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News from the Winterbournes

Spring 2018 No 117

150th anniversary of the completion and consecration of St Michael & All Angels church (in 1868)

Winterbourne Parish Council

Councillor Dr Charles Penn (Chairman)

Councillor Maureen Atkinson (Vice-Chairperson)

Councillor Dr Peter Biggins

Councillor Adrian Burrows

Councillor Brian Campbell-Kearsey

Councillor Neil Grace

Councillor Roy Judd

Councillor Mari Ostli-East

Councillor Michael Young

Unitary Councillor Mike Hewitt

Any Parish related inquiries should be made in writing to the Parish Clerk in the first instance which will then be brought to the attention of the Parish Council.

Melanie Thomas, Parish Clerk, Windrush, Kings Paddock, Winterslow, SP5 1RZ.

Telephone: 01980 863802 Email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.winterbourneparishcouncil.com/

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Village Link

A magazine produced by the Parish Council three times annually providing news, information and items of interest for the Winterbournes.

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Deadlines for receipt of items for publication by the editor are: 8th July 2018 4th November 2018

Items that miss the deadline date are unlikely to be included.

Whilst it would be preferable for items to be emailed, this is in no way compulsory and handwritten articles are also welcome.

Email: [email protected]

From the Editor.. 2018 promised to be a really exciting year in the Winterbournes, with three major anniversaries to celebrate. St Michael and all Angels church was consecrated 150 years ago, as replacement for the thirteenth century churches of St Michael (Winterbourne Earls) and St Edward (Winterbourne Dauntsey) respectively. This was an important, though relatively recent, part of our villages’ history. This leads to the second anniversary, that of the Bourne Valley Historical and Record Society which was founded 70 years ago. Last but certainly not least, our magnificent Glebe Hall has its 25th birthday this year. Each of these anniversaries will be celebrated with events that are described in this issue of the Village Link, itself the successor to the first village magazine The Three Winterbournes, which had its first issue the same year as the start of the Historical Society.

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Contents

Winterbourne Parish Council ...... 2 From the Editor...... 3 Contents ...... 4 Contact Numbers for Wiltshire Council (South) ...... 5 Parish Council ...... 6 Chairman's Report ...... 6 Community Speed Watch ...... 8 Jumble Sales 2018 ...... 10 Glebe Hall Management Committee ...... 11 Amesbury Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team...... 13 Volunteering ...... 18 Recognising Volunteers – Maureen Atkinson ...... 18 Bourne Valley Link Scheme ...... 19 Interests and Activities ...... 20 Moviola Night at the Glebe Hall ...... 20 Club Friday ...... 21 Bourne Valley Tuesday Club ...... 22 Bourne Valley Singers ...... 23 Bourne Valley Historical Society ...... 24 Bourne Valley Women’s Institute ...... 26 Bourne Valley Horticultural Society and Gardening Club ...... 28 Newbourne Players ...... 29 Porton Flower Club ...... 30 Winterbourne Cricket Club ...... 30 Sew, Knit and Natter ...... 31 Churches ...... 32 Bourne Valley Methodist Church ...... 32 Anglican Parish News ...... 33 St Michael & All Angels church, Winterbourne Earls and Dauntsey ...... 36 Countryside Matters ...... 39 Harbingers of Spring ...... 39 Winterbourne allotments: land of hope…..? ...... 40 Hurdcott Weather 2017 ...... 41 Young Winterbourne ...... 42 Bourne Valley Explorer Scout, Scout, Cubs and Beaver Groups ...... 42 1st Winterbourne Rainbows ...... 44 1st Winterbourne Brownies ...... 45 2nd Winterbourne Brownies ...... 47 4

Winterbourne Earls Church of England School ...... 48 Porton Toddler Group ...... 51 Forthcoming Events ...... 52 Advertisements ...... 63 Advertising in the Village Link ...... 78 Useful Telephone Numbers ...... 79 Village Diary ...... 80

Contact Numbers for Wiltshire Council (South)

Main number 0300 456 0100 Mincom for hard of hearing 01225 712500 Automated payments (24 hours) 0300 456 0119 Blue badges 01225 713002 Bus passes (Over 60s and disabled) 01225 713004 Council tax benefit and housing benefit 01722 434483 Council tax enquiries 01722 434222 Children’s Services 01722 438165 General enquiries 01722 336272 Homes 4 Wiltshire 01380 734734 Household waste collections 01722 434319/434320 Housing general enquiries 01722 434280 Leisure centres: Amesbury Leisure Centre 01980 622173 Durrington Leisure Centre 01980 594594 Salisbury Five Rivers Leisure Centre 01722 339966 Tisbury Leisure Centre 01747 871141 Libraries 01225 713000 Parking 01722 434326 Planning 01722 434541 Pest Control 01722 434319/434320 Recycling/black boxes – Hills Waste 0845 6032085 Registration – Births, Deaths, Marriages 01225 713007 Roads and pavements 0300 456 0105 School admissions 01225 713010 School special educational needs 01225 718095 School transport 01225 713004 Social care – adults 0300 456 0111 Social care – children 01225 773500 Website www.wiltshire.gov.uk

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Parish Council

Chairman's Report

Money matters……

This is the time of year when councils need to set their budgets for the following year and determine the size of the parish precept, which is the amount of council tax that is passed on to the Parish Council for our use. For the Winterbournes, the parish precept for 2017-2018 was £22,926 (2.5% of the total council tax for households).

Allocation of parish precept 2016-2017

Balance 24% Staff Rent 46% 2% Maintenance 21%

Insurance & subscriptions 7%

This does not give us a great deal to work with, especially since cuts in Wiltshire Council’s budget over the years have shifted more responsibility onto parishes. After taking into account fixed costs (which include insurances, and employment of our Parish Clerk) and our regular ground maintenance contracts, we have about one quarter of this to spend on other needs (based on figures from the last full budget year 2016-2017).

Our budget for each year is based on the actual expenditure from previous year(s), with provision for additional expenditure to allow for unforeseen or unpredictable events. For example, the cost of clearing a large fallen or unsafe tree can be high, and

6 we have many large trees in the parish. We set the parish precept to be somewhere between the lower figure of known costs, and the full budget that includes contingencies. Thus in a good year we may have a surplus to carry forward, and in a bad year may have to draw on our reserves. We aim to maintain a reserve equivalent to one year of costs, so that we should never be in a position where we cannot respond to a need. One of the more visible projects undertaken this year has been the resurfacing of our part of the access lane to the Glebe Hall, together with renewing the gravel for the car park and installing new gates to the Glebe field and grass area behind the hall.

We also try to supplement parish funds with other sources of income and grants. These include advertising revenue to offset cost of publishing the Village Link, contribution from the Bourne Valley Nursery School to the Glebe Hall car park, and grants from Wiltshire Council and others for specific projects such as playground equipment, work on the river bank at the bottom of the amenity area, maintenance of our website and others. In the current financial year to date this additional income, including grants for playground equipment and development of the Neighbourhood Plan, is over £12,000. Taking all of the above into account, including our reserves, we have set the parish precept for 2018-2019 at £24,000. This represents an increase for the year of £1.71 for band D households, which is a smaller increase than recent years.

One of the most significant contributions to our finances is all the voluntary work undertaken by everyone across the parish. The work done on our community days, including footpath upkeep and other maintenance and repair projects, is all work that we do not need to pay contractors for. We were able, for example, to reduce the cost of renewing the car park gravel by about two thirds by doing the work ourselves. We owe our gratitude to everyone who contributes to this work, both on community days and at other times. I would also like in particular to acknowledge the tremendous support that we get from our farmers, who regularly help on our community days to shift the large volumes material collected, and in other ways facilitate our enjoyment of the countryside such as through footpath maintenance and provision of additional permissive footpaths.

We would welcome discussion on how we use your money and time for the benefit of the parish. We will be holding our annual parish meeting, which is a public meeting and therefore YOUR meeting, on May 16th in the Ron Burton room at 7pm so please do come along and contribute.

Charles Penn, Chairman, Winterbourne Parish Council

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Some of the volunteers who took part in the village community day on 24th February, including the ladies who made the bacon butties! A very productive morning, with 10 bags of litter collected, nearly 2 tonnes of scalping spread on two footpaths, the footpath beyond the wooden bridge in Tanners Lane cleared of fallen trees and overhanging vegetation, the shrub bed at Summerlug corner tidied and replanted and a number of pavements swept. The village is a credit to the parishioners who regularly pick up litter thrown out of passing cars and who report fly tipping to the Parish Clerk. This allows more time on the community days for other jobs. The next community day is on Saturday 24th March, meeting at Bourne Valley Methodist Church at 9am. Everyone is welcome, whatever age - and you'll enjoy the bacon butties afterwards!

Maureen Atkinson

Community Speed Watch

One of the topics that concern people throughout the Winterbournes relates to increased traffic and excessive speeding through the village. Community speed watch (CSW) is national initiative where members of the local community join with the support of the Police to monitor speeds of vehicles using speed detection devices. On behalf of the Parish Council, the current speed watch team has again started to monitor traffic speeds at various points throughout the village that have been approved by Wiltshire Police. To be an effective group there needs to be an adequate number of volunteers. Currently, the numbers are at the minimum required.

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Therefore, if you are suitably public spirited and wish to demonstrate that the Winterbournes is not a place that wishes to tolerate speeding cars, could I ask you to consider volunteering as part of the team. Volunteers receive appropriate training, and are supported by the neighbourhood policing team (NDPT). The scheme aims to cater for the problem of real and perceived speed related offending, and through partnership with the community its aims are to:

 Reduce death and injury on the roads  Improve the quality of life for local communities  Reduce speed of vehicles to the speed limit  Increase public awareness of inappropriate speed.

Vehicles we identify exceeding the speed limit are referred to the Police with the aim of educating drivers to reduce their speeds. In cases where education does not work and there is continued evidence of repeat or excessive offences being collated (even across county boundaries), enforcement and prosecution follow. We currently share the speed camera with a newly formed group in Porton and exchange the camera every two to three weeks. Therefore, if you have one or two hours available every two or three weeks, please consider becoming part of the team and enable us to be more active throughout the periods we have the speed camera. If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact me or any member of the Parish Council.

Graham Lloyd Winterbourne speed watch coordinator 01980 551033

About theVillage website

www.thewinterbournes.org.uk Our village website is available to all as an instant source of what’s

Our village website is available to all as an instant source of what’s happening in The Winterbournes and the Bourne Valley villages, including:  What’s On & When, with details of who to contact  Latest news  MOVIOLA in the Glebe Hall  Neighbourhood Police bulletins  Timetable for kerbside Rubbish & Recycling collections

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 Opening times for Household Re-cycling Centres – AMESBURY & SALISBURY  Timetable for Mobile Library visits  And more . . . As always, if you would like us to publish any pictures, news, details of past or forthcoming events, publicity for your local group or indeed anything that would interest readers, please get in touch at: [email protected]

John Brown Web coordinator 01980 611352

About the New Glebe Hall website

www.glebehall.org.uk

The Winterbourne Glebe Hall has become a very popular venue to hire for  Business meetings  Training sessions  Conferences  Concerts and other musical events  Drama performances  Large family celebrations  Wedding receptions  Children’s parties

The Glebe Hall website is targeted at people looking to compare village halls to hire for an event. Did you know that Winterbourne residents are able to hire the Winterbourne Glebe Hall at specially discounted rates?

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Jumble Sales 2018

7th April- Jumble sale in aid of the Glebe Hall 8th September- Jumble sale in aid of Salisbury Hospice 3rd November- Jumble sale in aid of the Glebe Hall 10

Glebe Hall Management Committee

As we are entering spring having wondered where Christmas 2017 has gone, the Glebe Hall has entered its 25th Anniversary Year since it was built. To commemorate this event the Glebe Hall Committee are organising various events to celebrate this landmark and demonstrate to the wider community how it is used and how important this splendid facility is to many organisations within the Winterbournes and beyond. It also is a timely opportunity to seek opinions from the community of what is required of a village hall in the next 25 years and plan accordingly. It is also an appropriate occasion to encourage additional local involvement in the running and maintenance of this building, for future generations.

To mark our 25 years the current management committee have over the last two years worked hard to complete a number of improvements that have included: new stage curtains; redecoration of the Hall both inside and out; replacement of damaged doors; improvement of kitchen facilities; installation of energy saving LED lighting; installation of internet and new audio/visual equipment. It is pleasing to note that the Parish Council have completed the repair of the road (Vicarage Lane) approaching the Hall, as well as initiating repairs to the car park itself. Together with the Parish Council the Glebe Hall Committee has completed the installation of a CCTV system, with appropriate signs advertising its use, to improve the security of the area. The AGM on 8th March will have appointed its new committee made up of six elected members plus representative members of the registered regular user groups. During the first Winterbourne Glebe Hall Management Committee meeting after the AGM, the committee members will appoint their new Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. During the coming year the new committee has some significant challenges, most importantly applying for the Quality Hallmark Scheme. The Hallmark scheme was launched by ‘Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE)’ on 30th March 2007 and currently operates in 19 counties. It promotes the delivery of effective and well-managed village halls through a quality standards scheme, which is backed up by a system of peer visitors. Trained peer review visitors use a system of checklists to identify performance and provide an external validation of achievement. The Hallmark has two main benefits:

 It provides funders, hirers and other organisations using the village hall with a benchmark for a well-managed hall.  It provides the village hall volunteers with the confidence that they are running the hall in the correct way and in accordance with the current legal requirements,

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Trust Deeds, Charity Commission and Wiltshire Village Hall Association guidelines.

Therefore, with all the hard work undertaken by the committee on the community’s behalf, it seems appropriate to get it recognised by this scheme.

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Glebe Hall a reception is being held on the 25th May 2018 for those invitees who have made a contribution to the running of the Glebe Hall over the 25 years and remembering those who sadly are not with us, who also made their contribution. In addition, the various regular groups are planning exhibitions and demonstrations showing the diversity of interests that use the Glebe Hall on a regular basis. On Saturday 26th 2018, the day will mainly be devoted to the young members of the community and their activities. On Sunday 27th May 2018 the remaining groups have also planned their exhibitions and demonstrations for you to enjoy. There is no entry charge. So come to either or both days and see how your village hall is being used and by whom. Wander round with your tea/coffee and cake. You never know you might even become interested in joining some group. It is also planned that on the afternoon of Monday 28th 2018, the Moviola organisers intend to show a film to appeal directly to younger members of the Parish, free of charge. I have a feeling that many adults will want to attend as well.

Other events are also being arranged. As part of the Glebe Hall fundraising we will have completed the ‘Race Night’ at the Hall on 10th March 2018. Other fundraising events in the process of being organised are the Pathfinders 2nd June and on October 20th the Early Christmas Fayre. By popular demand the Newbourne Players intend to put on a Murder Mystery on May 18th/19th and the next Christmas show on December 13th14th & 15th. So keep an eye out for the various adverts around the village, advertising all the events being planned for 2018.

Finally, may I again take the opportunity for thanking all those on the Winterbourne Glebe Hall Committee for their support in maintaining and administering the Glebe Hall during the year?

Graham Lloyd Chairman, Glebe Hall Committee

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Winterbourne Glebe Hall Prices for Hiring 2018

Vicarage Lane, Winterbourne Earls, Salisbury, SP4 6HA Registered Charity 279405 Description Price £

Daytime (whole premises) 16.25* Per hour

Evening (whole premises) 21.50* Per hour

Small Meeting Room** (Ron Burton Room) 11.00* Per hour

Weddings Additional hours may be (includes 6pm Friday to 10am 495.00* available at time of booking Sunday) for an extra £15.50 per hour.

Cleaning after wedding 50.00

Cleaning after special events 42.00

*Discount may be available for Winterbourne residents — please enquire. **Small Meeting Room has self-contained access from outside, also may be available with access to kitchen & toilets — please enquire

Jane Lackey Booking Clerk 07840887842 [email protected] website: www.glebehall.org.uk.

Amesbury Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team

Wiltshire Police has announced Chief Constable Mike Veale will be stepping down in his role and has accepted the Chief Constable position

13 for Cleveland Police; his last day will be 4th March 2018. Mr Veale has said "It has been a very difficult decision to make, after serving here in Wiltshire for 13 years and the wider West Country for almost 34 years. However, I feel it is the right time for a new challenge and it is for that reason that I plan to make this move. I would like to publicly thank my officers and staff for their unwavering support for me during my tenure as Wiltshire Police chief constable." Kier Pritchard will become temporary Chief Constable. His appointment will be for a period of 12 months. Kier is an experienced senior police officer and will provide stability, innovation and build upon excellent foundations. Wiltshire Police is an outstanding force with many strengths and we feel sure that we have the strong leadership in place to continue and maintain our excellent reputation. Kier will take up post of temporary Chief Constable on Monday 5thMarch. Kier has now appointed Paul Mills, who is also currently an Assistant Chief Constable, as temporary Deputy Chief Constable. Mr Pritchard said: "I'm delighted to be able to announce that Paul Mills will become Temporary Deputy Chief Constable as of 5 March. Paul is a highly regarded colleague who I have worked alongside as a Chief Officer in our Force since 2014. The appointment of a Deputy provides additional stability to the Senior Leadership Team in the force and will allow us to continue to work closely with the Police and Crime Commissioner in meeting the priorities he has set for the Force within his Police and Crime Plan. Central to this is our Community Policing Team approach which I believe is the core of what British Policing represents." Mr Mills added "I am delighted to step up to the role of temporary Deputy Chief Constable. I am pleased to be able to support T/Chief Constable Kier Pritchard as he steps up to undertake his new role and look forward to working with him to provide consistency of leadership and direction to the Force moving forward. Having transferred to Wiltshire 11 years ago, I have developed a strong affinity with the county and look forward to continuing to develop positive working relationships with our dedicated staff and partners who all help to make the county one of the safest places to live and work in the UK."

If you have any questions about any of the above, please contact Angus Macpherson on: [email protected]

Van owners are being warned to be vigilant following tool thefts. Tools can be extremely valuable and if stolen can have a huge impact on small businesses. Wiltshire Police would like to remind all van owners to remove their tools from the vehicle when it is left unattended for long periods of time and overnight. If you have any information about vehicle crimes in Wiltshire call Wiltshire Police on 101. Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. 14

Follow these simple steps to help prevent you becoming a victim:

 Check doors are locked – criminals can use devices which blocks the key fob signal so don’t assume your vehicle has locked properly. Consider installing additional locks for added protection.  If you have a garage, use it. If your van is parked on a driveway, consider installing security lighting. Alternatively try to park in a well-lit area.  Consider fitting an alarm or internal security cage to store tools that are not being used. If the equipment is portable, take it with you.  Don’t leave tools in an unattended vehicle or overnight - put a sign in the window stating they have been removed.  Visibly mark tools using an engraving/chemical etching kit or a forensic marking kit - put a sticker in the window to say you have done so.  Keep a list of tools, together with any serial numbers and identifying marks -this can help trace them back to you if they are stolen and recovered. You can do this at www.immobilise.com.  Secure access to building sites – fences and gates help prevent unauthorised entry. If you have any suspicious visitors call the police nonemergency number 101.  If you’re offered tools for sale be alert and consider that they may be stolen. If you’re suspicious contact the police.

Does your child play Roblox?

We are encouraging parents and carers to be aware what their children are accessing online after police have been made aware of an online game/app called ‘Roblox’. The game, which is aimed at and popular with kids and teens, has an inbuilt chat room facility where players can add un filtered comments and talk to other users from anywhere in the world, even if they do not know them. A recent issue which was brought to police attention by a local primary school saw pupils receiving abusive messages from a young boy they did not know living in London. One concerned parent, after a closer look, discovered their child had accrued over 130 ‘friends’ on the game who they did not know in real life that could contact them via the game. The game allows players to add friends, who do not have to be people they know and they can have online chats with complete strangers. We are urging parents and carers to be aware of what their children are doing when playing on laptops and computers. The internet can be a great place for learning and socialising, but it also has its risks for young users. ‘Roblox’ will be one example of hundreds of similar games available.

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Ask your children questions about the games and sites they are using, what features do they have (online chat functions) and ask to take a look while they play the game. Discuss with them what is safe behaviour online and what could put them at risk. If you are in doubt, do a quick internet search on the game/site and see what others are saying about whether it is appropriate for children. You won’t be the first concerned parent wondering.

Please follow us on: Twitter https://twitter.com/wiltshirepolice or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wiltshirepolice/or sign up to Community Messaging https://www.wiltsmessaging.co.uk/ our free Community Messaging service will also help keep you updated about policing and crime in your local area.

Current priorities: theft from motor vehicles & work vans

There are two priorities running at this time, one around theft from motor vehicles namely at beauty spot areas and the other from work vans. This priority is for the whole patch - Amesbury/Durrington/Tidworth/Ludgershall. To date 68 actions have taken place around these priorities.

Target patrols reassurance patrols – The Croft

Due to incidents in The Croft additional patrols commenced on 5th February. To date 13 patrols have taken place.

Local Crimes: Amesbury Rural

Burglary 3rd Feb High Street, Shrewton. Residents heard a loud bang coming from the rear garden, as they checked around they believed they heard someone running away. It wasn’t until the next day that they realised that damage had been caused to the utility door. 16th Feb Great Durnford. Unknown suspect(s) wrenched open the front door and stole a range cooker worth £7000 and also caused damage to the oak flooring and rear doors resulting in £3000 damages. 18th Feb Southbourne Way, Porton. Unknown suspect/s gained entry into a locked garage. They smashed the padlock and damaged the door frame of the garage. Numerous electrical items were removed.

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Theft 02nd Feb Rookery Farm. Unknown suspect[s] used unknown cutting tool to cut down wooden post holding a wooden gate which was part of fencing around a water tower on farmland owned by MOD. Both gate and post were then stolen. 7th Feb Little Durnford. Unknown suspects stole two 3ft fibreglass dog statues from the front of the address. 14th Feb Highpost Golf Club. Unknown suspect(s) stole approximately 1000 litres of white diesel from an outside storage tank. The lock securing the tank was broken and left at the scene. Criminal Damage 1st Feb The Croft. Unknown person(s) cut through the chain fencing at the bottom of a garden. It is believed that access was gained by coming across the field from the nature reserve. 1st Feb Arundel Farm. Unknown suspect/s are believed to have been hare coursing in the area, causing extensive damage to crops (winter wheat and maize) and have driven completely through hedges. 9th Feb East Gomeldon Road. Unknown suspect/s damaged a number of vehicles which were parked on the driveway; tyres were let down and the vehicles were scratched. 11th Feb Highpost Golf Club. Unknown suspect drove across land causing £200 worth of damage to the land in their vehicles in suspected poaching incident. 17th Feb Steeple Langford. Unknown suspect used an unknown sharp instrument to cause 3 large scratches to an unattended vehicle on the road side. Vehicle Offences 2nd Feb Porton. Person arrested for positive breath test.

This link, https://www.police.uk/ will allow you to check statistics in more detail for your area and all surrounding areas.

If you wish further detail please contact your local officers - Pc 1481 Lucy Wileman Email: [email protected]

Please dial 101 to report a crime and 999 in an emergency.

Pc 1481 Lucy Wileman Amesbury Police

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Volunteering

Recognising Volunteers – Maureen Atkinson

Every issue of the Village Link is testament to the enormous contribution so many people make to our community. It is nevertheless tremendous when this receives external recognition, as was the case in January when Maureen Atkinson was selected from nominations across the 22 parishes in the Amesbury Area for the individual community award from Wiltshire Council to “recognise people who have gone above and beyond to help their communities”.

The following is extracted from her nomination, which was drawn from many testimonials:

Maureen Atkinson has given exceptional voluntary support to the Winterbourne parish community and the Bourne Valley, for over 30 years. She has supported vulnerable groups such as the elderly through Club Friday, practical support for those who need it through the Bourne Valley Link Scheme and most recently supported the campaign to make the Winterbournes a Dementia Friendly Community.

As a Winterbourne Parish Councillor from 2011 her recent contributions include the establishment of the very successful community day initiative in the Parish, and as one of the leading members for our successful entry into the Best Kept Village competition in 2016. Maureen was one of the original volunteers when the Bourne Valley Link Scheme began in 2004 and was initially Vice Chair, becoming Chair in 2006. As well as her management role, she is involved practically with the clients, driving, visiting and helping them and others within the community. Through her local knowledge and attention to individuals, she ensures that the Link Scheme can proactively help many people who would otherwise be unable to go out of the house to attend appointments

18 or social events. She goes the extra mile to help improve the quality of life for those people who find that her friendly manner makes her easy to approach. Maureen has been a volunteer helper with the Bourne Valley Day Centre for the Elderly, now known as Club Friday, since 1983 and a trustee of this registered charity since 1984 when she took over the organisation and planning for the weekly activities, entertainment and outings. She takes on much more than she should by helping others whenever she sees the opportunity. Her association with the current Winterbourne Glebe Hall started in 1988 when she was one of the original fundraisers and organisers that encouraged the community to support the design and build of a new village hall. Since her first involvement she has continuously been involved in fundraising, organising community events, maintaining and improving the building. This uninterrupted service provides one example of her true commitment to the local community. Throughout nearly 25 years since the building opened in 1993, Maureen has been its Treasurer and her dedication and community work ethic has ensured that the Village Hall continues to be a financially stable and an active centre of the Winterbournes, suitable for use by all age groups and the ever-increasing number of regular interest groups (including the Bourne Valley Historical Society of which she has also been Secretary for the past 29 years).

Bourne Valley Link Scheme

Our volunteers provide neighbourly services to those in need in the Bourne Valley parishes of Cholderton, Newton Toney, Allington, Boscombe, Idmiston, Porton, Gomeldon, the Winterbournes and Hurdcott.

We can help with visits to friends and relatives or collecting prescriptions, transport to hospitals, GPs, dental surgeries, hairdressers, in exchange for a donation. To use the scheme, please ring the Co- ordinator on 01980 611117.

Please help by becoming one of our Link volunteers An additional volunteer co-ordinator is needed to join the team. Co-ordinators operate from home, taking and receiving phone calls from clients with a variety of requests for medical appointments, social outings, shopping, etc. and then contacting our volunteers to make the arrangements. An additional phone line is supplied, and an answer phone is used for messages. All costs are covered by the Link Scheme. The role needs a friendly person, who enjoys dealing with and helping people. The

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Congratulations Maureen. Our BVLS Chairman, Maureen Atkinson, was the proud and very well deserved overall winner in the individual category of the Amesbury Area Board's first community awards on 18 January 2018, to recognize people who have gone above and beyond to help their communities. Maureen’s dedication and unstinting hard work is very much appreciated by all who are helped by her and enjoy working with her. Thank you Maureen.

Registered charity number 1108029 www.bournevalleylink.org.uk

Interests and Activities

Moviola Night at the Glebe Hall

The next two Moviola Films of the spring season will be: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS on Thurs 22rd March at 7.30pm (doors open 7.0pm.) And BREATHE (12A) a Biography/Drama/Romance on Thurs 26th April at 7.30pm (doors open 7.0pm.) Tickets for these films are available in advance at £6 from Winterbourne PO & Stores. Contact John: 01980 611352.

The summer season for us in begins in May, but currently we don’t know details of which films will be offered to us, but I am expecting to hear from MOVIOLA very shortly. As before, the choices of films available will be circulated among our regular patrons, and if you wish to be involved in choosing these films, please let me know. Final selection will be shown on the Village Website www.thewinterbournes.org.uk as usual. We try to make our film evenings something our audience can look forward to. As well as teas, coffees and a range of luxury ice creams at budget prices, we have red or white wine by the glass. Please tell your friends and neighbours – if they haven’t been to our film nights at the Glebe Hall, now is a good time to give it a try!

John Brown 01980 611352

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Club Friday

For anyone who doesn’t know, Club Friday is a day centre offering friendship, food and entertainment for local older people. To enable us to continue our valuable service, we start our report with a cry for help! Club Friday needs to recruit some more volunteer helpers and drivers. Drivers are reimbursed at 40p per mile and collect guests to arrive for 10am and return them home at 3pm. (We open at 9am to set up and welcome guests from 10am until 3pm) Volunteers can offer a full day, half a day or something in between. All we ask for is reliability and a willingness to be a part of a friendly team. You do not need to commit to each Friday; fortnightly or perhaps monthly would be of great value. No experience is required, our volunteers make refreshments, wash-up, assist with planned activities and entertainments, but importantly chat with our guests. We do ask that drivers are adequately insured. Please do call in for a cup of tea or coffee, and ask for Lisa, the Organiser or call 07870 203374. We can assure you of a warm welcome!

Since our last report in the Village Link, some members of Club Friday knitted 500 poppies, which were used in the decoration of the pillars at the entrance to the Guild Hall for the Remembrance event held on 8th November, which a number of the knitters attended. We ended 2017 with a Christmas lunch in the Black Horse which is always an enjoyable occasion; a Christmas party preceded by making decorations and included excellent entertainment by the Bourne Valley Singers. A number of our guests and volunteers managed to attend enjoyable encounters with two pantomimes - 'Bottoms Up' by the Newbourne Players at the Glebe Hall and Jack & The Beanstalk at the Playhouse. Following two weeks when we were closed over the Christmas and New Year, we started again on 5th January with a 'bringing day' and a discussion of favourite and not so favourite gifts from 2017 or before, particularly in the years of our guests' and volunteers' childhood. Following weeks included, a keenly fought session of New Age Kurling; a craft afternoon; a demonstration of fruit and vegetable carving by Ken Moxham, our Vice Chairman; and a fascinating and amusing demonstration of 'dancing dogs' with Margaret White and friend and their four legged performers. On 16th February we celebrated the Chinese New Year, welcoming in the Year of the Dog with a few traditional Chinese treats and the making of dog masks. The following week we brightened-up February with another lunch-out at the Black Horse where we were served an excellent meal. On 2nd of March a number of guests and volunteers attended the Women's World Day of Prayer at the Salvation Army Hall in Salisbury with tea and cakes following. Planned events for March include a musical afternoon with Tim Austin regaling us with songs from the 50's and 60's; a craft afternoon; and Janet Singleton with her father's collection of postcards.

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Presentation to Maureen Atkinson - Amesbury Area Board Community Awards Readers will be well aware that Maureen is heavily involved in many areas of voluntary charitable work within the Winterbourne Community, including being the Vice-Chair of the Parish Council; Chair of the Link Scheme, Treasurer for the Glebe Hall Committee; organises regular Parish Clean-Up events as well as being involved with national charities and helping out so many people within our community. Maureen has been a trustee for the Bourne Valley Day Centre, now Club Friday for a very long time and has been, and is, responsible for planning and organising our outings and entertainment - how she finds the time and energy to do all she does we will never know! On 18 January Amesbury Area Board recognised the selfless and widespread voluntary work of many people, including Maureen, at a presentation ceremony at Antrobus House, Amesbury. We are all very proud that Maureen's charitable work has so rightly been recognised.

Registered Charity Number 1034491

Lisa Stubbs 01980 555575

Bourne Valley Tuesday Club

A warm welcome is extended to everybody to join with us on alternate Tuesdays at 7.30pm at the Methodist Church in Winterbourne Dauntsey (just opposite the Post Office). As the village link goes to press we are putting the final touches to our programme for the spring and summer.

During this period we have arranged a talk by local commercial photographer Roger Elliot on photos of the Salisbury area, an evening of slides and talk on progress with the Family of Hope school, a quiz evening, trip to the New Forest for an evening meal, a Boules evening, countryside walk, and a summer BBQ.

The exact dates for each event have not been finalised, but details can be seen in our noticeboard outside the church or by ringing one of the committee members below so do come and join us. The cost varies from £2 to approximately £5 depending on the event. We look forward to seeing you.

Crispin 01980 611372, Joy 01980 611857, Lynne 01722 327614 or Michael 07745345887.

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Bourne Valley Singers

The busy Christmas season is over and we are well into the New Year, and at the time of writing, it feels the depth of winter, very cold and a sprinkling of snow. We are back in harness and preparing a programme of songs suitable for spring, and a concert in Porton Church on 13th of April (details can be found in the “what’s on” section). We all enjoyed our Christmas performances which were well supported. The Winterbourne Wassail with the Winterslow Singers at the Methodist Church was very well supported, when the audience managed to find parking spaces! We raised £500 for Elevate, the Stars Appeal scheme, bringing light relief in the form of music and other creative arts, to hospital patients confined to the wards. This brings our total to £1000 and we were awarded a very smart framed certificate to commemorate this. Singing at Club Friday was a delight as always. This year there was a large gathering, including some invited guests and they all made us very welcome including rewarding us with a slice of delicious Christmas cake. We also sang for the Winterslow Social Club which meets in their village hall. The ambience was very different because as a sports hall it’s large, and the club had been struck by ‘flu and so was sadly depleted. After we finished our programme, we were treated to a super tea, with savouries and cakes. A new -style draw meant that we all went home with a prize! We were also presented with a box of Quality Street, which makes an appearance each week after our rehearsals, but not for much longer! The Christmas tree festival was, as usual, most enjoyable. It really feels as if Christmas is near when we sing in beautiful St. Thomas’ church, decorated with nativity scenes and a variety of Christmas trees. The trio and quartet did some sterling work in local care homes and also braved the Christmas market which the choir avoided this year, after freezing in an inauspicious spot last year. So ends our busiest period of the year, and refreshed after our break we enjoy the new season, working towards our concert in April.

Glenys Hollingdale–Smith

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Bourne Valley Historical Society

The Society celebrates its 70th birthday this year and a party is planned for Thursday 15th March commencing at 7pm with a display from the Archives and light refreshments. At 7.30pm Dr Keith Norris will take a look back at the history and achievements of the Society since 1948. Current members and past members are welcome to attend and join our invited guests.

Interestingly the “Bourne Valley Historical and Record Society” was founded in the same year that the Anglican churches of the Winterbournes produced the first village magazine, “The Three Winterbournes”, which was sold for sixpence per copy. The twelve residents of the Winterbournes who founded the Society met regularly in each other’s houses. Their aim was to collect and preserve material relating to the village’s history. The first secretary, Charlie Bray, dedicated his spare time to researching and copying old documents, to produce a series of booklets, entitled, “The History of Winterbourne”. Parts of his history were published in the village magazine. Below is an extract from the first copy of “The Three Winterbournes”, published in July 1948: WINTERBOURNE – What a fine old English name! It comes to us from our Saxon ancestors who settled in the Valley of the Bourne nearly thirteen centuries ago. Burn, a stream; Winterburn, the village by the winter stream. The descriptive name belongs to a later age. Gunner is derived from Gunnora de la Mare, the lady of the Manor who died in 1249; Dauntsey from the family of that name who were the lords of the Manor there about 1391; Earls from the Earls of Salisbury who were the owners of the village from 1250.

The autumn 1948 issue contained the following: March the twenty-fifth, 1633, was a day long to be remembered in the annals of Winterbourne. From the records we learn that, “about one o’clock in the afternoon, the wife of one William Lawrence, by her careless dealing, did sett on ffyre her husband’s dwelling house”. The fire spread rapidly to the Parsonage, occupied by Thomas Cooper, burning down the house, its barns, cowhouse and wheat ricks. The sparks, carried in the air by the high wind, fell next upon Richard Sherfield’s Manor House, completely destroying it with much valuable furniture, including eighteen feather beds, household utensils of brass and pewter, barns, stables, ricks, seed corn and farm implements. In a short time the whole village of Dauntsey was in flames but worse was to come, for within an hour from the first outbreak, the fire had reached Ambrose Prewett’s house and farm at Winterbourne Earls. Both were burnt to the ground. Sixteen other dwelling houses were soon in flames. It appears that some thirty houses were lost in the fire at Dauntsey and Earls, in addition to farm buildings, malthouses, bakehouses and a great quantity of wheat, barley and oats. The house

24 where the fire started was at the rear of Box Cottage in Winterbourne Dauntsey and the Sherfield Manor House was on the site of the Winterbourne Arms.

In more recent times the Society has expanded its interests to include the parishes of Idmiston, Allington with Boscombe, Newton Toney and Cholderton. The archives incorporate a huge collection of documents, books, photographs and maps plus completed projects covering various aspects of local history. The Society now has some 90 members, who all have access to this fascinating material. Further research projects are in hand and the Society has published a number of books on topics of local interest, including “A Walk around the Winterbournes”, “Some Famous Folk of the Bourne Valley”, “A Remembrance of the Men of the Bourne Valley who died in the Two World Wars” and “Major incidents in the Bourne Valley during World War Two”.

Society Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month (except August and December) at the new time of 7.30pm in the Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls.

Future Meetings: March 15th: 70th Anniversary Celebration and Keith Norris, “Bourne Valley Historical Society 1948 to 2018” Refreshments from 7pm. April 19th: Adrian Green, “General Pitt Rivers” May 17th: To be confirmed June 21st: Chris and Judy Rouse, “The Working Life of a Railway Navvy” July 19th: Stephen Hobbs, “Tying the Knot: marriage customs in Wiltshire in the 16th and 17th centuries.” September 20th: Robert Key, “A Palace, a Prelate and Murder Most Foul - The true story of the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket. It all started in Clarendon Palace, east of Salisbury...” October 18th: Nick Griffiths, “Wiltshire in the Age of Arthur” November 15th: Tony Lyons, “The War Dead of the Bourne Valley.”

Membership of the Society is currently £13 per annum and includes attendance at 10 lectures, plus a monthly Newsletter that includes a summary of the lecture given at the previous meeting. Members also have access to a large archive collection of photographs and documents, including full reports on topics of local historical and archaeological interest. Visitors may attend up to two meetings for a donation, before they are asked to join. Please contact Maureen Atkinson on 01980 611311 or at [email protected] for further information. Website: www.bournevalleyhistory.co.uk

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Bourne Valley Women’s Institute

Bourne Valley Women’s Institute year starts in February with the AGM; not the most thrilling meeting, and this year a difficult one, as will be seen later. We had some very good speakers in 2017, thanks to the hard work of our programme secretary, Pat Merritt. Starting in March, we heard the history of the Ambulance Service from Mr. David Tovey. In April, John Notman showed us some of the wild life to be found around Salisbury; there is an amazing variety, some quite rare. May saw members telling of the courses they had attended at Denman College, the WI Education centre and other places. In June, Mrs Diana Warnock, a fashion historian, spoke on “what the bride wore” through the ages; from, in the case of the bride of Alexander the Great, very little, to some extraordinary concoctions from modern designers. Mr. Kenneth Warr, a TV journalist from the very early days of TV, talked of his time in the industry and how it has changed, (he was ninety-two and spoke for an hour, standing up and without notes). August was, as usual, garden party in the Methodist Hall- month; it rained, as usual! In September, Mrs. Jill Crockerton talked about natural skin care using products not over-loaded with the chemicals from the laboratory. In October we had a members meeting and in November, James Haddow, the taxi driver poet entertained us with some of his hilarious verses. In December we had our Christmas party; old fashioned games and carols, accompanied by Sarah Marks on her Northumbrian pipes, and a delicious tea with Christmas cake. Mrs Terri Edwards was our speaker in January and told of her time in Oman, a small and backward country. She went with her husband and toddler son for three years, finally returning twenty-five years later. The women lived very different lives there, no electricity, no running water, no supermarkets. Terri was able to make contact with them and found that they were not quite as subservient as it would seem; they held the purse strings. The family wealth was invested in the women’s silver jewellery and if they

26 didn't want to sell, the husband didn't get his new camel! During the year there were a variety of extras. The birthday lunch at the Barford Inn was enjoyed by members and their husbands. Winterslow WI hosted the group meeting in June and another group meeting followed in October. The Wiltshire Federation also held its autumn council meeting in October and several members attended; a female Red Arrows Tornado pilot was the main speaker. The Christmas lunch was at S.Wilts. Golf Club and went well. Our fund-raising this year included a coffee morning on an extremely wet day, when we consoled ourselves with cake at Beryl Sheppard's house, and an afternoon tea party at president Jill Bushnell's house on a much better day, when we did the same! We had a table at the Link Christmas Bazaar in November which was a great success; both in the money raised and the goodies sold. Nearly everything had disappeared by the time I arrived to photograph the display. We welcomed the other WIs from our group in October to a hilarious afternoon at the Music Hall with The Padwicks, well-known local entertainers. BVWI had a happy and successful 2017. Sadly 2018 may not be the same. In 2015 we had 32 members. For 2017-2018 this had reduced to 17. Several members have moved away or are no longer well enough to attend. Our Bletchley Girl, Gillian Neville and Pat Hellewell our Treasurer, both very loyal members, passed away last year. Unfortunately no new ladies have come to take their places, perhaps in part because younger women work and are unable to attend an afternoon Institute. WI rules state that there must be a president, treasurer and secretary or the Institute will be suspended, and our records taken and archived. Jill Bushnell has been our president for a number of years and would like to stand down, the Secretary has resigned and we have lost our Treasurer. We have no volunteers to replace them; the structure of the organisation is rigid and tends to put people off. Members have always helped out at our meetings, but we MUST have names on the documents to continue as BVWI. We had an adviser from Wiltshire Federation to help run the meeting, which was difficult and stressful, but we managed to form a Committee. Much against her better judgement and against her will, Jill agreed to stand again as president and we have two “volunteers” to act as treasurer and secretary. We are determined not to let 96 years of village history disappear and so BVWI keeps going for another year. It remains to be seen what happens in the future, but we desperately need more members. Please ladies, think about joining us. We meet on the second Wednesday of the month in the Glebe Hall at 2.15pm, and you will be assured of a warm welcome and a pleasant afternoon.

Glenys Hollingdale-Smith

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Bourne Valley Horticultural Society and Gardening Club

The annual Social Evening in January was our first get together of 2018. This was, as usual, a popular event with a three course home cooked supper. We were entertained by Tracey Martin, who sung a variety of popular songs with some help from the audience.

Our first evening speaker meeting of the New Year was due to take place on Thursday March 1st when Roger Hiron, who has a background of 35 years in the horticultural industry, was to have given very relevant talk entitled ‘waking up your garden’. Disappointingly, due to increasing snowfall over the course of the day, the decision to cancel became inevitable. We look forward to hearing him speak later in the year.

We will shortly launch our website, www.bvhsgardeningclub.com, which we hope will be a useful source of up to date information about the club. We are currently in the process of creating our own gardening club notelet cards, which will soon be available for purchase. There is also a ‘new look’ Annual Show schedule, which will be available at evening meetings as encouragement to all to participate.

Evening meetings are held at the Glebe Hall on the first Thursday of the month at 7.30pm. All visitors are very welcome to attend. The entrance fee for non-members is £1. Apart from the talk, there is a ‘taster’ table with ideas as to what can be made from surplus produce, a garden produce ‘bring and buy’ sale and a raffle.

Forthcoming evening speaker meetings:

April 5th: Nick Gilbert from Gilbert’s Dahlias. Plug plants will be available at this meeting for purchase by all members wishing to enter the ‘Members Only’ class at the Annual Show. May 3rd: Annual General Meeting with a cake and seedling/plant bring and buy sale. June 7th: ‘The Butterfly Garden’. A question and answer sessions with a couple from Longstock.

Other Diary Dates:

Sunday 27th May: The club will be participating in the Glebe Hall 25th anniversary celebration with a horticultural display and ‘bring and buy’ plant stall.

Clare Dunster Secretary 01980 619121

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Newbourne Players

Thanks to those of you that supported our pantomime, Bottoms Up, at Christmas and contributed to entertaining evenings. The reaction from the audiences to the show was fantastic and the evening enjoyed by all. All the cast welcomed the positive feedback and were keen to start rehearsal for the next village production. Even the author, who came to see what we had done to her script, went away impressed with the cast and overall production. She was also very complementary on our facilities at the Glebe Hall. Thanks should also go to the many individuals in the village, who generously provided their time, props and financial assistance, which helped put on the production. As with every pantomime, we endeavour to give some of our proceeds to charity. This year was no exception and we gave £200 to the local Alzheimer’s Support and £200 to the Glebe Hall. So again thank you for your support.

By popular demand we are busy rehearsing for the next event, a Murder Mystery entitled ‘A Frightful Evening’ to be performed on May18th /19th. In addition, thoughts are also turning to the next Christmas show 13th14th and 15th December 2018. So pencil these dates into your diaries and keep a look out for the adverts, posters and early bird tickets, so you can book your seat well in advance.

The junior section of the Newbourne Players continues to grow and have embarked upon a series of arts events. They continue to welcome any new members between the age of 8 -16yrs. Having received an arts grant at the end of last year, the group are provided with a wide range of opportunities to develop their interest in various aspects of theatre. Their participation in our last pantomime provided them with valuable experience of performing in front of a live audience. They really enjoyed the opportunity and expressed their wishes to continue and perform in other productions. This is great as it promotes a future interest in live theatre in our young people. To this end they are aiming to put on a show in the autumn that centres on many historical events that have occurred in the Winterbournes through the ages. Currently, they meet on the first Sunday of each month between 4.30 and 6.00pm. If you require additional details, contact Dawne Dawes on 07739830724. We can guarantee that all participants will enjoy the experience and develop a whole range of new skills.

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There are number of social events being planned so watch for the adverts. We still need to encourage more of you to join us and help us continue to put on more productions. No matter what your interests, all would be most welcome. We meet at the Glebe Hall, Winterbourne, on Wednesday from 7.30pm. All details can be obtained by contacting our new chairperson Wendy Merrifield on 07825290108

Graham Lloyd Newbourne Players

Porton Flower Club

We have been very pleased to welcome a few new faces recently. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month at Idmiston Village Hall at 7.15. Our Christmas Demonstration at the Glebe Hall was a huge success, when our demonstrator, Martina Coleman, made some amazing arrangements, and these were raffled at the end of the evening, when several lucky winners were able to take them home. It put us all in the Christmas spirit, and everyone enjoyed coffee and mince pies. Our evenings are fun and friendly, and we aim to encourage one another, and help new members. On the 14th March we are having a teach-in entitled "back to basics" with Ann Bailey, when we will all learn afresh flower arranging from the beginning. On this occasion all equipment is being provided so that we "learn from scratch". Just bring a bunch of flowers, some greenery - and learn how to do it! Last month the title was Winter Wonderland when members produced some lovely winter arrangements - lots of frost and snow! Future months will see us attempt an arrangement using one colour only, an arrangement depicting a book title, and in June we have to incorporate a wine glass into an arrangement. Want to know more - please come and join us. We would love to see you.

Maureen Homer.

Winterbourne Cricket Club

Winterbourne Cricket Club enjoyed another successful and enjoyable season in 2017 and now we turn our attention to a busy summer in 2018. There are some changes for this season with a move down to just one league team on a Saturday and the introduction of a new Sunday team which will pay friendly matches through the season. We always welcome new players for both the Saturday and Sunday teams so if anyone is interested in playing, please do get in contact.

We were thrilled with the success of our new junior section last season with over 70 local children playing cricket at the club, many for the first time. To build on this, we

30 have expanded the opportunities for this season and will now be running teams for Under 9’s, 11’s and 13’s. In addition, we will also again be holding an 8 week course on Thursday evening for boys and girls aged 5-9 called All Stars Cricket. This is a great way for children to get an introduction to cricket with qualified and experienced coaches and we would love to see as many local children come along as possible. If you are interested in any part of junior cricket at Winterbourne please email [email protected] or see our website for more details.

Our much needed new pavilion project is a priority for us, as is our battle to ensure the current pavilion remains useable. If anyone is in a position to help, particularly with maintenance and is able to volunteer, it would be much appreciated. We have some fundraising events planned throughout the summer to raise money, details of which will be posted on our website.

Many thanks as ever to all local businesses that sponsor the Club and those who volunteer their time to keep it going. Please do get in touch if you would like to play or help out in any way.

Ryan Hughes Chairman [email protected] www.winterbournecc.com

Sew, Knit and Natter

We work on a plethora of crafts: knitting; patchwork; crochet; rug making; cross stitch; tapestry; repairs to clothes/soft furnishings. We are happy amateurs willing to share our skills (or lack of them) with each other! Everyone helps each other and there is a lot of laughter. Demonstrations of any craft can be arranged for those interested. A minimal charge per session is made to cover hire of hall and light refreshments. This is fun! It is also a great way to complete those half-finished projects; the cross stich sampler started when your baby was born needs to be completed before she goes to university! Need help to make curtains? Want to learn how to make memories from patch work? Would you like to follow step by step tuition so that you can repair that broken zip?

Please come and join us on the first and third Monday of the month in the Ron Burton Room at the Glebe Hall. Call Joanne Sankey for more information 01980 551118.

Joanne Sankey 01980 551118

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Churches

Bourne Valley Methodist Church

Minister: Rev. Margaret Jones Standing in for Rev. Anna Bishop

Senior Steward: Joy Davey - 01980 611857

Services are held each Sunday at 10am; All Age Worship and Holy Communion monthly. Occasional services as announced. Please see Church notice board for details. Everyone is welcome to join us.

We are now in the period of Lent and sharing in the Lent Pilgrim discussions with our Anglican friends. Fasts have a tendency to be oriented towards things like giving up food or TV. But there are many other creative ways we can welcome Jesus' healing touch.

Here are some of Raj Vytilingam's suggestions you may want to consider: 1. Fast from anger and hatred. Give your family an extra dose of love each day. 2. Fast from judging others. Before making any judgements, recall how Jesus overlooks our faults. 3. Fast from discouragement. Hold on to Jesus' promise that He has a perfect plan for your life. 4. Fast from complaining. When you find yourself about to complain, close your eyes and recall some of the little moments of joy Jesus has given you. 5. Fast from resentment or bitterness. Work on forgiving those who may have hurt you. 6. Fast from spending too much money. Try to reduce your spending by 10% and give those savings to the poor. 7. Spend extra time for prayers.

Bourne Cafe We have begun trialling out a new community venture these past 3 months to draw young and old folks to meet together over a cuppa to get to know each other better on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 10 - 12 noon. 32

We are officially making our public launch of the Bourne Cafe on Saturday 14th April at 10am. Do come along with your friends and family on that day and thereafter and make it a friendly environment for our community. Who knows what this might lead to!

Dates for your diary: Maundy Thursday Service - 29th March - 7 pm Easter Sunday Service - 1st April - 10am Bourne Cafe Launch - 14th April - 10 - 12 noon Cream Teas - 16th June - 2.30 - 4.30pm

We at Bourne Valley Methodist Church wish everyone Peace, Love and Happiness this Easter.

Rebecca (A Church Member)

Anglican Parish News

The Vicar: Rev Peter Ostli-East 01980 611350 [email protected]

Events and Services in Holy Week

Palm Sunday 25th March: Come and join this celebration at the start of Holy Week. 9.30am at St Mary’s W Gunner and 11.00am at St Michael & All Angels W Earls. Palm crosses are given out as we remember when Jesus was welcomed into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey, with the crowds waving palm branches in joy!

7.00pm on Wednesday 28th March a Celtic Eucharist will be held in St Mary’s church, Winterbourne Gunner led by Rev’d Phil Osler – all welcome.

Maundy Thursday 29th March Come to St Nicholas church, Porton at 7.00pm for a special event, where you will be able to listen to the whole of St Mark’s Gospel being read aloud, in the context of a service of Holy Communion. At the end of the service, the altar will be

33 stripped of its usual decorative coverings, in preparation for the events of Good Friday. Many people find this a very moving and meaningful experience, so do join us if you can.

Good Friday Everyone is invited to take part in this year’s Walk through the Valley, starting at St Nicholas Church, Cholderton at 10.45am on 30th March. We visit all the churches in the Valley, pausing in each to reflect and pray. You are welcome to join in for as many stages as you wish, and the Walk ends at St Michael & All Angels, Winterbourne Earls at approx. 5.30pm with tea, coffee and hot cross buns.

Details: 1045 Meet at St Nicholas Church in Cholderton (Parking in the field behind the Crown Inn or leave car at Glebe Hall WE Car Park – where lifts will be available from 0945-1015 only). Safety Brief and Introduction followed by 1100 depart 1200 Lunch in or outside Newton Toney Memorial Hall† 1225 St Andrew’s Newton Toney 1310 St John’s, Allington 1350 St Andrew’s, Boscombe† 1450 All Saints, Idmiston 1530 St Nicholas, Porton† 1600 Baptist Church, Porton† 1630 St Mary’s, Winterbourne Gunner 1650 St Edward’s Churchyard 1710 BV Methodist Church Winterbourne Dauntsey† 1730 St Michael’s Winterbourne Earls† After the walk, drinks and Hot Cross Buns are offered. † Water and lavatory available

There will also be quiet, meditative services on Good Friday, to pray and reflect on Christ’s crucifixion: ‘An Hour at the Cross’ at 12.00noon in St Mary’s Winterbourne Gunner and at 2.00pm in St Nicholas Porton, led this year by the Venerable Stephen Robbins CB. Easter Day 1st April Come and celebrate Jesus Christ’s Resurrection at the Church’s great festival of the assurance of eternal life for all who believe in Jesus as God’s Son, and who live as his followers. None of us do this perfectly, but we can all know God’s love and forgiveness as we welcome his Holy Spirit, and seek to work together for the growth of his kingdom of love and peace. 34

Easter Services at 9.30am in St Mary’s Winterbourne Gunner (also at St Nicholas Porton (8.15am BCP) and St Andrew’s Newton Tony) and at 11.00am in St Michael & All Angels Winterbourne Earls (also at St Nicholas Cholderton and St Andrew’s Boscombe)

Bring the family, and together let’s worship the Risen Lord!

Like Easter Eggs...? Come and hunt for them at your local Church!

Celebration and Thanksgiving to mark the 150th anniversary of the consecration of St Michael & All Angels church in Winterbourne Earls at 7.00pm on Thursday 5th April. We will be welcoming Bishop Edward to this special service, which will be followed by refreshments in church afterwards – do come and join us!

This is the time of year when each Church of England Parish holds its Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM), to which all Parishioners (i.e.: everyone who lives in the Parish) and all on the Church’s Electoral Roll of that Parish, are invited. At these meetings we elect Churchwardens, and PCC members, review the past year’s activities and look ahead to what the future may hold... do come along! *** St Mary’s Winterbourne Gunner’s APCM will be immediately after the 9.30am service on Sunday 15th April in the Church. *** St Michael & All Angels Winterbourne Earls’ APCM will be immediately after the 11.00am service on Sunday 15th April in the Church.

Remember, the Churches are here for YOU, and need your presence and support if each Parish Church is to flourish and remain viable.

Not just Sundays… everyone is welcome to all our Church services and events, including 9.30am Holy Communion on Wednesdays in St Michael’s W Earls.

Please contact the Priest in Charge, Rev’d Peter Ostli-East on 01980 611350 or by email at: [email protected] or speak to a Churchwarden or any PCC member, for more information about activities at the Anglican churches in the Bourne Valley.

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You can also visit our Team website at: www.bournevalleychurches.org.uk and please let us know your thoughts, ideas and comments.

Peter Ostli-East

Letter from the Vicar’s Wife Mari... We can shop for many wonderful things in this country. Our choices of food, clothing and entertainment are endless. Unfortunately, a good many things that cause us actual harm, either mentally or physically are endlessly available too, and we often consume them with equal enthusiasm. All this choice and easy availability is very distracting, and time consuming. It often doesn’t leave us with the time to cultivate those things that are just as necessary to our well-being, but are things we can’t purchase in a shop or on a website. We can’t buy patience, kindness, understanding, wisdom or courage in the face of troubles. We can’t buy peace or love or friendship, although we sometimes try to. We are so used to being able to use money to get what we need or want that we almost give up on something that doesn’t involve a financial transaction. Yet we can find peace and joy and comfort in hard times, not through what we have bought or own, but by knowing that we have, as often as we have found it possible, done the right thing, in the right way at the right time. Perhaps that’s why so many of us find it hard to believe in salvation. Bunny rabbits, chocolate and chicks are a lovely part of Easter but they are not what Easter is about. Easter is about celebrating that God our creator, who loves us in spite of our indifference to Him, and each other our stubbornness, our busy-ness and general inability to act in even our own best interests, died for us in order that our mistakes need not colour our future as well as our present and our past. Faith and grace can’t be purchased, but they can be cultivated. Spend some time this Easter counting your blessings, stopping those things that you know do you, and others, harm and leave room to do yourselves, and others, some good. It’s life transforming.... Bless you,

St Michael & All Angels church, Winterbourne Earls and Dauntsey

On the 2nd February 1867 an Order in Council directed that the two parishes of Winterbourne Earls and Winterbourne Dauntsey be amalgamated. On the 17th April 1867 a faculty was granted to build a new church on the boundary between the two parishes. St Michael & All Angels replaced the thirteenth century churches of St Michael (Winterbourne Earls) and St Edward (Winterbourne Dauntsey) respectively. St Michael's was already a ruin and St Edward’s required a large number of repairs, so 36 both were pulled down and parts of the old churches were incorporated into the new St Michael & All Angels building. The foundation stone was laid by Walter Kerr, Bishop of Salisbury, on the 20th June 1867 with the consecration only ten months later on 5th April 1868, by the Bishop of Sodor and Man. The architect was Thomas Henry Wyatt and the builder was a Mr Till of Romsey.

We celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion and consecration of the church this year, and wish to mark this special occasion by restoring the Clock and Bells.

The Clock The clock was manufactured by Weule of Bockenheim, Germany in 1904 and is unusual as only some half a dozen such clocks are installed in the south of England, one being at the museum to the Poldark mine in Cornwall. The clock movement services two four feet six inch copper dials, with the south dial not having worked for some considerable time. Since the removal of the obscuring conifers in 2015, the shabby state of the failed dial is there for all to see. If you look closely you can also see the marks of air gun pellets some ‘kind’ soul has added, back in the day!! The clock has received little attention since it was installed and we now need to remove both dials (by wall walkers using ropes) and have the faces re done and all workings restored.

The Bells

There are five bells hung in the tower, the Tenor and the Treble are dated 1868, but the Second, Third and Fourth bells are considerably earlier, with the Fourth bell known to be dated 1652. From a professional inspection we know that the oak bell frame is contemporary with church construction i.e.: 1868, and is in good condition, but needs tightening. The clock hammer strikes the Tenor bell. The bells are showing their age!! They are not cracked, which in itself is really good news, but they do need to be removed from the tower, repaired, retuned and replaced in the frame.

We are holding a Service of Celebration & Thanksgiving at 7.00pm on Thursday 5th April and are delighted that the Bishop of Ramsbury, Rt Rev’d Edward Condry, will be coming to share in our celebration. Please join us for this Anniversary event, which will be followed by refreshments in the church.

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An Open Day: Saturday 7th April 10.00am – 4.00pm

You are also invited to come along to our Open Day in church on Saturday 7th April, between 10.00am and 4.00pm when you can learn more about the bells, the clock, and this wonderful building. Please come and have a look at your parish church - explore some of its history and perhaps find out more about the work, witness and worship for which it was built, and for which it continues to be a focus in the community. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served throughout the Open Day.

In order to raise the necessary funds to restore the Clock and Bells, we are making applications to various grant-making bodies, but we would also be very grateful for support from you, the local community, and we hope you will feel inspired to make a donation at the Open Day.

If you are unable to attend, please come along to a church service or post your donation to either the PCC Treasurer, Richard Scott or Priest in Charge, Rev’d Peter Ostli-East.

How to donate...... Cheques can be made payable to “St Michael’s Church, Winterbourne Earls” and, if you are a UK tax payer, please complete a Gift Aid form. This will increase your gift by 25% at no extra cost to you.

Other ways to help..... If you are unable to offer financial help but feel you can volunteer to offer practical help, please do contact us. Thank you

Contact Details

Priest in Charge PCC Treasurer PCC Secretary Rev’d Peter Ostli-East Richard Scott Richard Wainwright The Vicarage 11 St Edwards Meadow 3 Malvern Way Winterbourne Earls Winterbourne Dauntsey Porton Salisbury SP4 6HA Salisbury SP4 6JD Salisbury SP4 0NL Tel: 01980 611350 Tel: 01980 611771 Tel: 01980 610112

Alderbury Deanery Treasurer

Alderbury Deanery is looking to recruit a Deanery Treasurer. The role involves keeping the Deanery Synod’s accounts, supporting PCC Treasurers, particularly in relation to stewardship and payment of the parish’s Fairer Share, and submitting PCCs Annual Reports and Accounts. As a key member of the Deanery Standing Committee, the Deanery Treasurer will ideally be able to attend its meetings (held 4 times a year) and will make reports to Deanery Synod at least once a year. It is

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To express interest, and for more details, please contact Rev’d David Bacon (Rural Dean) on 01794 390256 or by email: [email protected] by Sunday 15th April 2018.

Countryside Matters

Harbingers of Spring

The sights and sounds of forthcoming spring, well underway by late February, have regrettably been delayed by a spell of Siberian wind, ice and snow at the beginning of March. Blooming wild snowdrops have provided a splendid display since the New Year, sometimes in handfuls at roadsides and ditches or in white carpets under trees, seen at their best in the Winterbournes down Tanner’s Lane. They have just been followed by the golden winter aconites, the first celandines and even a few dandelions. Formerly hard brown hazel catkins are elongating into yellow “lambs-tails” swinging in the breeze. Look closely for the female flowers like tiny red brushes on the twigs. Alongside these early flowers many endemic birds have become more active and visible. Blackbirds in gardens chase out any others that come to join them. Dunnocks creep about under dead plants. Robins are singing their complex songs to mark out their territories. The loud, aggressive chirps of cock house sparrows have already begun and will become steadily more noticeable as the season progresses. Great spotted woodpeckers have begun to drum on trees to attract mates and occasionally a green woodpecker can be seen probing lawns for ants. These do not usually drum but they do make their laughter-like alarm calls through the winter. Male magpies are wrenching off twigs for the females to weave into untidy nests in trees. Both song and mistle thrushes are again singing from high sites, even on stormy days. The latter is the larger of the two with heart-shaped spots on its breast. In garden ponds, frogs will be collecting to mate, the males setting up a croaking chorus which will attract females from a long way off. They will each lay up to 2000 eggs surrounded by a clump of jelly - frogspawn.

So, look and listen. Spring is just round the corner!

Trevor Lewis

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Winterbourne allotments: land of hope…..?

“Allotments are a great hobby. They’re cheap, you get healthy exercise without having to pay for a gym or run around in circles, and you get to eat healthy fruit and vegetables without all those pesticide residues.”

This is a quote from an excellent website for allotment gardeners http://www.allotment-garden.org/ and in my experience it’s a perfect description. In the Winterbournes we are fortunate to still have an allotment garden site. From the records held by the Bourne Valley Historical Society, our allotments appear to date back to the Second Annual Inclosure Act of 1848 which led to a provision that land should be reserved for allotments for the poor. Current rules regarding allotments derive from 20th Century legislation including the Allotment Act of 1922 which defines an allotment garden as “an allotment….which is wholly or mainly cultivated by the occupier for the production of vegetables and fruit crops for consumption by himself or his family”, though this can cover school and community allotment garden projects. The Winterbourne allotment site off Down Barn Road (shown right from OS map 1901) is the last of three such sites established in the Winterbournes (of the other two one has been returned to farmland and the other is now the site of Winterbourne Earls School).

It is also the only such site along the Bourne Valley between Laverstock/Salisbury and Amesbury. Allotment gardens are now considered an important community amenity, not just for the production of food (above; broad beans are infinitely better when home grown), but also as an educational amenity for schools and other groups, as a leisure activity that is both healthy and sociable and as a site for relevant community projects. The Parish Council is committed to maintaining this important amenity and during the coming year we will work on an allotment development strategy in consultation with the current tenants and others interested in the site. In the meantime we do have vacant plots. While we would have to give 40 priority to Winterbourne residents in the event of oversubscription, we do not currently have a waiting list and would be delighted to hear from any gardeners (or aspiring gardeners) who would like to try their hand at allotment gardening. Please contact the allotment manager or parish clerk (details inside front and back cover).

Charles Penn

Hurdcott Weather 2017

2016 ended dry with frost. New Year’s Day 2017 was wet, but then January was mainly dry. Highlights: frost -7°C on 5th; an unsettled period with 14.1mm rain/snow on 12th; a dry week with hard frosts -6°C. The month ended with some wet days and total monthly rainfall of 79.3mm. February arrived with 11.3mm rain and the rest of the month continued dull and damp. There was frost (-3°C) on 6th, light snow on 11th, some mild days starting on 20th (16°C) and named storms Doris on 23rd and Ewan on 25th, but only 50.8mm of rain. March was an unsettled month (12.8mm rain on 3rd), but only a total of 58mm rain and getting warmer on 30th (20°C). April was mainly dry, a few frosts (e.g. -3°C on 27th) and only 10.3mm rain. May started dry, but then there was an unsettled spell in the middle of the month (20mm rain on 17th) and some hot days (26°C on 25th). Thunder on 1st - 19th - 27th, and 56.4mm rain overall. June began mixed with 21.1mm rain on 5th, then mostly dry with some hot days (31°C on 21st) and 49mm rain in total. The first half of July was dry apart from 33.1mm rain on 11th and hot days (29°C) on 5th and 6th. A thunder storm on 18th was the beginning of a wet period and contributed to a total rainfall of 111.4mm. The first 3 weeks of August were unsettled (19.4mm rain on 7th) however, the month ended dry with some hot days (e.g. 27°C on 28th )and 77.2mm of rain overall. September was generally unsettled; light rain most days (9.4mm on 3rd), thunder on 9th and 18th, storm Aileen on 12th and cooling down. Total rainfall 64.4mm. October weather was mixed (12mm rain on 17th) but only 32.4mm rain overall. Storm Brian blew in on 21st and a frost on 30th (-1°C). November another unsettled month (16.2mm of rain on 3rd) getting colder with few frosts (-4°C on 25th) and 52.7mm of rain in total. December was a wet month with a total rainfall of 96.2mm. 20mm rain/snow fell on 26th. Storm Caroline arrived on 7th followed by storm Dylan on 31st. Frost (-6°C) on 12th.

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Rainfall for the first 6 months was below average, the seconded half of 2017 was wetter. July was the wettest month at 111.4mm with a total annual rainfall of 738.1mm. Average annual rainfall for the 20years to 2004 was 782.7mm. Average annual rainfall for the 20years to 2017 was 772.5mm. Average monthly rainfall for the 20years to 2017 was 64.4mm.

George Shepherd

MESSAGE TO ALL DOG WALKERS

Did you know that bagged dog waste can be left in any roadside waste bin?

No need to hang it in hedges or on footpath gates!

Tell your friends.

Young Winterbourne

Bourne Valley Explorer Scout, Scout, Cubs and Beaver Groups

Christmas will seem such a long time ago by the time you read this, but I cannot ignore it! The group as a whole had lots of parties, an Explorer Christmas meal cooked by themselves, a trip to the Salisbury Pantomime as well as Christmas themed activities in section meetings and not forgetting our biggest Christmas venture: the Christmas Scout Postal Service. Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported this in any way by selling stamps, buying stamps or delivering mail. Special thanks to the local businesses that sell stamps and host posting boxes: Miles of Value in Amesbury; Hayley Pearce, hairdresser in Ford; Korner Kuts; the Garden and Aquatic Centre in Porton. This year we sold 4,543 stamps and delivered 3,019 Christmas cards to addresses all over the Bourne Valley. Thank you to everyone who enabled us to raise over £750! 42

Cub Scout News

The spring term is a busy one for Cub Scouts as there are four District competitions to prepare for (as well as all the usual scouting activities), one in each month: January; February; March; April. The January competition was the District Scrapheap Challenge forming the theme of the first meeting of the term. Each six was challenged to make a model of an animal, real or imaginary, out of recyclable scrap and tell the rest of the pack about its special features and powers. We had six very impressive animals to judge. Last year we won both the District and the County competitions. At the end of January our team of six cubs took part in the District Scrapheap Challenge, the theme this year was ‘The Coast’ and each pack constructed their idea of a seaside scene, once again using all sorts of recyclable items! The winners were the pack from Tisbury. During this time our three eldest Cubs were working towards their ‘Moving On’ award be the proud owners of the highest badge a Cub can gain, the Chief Scout Silver Award, before they move up to Scouts.

The next competition was the District 5 a Side Football Competition so those football fanatics in the pack were practising their skills over four weeks in the hope of being picked for the team. Whilst the training was going on the rest of the pack played some old favourite games, tried out some new ones and made bean shooters, always a winner 43 with the cubs. The Five a Side Football competition took place at Chaffyn Grove School at the beginning of half term. Our team played well and narrowly missed qualifying for the semi-finals. Both the scrapheap and football teams had lots of fun, were on their best behaviour and were a credit to the pack; well done to them all.

At pack meetings during the first half of the spring term the cubs have been continuing working towards the Navigator Stage 1 & 2 badges which we started at the beginning of the autumn term. They have been learning what equipment / kit are required when they go on a hike. The following week the cubs drew a map to direct someone from the Glebe Hall to a local place of interest and then used their map to explain the route. The last part of the badges, before Easter, will be to go on a hike using instructions.

After the half term break, and as I write, the Cubs have started working towards the Air Activities badge. For the next few weeks the chess players in the pack will be taking part in the Pack Chess Tournament, our best three players will be representing the pack at the District Competition at the end of March.

Akela and the Team

Shirley Moores Group Scout Leader 01980 611614 [email protected]

At the time of going to print contributions from other Bourne Valley Scout groups had not been submitted; any late articles will be included in the on-line version available from the Parish Council website.

1st Winterbourne Rainbows

The spring term has been a chilly one and with this in mind the girls have been working on the Seasons Badge. We had an ice and snow evening where the girls played a game with snow balls knocking over snowmen, making snowflakes and learning what happens when you add salt to ice. We also thought about our birds and made some delicious bird buddings for them and did the RSPB Bird Watch. We also had fun making snowmen out of marshmallows and polar bears out of peppermint cream. Yummy.

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Esme mixing the bird seed into the Harriet, Lucy and Jenna making lard and Alice stirring the mix. snowmen and polar bears.

We also made frosty pictures with chalk. The Rainbows have celebrated the Chinese year of the dog, they made dragons, fans and watched the lion dance whilst eating chinese food.

Jane Lackey (AKA Willow)

1st Winterbourne Brownies

Before Christmas we make lanterns from willow and tissue paper and took part for the second year in the Salisbury lantern parade. It was extremely cold, but the crowds came out and the Brownies had a fabulous time parading through the streets of Salisbury with great pride in their handiwork. They have requested that we make one ‘large’ lantern next year for us all to hold! The pantomime trip this year was to the Studio Theatre for the Guide and Scout pantomime, we very proudly watched five of our Brownies in the production. They were all fabulous and the Brownies thoroughly enjoyed it and over half of the unit wants to be involved next year. 45

We finished the term with a visit from the Reptile Ranch. They brought a wide range of creatures from millipedes, geckos, frilled dragons and numerous snakes for the Brownies to hold. They were all very brave and got close to all of the animals, many of them had no fear and held everything, and all had lots of questions. Brown Owl got to hold a tarantula after a little persuasion. A fabulous end to the term.

We have spent this half term earning more badges to our growing collection. We are currently doing our toymaker badge and have make bears and other animals out of a fluffy sock and loom bands. The second badge we have started this half term is our World Culture badge. So far we have made Danish Hearts and are looking forward to creating our own Faberge Eggs. During half term, some of the Brownies went with Brown Owl to City Hall for sing-a-long Beauty and the Beast. We had a great time singing and dancing to the film and getting snowed on inside!

On 22nd February we celebrated World Thinking Day; which is the day when we think about Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world. The 22nd was the birthday of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Guides and Scouts, and also the birthday of this wife Olave. All of the Brownies proudly went to their various schools in Brownie uniform for the day.

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The following weekend we invited Porton Brownies to a sleepover where we did lots of World Guiding activities, crafts, cooking and earnt our World Guiding and WAGGGS World Thinking Day badges. One of the activities required a leader to dress up in uniform from many years ago and we learnt about how Guiding started and the friendship fund whilst donating our shiny 50p coins. We had a great time, a little sleep, made new friends and earnt more badges. We love going away as a unit and are all looking forward to District Camp in the summer holiday.

We meet at the Methodist Church Hall on Thursday evenings. If you would like to put your daughter on the waiting list for Brownies, please contact Sarah (Brown Owl) on 01980 610743, [email protected] or register via the Girlguiding website (http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/get_involved/volunteer/register_your_interest.aspx)

Sarah Laver (Brown Owl) 01980 610743

2nd Winterbourne Brownies

2018 started with a very enjoyable visit to the Playhouse to see the pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. During January we had fun filling log feeders with bird pudding in preparation for the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch survey which involves recording all the birds visiting our garden in one hour. This also allowed us to complete the last clause of the winter seasons badge, commenced before Christmas.

We’ve been fortunate to have Mrs Baker, a local artist, coming in to share her skills. We were shown how to use pastels, paint a colour wheel, and create special cards for Mother’s day and much more. She was very pleased with their efforts and awarded every brownie the well- deserved artist badge. 47

February 22nd, World Thinking Day is a most important day for the whole guiding movement when we remember the joint birthdays of the founder Lord Baden-Powell and his wife Olave. We attended a special service in St Mary’s church to commemorate the occasion involving all the brownies. This linked in well with the World Guiding badge; our current project. The brownies have also made balancing acrobats, Danish heart baskets, Chinese New Year lion head puppets and something special for mother’s day. We have also found time to sing and play games. Photograph shows Olave on her recent Promise evening.

We do have places available for girls aged 7-10 years now or if you would like to put your daughter on the waiting list please contact Snowy Owl on 01980 611376. You will also need to go to “get involved” at www.girlguiding.org.uk to register your interest. The 2nd Winterbourne Brownies meet every Monday during term time in the Glebe hall.

Heather Shepherd (Snowy Owl) 01980 611376.

Winterbourne Earls Church of England School

2018 has well and truly started here at Winterbourne Earls CE Primary School and all the children have settled back into school after the excitement of the Christmas holidays. The weeks of this term are whizzing by and soon we will already be starting to think about Easter. However, we have an action packed planned term ahead before then.

Figsbury Challenge April 28th 2018 The Figsbury Challenge is an annual sponsored run (5k, 3k or 1k) which will take place this year on April 28th. This event has been running for over 20 years and is a fun and well attended social occasion in both the school and local community calendar and we hope to see as many of you as possible on the day. The main 5k route starts with a ¾ lap of the school playing field, then down the footpath to the field and along the path outside the old vicarage to Figsbury Road. You will turn right under the railway bridge and up the hill to Figsbury Ring. There will be a water station up at the top. Runners circle the outside of the ring then back down to the school, ending in the finish funnel, where times will be recorded. There will be water available at the school at the start and finish. Please note this is a multi-terrain run, so runners should prepare and dress accordingly. You can register for the 1, 3 or 5k events in advance. Please email [email protected] for more information. Entry fee is £5 for primary aged children and £10 for all others. The Registration desk will 48 be manned from 12.00 noon at the school. Your race number will be allocated when you register or will be ready for collection on the day if you pre-registered. The junior 1k run (school years Reception, Years 1 and 2) will start at 1.00pm with a warm up at 12.40pm. The 3k run (school years 3, 4 and 5) will start at 1.30pm with a warm up at 1.10pm. The warm up for the 5k run (year 6 and older) will start at 2.00pm, and the race will start promptly at 2.15pm. Please register in plenty of time and don’t leave it until the last minute, registration will close 30 minutes prior to the race starting. Children in the 1 and 3km race will receive a T-shirt courtesy of Bourne Valley Nursery on a first come first serve basis. Every finishing runner will receive a medal. Results will be available as soon as possible after the last runner finishes and presentations of winners trophies will begin by 3.15pm. Refreshments will be available from 12.00 noon. Please note that there is no parking available at the school. There will also be various stalls and entertainment during the afternoon with a raffle and much more. Good luck with collecting SPONSORSHIP. Money collected will be divided between the school and Place2be (a mental health charity). Thank you. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the organiser of the Figsbury Challenge on the above e-mail. Good luck and we hope you enjoy the day.

Snow Days We have just returned to school after two days closure due to the heavy snow fall. The children took great advantage of having an extended weekend and have sent in lots of pictures of themselves enjoying the snow and of the village and surrounding area. Please check our website gallery to enjoy these pictures. http://www.winterbourneearls.org/gallery/

Book Week We had a visit from Mike Brownlow, an award winning author/illustrator and creator of the successful ‘Ten Little…………’ series, and the TV series Little Robots. Mike 49 worked with all the children in a series of workshops throughout the day. We will be enjoying our annual book week dress up day on Friday and the children are encouraged to come to school dressed as their favourite character from a picture book.

The World’s Wettest School Run On Monday 15 January we had a visit from the Sailors’ Society who lead an assembly and talked to children from KS2 about their work. The Sailors’ Society is an international Christian charity working in ports and on board ship across the world. Their chaplains help seafarers and their families, from all faiths and none, with welfare, practical and medical support. They build homes and schools and provide grants to bring hope and security to seafaring communities. This year, which is their 200th anniversary, they are supporting a remote Philippine community whose children endure a 2km swim to the mainland to get to school. Referring to this as ‘the world’s wettest school run’, the Sailors’ Society has stepped in to provide a boat so that the children can get to school safely. There is a real possibility that we can twin with this particular school and so support them. With this is mind we completed our own wettest school run of 10 laps round the track with the aim of the older children jogging the full 2km. In order to replicate a ‘wet’ run, the more resilient Key Stage 2 children experienced ‘pretend’ rain. We raised over £2000.00 for this charity; an amazing achievement by all the children.

Year 4 Residential to the Jurassic Coast We were very sad to have to cancel our planned residential to Dorset on Wednesday 28th February and Thurs 1st March due to the extreme weather conditions. We have been very lucky to be able to re schedule it for the end of April when we hope the weather will be more settled. We had a mini expedition to Figsbury Rings instead.

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Porton Toddler Group

Are you a parent, grandparent or carer? Looking for something to entertain your toddler or baby? Why not pop along to Porton Toddler & Baby Group? We are a very friendly, welcoming group and would love to see you Thursday 10am – 12pm (term time) Porton Memorial Hall £2 per family with snacks provided for children, tea & coffee for adults We have lots of fun activites Including toys, books, weekly craft tables, singing and seasonal activities.

We look forward to welcoming you Shirley Moores – 01980 611614

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Forthcoming Events

Winterbourne Post Office and Stores Refit Between 2nd - 16th March

Your village shop is to undergo a marvellous transformation!

Inevitably there will be disruption to the services we offer while this is going on, we apologise in advance, but we will do all we can to remain open as much as possible.

The Post Office section will be fully closed between 2nd and 16th March inclusive.

We will begin de-stocking the shop on Friday 9th March and the premises will be closed from Saturday 10th to Tuesday 13th inclusive. During this time, between the hours of 7am-10am we will sell newspapers and sundry items outside. Please ensure that if you reserve a newspaper you pick it up between these times.

We will be having a re-opening event in the morning on Saturday 17th March, why not pop down and see the exciting developments, taste some of our products and take advantage of some special offers?

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The Village Diary is now held in Winterbourne Stores. Please feel free to add details of future events.

Sat 10th March 2018 from 10.30am. Bourne Valley Link Scheme are holding a Coffee Morning at Newton Tony Memorial Hall. Friends and relatives are more than welcome. www.bournevalleylink.org.uk Please book with the Link Coordinator on 01980 611117.

Sat 10th Mar at 7.30 until late. RACE NIGHT at Winterbourne Glebe Hall. More details to follow. Put the date in your diary and look out for the Posters. Contact Chris Brown 01980 611352.

Tues 20th Mar at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Tuesday Club at the Methodist Hall, Winterbourne Dauntsey presents OVERSEAS MISSIONS. A fundraising evening for Overseas Missions to include soup & a roll and a Bring & Buy Stall. Contact Joy 01980 611857.

Thurs 15th Mar at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Historical Society in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – 70th Anniversary Celebration and Keith Norris, "Bourne Valley Historical Society 1948 to 2018". Visitors are welcome to attend for a donation. Contact Maureen 01980 611311 or www.bournevalleyhistory.co.uk

Sat 17th Mar 2.00pm to 5pm – AFTERNOON TEA EVENT (Tea & Cakes) with the Brownies & Rainbows at The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA in aid of Club Friday (Bourne Valley Day Centre). The Brownies & Rainbows have offered to do a Campfire Singsong (hopefully their parents will come). It is St Patrick's Day, so our theme will be Shamrock & Leprechauns. Contact Maureen 01980 611311

Thurs 22nd Mar 7.30pm (Doors open at 7pm) at The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – Moviola Film – MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (12A), Crime/Drama/Mystery. Tickets available in advance £6 from Winterbourne PO & Stores. Contact John: 01980 611352.

Wed 28th Mar at 2pm in the Memorial Hall, Porton – A slide presentation on 'Faberge' given by Mark Wilson. Visitors (including men!) would be most welcome. Contact Janet Slater 01980 610544.

Until Fri 6th Apr - Public Consultation about A303 proposals by Highways England. See website at www.highways.gov.uk/A303Stonehenge/consultation or call 0300 123 5000. 53

Thurs 5th Apr at 7.00pm – Celebration and Thanksgiving to mark the 150th anniversary of the consecration of St Michael and All Angels. We will be welcoming Bishop Edward to this special service, which will be followed by refreshments in church afterwards - do come and join us!

Thurs 5th Apr at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Horticultural & Gardening Club, in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA. NICK GILBERT from Gilberts Dahlias will be with us. Contact Pam 01980 619204 [email protected]

Fri 13th Apr at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Singers present "WELCOME TO SPRING", a programme of Easter & Spring songs and Madrigals at St Nicholas Church, Porton. Tickets £10 (to include refreshments). For advance purchase contact Anthea (01980 610539) or Lorraine (01980 611995). A raffle will be held during the evening. All monies raised in aid of St Nicholas Church and Deanery Mission Project 20 (Project Uganda: Harvesting Rainwater - a Winterslow-based Charity).

Sat 14th Apr – A Newton Tony Rural Arts Event: CARDBOARD FOX. Cardboard Fox are an exciting Bath-based progressive bluegrass four piece with original songs that are instantly memorable for their catchy riffs, vocal harmonies and complex instrumental backing. Doors/Bar open at 7pm, performance at 8pm. Bookable 2- course supper at £8 each. Tickets £8 for Adults (£7 conc, Child £5, Family £21). Box Office: [email protected] or 01980 629472.

Thurs 19th Apr at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Historical Society in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – Adrian Green, "General Pitt Rivers". Visitors are welcome to attend for a donation. Contact Maureen 01980 611311 or www.bournevalleyhistory.co.uk

Thurs 26th Apr at 7.30pm (Doors open at 7pm) at The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – Moviola Film – BREATHE (12A) Biography, Drama, Romance. Tickets available in advance £6 from Winterbourne PO & Stores. Contact John: 01980 611352.

Sat 28th Apr at 7.00pm – BEETLE DRIVE at Newton Tony Village Hall. A fast, furious and totally hilarious dice game with prizes the Winning Adult and Child (from age 10 upwards). Raffle and Lucky Ticket Draw. Tickets £10 each and include a Ploughmans Supper. Book tickets in advance from Ginnette 629670, or Lesley 629541.

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Thurs 3rd May at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Horticultural & Gardening Club, AGM in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA. Contact Pam 01980 619204 [email protected]

Sun 23rd May at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Horticultural & Gardening Club, in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA. GLEBE HALL EXHIBITION & PLANT SALE. Contact Pam 01980 619204 [email protected]

Thurs 24th May at 7.30pm (Doors open at 7pm) at The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – Moviola Film – Title to be advised. Tickets available in advance £6 from Winterbourne PO & Stores. Contact John: 01980 611352.

Thurs 7th Jun at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Horticultural & Gardening Club, in the Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA. Andrew & wife will be answering your questions on their BUTTERFLY GARDEN. Contact Pam 01980 619204 [email protected]

Thurs 21st Jun at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Historical Society in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – Chris and Judy Rouse, "The working life of a Railway Navvy. Visitors are welcome to attend for a donation. Contact Maureen 01980 611311 or www.bournevalleyhistory.co.uk

Thurs 28th Jun at 7.30pm (Doors open at 7pm) at The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – Moviola Film – Title to be advised. Tickets available in advance £6 from Winterbourne PO & Stores. Contact John: 01980 611352.

Sat 14th Jul – BVHS & GARDENING CLUB ANNUAL SHOW, in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA. Wed 11th July, between 6.30pm & 8.30pm is when you should register your Entries. Saturday Set-Up time is from 8.30am to 10.30am. Contact Pam 01980 619204 [email protected]

19th Jul at 7.30pm – Bourne Valley Historical Society in The Glebe Hall, Winterbourne Earls, SP4 6HA – Stephen Hobbs, "Tying the Knot, marriage customs in Wiltshire in the 16th and 17th centuries". Visitors are welcome to attend for a donation. Contact Maureen 01980 611311 or www.bournevalleyhistory.co.uk

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Light up your Local Landmark

St. Mary's Church (Circa 1302) Winterbourne Gunner

*************************************************** Sponsor the illumination of this ancient church for an evening to celebrate a special occasion:

Birthdays Marriages Engagements New babies Achievements New jobs Remembrances

Donation: £10.00 Contact: Hilary Geddie Tel. 01980 611575

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PORTON GARAGE

Servicing and repairs of all makes - MOTs by appointment. Air conditioning, engine diagnostics, exhausts, batteries, tyres

Free collection and delivery locally

Tel: Neil Hawker (01980) 611411 Winterslow Road, Porton

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Bourne Valley Electrical Services Limited

Your local electrician

All domestic electrical services carried out, including wiring for loft conversions, new extensions and outbuildings, showers, extra sockets or lights (indoors and outdoors), complete rewires

All jobs considered

Qualified to current building regulations

Providing a reliable and quality service

Free estimates

No hourly rates

Web: www.BVESLimited.co.uk

E-Mail: [email protected]

Want to discuss your requirements? Just ring for a chat – ‘phone:

07952-024118 01980-610635

Discount for OAPs

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ANTIQUE RESTORATION

GEORGE JUDD East Farm Winterbourne Gunner Salisbury SP4 6EE

01980 610576/611828

Repair and restoration of antique furniture, chair caning, porcelain repair, leather work, gilding, upholstery E: [email protected]

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Advertising in the Village Link

Our advertising prices are given below. Our circulation is now 600 copies and our readership is much more. The magazine therefore gets to a lot of people in the area.

It would help us to keep costs down if we use email rather than postage. Please could all advertisers include an email address where possible?

When submitting an advert please send it to:

[email protected]

If you are not sending it by email please post it to the Editor:

Dr EJ Penn Grange Cottage Gaters Lane Winterbourne Dauntsey SP4 6ER 01980 610979

Our advertising prices for 2018 (still kept at 2016 rate) are given below. Please indicate how long you would like your advert to run (there are three issues a year) and what size you would like it to be, remembering that the magazine is printed in black and white and is in A5 format.

Cheques should be made payable to Winterbourne Parish Council and sent to the Editor, Dr EJ Penn. Alternatively payment can be made by BACS or standing order; please contact the Editor for details.

Size of advert Cost for 1 year (10% discount if you advertise for the Cost for 1 issue whole year) Full page £120 £44 Half page £80 £29 Quarter page £48 £17.50

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Useful Telephone Numbers

Allotments Dave Baker 611343 Amenities Maureen Atkinson 611311 Anglican Churches Rev Peter Ostli-East 611350 Beavers Shirley Moores 611614 BV Nursery School Gaenor & Martyn Noakes 611766 BV Singers Anne French 610062 Brownies (2nd Winterbourne) Heather Shepherd 611376 Brownies (1st Winterbourne) Sarah Laver 610743 BV Link Scheme Co-ordinator 611117 Country Matters Trevor Lewis 610715 Cubs Shirley Moores 611614 Club Friday Lisa Stubbs 07870203374 Glebe Hall Bookings www.glebehall.org.uk 07840887842 Historical Society Maureen Atkinson 611311 Horticultural Society Pam Taylor 619204 Methodist Church Rev. Anna Bishop Methodist Hall Bookings Maureen Homer 611172 Newbourne Players Wendy Merrifield 07825290108 Pilates Angie Sutton 07876160706 Porton Badminton Club Jan Fower 610063 Porton Flower Arrangers Penny Fleet 611815 P.O. and Store Trevor & Wendy Merrifield 611201 Rainbows Jane Lackey 610060 Scouts Shirley Moores 611614 Sew, Knit & Natter Joanne Sankey 551118 Team Rector Rev Peter Ostli-East 611350 Tuesday Club Crispin Bickle 611372 Village Link Editor Liz Penn 610979 Website http://www.winterbourneparishcouncil.com

Wiltshire Police (non-emergency) 101 Winterbourne Earls School Jenny Purchase 611356 W.I. Mavis Dean 01722 239302 Yoga Lisa Mullineaux 07528805984

Please note: Views expressed in Village Link are those of the contributors, not necessarily the Editor.

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Village Diary

(Events take place in The Glebe Hall except where indicated)

Monday

Pilates: 10.00-11.00am Rainbows: 4.30 - 5.30pm (term time only) Brownies: 6pm – 7.30pm (term time only) Sew, Knit and Natter: 7pm – 9pm (1st and 3rd Mondays in Ron Burton room)

Tuesday

Tuesday Club: 7.30 pm Methodist Church Hall (fortnightly) Cubs/Scouts: 6.15pm –9 pm (Term time only)

Wednesday

Bourne Valley Singers: 7.00pm Methodist Church Hall Yoga: 6.15 – 7.15pm Newbourne Players: 7:30pm (1st in month) Bourne Valley Women’s Institute: 1.30 – 4.15pm (2nd in month) Parish Council: 7.30pm (3rd in month –Ron Burton Room)

Thursday

Salisbury Astronomical Society: 7.30pm (1st in month – Ron Burton Room) B.V. Horticultural Society: 7.30pm (1st in month) B.V. Historical Society: 7.45pm (3rd in month) Moviola: (4th Thursday in month except in summer months & December) Brownies: 6pm – 7.30pm (term time only) Methodist Church Hall Moo-Music 9.45 -11.15am (term time only)

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