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MAY/JUNE 2019 No 47 Sponsored by the Landkey Parish Council

The newly painted bus shelter at ARE YOU NEW TO LANDKEY, IF SO WELCOME. the Vicarage Lane end of the vil- Do you know we have a great Shop/Post Office “Lyncroft Stores”, that can provide many of your lage paid for by the Parish Coun- needs including newspapers, just pick up your supplies on the way to or from school. cil. “Willow’s Tea Room” serves delicious homemade cakes and savories, plus a selection of various coffee’s, tea’s or soft drinks. A great place to meet up with your friends, (dogs welcome) Look at the Lyncroft Stores is looking for a charity to menu on the notice board. support this year. If you have any suggestions “The Castle Inn” serves drinks and food with live music occasionally. please let Janette or John Know. One suggestion “The Village Hall” is used by many groups that hold meetings/events for all ages and it can be was possibly a second defibrillator unit.. booked for private parties., See next page for details. There is the “Ladybird Nursery and T & D Childcare for pre school child care. We are also lucky enough to have the Millennium Green with it’s lovely Mazzard trees and large green area in the middle of the village with plenty of room to play or walk with seats to just sit and chill with friends or for a few quiet moments on your own. There are 2 football pitches and several childrens play areas around the village and of course the new MUGA (Multi use games area) between the Millennium Green and Mazzard View. Please use the facilities in Landkey and let us be a pleasant village and not just a commuter village. The defibrillator unit that was purchased by LANDKEY WI ACTIVITIES donations through Lyncroft Stores along with We will not be meeting in the Village Hall in May and June but will be venturing to fields anew. On money from the Parish and District councils is Wednesday, 8th May, members will be taking part in a Melchior Chocolate Workshop in South Mol- now in position outside Lyncroft Stores ton. A week later on Wednesday, 15th May, Landkey WI will be joining WI and Barnsta- ple Bloomers WI at 6.00 p.m. at Library to take part in A Murder Mystery Evening. On Wednesday, 12 June, we will be visiting Museum at 4.00 p.m. to hear a talk by Maggie Ford on the history of Braunton. Further details from Landkey WI Secretary, Hazel Price, on 01271 831259. CRAFT CLUB If you were thinking of joining the Craft Club the next meeting would be a great time to do it! Only £10 for the next 6 months meetings and 3 of those will be free to members. Our May meeting, on the 14th, is fur- niture painting which will be a demonstration with some audience par- ticipation. We will learn about different paints, techniques and waxes. LANDKEY MILLENNIUM GREEN. At present our June meeting, the 11th, is a Bring Your Own project Many thanks to those who came to help at the evening but that may change as preparations for our Craft Fair in Sep- Working Party on the Green on April 16th. tember are hotting up! All Welcome at the craft club. Non-members We couldn't manage the Green without the pay a fee of £3 per meeting to attend. We all pay for materials and guest help of volunteers. If you'd like to help in any speakers/leaders, costs vary. We are in the village hall at 7.30pm on the way please contact me - 831451, second Tuesday of the month. 07974924956 or [email protected]. If you would like further info contact Rita on 01271 830900 or [email protected] Mazzard trees on the Millennium Green in full blossom.

The ever expanding village of Landkey (above) New bench on Landkey Bridge SENIOR CITIZENS OUTING. Preliminary announcement. The lunch & outing to Bude will be on Saturday Lyncroft Stores & Post Office - Opening Hours September 7th 2019. Full details in July. Lyncroft Stores Post Office Monday 7.30am - 7pm Monday 8am - 6.30pm Tuesday 7.30am - 7pm Tuesday 8am - 6.30pm Wednesday 7.30am - 7pm Wednesday 9am - 6.30pm Thursday 7.30am - 7pm Thursday 8am - 6.30pm Friday 7.30am - 7pm Friday 8am - 6.30pm Saturday 8.00am - 7 pm Saturday 8am - 6.30pm Sunday 8.00am - Noon Sunday 8am - Noon Thank you to the people who are parking more sensibly outside the shop to allow customers parking. CONTACTS PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS Landkey Fellowship LANDKEY PARISH COUNCILLORS The meetings start at 7.30pm, following the Richard Halliday Chairman - 831179 general planning meeting which starts at Second Tuesday 2.30pm in the Village Hall [email protected]. 7pm in the Old School Centre. Richard Prowse - 831092 [email protected] May 8th and June 5th 2019. Everyone is May 14th The speaker has been cancelled, as a number of Richard Beer 831008 welcome to attend and you can have your regulars are away – but all are welcome for tea and chat! [email protected] say, usually item number 4 on the Agenda, Lynn Morton 830339 which is published on the website and on June 11th Speaker from Freewheelers, with a collec- [email protected] the 2 notice boards. tion for the charity. Hear about the volunteer bikers who pro- Glyn Lane, 830854 vide an ‘out of hours’ service, moving urgently needed blood [email protected] between hospitals (One aim is to provide new tamper-proof MOBILE LIBRARY VAN. Tracey Hommell 07828789699 satnavs) Lee Lovell (Thursday) May 23rd and June [email protected] Parish Clerk - Martyn Isaac 374428 20th July 9th Annual meeting and Cream Tea [email protected] Meadow Close 13.35 - 14.05 Castle Inn 14.10 - 14.55, Landkey Horticultural Society Show Richard Edgell - 01769 550242 Bakery Way 15.00 15.45 Don’t forget the Landkey Show on 27th July, opening at 2pm. [email protected] Denes Close 15.50 - 16.35 Now is the time to start preparing for your entries, plant vege- COUNCIL tables or flowers, prepare your home-crafts or practice making Glyn Lane - 830854 NEWSLETTER cakes. [email protected] If you have anything to say let me know. David Luggar - 378788 [email protected] What else would you like to see in the news- To book the Village Hall -Kathy - 830975 letter? To book The Old School Centre - Sandra If you have any photographs relevant to the 830139 Village we will try to get them in the next Landkey Painters -L Morton - 830339 issue. Craft Group Rita Grainger 830900 Millennium Green - Mrs K Trigger - St Paul’s Church 831451 We extend a warm welcome to all who would like to join us for Anglican Christian worship at our parish Tanners Road Playing Field - Glyn Lane - 830854 [email protected] church. New worshippers are especially welcome: if you are considering coming to church for the first time, Landkey Football Club -M Rippon - or after a long break, you do not need to worry that you would be expected to participate in anything that you 830758 didn’t feel comfortable with! Feel free to come along and find out whether taking part in worship at St Paul’s Landkey United Fellowship is for you. Marian Wright - 830717 Our Sunday services are usually held at 10:30am and Holy Communion is typically offered at least twice per Landkey Brownies To join month. A Family Service, which does not include Communion, is held on the first Sunday in the month. www.girlguiding.org.uk other inquiries Ali- These services are enjoyed by the families who come along and they usually include a themed talk aimed at son Wyborn - 830323 - Sarah Shadford - children on a well-known topic from the Bible. 830712 Landkey Guides - Mrs C Russell 830671 Diary Dates: Landkey Whist Group - Family Services: Sundays 5th May and 2nd June at 10:30 am Gordon Short - 830563 Mothers’ Union: 22nd May and 26th June at 2:30 pm in the village hall. Landkey Women's Institute - Mrs H Price - 831259 Garden Party: Saturday 29th June at The Old Manor, Landkey Landkey Horticultural Society - Further information may be found at www.landkeyparishchurch.org Position available St Paul's Church - Mrs MacCaig - 831020 Changes to some North Devon parish boundaries given the go ahead www.landkeyparishchurch.org Changes to some North Devon parish boundaries have been given the go ahead to bring them in-line with Mothers Union - Mrs MacCaig - 831020 ward boundaries. - Landkey Primary School - 830421 POLICE non emergency 101 At ’s Full Council meeting last night (Monday 25 February), councillors agreed with Lyncroft Stores 830278 recommendations in a report to proceed with proposals to review the boundaries. The areas affected are: • Landkey Autoservices Mark - 830215 Mill on the Mole, – move to South Molton parish and district ward. - Westacott, Landkey – move to Barnstaple parish and Westacott parish district ward. - • Mount Sandford Green, Landkey – move LANDKEY WEBSITE to Barnstaple parish and Newport parish ward. - • Gunn – move to Goodleigh parish . Landkeyvillage.com Please use the Cal- Once the changes are put in place it will mean that people living in the areas affected will become part of dif- endar facility on the website then other ferent parishes and vote for different parish councils in future elections, including the parish and district elec- people can schedule events so that the dates don’t clash. tions on Thursday 2 May. - Head of Corporate and Community Services at North Devon Council, Ken Miles, says: “The main issues we consider when proposing changes to any wards are the impacts on commu- NEWSLETTER nity engagement, cohesiveness of communities, local democracy and the delivery of local services. - As If you have anything you would like part of the review we carried out a consultation to allow residents to get involved and let us know their included in the next newsletter please thoughts on the proposals before taking them any further.” - The changes were proposed following a Com- email me, [email protected] or munity Governance Review (CGR) which allows the council to review electoral arrangements for all or part ring 830077 (evenings) The deadline of the North Devon district. - Full details of the approved proposals, including maps can be found on the for the July/August edition will be voting and elections pages of the council website - www.northdevon.gov.uk/elections. - Before going to 20th June Full Council the proposals were also approved by the council’s Ethics Committee at their meeting on 23 Jan-

OLD SCHOOL CENTRE, SHOES FOR AFRICA VICARAGE ROAD Hi, my name is Persephone Allaway and I am working towards my silver Duke of Edinburgh award. I would The Old School Centre is available for like to set up a project to collect used shoes which will be sent to children and adults in Africa. hire. Please ring Sandra 01271 830139 I want to try and help other people who are less fortunate than us, so I would like to collect any types of shoes: for more information. sandals, trainers, boots, both adults and children. These shoes must be in satisfactory condition so that they can be worn again by somebody else. Outside my house I will put a green bin with the label, “Shoes for Africa” so LANDKEY VILLAGE HALL feel free to To book the Village Hall for functions come and put the shoes in there. Landkey Stores have kindly agreed to have a box outside the shop for the or parties please ring Kathy 01271 shoes. Alternatively, you can phone us and we will come to you to collect them, just give us your details, we 830975 for more information have an answer message machine so feel free to leave a message. This is our address: 6 Cherry Tree Drive, Landkey EX32 0UE and our phone number is: 01271 831530