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WOOTTONPARISH MAG Serving the community of Wootton Parish March 2021 Local government changes Wootton Wombles Stanley the Sinkhole and all the local goings on Making Wootton Parish a Better Place Council of the Year 2020 to Live, Work and Play Council of the Year 2020 Residents of Wootton Parish WOOTTONPARISH MAG Your Council Needs You! From the In this issue Chairman Wootton Seniors Club Cllr Noel Lodge A surprise for all! 6 Wootton Parish Council is a democratically elected body which was created in May 2015. Welcome to the second edition Wootton Parish Council It is the first tier of local government and of the Wootton Mag. We are very News from the Council 7 has a range of statutory powers which may pleased to be able to produce this Mag for you and hope you will let be excised if voted on. With the introduction As a Councillor representing your community us have some feedback to ensure we are producing Managing flood risk of Unitary Councils in April 2021 it will you will help keep it a great place to live and something you wish to receive. probably receive more powers and gain more work. You will be supported in your role and will Environment Agency advice 14 responsibility following the reorganisation of be expected to undertake training. You should Some important pieces of information relevant to local government in Northamptonshire. be comfortable working electronically. You everyone are included this time. Please pay special Wootton Wombles should have a positive outlook and a can-do attention to the article on the National Census; it is Overground Underground . 17 The Council has the power to Precept (tax) compulsory for all households to complete it and there attitude and be willing to work as part of a local residents to provide services in the is a fine should you not. We also have elections this year team. Building for the future Parish; it is currently involved in many projects due to the change in local government reorganisation An update from the including extending Wootton Community and the Parish Council will also go to election - detailed information has been included in this Mag. Community Centre 22 Centre and bringing the Library under it’s Are you eligible? wing. If you are over the age of 18 and live or work in Special articles featuring our newly created “Wootton Local government changes Wootton Parish or within a three-mile radius, Wombles”, our local Member of Parliament Andrea Would you like to get involved? you can stand as a Parish Councillor in the Leadsom, and “Stanley” the sink hole, make for good Hello West Northants Council 26 election in May. It is really important that the reading on top of our usual articles. The Parish Council has twelve Councillors Parish Council has a range of different ages Stanley the Sinkhole each having a responsibility to attend Going forward we would like to create a page entitled, and demographics so all candidates are very An unwelcome seasonal visitor 32 meetings and participate in debate and “Pride of Wootton”. We would love to feature those welcome. decision making. A Parish Councillor is not local residents who generously contribute their time E-Scooter advice a volunteer, they are the holder of a public to make a difference to our community. If you know of residents who fit this description, please contact the office. How can you apply? Do’s and Don’t’s 34 Parish Council using the usual email address. If you are interested in becoming a Parish Cover image It’s election time at the Council! Councillor and making decisions that make Noel A dramatic frosty morning captured a real different to the local Community of Expressions of interest are welcomed from Chairman, Wootton Parish Council by Mark Hardy Wootton please contact your Parish Clerk for anyone who is over 18 years old. 01604 705055 more information. Wootton Mag does not accept any responsibility for errors Contact your Parish Clerk, Mrs Tina Charteress at the Parish Office: and omissions in this publication, or for the accuracy of Telephone: 01604 705055 claims made by advertisers. Views expressed by contributors are their own and are not necessarily shared by the Email: [email protected] publishers. This publication has no political bias. Council of the Year 2020 Website: www.woottonparishcouncil.gov.uk Council of the Year 2020 March 2021 3 WOOTTON PARISH MAG parents and wider members of their families and our community for their continued support – our online live lessons approach has certainly received lots of positive feedback. It would be remiss of us to not mention A truly festive feeling! here the generosity of both our school, and wider, community for their kind donations of digital devices which have played a huge part in ensuring our students continued to benefit from excellent teaching whilst learning remotely from home. Thank you! On Friday 11th December, our secondary current circumstances and this was a lovely We are proud of our online learning provision students demonstrated an incredible display opportunity for them to give something back We are delighted to contribute to the second of generosity by contributing a vast array of to the community in which they live and learn. edition of WoottonMag. and on-site Lateral Flow Testing (LFT) provision; the latter has been in place since festive goodies and store cupboard essentials It was just a token, we know that Christmas So much has happened recently with the beginning of the year. We were able to as part of Caroline Chisholm School’s will have been so altered this year, for so many, the successful roll out of the vaccination rapidly recruit testing staff, many from our community care package drive. To tie in with but we are really pleased to have been able to programme for COVID-19 and the introduction local community, and since January have supporting both Save the Children and CCS do something to bring a little Christmas cheer of Lateral Flow Testing (LFT) it seems that carried out around 1800 tests for our on-site Friends, students were encouraged to wear to our neighbourhood. spring is certainly on its way. With brighter staff and students. festive clothes or general mufti and dropped mornings and longer days, and the easing of their food items into designated boxes on Christmas 2020 was going to be strange lockdown restrictions over the coming weeks, arrival. The festive mood was enhanced by No big parties or celebrations – things we are looking forward to opening our doors some fab Christmas tunes and dancing would be changed again to staff and all our students. Hopefully, from some staff and students. Additionally, So our students decided to bring some we can begin to resume normality again soon. our Primary phase students contributed an good cheer enormous box of goodies to the cause and School has, of course, been open for many enjoyed participating in the festive mufti day. And donate extra goodies to those who of our critical worker and vulnerable children lived near. throughout this time. Since January, our This year has been tough. It has impacted primary phase has continued to educate all our lives. To see so many of our young Dressed in their festive best the students around 150 children on-site each week, with people participate in supporting those in arrived around 120 on-site in our secondary phase. our community was heart-warming and In their dozens, with gifts that ranged highlights the thoughtfulness and generosity With over 2300 staff and students set to from rice to mince pies return during the week beginning 8 March, of our students. We have been so proud They donated so much, boxes covering we estimate that we will be carrying out over of how they have adapted to life in the the floor 4500 tests during the first 10 days. Once again, we are rising to the challenge to get our Store cupboards staples and sweet things galore. children back into school where they belong and looking forward to feeling more like a school family. It has certainly been a long wait. The sixth form café was loaded with wonderful sights The Wooldale Centre for Learning Of chocolates, cakes, crackers: all the Wootton Fields, Northampton, NN4 6TP festive delights, All treats for the lovely folk of our We haven’t, however, forgotten that the www.ccs.northants.sch.uk community vast majority of our students have been Facebook: CarolineChisholmSchool working extremely hard at home, and we are Twitter: @CCS_UK Our students all shared in this festive ever thankful for their resilience and also to opportunity. Samantha Kirk surrounded by the incredibly generous donations WOOTTON PARISH MAG 4 March 2021 March 2021 5 WOOTTON PARISH MAG Wootton Seniors Club News from Wootton Parish Council For ten years Wootton Seniors have met every Wednesday afternoon Mostly good news, but . Council of the Year 2020 either at Wootton Community Centre, Curtlee Hill or out on a trip. Thank you, Father Christmas! To enable us to deliver a Coffee Shop and newly fitted Library we must procure There was no doubt that when we were all It will be almost a year when Wootton Seniors of Christmas fare. ‘ I have never received strict tender processes which meet with feeling a little down and fed up with more club last met in early March 2020. Since then anything so special in my life’ was amongst government legislation set out for Parish Covid restrictions and the prospect of a life has been very different and challenging for the thrilled responses. Councils.