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STEVINGTON MAGAZINE MARCH 2015 Number 172 VILLAGE DIARY March 9 Christian Aid Lent Lunch. Church Room 12.30pm 10 Afternoon Tea. Baptist Hall 12 WI You Can Do It. Church Room 7.30pm 15 Mothering Sunday Communion. St. Mary’s. 9.30am 16 Christian Aid Lent Lunch. Church Room 12.30pm 23 Christian Aid Lent Lunch. Church Room 12.30pm 26 Bedford Sailing Club AGM. The Royal George 8.00pm 30 Christian Aid Lent Lunch. Church Room 12.30pm April 5 Easter Day Communion and Easter Egg Hunt. St. Mary’s. 10.00am 6 Family Cycle Ride. The Cross 11.00am (see page 48) 9 Stevington Social Centre AGM. Social Centre 7.30pm 9 Deadline for nominations to stand for the Parish Council 9 WI WW2 Prisoner of War Escapes. Church Room 7.30pm 10 FOSM Children’s Cookie Baking Event 14 St. Mary’s Annual Parish Meeting. Church room. 7.00pm 16 Parish Council Meeting. Baptist Hall 7.30pm 19 Help for Heroes Big Breakfast. Social Centre 10.00am (see page 37) 25 Hostess Supper. Social Centre 27 Bowls Club AGM. Social centre May 7 Election Day 10 Stevington 12K Run. (see page 26) 12 Afternoon Tea. Baptist Hall 14 WI Annual Meeting. Church Room 7.30pm 16 WI Produce & Plant Stall. The Cross 10.00am 17 Manor House Open Garden. (see page 27) 24 Magazine Copy Date (Sunday) 30 Centenary Organ Recital. St. Mary’s. 7.30pm 31 Patronal Day Choral Evensong. St. Mary’s. 5.00pm June 7 Bulky Waste Collection. (see page 38) 7 Manor House Open Garden. 13 FOSM Concert. St Mary’s Photographs as credited Cover drawn by John Goddard Opinions expressed in the Stevington Magazine are those of the contributors and are not necessarily shared by the Editor. Some features may be kept for future issues. - 2 - MARCH 2015 No. 172 HELLO STEVINGTON! You will remember that our Christmas Greetings Charity in December was CLIMB (Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases) and that our donation was made specifically in memory of Esmé Blore-Rimmer. Thanks to the generosity of the village we had 42 greetings and raised £745 plus Gift Aid. We have received a thank you letter from CLIMB which you can read on page 5. We are very grateful to all of our regular advertisers who have signed up to continue to support the Magazine during 2015. We are also delighted to welcome several new advertisers. The annual costs of the Magazine are a little over £1,000 and without our advertisers we wouldn’t be able to cover costs so please have a look through the Magazine and use all of these local businesses when you have a need – it’s great to support them as they support us! Remember to tell them where you found their details. Congratulations to Stevington Football Club who have had a brilliant start to the season – see page 20 for the full report. We wish you luck in the forthcoming ‘big’ matches. The Stevington Neighbourhood Plan will become a legal document within planning legislation and will influence how the village develops in the future. The Neighbourhood Plan Working Party is actively steering the process and will be seeking everyone’s views – see page 12. Finally we hope to see you all at the Help for Heroes Big Breakfast on Sunday 19 April. The event offers plenty of good food and company while raising money for this important charity. See page 37 for full details and how to get your tickets. Heather and Keith NEXT MAGAZINE The next edition of the Stevington Magazine should be delivered sometime around 6-7 June 2015. The last day for receipt of copy for that Magazine is Sunday 24 May 2015. Articles should reach Heather and Keith Parkinson (Old Paddock, Church Road, Tel. 826677, e-mail [email protected]) on that day, although we will be delighted to receive copy at any time before then. - 3 - SAVE THE CHILDREN With help from friends the coffee morning on 25 October raised £134.82 including the raffle. Special thanks to Tracy, Gina and Lesley. As the cost of Christmas has increased so much people are sending emails and texts – perhaps we should consider a different means of raising funds? Any ideas? Susi Clifton BECHAR (Bedford Concern for the Homeless and Rootless) and BEDFORD FOODBANK A massive 'THANK YOU' to everyone who has given so gener- ously over the Christmas period to these appeals. The response from Stevington has been just amazing! The collection boxes in St Mary’s Church and the Church Room were filled (and overfilled!) several times over and numerous trips have been made to deliver the goods. Every- thing has been very gratefully received and many of the disadvantaged in our wider community have directly benefited from your generosity. Items are still being donated so it is our intention that the Collection Boxes will remain for as long as giving continues. Items most required are listed on the boxes. For those not liking to miss a trick, why not buy food items from the Community Shop and support two places at once? To make a donation of money the details of how to do this can be found online at: Bedford Foodbank: www.bedford.foodbank.org.uk BECHAR: www.Prebendcentre.org.uk/contribute/ Once again very many thanks to you all. Chrissie Fitch, St Mary's PCC FOR SALE - WATERCOLOUR OF THE RED LION I own an original water colour painting of The Red Lion by Ron Henderson - size 13” x 9’’ mounted and framed. It is in lovely condition. Would anyone be interested? I can email pictures to you. Please contact me on Mobile 07969 286360 or Home 01327 354911. Richard Wilson - 4 - - 5 - RECYCLING COLLECTIONS Month Orange Green March 9, 23 2, 16, 30 April 6, 20 13, 27 May 4, 18 11, 25 June 1, 15, 29 8, 22 Save your time & money ‘STEVINGTON For All Household Needs! MAGAZINE’ Professional Affordable is Supported by Local Advertisers. Domestic Cleaning Company Please Support them. Please indicate where you saw Regular / One off Cleans their advert. Spring/After Party/House Move Cleans Friendly Efficient Trustworthy Reliable & Local! Fully insured No contracts CASH for CURIOS References can be supplied Call for a free no obligation home appraisal Antiques, Coins and 01234 306485 or 07821 700320 Jewellery purchased [email protected] Marylyn and Ray Wood www.save-your-time.co.uk 01933 353517 COURT LANE LANDSCAPES LTD. All types of garden work undertaken Maintenance, Renovation, Design, Lawn and Hedge Contracts, Tree Felling, Paths, Patios & Sheds Call Magnus Lennie Tel: 01234 825169 Mob: 07713 257409 - 6 - - 7 - PARISH COUNCIL REPORT Since the December magazine was issued the Parish Council has met twice, (13 January and 24 February). At our January meeting we were shown examples of the proposed new Natural History of Stevington book which is being produced as a community project by an enthusiastic and committed group of villagers. It looks wonderful and we wish them the best of luck. Planning matters continue to take up much of our time and we work hard to best represent the interests of Stevington. We have started work on our Neighbourhood Plan and the first meeting of the steering group took place on 10 February. A Neigh- bourhood Plan is, once adopted, a statutory document which can help to shape the future of our village. There are restrictions as it must be in line with the Borough Council’s Local Plan, but without one we could be less secure from inappropriate development. The steering group is a sub- committee of the Parish Council and has a lot of work ahead of it before the plan can take shape. They will be consulting with the village on a wide range of issues. A dedicated website is being created, the address for which will be published soon on the parish notice board and the Parish Council’s website. If you would like to volunteer your help please contact our Clerk at [email protected]. You can find further information about Neighbourhood Plans by visiting the Borough Council’s website at www.bedford.gov.uk We are delighted to advise that the Parish Council has secured a defibrillator for village use. It will be installed in the old BT phone box near the Cross and in due course there will be an opportunity to attend some awareness training – details of which will be published once we know them. We are in the process of adopting the phone box from BT following which we will refurbish it before installing the defibrillator. There is no firm date for installation as yet as this is dependent on BT handing responsibility for the phone box to us. It is particularly pleasing that the defibrillator itself was obtained at no cost and we only have to pay a small amount for training and maintenance. We hope you have noticed that we have a smart new notice board. This was paid for almost entirely by a grant from Bedford Borough Council’s Rural Affairs Committee. We would like to thank Ade Churchill for kindly installing the board at no cost. - 8 - If you have any items which you wish to post on the notice board, please either email them to our Clerk at the address below or email/hand them to any Parish Councillor. Contact details for your Parish Councillors are posted on the notice board and on our website http://Stevington.bedsparishes.gov.uk. The Parish Council hopes to obtain further grant funding to buy a notice board for general village use and we will let you know if we are successful.