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Recycling in the Parish Office Please note we can now recycle cracker wrappers as 2018 Diary Dates well as biscuit wrappers. The Wren With the New Year well underway, it’s time to ‘save the date’ for some future events coming up. of Warfield Vegetable Take & Grow Newsletter of Warfield Parish Council Whitegrove Community Centre - Sunday 29 April, March 2018 (issue 78) 11.30am to 1pm Parish Office: 7 County Lane, Warfield, RG42 3JP Tel: 01344 457777 Warfield Parish Assembly Open Monday - Friday 9.30am - 12.30pm Whitegrove Community Centre - Wednesday 2 May, Email: [email protected] 7.45pm www.warfieldparishcouncil.gov.uk Twitter: @WarfieldPC Warfield Village Fete Facebook: Warfield Parish Council Memorial Ground - Saturday 9 June Warfield & Winkfield family cycle ride Parish Assembly & Warfield Awards Carnation Hall, Winkfield - Sunday 24 June, time TBC You are invited to attend the annual Warfield Parish Parish Council Summer of Fun event Assembly on Wednesday 2nd May at 7.45pm in Memorial Ground - Friday 27 July Whitegrove Community Centre. As well as receiving a report on the activities of the council, we will present Pumpkin Show our annual awards for outstanding contribution to the New Leathern Bottle Pub - Date TBC (Usually in parish. September) We are looking for nominations for the Warfield and Chairman’s Award which is presented annually at the Measuring of the Tallest Sunflower Parish Assembly to an individual/couple and a group Competition who, respectively, have made a significant contribution More details in the next Wren (usually in September) to the community in Warfield. If you know of an individual/couple/group who you Binfield, Warfield & Winkfield Arts Week feel has made an outstanding contribution over the last Several venues across the 3 Parishes - Sunday 22 to year then we’d like to hear from you. Please contact us Sunday 28 October at the Parish Office by 6th April. Beacon lighting to commemorate the centenary of ending of World War 1 Venue TBC - Sunday 11 November and don’t forget the Bracknell Half Marathon passes through the parish on the morning of Sunday 13 May. Printed on environmentally friendly paper. A small change to your Wren Warfield Village Fete Parish/Borough Councillor Surgeries We have changed the delivery times for the Wren so we The Parish Council holds monthly surgeries in the Parish can keep you better informed and updated throughout Office when Parish and local Borough Councillors are the year. So look out for future Wren’s in June, available to enable residents to discuss any views or September and November this year. issues they have. So, if you have any planning, litter, parking, open space or any other issues, then why not Warfield Neighbourhood Plan come along to the Parish Office to meet your Councillors The Warfield Neighbourhood Plan is nearing completion on:- following the consultation period held last summer. Final The ever popular Warfield Village Fete takes place Saturday 7 April 10am – 12 noon production has been slightly delayed by the publication on Saturday 9 June on the Memorial Ground. Lots of Saturday 5 May 10am – 12 noon of the Bracknell Forest Draft Local Plan, but it is hoped exciting events and activities are planned. Look out for Saturday 2 June 10am – 12 noon the final version will be completed and submitted to posters around the parish for more information. Bracknell Forest Council by the end of April. No need to book – just pop in at a time to suit Warfield Grow & Share Vegetable Take & Grow Warfield Grow and Share are award winning Gardening Competition Warfield Parish Councils popular family Vegetable Take community veg growers looking for new members. They Our Annual best front garden competition will be taking and Grow event takes place on Sunday 29 April from are an enthusiastic group with a mixture of ages and place again this summer. Look out for more details in the 11.30 am to 1pm at the Whitegrove Community Centre. experiences who grow fruit and veg as a group and June edition of the Wren, but in the meantime, get those Once again we are looking for your help, we need share as a group at Jealotts Hill Community Landshare. green fingers active! volunteers to grow and donate seedlings to the event - Contact Geoff Minchell on 07454 370101 for more we can provide seed trays/pots if required. If you are details or email [email protected]. able to help then please contact the Parish Office. www.wargrow.wordpress.com As well as providing free vegetable and herb seedlings Library Volunteers for residents to ‘grow their own’ there will be the Volunteers are needed to help at Whitegrove library in opportunity for children to plant seeds, design plant Warfield. Volunteers will assist the library staff or help labels and take part in our free competition. with the regular groups that meet there. The Library Children can also plant their sunflower seeds ready especially welcomes help on Thursdays, Fridays and to grow for our tallest sunflower competition. As usual Saturdays. Training will be provided if you can provide experts will be on hand to help out with any vegetable the time. growing questions you may have! More details on the Bracknell Forest Website or ask at the library. Warfield Community Hub Survey Thank you to everyone who took part in the Warfield Budget 2018/19 Community Hub survey that featured in the last edition The Parish Council has set its budget and precept level of the Wren. As part of new housing development for 2018/19. Warfield residents continue to pay the in Warfield, Bracknell Forest Council requires the lowest parish precept per dwelling in Bracknell Forest, developers to provide funding for a new on-site with a band D council tax property contributing £37.40 community hub and for improvements to the Priory per year. Field open space. The results of this survey work have This year we will be making further improvements to been fed into an initial design brief and further work is the Whitegrove Community Centre as well as installing now being undertaken to develop concepts for the site. defibrillators at parish buildings. We are continuing to Warfield Parish Council is working with Bracknell Forest run our popular events including Arts Week and Summer Council and their consultants on this exercise and we of Fun as well as supporting local groups and charities hope we can provide you with further updates on the with grants. project in the coming months. .