ISSUE 519 | FEBRUARY 2020
NEEDHAM MARKET NEWSLETTER
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Needham Market Newsletter February 2020 Needham Market Town Council
Town Mayor/Chair of Council Useful Telephone Numbers Police / Ambulance / Fire Brigade 999 Steve Phillips (01449) 721710 Police - Non-Emergency 101 Deputy Town Mayor/Deputy Chair of Council Doctors’ Surgery 01449 720666 Ipswich Hospital 01473 712233 Josephine Lea (01449) 721544 NHS Direct 111 Mid Suffolk District Council 0300 1234000 Town Councillors Suffolk County Council 0345 6066067 Brian Annis (01449) 720531 Suffolk County Council Highways 0345 6066171 Local MP’s Constituency Office 01284 752311 Ray Darnell 07990 583162 Citizen’s Advice Bureau 01449 676060 Ian Mason (01449) 721162 Street Light Faults 0345 6066171 Anglian Water 0800 145 145 Mike Norris (01449) 720871 Age UK Suffolk 01473 359911 Martin O’Shea 07756 250326 Childline (24hr) 0800 1111 Martin Ost (01449) 401511 NSPCC (24hr) 0808 800 5000 Social Services 0808 800 4005 John Reardon Tel No: TBA Fraud and Cyber Crime Helpline 0300 123 2040 Martin Spurling (01449) 401443 Suffolk Drugs and Alcohol Helpline 0300 123 0872 National Drugs “FRANK” Helpline 0800 776600 Xy Stansfield 07538 058304 Alcoholics Anonymous 0800 9177650 County Councillor Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 UK Domestic Violence Helpline 0808 2000 247 Kay Oakes 07724 700695 Women’s Aid - National 08457 023 468 - Ipswich 01473 745111 District Councillors Suffolk Rape Crisis 0800 0850 520 Mike Norris (01449) 720871 Relate (Family Counselling) 01473 254118 Home-Start Family Support 01379 678552 Steve Phillips (01449) 721710 The Samaritans 0845 790 9090 Cruse Bereavement Support 01473 230888 Town Clerk Assistant Town Clerk Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide 07531 087623 Kevin Hunter Kelaine Spurdens Victim Support 0300 303 3706
TOWN COUNCIL OFFICE NEWSLETTER COPY: Open to the public on Mondays and Thursdays 10am - 12 noon All articles and notices must be emailed in Microsoft Word format to [email protected] Posters should be sent as PDFs. The copy deadline for Contact Details the March 2020 edition is the 8th February. Town Council Office School Street All Advertising queries should be referred to Kelaine at the Needham Market Town Council Office on: (01449) 722246 or email as shown Suffolk above and left. IP6 8BB Telephone (01449) 722246 COUNCIL MEETINGS An answerphone is used if the office is unmanned Held at 7:25pm in the Green Room at the Needham Market Email Community Centre, School Street, IP6 8BB. [email protected] Forthcoming Town Council Meetings: Wednesday 5th and 19th February 2020. Website www.needhammarkettc.co.uk These meetings are open to the public. You are welcome to attend and take the opportunity to air your views.
2 Needham Market Newsletter February 2020 Introduction Welcome
Mayor’s Report hope that you have not been affected by the flooding that has happened in some areas of Needham Market. Thank you to everyone that took the trouble to decorate The Town Council is in the process of completing the the outside of their houses Needham Market neighbourhood plan and hope that you have left your feedback for the final draft. and also the windows of the High Street shops during There has been a spate of Burglaries recently in our the festive period, it made town which is unusual, so please be extra careful and the town look and feel very lock up your property and keep an eye out for strangers By the time you read this, Halloweenwarm willand Christmassy. I also who you do not recognise in and about your area. probably havehad the gone pleasure already. of visiting The daysthe residential are and sheltered Finally Happy New Year to you all. homes within the town, they looked magnificent. getting shorter and the leaves are falling Cllr Steve Phillips from the trees.All the festivities have been and gone now and we will Needham Market TownMayor/ be looking forward to the better weather. I sincerely Chairman of Council It is during this time of year that the colours around Needham Market, particularly at the Lake, are spectacular. Please do take a few moments to look around you, breath In this issue... in the freshTUBEROUS air and appreciate what we Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline and have in thisSCLEROSIS town of ours. Charity Shop Christmas Our shops are preparing for Christmas Pictures - more on page 13 and decoratingASSOCIATION their windows. The Christmas Partytrees &will Fundraising soon be Event installed held on on 30th November the lamp standards,2019 at the andCommunity the High Centre Street will take onRaffle a completely Raised different£220.00 look. A BIG Thankyou to everyone who donated and bought It is mainlyraffle volunteers tickets. that will be responsibleLinda for this Smith change and I, for one, am grateful for all the effort that goes into making this town one of the best Christmas scenes around.
Well done one and all! Two pictures of flowers on the High Street with St. John’s in the background, taken by David Campbell. Steve Phillips Needham Market Town Mayor IN THIS MONTH’S NEWSLETTER...Part Time Van THE NEEDHAM Drivers Required Editor: Chris Campbell ANNIVERSARY • 1980-2020 [email protected] Soup GippingHistoricalIn our 40th Radioyear Gipping Press Ltd is Lunch Notes looking to recruitDrama some part-time van Editorial Board: David Campbell Press drivers to help with local print deliveries Kelaine Spurdens Page 5 Units 1&2 PageMaitland Road 6 on an ad-hocPage basis. 10Week days only. Lion Barn Industrial Estate Hours to suit you. Some lifting required. Needham Market, IP6 8NZ Distribution Co-ordinator: Sam Finbow www.gippingpress.co.uk Using our small van/transit. Needham If youFireworks are interested inThe joining Back our team please Printed By: Gipping Press contactDisplay Jonathan Steed on 01449 721599 or [email protected] Lake email [email protected] Page 20 Page 15 DESIGN | PRINT | PROMOTION | DISPLAYSPage |27 SIGNAGE | MAILING Cover Photo: War Memorial, Barretts Lane (CC)
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Patricia Ann Cross 1956 – 2019
Pat was born in London a regular caller at the Friday in mid-September and and spent her young life night bingo sessions at the although she was not too there. Married to a soldier Institute and, more latterly, well at that time, she was she travelled and lived in the Community Centre. her usual self on stage. In abroad and both her sons, Pat enjoyed travelling October she supported the David and Gareth, were and was herself always Mayor’s Charity Quiz and, born in Germany. To Pat, adventurous. also in October, attended family was of paramount the auditions for this year’s In 1999 Pat joined importance throughout pantomime. She had the Needham Market her life. She enjoyed family decided she would not take Entertainment Company gatherings with her brother a part, but would help with and since then she has on 7th January and the fact and sister and their families many of the “off stage” jobs appeared in virtually all the that there was standing and David and Gareth’s that needed doing. It came Company’s productions. room only in the Chapel families were always close as a huge shock to all her In the annual pantomime was ample proof of the to her heart. She had a friends when she broke Pat almost invariably love and regard in which all lifelong love of horses. She the news of the alarming played one of the comic her family and friends held rode in her youth and her diagnosis she received knockabout parts. Pat was her. Pat was never late for home had many horse in late October. Within a true entertainer and her anything – punctuality was pictures. Until recently she weeks Pat was receiving enthusiasm was always an of primary importance to had helped with the care of end of life care and died encouragement to other her – so she would have horses for a friend. peacefully in Barking Hall members of the Company. found it very amusing that Nursing Home on 23rd Wherever Pat lived she For many years until her she kept us all waiting for December, surrounded made great friends and death Pat served as the her due to the fact that the by her loving family. Pat’s would always be ready with Company’s secretary where A14 had a major incident family are most grateful to a helping hand for anyone her quiet efficiency ensured that morning and she was in all the care she received in who needed it. Pat lived life the smooth running of the the middle of the tailback! Barking Hall and from the to the full and her generous Company. She will be a We all mourn Pat’s passing St Elizabeth Hospice care at nature left everyone who hard act to follow. Her but her memory will live on home team. knew her feeling better for last appearance was in last in all our hearts. May she knowing her. She enjoyed year’s murder mystery, Pat went to her rest at rest in peace. quizzes and bingo and was Sugar and Vice. That was Seven Hills Crematorium
Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal 2019
Many thanks to everyone Royal British Legion is held. of volunteers prepared If you could who assisted with the RBL This is the sixth successive to collect door-to-door; spare a Poppy Appeal in 2019 year in which our collection now down to only a dozen couple either as a collector or as a or so, plus changes in the has exceeded £6000. Of of hours during next contributor. that total £4770 was raised pattern of giving, with many people reluctant to October/November The final amounts for our by activities in Needham come to their front door, to distribute poppies District, which includes Market and £2000 + especially in the evening, among your friends and Needham Market, Creeting from the surrounding and others who obtain St Mary, Creeting St Peter, communities. neighbours, or if you their poppy from shops and Baylham and Akenham would just like to learn One note of concern is offices in other towns. have now been received the steady decrease in the more about the welfare and banked, giving a amount collected door- The building of so many work of the Royal British grand total of £6904 – a to-door in Needham new homes in Needham Legion among the family of magnificent result for a Market - £1155 this year; Market presents us with the Armed Forces, please group of small communities a very useful amount, but an opportunity to recruit contact Poppy Appeal and a tribute to the a decline of 29% over the additional collectors, generosity of all concerned past five years. Reasons for especially in those areas Organiser Peter Down on and the high regard in this undoubtedly include a currently without a resident [email protected] or which the work of the reduction in the number collector. phone 01449 721 235.
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Stowmarket Wildlife Greenwood Group – Suffolk work at Orchard Barn Wildlife Trust A Happy New Year to everyone. – the solution The days are lengthening and the new programme of to the plastic events for 2020 is starting in February. There is an exciting range of meetings planned, and the first two are described problem below. You can see the complete programme of events,
and see what else is going on, at the Suffolk Wildlife Trust How did we manage before website at https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events disposable plastics entered visitors will have the EVENTS the world? We wrapped opportunity to get a taste food in paper, put it in of what’s to come over BROCKS AND FOULMARTS, an illustrated talk with cans, jars, glass and ceramic the rest of the year. On Darren Tansley. dishes. We used wooden the 19th March you can Wednesday 26 February 2020 at 7.30pm in bowls, spoons and spatulas learn the right tools skills and the average 2 parent, Stowupland village hall. to create your own spatula 3 child household only or chopsticks and go home Darren, Essex Wildlife Trust filled their waste bin once with a new addition to River Catchment Coordinator, a month, if that! We can your kitchen along with a will talk to us about the achieve the same in 2020, sense of satisfaction and changing fortunes of these we just need to learn from new skills that you can use animals from the 1500’s to the the past. in your free time, on other present day, their folklore and Over the course of 2020 workshops at Orchard barn ecology and prey. From tiny Orchard Barn will be or when volunteering with weasel to elegant pine marten offering free workshops us. he will uncover fascinating designed to learn from facts and new discoveries. If you’d like to find out the past and teach us skills how you can get involved Admission is £2.50, children to live a less wasteful life, and celebrate, create free. Please pay on arrival. all with the opportunity or volunteer with us at Hearing loop available on request. for further learning and Orchard Barn, Ringshall, volunteering. (IP14 2LY) visit our website HEDGEROWS, HERBS AND MEDICINES, an www.orchardbarn.org.uk illustrated talk with Martin Sanford. Our first workshop will or drop in between 10-4 Wednesday 29 April 2020 at 7.30pm in be held on Thursday 13th on Tuesday-Thursday, or Stowupland village hall. Feb and will be focussed on making our own tool whenever our gate is open, A look at some common plants of Suffolk hedges and covers, this workshop and remember to follow us waysides, their use for foods and medicine and how we use will be followed by our on social media for more them sustainably. ‘Love Wood’ open day news about upcoming Admission is £2.50, children free. Please pay on arrival. on Saturday 15th, where workshops and events. Hearing loop available on request. CONTACT TAIPAN COMBAT John Thompson - 01449 676471 - [email protected] Self Defence Class
Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline Steve 07983 721960 Charity Shop Adults 13 + Thursday 7.30pm till 9.30pm Pt By Appointment 9 Coddenham Rd. Needham Market Adjacent to Rampant Horse Public House Children Age 5/13 Thursday 5.30pm/6.30pm Always a great selection of Adult and Children's Clothing, Toys, Children’s Saturday Morning 10.00am/11.30am Books, craft items and lots more. New items every day. Facebook Taipan Combat Donations welcome Tuesday, Thursday & Fridays. 2 free Private Class’s by arrangement Collections by arrangement. lessons 01449 760343 07771 550868 Based at EDT GYM Needham Market
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As many of you know, we have 2 lovely rooms upstairs which contain all sorts of things. In one room we have a whole wall full of books, which are divided into three main sections: In the left-hand three columns we have romantic fiction in alphabetical order. In the right-hand three columns we have thrillers on the top shelves; lower down we have historical books including some autobiographies; and science fiction and fantasy on the bottom shelf. These are all in alphabetical order. In the middle three columns we have travel FRIDAY 21 FEB and sport on the top at 7.30pm shelf; several shelves of cookery, which are always SATURDAY 22 FEB at 1.00pm and popular especially when 5.30pm we are given almost new books by famous cooks such as Mary Berry, Jamie Oliver and James Martin; of items including linens, gardening and nature; children’s clothes and and at the bottom we shelves of miscellaneous Needham Market Entertainment Company have miscellaneous, which items such as cushions, Presents a Pantomimemimee bbyy Julie Petruccirucci aand Chris ShinShinnn includes a huge range of pencils, mugs, toiletries, topics and interests and is photo frames, games and always worth a browse. all sorts of bits and bobs! Opposite the books we Thank you for all your have shelves with jigsaws, support in 2019, whether children’s books, DVDs, as a donor, a buyer or CDs and some other both! We are grateful to interesting books. you all. Looking forward to seeing you in the shop On the window wall we in February. AT NEEDHAMAM MARKEMARKETETT COMMUNITY CENCENTREENTRE have children’s games and In loving memory of Pat Cross, beloved company secretary, performer & friend. toys and opposite that Marion Gibbons, volunteer Tickets on sale at Needham Market Post Office & Community Centre 07756 575158 we have a wide selection Adults £8.00, Senior and Junior Citizens £6.00
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Bosmere Primary School News
Bosmere community comes together once again… In return for wearing a Christmas Jumper children were asked to bring in an item for the Stowmarket Food Bank. Caroline and the team wanted to pass on their thanks- we sent an amazing 157kg of items.
Our Traditional Christingle Services Children, across the school walked to St John’s Church to take part in services led by Canon Rev Diane Williams. Our older children were excellent at helping the younger ones to walk down and take care of their Christingles during the service. The children sang, shared readings and poetry. Lovely moments!!!
Fundraising for East African NEEDHAM Playgrounds in Uganda MARKET LIBRARY School Street, My name is Holly Godsil, charity called East African Needham Market I am 18 and live in playgrounds. I have a Pinecroft Way, Needham fundraising target of £850 IP6 8BB Tel: (01449) 720780 Market. I am currently to raise by May all of which children to gain the most studying International goes directly to the charity. out of their childhood. Opening Hours East African I am looking forward in Monday Closed Playgrounds taking on this challenge is a UK in the summer and if Tuesday 10am – 1pm & registered you would like to help 2pm – 5pm charity. me fundraise you can Their vision donate by going to: - Wednesday 2pm – 7pm is to ensure eastafricanplaygrounds. Thursday 10am – 1pm & that all org then click on find a children fundraiser and type in my 2pm – 5pm enjoy their name. Any donations will Friday 2pm – 5pm childhoods be greatly appreciated and Tourism Management at through the opportunity to if you require any further Saturday 10am – 1pm & Hertfordshire University. play and learn. The charities information please contact 2pm – 5pm This summer I am going mission is to provide play me: [email protected] to Jinja, Uganda for 4 facilities and play training Sunday 11am – 4pm weeks volunteering for a for communities, helping Thank you, Holly
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