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The Broad Hinton, Uffcott and Winterbourne Bassett Local News March 2020 Community Calendar Mon 2 Mar 2020 Parish Council Meeting, VH, 7.30pm Wed 4 Mar 2020 Ridgeway Ladies - The Ridgeway, VH 7.45pm Fri 6 Mar 2020 Kids Club, Village Hall 9 - 11 am Sat 7 Mar 2020 Book Café, VH 9.30 - 11.30am Wed 11 Mar 2020 Garden Club - Nature's Poisoners, VH 7.30pm Tues 17 Mar 2020 Mobile Library BHVH Car Park 3.15pm to 4.00pm Sat 21 Mar 2020 Kreative Kidz Family Church, Village Hall -4pm to 6pm Tues 24 Mar 2020 Fate of the Fete Open Meeting, Crown 8pm Wed 25 Mar 2020 Vintage Cinema Club: The Red Shoes, VH 7 for 7.30pm Mon 30 Mar 2020 WB Annual Parchial Church Meeting, The Winterbourne 7pm Notices Happy Birthday to the following pupils from Broad Hinton School who celebrate their Birthdays in March: Jamie Arrowsmith, Opheila Bates, Finley Billingham, Katie Curley, Emma Huggins, Earinn Jimenex, William Keen, Talia Mcpherson, Elsa Rawlison, Ayla Walker and Maicey Wright. Waste and Recycling collection days for April Tues 3 Mar Plastic & Cardboard and Recycling Blue bin and Black box Thus 5 Mar Garden Green Bin Tues 10 Mar Household Waste Black bin Tues 17 Mar Plastic & Cardboard and Recycling Blue bin and Black box Thurs 19 Mar Garden Green Bin Tues 24 Mar Household Waste Black bin Tues 31 Mar Plastic & Cardboard and Recycling Blue bin and Black box Copy Date The Copy date for the April 2020 issue of the Local News will be 20th March 2020 Please email copy to the Editor Liz Moakes at [email protected], or phone 077761 88805. For information regarding advertising please contact the Advertising Co-ordinator Steve Cutler at the same e-mail address [email protected] or phone 07761 577998 Please prefix the title message with “NEWS” for Liz and “ADVERT” for Steve making it easier for them to separate the messages thereby enabling them to respond more quickly to you. Items submitted to the Local News are considered for publication at the editor’s discretion and are assumed to be intended for publication unless otherwise stated. Articles will only be printed anonymously if the editor is informed of the name of the author. It is your responsibility to inform the editor if, for any reason, you do not wish your name to appear in the Local News and associated websites. 1 The Broad Hinton, Uffcott and Winterbourne Bassett Local News March 2020 Book Café Saturday 7th March 2020 Broad Hinton Village Hall 9.30am to 11.30am • Book exchange (good condition fiction only please) • Coffee, tea, squash and homemade cakes • Children’s and adults’ books • Chat about books • Entry £2.50 which includes a drink and cake Badminton players needed! A group of us play Badminton, for fun, every Thursday at the Lime Kiln in Royal Wootton Bassett from 8-9 pm. We would love to welcome any new players of any standard. Please contact Miri on 07740929809 for more information. Broad Hinton Coffee Morning Coffee Morning is held every Tuesday morning between 10.00 and 12.00 in our lovely Village Hall. Everyone is welcome and we get visits from passing travellers too. The coffee is fresh and delicious and we serve caffeinated and decaff. There is a variety of teas available as well as hot chocolate and all it costs is £1.00 per cup or £2.00 per mug. A drink is too wet to be drunk on its own so there is always a wonderful selection of yummy cakes or you may prefer a toasted crumpet or muffin and these come free with the coffee! What better value could you find anywhere? Come along and join in the repartee with friends, neighbours and visitors to our lovely village. Catch up with all the latest details of forthcoming events as well. We look forward to seeing you. 2 The Broad Hinton, Uffcott and Winterbourne Bassett Local News March 2020 THE RIDGEWAY LADIES On Wednesday February 5th the Ridgeway Ladies were delighted to welcome Ros Burden, a practising acupuncturist, to their meeting. Acupuncture is a healthcare system based on ancient principles that go back nearly two thou- sand years. It looks at pain and illness as signs that the body is out of balance – the overall aim of acupuncture is to restore the body’s equilibrium. Ros explained how acupuncturists are trained to use subtle diagnostic techniques when treating their patients; understand that physical, emotional and mental health are interdependent and that each patient is unique. Two people with the same western diagnosis may well receive different acupuncture treat- ments. Traditional acupuncturists believe that underlying principle of treatment is that illness and pain occur when the body’s ‘qi’ (pronounced ‘chee’ i.e. vital energy) cannot flow freely and that by inserting ultra fine needles into specific acupuncture points they seek to re- establish the free flow of ‘qi’ to restore balance and trigger the body’s natural healing re- sponse. Ros gave us an interesting resume of her life leading to her eventually becoming a practising acupuncturist..... so much studying and so many qualifications. Acupuncture can be used to help many conditions (from joint pain, anxiety, migraines etc.) and can be highly effective but Ros was keen to stress that it was not a replacement for western medicine. It was obvious from her talk that Ros was passionate about her work and thoroughly enjoyed her every mi- nute of it. She certainly inspired many of us and I can see several members seeking her advice and treatment for their health problems. Our next meeting is on Wednesday 4th March at 7.45 in the village hall when our speaker will be Jim Gunter who will be giving a talk on ‘The Ridgeway’. Ladies why not come and join us? The Fate of the Fête . is in your hands! An Open Meeting will be held at 8.00pm at The Crown Inn on Tuesday, 24th March to discuss the future of the Village Fête. In June last year, we witnessed the 75th Anniversary the D Day Invasion. A number of those who have been heavily involved in the Village Fete were born around then and, as our ‘Dad’s Army’, they wish to retire! Basically, the Fête needs a new Team Please do come to the meeting to hear what is involved! The key is just a few people prepared to take over the running of one element such as the Tea Tent, the Bar and BBQ, the Publicity, the Games and Activities, the Raffle and the erection and dismantling of the site. The retiring Fête Team have compiled a booklet that explains how recent Fêtes have been organised and they would be very willing to help the new Team, particularly in the first year. All the equipment is available in storage. New ideas and changes by the new Team would be welcomed and appreciated. Brian Poulton 731158 Des Clarke 731606 Mark Wightman 731452 3 The Broad Hinton, Uffcott and Winterbourne Bassett Local News March 2020 January 300 Club Winners £50 216 Chris Horan £25 58 Chris O’Neill £20 38 Caryl Roberts £20 207 Des Clarke £10 270 Wendy Reardon-Smith Who’s Who, Our Website & Newsletter We received a request for a What Goes On in BHVH article, so there’s a full-page article elsewhere in the magazine. In case you don’t know, I’m Kate Marshall and I write this regular monthly BHVH update. The request tells me several things: 1. It seems you don't know who is on the BHVH committee to ask us directly. 2. You may not know about the BHVH website; all the information is there. Some of you still prefer paper, and that’s fine, it’s all here in the Local News too. The E-Newsletter Every month I send out a BHVH e-newsletter. The information in it is more up to date than the Local News. When the Parish Council give me information such as road closures, I include this in the e-newsletter too. If you’re already on the list, if you don’t have [email protected] in your address list, the emails may be going to your junk folder. If you haven’t asked us to send it to you and you’d like us to, email me at [email protected] and I’ll add you to the list. The Website broadhinton.org.uk Is maintained, edited and administered by the Broad Hinton Village Hall trustee committee. I’m the administrator, so please send requests for changes and additions to me at [email protected]. Members of the BHVH Trustee Committee Who Role Contact James Gates Chairman 01793 731197 Steve Hannan Treasurer 01793 731715 Sue Robinson Secretary 01793 731957 Marilyn Martin Bookings 01793 731521 Geoff Martin Inside and outside mainte- 01793 731521 Juanita Poulton Committee member 01793 731 158 Chris Horan Committee member 01793 739272 Wendy Reardon-Smith Committee member 01793 739164 Kate Marshall Marketing & Communica- 07740 928218 Please contact us with any queries about our Village Hall 4 The Broad Hinton, Uffcott and Winterbourne Bassett Local News March 2020 WHAT’S ON? MONDAYS TUESDAYS Pilates 6:15pm-7:15pm Post Office 9:am-12 noon Circuits 7:30pm-8:15pm Coffee Morning 10:00am-12:00 noon Karate Lessons 7:00pm-8:30pm WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS Tai Chi 6:00pm-7:00pm Yoga 9:30am-11am Zumba 6:00pm-7:00pm Table Tennis 7:30pm- 9:30pm FRIDAYS Kids Club 2 a month (term time) 10:00am-11:30am Youth Club (term time) 7:00pm-9:00pm MONTHLY st Happy Hours 1pm, 1 Wednesday of the month st Ridgeway Ladies 7:45pm 1 Wednesday of the month nd Garden Club 7:30pm 2 Wednesday of the month, Nov - April Vintage Cinema Club Wednesday (not in summer) 7pm QUARTERLY (Approximately) Book Café – book exchange, drinks and cake ANNUALLY (sometimes bi-annually) Broad Hinton Amateur Dramatics Society (BHADS) productions Details about all these activities can be found on BHVH website www.broadhinton.org.uk 5 The Broad Hinton, Uffcott and Winterbourne Bassett Local News March 2020 Help the Planet If you are like us you may have been thinking about, or chatting with your friends and family about trying to live a more waste free lifestyle? Is it time to try to put it into action? We hope to offer a few practical tips, and a few gentle nudges which may help us all to do our own little bit towards this overall goal.