Packington Newsletter Issue 50 December 2012
NEWS FLASH Please do not throw this edition away it contains useful contact numbers for the Christmas period!
Dates for Your Diary
For Church Services, go to next page
Wednesday 12th December WI - Christmas Table Decorations 7.30 - Undercroft
Friday December 21st Social Club - Christmas Party 7.30 - Undercroft
Wednesday 9th January WI - The fascination Story of Egg Cups 7.30 - Undercroft
Friday January 25th Social Club - Burns Quiz Night (tickets £6) 7.30 - Undercroft
Wednesday 13th February WI - Nepal Leprosy Hospital 7.30 - Undercroft
Wednesday 13th March WI - Birthday Party - Members & Guests 7.30 - Undercroft
Thursday July 4th Cream Tea Terrace or In Doors!!!
Sunday July 7th National Garden Scheme Garden Opening
Line drawing of the Church by Jonathan Brierley - High Ash Farm
THE ESTATE CHAPEL OF ST. JAMES GREAT PACKINGTON, MERIDEN WARWICKSHIRE
THE PRIVATE CHAPEL ADMINISTERED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM 1ST APRIL 1994 SUNDAY SERVICES AND ALL OTHER USES BY PERMISSION ENQUIRIES TO LORD AYLESFORD
CHURCH NEWS
SERVICES FOR 2013
December 15th Carol Service 6.30 pm December 25th Christmas Day Family Communion January 13th Epiphany 1, Plough Sunday February 3rd Sexagesima, The Litany + HC Holy Communion March 10th Lent IV, Mothering Sunday st March 31 EASTER DAY Holy Communion April 7th Easter 1, (Low Sunday) Morning Prayer May 5th Easter V, Rogation Sunday Holy Communion
Lend a Flower Rota!
We have set up a rota to do flowers for the once a month service. If it is your turn, please take them home after the service to enjoy them, otherwise they would be wasted! If you cannot do the month allocated please let me know: Lady Aylesford.....01676 522274. (E-mail..... [email protected])
We really need more volunteers for the flower rota so that everyone need only do it once a year?!
January 13th - Plough Sunday Ms. Beaty
February 3rd Mrs. Smith
March 10th - Mothering Sunday Mrs. Sach
March 31st - Easter Day Lady Aylesford
April 7th Mrs Gow
May 5th Mrs. Garnet
Lady Aylesford will do all Flowers and the Tree for Christmas/Easter Packington Hall, Meriden Nr Coventry CV7 7HF Tel: Estate Office - 01676 522020 Fax: 01676 523399 THE ESTATE CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, GREAT PACKINGTON [Entry via automatic Packington Park Gates on the A45, Eastbound, some 600 yds after Stonebridge roundabout]
SERVICES for 2013 at 10.30 a.m. [Holy Communion Services follow the Book of Common Prayer/Common Worship Order Two]
January 13th Epiphany I, Plough Sunday Service
February 3rd Sexagesima, The Litany and Holy Communion
th March 10 Lent IV, Mothering Sunday
st March 31 Easter Day, Holy Communion
April 7th Easter I, (‘Low Sunday’) Morning Prayer
May 5th Easter V, Rogation Sunday, Holy Communion
nd June 2 SERVICE IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CORONATION 1953
th July 7 Trinity VI, Holy Communion
August 4th Trinity X, Holy Communion
September 1st Trinity XIV, Holy Communion
October 6th Trinity XIX, Harvest Festival
November 10th Trinity XXIV, Remembrance Sunday
December 1st Advent I, Holy Communion
December 14th (Sat) Carol Service, 6.30 p.m. [tbc]
December 25th (Wed) Christmas Day: Family Communion
All are most welcome to these Services
Revd John Bradford In the Diocese of Coventry Peter M Gregory, Organist 0121-704 9895 0121-705 4428 A Message to the Diocese of Coventry from Bishop Christopher about the announcement of the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
It is good news for the Church of England, the world-wide Anglican Communion and for this nation that the name of the next Archbishop of Canterbury has been announced. And it is especially good news for Coventry and Warwickshire that our next Archbishop is to be Bishop Justin Welby. Bishop Justin is well known in the Diocese of Coventry for his dynamic ministry in two of our parishes and in the Cathedral.
Bishop Justin will bring great energy and wide experience to his new ministry as Archbishop of Canterbury. His real understanding of issues facing national life in demanding economic times, his deep contacts with the Church in Africa and other parts of the world and his courageous commitment to reconciliation in Church, nation and world fit him well for the demanding work to which God has called him.
As we rejoice in his appointment, we assure Bishop Justin, his wife, Caroline and their family of our prayers and we look forward to this new and exciting stage of the Church of England’s life.
+Christopher
Press release from Lambeth Palace
Friday 9th November 2012
For immediate release
Announcement of the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
The Queen has approved the nomination of the Right Reverend Justin Welby for election as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury.
He will succeed Dr Rowan Williams who is retiring at the end of December after ten years as Archbishop.
The Right Reverend Justin Welby, aged 56, is currently Bishop of Durham. He will be enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral on 21st March 2013.
He said today: "I don't think anyone could be more surprised than me at the outcome of this process. It has been an experience, reading more about me than I knew myself. To be nominated to Canterbury is at the same time overwhelming and astonishing. It is overwhelming because of those I follow, and the responsibility it has. It is astonishing because it is something I never expected to happen.
“One of the hardest things will be to leave Durham. I work with a group of wonderful senior colleagues and remarkable clergy and lay people. It is an astonishing part of the country, one which as a family we were greatly looking forward to living in for many years. The people are direct, inspiring and wonderfully friendly. In many ways it has been the ancient cradle of British Christianity. It is a place of opportunity and an even greater future than its past.”
Dr Rowan Williams issued the following statement:
"I am delighted at the appointment of the Right Reverend Justin Welby to Canterbury. I have had the privilege of working closely with him on various occasions and have always been enriched and encouraged by the experience.
He has an extraordinary range of skills and is a person of grace, patience, wisdom and humour; he will bring to this office both a rich pastoral experience and a keen sense of international priorities, for Church and world. I wish him - with Caroline and the family - every blessing, and hope that the Church of England and the Anglican Communion will share my pleasure at this appointment and support him with prayer and love."
Biographical Information
Born in 1956 in London, the Right Reverend Justin Welby was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history and law. For 11 years - five in Paris and six in London – he worked in the oil industry, becoming group treasurer of a large British exploration and production company. He focused mainly on West African and North Sea projects. During this period he became a lay leader at Holy Trinity, Brompton in London, having been a council member at St Michael’s Church in Paris.
His father’s family were German Jewish immigrants who moved to England to escape anti-Semitism in the late 19th century, and integrated quickly. His British ancestors, on his mother’s side, include several clergymen.
A major influence both on Justin and his wife Caroline was their experience of personal tragedy. In 1983 their seven-month old daughter died in a car crash in France. Six years later in 1989, after sensing a call from God, Bishop Justin stood down from industry to train for ordination
He took a theology degree at St John’s College, Durham, in which he focused on ethics – particularly in business. He has since published articles on ethics, international finance and reconciliation. His booklet, ‘Can Companies Sin?’, drawing on his experience in the oil industry, evolved from his dissertation at theological college. He has frequently said that the Roman Catholic approach to Christian social teaching, beginning with the encyclical of Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, up to Pope Benedict XVI's Caritas Veritate, has greatly influenced his social thinking.
For 20 years, his ministry has blended deep devotion to his parish communities with Church work around the world, especially in areas of conflict.
After being ordained Deacon in 1992, he spent 15 years serving Coventry Diocese. His Curacy was at All Saints Chilvers Coton with St Mary the Virgin Astley, in Nuneaton. In 1995 he became Rector of St James, Southam, a small market town in the same Diocese – and also the next year of St Michael and All Angels, Ufton, the neighbouring parish. He helped revive both churches, growing their congregations and launching bereavement and baptism teams, among other things. Between 2000 and 2002 he also chaired an NHS hospital trust in South Warwickshire. In 2002, he was made a Canon of Coventry Cathedral, where he ran the reconciliation work based there. With Canons Andrew White and Stephen Davis, he worked extensively in the field in Africa and the Middle East. He has a particular interest in Kenya, the DRC and Nigeria, where he was and remains involved in work with groups involved in conflict in the north. In the Niger Delta, he has worked on reconciliation with armed groups. He met with religious and political leaders in Israel and Palestine, and on one trip to Baghdad reopened the Anglican Church with Canon Andrew White, shortly after the allied invasion. In 2006 he also took responsibility for Holy Trinity Coventry, the main city centre church, as Priest-in-charge.
He left Coventry five years later, being installed Dean of Liverpool on 8 December 2007, replacing the Right Reverend Rupert Hoare. Liverpool Cathedral is the largest cathedral in England. Its local area, Toxteth, is among the most deprived in north-west Europe. During his deanship, he brought the Cathedral into much greater contact with its local community, working with asylum seekers and in partnership with neighbouring churches. The Cathedral also hosted events from a TUC rally to royal services. Over his four years, during which he also continued to work on reconciliation and mediation projects overseas, the Cathedral’s congregation increased significantly.
In 2011, he returned to the place where his journey towards becoming Archbishop began: on 2 June 2011, he was announced as the new Bishop of Durham, taking over from the Right Reverend Tom Wright. He was enthroned at Durham Cathedral on 26 November, and drew parallels between Liverpool and Durham – noting both the struggles and the enduring spirit of the two places.
On 9 November 2012, the Right Reverend Justin Welby was announced as the 105th Archbishop of the See of Canterbury. He will succeed Dr Rowan Williams, who is retiring at the end of December after 10 years as Archbishop. He will be enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013.
An expert on the politics and history of Kenya and Nigeria, he has lectured on reconciliation at the US State Department. In the summer of 2012, he was asked to join the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.
His interests include French culture, sailing and politics
He is married to Caroline, who studied Classics at Cambridge, where they met. They have two sons and three daughters.
Chronology Trinity College, Cambridge M.A. 1978 Société Nationale Elf Aquitaine, Paris 1978-1983 Elf UK plc, London 1983-1984, Enterprise Oil plc, London, 1984-1989 St John’s College, Durham, B.A and Dip.Min. 1992 Deacon 1992, Priest 1993 Assistant Curate of All Saints, Chilvers Coton and St Mary the Virgin, Astley 1992-1995 Rector of St James, Southam, and St Michael and All Angels, Ufton, Diocese of Coventry 1995–2002 Canon Residentiary, Coventry Cathedral 2002 - 2005 Canon Residentiary and Sub Dean, Coventry Cathedral 2005 - 2007 Priest-in-Charge, Holy Trinity, Coventry 2007 Dean of Liverpool 2007 – 2011
Episcopal offices Elected Bishop of Durham on 2 June 2011. Bishop Justin was consecrated at York Minster on 28 October and enthroned at Durham Cathedral on 26 November 2011. The main roles of the Archbishop of Canterbury
The various roles and responsibilities of the Archbishop of Canterbury have developed over more than 1400 years of history. The one constant is his ministry as a senior bishop, though the nature and purpose of his authority differs in different contexts
Historically the central role, and the source of the archbishop's authority, is as Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury (the local church of Canterbury. His diocese in East Kent has a population of 890,000 people and comprises 261 parishes in an area of nearly 1,000 square miles.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the Primate of All England (the 'first bishop' of England), and shares several roles with the Archbishop of York. For well over a thousand years the distinction of the Diocese of Canterbury has given its bishop formal responsibility as a 'metropolitan' - the first among the bishops of a region. He has authority (also known as 'jurisdiction') at all times in the 30 dioceses of his Province - 29 in southern England, and 1 in Continental Europe. York has the same roles in relation to the 14 dioceses of his Province.
Based on his oversight in the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury became the original sign of the unity of the bishops and local churches of the Anglican Communion - all 34 provinces in communion with See of Canterbury, a total of about 80 million members throughout the world which has developed over the last 200 years or so. He is the focus and spokesman of its unity today, but shares his oversight as president of the Communion with other bodies.
In the last two areas of dialogue and activity - Ecumenical relationships between Christian Churches, and Inter Religious relationships between different traditional world religions - the Archbishop has no formal authority. But his role in England and the UK, and his leadership in the Communion at large, give him significant influence and the responsibility to speak authoritatively for the faith and witness of the Church, the Anglican Church in particular.
Outline of procedures for the Appointment of an Archbishop of Canterbury:
Since 2007 the agreed convention in relation to episcopal appointments has been that the Prime Minister commends the name preferred by the Commission to the Queen. The second name is identified in case, for whatever reason, there is a change of circumstances which means that the appointment of the CNC’s recommended candidate cannot proceed.
Once the Queen has approved the chosen candidate and he has indicated a willingness to serve, 10 Downing St announces the name of the Archbishop-designate.
The College of Canons of Canterbury Cathedral formally elect the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
The election is confirmed by a commission of diocesan bishops in a legal ceremony (the Confirmation of Election), which confers the office of Archbishop on him.
The new Archbishop does homage to Her Majesty.
The new Archbishop is formally enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral.
Further details about the Outline of procedures for the appointment of an Archbishop of Canterbury can be found here: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2403
Mr Andrew and Lady Rachel Cameron- Webb announce the arrival of Amber on September 27th 2012.
A very welcome sister for Zac and Oli.
"MUSIC FOR A WHILE" Chapel Concert
On 26 July 2012, Peter Gregory (our Chapel Organist) organised a delightful evening concert in the Estate Chapel, featuring its wonderful acoustics and our much-prized Handel organ, together with Nick Hawker (tenor) and Tom Lilburn (counter-tenor) in works by JS Bach, CPE Bach, Handel, Purcell and others. The post-concert reception was arranged by Ann Beaty and a silver collection raised some £300 for Chapel funds.
The Coffee Morning
This was held on November 15th in the Pompeiian Room at Packington Hall. It was very well attended on what was a pretty gloomy, foggy Thursday! All the wonderful regulars turned out to help…..Ros Smith, Valma Grant, Harry Grant (and his marigolds!!) Chris Evans, Cynthia Campion, Janet Nesbit, Carol and David Garnet, Ann Beaty, Elizabeth Litherland and her sister, and all the house team who put the room together for the day and also helped….Ali and Vince Davies, Ann Robinson, Jane Goodman, and Eddie Short. People were very kind and donated raffle Prizes and also made a lot of Cakes.
The final total was £1,004!!! A terrific result. A huge thank you to everyone.
Very New Arrival!! (Newsletter was on hold!!!!)
Kayleigh Jennings and her partner, Aidan Boland, announced the safe arrival of Éirinn Grace at 04.13 on Friday 30th November. She weighed in at 6lb 13ozs. Carole and Stuart Jennings are very proud new Grandparents! The family wish to thank everyone for their congratulatory messages.
North Warwickshire Borough Safer Neighbourhood teams North Warks 01827 719297 [email protected] www.safer- neighbourhoods.co.uk/nwe North Warks North 01827 719297 [email protected] www.safer-neighbourhoods.co.uk/nwn North Warks West 02476 483554 [email protected] www.safer-neighbourhoods.co.uk/nww North Warks South 02476 483554 [email protected] www.safer-neighbourhoods.co.uk/nws
I have received over 40 emails with good news items from the Police in our area. This is obviously very good news and you can access these from their website.
NEWS FROM THE ESTATE OFFICE
CHRISTMAS BREAK
The Estate Office will be closed for the Christmas break on the following days:
From 4 p.m. on Friday 21st December and will re-open on Thursday 27th December 2012. For the New Year, we will close at mid-day on Monday 31st December and re-open for normal business on Wednesday 2nd January 2013.
If you are a Packington Estate Tenant and have a genuine emergency, you may call the following people. Please remember, to only call these people in a genuine emergency:
General Estate Emergencies: Stuart Jennings 01676 521017 / 07961 955163 Electrical Emergencies: Steve Gilkes 0121 608 7536 / 07980 726993 Plumbing Emergencies: Jim Lacey 07730 312219 Boiler Emergencies: Ray Linacre 07710 373821
Marsh Lane Nature Reserve CHRISTMAS CARDS As last year, the Estate will not be sending Christmas cards but, For daily bird records instead, donating the money that would have been spent to the Fen End Group of Riding For The Disabled. Providing funding direct (and other Estate details), enables the group to provide more riding lessons for the disabled please visit: children in the area, and we hope you agree that this is a good cause. www.packingtonestate.net The Estate wish everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year. If anyone wishes to make a donation please contact Lady Aylesford.
Parish Newsletter
For anyone with access to the internet you can download a copy of this Newsletter and subsequent Newsletters at www.packingtonestate.net
Simply choose the “St. James Church” icon at the top of the page and you will find a link under General Information. Packington and Maxstoke NEWS December 2012 ______
COMING MEETINGS ….
Why not join us at 7.30pm in the Undercroft at Packington Hall for one of our forthcoming meetings … new members are made very welcome.
Please telephone one of the Officers (see below) if you need a lift.
2012 Wednesday 12 December: “Christmas Table Decorations” Zilla Cooke
2013 Wednesday 9 January: “The fascinating story of egg cups” Javed Hashemi
Wednesday 13 February: Nepal Leprosy Hospital Heather Alford
Wednesday 13 March: Birthday Party – Members & Guests
Contacts:
President Loraine Jones...... 01676 - 540693 Secretary Jan Wade...... …... 01676 - 523118 Treasurer Kate Beaty...... 01675 - 443623 Packington Estate Social Club
The Social Club Committee would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
Your social club has been doing very well this year. We have hosted numerous events including recently our famous fish and chip supper and Quiz night which is always a great favourite. We also had some good fun at the Harvest supper being entertained once again by the famous farmers and their families.
We have raised lots of money and so far this year we have donated over a £1000 to charity.
With Christmas coming we will be holding our traditional Christmas Party. Hot mince pies and mulled wine are being served on Friday 21st December, so get yourself down to the Undercroft anytime after 7.30pm to enjoy the festivities. Don't forget to bring the family and friends too, the more the merrier.
The next social night in the new year will be Friday 25th January and we will be having a Burns quiz night including faggots, pees and Yorkshire puds. This is a ticket only event £6 each so please get your tickets early.
Remember - each time you buy a drink (at very competitive prices I might add) or purchase a ticket to attend an event, your money is being saved and used to help others.
Thank you for supporting us
Committee Members Paul Brown (Chairman) Steve Allcock (Vice chairman) Cherie Faries (Secretary) Ros Smith (Treasurer) Kim Gardner (Ass. Treasurer) Mick Gardner : Maryanne Beaty (Ass. Treasurer)
PACKINGTON ESTATE DURING THE WAR YEARS 1939 to 1945 AS SEEN BY MICHAEL LONGFIELD - SCHOOL BOY
Growing up on the Estate during the war years was without doubt a school boys dream. Almost overnight it changed from being a quiet country Estate to being taken over by thousands of troops, firstly English and later Americans with their guns, tanks and armour.
The first occupation was in the Park, with hundreds of tents and vehicles. The Hall was taken over with much of the food being cooked there for the troops, in the Undercroft.
Many families like mine, living at Rose Cottage at the back of the Hall took in, as lodgers, the wives of some of the soldiers.
Very soon we were to witness the bombing raids on Coventry. We could hear the bombs exploding and could see in the night sky the light from the blazing buildings. In the Park were many ACK ACK anti aircraft guns, which kept up a constant barrage of fire on the German planes coming over. On the big raids we would go down to the Undercroft, it being much safer there.
Later the Americans arrived, thousands of them building hundreds of huts up by the East Gates. They also bought with them the smaller version of the landing craft they used to assault the French beaches. These they put on the big lake teaching the troops to embark, which they did on the north side and disembark on the south side. We Estate boys were often invited to join them on the lake which we enjoyed very much.
Throughout the war years Little Packington School stayed open to all fifteen of us Estate boys and girls, under out teacher Mrs Fountain. My parents, Tom and Rose Longfield and my sister Stella, lived at Rose Cottage behind the Hall. No electricity, no running water, no modern sanitation and lighting from only paraffin oil lamps. It was not till after the war that we had the luxury of these things. Although food was rationed most country folk had chickens, the odd pig and maybe a cow, and now and again one of the two lakes was netted to catch fish.
In May 1940 we learned that Michael, the Ninth Earl, had been killed at Wormhondt, and Charles became the next in line and became the tenth Earl. Tragic is it not because Michael’s father was also killed in the First World War. Father and son gave their lives so that we could be free. GOD REST THEIR SOULS.
Michael Longfield November 2012 From WPC Ellen Beaty Beat manager North Warwickshire South
Received from North Warwickshire Borough Council - Area Support
Beware and report chalked symbols on or around your property - Linked to burglaries.
Several suspicious incidents have been reported in Warwickshire, over recent days, where home owners have noticed symbols chalked onto the walls of their homes or onto surfaces nearby.
There is evidence that these chalked symbols are used by thieves as a means to identify a property ripe for burglary.
These are some of the symbols used.
If you spot chalked symbols around your own or other homes please contact Police immediately on 101 and describe the symbols to the operator. If possible please also take a photo of the symbol if you have a camera on your mobile phone.
Thank you for your vigilance and your help.
Best regards Julie
Julie Dale Watch Co-ordinator
Community Protection North Warwickshire Borough Council
Church Ladies With Typewriters.
Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:
------The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals... ------The sermon this morning: Jesus Walks on the Water. The sermon tonight: Searching for Jesus. ------Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands. ------Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you... ------Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help. ------Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation. ------For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. ------Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get. ------Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days. ------A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow... ------
At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice. ------Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones. ------Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. ------The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility. ------Potluck supper Sunday at 5pm - prayer and medication to follow. ------The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon. This evening at 7pm there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. ------Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10am. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done. ------The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday. ------Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7pm. Please use the back door. ------The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7pm. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy. ------Weight Watchers will meet at 7pm at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance. ------The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours".
WARWICKSHIRE CHARITY LAUNCHES NEW OIL SYNDICATE
Warwickshire Rural Community Council is delighted to announce the launch of a new venture that will be good for individuals, rural communities and the environment.
The Warwickshire Community Oil Syndicate will use the model of a local buying syndicate for domestic heating oil but will roll it out across the whole county. Warwickshire RCC believes there will be great strength in harnessing the purchasing power of the many rural communities who are without mains gas so that together oil- buyers will be able to make significant savings.
Community organisations and businesses will also be able to join the scheme and benefit from cheaper oil. The oil syndicate brings together orders from across the county which are then added to other counties who operate similar buying groups to get the very best price, with an average saving per order of more than £50.
Warwickshire RCC is keen to emphasise the environmental benefits too. Delivery tankers guzzle a lot of fuel and the more deliveries they can make in one place the less fuel they use, and the fewer tankers there are on Warwickshire’s small country roads the better.
As a charity that is rooted in local community action, Warwickshire RCC wants the new venture to reflect this philosophy. Chief Executive Kim Slater says “The key to making this work will be having local people who will collate the local oil orders once a month and pass the information to us; and who will then let the local members know the cost per litre and the delivery date. That’s pretty much it. For undertaking this voluntary role they will get free membership of the oil syndicate – an annual saving of £20. Members of the Warwickshire Community Oil Syndicate will be able to order as many times as they like during the year and the price will be negotiated centrally.”
More information can be found on the Warwickshire Rural Community Council website at www.ruralwarwickshire.org.uk. If you think this could be of interest to you or your community get in touch with Warwickshire RCC on 01789 472611 or email [email protected].