News www.westilsley.org December 2019 EDITORS Andrea Cook Liz Dray Clock Cottage The Malthouse Wishing you all the best over the coming  281224  281688 holiday [email protected] [email protected] Bill de Grey Deadline for the next publication is: (retired postman) 5 pm on Sunday 29th December *** DIARY Christmas greetings to everyone and a DECEMBER Happy New year"! th 15 Church Carol service Adrian, Liz, Hannah, Matthew and Ben FEBRUARY Dray 8th Church Winter Warmer *** Wishing everyone a very healthy and

happy 2020 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO WEST ILSLEY Andrea and Mel FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS – IN LIEU OF *** CHRISTMAS CARDS WE HAVE RAISED £570 Very best wishes to everyone for a Happy THIS YEAR FOR CHURCH FUNDS – Christmas and New Year. MANY THANKS TO ALL Jo Tony Ellen Tom and Katie Scriven xxx *** We wish all our friends and neighbours Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and in West Ilsley a very Happy Christmas New Year from Will & Kristie & Mitzi. and a happy and healthy 2020 *** Carol and Joe Clerkin Wishing everyone in West Ilsley a Happy *** Christmas and all the very best for 2020, Best wishes and a lot of festive fun for with love Sue, Andy, Zoe and Lizzie everyone in West Ilsley Carrington xx Kath and Fred Carter *** *** Alison, Steve, Mark and Juliet wish you Very best wishes for a Happy Christmas all a lovely Christmas and much success and New Year to all our friends and and happiness for 2020! fellow villagers in West Ilsley From The Banks family x Wendy and Alec *** *** Wishing everyone in the village a very Happy Christmas to everyone in the Happy Christmas and a lovely New Year. village. Wishing you all a wonderful With lots of love Ed, Anna, Caspar, JJ, 2020. We have loved living in West Ilsley Jonty and Banter xxx and look forward to still joining in with *** village life. Festive greetings to friends & villagers for Ed, Juliet, Fiona, Holly and James xx a joyful Christmas & good health & *** happiness throughout 2020 A very merry Christmas to all in West June & Stuart Ilsley and best wishes for 2020 from *** Philip, Amanda, Ellen, Alice and Will

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Wishing all our friends in West Ilsley a Wishing all our friends old and new a very wonderful Christmas & a happy, healthy Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 2020, all the way from South Africa, lots We are very much looking forward to 2020 of love Wes, Hayley & Noah xx With love, Giles, Harriett and Matilda *** *** Merry Christmas to all our lovely Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas customers, friends & family, near & far, and New Year a toast to a prosperous & healthy 2020, Love from Rollo and Ros Duckworth cheers, love Pete, Jacqui, Hayley, Wes, *** Noah, Chris & Grace xx Tony Elliott would like to thank his *** friends in the village for their We wish you a very Happy Christmas and kindness and support during this trying Happy and Healthy 2019. year and wish you all With love from Justin, Rosanne, Georgia a Joyous Christmas and a Healthy and & Honor Pilditch xxx Prosperous New Year *** *** A very happy and healthy New Year to all Wishing everyone in West Ilsley a very my lovely West Ilsley friends. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Best wishes Janice Sheppard. X With love from Rachel, Dan, Annabelle *** and Henry Hudson Seasons greetings from Roger (the *** window cleaner) & Family Happy Christmas to all West Ilsley from *** the Lucas Tribe at Lane End Cottage. Wishing all our friends and fellow Good luck for 2020! Villagers a very Merry Christmas and *** a Happy New Year Wishing all our friends and neighbours Avice & Alan a very happy Christmas *** With love from Dries, Amanda, Mae & Wishing all our friends and neighbours Hugo Hagen in West Ilsley a wonderful Christmas and *** best wishes for 2020. Ralph, Louise and Wishing everyone health and happiness Mark Taylor, Bakery Mews. With love the Briggs Family *** *** Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2020 To all our friends in West Ilslsey From Mandy, Neil and Briony Slater Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! *** Love, the Woods family xxxx Wishing everyone in and around West *** Ilsley Seasons Greetings and best wishes to all A very Merry Christmas and Happy New for health and happiness in the coming Year, Best wishes year Denis, Barbara & Charlie Alan, Louise, Will and Suzanna *** *** A merry Christmas to you all and a very Happy Christmas to you all Best Wishes happy New Year. Sue and Graeme and all at Keepers With love, Ian and Kay xx Barn! *** *** Dear all our friends and neighbours in West Ilsley, wishing you a very Merry Wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and Christmas and a Happy New Year, love a cracking New Year. Patrick and Tor, from Alison, Nigel, Sophie, Adam & Rosie Bramble Cottage *** ***

Dates for your Diary ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH WEST ILSLEY Saturday 8th February 2020 – Winter Warmer. Put December Services at All Saints’ Church the date in your diaries now! st 1 Family Communion 9.30am Contacts: th 8 Holy Communion 8.30am Churchwardens: Ian – 01635 281625; Alexandra – 15th Carol Service 6.00pm 01635 281306 22nd No service in All Saints Rector: Revd John Toogood – 01635 247566 - 25th Christmas Family Communion 9.30am [email protected] 29th No service in All Saints East Downland Benefice Office: - 07957 458107 - Please see the lych gate notice board for details of [email protected] – Usually manned on other services in the benefice, go online at Thursday & Friday mornings between 9am and 1pm. www.eastdownland.org.uk or see the Benefice Kay and Ian Fewtrell-Smith Christmas card which should be coming through your door anytime now. Working Party Tidy Up for Remembrance Day CAROL SERVICE - 6PM SUNDAY Thank you to everyone who gave up their Saturday 15 DECEMBER AT ALL SAINTS CHURCH morning to give the church an extra clean and to  clear the churchyard of leaves before our COLLECTION Remembrance Day service. The collection from the carol service this year will be Remembrance Service going to the local charity “FRIENDS OF YOUNG There was a good turnout at our service again this CARERS WEST ”. They support year, which was taken by the Revd John Toogood. children aged 5-18 who have caring responsibilities Thank you to all those who took part in the service. at home and also fund activities and respite for We raised £282.50 which has been sent to the them. You can find out more about their work at British Legion Poppy Appeal. st www.foyc-webs.org.uk Downland Advent Carol Service – Sunday 1 DONATIONS December Please can you bring any of the following (new) This delightful candlelit service, which this year takes items to the carol service place at 6.00pm at St Barnabas’ Church , for marks the beginning of our preparations for Homeless: Christmas. Everyone is welcome. Bike locks (combination) Café in All Saints’ Church th Rucksacks Our next café will be on Sunday 8 December from Mens Jogging Bottoms 10am to 11am, when donations will be sent to Pot noodles Emmaus, a charity that works with the homeless in Thank you for your support. Oxford. All welcome. Alexandra Axtell - church warden Christmas Services There will be numerous services around Christmas in all nine churches in our benefice, including All MALTHOUSE WELL UPDATE Saints’, and you are warmly invited to any of these. As usual the Malthouse well reading has been The Benefice Christmas card will have dropped dropping steadily since May this year and reached through your letterbox with details of all the services its lowest point (approx. 19.5m / 64ft) in the first on it. Whatever type of service you prefer, whether week of November. Since then it has risen to 17.70 Crib service, Christingle, Carols or Communion, you metres (approx. 58ft) below ground level. Typically will find one in the benefice somewhere at some the well reaches its lowest point towards the end of time during December. All Saints’ will be holding a December, but this year it happened a few weeks Family Communion Service on Christmas Day at earlier than usual. This is due to the very damp 9.30am. Autumn we have had. From the beginning of Christmas Carol Service September, according to the two on-line village rain This joyful service will be held in All Saints’ Church, gauges at Knollend Down and Tanglewood, we have West Ilsley on Sunday 15th December at 6pm and had about 280mm rain. This is more rain than you are all invited to stay on afterwards for mince average for this time of year, but not exceptionally pies and mulled wine. This year the collection will go so. to Friends of Young Carers West Berkshire see If any car washers and dog owners amongst us want elsewhere in the WIN for more details. to find out if we are due any rain before they go out, Café Church at St Mary’s Church, there is an accurate on-line live rain radar map There will be no Café Church in December. The next https://www.meteoradar.co.uk/expected-rainfall Café Church at St Mary’s will be a Christingle which shows the actual rain we are due in the next 3 Service on Sunday 19th January at 5.00pm. You are hours. invited to come at 4.45pm for refreshments before the service.

the service the parade re-formed to march back to ROYAL BRITISH LEGION COMPTON, the Bell ILSLEYS & NORREYS BRANCH - AN Membership UPDATE Our small RBL branch is growing and would nd welcome you as a member. You do not have to be Poppy Appeal Lunch 2019 – Saturday 2 ex services (or a senior citizen!) to join the RBL but November 2019 only supportive of the charity’s objectives of looking We were delighted to welcome The Right after the serving and ex-serving community. The Honourable Sir Mark Waller, a former Lord Justice membership annual subscription is small at £17. To of Appeal and Intelligence Services Commissioner join, please contact one of the undersigned. Steve as our guest speaker at our fund raising Poppy Allison tel 07812 991013 email nd Appeal lunch held on Saturday 2 November. Sir [email protected] or David Norbury TD, tel Mark gave an fascinating address entitled 07770 326128 email [email protected] – “Oversight of MI5 MI6 and thank you. GCHQ – the role of the judiciary”. 69 members, partners and generous UPDATE FROM supporters sat down in the COUNCILLOR CAROLYNE CULVER Foinavon where we were The footpath is now open again and I want to thank treated to an excellent lunch the neighbouring resident for his incredible patience provided by landlord Geoff and and the West Berkshire Council officer who led his staff. With a raffle organised efforts to resolve the matter. by the local Poppy Appeal Organiser Keith Rathband West Berkshire Council’s draft environment strategy and a small auction led by Tony Cribb we are proud (including measures to make the district carbon to say that a total of £1,350 was raised for the Poppy neutral) will be published in the new year and there Appeal. The Officers of the branch would like to will be a six week period of public consultation. express their thanks to all those who donated, In January (date tbc) there will be a public supported and attended. consultation event about the future of the Remembrance Sunday Parade and Service 10th Pirbright/Animal Institute site in Compton, and the November 2019 owners of the site intend to submit a planning Our parade and Service this year was held in application at the end of February. The application Aldworth in fine weather. Those parading, RBL could be for 250 homes – a significant increase in members, Youth Groups, local dignitaries and the size of Compton, and potentially a significant supporters, assembled outside the Bell Inn under the impact on the schools, doctors’ surgery, road direction of the Parade Marshal and Branch network etc. Chairman Steve Allison, a WO2 reservist in the RLC, Remember you can report problems including fly and then marched to St Mary’s Church. This was led tipping, unemptied bins, and pot holes by searching by piper Ian Knight and Drummer Mike Conner from for ‘West Berkshire Report a Problem’ on the the Oxford Caledonian Pipe Band. The RBL branch internet or visiting www.fixmystreet.com If it’s urgent standard was carried by Mick Crockford. Scouts and please Guides provided a Union Flag and individual section email [email protected] or call standards. 01635 551111. The marchers filed into the grounds of the ancient St Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Mary’s Church where the War Memorial is situated Councillor Carolyne Culver on the outside wall and the Act of Remembrance Ridgeway ward was led there by branch chaplain Rev Clive Jones. [email protected] The names of the fallen were read out by Malcolm

Greenaway, who had two relatives named on the memorial, one killed in each of the world wars. The COUNCIL Exhortation was read by Branch Secretary David Read the latest Parish Council Minutes and hear Norbury and Kohima Epitaph by Explorer Scout how village matters are being addressed. Visit our Robert Davies. The Last Post and Reveille were village website at www.westilsley.org - all the latest beautifully played by Aimee Jones. A two minute minutes from our meetings are available under the silence was observed at 11 o’clock and wreaths “Parish Council” tab. were then laid on behalf of the RBL branch by Kerry 2020 Parish council meetings: Mason, Church Warden Maurice Allen and by parish 13 Jan 9 March 11 May 13 July 14 Sept 9 Nov councillors from Aldworth, Compton and the Ilsleys. Further wreaths were laid by Scouts and Guides. The service, attended by a congregation of 250, DEFIBRILLATOR CODE: C159 continued inside the church, during which the Ward

Councillor, Carolyne Culver, read the lesson. After

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