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BLEDINGTON FOXHOLES and FOSCOT NEWS JUNE 2018 No 414 1 BLEDINGTON FOXHOLES AND FOSCOT NEWS JUNE 2018 No 414 Alissa Firsova who will be performing at Bledington Music Festival - 5 to 7 June. 2 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY JUNE 2018 Friday 1 Rendezvous, Coffee and a Chat, Village Hall (p 5) 10.30am Monday 4 Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall (p 19) 8.00pm Bledington Music Festival (page 4) Tuesday 5 Alissa Firsova, piano and Daniel Rowland, violin 7.30pm Wednesday 6 The Cann Twins, four hands, one piano 7.30pm Thursday 7 David Jones, Baritone 11.00am Thursday 7 Clare Hammond, piano 7.30pm Wednesday 6 Gourmet Burger Night every Wednesday, King’s Head (p 21) Friday 8 Rendezvous, Coffee and a Chat, Village Hall (p 5) 10.30am Saturday 9 Bledington Fête, Village Green (p 10) 12.30pm Monday 11 Long Walk, Meet at Village Hall 9.30am Wednesday 13 Arts Soc. Cotswolds, ‘The Art of Tintoretto’ (p 17) 11.30am Friday 15 Rendezvous, Coffee and a Chat, Village Hall (p 5) 10.30am Wednesday 20 Mobile Library in New Road (p 22) 2.00pm Friday 22 Rendezvous, Coffee and a Chat, Village Hall (p 5) 10.30am SATURDAY 23 BLEDINGTON NEWS COPY DEADLINE 12.00pm Monday 25 Short Walk, Meet at Village Hall 10.00am Tuesday 26 Lunch Club, Wychwood Golf Club (p 4) 12.30pm Friday 29 Rendezvous, Coffee and a Chat, Village Hall (p 5) 10.30am JULY 2018 and BEYOND Sunday 1 July Strawberry Teas on the Green (p 5) Sunday 17 June Old Vicarage Open Garden Sunday 29 July Tea and Cake in the Churchyard (p 15) Sunday 2 September Bledington Tennis Tournament (p 15) 3 FROM THE EDITORS Wendy and Sinclair Scott Two big events in June, the Bledington Music Festival starts on Tuesday 5 June and is for 3 days until 7 June and the Bledington Village Fête on the following Saturday, 9 June will be on the Village Green. The Music Festival brings all the pupils from Bledington School into St Leonard’s Church and on the three days they will be entertained and encouraged to learn music from the very accomplished performers. This year on Wednesday evening 6 June the School pupils will be performing at the evening concert with the Cann twins in a performance of Anthony and Cleopatra, especially composed for Bledington School. The School brass players will be performing. A further two pianist friends of Bledington, Alissa Firsova and Clare Hammond will be with us on Tuesday and Thursday with violinist Daniel Rowland on Tuesday. Details and where you may buy tickets are on page 4. The Fête on Saturday 9 June will be the usual mix of stalls and fun; Maypole dancing, live music, barbeque, teas, lunches all available from 12noon. The afternoon finishes with the grand tug-of-war. Will Archie Orr- Ewing be dumped in the brook this year? Which dog will be Bledington’s most handsome? The profits will help the School funds as well as St Leonard’s. Details on pages 10 and 11. Do you remember Sir Tony Robinson opened the 2017 Fête, was it that long ago? The Village Defibrillator is still located in the Archway of Middle Orchard, Old Forge Close. We will let you know when the existing unit is moved to the old ‘BT’ phone kiosk outside the school and the second unit is installed outside the Village Hall. WE WELCOME NEWS CONTRIBUTIONS TO BLEDINGTON, FOXHOLES AND FOSCOT NEWS Please send your news contributions at any time for the July 2018 Issue Deadline for receipt is 12.00 Noon Saturday 23 June 2018 Please send news contributions or urgent news for the bledington.com website to the editors, Wendy and Sinclair Scott, by paper copy to 4 Old Forge Close, Bledington, Chipping Norton, OX7 6XW or email us at [email protected] Tel: 01608 658624. Bledington News is in available in full colour at www\bledington.com Please ensure you have a prompt acknowledgement of your contribution sent by email; this makes it certain we have received it. News contributions may be subject to editorial adjustment and regrettably, if received after the deadline time, cannot be included. 4 Bledington News is uploaded monthly to www.bledington.comwww.bledington.com Bledington’s Own Website See Bledington News in full Colour www/bledington.com/groups/village-updates/bledington-news-monthly- newsletter-delivered-free-all-residents All Your Up-to-Date Information If you have news that would be useful to upload to the website, contact the Editors (contact details page 3); we can enter it for you. BLEDINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018 Rodney Beacham Tickets are still available for all concerts. These can be purchased at 9 Jackson Road, Bledington: Kingham Stores: King’s Head Bledington or on line at bledingtonmusicfestival.co.uk All Concerts are at St Leonard’s Church, Bledington starting at 7.30pm. Tuesday 5 June. Alissa Firsova, piano and Daniel Rowland, violin. Wednesday 6 June. Duo Cann, four hands, one piano. Bledington School musicians play a specially written composition ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’ with twins Antionette and Clare Cann. Thursday 7 June. Clare Hammond, piano. At 11.00am on Thursday 7 June a free concert by Baritone, David Jones. Coffee will be served from 10.00am. David is cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End and giving free concerts on the way. There will be a retiring collection for the Charity ‘ Live Music Now’. BLEDINGTON LUNCH CLUB Sheila Truslove Tel: 658355 The Lunch Club will be at Wychwood Golf Club on Tuesday 26 June at 12.30pm for 1.00pm. Book your place(s) with Sheila Truslove on 01608 658355. 5 RENDEZVOUSRENDEZVOUS Coffee and a Chat in the Village Hall Every Friday Morning 10.30am to 12.00noon Pop in for the best value cuppa in the Cotswolds – just £1 with biscuits and free refills! BLEDINGTON VILLAGE HALL Jenny Beacham Rendezvous continues each Friday morning from 10.30am until 12noon – just £1 per cup with free refills and biscuits provided! Our Pudding Night raised £531.50 which was fantastic – thank you! Thirty sacks of confidential waste were shredded by the men from Datashredders which will make another little profit for the Hall. Thank you to all those who came – if you missed it there will be another date in the autumn. Our next fund raiser will be Strawberry Teas on the Green on Sunday 1 July. This event coincides (intentionally) with the Old Vicarage Garden being open for Katharine House. It makes a very pleasant afternoon without having to get into the car! A GENTLE PLEA FOR CLEAN AIR Gabrielle Kubale When the autumn leaves are crisp under foot and wisps of smoke rise in the chilly air I can appreciate a bonfire, but please, not at this time of year! In the summer, garden waste is green and damp and creates a highly polluting smoke. In the recent very welcome, warm and sunny weather we have been unable to enjoy sitting in our garden or eating alfresco because of drifts of bonfire smoke which has also tainted our outdoor dried washing and on occasion we have even had to keep our windows closed. So, please, think of your neighbours before burning garden rubbish in the summer - it is an antisocial practice! 6 JUNE 2018 UPDATE FROM THE BLEDINGTON COMMUNITY SHOP GROUP As our Community Share Offer gathered momentum, there were two exciting moments. The first was when the amount subscribed exceeded the minimum target of £50,000 needed to consider it a success. The second was after the offer closed and we realised how much had been raised—an amazing total of - £73,785 subscribed by 128 people! What a great end to our share offer, and renewed proof of the genuine desire and support for a new community shop and café in Bledington! Together with some substantial donations for the shop through the Bledington and Foscot Community Association, nearly £100k was raised in six weeks! Wow! Next steps: With the fundraising nearly complete, your Management Above and Next Page: Final Share Clinic at the Committee lost no time in turning Shop Site Barbeque on 4 May. attention towards the next step—getting bids from potential contractors. This is not only to ensure we achieve the best value for the village, but also to enable us to complete the full application to the EU LEADER fund, which we aim to submit by the end of June. Securing this grant would be worth approximately £30,000 and has always been part of our financing plan. We have stayed in close touch with the administrators of the fund and have received full advice and encouragement from them. Invitations to tender were sent out in mid- May to several selected builders we thought most likely to be interested in the project. Tenders are due back by 15 June. Continued on page 7 7 Continued from page 6 Visit a community shop: How about visiting a new-style community shop to see what it can offer, and how it looks and feels! Our model community shop is at Ilmington. If you attended the launch of the share offer you will recall hearing Tim Allen tell their story. Penelope Leather has offered to take a group to visit the Ilmington shop and café during the week of 18 June. If you are interested, contact Penelope on 01608 658686 or at [email protected] Stay involved: Help out with baking for or serving teas at Chastleton. See us at Rendezvous on 15 June. Visit our stand at the Village Fête. Ways to use the Bledington Shop number 13: Treat yourself with some chocolate in the afternoon – because you deserve it! 8 BLEDINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL Ms J Kewley; Headteacher Bledington Primary Visit from author Robin Stevens by Katy and Emily Y6 We were very fortunate to meet author Robin Stevens who came to our school to visit years 4, 5 and 6 as part of The Chipping Norton Literary Festival.
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