Cambourne Crier July 2021
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JULY 2021 4,600 copies delivered free to Cambourne homes and businesses every month Volunteers help keep Cambourne tidy COMMUNITY LITTER PICK: Cambourne litter picking the sports pitches, skatepark, Town Council would like to thank all the MUGA and surrounding area, collecting enthusiastic volunteers that got involved six full bags in just 50 minutes. with the community litter pick on Saturday 3rd Cambourne Brownies completed a 12th June as part of the Great British litter pick in and around Oaks Wood on Spring Clean. Around 30 bags were School Lane the following Monday. collected over a variety of areas such as Thank you to all the volunteers that took the country park, bridleways, play areas, part! Cambourne is looking very tidy, and woodlands and Morrisons car park. we are sure nature appreciates it too! 1st Cambourne Cub Scouts came along A shout out to T's Me Coffee Pod for on the day to focus on litter picking the providing refreshments to our volunteers Eco Park and trim trail. 2nd Cambourne after they completed the litter pick. Beavers also took part earlier in the week Additional pictures on page 2 Beavers in Tents Cambourne Mela Defibrillators... 2nd Cambourne goes camping Sunshine brings out the crowds ...and where to find them See page 10 for more... More details on page 23... Find out more on page 13... Page 2 Cambourne Crier July 2021 CAMBOURNE CRIER CAMBOURNE TOWN COUNCIL Cambourne Crier is the only independent, non-profit Cambourne Community Fete CALENDAR OF MEETINGS July/August publication delivered to all Cambourne Community Fete will be Cambourne residents each taking place on Saturday 11th September 6th July 7.00pm Planning Committee month. Any profits are distributed 2021, from 12pm to 6pm on Great Followed by Full Council to the community through our Cambourne Green. Community Fund. Cambourne If you would like to attend the fete as a 20th July 7.00pm Planning Committee Crier is compiled entirely by community group, sports club, business or Followed by Leisure & Amenities food vendor, please email Committee volunteers. [email protected] This month’s editors were: If you are a business interested in 3rd August 7.00pm Planning Committee Donavan Bangs, Paul Jobling, sponsoring the event or would like to Followed by Full Council Renata Kovács, Paula Brown, Tapti donate a raffle prize, please email Roy, Kruthika Dwarakanath, Andrea [email protected] or Council meetings have returned to face to Sisneros and Seema Achall. phone the Town Office to discuss further. face and are currently being held at the Distribution: John Panrucker Great Cambourne Cricket Pavilion, Back Finance: Pam Hume Lane. Limited access for public Website & design: Tim Nash attendance due to Covid-19 rules. To advertise please contact: Janet Dobson: (01480) 831066 or [email protected] For leaflet distribution contact: John Panrucker: [email protected] Editorial submissions: All the fun of the fair! Submissions for the August edition Don’t forget that Larry Gray’s Fun Fair will be returning to Great Cambourne must be received by 9pm on Green from Wednesday 14th to Sunday 18th July 2021. Please Saturday 17th July. email articles and photographs to [email protected] You can now mail items to Cambourne Crier The Hub, High Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6GW By submitting photographs you confirm you have permission from the photographer and anyone in the photos for us to print them. GET INVOLVED! If you would like to join our editorial team, please get in touch on [email protected] CRIER COMMUNITY FUND Our community fund enables us to make grants and donations to local clubs, societies or causes. Thank you to all the volunteer litter pickers, helping keep Cambourne tidy! Do you need new equipment for your group? Do you want to set up a new group and need some funding The Town Council Office: The Hub, High Street, Cambourne, CB23 6GW. to get going? Contact [email protected] for more Tel: 01954 71403 or 07875 999028 or email [email protected] information or download the John Vickery, Parish Clerk: [email protected] Jessica Lydon, Community Development: [email protected] application form at www.cambournecrier.org July 2021 Cambourne Crier Page 3 CAMBOURNE TOWN COUNCIL New hotel: Holiday Inn Express You may have seen that the new hotel in Cambourne has rapidly come together over the last month. The asset manager at Molo Hotels has said: “The build is progressing well with no major issues regarding timing so we are on track to complete before the year end with opening still on track for January 2022.” Do you need care visits at home? Greenwood Homecare provides quality care in Huntingdon and the surrounding areas FREE ASSESSMENT DAY, LIVE-IN OR NIGHT CARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit: Greenwoodhomecare.co.uk Email: [email protected] Call: 01480 879645 Page 4 Cambourne Crier July 2021 COMMUNITY Library Opening Tmes Cambourne Library: Mondays 1pm – 5pm Tuesdays 9am – 1pm Extended and revised Fridays 9am – 5pm opening times Saturdays 9am – 1pm Welcome back everyone! We hope that you have enjoyed the Cambridgeshire Libraries Facebook Family page opportunity to browse and choose your own books in a safely @CambslibFamilies. managed way. The Library Service is still planning for the return 5th - 11th July is Health Information Week: Your library is a to our full library offer. Please check the website and the library's great source of information on health matters. Explore our Reading social media platforms for the latest news. Well collections to support your physical and mental health. Rhymetime/Storytime. MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE. IT Facilities: Access by appointment only, with a limit of one We are pleased to announce the return of these sessions on 45-minute appointment per day per customer still in place. No alternate weeks! Please note that they will be held on longer limited to essential use only. Booking can be made online, THURSDAYS until further notice. Rhymetime 9.30am – 10am by telephone, or directly with library staff. Printing and Thursday 8th July and Storytime 9.30am – 10am Thursday 15th photocopying are also available, 20p per A4 black and white July. Limited covid-safe spaces available for you to book on our page and 75p for colour; payment via the linked coin box. website, Eventbrite or by booking at the library reception. The Opera Dudes were back! On the sunny day of Saturday Summer Reading Challenge 2021 – Wild World Heroes: 12th June Cambourne was treated to a repeat performance from We are delighted to announce that the challenge will be running an amazing duo called the Opera Dudes. In our very own in the library for children throughout the school summer holidays. amphitheatre, these classically trained singers once again did not We will be unable to hold our usual disappoint, with a repertoire of popular opera and conversational sessions with you but will take songs that are known and loved. Their appealing delight in congratulating you on your reading interjection of family humour lifted our spirits and and rewarding you with themed stickers, we were thoroughly entertained. Many thanks to handouts and more when you visit during our them and the Library Presents in their open times above.The Reading Agency has commitment to entertaining and enriching our teamed up with the WWF for this special community! nature-themed challenge and it promises to be The Library Presents - Brochures for the latest another big hit with the chance for you to read The Library Presents programmes are available some amazing books and learn more about in the library for you to collect.The full programme how they can look after the planet! Registration is also available online. from Saturday 10th July and the challenge www.library.live/the-library-presents, commences on 19th July. Further information www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/library will be available in the library and online, Tel: 0345 045 5225 Help end period poverty in Cambourne A new project set up with the aim of ending we really hope this can make a difference to period poverty in Cambourne will begin this them. month. The Blue Bag Project will provide free "The initial funding has allowed us to get sanitary products to young people via the started but we'd love support from the local Cambourne Soul Youth Centre and local community. There will be donation points schools. across Cambourne should anyone like to Emma Whitbread, a local youth worker says: donate any sanitary items." "We're delighted to get this project up and If you would like to support the Blue Bag running after we received some funding for the Project through donating or volunteering Blue Bag Project. please visit our website for more details. You "We know there is a need for this and that can also find out more about period poverty many young people and families struggle to and how it impacts young people at afford or have access to sanitary products, so www.cambournesoul.co.uk/bluebag July 2021 Cambourne Crier Page 5 Page 6 Cambourne Crier July 2021 COMMUNITY Look out for glow worms in Cambourne! Cambourne Nature Reserve Update for July 2021: Last year, the first record of a glow worm on Cambourne Nature Reserve was submitted by a Wildlife Trust BCN staff member - we would love to know if there are more, and exactly where they are. on a lead in the Country Park area (around the fishing lake and Glow worms are not worms at all, but beetles. The females do Crow Hill) - even the most well-behaved dogs disturb ground- not have wings and so glow a green colour at night during June nesting birds like skylarks and ducks.