:30. To enter our free for which we are very grateful. We have a the annual Friends of the Commons draw for the chance to win a new bike, long way to go this year. meeting to hear the inspiring talk given donated by AW Cycles, register before If you could assist in any way I would be by Dr Helen Read from Burnham 21:00 on 12th April. Entry fees and other pleased to hear from you on 0118 972 Beeches & Stoke Common, which fo- money raised will be shared between Son- 4154. cused on the use of 'invisible fencing' to ning Common Primary School and The contain grazing livestock. This has Best Wishes for 2015 Royal Berks Charity (to help pay for a proved to be an effective method of Clive Mills, Chairman new children’s orthopaedic unit at the conserving and expanding open wood- hospital). For more details visit Nuffield Place land at relatively little cost. A visit will www.onyourbikesonningcommon.co.uk be arranged to see this successful and More volunteers are needed at this or phone 0118 972 4487. National Trust property at Huntercombe, non-invasive project later in the year for which reopens on 2nd March. Room those interested. Guides, Visitor Receptionists and Retail If you haven't walked across Peppard Sonning Common Assistants required on Mondays and Common lately, we would recommend Society News Tuesdays. that you do so to appreciate the conser- Mark Richards, Chairman, has now moved For more information phone Tina Avery vation work recently carried out. We continue to look at ways of protecting out of Sonning Common, so if there is any 01491 641224 Tuesday-Friday or visit Sonning Common Society news to report, www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nuffieldplace. the vulnerable edges of our commons from vehicular traffic - particularly on I will be reporting it. However, you may narrow lanes - and recent projects to have read in the Henley Standard that the Lions Club reinforce the verges has been very Society is now ‘dormant’. The Goring, Woodcote and District Lions successful. In spite of many appeals for help, only one Club is in danger of folding unless new Finally - the annual report to the person offered, and at least four were members join soon. In 2013/14 the club Friends, copies of which were handed needed to replace outgoing committee donated over £8K to 20 different local and out at the Friends Meeting on 30th Janu- members. So the only thing I have to re- national charities. Anyone interested in ary, can be viewed on the website port is that the 2015 edition of the Sonning joining the local club is invited to one of www.nettlebed-commons.org (navigate Common Guide is now available from the their informal meetings at 16:00 on the from the Homepage). library, price 50p. second Monday of each month in Goring Rosemary Dunstan Nigel Wooding Social Club. To learn more without com- mitment phone Jon Solman (Sonning Common) 0778 888 5682.
Page 8 www.PeppardNews.co.uk Our Churches Diocese. Even so, last year we underpaid Rector: Revd Canon Graham Foulis Brown 0118 972 3987 All Saints’ Associate Priest Revd Susan Cooper 0118 437 5734 by over £10,000. Our expenditure exceeds Church of England our income, which goes towards clergy Churchwardens: Adrienne Heriot 01491 629254 costs, insurances, repairs and maintenance www.allsaintspeppard.org.uk Margaret Woodward 0118 972 2296 etc. It is likely that we will fall signifi- cantly short on our payment to the Dio- From the Rectory in – which they have, in great measure. cese again for this year, for which we are My last service as Rector will be at St requested to pay in excess of £47,000. We When I came from London to teach in John’s Kidmore End on 20th September are once again appealing to Church mem- Berkshire in 1971, the A4074 still ran but until then, it’s business as usual. bers and friends to consider whether the through the centre of Dorchester, took a Graham amount they give could be increased, es- dogleg in Crowmarsh and had only just pecially if you were unable to make an been diverted from Exlade Street. It was a An Invitation to Help increase last year. If you would like more road I knew well for, back then, I shot As many of you will already know, our information, please contact one of the around here and first visited The High- Rector, Revd. Canon Graham Foulis Churchwardens. wayman that same year. Brown, Rector of Kidmore End, Son- In 1990, I was Vicar of Launton in North ning Common and Rotherfield Peppard, Choir News Oxfordshire when, quite out of the blue, will retire in September. His last service At the Sung Eucharist service on 11th the (then) Bishop of Dorchester asked me will be held at St John the Baptist, January, Christopher Humm, joint Head to turn off that road, signposted Sonning Kidmore End, on 20th September 2015. Chorister, was presented with a copy of Common and Peppard, find my way During the Interregnum, or Vacancy, the the Royal School of Church Music Cho- round to Kidmore End, and have a quiet Parochial Church Council and Church- rister’s Companion for the best attendance snoop. My wife and daughter stayed in wardens of both parishes will work with among the junior choristers in 2014. Once the car, while my son and I walked advisers from Oxford Diocese to find a again members of our choir were invited through the churchyard and into the new Rector for the Benefice. Your help to the popular Christmas Celebration at church. is needed! Wyfold Riding for the Disabled to join in th It was the week of Rupert’s 6 birthday We hope that many people from the with the singing of carols in December and I’m reminded of that day, now 25 Parishes will attend a consultation meet- and also in leading the carols at The Uni- years ago, every spring when the prim- ing to be held on Wednesday, 3rd June at corn. An Epiphany service of Choral roses come up, at first here and there but 19:30 in Kidmore End School, at which Evensong, which has now become an an- th then spreading as a carpet across the we will consider the future challenges nual event, was held on Sunday 4 Janu- churchyard. Move the clock 12 years for- faced by the parishes and the qualities ary at All Saints’. Despite there being a ward and I became also Rector of Pep- that a new Rector might have. Please put reduction of singers in the choir due to pard. the date in your diary now – these are illness, and a small congregation, it was As most of you will have heard, I have your churches, come and let us know an enjoyable service and no doubt will be decided to retire in September and two or what you think. repeated again next year. three weeks later will move to Newbury, Adrienne Heriot and where I have a flat. In today’s terms it’s Margaret Woodward Looking Ahead early retirement but equally, it’s time the For five Wednesdays, commencing on two parishes appointed a new Rector. The Parish Finance 25th February, starting at 14:00 and lasting strength of these two parishes is that nei- This time last year we launched an ap- for about an hour, there will be a Lent ther thinks it took the other one over and peal to our parishioners to review their Course at Christ the King, Sonning two formerly unassociated parishes have planned giving. The PCC is very grateful Common. formed a unit in which there is much to to everyone who responded and helped Everyone is welcome to come along. celebrate. to contribute to an improvement in the Tuesday 28th April at 20:00, the Annual It has been my great privilege to lead the Parish’s income. This enabled us to pay Parochial Church meeting will take place transition but it required everyone to pitch a large part of our Parish Share to the in the Parish room at All Saints’. PEMBROKE GLASS
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St Michael’s Catholic Church Mondays in Lent 19:00-20:00 (from 23rd Father Paul Rowan 0118 972 3418 February): time for quiet prayer and re- Deacon Francis Andrews 0118 972 2354 flection with occasional readings and Deacon Brian Theobald 0118 972 2796 quiet music. Come for just a few min- e-mail: [email protected] utes or the whole hour. Fridays in Lent Women’s World 19:00 (from 27th February): reflections Day of Prayer on the passion and death of Jesus know The Bahamas - an exciting destination to It seems Christmas is only just behind us as the Stations of the Cross. be reflected in the Women's World Day of and already we are planning for Lent and Maundy Thursday: 19:00 Mass of the Prayer annual service on Friday 6th March Easter. Lord’s Supper. Good Friday: 15:00 The at 14:00 at Stoke Row Independent Once again our parish community extends Passion of the Lord. Holy Saturday: Chapel. a warm invitation not just to Catholic 21:00 The Easter Vigil. Easter Sunday: Whilst we cannot guarantee sunshine, you families, who have recently moved into 09:00 and 10:30 Easter Day Masses. can be assured of a warm welcome with the area, or those who have not discovered Our Lenten project for this year is to tea and cakes after the service, which lasts us yet, but to anyone from the local com- support the RediFood food bank in for about an hour. This is an inter- munity who wish to join us for any of our Reading. We hope to hold a number of denominational service; all are welcome, Lent and Easter activities. Lenten talks and a service of reconcilia- men as well as women. Our programme of events is still being tion. These will be advertised on our We look forward to seeing you there. developed so check on our website, parish website. Jane Starkey www.saintmichaelsonningcommon.org.uk It seems a little early but we wish all and click on the Lent and Easter 2015 tab readers of Peppard News a joyful Easter. for the latest information. Planned so far: Brian Theobald
Geraldine Witcher At first change came slowly, as for a mourn, to pray and to cling to the hope of 0118 972 4519 hundred years or so it stood in a quiet a better tomorrow. www.springwater.org.uk village with unpaved streets, not many At the turn of another century the chapel, houses and horses and carts driving past now with Springwater added to the name, it. In this quiet environment, it was there is facing change again. We don’t know as a witness to a God who cares, and a what the future will bring. We don’t know Change at Springwater place for special times and weekly re- what God has planned for this place This year began with an unexpected minders of a God who provides. where his name has been honoured for change for the village and for Springwater Then, through the twentieth century, the 200 years and more. Change is inevitable, church – Chris and Mags Lewis, who have village changed as war swept across but ‘the eternal God is our refuge’; with been pastoring the church for over two Europe – not once but twice in a few him we can face it. We believe that this years, announced their resignation. We years, and there was fear and sorrow. building, this sacred space, and the people wish them every blessing for the future, Young men went away to fight, and who meet there day by day, still have a and thank them for their time with us. came back changed or not at all. purpose and a role in this village. Please Providence chapel, where Springwater Some time in this century the name come and join us for fellowship and wor- church meets, has been a place of worship changed to Peppard Congregational ship on Sunday mornings at 10:30. since 1795. church, but it remained a place to Geraldine Witcher, Church Member
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Peppard Lunch Club earth with the music of Leonard Cohen team leaders, is helping to introduce some and Hayley Westenra. Do come and join of the club’s junior players into senior I would like to say thank you to all the us on the first Sunday of each month league table tennis. Junior coaching ses- volunteers who help at the Lunch Club. (but check before Easter in case we de- sions take place between 17:00-19:00 on If anyone would like to join us please call cide to alter it). Time 15:30-17:00 (with Fridays. me on 01491 628644. We meet the third a break for tea), age immaterial, experi- Anyone interested in these, or in playing Wednesday of the month, Peppard War ence not necessary, first time free. senior league table tennis next season, can Memorial Hall at 12:00. Christ the King Hall Sedgewell Rd. For contact Nigel Maltby on Betty Butler more details, telephone Ros on [email protected]. The club Peppard WI 01491 874220 will run open sessions for both senior and Ros Jennings junior players in the summer. The National Federation of Women’s Nigel Maltby, Club Secretary Institutes celebrates its Centenary this th Yudansha Karate year. On Monday 20 April you may spot Sonning Common and a Routemaster bus, decorated in WI col- ours of green, purple and white, travelling District Tennis Club down a road near you. It will be taking New members welcome, low cost annual Peppard, Shiplake and Harpsden members subscription charges, 2 good quality hard to Dorchester Abbey to meet up with the courts available all year, no court book- centenary baton, which has been travel- ing, no dress code (just soft soled shoes), ling around the country. The following casual, informal tennis for everyone at day the baton will be handed over to Bishopswood Sports Ground, Gallowstree Buckinghamshire at Greys Court, the for- Common Road. More details from mer home of Lady Brunner, who was an Dave Pinder 01491 680324 or Judy Pitson active member of NFWI in her lifetime. 0118 9723294. Later in the year we hope you all, ladies We have been running a Karate Club for and gentlemen, will join us at Peppard Club SC over three years and would love you to War Memorial Hall for events we have Since our inception as a Community come and join us. We offer three taster planned, details to follow. WI has been a Youth Club, Club SC has gone from sessions. This year saw the first of our part of rural England for 100 years and a strength to strength. We now have over Black Belts come through. We also have part of Peppard life since 1919. We are 100 youngsters signed up as Members of in-house competitions and gradings. one of the oldest Institutes in the county if Club SC. It is a truly generic youth facil- Please check the Karate Union of Great not the country. Do look on the diary page ity, open to every young person aged be- Britain web page (www.kugb.org) and and, if a speaker we have booked appeals tween 10 and 16 in the local villages, our own Yudansha Karate web page to you, come along to that meeting. You whichever school they attend. The club (www.yudanshakarate.co.uk). We are at will find a warm welcome awaiting you. has continued to work hard to provide a Peppard War Memorial Hall, Mondays variety of fun and stimulating activities. Irene Lindsay 15:45-16:45. Contact: Sensei Jazz We are pleased to be offering the Arts 07891 511788 Circle Dancing Award at the club. The cold may have deterred us from exer- Sonning Common & We are also lucky enough to be receiving cising outside but our dancing was a more Peppard Table Tennis Club some free football coaching from our new than adequate substitute. We enjoyed a The club play its home matches at volunteer, Spanish league footballer Al- fairly gentle Russian dance, a joyful Peppard War Memorial Hall. They cur- fonso Ledesma Hortigon. Israeli melody then an energetic dance rently run eight teams playing in the Carol Viney from Moldavia and, after moving to music Reading & District Table Tennis League Editors’ note: A much longer and more describing the wanderings of Sami rein- and run Junior coaching sessions every detailed version of this article is available on deer herders, eventually came down to Friday evening. Phil Turton, one of the www.PeppardNews.co.uk Computer Problems? Is your PC misbehaving? Fault Diagnosis, Maintenance & Upgrades, Broadband, Networking, Data Recovery & Migration, Virus Cleaning, and much more.
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MARCH Sun 1 Circle Dancing/Christ the King/15:30-17:00/01491 874220 Sat 18 Kingwood/Peppard Comm Vols/09:30-12:30/01491 641199 Mon 2 Kingwood/Peppard Comm Vols/09:30-12:30/01491 641199 Peppard Litter Blitz/Unicorn/10:00-12:00/01491 629676 Tue 3 Mobile Library/Peppard School/11:45-11:55 Bowls Cl Taster Day/PWMH/14:00/0118 9721301/9242617 Fri 6 Women's World Day of Prayer/Stoke Row Chapel/14:00 Thu 23 FISH Vol Ctre AGM/SC Hall/12:00 Sat 7 Peppard Unplugged/PWMH/19:30/0118 9723609 Chiltern Players/The Weekend/PWMH/20:00/0118 9722632 Mon 9 RPPC Meeting/19:30/Planning/21:30/Pavilion Fri 24 Chiltern Players/The Weekend/PWMH/20:00/0118 9722632 Tue 10 CEHS/Plant Paradise/PWMH/19:30 Sat 25 RPPC Annual Meeting/PWMH/10:00 Wed 11 WI/Annual Meeting/PWMH/14:30 Sue Ryder Sale/10:30-12:30 Sat 14 Sue Ryder Sale/10:30-12:30 Chiltern Players/The Weekend/PWMH/20:00/0118 9722632 Tue 17 Mobile Library/Peppard School/11:45-11:55 Sun 26 On Your Bike/SC Primary Sch/10:30/0118 9724487 Wed 18 Peppard Lunch Club/PWMH/12:00/01491 628644 Bowls Cl Taster Day/PWMH/14:00/0118 9721301/9242617 Fri 20 Peppard Film Cl/Midnight in Paris/PWMH/19:00/07747762871 Mon 27 Kingwood/Peppard Comm Vols/09:30-12:30/01491 641199 Sat 21 RPPC/Planning/Pavilion/10:00 Tue 28 Mobile Library/Peppard School/11:45-11:55 Kingwood/Peppard Comm Vols/09:30-12:30/01491 641199 All Saints' Annual Parochial Church Meeting/20:00 Thu 26 Peppard School Term ends Thu 30 Antiques Valuation/Christ the King/10:00-12:00 Sat 28 CEHS/Spring Show/SC Hall/14:30-16:30 MAY Mon 30 Kingwood/Peppard Comm Vols/09:30-12:30/01491 641199 Sat 2 Peppard Unplugged/PWMH/19:30/0118 9723609 Tue 31 Mobile Library/Peppard School/11:45-11:55 Sun 3 Circle Dancing/Christ the King/15:30-17:00/01491 874220 APRIL Sat 9 RPPC/Planning/Pavilion/10:00 Fri 3 SC Library closed Sun 10 Beating the Bounds/Unicorn/14:00/01491 629676 Sat 4 Sue Ryder Sale/10:30-12:30 Tue 12 Mobile Library/Peppard School/11:45-11:55 Peppard Unplugged/PWMH/19:30/0118 9723609 Wed 13 WI/Resolutions/Beetle Drive/ PWMH/14:30 Sun 5 Circle Dancing/Christ the King/15:30-17:00/01491 874220/tbc Sat 16 Kingwood/Peppard Comm Vols/09:30-12:30/01491 641199 Wed 8 SC Library open Sue Ryder Sale/10:30-12:30 WI/Women on the Home Front/PWMH/14:30 Mon 18 SC Business Coll/Butchers Arms/10:30-12:00/07958371770 Mon 13 Peppard School Term begins RPPC Meeting/19:30/Planning/21:30/Pavilion SC Business Collab/Butchers Arms/10:30-12:00/07958371770 Wed 20 Peppard Lunch Club/PWMH/12:00/01491 628644 RPPC Meeting/19:30/Planning/21:30/Pavilion Sat 23 CEHS/Plant Sale/SC Hall/10:00-12:30/0118 9723420 Tue 14 Mobile Library/Peppard School/11:45-11:55 Peppard Revels CEHS/Summer Sensations/PWMH/19:30 Sun 24 Peppard Revels Wed 15 Peppard Lunch Club/PWMH/12:00/01491 628644 Tue 26 Mobile Library/Peppard School/11:45-11:55 For FISH shopping/leisure trips: see notice boards,www.fishvolunteercentre.co.uk or 0118 9723986 SC & Peppard Table Tennis Club/PWMH/Juniors – Fridays 17.00/[email protected] Henley Youth Festival 14th-22nd March
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Sunday Services MARCH APRIL MAY NOTES at All Saints’ 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 3 10 17 24 31 15th March – Mothering Sunday 09.00 Communion A Festal Evensong th 0.30 Communion B 5 April – Easter Day th (sung) 24 May Whit Sunday 10.30 Matins B Benefice Service 10.30 Family Service R R Peppard Revels Service on Common at 10.30 Sunday School 11:30 18.30 Evensong A A
Sunday Services at Springwater Mass at St Michael’s Roman Catholic Church (Peppard Congregational Church) Monday-Friday 09.00 Family Service: 10.30 - 11.45 Sunday School 10.30 - 11.30 Saturday 17.30 Sunday 09.00 & 10.30