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MORNINGS Mondays in Jersey Farm FOR AGES Tuesdays in Hatfield Road 18 MONTHS - 5 YRS Fridays in Cottonmill Lane (PAY-ON-DOOR) Saturdays in Jubilee Centre (Catherine Street)
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2 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Contents AUTUMN 2019 4 CHAIR’S REPORT Councillor John Hale 5 5 A SWELTERING SUCCESS Jersey Farm Woodland Park Summer Event 6-7 SUMMER AT HEARTWOOD Looking back at the success of the season 8-9 NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 24-25 Sandridge Parish Council wants your input 10-11 BACK TO NATURE Nomansland Nature Quest 12 NOTICEBOARD - AUTUMN 2019 Listing of contact points throughout the area 13 WHO DO I CONTACT? Useful numbers for many issues that arise 22-23 14 WORKING HARD FOR ITS MEMBERS Photo by Felix Sprall Marshalswick North Residents’ Association 29-30 SPENCER HALL 15 NEW GARAGE SITE DEVELOPMENTS A listing of activities and regular hirers Have your say 31-32 SANDRIDGE VILLAGE HALL 16-17 EDUCATION NEWS A listing of activities and regular hirers Find out what’s going on at your local secondary school 33 MARSHALSWICK COMMUNITY CENTRE 19 WOODLAND YOGA A listing of activities and regular hirers Workout for body and mind 34 ((BOUNCE)) MINI TRAMPOLINE FITNESS 20 COUNCILLOR PROFILE Fun. Friendly. Fierce Councillor Jon Hegerty 35 BUSY TIMES For the ladies of Sandridge WI 21 FLU OR JUST A BAD COLD? Spot the signs 36-39 LOCAL CHURCH NEWS Find out what’s going on at your local churches 22-23 DO YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? 40-41 HOLIDAY AT HOME St. Albans Camera Club St. Mary’s Church hosts its sixth event 42 24-25 PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS 2019 HELP TO SAVE THE HEDGEHOGS Dates and venues of meetings 10 hedgehog-friendly tips 43 CHARITY BEGINS AT THE QUADRANT 27 MARSHALSWICK LIBRARY IS THRIVING Please help support some worthy causes Find out why your local library is becoming so popular 45 FREE PENSIONERS’ BUS TIMETABLE 28 JERSEY FARM COMMUNITY CENTRE A listing of activities and regular hirers Front cover - Enjoying autumn in Heartwood Forest
Published for and on behalf of Sandridge Parish Council Published by: LOCAL PUBLISHING LTD Tel: 01727 757475 Circulation: Over 4,750 homes in Marshalswick, [email protected] www.localpublishing.co.uk Jersey Farm and Sandridge. This is equivalent to Editor: STEFANIE HAYES [email protected] all of the AL4 9-- postcode area. EDITORIAL DEADLINE Advertising: NICK HAYES [email protected] If you have an article you would like to be Address: Neighbourhood News, c/o Sandridge Parish Council, considered for the WINTER 2019 issue, please Marshalswick Community Centre, The Ridgeway, St. Albans, AL4 9TU email it to the editor by Thursday 31st October 2019 COPYRIGHT - Items in this publication are subject to copyright. Copying in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Unless specifically stated, views expressed in Neighbourhood News are not necessarily those of the editor or of Sandridge Parish Council. While sponsored by Sandridge Parish Council, Neighbourhood News is an independent publication. The editor reserves the right to shorten, modify or reject submitted material. All advertisements, photographs and artwork supplied to Neighbourhood News are accepted in good faith (free of copyright). Neither Sandridge Parish Council nor the editor can be held responsible for goods or services advertised. Chair’s report Councillor John Hale
was delighted to be elected as Chair of meant we had to cancel some activities and Sandridge Parish Council following the attendance was down on last year, but I hope I elections in May. In those elections, I am everyone who came enjoyed the event. pleased to report that we had more Thanks to everyone who helped, especially candidates than vacancies and therefore the officers of the Council. contested elections in three of our four wards. In the fourth ward there were an equal Award number of candidates and vacancies, so all four were elected uncontested. Another annual event is the awarding of a It is not uncommon for Parish Council Green Flag Community Award for the Jersey elections to be uncontested and for councils Farm Woodland Park. Community to struggle to find enough candidates. So, it is involvement is a key criterion for the Green a sign of how healthy our community is that Flag Community Award and the retention of we have so many persons willing to be Parish the award for many years now is a tribute to Councillors. I would like to thank those that the many volunteers who help make the park stood but were unsuccessful in being elected, what it is. and I hope they will continue to be active in The Neighbourhood Plan has also been a the community. community effort, and there is an article on pages 8-9 about the consultation that we are Thanks holding on the draft plan. It has taken many volunteers many hours to produce, and I am One of the unsuccessful candidates was very grateful for all the time that has been June Reid, who had been a Parish Councillor given to this project. The plan will let this for four years, and I would like to thank her specifically for the work she put in over the last community have a greater say in how the four years as a Councillor. I know she is area develops over the coming years. continuing to be active with the Parish The draft Neighbourhood Plan reflects the Council in many ways. mix of communities within the parish. One We have three new Parish Councillors and physical asset that ties the parish together is one Parish Councillor returning after a break Jersey Lane, and I am pleased that a Green of four years. Details of all the Parish Action Plan is being produced by the County Councillors are included on page 12. Council, who are responsible for the lane. It is raining as I write this report, but we had The Parish Council will be working closely one of the hottest days of the summer when with the County Council on this plan. The plan we held our Summer Event in June. should result in the retention of a safe and Unfortunately, pleasant route for walkers and cyclists the heat through the parish.
Award winning Jersey Farm Woodland Park
4 A sweltering success! ANDRIDGE Parish Council’s annual the decision to cancel the dog show due to summer event was held on 29th June at the extreme temperatures in the afternoon. S Jersey Farm Woodland Park. We didn’t feel it would be responsible to Under a bright blue sky and a very hot sun, encourage people to bring their dogs out to the event was another great success, with compete. displays from Eden Falconry, Sandridgebury However, despite the heat, the equestrian Equestrian Team and an uplifting set from team rode on and performed an uplifting local ukulele band, The Pluckwits. musical ride to some old cowboy favourites, There was a lot of crafty entertainment for including “Rhinestone Cowboy” – which felt the little ones thanks to local brownie leader particularly apt in the hot afternoon sun! Ann Dickinson and Sandridge School, wood We had a huge tractor and tank on display carving from our regular exhibitors, Treewright, thanks to local farmer, Jamie Burrows, who and bushcraft from Down the Woods. was on hand to educate interested members We had an educational marquee with of the public on sustainable farming, and glass bee hives from St. Albans Bee Keepers, how food waste from our food bins is being plus representatives from Herts and Middlesex turned into fertilizer for the crop fields. Wildlife Trust and Hornbeam Wood All in all, a wonderful afternoon was spent Hedgehog Sanctuary. on the beautiful Woodland Park. Just one We were lucky enough to borrow some request - we would like to order weather 10 handmade wooden games from local degrees cooler for next year please! carpenter, Peter Templeman - these proved to be extremely popular for both adults and Rebecca Panesse children alike! Unfortunately, we had to make Project & Amenities Officer
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 5 Summer at Heartwood
As the event season at Heartwood comes to an end, let’s look back at what a success it has been. 6 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Guided walks Heartwood has hosted a total of twelve very well attended guided walks, ranging from dawn chorus to a twilight bat walk. Visitors turned out in all weathers to learn about the impact all our tree planting has had on local wildlife and our carbon footprint. These guided walks are always very popular.
Heartwoof Heartwood’s popular dog event, Heartwoof, has continued to grow from strength to strength over the years. There were even more doggy volunteers running agility activities and more stall holders taking part this year. A real highlight of the day was the new and improved dog show, which had over 150 entrants and saw one Ultimate Heartwoof Champion.
Nature Detectives To finish the summer off, our family membership came to life across two days of Nature Detective Activities that saw the junior woodland warriors whittling, den building, badge making and out on the hunt for mini-beasts. Collecting clues from all our activity stations, Nature Detectives worked out the puzzling whodunit to find the culprit of the missing hazelnut cake.
Keep a look out for what 2020 has to offer! www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/events
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 7 Neighbourhood Plan Sandridge Parish Council wants your input
HANGES are inevitable, but we can try www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk and hard copies to manage change to improve how are available from the Sandridge Parish C we and others in our community live Council Office (Marshalswick Community and work. One major way we can do that is Centre, The Ridgeway) and Marshalswick through our Neighbourhood Plan, which will Library (The Ridgeway). cover the period 2019-2036. The aim is to describe the changes we want Vision to see as well as those we don’t – this will then guide council officers (for both Sandridge In drawing up the Plan, the Parish Council Parish Council and St. Albans District Council) has listened to local residents and businesses. when deciding on applications for Our vision is: development and planning permission. To be an inclusive, cohesive, and safe Sandridge Parish Council is consulting on its community with a high quality of life, which Plan until 27th September 2019. Please let us retains the distinctive character of its neighbourhoods. have your views as detailed below. We recognise that changes are necessary. Consultation New homes are needed for a growing population, extra services and facilities will be required, and better transport links are Sandridge Parish Council covers the areas needed, including routes for walking and of Marshalswick North, Jersey Farm, and cycling. Sandridge village. We require safer roads and better public Sandridge Parish Council is conducting a transport, and we wish to protect our open full consultation with local residents, local spaces including Jersey Farm Woodland Park, businesses and relevant stakeholders over the Heartwood Forest, and Nomansland Neighbourhood Plan this Common. Our aim is that, in 2036, Sandridge summer. Copies of the Parish will be: Plan are available online on the A popular, low crime location, providing a mix of predominantly residential, along with Sandridge some retail and commercial properties in a Parish sustainable green environment. Council Website The Neighbourhood Plan focuses on four main areas:
8 • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT support local commercial areas; retain the We believe that Sandridge village should be mix of retail outlets; provide infrastructure for kept within its current boundaries and not homeworking; extend or enhance spread towards neighbouring residential community, leisure, or sports facilities; and areas; that new housing should be affordable promote visitor attractions including (including social housing provision) and Heartwood Forest. targeted towards local people; that new large houses should be restricted; that any housing • SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND developments should reflect the local WELLBEING character, should be sustainable, and We want to conserve the parish environment. adaptable to the changing population; that To do this, we would require any development the infrastructure should be improved, and to improve the green infrastructure; conserve that green spaces should be protected. fauna and flora; maintain views; retain open and green spaces; protect the local heritage; • SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT and improve health facilities. We recognise that any development must address residents’ concerns including: • RESPONSES increasing congestion; declining air quality; Consultation responses to the Plan should be parking difficulties; reduced bus services and sent to Sandridge Parish Council at inadequate walking and cycling [email protected] infrastructure. by 27th September 2019, using the response form available via the Parish office or the • SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY Sandridge Parish website Neighbourhood We believe that any development should: Plan consultation link.
Members of the public are invited to attend DEFIBRILLATOR TRAINING at Marshalswick Community Centre on Thursday 20th February at 7.30pm
To book, email: [email protected] or tel: 01727 831871
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 9 Back to nature LL the world’s a stage, and all the girls but square, was a lesson learned while and boys happy players! Nomansland looking at the stump of an ancient oak and A certainly lived up to that in June and counting its years. July, during this year’s Nomansland Nature Quest events for our local schools. Dens Many parts were played in re-enactments from the rich history of the Common, starting However, being on Nomansland wouldn’t with the Roman who failed to re-connect with be the same if, after a picnic lunch, the the 159 gold coins he buried around 410AD, children didn’t try their hand at building dens! but recovered by chance one thousand six There’s a particular bit of woodland that hundred or so years later, and now in the provides plenty of natural material to turn into Verulamium Museum. a bijou residence or a palatial apartment. The squabbles between the Abbeys of Some with a simple front path and fireplace, Westminster and St. Albans over who owned and others with saunas and dormers. Nomansland, this extra-parochial tract of land, Somewhere between beginning and end, were played out with the argument being if they haven’t been caught in a game of tag resolved in 1429 when a lump of pudding with the Wicked Lady, they might just have stone was planted on the agreed boundary. had energy enough to climb the climbing tree and lie on a branch like a leopard, or Drama suspend like a chimp. Or, if particularly fortunate, try their hand with bow and arrow Obviously, the final moments from the as did the archers in 1461. Second Battle of St. Albans which culminated in February 1461 on the Common, provided Councillor John Newton-Davies ample free-rein for drama, as did the exploits of the Wicked Lady, Katherine Ferrers, the intrepid highwaywoman with flintlock and mask from around 1660. Individual Tuition But these days out aren’t just about play- Fully qualified and experienced teacher acting history. Learning how to tell the Dyslexia Institute Diploma difference between hawthorn and silver birch, or recognising heather from bedstraw are Early intervention and support part of the natural history lesson that unfolds, Phonics, Multi-sensory learning, along with identifying the ladybirds and Key stages 2-3, Numeracy basics. grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, ants and Helen Bishop beetles that are found in profusion amongst the many grasses. This year, discovering that Taylor Close, St. Albans AL4 9YB a badger’s hair isn’t round like ours or a dog’s, Tel 01727 730825
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 11 Noticeboard - Autumn 2019 A listing of contact points throughout the neighbourhood
PARISH COUNCILLORS DISTRICT/COUNTY COUNCILLORS SANDRIDGE VILLAGE WARD Annie Brewster: COUNTY (Sandridge village) James Lancaster: 8 Forest View, 35 High Street, Fairways, Firs Drive, Gustard Wood, AL4 8LB Sandridge, AL4 9DD Tel: 07712 290 096 Tel: 01438 832255 [email protected] [email protected] Janet Churchard: DISTRICT (see Parish list) John Newton-Davies: Forge Cottage, 3 Church Tom Clegg: DISTRICT - 33 Furze Avenue, End, Sandridge, AL4 9DL Tel: 01727 837507 St. Albans, AL4 9NF Tel: 01727 835004 [email protected] [email protected] Clare Julien: DISTRICT - 139 The Ridgeway, JERSEY FARM WARD St. Albans, AL4 9XA Tel: 07961 903 284 Lyn Bolton: 20 Harefield Place, Jersey Farm, John Hale: COUNTY (see Parish list) St. Albans, AL4 9JQ Tel: 01727 834699 Frances Leonard: DISTRICT - 14 Rose Walk, [email protected] St. Albans, AL4 9AF Tel: 01727 861860 John Hale: 37 Chandlers Road, St. Albans, AL4 9RT [email protected] Tel: 01727 837371 [email protected] Beric Read: DISTRICT - 34 Windmill Avenue, Jon Hegerty: 4 Cromwell Close, St. Albans, AL4 9YE St. Albans, AL4 9TF Tel: 07956 220 264 Tel: 01727 858656 [email protected] [email protected] CLERK TO THE COUNCIL Jenny Roberts: 5 Pollicot Close, Jersey Farm, St. Albans AL4 9YL Tel: 01727 835509 Simon Thwaites: Marshalswick Community Centre, [email protected] The Ridgeway, St. Albans, AL4 9TU Tel: 01727 831871 [email protected] MARSHALSWICK NORTH (EAST) DEPUTY CLERK Patsy Ann Cann: 20 Wheat Close, St. Albans, AL4 Emma Hostler [email protected] 9NN Tel: 07876 492 528 [email protected] PROJECT & AMENITIES OFFICER Janet Churchard: 58 Pondfield Crescent, St. Albans, Rebecca Pannese [email protected] AL4 9PF Tel: 01727 860368 [email protected] COMMUNITY CENTRES MANAGER Claudio Duran: Woodland House, St. Helier Road, AND WEBSITE MANAGER Sandridge, St. Albans, AL4 9LQ Tel: 07789 485 052 [email protected] Martine MacRae Tel: 07399 403 650 [email protected] John Foster: 29 Chiltern Road, St. Albans, AL4 9SW [email protected] Tel: 07583 313 919 HALLS FOR HIRE MARSHALSWICK NORTH (WEST) The following halls located in the Parish are all Julie Booth: 31 Craiglands, St. Albans, AL4 9AH available for hire by the public. Please telephone Tel: 01727 759066 the relevant contact person for more information. [email protected] Marshalswick & Jersey Farm Community Centres Geoff Churchard: 58 Pondfield Crescent, St. Albans, Martine MacRae Tel: 07399 403 650 AL4 9PF Tel: 01727 860368 [email protected] [email protected] Marshalswick Baptist Free Church Neil Harris: 73 The Ridgeway, St. Albans, AL4 9NR Cath Cresswell Tel: 01727 861121 Tel: 01727 760781 [email protected] [email protected] Graham Leonard: 14 Rose Walk, St. Albans, AL4 St. Mary’s Church Hall, Sherwood Avenue 9AF Tel: 01727 861860 Maureen Bentley Tel: 07974 961702 [email protected] Val Spears Tel: 07711 503079 [email protected] POLICE VERY URGENT 999 Sandridge Village Hall Mr Brian Ollis Tel: 01727 867417 Non-emergency calls/report local incidents 101 [email protected] Calling 101 will take you to a call centre, your call will be routed to the correct part of the service Spencer Hall Nigel Rump Tel: 01727 835506
12 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Who do I contact? Useful numbers for many issues that arise in our parish
ISSUES WITH GRASS VERGES, POT HOLES AND ST. ALBANS HOUSEHOLD WASTE PROBLEMS WITH STREET LIGHTS AND RECYCLING CENTRE (RONSON WAY) Hertfordshire County Council 0300 1234 051 (Wasteaware) www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/home Opening days are Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun. or call 0300 123 4040 Summer times 10am-6pm. Winter times 8am-4pm OPEN SPACES AND RECREATION GROUNDS SEMI EMERGENCY HEALTH ISSUES - DIAL 111 Please call the Parish office on 01727 831871 or email [email protected] PROBLEMS WITH FLOODING Not all the open spaces are owned by Hertfordshire County Council Sandridge Parish Council but we are www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/home.aspx happy to be the first point of contact. or call 0300 123 4040
ISSUES WITH FLY TIPPING BUS TIMETABLES AND ISSUES WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT St. Albans District Council on [email protected] Can be reported via the Intalink website or call 01727 809019 www.intalink.org.uk/#
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 13 Working hard for its members Marshalswick North Residents’ Association
ARSHALSWICK North Residents’ Hatfield. Association (MNRA) has been If you have any comments on anything Mworking hard over the last few MNRA is doing, or you believe should be months on behalf of its members and the doing, please use our email address or speak community. to one of the Committee (our names can be found on the website). We welcome What we have helped to achieve feedback. Our Annual General Meeting will be held We have chased Herts County Council to on Tuesday 29th October 2019 when, in get the white lines renewed at the zebra addition to a short formal section, we hope to crossing near Marks and Spencer at the have speakers from Herts County Council Quadrant to improve safety. talking about Jersey Lane together with an We are working with the contractor, Taylor update from Taylor Wimpey on how they will Wimpey to influence the development at work with the community whilst developing Oaklands Grange to try and minimise Oaklands Grange on Sandpit Lane. If you adverse impacts on local residents. This has would like to become a member of the included discussing improved landscaping in Association and attend the AGM – please front of the show houses facing onto Sandpit contact us via our email. Lane and ensuring that the works to the Our community is constantly changing with verges are returned in a good condition. pressure on housing, shops, roads, green spaces. The aim of the Association is to What we are currently working on influence that change for the good of the community and those who live within it. With We are now represented on the Police a stronger association, we will have a greater Liaison Group which helps set priorities for voice. policing in the District. Through this group, we If you live within Marshalswick North and hope to ensure that any crime or anti-social would like to support the Association, please behaviour issues which may occur are contact the secretary at brought to the attention of the group and [email protected] press for appropriate action. We have commented on the Countryside Marshalswick North Residents’ Association Management Service at Herts County www.mnra.btck.co.uk Council Briefing Document for a Jersey Lane Greenspace Action Plan (GAP). Jersey Lane is a vital non-motorised link through our community and out to Sandridge. Through this Plan, we hope that HCC will maintain the Lane in a good and safe condition. As it is immediately adjacent to Marshalswick and would have a major impact upon this area, we are supporting other Residents’ Associations’ aim to mitigate the potential impacts of a planning application to extract aggregate from a site in Ellenbrook, in between St. Albans and
14 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Have your say about the new garage site developments
T. Albans City and District Council have tenants. Any responses will be taken into full recently built twenty-three new homes consideration and incorporated into future S on two former garage sites in projects developed on behalf of the Council. Sandridge. With the help of contractor Willmott Dixon, Feedback St. Albans City and District Council were able to build sixteen apartments and seven two- We would therefore appreciate any and three-bedroom homes as part of a feedback from the residents of Sandridge £6million project that the Council has been about the development and we ask that you working on as a priority project since 2014. forward your comments to [email protected]. Please know that Sustainable both constructive criticism and positive feedback will be well received. The developments were constructed using We encourage you to take up this an environmentally-friendly design process, opportunity and work alongside with sustainably sourced materials forming a St. Albans City and District Council to improve key aspect of the development. the delivery of our future projects. The transformation of these unused garage We look forward to hearing from you and sites is part of a Council initiative to create would once again like to thank you for new social housing on its under-used garage your continuous support, co- blocks across the District. operation and community As part of the Council’s community engagement. engagement policy, we would like to obtain some general feedback following the Constructive d handover of these two projects to their new criticism an positive feed- back will be well received Education news Find out what’s going on at your local schools Sandringham School
E finished the last academic year with a very busy schedule Wof events including Arts Week and Fit for Life Week. One of the highlights was the annual 5-mile charity run for the whole school which raised over £4,000 for our nominated charities. The new school year starts with outstanding examination performances at both A-level and GCSE. With the new style qualifications we are incredibly proud of how well all our students performed and delighted that they are now able to progress to the next level of their studies. These results continue to support our ‘World Class Schools’ designation.
Developments
Our new multi-million-pound English and Library block is taking shape and will be ready for occupation in spring 2020. It will include over-sized classrooms to meet our needs for innovative teaching and a wonderful first-floor library that will look out over the fields towards Wheatfields Schools. This will be a really impressive learning environment that will benefit everyone at the school and allow us to meet the demands of the expanding population in St. Albans. Further capital developments to improve the campus will include two new science laboratories, a dedicated second kitchen and canteen and additional teaching space for the arts. The Alban Academies Trust (AAT), which includes Sandringham School, Verulam School and Ridgeway Academy, has had a www.sandringham.herts.sch.uk very successful first year.
16 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Verulam gained a lovely Ofsted report last before you make applications. October and we have been working hard Here are some events currently planned for together to continue to offer the very highest the autumn term. Members of the public are standards of education across all three most welcome to attend these events. schools. Whole School Show – Thursday 21st The trust is set to develop further with local rd primary schools joining next year - watch this November – Saturday 23 November 7.30pm space for more developments. SandPit Theatre Five open morning tours for prospective Xmas Fayre – Saturday 7th December th th th families are on 18 , 20 and 30 September, (11am– 3pm) throughout the main part of the and 1st, 4th October – visit the school website school. Refreshments, craft stalls, tombola, for dates and how to book. games and Father Xmas to entertain the kids. On Thursday 7th November, we will be holding an introduction to the Sixth Form and Carol Service - Monday 16th December, the BeauSandVer post-16 Education Trust. This 7pm. Venue TBC is for anyone interested in joining the sixth form Please visit our website for the latest at Sandringham and with our trust partners, information about the school and community Beaumont and Verulam Schools, and part of activities and any minor adjustments to times. the BeauSandVer post-16 trust. I very much look forward to another If you are interested in finding out more wonderful year at Sandringham and to about the fantastic opportunities available, working closely with all members of our local contact the school to reserve a place, or community to further improve the lives of simply turn up in the evening. A full Sixth Form people in this area. Opening evening will be held in early January, which will provide further details Alan Gray, Headteacher
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ORKOUT fads come and go, but classes, quiet and still yin yoga, 8 week virtually no other exercise beginner courses, workshops that witness and Wprogramme is as enduring as yoga. honour the seasons, and day retreats to help It's been around for more than 5,000 years! you to rediscover wellbeing from the inside It does more than burn calories and tone out. muscles; it's a total mind-body workout that Friendly combines strengthening and stretching poses with deep breathing, meditation and Here’s what participant Wendy Hooper had relaxation. to say about our most recent Back-to-Basics Research is also catching on to the huge course: range of benefits that yoga offers. We now “Being a nervous newbie to yoga, I found know it can help alleviate back pain and Louise’s calm and relaxed manner very conditions like arthritis due to the way it encouraging and friendly. Along with the strengthens, as well as stretches the muscles. absolutely perfect backdrop of Heartwood It can prevent cartilage and joint Forest – you really couldn’t find a more spell breakdown because each class will take your binding and serene location. joints through their full range of motion. “I have a long way to go on my yoga It perfects your posture, increases blood journey, but the Back-to-Basics course has flow, regulates the adrenal glands helping given me the encouragement and with stress levels and relaxes a busy mind to confidence to continue and grow my deal with insomnia - to name just a few practice to help me find peace and benefits! calmness within myself. Woodland Yoga is very excited to be “I would fully recommend this course for offering a full timetable of classes from this anyone wishing to take their first steps into autumn in Heartwood Forest when the yoga - Louise will ease you in seamlessly.” weather is kind, and in Sandridge Village Hall For more details, take a look at the website if it rains. www.woodlandyoga.co.uk Come and join us for dynamic flowing or email [email protected] www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 19 Councillor profile Councillor Jon Hegerty
never intended to be a from the party said (as he was Parish Councillor. In fact, I getting back in his car), “Oh, no I didn’t even know what the chance... unless they only have as Parish Council was. Let me many candidates as vacancies - explain... then you’re elected I was born and brought up automatically”. Which is, of in London and moved to course, what happened. Hence, I St. Albans with my wife in 1986. I found myself becoming an still regard anywhere north of accidental Parish Councillor. St. Albans as the Midlands. We’ve lived in the centre of Committed town and on the King Harry estate before moving to Jersey Farm with our Having now been a member of this three children about 10 years ago. esteemed and august body, what’s it like? I I feel like a confirmed townie living in the assumed it would be less the West Wing and country (and still can’t quite get used to it), but more The Vicar of Dibley. I have to confess, I I enjoy walking our dog in the Woodland Park had no idea the Parish Council existed, and every morning and exploring Heartwood even less idea what they did. Forest and the pubs of Sandridge village at What I actually found was a group of hard- the weekend. working, friendly, welcoming people (councillors and staff) who are absolutely Disappointment committed to trying to make Sandridge a better place to live for all our residents. After working as a teacher in Hemel So far, I’ve been involved in developing the Hempstead I now work as a full-time trade Neighbourhood Plan (which I’m happy to say union official with the National Education contains a commitment to developing social Union. I re-joined the Labour Party in 2017 and rented housing for local residents rather after the general election, and I was soon than luxury houses for sale) and in ensuring asked to stand in the unwinnable district our footpaths (including Jersey Lane) and council seat of Sandridge. I did and happily open spaces are protected and maintained. lost. So far, I can even say I’m enjoying it. In 2019, I was also asked to stand for the If any Jersey Farm residents would like to Parish Council. I said I would if there was no contact me over any local issues or concerns, chance of actually winning. The nice chap contact me on [email protected]
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20 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Flu or just a bad cold?
Rachel Solanki MRPharmS Superintendent Pharmacist - Quadrant Pharmacy
LU is a highly contagious viral infection There is also a national programme for spread by tiny droplets in a sneeze or vaccinating some children. Patients that do Fcough. These are breathed in or picked not fall within these risk groups could consider up by touching surfaces where droplets have having a flu vaccination from their local landed. pharmacy, for which there will be a charge. The virus can live on hard surfaces for up to Your pharmacist can advise you of NHS 24 hours. Often flu can be treated without eligibility. seeing the doctor and the symptoms will disappear within a week. However, certain Support people are more at risk of developing complications, which can become life Finally, remember if you do get flu, you may threatening, and may result in death. need advice. Some people will be able to With a cold, your symptoms usually appear treat themselves with rest, fluid to keep gradually and affect mainly the nose and hydrated, and simple analgesia to treat the throat. You will feel unwell, but are usually able aches, pains and fever. to carry on as normal (e.g. going to work or Some people will need further support and school). should speak to their local pharmacist, go to www.111.nhs.uk or call 111 (who may need to Exhausted make you an appointment with a doctor). If you are ever unsure or worried Flu will make someone feel exhausted and about symptoms, too unwell to carry on as normal. The ask a health symptoms often appear quickly, within a few professional for hours, affect more than the nose and throat, help. and will often include a severe fever, aches and pains and headache. To prevent the spread of flu, we can all help At risk by adopting good hygiene measures. Wash patients should your hands with warm soapy water, use tissues have the to trap germs whenever you cough or sneeze, free flu and put used tissues in the bin as soon as vaccine possible. every year Secondly, at risk groups of patients should have the flu vaccine every year and will receive it free on the NHS. These patients include those who are over 65 years, pregnant, have certain long-term medical conditions, are the main carer for an elderly or disabled person or are frontline care staff. NHS flu vaccinations are available from your local pharmacy (who may be able to see you without an appointment) or from your GP surgery.
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk 21 Do you have a passion for photography?
OULD you like to listen to talks by professionals, join in varied photographic sessions and maybe enter Wyour photos in fun competitions where they receive constructive critique and marking by external impartial judges? Have you thought of becoming a member of a local camera club? St. Albans Camera Club organises and runs weekly meetings at Jersey Farm Community Centre most Tuesdays 8- 10pm from early September through to late spring, and they are always happy to see new faces as visitors and potential members. The club currently comprises of 20-30 amateur lady and men photographers with an interest in taking images and improving their photography skills. Experience in the club varies from experienced competent members to those image takers who would like to learn more about skills and techniques, show images and perhaps even enter some of our regular in house or Chilterns area competitions.
Photo by Gany Shore
2420 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk For those a little nervous about displaying where members bring their own equipment, their photographs, we include a section on whether pocket cameras, mobile phone each display evening where images may be cameras or more sophisticated equipment, to put up without any judging element, test their skills on the chosen subjects. hopefully to encourage greater involvement in the future. Improvement Whilst independent judges are used for Club league competitions in both mounted Subjects this year were portraiture with print and projected image sections, professional models, water droplet images, newcomers can learn a great deal about light painting and general table top imagery. lighting, composition and image These sessions are followed up in successive improvement from our informal comment weeks to see the results, good or not. sessions. Given good weather, outside events are introduced by way of a set subject or a Talks scavenger event. If you have a passion for photography, or The Club also invites external speakers to would like to take better photographs, then talk on specific subjects. This year, talks have why not come along and see if the Camera covered street photography, wildlife, lighting Club is for you. with on and off camera flash, and For further information, visit astrophotography. Occasionally, travel www.stalbanscamera.club, just come along photography evenings are included where from early September , or telephone Colin Mc considered of particular interest. Innes 07741 413 107, or Derek Nash 07875 199 Each season we include practical evenings 116.
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47 The Quadrant, Marshalswick, Tel: 01727 858 405 [email protected]
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 23 Help to save the hedgehogs! Here are 10 top hedgehog-friendly tips to help save the garden hedgehogs 1. Make a small 13cm x 13cm hole in ideal home for hedgehogs to nest in. The your fence same goes for compost heaps which provide This is probably the most important thing you excellent shelters, but please be careful when can do to help our hedgehogs. A hole in your you empty them for use in your garden. fence or wall allows hedgehogs to roam freely though gardens. 6. Don’t fill in old rabbit burrows and try to leave gaps under sheds 2. Put out food and water for the Hedgehogs will reuse old rabbit holes to nest hedgehogs in along with most structures that have access Water is more important than food, but both underneath them. will help hedgehogs. This can be done all year round, but especially during the very 7. Plant wildflowers and fruit trees cold and very hot seasons. Hedgehogs love Attracting insects is key to helping most jelly based dog or cat food and dried cat wildlife but also hedgehogs, having a small biscuits. You can also treat them to dried area of your garden with wildflowers or fruit hedgehog food. Never feed them milk or trees will help. bread though! 8. Make your pond safe with a ramp 3. Place a hedgehog house in your Hedgehogs can swim but need to be able to garden get out of ponds. A small ramp will fix this. A hedgehog house provides a safe place for them to nest during the day. It also gives them 9. Stop using chemicals a snug place to hibernate during the cold Chemicals in your garden hurt most insects seasons and may be used for mothers giving and wild animals, including hedgehogs. birth to hoglets. You can make a home Help them by finding alternatives to yourself or buy one online (we sell hog homes chemicals. and deliver for free locally). 10. Be careful with bonfires 4. Maintain hedges but don’t cut them We rescue lots of hedgehogs that have down sustained bad injuries from bonfires. Rustle the Hedges are an important area for bonfire and listen for noise before you light it hedgehogs as they forage for food in them, or, even better, light your bonfire the same snuggle up into the leaves to nest, and they day you stack it up. provide a safe place to rest.
5. Pile up wood to form stacks and make compost heaps Piles of wood attract insects which is food for the hedgehogs. Stacked logs are also an
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www.hornbeamwood.org.uk www.instagram.com/hedgehogsanctuary www.facebook.com/HornbeamWood www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 25 26 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Marshalswick Library is thriving!
OU might have heard gloomy news the end of July we had a fantastic time with about libraries closing, being used less our Oculus VR Space Walk, which brought Yor losing services all across the country, virtual reality to Marshalswick for the very first but I’m here to tell you that Marshalswick time. If you missed out, or if your child had a Library is bucking the trend. In fact, we’re go and wants to go again, then head over to getting more and more popular! St. Albans Library and ask about their Creator Hundreds of new members have already Space. Just come back to us when you want signed up at Marshalswick this year - to borrow books! noticeably more than we had last year, which If you miss the old days when libraries were was itself a great improvement on the places of silent serenity, try visiting us between previous year. I’d like to take the opportunity 12noon and 2pm on a Monday or a Thursday to welcome all of our new members and as it’s usually extremely quiet! encourage everyone who hasn’t joined yet to come on down and see what all the fuss is Richard Marpole about! Marshalswick Library Manager Enthusiasm
You might have heard that libraries are quiet places. That’s definitely not always true at Marshalswick! At the time of writing, the Summer Reading Challenge is off to a flying start, thanks to our enthusiastic staff and the help of the six local schools we work with – Oakwood, Sandridge, Skyswood, St. John Fisher, Wheatfields Infants and Wheatfields Juniors. Let me say a big thank you to the hardworking staff in all those schools for everything they’ve done to spread the word. The Summer Reading Challenge is the most successful library event in England every year and it’s an incredibly busy time for us with thousands of books whizzing off the shelves. It’s incredibly fulfilling too. There’s nothing like seeing a child come alive as they describe their new favourite book! We’re up to date and on point with new technology as well. At 27 Jersey Farm Community Centre Activities and regular hirers Martine MacRae Tel: 07399 403 650 TO BOOK THIS HALL CONTACT E-mail: [email protected]
MONDAY 9.40am - 11.10am PENNY WATERMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE (Baby/Tots ballet) Penny Waterman Tel: 01727 858632 1.30pm - 3.00pm YOGA Kellie Brown Tel: 07929 230 011
4.00pm - 7.00pm LEA VALLEY KARATE ACADEMY (4 years and over) Daniel Hollister Tel: 07894 528 283 7.30pm - 11.00pm ST. ALBANS BRIDGE CLUB Roger Thornhill Tel: 01582 763560 TUESDAY 10.30am - 3.30pm JERSEY FARM DAY CENTRE Lyn Bolton Tel: 01727 834699 Kathy Green Tel: 01727 839565
4.20pm - 5.40pm SOCATOTS (Soccer play for 1-5 year olds) Lauren Tel: 07815 966 099
6.00pm - 7.00pm HERTBEATS EXERCISE CLASS Roger Miller Tel: 07879 466 079
8.00pm - 10.00pm THE ST. ALBANS CAMERA CLUB [email protected] WEDNESDAY 9.30am - 11.00am RIDGEWAY CHURCH TOTS TIME Tricia Campbell Tel: 01727 869703
7.00pm - 8.00pm HATHA YOGA Brigitta Harris Tel: 07901 517 630
THURSDAY 10.30am - 12.00noon AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT (50+) Miriam Dobson Tel: 01707 371816
1.00pm - 3.00pm STORY FROG (story time for 2-5 yrs) Fiona Carter Tel: 07917 696 980
5.30pm - 7.00pm BROWNIES Ann Dickinson Tel: 01727 850960
7.30pm - 9.30pm CARPET BOWLS Dorothy Shepherd Tel: 01727 834606
FRIDAY 10.00am - 11.30am HARVESTERS PLAYTIME Tim Dale Tel: 07747 062 110 2.30pm - 4.15pm RIDGEWAY CHURCH COMMUNITY CAFE Tricia Campbell Tel: 01727 869703 6.15pm - 7.15pm RIDGEWAY CHURCH KIDS CLUB (school years 1-6) Tricia Campbell Tel: 01727 869703
SATURDAY 10.00am - 11.00am LITTLE BLACKBELTS (4-8 yrs) Jon Curtis Tel: 07825 505 099 SUNDAY 9.00am - 12.30pm SOCATOTS (Soccer play for 1-5 year olds) Lauren Tel: 07815 966 099
28 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Jacky Davis Spencer Hall (Behind Sandridge Village Hall) Tel: 07956 767 617 Activities and regular hirers [email protected] Sandridge Rovers Football Club bar TO BOOK THIS HALL CONTACT (evening only) Tel: 01727 835506
MONDAY Morning AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Afternoon AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
7.30pm - 11.00pm MID HERTS JAZZ ORCHESTRA Liz Shrimpton [email protected]
TUESDAY 9.00am - 12.00pm SANDRIDGE BABY & TODDLER GROUP TERM TIME ONLY Louise Moyles [email protected]
Afternoon until 5.00pm AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
5.00pm - 6.45pm IRISH DANCING - WALSH ACADEMY Louise Bishop Tel: 07803 375 348
6.45pm - 8.00pm ABSOLUTE WELLNESS GROUP Sarita Gray Tel: 07753 174 068
Evening from 8.00pm YOGA Niki Clark [email protected]
8.00pm - 11.00pm CRIB (summer) / DOMINOES (winter) (in the bar) Nigel Rump Tel: 07973 798 045
WEDNESDAY 9.30am - 1.00pm BRIDGE GROUP Shirley Pinner Tel: 07746 095 060
Afternoon AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
7.30pm - 10.30pm PEACE-TRAIN (LINE DANCING) Tony, Kathy & Michelle Risley Tel: 07774 983 467 (Tony) 07808 772 987 (Michelle)
8.00pm - 11.00pm LADIES DARTS (in the bar) Nigel Rump Tel: 07973 798 045
THURSDAY Morning AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Afternoon AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
6.45pm - 8.00pm ABSOLUTE WELLNESS GROUP Sarita Gray Tel: 07753 174 068
Evening from 8.00pm AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
8.00pm - 11.00pm MEN’S DARTS (in the bar) Nigel Rump Tel: 07973 798 045
FRIDAY Morning AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Afternoon AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Evening AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 29 SATURDAY Morning AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Afternoon AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Evening AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Afternoon SANDRIDGE ROVERS FOOTBALL CLUB (Sept-Apr) (sports field/changing rooms) Nigel Rump Tel: 07973 798 045
Afternoon/evening SANDRIDGE CRICKET CLUB (May-Aug)
(sports field/changing rooms) John Murphy Tel: 07881 505 265
SUNDAY Morning AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Afternoon AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
Evening BINGO Jacky Davis Tel: 07956 767 617
Morning/afternoon SANDRIDGE ROVERS VETERANS FOOTBALL (sports field/changing rooms) Kim Nguyen Tel: 07801 235 972
SANDRIDGE ROVERS YOUTH FOOTBALL John Pinkham Tel: 07545 262 304
-The Sandridge Youth & Sports Community Association (SYSCA) is a registered charity whose management committee meets on a Monday evening every odd month (Jan, Mar, May etc) to discuss matters concerning the Hall. If you would like to help in the smooth running of the SYSCA, please contact the chairman, Colin Winton, on 07752 642788.
30 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Brian Ollis Sandridge Village Hall Tel: 01727 867417 Activities and regular hirers E-mail: TO BOOK THIS HALL CONTACT [email protected]
MONDAY 9.30am - 3.30pm PATCHWORK & EMBROIDERY (South Room) Tricia Tominey Tel: 07740 264 469
10.00am - 12.30pm PATCHWORK & EMBROIDERY (North Room) Kathy Osborne Tel: 07831 439 230
1.45pm - 4.00pm W.E.A. DISCUSSION GROUP (current affairs) (North Room) Bill Bond Tel: 01727 851152
4.30pm - 6.00pm MARGUERITA HOARE SCHOOL Rosalie Ollis Tel: 01727 766430
6.30pm - 8.45pm WOODLAND YOGA (North Room) Louise Neicho Tel: 07459 112 675
7.30pm - 8.45pm YOGA Jane Hardy Tel: 07779 297 654
TUESDAY 9.00am - 12.30pm START ART CLASS Sarah Saunders Tel: 01727 848463
9.30am - 3.30pm PATCHWORK & EMBROIDERY (South Room) Tricia Tominey Tel: 07740 264 469
10.00am - 12.30pm PATCHWORK & EMBROIDERY (North Room) Kathy Osborne Tel: 07831 439 230
1.00pm - 2.00pm PILATES (PRIVATE) Jenny Beckwith Tel: 07814 412 231
1.00pm - 4.00pm PATCHWORK & QUILTING CLASSES (North Room) Judith Wilson Tel: 01582 832679
2.15pm - 3.15pm YOGA Jenny Beckwith Tel: 07814 412 231
4.30pm - 7.15pm MARGUERITA HOARE SCHOOL Rosalie Ollis Tel: 01727 766430
7.15pm - 9.45pm THE HEARTS BRIDGE CLUB (1st Tuesday in month) Shirley Pinner Tel: 01727 811638
7.30pm - 10.00pm SANDRIDGE W.I. (2nd Tuesday in month) Jenny Roberts Tel: 07834 320 101
WEDNESDAY 9.30am - 10.30am WOODLAND YOGA (North Room) Louise Neicho Tel: 07459 112 675
10.00am - 1.00pm ARTFUL DODGERS ART GROUP
1.00pm - 4.00pm PATCHWORK & QUILTING CLASSES (North Room) Judith Wilson Tel: 01582 832679
4.30pm - 7.30pm MARGUERITA HOARE SCHOOL Rosalie Ollis Tel: 01727 766430
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 31 WEDNESDAY 6.30pm - 8.45pm WOODLAND YOGA (North Room) Louise Neicho Tel: 07459 112 675
7.00pm - 9.00pm LODGE ALBANUS (South Room) Mrs Ann Jensen Tel: 01462 893569
7.30pm - 9.30pm EVENING PILATES Claire Morris Tel: 07921 678 756
7.30pm - 9.00pm SANDRIDGE VILLAGE HALL TRUSTEES (1st Wednesday bi-monthly) Brian Ollis Tel: 01727 867417
THURSDAY 9.30am - 10.30am MORNING PILATES Claire Morris Tel: 07921 678 756
1.30pm - 4.30pm U3A IMPROVERS BRIDGE CLUB (South Room) Glenys Vaughan Tel: 01727 831356
2.00pm - 4.00pm U3A CRAFT GROUP (North Room) Judith Wilson Tel: 01582 832679
4.30pm - 7.00pm MARGUERITA HOARE SCHOOL Rosalie Ollis Tel: 01727 766430
7.30pm - 9.30pm PLANT HERITAGE (Herts & Beds) (North Room) Helen Haran Tel: 01727 869437
7.30pm - 9.30pm EVENING PILATES Claire Morris Tel: 07921 678 756
FRIDAY 9.30am - 10.30am MORNING PILATES Claire Morris Tel: 07921 678 756
9.30am - 1.30pm MONTET DESIGN MOSAICS (North Room) Audrey Montet Tel: 07762 875 226
9.15am - 3.30pm PATCHWORK & EMBROIDERY (South Room) Tricia Tominey Tel: 07740 264 469
12.30pm - 4pm SANDRIDGE SILVER THREADS (Fortnightly) Jacky England Tel: 01727 853218
4.30pm - 7.00pm MARGUERITA HOARE SCHOOL Rosalie Ollis Tel: 01727 766430
7.30pm - 10.00pm SANDRIDGE CARPET BOWLS CLUB Janice Sankey Tel: 01727 863243
SATURDAY 9.00am - 1.00pm PATCHWORK & QUILTING CLASSES (South Room) Tricia Tominey Tel: 07740 264 469
9.30am - 10.30am WOODLAND YOGA (North Room) Louise Neicho Tel: 07459 112 675
SUNDAY 9.00am - 6.00pm MARGUERITA HOARE SCHOOL Rosalie Ollis Tel: 01727 766430
9.30am - 10.30am WOODLAND YOGA (North Room) Louise Neicho Tel: 07459 112 675
Sandridge Village Hall Management Committee meets on a Wednesday evening every two months. If you would like to help in the smooth running of the Hall, please contact Brian Ollis on 01727 867417.
32 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Marshalswick Community Centre Activities and regular hirers Martine MacRae Tel: 07399 403 650 TO BOOK THIS HALL CONTACT E-mail: [email protected]
MONDAY 9.10am - 1pm MARSHALSWICK PRE-SCHOOL & NURSERY (2-5 YEARS) (term time only) Nita Patel Tel: 07421 321 994 5.30pm - 7.00pm BROWNIES Mrs Pearson Tel: 01727 861158 7.30pm - 9.30pm CARPET BOWLS Les Fielding Tel: 01727 831586 TUESDAY 9.10am - 1.10pm MARSHALSWICK PRE-SCHOOL & NURSERY (2-5 YEARS) (term time only) Nita Patel Tel: 07421 321 994 2.00pm - 4.00pm EXTEND (exercise for the over 60s) Mrs M Blackman Tel: 01727 853001 5.00pm - 7.00pm WEIGHTWATCHERS Tel: 0844 507 5051 7.00pm - 8.00pm MEDITATION CLASS (1st, 2nd, 4th Tuesdays a month) Penny Prapatti Tel: 07729 901 874 7.00pm - 10.00pm ST. ALBANS FLOWER CLUB (once a month only) Lesley Marsh Tel: 07932 035 033
WEDNESDAY 9.10am - 1.10pm MARSHALSWICK PRE-SCHOOL & NURSERY (2-5 YEARS) (term time only) Nita Patel Tel: 07421 321 994 2.30pm - 4.30pm PENNY WATERMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE (Ballet/ballroom) Penny Waterman Tel: 01727 858632 4.30pm - 5.30pm TAI CHI Sally Golding Tel: 01727 837697 7.00pm - 10.00pm ST. ALBANS ART SOCIETY (1st, 3rd, 4th week in month) Edward Tel: 01727 862472 7.00pm - 10.00pm CITY W.I. (2nd week in month) Barbara Harvey Tel: 01727 865631
THURSDAY 9.10am - 1.10pm MARSHALSWICK PRE-SCHOOL & NURSERY (2-5 YEARS) (term time only) Nita Patel Tel: 07421 321 994 2.30pm - 3.30pm MEDAU MOVEMENT Mrs R Smith Tel: 01727 864577 4.00pm - 5.00pm CHAIR YOGA (1st Thursday every month) Penny Prapatti Tel: 07729 901 874
6.00pm - 7.00pm RAINBOWS Louise Smellie Tel: 01727 848101
FRIDAY 9.10am - 1pm MARSHALSWICK PRE-SCHOOL & NURSERY (2-5 YEARS) (term time only) Nita Patel Tel: 07421 321 994 6.00pm - 7pm YOGA (not 3rd week in month) Penny Prapatti Tel: 07729 901 874 6.00pm - 10.00pm ALBAN LACEMAKERS (2nd week in month) Mrs M Carey Tel: 01582 769235 SATURDAY 9.30am - 12.00noon PENNY WATERMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE (Ballet/disco/jazz) Penny Waterman Tel: 01727 858632 SUNDAY 8.30am - 11.30am SOCATOTS (Soccer play for 1-5 year olds) Lauren Tel: 07815 966 099
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 33 FUN. FRIENDLY. FIERCE.
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34 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Busy times for the ladies of Sandridge WI
ANDRIDGE (Evening) WI has had a busy A St. Albans City Guide gave a fascinating few months and has welcomed new and amusing talk about Roman dining habits Smembers. Our monthly speakers have based on finds from Verulamium and other again served up a varied selection of local archaeological sites. interesting and entertaining topics, including Our version of a Roman ‘feast’ included a fascinating introduction to ‘Walking the pizzas, honey based cakes, fresh fruit, desserts Herts Way’ and an ex-teacher’s view of ‘Life and wine! Members were invited to adopt in School’. Roman dress, and there was a competition for We have enjoyed visits including the best floral headdress. Stockwood Discovery Centre, an evening We have a number of theatre trips planned walk featuring some of the many coaching for the next few months, and we will be inns of St. Albans, the first meeting of the enjoying another evening meal at ‘The Lunch Club (which it is hoped will become a Stables’, Oaklands College. regular date), and a Guided Tour of Luton We meet at 7.30pm on the second Tuesday Hoo Walled Garden. of the month at Sandridge Village Hall and it In June it was our turn to host the Group is £4 for visitors, which includes refreshments. Meeting, when we invited guests from other Our September speaker is going to explain local institutes to a social evening with the the mysteries of stained glass with the title theme ‘Eat, Drink and be Merry – the Roman ‘How did they do it?’ Why not come along Way’. and find out?! Kathryn Freeman Local church news Find out what’s going on at your local churches Marshalswick Baptist Free Church
ITH increasing concern about the focussing more on these issues. All are Climate Crisis, the congregation at welcome to join us at any of them: Marshalswick Baptist Free Church W Sat 28th Sept, 9am-11.30pm - Creation Messy have decided to tackle it! Church We are already known as the church with Sat 5th Oct - Community Litter Pick solar panels, but in recent months we have Sun 6th Oct, 10.15am - Harvest Celebration been looking at what each of us can do to Sun 20th Oct, 10.15am - ‘It’s our responsibility’ care for the environment. Preacher Rev Dr John Weaver Chair John In June, we organised the first of our Rae Initiative community litter picks and we have applied Weds 23rd Oct, 7.30pm - ‘There is no planet B’ for a special ECO CHURCH AWARD, which a talk by author Mike Berners-Lee (with has encouraged us to look at how we look Churches Together in St. Albans) after the environment in the way in which we conduct ourselves as a church. For more information see www.mbfc.org.uk or During the coming months we will be tel 01727 857786
St. Mary’s Church, Marshalswick
URING August, many people enjoyed and look, feel and sniff! Holiday at Home (see pages 40-41), Dwhile Peppercorn Place, our Second Sunday each month - Come and communal garden open daily until mid- meet us over coffee/tea from 9.30am before autumn, was an Open Food Garden the 10am service, a simpler, shorter version of (Sustainable St. Albans) for our usual service. an afternoon. 13th October - Harvest Thanksgiving Despite rain, we had 10th November - Remembrance Sunday visitors to our raised 8th December - Advent beds, our produce (beans, salad crops, Social Events coming up: rhubarb and Friday 11th October, 6.30pm - Harvest Supper. strawberries), our Tickets in advance £10 herbs, fruit trees, Saturday 16th November, 10am - 1.30pm - flowers and our Christmas Fair wildlife-friendly ALL WELCOME - young and not-so-young! areas. We have a new sensory Come and give us a try. We’d love to see you. garden, so 01727 851544 [email protected] please come www.marshalswick.org.uk
36 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Ridgeway Church
N Friday 4th October from 2 - 5 pm, we including the will be holding our annual sermon, prayers, readings and songs. You Ofundraising event for Macmillan at would be most welcome to join us. Our signers the Jersey Farm Community Café. Why not are mainly level 2. come and enjoy some home-made cakes For more information, please contact the and help us raise funds for this Church Office as below or check very worthwhile cause? out our website. You can also Some of you may know we follow us on Facebook. run a Deaf Ministry whereby We look forward to meeting some of our services are signed some of you soon. in BSL (hearing service interpreted into BSL). Tricia Campbell If you are deaf or have friends www.ridgewaychurch.net who are deaf, on 1st, 3rd and 5th [email protected] Sundays we sign the service, 01727 869703
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www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 37 All hands on deck
also some very familiar faces. One is a regular at St. Leonard’s Church member of our congregation, another who used to be, and three former assistant priests HE last nine months have seen the who have come back (in one case from departure of our Vicar Em and her associate priest, Peter, to take up other retirement in Wales) to lead our worship. T Children and parents have continued to jobs in the wider church locally and nationally, but, at St. Leonard’s, we have been support Craft Church every month, and a keeping calm and carrying on under the good number of villagers and visitors enjoyed leadership of churchwardens Jenny and the Village Voices Summer Concert in June Anne. and our summer fete at the beginning of July. We are enormously grateful to all those who Welcoming visitors is something that is a have made sure the services and activities central part of our contribution to Sandridge continue as before while the process of community life, whether they are family and finding a new vicar takes its course. friends gathering for a wedding or a christening, or the relatives and friends of Welcoming those whose ashes have found a final resting place in the Garden of Rest, or the “invisible As regards the services, it has been a congregation”, who pop into the church in pleasure to welcome priests from other local the course of a visit to Heartwood, a country parishes, and even the Dean of St. Albans, but ramble, or on the way home from school.
38 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk As I write, August teas with homemade old pair of wellies? cake on Sunday afternoons have just restarted. The first week was summed up as: Ringing “Great turn out. Lots of homemade cakes. The bellringers have been sad to say Lovely to see families from the village, goodbye to two longstanding members in the residents of Lyndon and church friends”. last few weeks. Although we have recently been helping to teach new ringers from Charity St. Stephen’s, whose bells have been silent for some months, we would also be delighted to On Saturday 14th September there was a have some local learners from Sandridge, particular welcome for sponsored cyclists and Jersey Farm and Marshalswick to increase the walkers visiting churches to raise money for numbers of our local band and keep the Beds and Herts Historic Churches Trust St. Leonard’s own bells ringing. www.bedshertshct.org.uk. Ringing is a very friendly and stimulating The first Craft Church of the new term took social activity open to anyone from 10 to 70 place this month, and one of the activities years of age. was making banners to celebrate the UK’s If you would like to give it a try, please four national saints at the Harvest Flower contact Vivian Nutton [email protected] Festival on 4th - 6th October. It’s not too late for others to join in too. There Christine Nutton is a space waiting for a picture of someone’s hero in a flower mosaic frame to hang, or www.sandridgechurch.org.uk what about celebrating the Duke of Twitter: @ StLeonards2016 Wellington with some flowers arranged in an Facebook: @StLeonardsChurchSandridge
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T the beginning of August, St. Mary’s Drive. After lunch, everyone relaxed and held its sixth Holiday-at-Home week became creative doing illuminated lettering A for people living on their own within under the guidance of the Abbey Education the parish. Anyone over seventy-five could Director. come to enjoy spending time with others. The sun shone for us on Tuesday, which On Monday, everyone loved the ensured that we had a wonderful time on a introductory activity, which was a variation of four-hour canal trip through locks from Nash Pass the Parcel, with a fun question and a gift Mills to Hunton Bridge and back, with the from the hamper for all, followed by a Beetle opportunity to assist at the lock gates.
40 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk The trip included a plentiful fish and chip everyone to take home. lunch and we were very well looked after by Transport was provided by volunteers each a fantastic volunteer crew. day for those who needed it. Every day Another busy day on Wednesday began began with coffee and ended with tea and with some gorgeous small four-legged cakes made by church members. creatures, including a chinchilla, rabbit, rat Participants could also enjoy a two-course and hedgehog, all of which have different meal each day. needs in order to survive. A happy relaxing time in company was had by all, sharing food, fun and different activities Safety - a real antidote to loneliness. Before lunch, the Community Police came to offer timely advice in keeping safe at home Grant and online. We spent the afternoon unleashing our inner artistic streak with Without the generous grant from the Parish watercolour painting, thanks to the return visit Council, this week would not have been of the Head of Skyswood School. possible, and we are grateful to the All too soon it was our last day, which Councillors for it. began with gentle exercise routines to We look forward to planning 2020. If you strengthen joints, much enjoyed by all, would like to attend, please contact Fr Grant including the Vicar. Katie’s Jumping Fleas Holmes, Vicar of St. Mary’s (St. Mary’s Church entertained us after lunch, and our week Office 01727 851544). concluded with expert guidance to help make individual flower arrangements for St. Mary’s Holiday-at-Home team
Fun, Games, Crafts, Activities for school years 3-6
TrAsH! Tuesdays 6.15pm-7.30pm Term time Marshalswick Baptist Free Church Sherwood Avenue Contact 01727 857786 for more details or just come along!
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 41 Parish Council meetings 2019 Dates and venues of Sandridge Parish Council meetings
Wednesday 9th October - 7.30pm All meetings will take place at Marshalswick Wednesday 13th November - 7.30pm Community Centre (entrance to rear of library) Wednesday 11th December - 7.30pm and are open to the public
42 AUTUMN 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Charity begins at the Quadrant Please help support some worthy causes
F you’re thinking of throwing something homeless, abused or exploited by criminal away, please think again. It might just be gangs, including the current increase of Ithe sort of item that could be sold in one children becoming involved in drug of our local charity shops. distribution. Encouraging children who have With the recent arrival of Age UK, the left home to be reunited with their families is Quadrant now have four charity shops, each another aspect of their work. run by a manager and enthusiastic teams of local volunteers. New
Support Age UK is our latest arrival. The result of a coming together of Help the Aged and Age St. Francis Hospice, based in Berkhamsted, Concern, they have 350 shops around the UK. has long had a presence here. Now They offer many services for the elderly celebrating 40 years of service to including keeping in touch by phone, visiting, Hertfordshire, it provides free care for patients and providing advice. managing or recovering from serious illness Volunteers befriend, provide transport to both at home and in their Health and and advise the elderly. Their locally run activity Wellbeing Centre. centres give opportunities for older people to Well supported by our local community, the meet and exercise. Opening recently, the shop recycles any clothes or leather it cannot shop was soon very well stocked, thanks to the sell, so don’t be too concerned that they may generosity of our community. not use your gift. Please NEVER leave donations outside a shop when it is closed. When there is no one Disadvantaged to receive it, the items may become unacceptable litter. The Children’s Society has two shops. The one in the central quadrant specialises in Councillor Neil Harris womenswear and children’s books, while the shop in Sherwood Avenue specialises in menswear and music. The Society is concerned with disadvantaged children who may be
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44 AUTUMN 2019 FREE Pensioners’ Bus on Wednesdays Sponsored by Sandridge Parish Council
ROUTE 247 (PPH COACH) - Wednesdays mornings ROUTE 248 (PPH COACH) - Wednesdays mornings OUTWARD JOURNEY - from Sandridge village OUTWARD JOURNEY - from The Quadrant
DEPART DEPART Opposite St. Leonard’s Church 09.53 Hughenden Road (near the dry cleaners) 10.30 Langley Grove / High Street 09.55 The Ridgeway / Kingshill Avenue 10.40 Langley Grove / Shotfield Close 09.58 The Ridgeway / outside Sandringham School 10.42 High Street / Rose and Crown PH 10.00 The Ridgeway / Windmill Avenue 10.44 St. Albans Road / St. Helier Road 10.03 The Ridgeway / Barnfield Road 10.46 Sandringham Crescent / Belsize Close 10.05 The Quadrant (outside the library) 10.48
Sandringham Crescent / Blackberry Jack PH 10.07 ARRIVE St. Peter’s Street 11.00 ARRIVE St. Peter’s Street 10.20 RETURN JOURNEY DEPART St. Peter’s Street (outside Tesco Store) 12.45 RETURN JOURNEY DEPART Return journeys retrace outward routes stopping at The St. Peter’s Street (outside Tesco Store) 12.00 Ridgeway / Windmill Avenue, The Ridgeway / Barnfield Road and outside Marshalswick Library at The Quadrant
www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk AUTUMN 2019 45 St Mary’s Church Christmas Visit by Santa 11.30am Cakes & Produce, Collectibles, Crafts & Gifts, Tombolas, Fair Handbags & Gladrags, Raffle, Refreshments & Lunches, SATURDAY Special Festive appearance of TH the famous ‘Knitted Village’ 16 NOVEMBER and much more... 10.30am - 1.30pm Proceeds to St Mary’s Church and the charities Entrance 50p St Mary’s supports All welcome For more information contact Lucy 07949 933 167 Kathryn 07742 594 668
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