BEDFIELD PARISH COUNCIL BEDFIELD and MONK SOHAM SPORTS CLUB Bedfield New Play Area
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Church and Village News Bedfield, Monk Soham, Southolt, Tannington and Worlingworth July 2020 ( PDF only) BEDFIELD PARISH COUNCIL BEDFIELD AND MONK SOHAM SPORTS CLUB Bedfield New Play Area We are delighted to announce that we have secured funding of £35,000 towards the establishment of a new play area on Bedfield Sports Field. This will replace the current time expired play area on Long Green. Installation work will commence week commencing 6th July 2020 and take circa two weeks. We would like to thank the Adnams Community Trust, the Bedfield Town Estate, the Community Fund of the National Lottery and Babergh/Mid Suffolk District Council. These are in addition to the financial support and ongoing encouragement of Councillor Matthew Hicks. The new play area will form a central part of our hub concept for the village at the Sports Field. Please contact Geoff Robinson, Bedfield Parish Clerk on 01728 685425 You can see the overall play area plan on the Bedfield and Monk Soham website. www.monksohambedfield.co.uk Free. I have two baby safety stair gates with extensions to give away. They don’t fit our stairs. Free to local family size approx width 75-80 +ext 9 cm 01728 628094 Maureen Flannery 07748801133 BEDFIELD AND MONK SOHAM GARDENING CLUB. We have just completed a busy week of ‘Open Garden Gates’! Adhering strictly to Government guidelines, some of our members opened their garden gates to the villagers of Monk Soham and Bedfield to drive, cycle or walk to enjoy sharing in our garden spaces. This had to be organised through pre- booked slots. Thank you to all who supported this community event either by opening their gates or by wandering around the gardens. Happy and healthy gardening! Barbara Lee. [email protected] Worlingworth Gardening Club With the combination of good weather and the virus many of us have had more time to be working in our gardens whether they be large or small. It is frustrating that it’s not possible to share and show off our endeavours to family and friends. Also we are unable to ask anyone to come and advise on any queries that have arisen. Our gardening club members are a great source of information and encouragement when a chat is needed. Obviously we don’t have all the answers but are happy to share any knowledge. I’m wondering if people know that our club usually meets once a month for garden related talks and visits. We hope to be able to start meeting again but at the moment, like everything else, are unable to say exactly when. If you would like more details or are interested in joining us when we can be active once more you can contact us by phone or mail anytime. Judith 01728 628 567 [email protected] Marion 01728 628 195 [email protected] Thank you to the kind person who cleared the nettles from the footpath behind Tuckwells, enabling young children and dogs to go safely 2 Dear Friends, Did you know that our village church is one of eight churches that make up the Four Rivers Benefice. Each year we are expected to raise somewhere in the region of £64,000 no small sum from a population of 3000, not all church goers. It never ceases to amaze me how each year the church is told what is expected of it and the PCCs take a collective gulp and then get on with it. I would like to thank them for their hard work, for their keenness and diligence. In some ways we should all be grateful to them because without them our church buildings would be lost to us. They would be turned into homes, workshops, ruins or demolished completely. There is something about a church that helps define a community, gives a village an identity. We have some beautiful church buildings in our villages, all of them parish churches that have occupied their spot for hundreds if not nearly a thousand years. Perhaps this is in our minds when we go to church, remembering the countless thousands of people who have entered those doors before us and said their prayers? We look forward to a time when we can once more enter our churches and hold services. Just as we look forward to doing the ordinary things that make life enjoyable and enriched. Hope is born from faith, faith in the future, faith that things will improve , for some it is faith that God has promised to be with us whatever befalls us. Very soon we will indeed be allowed back into our church as individuals to say private prayers. When you remember those people of the past who entered the church in faith, think of those today who would dearly love to but can’t and pray in hope for the future when all will be normal again. If you cannot go to the church, don’t worry, spend some quiet time at home, picture the church in your mind and use it to focus your thoughts on the future asking for faith to believe all will be well again. We know it will not be the same but the hope is it will be safe once more to hug and interact with friends and family. Look out for the notice outside the church for opening times but do remember the rules on hygiene and social distancing. We are so blessed with the buildings that have been passed on to us. They are our responsibility, not only to keep but to use. Discover your church, use it, focus on it, use it to pray in faith for the future. Our churches are here for the crisis as they have been in the past. Gradually, as the government allows they are showing signs of opening up. Let us work to keep them open and the church will be here when we need it, whatever befalls. David 3 The next meeting of the Parish Council is on Wednesday 15th July 2019 at 7.30pm to be held remotely via Zoom. All are welcome, if you would like to attend please contact the Parish Clerk: [email protected] for a meeting link Minutes of previous parish council meetings can be viewed on the village website at www.worlingworth.onesuffolk.net Remote Parish Council Meetings – Thank you to those of you who joined us (and stuck with us!) for our first remote meeting, using Zoom. It was a steep learning curve for all, but we will be continuing with this method of meeting until we are allowed to meet in person once again. Thank you – To Bernard Butler for kindly painting the village bench – it’s looking beautiful in its new shiny black coat. Funding Available The Parish Council has some funds available that can be used to help support local charities and village organisations. If your group needs equip- ment or training, we may be able to help. All you have to do is complete a short application for funding form which can be accessed from the village website and submit it to the Parish Clerk, who will put it forward at the next available meeting for consideration. 30 mph Speed Awareness Bin Stickers – We still have stickers available free of charge for parishioners to place on their wheelie bins which act as additional speed limit signs – just contact the Parish Clerk. Do you love trees and nature? - We have a vacancy for a Tree Warden in Worlingworth. The role of the village Tree Warden is to speak up for trees in our village, to save the old ones from the developers and to arrange for the planting of new native trees to offset the losses of trees in our beautiful countryside. The Tree Warden works closely with the Parish Council, which provides funding to support planting and can also provide relevant training for a new Warden. Please contact Brian Smallcombe on 01728 628567 Website Update Emails If you would like to subscribe to a mailing list to receive notifications of when updates have been posted to the village website please email [email protected] with “PC Alerts” in the subject line. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose. 4 http://www.worlingworth.onesuffolk.net/parish-council/coronavirus 5 Worlingworth Primary School Reopen We are delighted that the school reopened from 1st June with some of our youngest and oldest pupils returning to school to learn in small ‘pods’ with a teacher. Whilst the structure of the school day is very different and the children must adapt to practising social distancing in the class room and at playtimes, it is wonderful to see how happy the children are to be back with some of their peers, to see their teachers and to get to grips with school-based learning again. They particularly love the fact that they must have their own pencil cases in school to avoid sharing equipment with others! Following on from further government announcements, we are looking forward to welcoming back more pupils from Years 2,3,4,5 from the start of July to join our Keyworker Pod and Year 6 and Nursery/Reception/Year Home Based Learning We continue to work closely with all our families who remain home-based, providing daily and weekly lessons and topic web activities to complete and we regularly support parents with their learning questions. Recent topics have included the fairy tale adventures called ‘Once Upon A Time’ and a physically challenging topic called ‘Health, Fitness & Sport’. Both topics were taught in school and by our parents and carers at home and it has been wonderful to receive lots of pu- pil’s work from parents and photographs of the children carrying out their Science, Art and Music lessons in the house and more often than not the garden! Giant gingerbread men biscuits, Jack’s magic beans growing very tall, measuring pulses and creating giant maps of the digestive system are just a few examples which spring to mind.