No.047 April 2020
A Monthly Newsletter for Chilmark & Ridge and Fonthill Bishop with Berwick St Leonard
Teddy Bear Hunt Welcome to the April issue of The Village Voice Please join the fun of the Chilmark Bear Hunt and put your Teddies in What a world of difference a month makes. your windows, for passers-by to When the March issue of The Village Voice spot. went to press, Chilmark’s main concerns were the effects of February’s relentless rain, Quarantine Quiz and the likely re-opening date of The Black Huge thanks to the Jacobs family Dog. Roll forward four weeks, the fields and for ensuring we have a date in our footpaths have dried out, the Winterbourne otherwise empty diaries to look level is dropping fast, and every pub in forward to each Thursday night. Britain is closed. How to join in: [email protected] Chilmark set the pace in responding to Wiltshire’s call for a network of village Church Survey volunteers to ensure that everyone’s needs The results of the St Margaret’s would be cared for in the ensuing pandemic. survey are on pages 8&9. Only 29 With our Parish Council chair Patrick Boyles replies were received but it isn’t and his wife Mary already in self-isolation, too late to add your views. Please PC member Morag Philpott stepped forward email them to to offer her services as the village COVID-19 [email protected] - coordinator. Little could she have guessed they will be forwarded to the PCC that, in just over a week, Chilmark’s response in confidence. to her call for help would be featured in The Guardian newspaper and then on BBC Focus Magazine television as an example of communities There is no print version of this pulling together in the face of adversity. month’s Focus magazine but it can be read at www.tisburyfocus.com Three weeks on, the original band of Chilmark & Ridge volunteers has swollen to a remarkable 45, all helping in numerous ways from shopping, to delivering Village Voice website medication, to ensuring that all elderly or vulnerable neighbours have someone Current, recent and back issues looking out for them. If anyone reading this today does not know who their local of The Village Voice can be coordinator is, and needs help, PLEASE contact Morag Philpott by telephone on downloaded from: 01722 717897 or email: [email protected] www.chilmarkvillagevoice.co.uk The majority of Chilmark & Ridge residents are likely to be reading this issue of The In this issue Village Voice online as we’ve restricted the print run to cater only for those residents with no internet access (the purpose being to limit unnecessary footfall round the Contact Numbers 2 village during Coronavirus restrictions). We are concerned that villagers without Village News 4-7 the internet (a larger group than you might think) are missing out on important Church Times 8-10 information and potential support. Please do alert us if you know of anyone who might need assistance during the current difficult times. Other News 12-16 Recycling & Waste 14 Owing to the restrictions, St Margaret’s Church will remain shut this Easter for possibly the first time in its history. We wish you the happiest possible Easter and Local Police 16 thank everyone in the village for their generosity and gestures, large and small, which have made such a difference to the lives of many in recent weeks. The Editorial Team The Village Voice - Village Directory
The Village Voice Editorial Team Copy deadline 20th of each month. Please note that there will be one issue for December & January (copy deadline 20 November) and one issue for July & August (deadline 20 June). Items will be welcomed from any individual or village organisation and should be sent to the Editor. However, newsletter content remains at the discretion of the Editorial Team and on some occasions will be space dependent. If you wish to advertise in the newsletter, please contact the Treasurer. Editor Sarah Miller 01722 717473, [email protected] Whitehill, Beckett’s Lane, Chilmark Deputy Editor/ Treasurer/ Advertising/ Mike Scott 01722 716971 [email protected] Joint Deputy Editor Bev Small 01722 716943 [email protected] Design & Layout Glen Miller 01722 717473 [email protected] Goods & Services Directory Felicity Trotman 01747 820503 [email protected] Distribution Stephanie Lucas 01722 716463 The Village Voice - online : www.chilmarkvillagevoice.co.uk Directory Clerk to the Parish Council Mrs Jenny MacDougall, 01722 790339 [email protected] Chairman, Parish Council Mr Patrick Boyles, 01722 716416 [email protected] Citizens’ Advice Bureau 03444 111444 www.cabwiltshire.org.uk Chilmark & Fonthill Bishop School 01722 716348 www.chilmarkfonthillbishop.wilts.sch.uk Chilmark Cricket Club Carl Jacobs, 07890 894 570 [email protected] Doctors’ Surgery Hindon 01747 820222 www.hindonsurgery.co.uk Doctors’ Surgery Tisbury 01747 870204 www.tisburysurgery.nhs.uk Flooding - emergency number 0300 456 0100 (24hrs) Neighbourhood Watch Mary Boyles, 01722 716416, [email protected] NHS 111 Service Call 111 when you need medical help fast but it’s not a 999 emergency Police (non-emergency) Tel: 101 (emergency? - call 999) Pothole & Fly Tipping Reporting go to www.wiltshire.gov.uk and select ‘Report’ Reading Room bookings Mrs Jenny Gavin, 01722 716306 [email protected] South Wiltshire MP Dr Andrew Murrison, 0207 219 8337 [email protected] Scottish & Southern Electricity 0800 0727282 Power Cut? dial 105 or visit www.powercut105.com Tisbus 07500 802525 www.tisbus.co.uk Tisbury Sports Centre 01747 871141 [email protected] Tisbury Library 01747 870469
Village Show (Horticultural Society) Jo Scott, 01722 716971 [email protected] Wessex Water Leaks: 0800 692 0692 Supply & Sewerage: 0345 600 4600 Wiltshire Council 0300 456 0100 www.wiltshire.gov.uk Wiltshire Councillor Cllr Bridget Wayman, 01747 830406 [email protected]
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Activities Contacts: Social Stitchers - Emily Wilkins on mob 07523 131630 Art Group - Jane Hobbs 01747 871200 Reading Group - Sally Butcher on 01722 716387 or [email protected] Pilates - Shirley Rutter on 07733 085077 or [email protected] Kettlercise - Annabel Webb - 07816 621300 or [email protected] Astronomy - Rod Greening 01722 717462 or [email protected]
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Parish Council News criteria will apply to potential purchasers. To read the latest minutes and future agenda: www.southwilts.com/site/chilmarkparishcouncil/ English Rural is keen to ensure that local buyers or local people are informed of the sale and where to apply at the The Annual Parish Assembly and the AGM of the Parish earliest opportunity. Council scheduled for 6 May 2020 has been cancelled and will not take place until The Government lifts the Stay at Anyone interested should contact Pam Howard of English Home requirements of the Coronavirus Act. Rural on 020 7820 7930 option 2, or email [email protected] As reported in previous issues, Cllr Patrick Boyles was due to retire as Chair of the PC at the AGM and Cllr Liza For more information about English Rural visit: Jack had announced she would not be seeking re-election www.englishrural.org.uk to the Parish Council. These changes are now on hold until the AGM takes place.
Patrick Boyles writes: My term as Chair of the Parish Council continues until the first item of business of the AGM (whenever that is held, either remotely or in physical format depending on what Quiz & Chips Night the Act provides). That first item of business will be for the The Quiz & Chips Night in the Reading Room on Friday members to elect a Chair for the ensuing year, followed by 13 March seems an age ago now, as the last BC (Before election of a Vice-Chair. Coronavirus) event in the Chilmark calendar. Fittingly, we had a bumper turnout, with 44 Quizzers sitting down to With regard to Parish matters that may arise in the absence delicious Fish ‘n Chips served by mobile Chippy Sam and of regular PC meetings during COVID-19 restrictions, Cllr the Frying Machine, up from the New Forest for the night. Boyles explained: Many thanks to Stephanie Lucas at Becketts for generously Subject to advice and guidance…it is probable that myself lending her driveway as venue for the takeaway trailer, as Chair and Sir Richard as Vice-Chair will arrange for once again. business to be conducted remotely with debate, proposals and resolutions recorded and published on our website.
Our Clerk Jenny MacDougall has been keeping members updated with guidance from the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) and the Wiltshire Association of Local Councils (WALC) on what provisions are in the Act in respect of holding meetings remotely – but we are being asked to be patient while the various provisions are analysed in detail before full comprehensive guidance is provided.
Parish Council Clerk vacancy Readers may also be aware that long-serving Parish Clerk Jenny MacDougall had been due to retire with effect from Velazquez, The Rokeby Venus May 2020. In view of the current COVID-19 situation, Jenny has told the Chairman and Vice Chairman that she Thanks also to Henrietta Cockrell for another set of testing is prepared to continue in office for the present time. The Quiz questions that kept the seven teams on their toes process of selecting a successor as Clerk to the Parish right up to the end. The winning team (for the second year Council has therefore been suspended for the time being. running) was the Street Cred partnership of Pattendens and Smalls, plus welcome newcomers to The Street, Peter Latest Planning Applications/Decisions and Eddie Young. Plenty of wine and beer was consumed Ref: 19/12150/FUL and little could anyone present envisage the COVID-19 Meadow House, The Street, Chilmark SP3 5AR conundrum that was about to transform all our lives. Remove existing conservatory and construct new garden room, new parapet to garage and replace garage door and Ahead of us in the Reading Room calendar lay a year new porch with pitched roof, replacing flat roof canopy. filled with exciting events, such as the VE Day Village Tea Approved: 19 March 2020 in May and the Ceilidh Night in June. Sadly, these have now been cancelled and it remains to be seen whether normality will have returned by 30 August, in time for the Frickers Paddock House Sale Family BBQ on the patio. English Rural Housing Association, the Freeholder for the shared ownership housing at Frickers Paddock, has In line with Government restrictions, the Reading Room is asked the Parish Council to help find a new purchaser for now officially closed for all use until further notice; the only 12 Frickers Paddock; the current owners have advised the exception to this is as the dropping off point for Reeve the Association that they wish to move. The Frickers Paddock Baker bread deliveries, from whence the village team of homes are part of an affordable housing development COVID-19 Coordinators kindly distribute the bread bags designed to meet the needs of local people. to homes around the village.
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CPR training I am pleased to report that at the latest CPR training event in the Reading Room on Saturday 7 March we had a ‘full Chilmark & Fonthill Bishop School house’ including, for the first time, a number of children. Following the closure of schools on All those that attended felt the session was worthwhile Government advice, the Head Teacher Mr and appreciated the chance to learn a bit more about our Smith wrote as follows: village defibrillator, even if there were a few sore knees afterwards! Many thanks to Mike Scott for providing the Although the day and timing of school closures was sooner projection. than we had expected, staff had already been working on Lynn Menzies how to remain a school under many roofs instead of one. Each class went home with home learning packs full of resources and exciting things to do. The teachers are now Chilmark Cricket Club sending daily emails to their pupils’ parents, with additional information, work and challenges. The very young are In light of government and ECB advice getting video messages from the staff, as phonics and regarding cricket this season our nets, other learning cannot be delivered by non-experts! warm-up games and fixtures are on hold indefinitely until as such time as the all-clear is given. We are getting lots of replies from the parents and pupils; each is responded to. Teachers are heart broken that The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) notification they will not get to run planned plays, trips, and exams reads as follows: and honestly they miss having their pupils in school. I am emailing the whole school community everyday - keeping Following the Government’s latest advice around social parents advised on guidelines and reminding them to distancing, it is with sadness and reluctance that we contact me if they need help, advice or emotional support. recommend that all forms of recreational cricket are for This is also shared on the School Friends’ Facebook page. now suspended. This extends to training, pre-season Social media is being used to help the parents help each friendlies and any associated cricket activity. other, swapping ideas and sharing encouragement.
Sport plays an absolutely vital role in the nation’s mental When this ends we will gather and share our stories and and physical wellbeing, and it helps people find meaning most likely celebrate with a party. Until then, if pupils can where there is fear and uncertainty, so one of our goals write letters to anyone who is alone, or happy to write back, in the coming weeks will be to explore ways that we can they are keen to spread the Chilmark School happiness. support some levels of physical activity in communities - Please contact me with suggestions on the following email particularly at junior levels. address. Thank you: [email protected] Using our cricket community to support others could be Adam Smith one of the most important services we can offer during the difficult next few months. It will be critical that any decisions www.chilmarkfonthillbishop.wilts.sch.uk we do make are medically-led. And we will continue to work with Government and their advisors to ensure we are informed by science in our decision making. Fonthill Gardens Over the coming weeks we will work with the game to It is with huge sadness that the decision has been made to understand what support is required across the cricket cancel the garden opening in aid of the local Churches on community, particularly local clubs and leagues. We Sunday 10 May 2020. understand that countless hours of work from thousands of volunteers have already gone into getting ready for the As I’m sure you will agree with the current circumstances 2020 season and we know how disappointing this will be. with Covid-19, the health and welfare of our visitors, We are thankful for the huge role that volunteers play in volunteers and staff is of upmost importance and sticking local cricket, to ensure the game remains at the heart of with the government guidelines, it is just not possible to communities. continue with hosting the event.
We know that you and your clubs can play an important We can but hope they create something that can put an role in bringing your community together once we get past end to this horrid virus as soon as possible! this period of time. Charlotte Little Pete Corbin, CCC Secretary
Easter Basket Workshop Thank you Sadly, this year’s Easter Basket Workshop is another We would like to say a huge thank you to all of you who casualty of the Coronavirus restrictions and has had to be emailed and phoned offering help during our self-isolation cancelled. The event was due to take place on Wednesday and to those who left ‘gifts’ on our doorstep. Chilmark is a 8 April in the Reading Room. brilliant village to live in and we really appreciated all your Chrissie Eden kindness. We look forward to thanking you all in person (at a 2 metre distance). Thank you once again, Mary and Patrick Boyles
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A view from Lima, Peru The pub has now been decorated and the new cellar James & Anne Lock of Greensand Cottage have been installation is pretty much complete and beer engines and corresponding with a family friend in Lima about shared soft drinks dispenser have been installed. This is a very Coronavirus experiences. The correspondence provides frustrating time for us all. Please do rest assured that we an insight into familiar problems being faced by people all are very keen to get The Black Dog up and running as over the world. soon as we can. We wish you all well and thank you again. Andrew Killingback From Lima, their friend Marines writes:
It’s so nice to hear from you and to know that you are well Exeter House School and safe! From what you told me, I can tell that you are This year’s Lent Lunch in the Reading Room, cancelled very well organised in London and in the supermarkets! owing to COVID-19 restrictions, would have been in support of Exeter House School, in Salisbury. Exeter We’re living a different situation here. Our quarantine is House is a mixed special school that educates children very extreme! We have not been out of the house (not a with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties. single time) since two-and-a-half weeks. Only Antonio has Although it was not possible to raise money as planned, gone to the supermarket (only one member of the family is any donations would be gratefully received. The school’s allowed to go out for groceries). You have to go walking (no address is: one is allowed to drive unless people who are working to Exeter House Special School, Somersiet Road, provide services such as reporters, supermarkets, doctors, Salisbury SP1 3BL etc). You have to try to only go for groceries once a week For more information, please visit: and you also find queues outside the supermarkets (you www.exeterhouseschool.co.uk are not allowed to enter if you are not wearing a mask/ gloves) and have to be 1m apart from another person. In other supermarkets, they also take your temperature Time for a Bear Hunt before entering. We also have a curfew, from 6pm to 5am, A mass teddy bear hunt is under way around the world to and supermarkets only open from 8.30am to 4pm. help distract the millions of children during the coronavirus restrictions. Favourite teddies are being placed in Children are having a hard time. They’re on distance windows for children to spot whilst walking around their learning plans and it’s stressing for them; they’re neighbourhood with parents. The hunt is inspired by the unmotivated and tired... and in our case, as we live in an children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Please help apartment, we don’t have any open area where they can bring the fun to Chilmark; dig out those favourite teddy play, jump, breathe fresh air. The President was on TV bears and stick them in your windows! today and he said that children will not go back to school until 4 May and that it will be gradually. So, we have to keep home schooling them for a month more (if this doesn’t change). Antonio and I are still working from home so we are also very stressed and exhausted for all the amount of things we have to manage daily...
My dad is alone in his apartment. Maria Paz, who is the one who lives closest to his place, is taking him food daily (you have to have a permission if you’re checking on the elderly). We communicate via FaceTime with him twice a day to chat with him and make sure he is ok. I’m still very worried about him. I worry that he is totally alone in this quarantine and that loneliness can depress him. I also worry that he is taking down his garbage through the elevator and it’s not working very well (the elevator). He got stuck in the elevator the other day and a man from the floor below him heard him and rescued him! He is also cleaning the bathroom and kitchen and at his age that is hard work for him. Hopefully he will be fine and this will come to an end soon!
The Black Dog The planned re-opening of The Black Dog in time for Easter 2020 was yet another casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Manager and Licensee Andrew Killingback has written as follows: Firstly I would like to say a very big thank you to all of the village for your continued support and enthusiasm for the return of the Black Dog. Also thank you to all the applicants for jobs and work at the pub; we will be in contact as soon as we can be, once the Coronavirus has cleared.
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Nauticalia Every Mind Matters An occasional selection of some naval or maritime phrases The NHS is providing advice on looking after your mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus outbreak. 1. Tiddy Oggy (origin obscure): a West Country name Taking care of your mind as well as your body is really for the Cornish Pasty, often shortened to ‘oggy’. West important while staying at home because of coronavirus Countrymen urge on their sports teams with cries of (COVID-19). ‘oggy, oggy, oggy’. The original oggy should have pricked in its pastry either a P for Parsley or an O for Onion. You may feel bored, frustrated or lonely. You may also be A section at one end contained the pudding – apple! low, worried or anxious, or concerned about your finances, your health or those close to you. It’s important to 2. Twelve-oared job: meaning ‘extremely large’; eg, an remember that it is OK to feel this way and that everyone oggy would be described as a 12-oared job if it was reacts differently. Remember, this situation is temporary significantly larger than the norm. The 12 oars referred and, for most of us, these difficult feelings will pass. to the Service Cutter, a 32-foot clinker-built boat pulled (rowed) by twelve men seated 2 x 2. It was a splendid Staying at home may be difficult, but you are helping to sea boat, much better than the spavined 27 foot (and protect yourself and others by doing it. Visit the following five-oared) Whaler. The Cutter could also be sailed, site for more information: preferably with the wind astern. Crash Cutter races, www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/ where the boat was alternately sailed and pulled, were coronavirus-covid-19-staying-at-home-tips/ extremely dangerous and exciting. Alas no more! 10 Minute Work Outs! Patrick Middleton The NHS has devised three 10-minute workout videos that can be done in the privacy of one’s own home, and require no gym equipment. They’re suitable for all ages In the Loop and fitness levels and can be a key element of the 150 Sitting in the Loop, waiting for the up train, minutes of moderate physical activity that we’re urged to (‘We are sorry for the delay that this will cause to your take each week. journey’) I watch the rain fall, The first of the videos – all available on online as below Steadily, unceasingly, remorselessly, no apology. – is a 10-minute Cardio Workout, designed to get your My gaze is level with a line of posts heart rate pumping. Second up is a simple Strengthening Carrying a wavering fence up the slope of the down. Workout routine to build your strength and balance and Growth of new grass pushes green tone your muscles. Finally, there’s a 10-minute Cool Through the grey of tussocks of the year gone by. Down Stretching video, perfect for cooling down after Dead stalks waving in the wind mark patches of nettles. a brisk walk, run or cycle. Visit: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/ All sodden, all drear, all familiar, too often here. for-your-body/move-more/home-workout-videos/ My reverie is broken: the up train passes. Silence for a while – no noise from the changing points, Then the engines under the carriages kick in, We move forward, past the railway cottages, Past ‘Do not alight here’ into the station. We step down carefully, it’s quite a drop, Stream along the platform, round the corner, Where some look anxiously for cars to meet them, And some plod though the rain towards the square that isn’t, Checking the level of the spating Nadder as we pass. And now how long ago it seems… Raymond Jack
#StayInWorkOut To ensure we keep active whilst spending far more time at home than we might like, Sport England has launched a brand-new campaign, funded by The National Lottery.
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Visit the website below to find lots of fun and creative ideas on how to get active in your home. There’s also the latest advice on making the most of the fresh air during your daily walk, run or cycle, whilst improving your fitness. www.sportengland.org/stayinworkout
7 Focus Point St Margaret of Antioch, Chilmark - 2020 Survey Results As I write this article, Coronavirus (Covid 19) has just been declared a pandemic. Italy has closed its borders and is 29 responses received in all: four by email; 25 in writing in a state of lock down, with all shops closed except food shops and pharmacies. The Anglican & Catholic churches 24 responders say they WOULD like to see greater are not able to share the common cup of wine in the Holy community use of the church building? Communion/Mass services. Our own government has a Cobra meeting today to discuss implementing stricter 16 said they WOULD make more use of the church if it had rules to prevent the spread of the virus. By April we could better facilities. In addition to above, two said probably; two be very restricted with our movements and large public said possibly/perhaps; one said if needed; and two further gatherings of people may have been stopped. Or we could responders asked for specific improvements whilst not be through the worst and life may be more back to normal. committing to whether these would make any difference to their use of the building (ie total of 7 in this latter grouping). It is a strange time for us all and coming after the frequent bad weather, with flooding in parts of the UK, it is rather Improvements/new facilities as prioritised by a double whammy. But a note of hope: between 12 April responders: (Easter Day this year) and 31 May (Pentecost - the Toilets & Kitchen facilities were the most requested Coming of the Holy Spirit), Christians throughout the world improvements, with a number of people giving them equal celebrate the Easter season. We remember that although importance; Jesus was treated cruelly, suffered hugely and was unjustly Removal of pews and good heating also featured high put to death by crucifixion, God raised him from the dead on the list of changes needed. The figures below are the to show that whatever evils befall us, death is not the end most accurate extrapolation possible given a lot of people if we trust in Jesus who has conquered death through his named both Toilets & Kitchens but not necessarily in the Resurrection. This means that in the greatest sufferings same order: we can know the support of Jesus when we pray for help. He suffered too and thus understands our suffering and 18 responders said a Toilet / disabled toilet was needed; can help to bring us peace of mind. 15 of these viewed Toilet/s as essential / a priority 16 called for a Kitchenette, or at least minimal catering One of my favourite stories of the Resurrection is from St facilities with hot running water plus sink (separate to WC) John’s Gospel, Chapter 20 in the Bible. Mary Magdalene, and somewhere to heat drinks/food. one of Jesus’ friends, has gone to the tomb to pay respects to Jesus and anoint his body but finds the tomb empty and 13 called for the removal of pews (not necessarily is crying outside the tomb. Jesus is in the garden and sees all pews) to create a space for events, community use, her grief and asks her why she is crying. She does not exhibitions, gatherings, functions, maybe workshops, etc recognise him immediately but when he calls her name Suggestions ranged from removing just the ‘back’ pews ‘Mary’, she realises it is Jesus. He calls her out of her (ie from main South entrance back), or the north side aisle sorrow towards rejoicing that he is alive and sends her to pews between the organ and the west door - perhaps tell the other disciples that he has risen and is returning relocating them to the Lady chapel - to removing all of to his Father, to God, who is their Father too. Mary is them. Moveable (comfortable) chairs to replace the pews. delighted to share the good news that Jesus is alive and Comments from responders included: she has seen him! This true story reminds us that death is not the end. • The church building cannot be very flexible with pews in place. You can see this story depicted in a plaster relief in St • It is essential that the church building can be used John’s Church, Tisbury. Just go in (when our churches for other community purposes in the future. At the reopen), turn left and you will see a stone altar ahead moment that is not possible because of the fixed of you on the left of the church. This is the Lady Chapel pews… which is a place where you can sit quietly and reflect. To • There are very good examples of re-purposed the left of the altar, in an alcove, is a beautiful 19th Century churches, where the building can be reconfigured for rendition of the story. It shows the empty tomb with the the wider community. stone rolled away, with 2 angels seated there. Outside we • Such a lovely church but definitely needs a new see Mary Magdalene kneeling before Jesus, gazing at him lease of life! in relief and Jesus who is looking lovingly back at her. Do go and see it for yourself and spend some much needed 10 responders specified better Heating as a requirement: quiet moments there. this ranged from simple requests for warmth to calls for Green heating / heating conservation and a more efficient Wishing you all a Happy and Hopeful Eastertide. system. Revd Juliette Hulme Service arrangements 18 responders said they felt change was required either St Margaret of Antioch Church Survey to service time or content or both. In February, Chilmark and Ridge residents were asked by the Parochial Church Council (PCC) to complete a survey 11 people said they’d like to see earlier and shorter about the future role of St Margaret’s in village life. Owing services; seven people said they would like to see the to the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, the PCC has introduction of an Evensong service. Suggested morning not yet had an opportunity to discuss the findings of the service start times ranged from 9am, through 9.30 & 10, to survey, which are as below: 10.30am at the latest. ...next page 8 Suggested service lengths varied from 20 minutes to 45 the Church, Clergy and time and nature of Services. minutes. Three people said they were happy with/ the • Could the churchyard be used for intro to wildlife/bug current 11.15 am start time. hunt sessions by the school/pre-school? Might a local wildlife trust be able to help? Comments included: • Could organisations such as history societies be • Most families with children are so busy all week encouraged to meet in the church on the basis of its including Saturdays, that’s it hard to have one’s obvious historical associations? Or could the church Sunday – the one free family day – effectively used building be used as part of an Art Society trail by up… until lunchtime. hosting occasional exhibitions? • Book stall for 2nd hand books. • Would it be feasible to have a Sunday Service at 9am • Can it be used for concerts, plays, dinner & quiz once a month to allow people a full Sunday for other nights, sleep-overs? Would photographers, film & TV commitments, and otherwise on a weekday evening be interested in it as a set or background? with a shorter service..? • Try mothers’ morning teas (after school drop off) one morning a week. • A 10am start to the Sunday Service might be more • Churches such as St Thomas’s in Salisbury have popular, particularly for families with children. 11.15 coffee mornings and associated fundraising by sale of does seem a bit late. 2nd hand books and other events.
• Shorter services (45 minutes). Not all communion The above are a selection of a wide range of opinions services. Start services at 9.30 or 10am latest. & suggestions. Overall, feedback was positive, and one person thanked the PCC for the opportunity to express Service Type & Content their views. No shortage of feedback about content of the services, as per comments below: • The hymns and services at St Margaret’s feel too Children and Families: Church isn’t stopping – it’s traditional. Please consider modernising both to changing! attract younger people. Singing hymns people In light of the restrictions, our usual fab Easter Workshop recognise makes them happy and they are more will not physically take place this Easter Week - but we likely to return. Not recognising the hymns or singing will be producing a virtual “Workshop at Home” set of then to an unknown tune too often puts people off resources so that all of us can explore the Easter Story attending. together. We’ll have ideas for makes and bakes, for music • More good musical hymns to sing, not struggling with and hopefully some film links and some challenges for you tunes we don’t know! to film and photograph to share. If you’ve got good ideas • I hate the ‘peace’ in the service. If it has to be in, it email either Rev Jo on [email protected] or should be at the beginning or the end of the service. Rev Elaine on [email protected] • The hymn selection (and their contents) is poor and they are too long. We seem to have lost the Details can also be found on thg What’s Going On in leadership and ability to pray and be inspired. Tisbury Facebook page. • Reduction in use of Psalms and old fashioned Revd Jo Naish translations of the Bible; reduction in use of old fashioned hymns. • I think more familiar hymn tunes would be Church Flowers appreciated. Many thanks to everyone who provided flower • I like the current time and length of the services. I arrangements for St Margaret’s last year. As there are no also generally like the different formats and find them services until further notice we have delayed issuing the endearingly familiar, but I am aware that others find usual Flower Arrangers’ Rota. Thank you. our services inaccessible. We should therefore offer Stephanie Lucas & Bev Small a greater variety of services.
Other suggestions St Margaret’s Church Notices There were lots of interesting suggestions – too many to list Owing to the onset of COVID-19 restrictions, the annual here. Two people wanted to see an annual pets’ blessing Lent Lunch had to be cancelled along with the Churchyard serving as something that would appeal to children. One tidy-up planned for the last weekend in March. resident suggested setting up weekly giving of £1 from each household in the village as a way of raising regular In addition, the Annual Parochial Church Council Meeting funds. set for Sunday 26 April, has been postponed until further notice. This means that the filling of PCC vacancies that Other suggestions included the following (but there were were due to arise at the annual meeting, as well as the many more): post of Church Warden, will now be on hold until the Annual meeting can take place. • The opportunity for visitors to a light a candle would be a nice added facility, and could provide additional The church itself will remain locked until Coronavirus income. restrictions have been lifted. • Breakfast before / after a short informal service once a month. • A board at the entrance to the Churchyard to identify 9 Benefice of Nadder Valley (Team Ministry)
TEAM CLERGY Revd Dr Graham Southgate, (Team Rector). The Rectory, Shaftesbury Road, Fovant, SP3 5JA 01722 714826 Parish Priest responsible for Ansty, Compton Chamberlayne, Fonthill Gifford, Fonthill Bishop with Berwick St Leonard, Fovant, Sutton Mandeville, Swallowcliffe, and Tisbury. email: [email protected].
Revd Elaine Brightwell, (Team Vicar) 01722 717883 Parish Priest responsible for Barford St Martin with Burcombe, Baverstock, Chilmark, Dinton, and Teffont Evias with Teffont Magna. email: [email protected]
Revd Juliette Hulme (Team Vicar) The Rectory, Park Road, Tisbury, SP3 6LF 01747 871957 Parish Priest responsible for Fonthill Bishop with Berwick St Leonard, Fonthill Gifford, and Tisbury. email: [email protected]
ASSOCIATE PRIESTS Revd Mark Hayter, High Spinney, Sutton Road, Fovant, SP3 5LF 01722 785176 Parish Priest responsible for Hindon with Chicklade and Pertwood email: [email protected] Revd Jo Naish, Coombe Warren, Hindon Lane, Tisbury, SP3 6QQ 01747 871820 email: [email protected] Revd. Tina Fox, The Pightle, The Street, Teffont, Salisbury, SP3 5QP 01722 716010 email: [email protected]
LICENSED LAY MINISTERS Canon Judy Anderson, 29 Brook Close, Tisbury SP3 6PW 01747 873142 Mrs Thelma Caughey, Steeple Close, High Street, Hindon SP3 6DJ 01747 820840
PARISH CENTRE Hinton Hall, Church Street, Tisbury SP3 6NH 01747 871697 9.30-11am Monday-Friday email: [email protected]
TEAM ADMINISTRATOR Mrs Carol Sayes, Cleeve Hill, Vicarage Road, Tisbury SP3 6HZ 01747 871805 email [email protected]
CHURCHWARDENS Chilmark, St Margaret of Antioch Fonthill, All Saints with Berwick St Leonard Mrs Jane Middleton 01722 716231 The Hon Mary Morrison 01747 820231 Mr Richard Haupt 01722 717472
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Parish Priest: Fr. Robert Miller, Trellis House, High Street, Tisbury SP3 6JR 01747 870228 [email protected] MASSES Tisbury, Sacred Heart: Sunday 9am (sung) & 6.30pm (said) Wardour, All Saints: Sunday 11am (sung)
TISBURY METHODIST CHURCH Minister: Revd Denise Binks, 7 Ridge Way, Shaftesbury SP7 9HB, [email protected] 01747 854631 Sunday Service: 10.30am
CHILMARK CHURCH, ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH Choir Felicity Pattenden [email protected] 01722 716271 Organists David Davies [email protected] 01722 714440 Hannah Haupt, Richard Haupt 01722 717472 Bells Linda Jones [email protected] 01747 870595 Angus Menzies [email protected] 01722 717925
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Tisbury Surgery - Surgery Premises your life. Please use them. Coronavirus - the best advice is still social distancing and thorough hand washing procedures. We have implemented changes to reduce the risk to you and also our staff. If we introduce COVID-19 into Covid 19 causes a fever, muscle aches, persistent cough, the surgery we will shut for two weeks and that could shortness of breath, headaches and in some cases disastrously disrupt the uninterrupted supply of your diarrhoea. medications.
Please do not come into the surgery if you have any We are screening all appointments via telephone before concerns that you might have Coronavirus. If you are very your appointment. So if you want to be seen you must unwell call 999 and alert the operator to your concern - phone us first and you will be assessed by a clinician. otherwise we would encourage patients to check online at: The telephone lines have been very busy and if the call https://111.nhs.uk/service/COVID-19/ or, if you have no is not urgent email us on [email protected] Please internet access, call 111. keep any call to the matter in hand. If you already have an appointment booked please do not attend the surgery Advice changes on a daily basis and the surgery cannot until you have been told to do so by a doctor or nurse. give out advice other than what is already available online. We are working through these appointments and should We have no ‘inside’ information. Please therefore do not be contacting you with changes (the hospital is doing the call in for advice without checking the existing information same and have stopped all routine operations, tests and online first. referrals. If waiting for one of these, they will contact you, not us, and as we cannot refer or request tests it is helpful There is excellent advice online, including answers to not to ask us to do these either). If your request is urgent ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ to ensure you have the most please tell the receptionist who will put the call though to up to date information, at: the GP. www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19- information-for-the-public All of us are at risk but those at HIGH risk should be particularly stringent in following social distancing We are trying to minimise footfall at the surgery. All measures. We do not want any of these people to pick up appointments for the foreseeable future will be via prescriptions from the surgery – use your volunteers or low telephone. If you have a medical issue, please call the risk friends. You are at high risk if you are: surgery, and be prepared to give brief details to the receptionist and you will be added to the ‘telephone list’. • aged 70 or older (regardless of medical conditions) You will then be called by a clinician who may offer: • under 70 with an underlying health condition listed below (ie anyone instructed to get a flu jab as an adult • telephone advice each year on medical grounds): • ask you to come into the surgery • chronic (long-term) respiratory diseases, such as • arrange to visit you at home asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema or bronchitis In line with guidance from the Department of Health, • chronic heart disease, such as heart failure Wiltshire CCG and all NHS contractors, our fax is being • chronic kidney disease de-commissioned. Remember you can always register for • chronic liver disease, such as hepatitis online access and order prescriptions via that method. • chronic neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis The building work is at the surgery is now complete. (MS), a learning disability or cerebral palsy We now have a new GP consulting room and a vastly • diabetes improved room for use by the physiotherapy, podiatry and • problems with your spleen – for example, sickle cell heart failure clinicians when they are able to return to work disease or if you have had your spleen removed in Tisbury. • a weakened immune system as the result of conditions Dr Laurence Carter, Dr.Adam Smith such as HIV and AIDS, or medicines such as steroid tablets or chemotherapy • being seriously overweight (a body mass index (BMI) Hindon Surgery - COVID-19 of 40 or above) If you are unwell or have concerns that you may have • those who are pregnant Coronavirus please do not visit the surgery but go to https://111.nhs.uk/service/COVID-19/ for advice. Some patients with very severe illness or immunocompromised will be in a VERY HIGH risk group The way we provide primary medical care has changed and should have received a shielding letter from the completely as we cope with COVID-19. The role of hospital. general practice is not to manage patients who may have COVID-19 - please use the NHS111website or 111. We Our advice for all in a very high risk group is to stay at are doing all the rest – but almost all of it by telephone, home or garden for the next three months. All in high risk email or giving advice on self-management. It is vitally groups should do the same, plus a solitary exercise walk/ important that you do not catch COVID-19 and that means cycle once a day if you can do this without regular contact staying at home. Not following this advice may kill you and with others exercising - continue this until restrictions relax. also put others at risk. Almost everyone understands this but we still see patients at high risk leaving home, going This is potentially stressful as we tend to like the society of shopping or coming to the surgery unnecessarily. There is family and friends but it will stop the virus and save your no need to do this as the volunteer groups are running and life and those of others. There is masses of advice about can get medicines and supplies for you without you risking 12 The Village Voice how to get through this and Google has never been more useful in finding it. www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/ coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips/ is a useful website with advice on maintaining your general well-being.
Things are changing every day and we would advise you to visit: www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19- information-for-the-public for up-to-date information.
Carer Support Wiltshire are not offering face to face assistance at this time but are available for advice or a chat on 0800 181 4118.
A key priority for the surgery has been to maintain the safe and timely delivery of your medications and we have now set up a system for delivery of prescriptions to those who are self-isolating or at high risk and who do not have someone who can collect for them. Please contact your local group coordinator (Morag Philpott and Angus Menzies in Chilmark). There is no need to order more than your usual quantities at one time, or use online pharmacies, because we will ensure that you get your medicines.
Thank you for your cooperation and all the expressions of support and also the clapping that was very moving and much appreciated. Working together we can beat this but please, please stay at home, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, social distance and think very carefully before you leave home. It will save your life and not endanger the lives of others. See our website for periodic updates: www.hindonsurgery.co.uk Dr Craig-McFeely & Dr Hayes
Wiltshire Wellbeing Hub Wiltshire Council has set up a dedicated hub to support the most vulnerable residents during the ongoing COVID-19 situation.
The Wiltshire Wellbeing Hub is available to anyone who is struggling during this difficult time, such as people who are shielding or self-isolating and don’t have a support network around them or know where to get help.
Our team can help provide support but also signpost people to where additional help is available in their local area, with hundreds of community groups set-up across the county providing invaluable assistance.
People can get in touch with the hub via email at [email protected] or by calling 0300 003 4576. It’s available from 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-4pm Saturday and Sunday.
Free Radios for over-70s Radio is a vital source of news, information and companionship in these unprecedented times and BBC local radio wants to ensure as many people as possible have access to it. It has teamed up with manufacturers, retailers and a loneliness charity to offer free DAB radios to the most vulnerable people aged 70+. If you wish to nominate someone for a free radio, please visit: https:// wavelength.org.uk or telephone 01708 621101.
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Recycling & Waste Collection for April ‘Customers who currently pay for garden waste collections will not have to do anything; the council will contact them Just a reminder that recycling collection arrangements from 15 June when details for the 2020/21 renewals changed with effect from 10 March. process will be sent out.
From now on, Black Boxes take just glass bottles, jars ‘During this period, collections of garden waste will and textiles. continue, provided our contractor has sufficient staff to maintain service delivery, given the risk of absence as Everything else recyclable goes in your Blue lidded bin, some staff have to self-isolate. including: plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays; cartons, cans, tins, aerosols and foil; newspaper, paper and ‘Finally, we’d like to reiterate the fantastic job that our waste cardboard crews are doing as they deliver this essential service in challenging circumstances, and please, if you want to say Your bins should be out ready for collection by 7am, on thank you to our hard-working crews, please thank them or days as specified below. wave from afar and observe social distancing at all times.’
Items that are NOT recyclable are: Household Recycling Centres Following the government guidance on staying at home, Black plastic (eg food trays), foil-lined cardboard tubes all household recycling centres are now closed until further (eg Pringles). cling film and other films, plant pots, plastic notice. furniture, carrier bags, coffee ‘pods’ (eg Tassimo), duvets & pillows, batteries, books, unpaired shoes, sweet wrappers, Food Waste composters shiny wrapping paper, soiled or wet textiles, knives, flat Wiltshire council has team up with Great Green Systems glass/cooking dishes, pots and pans, polystyrene. to offer Wiltshire residents discounted food waster composters. The purpose is to enable residents to recycle Tuesday 7 all their food and garden waste at home. The hot composter, Blue lid (mixed dry recycling) known as a Green Johanna, recycles all kinds of waste Black box (glass) Green lid - garden waste (no compost) food, even cooked food, bones, meat and fish. They are available for £50, discounted from the normal online price Tuesday 14 - Household waste (grey bin) of £128.68. The composters can be purchased from the Great Green System website: www.greatgreensystems. Tuesday 21 - Blue lid, Black box, Green lid com - simply enter your postcode in the Council Offers search bar. Alternatively, call Great Green Systems on Tuesday 28 - Household waste 0800 731 2572.
For more information on what to recycle and in which bin, or to order extra bins, please visit: Tisbus www.wiltshire.gov.uk/recycling Due to COVID-19, TISBUS has cancelled all regular shopping trips and member outings for the time being in order to help protect our members, volunteers and the Important Waste Disposal Information! community. NB: Anyone who suspects they may have symptoms of COVID-19 should put waste tissues, disposable cleaning TISBUS is working with the Tisbury Neighbourhood cloths and wipes into a plastic bag and tie the bag when Response team which is helping local people with full. Then they should double-bag it in a second bin bag shopping, prescriptions and postal deliveries, and other and tie it up before storing these bags for at least 72 hours essential support. You can register for assistance at: (three days) and then placing them in their normal wheeled http://bit.ly/registertisbury or call: 01747684010 bin
Garden Waste collection Wiltshire Council has postponed the renewal process for garden waste collection until 15 June, due to the pressure on council services because of COVID-19. Garden waste collections will continue, provided the council’s contractor has sufficient staff to maintain service delivery.
Customers who have already paid for the garden waste collection service will continue to have their garden waste collected until 30 June 2020. Residents should continue to place their garden waste bins out with their red stickers as usual. The council will contact you in due course with details of the renewal process. Collections will continue from 1 July.
Wiltshire Council CEOs, Alistair Cunningham and Terence Herbert, said: ‘Given the challenges we’re facing due to COVID-19, we have taken the decision to defer the renewal process for our garden waste collection service for two months. 14 The Village Voice
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Wiltshire Police News People living with domestic abuse, or those who know There were no crime reports forwarded to someone living with the impacts of it, can call the National us this month and the Police news relates Domestic Abuse Helpline 0808 2000 247. This is a free to initiatives & statements resulting from phone service, in partnership with Women’s Aid and the COVID-19 situation. Refuge. However, in an emergency call 999.
101 calls to be Free The Wiltshire charity Splitz Support Service is also The Home Office has announced the offering domestic abuse support services during the week, scrapping of charges for calling 101, the non-emergency and can respond to people’s concerns. police number, with immediate effect. Until now, callers Email: [email protected] or call their Helpdesk on: reporting crimes, passing on intelligence, or ringing for an 01225 775276. More info: www.splitz.org update have been charged a 15 pence connection fee.
Wiltshire Police & Crime Commissioner Angus Macpherson Heating Oil deliveries welcomed the news:‘The police are currently working in The oil supply situation is affected by COVID-19, like so unchartered territory, having to engage with the public in many other hitherto normal areas of life. Richard Willan different ways and it’s important to me that the police are of the Nadder Oil Buying Club has shared his thoughts on as accessible as possible and today’s announcement is a the situation. really positive step forward,’ he said. Price - in the middle of March, prices were very low but Over the past two years, significant investment has gone then they went up quite steeply. By the end of March, they into improving the performance of the Force’s crime were dropping back down again, as you would expect and communications centre after concerns about its when the Saudis and the Russians are slugging it out effectiveness. The time is takes to answer a 101 call has to see who can pump most oil. The other area affecting improved from just over five minutes in 2017 to 1.20minutes prices is the fact we are down to just three Refineries at the end of 2019. producing kerosene; only a few years ago, there were 10 such refineries. In addition, one of the remaining three was Scammers Capitalise on Coronavirus crisis badly hit by Covid-19 very early on; as a result, practically Criminals are sending emails offering fake medical support all its kerosene production was halted. This has had a and supplies, and tricking people who may be vulnerable, knock-on effect as supplies have had to come from West frightened or increasingly isolated at home, Wiltshire Wales and Scotland. police have warned. They say these fraudsters try to lure people in with offers that look too good to be true or make Lead time - the normal Nadder Oil Buying Club (NOBC) appeals to support bogus charities. delivery window went out from two weeks to four weeks. Demand - with a combination of quite cool weather and Reports from the public have included online shopping many more people (including children) at home, demand scams where people have ordered protective facemasks, is higher than normal in April. hand sanitiser and other items via auction sites, which have never arrived. There have also been a number of Advice - as always, the best advice is to keep your tank cases where fake testing kits have been offered for sale. topped up so that you have a cushion against unexpected peaks in demand. Where people run out, or find themselves To contact your Community Policing Team (CPT) about a getting very low, I contact the supplier and always receive community-related matter, such as a school visit, please a very sympathetic response. If you want advice don’t email: [email protected] hesitate to email me on [email protected] Please note that this mailbox is not monitored 24/4
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