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July/August 2020 photos by Nicki Oliver Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
The Parish Church of St Nicholas Wickham PO17 6HR (The United Benefice of St Nicholas, Wickham and St John the Baptist, Shedfield) www.stnicholaswickham.org.uk The Rector Assistant Curate The Revd Jane Isaac The Rectory, The Revd Dr Ruth Howlett-Shipley Southwick Road, [email protected] Wickham, PO17 6HR [email protected] 01329 280 905 01329 835 295 Associate Priest The Revd Juliet Montague The Vicarage, 52, Brooklyn Close, Waltham Chase, SO32 2RZ [email protected] 01489 895 012
Churchwardens; Caretaker Magazine Editorial Team Mr Fred Crosskey Mr Ron Burt Mr John Landaw (Editor) [email protected] 5, Mill Lane, Wickham Mr Den Boylan, Mrs Sheila 01329 609 161 01329 833 751 Campbell, John Farrow Mr Richard Cannadine (photogapher) [email protected] Distribution; Mr Robert Goulson 01329 513 530 Church Flowers [email protected] Mrs Jane Buckle 01329 833 299 01329 832 517 Parish Administrator/PCC Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Secretary Wickham, PO17 5NN Mrs Jane Goulson Mothers' Union (Secretary) Advertising; Mrs Sue Pittam [email protected] [email protected] Sabrina Gwynn 01329 833 299 Tel: 01329 233 637 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Email: [email protected] Wickham, PO17 5NN Methodist Church Minister; The Revd Joseph Tembo Honorary PCC Treasurer Friends of St Nicholas Church 01329 833 518 Mrs Di Frost Mr John Landaw [email protected] [email protected] Roman Catholic Church 01329 832 633 01329 830 088 Revd Canon Alan Griffiths The Laurels, Mayles Lane 02380 273 882 Wickham, PO17 5ND Church Room Bookings Mrs Jane Goulson Park Place Centre Verger/Sacristan [email protected] Franciscan Sisters Mrs Rosemary Simpson 01329 833 299 Winchester Road, Wickham 01329 512 629 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, 01329 833 043 Wickham, PO17 5NN Chaplain; Fr Andrew McMahon Choir Trainer Sunday Mass 9:00am Mrs Valerie Shuttleworth Parish Magazine; Copy 01329 833 805 01329 835 233 Mr John Landaw Wessex Jamaat [email protected] Mr Abbas Rahim (Hon. Secretary) Bell Ringers 01329 830 088 [email protected] Greg Painter 1, Church View, School Rd [email protected] 07753 813075
2 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Editorial We are pleased to present this We are impressed with the Quab Farm, in the Parish of bumper, midsummer edition, submissions of the Chilled Art Wickham. The actual document on-line and hard copy, of the Group, see p 4 & 5. We knew that is copied for your perusal (p18). parish magazine. We have there was much creativity and They have kindly included an received a number of comments artistic talent in the vicinity, now English translation, should your recently regarding the lack of some local residents are calling Latin be a little rusty. paper editions and now produce for an exhibition to view the full both on-line and paper options. range of the group’s artistic Our long term magazine Editor, talents. John has finally decided to call it We live in strange times. Not a day and take a well earned since 1208, during the reign of Many local residents have found retirement. We are therefore King John, have Church doors the restrictions of lockdown seeking a replacement Editor, it been barred to the difficult to cope with. To those requires quite a few hours per congregations. To many friends and neighbours who month, full training and back-up parishioners, the thought of have provided company, support will be provided to being denied access to the support, shopping and running continue this much respected Church has been a difficult time. of errands for the less mobile, we publication. It has been something of a relief extend our gratitude. these last few days to see the doors of St Nicholas open The Wickham History Society DB worshippers again, full details have discovered in Winchester, a p8. 730 year old Deed of Transfer of Thank you to Joyce
After many years of persuading Rectors to part with details of the next month’s church services in good time, Joyce Johnston has decided that the time has come to retire from her role as compiler of the parish magazine’s diary of Sunday worship. Thank you, Joyce, for your energy and commitment to keeping the Rector on target and the parish up to date! We are very grateful for all your work and attention to detail. Given that for the foreseeable future it’s going to be very difficult to maintain a regular pattern of Sunday services, for the time being there won’t be a Sunday service diary in the magazine – you’ll be able to find details of each Sunday’s services on the church website and the church noticeboard in the Square. Revd Jane
Dog Show (See pages 18 & 19) On pages 18 & 19 there are pictures of the entrees for the Dog Show. My task was to judge "The Dog Most Like it's Owner" and "The Dog I'd like to take home". And the winners are; Most Like it's Owner is Number 9 Ben & Hugo The Dog I'd like to take Home is Number 2 Molly
3 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Letter from the Curate It is hard to believe that I have worshipping there as people now been in the Benefice for a have over the generations and year – and what a year it has not to be meeting together in been! As I have reflected here that worship. But that didn’t previously, life in ministry is meant that the church hasn’t hugely variable and been here throughout the time unpredictable but this time of lockdown. We have last year I could never have developed ‘Being Church at imagined quite how different Home’ which is available on that ministry was to become. the Church website and which As you read this I should be on has been accessed by both retreat preparing for my our regular congregations but Ordination as Priest on 4th July also by others, both locally and then celebrating my first and further afield, who don’t Eucharist on 5th July. But due challenging time for many. necessarily come to church to the coronavirus this, like so There are many families who regularly. We have learned to many other things, has been have faced bereavement, use Zoom and access put on hold. My mother both due to Covid-19 and due webinars and even how to celebrated her 80th birthday to other causes, and have upload videos to YouTube. during lockdown, but without been unable to mark that in From the 15th June we have the family gathering and party the way that they would have been able to open the church this would normally have expected. Many couples have for private prayer and it was entailed. My son should have had to postpone their tremendously exciting on that just finished his GCSEs and weddings. There are those Monday morning to push my daughter, who was a whose mental health has open the doors of our church chorister at Salisbury suffered as they try to deal buildings and let the sunlight Cathedral, has probably sung with the loneliness, the in. As you read this we may be her last service with the choir. uncertainty and the fear that able to open for public However, despite all that has the pandemic has generated. worship but I suspect it will be been different and uncertain There are those who have a long time before we are able over the last few months, I am been trapped in their homes to operate normally. But we hugely appreciative that as a with an abusive partner. There will continue to be here and to family we have all remained are many ways in which serve the community in healthy. I have been able to people have suffered during whatever way we can. spend far more time with my the lockdown and my children than I would normally thoughts and prayers go out be able to and have enjoyed to them all. that very much. I have been During lockdown the able to get to know my Government ordered that all neighbours better as we all places of worship should be stand, socially distanced, on closed. This was hard for our driveways and clapped for many, and was certainly not the carers and on our daily something that theological exercise we have noted that training had prepared me for! when someone asks ‘how are Whilst it is clear that Jesus you?’ they genuinely seem to taught us that the Church is care about the answer. the people, rather than the However, I am also very building, it was very hard not conscious that this has been to be able to go into our an extremely difficult and Church building, not to be 4 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
St. Nicholas re-opens for private prayer on Monday 15th June 2020
‘Another piece of history…the Rector’s hair hasn’t been as long as this since she had pigtails aged 6!’
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Thank you from the Rector I know that elsewhere in the magazine the fete committee has thanked everyone who made a donation to the ‘Fate of the Fete’ appeal, but I’d like to add my own thank you as well. As you’ll be aware, St Nicholas’ Church depends very much on the income from the fete. Apart from being one of the highlights of the village’s year, it goes some of the way towards maintaining this unique Grade-2 listed building and helps towards the costs of keeping the graveyard as mown and tidy as possible. You can imagine how worried I was when Covid-19 restrictions meant that we had no option but to cancel this year’s fete: a fantastic community get- together lost, and vital fund-raising lost too! So, thank you for your generosity in supporting this year’s online fete, arranged at short notice by the fete committee and used to launch St Nicholas Church’s ‘Give a Little’ electronic giving option. With donations via Give a Little, bank transfer and yes, good old £10 notes as well, the Fate of the Fete has raised well over £2,500 so far and the total’s still rising.
The day before the fete is always an anxious one, as Above: David had driven many things in his members of the committee and set-up team keep time, but never a sewing machine an eye on their weather apps, the forecasts and the sky, ready to make that critical decision – do we go for the wet weather plan or not? This year we’d have Here's one I made earlier been ok outside – sunny, a bit windy, but lovely and dry. Wonder what the weather will be like on Saturday June 12th 2021? Thank you again to everyone for your support, and thank you to the fete committee – for your energy, your commitment and adaptability, and for always smiling, whatever the weather! Revd Jane St Nicholas Church face mask! When Sue Pittam got in touch one morning with a photo of a facemask she’d made and the suggestion that the team she’d got together could sew masks that would be easily available to people in the village in return for a modest donation towards church funds we never dreamt what we’d started! So far getting on for £140 has been raised and the team are just about keeping up with the demand. Available from Page’s in the Square for a minimum donation of £2.00 each, the masks come in a range for her design idea and to everyone who’s of fabrics, they’re washable, comfy to wear and supported this very timely and successful idea of meet recommended safety guidelines. Sue’s! Thank you to Page’s for being so willing to support Revd Jane this project, to the sewing team, to Annabel Shipley 6 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
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Thank you to all who rose to the challenge of having a fete at home on Saturday 13th June!
St Nicholas Church depends on the money that s usually raised at the fete for vital repairs and to mow the graveyard. It s not too late to donate the money you d have spent at the fete through our Give A Little page Go to the church website www.stnicholaswickham.org.uk to find out how to give
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Chilled Art
John
Chris As promised these are the paintings from some of the Chilled Art group. In addition Fr Andrew has made a beautiful picture using flowers outside his home.
Lyn
Patricia
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Sara
Hopefully there will be more art works in the September Parish Magazine.
Malcolm
Liz
Anrdew Patricia Fray
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Tuesday 7 May; 2.00pm. of talks for the September 2013- FREE ON SITE PARKING FOR CUSTOMERS 01489 891353. Business was kept to a minimum. An opportunity to visit the D Day Museum and the Spinnaker Tower LETTER TO THE EDITOR LOVE YOUR BONES a month where we welcome people in Portsmouth on either 24th April with osteoporosis, or anyone who or 11th May. We made a diary date would like to know more. We have for Summer Garden Party in Au- Dear Sir Osteoporosis literally means ‘porous knowledgeable committee members, gust, at the home of our Advisor Pat For the last few years we have had bones’ and is a natural ageing- related regular speakers, including health Wallace. thinning of the bone causing bones to Mavis Stevens and Mavis Bruce with Mavis Bruce’s arrangement this discussion about stopping or care professionals, and we enjoy a moving Wickham fair. I feel very become fragile and break more easily friendly chat over a cup of tea. We strongly about any attempt to stop following a minor fall or bump. Up also have people who are happy to Our President then introduced the The next Meeting will be the Annu- to one in two woman and one in five [email protected] ing small centre table decorations. it, my guess is that it is people that come and talk to your group or Speaker and expert Mavis Stevens Some members are truly gifted, al Meeting on Wednesday May 8th have moved to Wickham, not the men over the age fifty will fracture a club. to demonstrate the art of when a new President and Commit- bone, mainly due to osteoporosis. some less so, and one or two stum- old residents. JEWELLERY TO SELL? Spring Flower Arranging. We had bled a little. However, with friendly tee will be elected. Please come For more information please contact Cash paid, inherited items? Clearing clutter? met Mavis before so knew we were What about the noise and inconven- Margo on 01329 833114 guidance,a lot of laughter and deter- along to elect the Members you Gold, silver and costume jewellery, cutlery, in for a treat. No disappointment want to represent you. ience of the old bikes and cars on This is most common in the wrist, hip mination,everyone took home a Vintage clothes and small furniture. then; it was a great fun afternoon. Boxing Day, nothing is said about and spine but it is not inevitable. very creditable arrangement. We all th that, also some people don’t like the Awareness of bone health means that On the 26 . June at the Mountbatten Anything old and interesting! hope to welcome Mavis to another EST 30 years I can come to you afternoon in the near future. 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Being Church at Home Revd Jane Isaac, Rector of Wickham, gives us an update on church opening and online services
On March 23rd, Government and Coming to church in the new Church of England regulations normal required us to close St Nicholas At the time of writing* it’s possible Church, along with the Study that the Government may give Centre. With the easing of parish priests the option to open lockdown, parish priests were places of worship for public given the option of opening services from Sunday, 5th July. This churches for individual private is fantastic and much prayed-for prayer – and I’m delighted to be news, but please do bear in mind able to share the news that on June that as yet this is by no means a 15th, with the support of the certainty! Make sure to check the churchwardens and the PCC’s website for the latest information Health and Safety representative, I about Sunday worship, and don’t was able to take down the ‘Church forget that, should we be able to closed until further notice’ signs hold services in church, the pattern and open the doors for the first time of services will need to be very in many weeks. And what a relief it’s different for the foreseeable future. been to be able to have the church Whilst Covid-19 restrictions remain clock wound and chiming the hours again: thank in place we cannot, for example, return to an ‘old you to Neale Fray for timing that so perfectly for the normal’ pattern of communion services at two first day back! churches every Sunday.
And as those you who’ve already visited St Nicholas Church for private prayer will have realised, coming back to church is not as simple as just opening the doors because Government requirements apply in church just as they do in Sainsbury’s! Social distancing means restricted numbers, hand sanitiser dispensers are in place, stringent cleaning measures are required of us, the very narrow aisle means that the designated entrance and exit doors must be used and seating areas signposted and for the time being we’re unable to use hymnbooks and service booklets. As always, check on the church website for the latest information about the return to public worship.
Since the beginning of lockdown the ministry team has been aiming to keep themselves and everyone in our care focussed on what we all can do and not what we can’t. That’s harder to do now lockdown’s For the time being, and for as long as we’re able to easing: change is really hard to manage, isn’t it, and sustain it – and members of the local community managing changes in our church life is hardest of take up the opportunity – the churches will be open all. But it seems to me that getting churches open for private prayer between 11.00am–1.00pm every at any cost isn’t the point of all this: what really day, including Sundays. Find out more by visiting matters is making sure that St Nicholas Church is a the church website: safe, welcoming, Covid 19-aware place that’s www.stnicholaschurchwickham.org.uk. ready to welcome back everyone who makes their way to that special place for worship or in search of a quiet, prayerful space in their lives. 14 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
and a monthly evensong service. Being Church at Being church at home Home services are intentionally simple in their Social distancing, shielding and self-isolation mean layout so that those of you who prefer a hard copy that everyone’s having to learn how to keep in touch can easily print out a service booklet – and it is very with each other in different kinds of ways, and that good to be away from a screen sometimes, isn’t it! includes the church family here in the United Live streaming is proving difficult from our Benefice of Shedfield and Wickham too. That’s why churches, so occasionally we will be pre-recording we’ll be continuing the Being Church at Home worship and the ministry team’s weekly reflections services so that we can worship together whether on YouTube: you’ll find the links via the Being or not we’re in church. Church at Home page on the website. If you know of someone without internet access who’d appreciate a printed copy of the Sunday services, do let me know (my contact details are on the inside St Nicholas notices coming down front cover of the magazine) so that we can make arrangements for that to happen. A wonderful variety of bible study and worship material’s available online at the moment: in fact, there’s so much that it’s hard to know where to start! From our own experience, the ministry team recommends getting underway by following the links from the Church of England’s website: https://www.churchofengland.org/ and the Diocese of Portsmouth’s own website: https://www.portsmouth.anglican.org/ Both will take you to all kinds of opportunities, including live streamed worship from churches around the country and our own Portsmouth Cathedral.
*Written on 20th June 2020 – please be aware that Government and Church of England regulations may have been changed or amended by the time you read this. For the latest Church of England Each Sunday specially-written services are posted Covid-19 guidelines on church opening on the church website and linked to the village and maintenance, public worship, Facebook page too. There are daily prayer ideas, weddings and funerals please go to along with the benefice’s own Sunday morning www.churchofengland.org/more/media- prayer service and a more informal Sunday service centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance- with a reflection on the Gospel reading, prayers and churches hymns. There’s also an act of spiritual communion Cancellation of Call my Bluff - refund of ticket money I have tried to contact everyone would very much like to hear who bought tickets for the above from anyone who would like a event. Many people bought refund by July 10th and I will tickets through their table ensure this happens. conveyor and I have spoken to all of them. I can be contacted as follows : Rosemary Crane Very kindly everyone contacted has agreed to donate their £10. Email: [email protected] or I am conscious however that I 01329 835754 or 07712591186 may have missed people and I
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AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO HELP SHAPE OUR MAGAZINE
Our brilliant editor is retiring in December 2020 – could you be the one to replace him?
We are looking for an editor to work with an established team to help shape the magazine to meet the needs of our growing community, making the magazine a source of local news and information, of value to both advertisers and to all who live and work in this beautiful village. Interested? Want more information? Please call Sue Pittam on 01329 828589
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More photographs by John Farrow
Where is this?
The unusual round chimney is on "Warrens Cottage" in Bridge Street.
The photos above and below features a bridge over the Meon Valley Trail (Wickham Bridleway 501), but commonly known as the old railway line. The track over the bridge leads to Little Tapnage Farm. The location of the bridge is approximately midway between Webb's Land Farm (vineyard) and the Southern end of the bridleway just prior to the Fareham to Winchester railway line.
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www.messychurch.org.uk Wickham Community U3A Photograph is of Tennis Club Brian Barrett the As I write this we have sessions, day courses Geology tutor with been able to return to the during school holidays, the group display Courts and once again and adult group from a couple of we are enjoying playing sessions. years ago. both singles and If you or your children doubles. What a joy after would like to try tennis the Lockdown, to be able please get in touch via to return to some fun and our website: fresh air with friends, socially distanced of h t t p s : / / course. clubspark.lta.org.uk/ Junior sessions are beginning again, with small group sizes, and safety measures in place. We have weekly junior 21 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Wickham Pre-School Welcome to our July/August disinfected between each group. them every day to see if there update. One of the best things about the have been any changes. Today Coronavirus they were amazed to see that Well we have been back to one of the beans had grown tall in preschool since the 1st June, we the last 24 hrs. They spent a long have only had half of our families time using rulers to measure just wanting to come back at the how much it had grown. It moment, which has made it measured 18cm! We will be possible to have the children in planting the seedlings out in our two small bubbles. Thankfully vegetable patch as soon as they the children have adapted to the are big enough. new layout and restrictions on Bookings for September playing outside of their ‘bubble’ really well. The restrictions put in place by children being in bubbles is that the government have proven to we have seen some lovely new be a challenge, but we are slowly relationships developing getting to grips with our new way between children that had not of working. There is lots of previously been friends. We have cleaning before, during and after also noticed that the children are each day and we are getting being much more creative and through the Milton at a using the toys in different ways. staggering rate! We think this may be partly due to the fact that there are a lot of less resources than there used to be, due to the necessity for additional cleaning and We have been taking lots of restrictions on soft furnishings enquiries for September and are and soft toys, etc. now getting very full. We do not know if we will be allowed to Jack and the beanstalk open normally by then but hope During our first week back, the we can. If you are interested in children listened to the story of knowing more about the Jack and the Beanstalk. They preschool and would like to enjoyed the story so much that receive a copy of our the teachers decided to base the prospectus, please email us at whole weeks activities around wickham@parrywoodchildcare. the book. One of the activities co.uk or give us a call on 01329 ‘Bubbles’ was to put beans into glass jars, 833039 if you have any one with cotton wool and one questions. We have split the children into with kitchen towels, to see how We are planning on being open two groups and named them the they reacted to the different 8am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday ‘Rainbow’ group and the environments. during school term times if the ‘Sunshine’ group. The children The children have been checking current restrictions allow. have really enjoyed making decorations for their areas. They That’s all for this month. worked hard together and were Please stay safe and well. very proud of the finished results. Ness & the team at Wickham We have also been spending as Preschool. much time as possible outside, again a challenge when the groups have to take turns and all the equipment needs to be 22 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
Wickham Church of England Primary School
COVID-19 We see the bridge over the river as crossing a path to Buddens Road, Wickham, something new and exciting. It has a been an incredibly busy Fareham, Hants. PO17 5HU Sometimes we require time at school over the last few Tel: 01329 833065 months as we have all adjusted courage to cross the bridge in Fax: 01329 834969 to the new ‘normal’. Since the order to reach the other side Email: [email protected] start of lockdown, we have and this reflects the courage been open to those children that we sometimes need to Headteacher: Mr Graham Cutter whose parents are key show when learning Deputy Head: Mrs Loren Way workers, providing them with something new. much needed childcare. www.wickham-primary.co.uk New Uniform On the 1st June, we then reopened for Years R, 1 and 6 with stakeholders. Most pupils, in addition to those of key importantly, it reflects our new workers. school vision, which we shared a number of months ago. We It has been lovely to welcome wanted the design to reflect the back more pupils and we look uniqueness of Wickham - it forward to the time when we are encompasses the Meon Valley, able to fully reopen to everyone. the River Meon and the bridge over the river. The Christian Despite the unprecedented times symbol of a cross reflects the fact we find ourselves in, we have as a that we are a Church of England school, continued to work on school. some important and exciting projects that we can now share The river and bridge are important with you. symbolic features; we see the river symbolising the life of the New School Logo school and reflecting the children’s ‘journey’ throughout We are also launching a ‘new- look’ uniform which Our brand-new logo, with its their time at Wickham Primary encompasses the logo. From bright and modern feel, was School. The point at which the September our children will be launched on the 1st June. The final river reaches the sea is known as wearing purple polo shirts and design is the result of many the ‘delta’, derived from a Greek sweatshirts/ cardigans. months of work and consultation symbol in the shape of a triangle which means ‘change’.
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especially the Water Meadows clean and tidy.
The Council fully supports the initiatives
undertaken by volunteers who have and Wickham Parish Council are helping vulnerable residents with Annual Report shopping and collecting prescriptions May 2019-2020 both in Wickham and Knowle. Thank you to all the volunteers in our Serving the communities of Wickham community, to everyone who is self- and Knowle isolating and thereby minimising risks for others, and of course to all those who Chairman s overview are providing daily service roles of all kinds. I hope that you are all keeping safe and well in these testing times. Never have we been more overtaken by events, never in recent memory have In normal circumstances your Parish parishioners been more tested and Council would have hosted our Annual never have we seen better, how a local Parish Assembly in April, giving you all community can come together in a spirit the opportunity to meet your councillors of mutual support. Thank you. and view the several displays by organisations, as well as have a preview The Parish Council IT provision has of our Song for Wickham. Unfortunately, allowed us to work together without in these dark Coronavirus times, such a having to physically meet and we have gathering was simply not possible. As continued to share and review well as postponing the Parish Assembly, documents, and hold meetings on the we did not hold the annual AGM, this planned dates by video conferencing, we means that all councillors will remain in have as normal a service as possible. their current roles and on existing There will always be a warm welcome committees at the present time. to anyone who wishes to attend our meetings either electronically or by As regards village amenities, these have phone. all been in lock-down since mid-March. At the time of writing the tennis courts No parish council succeeds without have been allowed to open on a limited ever one s support We are fortunate to basis and it looks like some shops will have Nicki Oliver as our clerk and her also be back with us. organisational skills especially during the Covid 19 pandemic have been Our lovely Water Meadows has invaluable. welcomed visitors, but unfortunately there have been growing incidents of May I also take this opportunity to late regarding vandalism and litter. We personally sincerely thank my fellow are keeping a watchful eye on this, and councillors for all their help and may I take this opportunity to say thank commitment over the past year and for you so much to Paul Collins our going that little step further with their groundsman and his team and all the help and support at this time. litter pickers who have worked so hard trying their best to keep the village,
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I trust by the time you read this report we will be in a more stable situation, and The Parish Council our lives will be returned to a more normal place. The Parish Council comprises 11 Councillors who are elected every four As always, keep well, keep safe. years. Councillors are unpaid and are governed by a mandatory code of Angela Clear, Chairman Wickham Parish conduct which includes obligations to Council act in an appropriate manner.
The Parish Council provides a local voice The Parish of Wickham for its residents, each parish council differs in the work it carries out. Wickham Parish is one of the largest
parishes within the District of The majority of the work carried out by Winchester City Council with nearly 2000 Wickham Parish Council is through its households. committees: Finance, General Purposes,
Planning, Recreation, and the Water The parish extends along Titchfield Lane Meadows Millennium Green Trust. and Fontley Road to the south west of
Wickham centre; it also includes Old Knowle and Knowle Village. To the east A Highways and Lighting representative are the parishes of Boarhunt and deals with road and street lighting issues; there are also Tree Wardens and Soberton with Shedfield, Curdridge and representatives for Footpaths and Rights Whiteley to the north and west. of Way, Police liaison, Welborne Liaison Group, Wickham Community Association, Wickham Community Contacting the Council Tennis Club and Wickham Youth Club.
Parish Council Website
Residents are very welcome to attend meetings and to contact Councillors and Clerk with issues of concern. See contact details on the last page of the report
Communication
The Parish Council has notice boards in The Square, Wickham Community Centre car park, South Square Knowle and Totsome Cottages; it also produces Agendas and minutes of meetings are a regular newsletter for the Parish available to view on the website along Magazine and has a website to keep with lots of information about Wickham residents up to date with its work: and Knowle and the work of the council. www.wickhamparishcouncil.org The website is due an upgrade to make i e on i e a ch hi ace
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Parish Council Online Networks prescriptions collected and delivered, fourteen shopping trips, residents taken to GP appointments and put in touch with each other to offer mutual support. The community has come together in ways we could not have foreseen thanks to the leadership of Mike and Collette.
We have over 6,000 people engaging with the Wickham in Hampshire Facebook page and Wickham - a Hampshire Community Facebook group and over 450 followers on Twitter @WickhamPC.
We also have an Instagram account to showcase our villages wickham-in-hampshire which has 356 followers to date
There are links o he Co ncil s Facebook pages and Twitter from the home page of the Co ncil s ebsi e
You are welcome to publicise events on our In Wickham, Shedfield, Shirrell Heath Facebook and Twitter feeds. and Whiteley a small team has been out in the communities walking dogs, delivering newspapers, prescriptions and Parish Council News for shopping for 20 people. We even arranged for a cat to be 2019/20 fostered for a few weeks. Thank you to the Colling Family! How has the Parish Council responded to the Covid-19 crisis? The Parish Council has co-ordinated a volunteer response to ensure the most
in need are cared for during these difficult times. Over 200 people responded to a request for volunteers and Wickham Parish Council agreed to lead the response for
Wickham, Knowle, Shedfield, Shirrell Heath and Whiteley. A very big thank you to everyone that As the weeks have passed the needs offered to help. Safeguarding issues and have reduced as people have organised limited management resources meant shopping deliveries for themselves and we set to work with a small team of we are looking to draw the scheme to a volunteers who had enhanced DBS close and also make the most of the checks in place through other roles. offers to volunteer in the future. Mike and Collette Little led the way at Thank you to Cllr Carl who has Knowle quickly setting up a local support coordinated the volunteers on a day to system. The first month saw 63 day basis.
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Meon Valley Foodbank Wickham Assembly 2020
The annual report usually includes a review of the Annual Assembly and highlights the work carried out by our award recipients and the winners of the Stan Woodford Photographic competition. This year we were sad to cancel the assembly but be assured we will be back When we heard that the Meon Valley next year, or the year after, with a bigger Foodbank may have to close due to a and better event! lack of donations, Knowle rose to the occasion with amazing speed, extra thanks to Mike and Collette, Brian and Alex for their commitment to the project. The Song for Wickham has been written by Volunteers from Wickham, Shedfield, Steve Knightley and we are looking forward Shirrell Heath and Whiteley also to performing it as soon as it is safe for accepted the challenge and thanks to choirs to meet again. the co-ordinators and contributors The song is timeless and we hope it will be Hundreds of local families in need have adapted and sung for many years to come. received substantial food deliveries. Our Community Choir has partly moved
online. You are welcome to take part in the Our friends at the Rotary Club of virtual sessions being arranged by Dielle. Whiteley have been making weekly large Check out the Song for Wickham Singers donations of supplies and Infinity Facebook Group. If you would like to sign up for the choir when it restarts please contact Nicki
Thank you A huge thank you to everyone who helps keep Wickham and Knowle tidy. It is greatly appreciated.
Football Club, who have made their Could you adopt a pavement? home at Knowle, has raised nearly £800 for the foodbank. Litter picking equipment available from Nicki, please ask! Community in action! www.meonvalleyfoodbank.co.uk
Nicki Oliver [email protected]
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New Housing in Wickham
Winches er Ci Co ncil s Local Plan allocated two sites in Wickham for development: 120 houses north of The New Housing at Knowle Circle with access from Winchester Road, and 82 houses behind School Road Knowle Water Meadows and new on the Glebe fields. housing proposals
Croudace is well underway with the The Parish Council supported proposals works behind School Road and Bewley for new housing at Knowle together with Homes will begin shortly on the site the transfer to the Parish Council of behind The Circle with access from Knowle Triangle and a significant area of Winchester Road. River Meon Water Meadows.
The Winchester Road site will provide It was reported last year that outline much needed sports fields in Mill Lane. permission had been granted but since
then it has been quashed due to a The Glebe will provide a play area and challenge over whether the developer significant area of meadow as open should provide funds to local hospital space. trusts and new permissions are about to
be published. Both sites will include affordable
housing. The open spaces will be managed for
public and wildlife benefit by the Parish Links to access the plans are on the Council and its contractors. home page of our website
www.wickhamparishcouncil.org If you would like to be involved in a
steering group to help manage the land Or view directly on Winchester City please let Nicki know. Co ncil s Planning Por al
For more information see the link on https://planningapps.winchester.gov.uk the home page of our website
Winchester Road Case No: Or view directly on Winchester City 17/02615/FUL Co ncil s Planning Por al
Glebe / School Road Case No: Case Ref 18/01612/OUT 18/01282/REM
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VE Day Flowerbeds and the Knowle baskets The spring planting has been exuberant this year with the beds overflowing and the baskets at Knowle billowing! Our groundsman Paul Collins regularly waters the baskets at Knowle and maintains the flower beds in Wickham.
Lots of families marked VE Day in their front gardens, enjoying the event with neighbours whilst socially distancing. There were plenty of ideas online to make the day fun. The church was decorated with bunting and the village had an air of quiet celebration.
2019 Flag Display The summer planting is now in and we are looking forward to seeing it flourish over the coming months. Thank you very much to Park Place Nurseries for saving plants for us.
Parish Plan
Thank you to the volunteer steering group that worked very hard to carry out survey work and prepare a revised version of the Parish Plan. Thank you to Kathryn Holladay for leading the project. Thank you to Mike Hollis and his team for the 2019 June flag display we look The survey results can be viewed on this forward to seeing the flags up again link https://bit.ly/2LjYR4g soon. The revised parish plan here https://bit.ly/2zqsDlv
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Wickham All Weather Pitch Knowle Village Hall
The floodlit pitch is open to the public at no charge from 4.30-6pm every week day, 9am-9pm at weekends when not booked and during school holidays.
Knowle Village Hall is owned and It is available for bookings from 6-9pm managed by the parish council. It is a weekdays with a hire fee of £30 per great venue for sports, parties, events hour. and meetings. With its large hall and a When the pitch is not booked it is open smaller club room together with for public use. changing rooms and a well-equipped kitchen there is a space for every Access from the back of the community occasion at very reasonable rates. See www.knowlevillagehall.com for further centre. information.
Thank you to our caretaker and hall Wickham Tennis Courts manager Collette Little who works very hard to look after Knowle Village Hall Wickham Community Tennis Club and its many customers. Thank you also welcomes new members, there are to Mike Little who carries out a lot of plenty of formal and informal sessions repairs and maintenance to the hall on a for all regardless of age and experience. voluntary basis which is very much appreciated. Information about sessions is on the website. Council meetings If you would just like to use the courts
on a casual basis sign up on the Club s Clubspark website and book online Councillors were newly elected in 2019 and clubspark.lta.org.uk/WickhamCommunit the majority have attended Core Skills for Councillors training which is expected on yTennisClub election or at least every four years to keep everyone up to date with legislation and how councils work.
All normal council work has continued during lockdown with meetings moved Is for everyone online to ensure continuity. Legislation has allowed councils to cancel the normal AGM and maintain the existing chairman and committee memberships until 2021.
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The Parish Council is using Zoom software to General Purposes Committee hold virtual meetings and members of the public are of course welcome to take part. Councillors have embraced the new technology which has enabled the decision- making processes to continue effectively. Agendas and minutes of meetings are available on our website www.wickhamparishcouncil.org together i h all he Co ncil s financial informa ion
Committee Reports
Planning Committee The GP or General Purposes Committee takes on the work that can't be allocated to any of the other committees!
Between June 2019 and May 2020, the Planning Committee formally considered and responded to 33 planning applications in the parish making it an extremely quiet year.
The responses the committee has made to applications can be viewed on the This year additional benches were installed Parish Co ncil s ebsi e on the Bridge Street Village Green and the benches at the top of the bank replaced. A Concerns remain about the impact the new bench has been installed at the top of new developments will have on drainage Springfield Close in response to requests and the Parish Council will continue to from residents. raise these as the plans progress. Ensuring trees on parish land are safe
involves a great deal of time and The Parish Council has representation on expenditure, regular tree surveys are carried the Welborne Liaison Panel which is out, permissions obtained and work carried overseeing the plans for the out on an ongoing basis. No trees are development of a large new community removed without very good reason and this on the boundaries of Wickham and is usually because they are diseased and Knowle. could become a danger to the public.
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The flower displays in Wickham and the Christmas Lights Switch On baskets in South Square at Knowle are organised by this committee and it also assists with funding the churchyard maintenance, installing the Christmas trees, festive lights, the maintenance of Knowle Cemetery, Dean Copse, Lysander Meadow, Bridge St Village Green and the bus shelter in The Square.
Thank you to everyone who supported the Christmas Lights Switch On and to Chris Hoare who installs the lights around The Square, oversaw the installation of the Christmas tree and helps with the Switch On event and to Katie Mattingly who was the event manager.
Thank you again to Park Place Nurseries for providing the plants for all our beds and baskets.
Another thank you to Nev Simpson who is The Parish Council budgeted to continue its leading a band of volunteers to help with support of the Taste of Wickham Food the maintenance at Knowle Cemetery Festival, b adl hi ea e e ha bee cancelled. We look forward to a bigger and better event next year.
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A grant to Wickham Festival was also considerately. The Police have made regular incl ded in hi ear b dge o pa for he visits to the Wickham and Knowle buses that take visitors to and from the skateparks to offer advice and guidance. Square but at the time of writing a decision During the play area closures the fortnightly had no been made on he her hi ear safety checks have continued which means festival will go ahead. they can be quickly brought back into use when permitted. The bins and dog bins have continued to be emptied. There has been much more waste during the lockdown weeks as more people are walking in their neighbourhoods and exploring our villages. This has been dealt with by increasing the number of collections where possible.
Recreation ground play area and Knowle play areas redeveloped
Recreation Committee
The Recreation Committee looks after Wickham recreation ground, managing the maintenance of the landscaping, tennis courts, football pitch and pavilion.
This Committee also manages the play areas on the recreation ground, The Circle and in Following all the consultations with front of the Community Centre and the Wickham and Knowle families and a lengthy skate park at the rear. tender process the new recreation ground play area opened on 28th June 2019 and the At Knowle the Committee is responsible for Knowle play areas opened in October. the village hall, green and pitches, the skatepark and games area, Consort Mews, Ahead of lockdown children and adults of all Barbastelle Walk, Victoria Mews and ages could be seen enjoying the revitalised Greater Horseshoe Way play areas. spaces!
Play areas and skateparks We were sorry to have to close the play areas and skateparks due to Government guidance and look forward to being able to open them again soon. Work to install the additional Viking swing and accessible roundabout on the recreation ground has been delayed but it is hoped they will be installed in the coming weeks. Thank you to everyone who has stayed away
from the skateparks, we understand We look forward to being able to open the concerns regarding young people play areas again once government guidance congregating but the responsibility lies with allows. the parents and young people to behave
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The Parish Council maintains a sinking fund Water Meadows Millennium for play area replacements and improvements. Green Trust
Our next major project is to develop a site in The Parish Council, as First Trustee, oversees Mill Lane for football and other facilities. the maintenance of the Water Meadows for The land and some funding are being made the benefit of both wildlife and visitors. The available by Rookesbury Estate and the leasing and maintenance of the Old Forge developers of the Winchester Road site. It are also the responsibility of the Trust. was hoped the consultation would have started for this project but there have been This year has seen a huge increase in the delays due to lockdown. number of visitors and with it litter and damage to the banks.
Repairs to the banks will be carried out in
due course and may mean restricting access
to the meadows for a short time.
The Meadows are regularly maintained by groundsman Paul Collins and his team.
Finance Committee
The Finance Committee reviews the Council's income and expenditure on a regular basis. It also discusses applications Thanks to Paul Collins and his team for their from local organisations seeking funding dedication to keeping so many of our open assistance and makes recommendations to spaces looking great and to Dave Ellis who the Full Council. has the unpleasant job of emptying all the dog waste bins. A job he does remarkably Local voluntary organisations are welcome cheerfully! to submit applications for grants. The application form is available to download from the Council s ebsite or contact Parish Clerk Nicki for paper copies.
The Parish Council approved the following grants during the last financial year:
Friends of Wickham Common via Winchester City Council £500 St Nicholas 900 events £1,000 Wickham Community Association for new lights £4,000 Taste of Wickham (2019) £,5624 Wickham Festival (2019) £3,000 Festival bus (2019) £500 Homes Start £2,500 Wickham Youth Club £2,000 Knowle Youth Project £2,000 Citizens Advice £2,000
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Wickham Parish Council Accounts 2019/20
2018-19 2019-20 £ Income £
185,918 Precept 215,183 7,778 Council tax support grant 0 Wickham Parish Council Contact Details 739 Community Infrastructure Levy 38,510 Chairman 116 Interest 110 Angela Clear 14 Manor Close, Wickham, PO17 5BZ 1,875 Football fees 830 tel 01329 832923 (Finance Committee Chairman, 16,436 Hire of Knowle Village Hall (& car 19,028 Highways, Street Lighting representative)
park) Vice-Chairman 0 Tennis Club lights electricity 2,280 Sue Roger-Jones Moonrakers, Fareham Road, 0 Grants/insurance repayments/ 5,738 Wickham, PO17 5BY tel 01329 833165 (Recreation Committee and Water Meadows Trust Chairman) 12,225 All weather pitch income 5,850
4,040 Tennis Club sinking fund 3,900 Councillors 5,000 Song for Wickham grant 0 Trevor Astbury 15 Wykeham Field, Wickham PO17 500 Parish Plan grant 0 5AB (Recreation Committee Wickham Vice-Chairman, 982 WCA cctv / lighting 0 tree warden, rights of way representative, Police liaison) 17,253 VAT Reimbursements 12,240
Carl Dixon Mirables, Mayles Lane, Wickham PO17 5ND 252,862 Total income 303,669 Thérèse Evans 3 Copperwood, Holt Close, Wickham 2018-19 2019-20 PO17 5EY tel 01329 832700 (GP Committee Chairman, tree warden) £ Expenditure £ 35,701 Employment 38,918 Di Frost The Laurels, Mayles Lane, Wickham PO17 5ND tel 01329 832633 (Planning Committee Vice- 12,138 General Administration 13,544 Chairman) 5,200 S. 137 Payments 6,600 8,947 Grants 6,127 Nick Guy 11 Mayles Corner, Knowle PO17 5AG tel 01329 832466 Highways and lighting and footpaths 18,032 General Purposes Committee 12,893 and rights of way representative, Police liaison 3,051 Lighting Committee 1,718 Mike Hollis 12 Buddens Road, Wickham PO17 5HQ 57,277 Grounds contract 65,088 tel 01329 835243 Tree warden 28,125 Recreation Committee 18,920 Helen Manuel 7 Charity View, Knowle PO17 5NG tel 9,506 Knowle Village Hall 11,573 01329 830449 0 Chairman's allowance 0 Craig Manuel 7 Charity View, Knowle PO17 5NG tel 265 Councillor / Clerk training 605 01329 830449 (Lighting representative, Recreation 431 Councillor travelling expenses 216 Committee Knowle Vice-Chairman) 19,603 New projects 173,773 Loraine Rappe 29 Knowle Avenue, Knowle PO17 12,240 VAT 36,452 5LG tel 01329 483020 (Planning Committee
Chairman, Southern Parishes Group, WDALC and HALC representative) 210,516 Total Expenditure 386,427 Parish Clerk Nicki Oliver, Heatherdene, Turkey Island Shedfield, Southampton Hants, S032 2JE Tel 01329 835019 email [email protected]
For formal enquiries contact the Parish Clerk in the first instance.
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Excellent range of seasonal plants now in All the gardening sundries you need in our drinks, cakes, snacks, sandwiches and sweets Southwick Road, Wickham 01329 834407 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 41 Advertisements May 2014 season is well under Annual General Meeting way. The new programme followed by:- (together with subscription form How Astronomy will affect MEON VALLEY etc.) will be circulated to members Africa, by Professor Philip – hopefully - in late July, by e-mail Charles, ex-Director, South Afri- can Large Telescope (SALT) if you have one, or post if not.
Sadly, the current programme of Meanwhile, most, but not all, of Visitors are welcome to the talk fortnightly Tuesday afternoon talks the small, special interest groups Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 (for £1), but only paid up members comes to an end with our next meet- will continue to meet regularly, can vote at the AGM. All members ing, along with the AGM. Following usually monthly, through much of K K should have received formal notifi- the essential short ‘business’ of the the summer. Current subjects in- cation of the AGM during April. AGM, we are pleased that the clude: reading; poetry; art; visual speaker, on astronomy and Africa - The number of U3A members has arts appreciation; geology; walk- who had to cancel his date earlier in crept up steadily during the current ing; chess; French; bridge, classical the season – will be with us. The year and is at an all-time high: music appreciation. Plans for a venue, day of week and time are as surely testimony to the varied and couple of summer outings are also usual:- excellent quality of talks and other in the pipeline. activities we have had in the 2012- Wickham Community Centre, Membership (and other) enquiries Mill Lane, Wickham, PO17 5AL; 13 year. Planning the programme to Secretary, Julia Field, Tel: Tuesday 7th May; 2.00pm. of talks for the September 2013- 01489 891353.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR LOVE YOUR BONES a month where we welcome people with osteoporosis, or anyone who would like to know more. We have Dear Sir Osteoporosis literally means ‘porous knowledgeable committee members, For the last few years we have had bones’ and is a natural ageing- related regular speakers, including health this discussion about stopping or thinning of the bone causing bones to care professionals, and we enjoy a moving Wickham fair. I feel very become fragile and break more easily friendly chat over a cup of tea. We strongly about any attempt to stop following a minor fall or bump. Up also have people who are happy to it, my guess is that it is people that to one in two woman and one in five come and talk to your group or have moved to Wickham, not the men over the age fifty will fracture a club. old residents. bone, mainly due to osteoporosis. For more information please contact What about the noise and inconven- Margo on 01329 833114 ience of the old bikes and cars on This is most common in the wrist, hip Boxing Day, nothing is said about and spine but it is not inevitable. th that, also some people don’t like the Awareness of bone health means that On the 26 . June at the Mountbatten music festival and over the past I people can make simple life style Centre in Portsmouth the annual have heard people say they didn’t changes to help prevent future Love Your Bones event will be like the church bells, all I can say is deterioration of their bones, and there taking place. It welcomes don’t buy a house near the church are specific treatments that have been Osteoporosis patients, friends and or in Wickham at all. proved to prevent further fractures for family members and the general public who wish to learn from I hope that the Fair will go on for older people. Health Care Professionals and gain a many, many years to come, it’s only better understanding of bone health two days out of the year, two days and osteoporosis. This is a free when people can’t drive their cars The National Osteoporosis Society event with refreshments provided has free leaflets and a free nurse led right to the shop doorway. st helpline. For more information visit but you must book before the 1 . I don’t see why an old tradition nos.org.uk or call the helpline on June. To reserve a place e -mail from 1269 should be stopped. 0845 450 0203 rheumatolgy.conference Yours faithfully @porthosp.nhs.uk Mrs. B Dean In the local area we have a Support or phone 023 9228 6000 ext1495 Group which meets in Cosham once
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Peter Bangs Meon Valley Methodist Circuit Missioner. A time of reassessing recently to one 70 year old lady great commandment to his Google has, apparently, seen an who said she loved the Thursday followers was “love one enormous leap in searches for evening NHS clap because she another”. It’s hard not to behave prayer and similar terms during was getting to know her like community when you do the Covid 19 pandemic. It must neighbours. Everything points, that. be true because I read it on anecdotally, to a resurgence of Prayer is an expression of that as Facebook. Joking aside, things community. I think this current well. When you pray for or with like this current pandemic and lockdown has made us aware someone you stand in lockdown often send people in that we were designed to live in community with them. Prayer search of answers beyond those community. doesn’t promise we will get what being provided by politicians We are looking for communities we want how we want it. It and scientists. to support us and where we can promises God will meet our I’m not sure what people are support others during a time of need. I have problems with looking for when they search crisis. Whether it’s volunteering depression and anxiety. Through Google for prayer but I don’t or checking on neighbours, my prayers God has helped me think they are looking for doing pharmacy runs for people find ways to control them. Those miracles. I think they are looking shielding or just stepping off the problems have helped me for comfort, they want to know pavement and smiling as you connect with others with similar they are not alone. That keep your two metre distance problems and support them. someone is standing with them from another pedestrian. All of Making community. in a hard time. these things remind us we are in If you are one of those people Our society has moved away this together and we are stronger who Googled “prayer” or would from a real sense of community together. just like to talk to someone about in many places. When I was a Jesus was a big supporter of it, or just have someone pray for child, we knew the families 4 or 5 community. Much of the you, you can message any of houses either side of us really Gospels has him eating with your local churches (most are on well and knew most of the street people, or leaving or going to a Facebook) or you can email me beyond. Now my wife and I meal or gathering. He sat down at [email protected]. congratulate ourselves because with disparate people and knew Christian’s are still people so we know our next door the importance of drawing they’re not perfect, but we are neighbours by name. I spoke people together. His second always happy to talk.
The annual Historic Churches time of writing there can be no raised is divided between the Trust sponsored Ride & Stride is certainty that visits will not be Trust and the parish churches; scheduled this year for Saturday subject to regulation, but it each church receives in return 12th September. Participants should be possible at least to half of its contribution. are invited to plan a day out view the church from outside. For more information and (between 10.00am and 6.00pm) sponsorship forms please travelling by any means to enjoy The present constraints on contact the countryside whilst looking churches are reducing income Robert Goulson (01329 832915 / round the local churches. At the severely, and sponsorship is all [email protected]) the more valuable. The money 43 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
WEST MEON MUSIC FESTIVAL 2020
will go ahead – we hope! various combinations that when we will be joined by feature our popular mix of Michael Collins (clarinet), We feel in these difficult times favourite chamber music: from Stephen Stirling (horn), Maxim music is more important than piano quartets to string trios, Calder (cell), Roman Kosyakov ever and are therefore hoping to piano trios, duo sonatas and (piano), Laura Snowden (guitar) run a reduced version of the solos. and several others. festival in September to comply with whatever official guidelines Full programme details will be We very much hope to see as will be in force. available shortly on the website many of our friends and followers (www.westmeonmusic.co.uk) as we can safely accommodate Depending on relevant changes but may be subject to alteration this year, and we look forward to to the Covid-19 regulations, to as official guidelines change, celebrating our tenth anniversary allow venues to reopen and host possibly allowing greater in style at next year's safely-controlled gatherings, the flexibility. Due to the uncertainty festival: September 9-12, 2021. festival will take place as planned of the situation we have decided from Friday 11th September to not to involve any of our guest West Meon Music Festival is a Sunday 13th. All concerts will be performers this year and will registered charity no. 1185082. performed by members of the instead move our planned tenth Primrose Piano Quartet in anniversary programme to 2021
My Bike Ride for Ride & Stride September 2019 by Danny Dubois Robert Goulson and I have to Droxford then doubling drawn your attention to this back to the railway line to year’s event on Saturday 12th reach Soberton and lunch September which we hope can in the lovely churchyard still take place. Last year I after 14.7 miles and 679ft planned and fully reconnoitred, a climb. I completed the route to be done with my ‘city circuit via Newtown, slicker’ Jewish friends. In the North Boarhunt to St event my friends were not able to Nicholas, Wickham and make it so I did it on my own in my church – another 11 perfect weather. I thought miles or so. The good readers might like to know about thing about the route is this route which was designed the main uphill is early on for 2 middle-aged men and a and never too steep! lady keeping up on an electric bike! St Andrew’s Church Meonstoke – I Even if the churches will I started at our church, St John arrived just before a wedding! be closed this year, our the Baptist, Shedfield SO32 2HY churchyards are very and headed North taking in the good for stopping and chapels and churches of Shirrell before descending to Exton and resting and of course safely heath and Swanmore, then to the church of St Peter & St Paul. socialising! Bishop’s Waltham and on via Using the pavement along the Dundridge gradually climbing to right side of the A32 to Danny Dubois, church Shepherds Down, turning left to Corhampton as there is no minor representative for St John the cross Corhampton Lane and up road option to the Saxon Church Baptist. Beacon Hill Lane to the South and its venerable Yew then to Downs Way – the highest point Meonstoke. Via the railway line
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WICKHAM ON THE RADIO - WICKHAM SUPPORTS THE WAR EFFORT
During the Second World War, Park Place was turned into a factory sorting rivets used in the manufacture of the Spitfire fighter plane. At that time, James Bird, naval architect and aircraft engineer, was the owner of Park Place.
In 1919 Squadron-Commander James Bird became a director of the Supermarine works at Woolston, buying the company in 1923. Working with Chief Designer R.J. Mitchell, the company developed a range of successful commercial and military aircraft, including the Spitfire fighter plane. wrote very clearly, they also used a variety of different calligraphy styles, many letters were He sold Supermarine to Vickers in 1928 but different, words were often heavily abbreviated, continued to manage the Supermarine factory. and the Latin used was an English medieval version James Bird moved to Park Place in about 1933. that the romans would have found confusing! It was very satisfying to tease out the meaning of After a series of German air raids on the Woolston documents written hundreds of years ago and in the factory in September 1940, Spitfire production was process, we uncovered the earliest recorded land dispersed across a 50-mile radius, including Park transfer we have for Wickham Parish – for Quob Place, Wickham. Farm, off Titchfield Road.
James Bird had an extension built in the grounds and the Women’s Voluntary Services – mainly woman from Wickham – sorted the different types of rivets need for the Spitfire production.
You can listen to podcasts of Spitfire: The People's Plane, the story of the people who built the plane that won the war, on the BBC.
Episode 4 - Makeshift Wedding mentions Park Place and describes the top/right photograph from the Stan Woodford Collection.
If you can put names to any of the faces, please get in touch!
DECIPHERING WICKHAM’S PAST Between 2017-19 a small group of Wickham This was the transfer of the “whole land of La History Society volunteers, led by Geoff Phillpotts Quabbe” by the Abbot of Titchfield to Lady Emma, and Jim Coleman, took on the translation of Latin widow of Geoffrey des Roches, at an annual rent of documents about Wickham held at the Hampshire two shillings. La Quabbe (Quob Farm today) was Record Office. then an estate and included the “men and their This was challenging: although the clerks often households” as well as pastures, heathland, houses
45 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 and carts. Although the Record Office dates the text and translation, and how the Black Death deed to 1260, Jim’s research revealed that one of affected this small community, in the article on the the witnesses, William of Raleigh (Bishop of Wickham History Society website. Winchester), died in 1250 in Tours, France, so the land transfer must predate 1249 when he left England.
Read more about Quob Farm, including the full Latin
FOREST FOLK QUIZ
Please email your answers to [email protected]@forestfolk.co.uk . The entry with most correct answers by Saturday 15 August 2020 will win two tickets to see Jim Causley, our concert on Monday 21st September - though the date is subject to change under current Government regulations.
1. What anniversary will Forest Folk be celebrating in 2021? 2. Who is Forest Folk pa on 3. Which famo inge ong i e all a off Fo e Folk ea l p og amme of g e evenings every January? 4. How many Monday night guest evenings has Forest Folk held? 5. Nearest rough guess - how many different artists/bands have appeared at Forest Folk guest evenings? 6. How many miles do you think an audience member might have travelled to a Forest Folk guest evening? 7. Which i Fo e Folk fa o i e m ic fe i al 8. How many singer/songwriters have sung songs about Wickham on the Forest Folk stage? 9. When did the Forest Folk Facebook page commence? 10. How many lockdown videos have our Singaround regulars produced for our Facebook page (up until the end of June)?
THANK YOU so much for your interest in Forest Folk. We hope you enjoy our regular feature in your magazine, and look forward to seeing you at Forest Folk in the not too distant future.
Keep well and keep safe.
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Fine dining in the DDR! Deutsche Demokratische Republik, East Germany. In December 1965, when serving with BAOR in fresh vegetables. A glass of beer, or a glass of West Germany a colleague and I were wine was 15 pfennigs, 6d. transferred to the Royal Signals detachment at RAF Gatow, Berlin. It was at the height of the A train pulled to a halt alongside us, it was a pre- Cold War and east-west relations were at a low war East German Railways train, crowded, point. We travelled via Bundesbahn to shabby and clearly unheated. The frozen Brunswick and because of our security status, passengers stared at us and our sumptuous were escorted by RMP onto the British Military fare with something bordering on acute hunger Train which ran daily through East Germany to and jealousy...as did Ivan the platform guard! Berlin. The steward appeared with a bottle of chilled On boarding, we were instructed to read and white wine and carefully poured a sample. He comply with written instructions during the whispered to us, journey, i.e. no contact with anyone outside the ‘swirl.....sniff.....sip.....taste.....smile and nod. train, no photography, no open windows, hats Gut, gut, sehr gut, look like you are enjoy it, Ivan could be removed but otherwise formal military is watching you!’ dress codes observed. An armed guard (RGJ) patrolled the train, doors and windows firmly We realised then that we were stooges in a tit secured, we left Brunswick at 1630. Deep snow for tat propaganda stunt, lowly soldiers being lay all around and it was bitterly cold. As we treated like royalty, for the benefit of those crossed the east/west border, the surrounding committed to the Soviet regime. We played our countryside was plunged into darkness. part well, ignoring the audience; we lingered, We stopped at Marienborn (1st DDR station) as longingly over the desert trolley, apfel strudl. the German dining-car steward summoned us lemon tort, or schwatzwald gateau...... then to dinner (Namen sie erhe platz zum nodding when the silver coffee pot was offered. abendessen). As we left Marienborn, the steward returned, “Fertig ehre essen, bitte!” (‘Finish you meals.’) The British Army Officer i/c train & W/O then The show, for today, was over! alighted for the Soviet Control Office with our I/ Signalman D Boylan. Royal Signals, 1963-69 D cards and what seemed to be a bottle of whisky and carton of cigarettes, no doubt to smooth our passage. In the dining car, a German steward, (crisp white jacket, red epaulettes), beckoned us forward and, no doubt because we were in uniform and everyone else in mufti, showed us to a table at the centre of the dining car. The carriage interior was superb, each table adorned in spotless table linen, gleaming cutlery and glassware, the table lampshades bearing the HQ BAOR logo.
A Russian soldier, fur hat, long greatcoat and Kalashnikov patrolled the frozen platform a few feet away. The steward arrived with the drinks trolley and offered an aperitif. Then came piping hot, beef soup and a basket of hot bread rolls, quite delicious. The main course quickly followed, fillet of white fish in a beurre blanc sauce, creamed potatoes and selection of 47 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Lost and found! By Dan Boylan, Fareham Writers.
Timothy was a timid and delicate examination and passed him A1. The days that followed taxed soul. After his parents were killed He was given a card and sent into every part of his body to the limit. in the Blitz, he was raised by a trio the next room where he sat with Any hopes that he might lurk, of middle-aged, maiden aunts in the other draftees, with his brain unnoticed in the background Fernley Grange, in deepest, leafy now swirling in a wild and evaporated when he the asked Hampshire. A series of chest unexpected panic. A sergeant the cook, “Where are the napkins infections plagued his early eventually called his name and please?” years and caused Doctor Harris said, “Fill this form in.” Later, as the bugler sounded to declare him ‘not robust He read it through and at the box ‘Lights out’, he donned his new, enough’ to attend school, to be marked ‘Which branch or service pale blue pyjamas to a barrage of kept apart from other children would you prefer?’ He thought catcalls, ‘’’ave ye lost yer wee and educated at home. It was a the Air Force might offer the teddy?’ diagnosis taken literally by the softest option and wrote RAF, “Nightie-night Timmy, sweety- twittering aunts who wrapped but the table was deeply scarred, pie!’ him in a cocoon of well intended, and his written reply looked It was the beginning of a roller- kind-hearted care. They had tea rather more like RHF. In his coaster of dawn until dusk parties on the lawn and played innocence, he could be excused humiliation and embarrassment. gentle games of hide and seek. for not knowing that the Royal Highland Fusiliers was one of the The food was awful, the barracks Nursemaids and private tutors toughest fighting units in the stark and foreboding and the arrived at various times, which British Army, manned mainly by language indecipherable. He only added to his mollycoddling Glaswegians, and was fiercely was scorned for his ineptness, and he lived in a surreal world of Scottish. for his weakness, for his middle gentle pursuits, with no high jinx class-ness, for being a big or rough play. Further chest Timothy ran home, horrified at Jessie, not being Scottish, and complaints only compounded the prospect of being thrust into worst of all, for being English. He the degree of over-care and he a world without cosseting. His became an instant figure of fun approached his teens knowing ‘call up papers’ arrived some and a target for ridicule. The drill nothing of sports, vigorous days later and instructed him to instructors used him as a model games or manly interests. report of the RHF depot at Fort of stupidity and to obtain cheap William, two weeks hence. Even laughs and his comrades either He achieved modest success at then, he failed to realise his shunned him or continued the his exams and aged fifteen, they simple error...... and the tirade of derision. Yet, he found him an undemanding awful consequences that ‘soldiered on’, stumbling from position as a junior clerk in the awaited him. one blunder to the next and office of a family friend. He might haplessly wondering when the have spent his entire life in the It was late in the afternoon when Air Force was going to come and warm comfort of the top floor the train pulled into Fort William rescue him from this awful office had the National Service and he alighted apprehensively. travesty. board had not called him for a He looked around for an Air medical examination a few Force NCO and seeing none, At Fernley Grange his aunts were weeks before his eighteenth timidly approached an army close to hysteria with the dearth birthday. He attended the sergeant, “Excuse me please,” of letters and news. The two examination smug in the asked the lad, “do you know scribbled missives, received in knowledge that all his earlier where the air force camp is?” the first fortnight which told them ailments would prevent his call- “Whit’s your name laddie?” he very little, were poured over, up. asked, checking his clipboard. again and again. “Timothy Lawson.” He replied The white haired doctor studied weakly and the sergeant looked Timothy’s medical questionnaire at him with thinly veiled Continued on Page 49 with suspicion, gave him a contempt. thorough, head to toe 48 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
Continued from Page 48 The Provost Sergeant heard it name laddie?” and later, when he bumped into “Fusilier Lawson, sir.” Came the the training sergeant, he offered, nervous reply. “Ye hear aboot yon wee English “And where are you from?” After two sleepless nights, they boy in Training Company “Botley in Hampshire sir.” went into Southampton and …..lives in some big fancy “Have you enjoyed your time shuffled into the Recruiting mansion, his family own most o’ here?” Office. A burly sergeant listened Hampshire, they’ve got ships “Yessir.” as they babbled about someone and shipping companies an’ a’ “And how have you found your called Timothy, “Stop, stop!” he that ……butlers, grooms, new comrades?” commanded, “You madam, tell sairvants an’ all…….” “Oh, they are jolly splendid me slowly what it is you want.” The Training sergeant spoke to chaps, sir!” he responded. It took a further five minutes the cook sergeant, added a little And a hundred Jocks stiffened before he grasped the full story more…………”see yon wee and beamed with unashamed and said, “Wait here please.” English laddie, he’s frae some pleasure. When he returned, he said, swish mansion doon “Timothy Lawson joined the sooth………” There was to be no leave. A crisis Royal Highland Fusiliers at Fort in the middle east saw the new William four weeks ago. Here is ……….by noon the entire unit warriors thrust into a short the address of the barracks. was awash with rumour which training course and whisked Good day ladies.” gathered a little extra with each away to an air force station in telling. He became wee Lord Wiltshire. They landed in Cyprus The following day, the Timothy of Fernley Grange, his and were taken in trucks to Commanding Officer received a family reputedly had a chateau in Mount Troodos to support an letter on headed note-paper the south of France, a castle in over stretched company from from an Elizabeth Lawson of County Donegal…….a grand the second battalion. Timothy Fernley Grange asking about the apartment near Buckingham was offered the chance to man health and progress of Timothy Palace and he was serving a wee the radio link with head quarters Lawson, …………and later, while in a good Scottish regiment but chose to go with his Timothy received a letter from before going to the House o’ comrades on foot patrol Aunt Agatha, with a five pound Lord’s……. duties...... which only added note included……….then a to his rising esteem. Fortnum & Mason hamper He was elevated to a new, lofty addressed to Master Lawson status, a man of means, a Home on leave, a bronzed was delivered to the company southern toff, an English Timothy stood in the hall of office and raised a few gentleman. All previous derision Fernley Grange, his Glengarry eyebrows. and contempt were abandoned, perched on the back of his head and new friendships were and grinning with a new The rumour began when an formed. “Let me show ye how tae confidence. Aunt Agatha, under-worked Orderly Room clean yer webbing beamed with pleasure, ran her Corporal, checking his records Timothy……”Here’s how tae bull fingers over his medal ribbon and mused, mainly to himself, “This yer boots, ma old mate.” said, “Do come and have some bloke is a toff……..an English Even the drill sergeant adjusted tea and cake in the conservatory upper-class twit………a wee his gruff approach, as if guardian Timothy...... and tell us what duke or somethin’…frae, Fernley angels or the Laird were listening you’ve been up to!” Grange near Southampton, to his language and watching his …..sounds awf’y, swank an’ high treatment of ‘wee Timmy’. oooOooo falutin’ ” “What yer say?” Demanded the Autumn winds whistled across sergeant. Loch Linneh and showered the “This Timothy……the wee ancient stone citadel with a fine English boy…….the one who spray as the General paced cannae do anything right, comes through the ranks of the passing- frae a posh family……big out parade. He halted, as country house……an’ loads o’ previously arranged, before money……ah bet.” Timothy, looked him up and down and asked, “What’s your 49 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Bishop’s Waltham Photographic Society
The Society has continued with our programme interested in photography, the Society’s Junior online through the past month. Guest speaker section is also continuing at this time with online Slawek Staszczuk- a landscape photographer meetings and set topics – please contact Peter based in Brighton joined us at the beginning of June Mason and provided an informative insight into his [email protected] for approach to this genre. Slawek explained that, by more information. learning to interpret light, and the how the play of For anyone interested in taking pictures, wanting to light and shadow can sculpt the landscape, images improve their skills and meet like-minded people, can be elevated to a completely different, three more information about the Society can be found on dimensional level. Members welcomed this our website: explanation alongside Slawek’s thought processes behind his compositions – illustrated by some fantastic images from the South Downs as well as further afield. A member’s evening on 11th June Junior Photo saw one of our members, Sarah Townley, introduce us to 'Layers' in Photoshop –a powerful post- Competition 2020 processing tool. This technique allows different adjustments such as contrast, saturation or a There are two age black and white conversion, to be groups: made to separate new layers of Up to 11* year olds the same image which are then & combined to create the final 12-16 years olds image. Getting started can feel *on 1st September 2020 daunting initially however; Sarah took us through how she would Fl ing from the Trig approach this task and then gave To Enter: Point st place 2019 some hints and tips on other for under 12s Send one digital image (jpeg) of any subject to tricks that she uses to [email protected] accomplish her stunning images. [email protected] The email should have your name and age, title of the Thank you Sarah for that introduction to a sometimes image, as well as contact details of a parent or tricky concept! guardian. Coming up we have a talk by Pete Bamforth entitled “O to be in Scotland now that Covid’s here” – should be an interesting tour of the beautiful landscape of Scotland - followed in early July by Paul Sanders talking to us Preening Kingfisher st place about ‘Mindful Photography’ 2019 for 12-16 year olds For local youngsters, BWPS have launched their annual Closing date: 1st September 2020 photography competition (see The winners will be announced in October and will be displayed locally. flyer in this magazine for more For more information about the Society please visit details). We hope to see lots of www.bishopswalthamphotosociety.co.uk entries – they have been trickling www.bishopswalthamphotosociety.co.uk in steadily and for anyone with c h i l d r e n / g r a n d c h i l d r e n
50 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Meon Valley Lions Club
Lions in lockdown Despite being in lockdown the Lions have continued to support the local community and still continue with the day to day business of the Club. 1st June saw a ‘zoom lockdown’ version of our annual Presidential Photo – MVLC Zoom changeover meeting handover to our incoming President Eddy Barringer. True to form the Lions still managed to celebrate in a zoom meeting. The Club would like to thank Andrew Brown for holding the reigns over what has been a very difficult time.
Supporting the local community With Home Schooling in full swing families have been rushing to stock up on printers to help educate children at home. Meon Valley Lions Club was pleased to help a family who didn’t have facility to print at home, with Photo - planters We need help school work having to be delivered by a Homestart volunteer. No excuses for late events the 2020 Swanmore Fete Lunch Clubs we regularly take homework now!! has been cancelled but we’re people to in our minibus have looking at other fundraising closed. Also, all of the fetes and The Foodbanks continue to events that we might be able to other fund-raising events we provide essential supplies to hold once we are out of were to attend have been many families in the Meon Valley. lockdown. We’ll keep you cancelled. But as soon as things The generosity of our updated on our website but in can be relaxed, we are ready to communities means this help the meantime please add next go! After the lockdown if you are can be delivered every week and year’s Swanmore Fete to your able to help by driving our of course, thanks to the diary: Saturday 12th July 2021. minibus, or indeed would like to volunteers of the Meon Valley join the Club, we’d love to hear Food Bank and the Waltham Bishops Waltham House from you. Please see our Chase Methodist Food Bank. The Meon Valley Lions Club had website for contact details: h t t p s : / / a request from the State run care h t t p s : / / www.meonvalleyfoodbank.co.u home with 22 bedrooms, in Free www.meonvalleylionsclub.org.u k/donate Street, Bishops Waltham. As k/_contact.html h t t p s : / / their gardens were looking a little www.chasemethodist.org/ sad, to help brighten up the churchlife.html gardens we donated planters to cheer up residents. Future events Sadly, as with other public During the lock down all of the 51 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 Rotary Club of Fareham
President Mike Hurley takes Rotary Foundation supports over 1,000 projects a year and the Rotary Club of Fareham the reins aims, by way of its activities, to support what they do. Additionally, President Mike intends to initiate local projects to support the environment.”
Since the start of Coronavirus in the UK our Club Council and all Rotarians have been making, and adapting, plans for fundraising and service to achieve as much as possible at this challenging time. In particular the Rotary Club of Fareham has given support to the Purple Community Fund in the Philippines (PCF) to help families living and working in the rubbish dumps of Manila. More locally we have donated funds for Team Scrubbers making scrubs for the NHS.
We don’t yet know when we can get together again but we meet on-line every week and enjoy fellowship and make plans to carry out our charity and community endeavours in the different ways that are needed these days. Changeover is an unusual title but, in Rotary, that has come to mean the annual thanks for Website; the work of our previous President in the Rotary rotarycluboffareham.btck.co.uk Club of Fareham over the past year and to welcome the incoming President and hear their plans.
Outgoing President Michael Cleaves has now completed his term of office and led the way in the Club for local and national fundraising. Now it is time for PRESIDENT MIKE HURLEY to take over from 1st July as President for his year of service with the Club in 2020-2021.
As President Mike Hurley says “I have chosen the Rotary Foundation Charity for my Presidential year which has helped thousands of people across the world. They positively change lives with humanitarian projects, vocational training and Rotary scholarships. Ranging from small to large charities, the
52 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 WINCHESTER COUNCILLOR’S
Back to Business also “Park and Stride” using a provide as normal a service as signposted walk from St. possible. Winchester City Council are Catherine’s or Barfield sites out and about supporting the along the River Itchen. This We trust that by the time you reopening of the District’s picturesque route takes about read this our daily routine will high streets. 15-20 minutes to reach the have returned to a more Visitors to the city centre will City centre. normal situation. find additional signage and Please as always feel free to stencilled pavement markings City Council cuts carbon contact us with any concerns to help people maintain social emissions or issues you may have. distancing. A pedestrian one We wish you all the very best, way system will be in place Winchester City Council has keep safe and well. along the high street to give reduced its carbon emissions shoppers added confidence. by about a fifth by switching to In addition, businesses and a green energy supply, as part visitors to Winchester will find of its ambitious plans to tackle City Council team staff on climate change. Therese, Angela , Neil hand to offer advice and One year from declaring a guidance. The council is also Climate Emergency, the working closely with Market council has provided an towns and villages in the update on progress towards district to help them where its goal to become a carbon needed to restart trading. neutral organisation by 2024- The district’s car parks are and a carbon neutral district open as usual. In Winchester by 2030. the best value option is Park and Ride which after Council meetings 10.30am, costs only £2.80p to pay in order to park all day. All council meetings are now With capacity on buses taking place ,but by video limited at present due to social conferencing until further distancing measures, notice. This allows us to commuters and shoppers can continue to work together and
53 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020 HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
to 5:30 pm. Any information you registered as local bus services provide will be automatically (though you must still pay for the deleted after 14 days. Your parking). information will not be used for • Hampshire County Council any other purpose. Taxishare and carshare schemes. Bus Passes A reminder that concessionary On routes which have an travel times for older people to infrequent service where there is travel free on Hampshire’s buses a journey between 9.00 am and Book an Appointment - have reverted to the normal 9.30 9.29 am and then no further Household Waste Recycling am start. Restrictions on times journey until 10.31am or later, Centres older people could use their bus passes will be accepted for free passes were first lifted on 20 travel from 9.00 am on those A new pre-booking system for March to enable travel to specific routes. You can apply residents to access Household supermarkets earlier in the day for a Bus Pass by visiting https:// Waste Recycling and access dedicated shopping c o n c e s s i o n c a r d . n e t / Centres (HWRCs) to manage hours while national travel BeforeYouApply_input.action or demand and reduce queuing restrictions on all but essential apply and pay by telephone on traffic has been introduced at all travel were in place. 0300 555 1376. Hampshire HWRCs. From Monday 15th June you must Older Persons Concessionary Short Break Activities have an appointment to visit a Bus Passes are available for Proposals HWRC in Hampshire. If you visit people who have reached State Hampshire County Council is an HWRC without an Pension age. The older person’s seeking people’s views on some appointment you will be turned bus pass entitles people to free proposed changes to its Short away. You can only make one travel on bus services Break Activities Programme for trip to one HWRC in a week throughout England from 9:30 children and young people who (Monday to Sunday). You cannot am to 11.00 pm Monday to have disabilities. Residents’ visit more than one HWRC in the Friday and all day at weekends feedback is being invited on a same week. Dates further than 2 and on public holidays. range of proposals for how the days ahead will show as Short Break Activities unavailable. These slots will be Bus passes issued by another Programme could operate after released for booking 48 hours English council can be used in 31st March 2021. Some of the prior. London at any time for free travel proposals could help, through on buses displaying the red the Short Break Activities The appointment booking roundel. Show your pass to the Programme, parents and carers system has been set up to help driver as passes don’t currently of children and young people manage demand during the read on the yellow card readers. with disabilities to take a break coronavirus pandemic. It is not You can also use your bus pass from their caring responsibilities connected to the HWRC Vehicle on these Community Transport while their children attend an Registration Scheme. You do services: educational or leisure activity. not need to register your vehicle • Cango to book an appointment. • Call and Go, eligible for a 25% Anyone who would like to take Household waste recycling discount against full fare part in the consultation will have centres are now open 10.00 am • Dial a Ride, eligible for a 25% until 11:59 pm on Sunday 12th to 6.00 pm. To book online visit - discount against full fare July 2020 to make their views h t t p s : / / • Fleet Link, Yateley Shopper known. Before completing the customer.bookingbug.com/? and Eastleigh Parish Links, response form, people are client=hantsrecyclingcentres#/ eligible for a 25% discount strongly encouraged to read the services or telephone 02380 179 against full fare 949, Monday to Friday 9.00 am • Park and Ride services that are 54 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
pedestrians and cyclists. Further schemes are in • Our Digital Readers Facebook information pack which provides development to support retail group is a virtual book club the background to, and details spaces which mean taking traffic where each month members of, the proposals. Both the and parking out of our town vote for a new title to read and information pack and response centres to create space. These discuss. form can be found online plans are being developed with • Members can download the at www.hants.gov.uk/ Hampshire’s District and chosen title for free using our shortbreakconsultation Borough Councils, Business eBook and audiobook Improvement Districts, Town provider, BorrowBox Making Space for People and and Parish Councils. • Our virtual reading group is Social Distancing Communities, schools and always open online, which A range of temporary changes residents are encouraged to means you never have to wait to are being made across the make suggestions for schemes share your thoughts or take part County to provide more road which support social distancing in the conversations space for people walking and at: www.hants.gov.uk/ • Take part in the conversation cycling – keeping a safe social transport/transportschemes/ today by joining the Hampshire distance as they begin to go hantscovidtravel with priority LibraryFacebook group back to work and school after the given to those ideas with the Coronavirus lockdown. HCC potential to make the most Councillor Grants has already made some positive impact and which meet I have a small County Council immediate changes across the Government criteria for funding. budget each year which is set County to traffic signals and aside for helping groups to fund signs, to give pedestrians more Phased reopening of library community projects. I cannot space and time. The next stage services make grants to individuals. Each will be work on the ground to All Hampshire libraries are group must have a bank account install physical measures which currently closed. However, and a named Treasurer. To find provide more space for safe visitors who have booked a out more visit https:// social distancing. timed collection under www.hants.gov.uk/community/ the ‘Ready Reads’ scheme, may grants/grants-list/county- Changes already in place now visit at the allotted time. This councillor The Grant Fund is include: is the first phase in our move to open for applications, but you • Following a review of all re-open libraries as safely as must contact me first to discuss pelican, puffin and toucan possible. See https:// your project, prior to making an crossings, waiting times at 166 w w w . h a n t s . g o v . u k / online application. Schools, crossings have been reduced in librariesandarchives/library/ Churches etc are all eligible to favour of pedestrians; service-updates apply, as well as small • Traffic signals have been community groups. I have altered at some of Hampshire’s Ready Reads: We Select You recently given a parish council busiest town centre traffic signal Collect - this is a new book some funding towards a flashing junctions, increasing the collection service, where staff “slow down” sign. Other grants frequency that the pedestrian select books according to your have included funding for bench stage appears, and the amount preferences for collection from seats; lunch and social club of green time provided to cross your local branch. This is the first funding for outings; equipment the road by foot; phase in our move to re-open for a youth club and much more • As well as national messages to libraries in Hampshire as safely – so don’t miss out! Stay Alert and maintain social as possible. Our libraries are distancing, many electronic operating new temporary Patricia Stallard traffic information signs now opening hours for collection, Lead Executive Member for inform motorists to slow down, with social distancing guidelines Children’s Services & Young share the road and look out for in place for everyone. Please do People pedestrians and people on not visit one of our libraries Hampshire County Council Divisional Member for Winchester bikes. unless you have been given a Southern Parishes collection time for your Ready Work has started on some of the Reads books. [email protected] / 02392 first schemes in Hampshire to 251484 provide more space for Library -Virtual book club 55 Wickham Parish Magazine July/August 2020
Beavers/Cubs/Scouts/Explorers The Rowans Hospice Wickham History Society Mrs Jenny Bunce Local Support Group Vanessa Burlingham [email protected] 07940 805 431 01329 835 283 01329 832 555 02392 382 433 Community Care Wickham Lunch Club Duty Co-ordinator 07880732812 Toddlers’ Music Group Church Room at 11:30 every Mrs Rowlinson Wednesday Information only; Mrs Heather 01489 896 731 For information: Oswald 01329 835 061 & Lucy Carter 01329 832 928 or Mrs Sylvia Wells 01329 609 245 Tools for Self-Reliance Di Frost 01329 832 633 Mr David Houghton 01329 833 284 Hampshire County Councillor Wickham Morris Dancers Patricia Stallard University of the Third Age, Mr Eric Bright 02392 251 484 U3A 30 Wykeham Field Hampshire Police Mr Jim Busby 01329 833 927 CPSO Barry Towler 01329 237 504 [email protected]. Wickham Residents Association uk Wickham and District Small- Anton Hanney 0845 0454 545 bore Rifle Club [email protected] Peter Locke 01329 833 682 Home-Start Meon Valley 01329 834 242 c/o Wickham Centre 01329 835 936 Wickham Society Wickham Community Centre Chris Hoare Reception 01329 836 947 Knowle Village Agent 01329 833 688 Loraine Rappe Wickham Surgery Wickham Chamber of Trade Knowle Residents' Association Reception Secretary, Rob Winzar Dominic Whyte 01329 833 121 07770 880 546 07871 436 624
Wickham Church of England Wickham Twinning Association Meon Valley District of Hampshire Chairman, Therese Evans Hampshire & Isle of Wight Primary School Reception Secretary, Mr Keith Best Neighbourhood Watch Association 01489 891 163 Nigel Prior 01329 833 065 Area Coordinator 07960959212 Wickham Community Tennis Wickham Village Agent www.hampshirealert.co.uk Sue North David Roger-Jones www.ourwatch.org.uk 01329 832 016 01329 833 165
Parish Council Clerk Wickham Youth Club Mrs Nicki Oliver, Heatherdene, Wickham Cricket Club Leader, Mrs Roz Agnew Turkey Shedfield SO32 2JE Secretary, Ed Morell 01329 832 153 clerk@wickhamparishcounc il.org [email protected] 01329 835 019 Winchester City Councillors Royal British Legion Wickham Dynamos FC Cllr Thérèse Evans Secretary: David Robinson Secretary Leslie Wylde 01329 832 700 [email protected] [email protected] Cllr Angela Clear 07484 279 060 01329 834 398 01329 832 923
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