COTSWOLD TIMES STOW TIMES JUNE 2015 ISSUE 138
Helping a village in crisis: Alain Rouveure’s Nepal Fund PAGE 11
MAGNA CARTA in 20 places: a Review by Colin Piper PAGES 14-15
Go that extra furlong – Robin Furlong, master craftsman PAGES 22-23
Northleach House of Correction PAGES 46-47
Rural Policing – is it endangered? National Policing Survey PAGES 28-29
WHAT’S ON? – Exhibitions, fetes, fairs and festivals. Live music, great markets, a train ride, galleries and LOTS of things to get you out into the sunshine! PAGES 33‑47
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Twelfth Night outdoor theatre, Thursday 9th July, performances at 1pm and 7pm. A unique opportunity to see the all-male company, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men in Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ in the wonderful setting of the Arboretum. Gates to beautiful Batsford Gardeners: Whatever your level of open an hour before each performance so Arboretum & Garden Centre. Wander freely, love gardening experience, our Garden Shop and bring your own picnic and a rug/low-backed the ambiance and refresh your inner person. Plant Centre team are always on hand to offer chair, settle down and enjoy magical theatre NB. There’s free entry to the Arboretum for Dad help and advice about growing, whether in your in a magical venue! Tickets cost £17 (£12 on Father’s Day (on production of a valid child, back garden or allotment . . . from roses to for concessions, £10 for children) on sale at of course!) rhubarb, with propagators and pots to please. Batsford or by calling 01386 701441.
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3 An AMAZING month for a small bookshop in Ashbee Dental Care Chipping Campden welcomes new patients Emily Dunn followed her dreams and opened her own ‘indie’ (independent) Ashbee Dental care is a small dedicated bookshop last year. ‘A Festival of team, focused on providing the highest Books’ opened in Chipping Campden, 3 Ashbee House quality dental treatment. specialising in children’s books. Battlebrook Drive It was a brave move – although we have a choice of bookshops in the NHS and private patients welcome. Chipping Campden Cotswolds, bookshops have been Denplan available from £6.87 Tel: 01386 840 840 in decline for some years. Seriously www.ashbeedentalcare.co.uk worried about the future for ‘indie’ bookshops, the author James . Ample Free Parking Patterson launched a new award for independent bookshops, providing a fund of £250, 000 a year to support outstanding bookshops across the country. website and in their magazine New Books, along with a social media In May Emily had news that “Not campaign. Also the Booksellers Association have chosen to do a feature on only was I awarded some of the me and the shop for their magazine too. James Patterson grant money for “The grant money went towards four wonderful events indepen-dent bookshops, but that the for children at the local Campden Schools during the shop was Book Shop of the Month in Literary Festival and Abi Elphinstone, debut author of May as voted by Love Your Indie in The Dreamsnatcher is due to visit in June. A very busy association with the Guardian and month, I hope it continues and I can keep selling books Nudge and will be featured on their in Campden for many years to come!”
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4 COTSWOLD TIMES STOW TIMES FROM THE EDITOR INSIDE OUR JUNE EDITION . . .
The sky was blue from very first thing today – and the early FEATURES chorus of birdsong was bursting with energy. It’s impossible to 9 A Pop Up Gourmet Dinner – Jenni Turner be dreary when nature turns on the sunshine. Even a day in the office is cheerier when I can slide outside for coffee without 11 Alain Rouveure’s direct link with Nepal having to put on extra layers. Julie Hall and Alain Rouveure Each month as the news and articles arrive for the next edition 14-15 Magna Carta in 20 Places – and in Stow it is easy to see the ‘big issues’ that are being talked about in Colin Piper reviews the book the community. Our community is . . . concerned about families 18-19 Cotswold Breweries – Nigel Moor in Nepal (Alain Rouveure at the Rouveure Galleries – you have possibly met some of his Nepalese craftsmen when they are 21 Sheep Shearing at Cotswold Farm Park – Hannnah Ward here in the summer months); interested in the Magna Carta (the 22-23 Robin Furlong – bespoke furniture maker – Caroline Fisher book Magna Carta in 20 Places by Derek Taylor who lives in Stow, has a public ‘signing’ here in June – our reviewer found 28 Policing Survey it ‘witty and enchanting and impossible to put down’!); enjoys 30-31 Correspondence – a new surgery, of course, but where? its local beers and breweries; admires and ‘relishes’ bespoke And why does it matter? furniture and is always interested in our local history; and loves having the Lido open again! The police appeared on the radar 47 Banging down the Doors – Caroline Fisher at The Old Prison twice and we have an article on the national policing survey which is running all month. Notable by its absence was local REGULARS politics – but maybe that is understandable after all that hype 10 Robb Eden – need help dealing with bureaucracy? and rushing about. 13 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books Essentially though, June brings lots of good things and this edition is packed with an amazing choice of events and places 24, 48, 49, 52, Community Pages: Cadets, Volunteering, The other to visit, mostly on our doorsteps or within a short journey. With side of Caring family and friends or footloose and fancy free, I hope you will 25 Local Authority Information, Blood Donor sessions, enjoy the best that June can bring – summer! Our new District Councillors Best wishes, 27 Planning – Summary of Applications received Jenni Turner 32 Church Services Editor 33-47 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY 42 Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities listing (always a Work In Progress!) With over 40,000 readers across the North Cotswolds, we are delivering the four community magazines to letterboxes in Stow on the Wold, Moreton in Marsh, Bourton on the Water & Chipping 43 Club Notices Norton and the villages that use them as centres - Broadwell, Adlestrop, Oddington, Bledington, 44 Reports from Rotary, Lions and the Royal British Legion Icomb, Church Westcote, Nether Westcote, Wyck Rissington, Lower & Little Rissington, Great Rissington (part),Maugersbury, Nether Swell, Lower Swell & Upper Swell, Lower Slaughter, 53-57 News from some of our Local Schools Naunton, Notgrove, Sherborne (part), Clapton on the Hill, Donnington, Condicote, Longborough, 63-65 News from local Sports Clubs Bourton on the Hill, Temple Guiting, Guiting Power, Batsford (part), Blockley, Todenham, Aston Magna, Draycott (part) and Over Norton in Bourton on the Water, Chipping Norton, Moreton in 66-67 Local Business Directory Marsh, Stow on the Wold, Chipping Campden, Paxford, Shipston on Stour, Great Wolford & Little Wolford, Little & Long Compton, Whichford, Heythrop, Chadlington, the Wychwoods, Northleach, Burford, Kingham, Churchill and Salford.
With many thanks to all our many contributors this month, including: Our Next edition is for July 2015 Caroline Fisher, Tony Ferrige, Julie Hall, Christabel Hardacre, Emma The copydate is 15th June, 2015 Hope, Nigel Moor, Cotswold Farm Park, Jan Marley, Colin Piper and Chris Turner.
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8 AN EXCITING CONCEPT – A DELICIOUS MEAL! Article by Caroline Fisher with personal research by Jenni Turner
ENTERPRISING local chef Alex Edgecombe took a punt on the former prison at Northleach to create a fine dining experience. Seeing the café’s potential, he held his first ‘Pop Up’ dinner under his company name The Little Pickle in April, following its success with a second evening in May, and – luckily for savvy diners – he has plans for more.
Outstanding dishes in a four-course Gourmet Tasting Menu delighted 30 diners on each occasion. The 27-year-old, from Moreton, said: “The venue is somewhere people often go during the day but probably hadn’t thought about it as a dining place in the evening. It was an opportunity to showcase my food and promote the venue. I transformed a friendly café to a fine dining space with dim lights and an intimate atmosphere.
“Guests had a pre-dinner drink and canapé and were then invited to their tables, beautifully laid with linen tablecloths and my own crockery.”
M E N U Pressed ham hock, crispy quails egg, peas & shoots Cornish crab salad, apple and cucumber slaw, devilled crab beignet and cucumber gazpacho Roast rump of lamb, sweetbreads, truffled onion & asparagus, lamb jus White chocolate & cardamom parfait, lavender shortbread, textures of rhubarb “ If you have watched Master-Chef and envied the invited diners (in that case, food critics) the opportunity to taste top-quality food, beautifully prepared and presented by someone who’s dedication and commitment to first class cooking is almost tangible …..then look out for The Little Pickle and Alex Edgecombe’s Pop Up at The Old Prison. The Old Prison building doesn’t ooze charm and intimacy, but with a warm welcome, well-informed and interested staff, the evening was a delight and shouldn’t be missed. The food was beautifully presented, each course clearly chosen with flair and confidence and, although we aren’t experts, it was cooked with care and designed to please. Nothing disappointed. “A chosen menu will always lead to expectations – we were delighted with the quality and deliciousness of the food presented on each new plate.”
Remarkably, the adventurous bespoke private caterer is self-taught. Graduating with Alex Edgecombe a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, Alex clearly felt his path lay in food. “I knew my life was always going to be in catering but I didn’t want to go back to Private Chef college, so I thought I’d dive in at the low end and work my way up.” After working for a large events company in London he became a full-time chef for luxury catered ski chalet company Scott Dunn, where his personal cooking style evolved. He then set up The Little Pickle, producing pickles, relishes and chutneys from which the catering sprang.
The Little Pickle Pop Ups are not new in the area - Moreton and Stow have hosted Pop Up shops in otherwise empty premises, replacing blank façades with a new and potentially e: [email protected] vibrant experience to attract new customers and encourage passers-by to stop. The opportunity is always short-term but, for a new business such as Alex Edgecombe’s m: 07966724695 The Little Pickle, a Pop Up provides an invaluable way to promote skills and – w: www.thelittlepickle.co.uk expertise, or test-drive a new idea and create a buzz in an otherwise quiet area. 9 CONDICOTE JAZZ NIGHT Need Help With Bureaucracy? Saturday 11th July, 6.30pm Contact Robb Eden Bring a picnic and enjoy a fun evening of for outdoor LIVE MUSIC, Refreshments and Business Tax
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th A system that takes with one hand & gives back with another Saturday 20 June is always fraught with difficulties and invites both individuals 10am to 5pm and companies to exploit the inevitable loopholes to their advantage. The job of the taxman is to create a working system • Guest speaker that brings in the highest amount of tax possible. I believe that Pippa Greenwood they should also be charged with overseeing a system that’s fair (please call or go online to to all, something that isn’t happening at the moment. Punitive book talk tickets - £15) rates of tax and complicated tiers of bureaucracy are hindering rather than helping and are reducing rather than increasing the • Special offers on pots tax take. • Unusual perennials If you’re in business or about to start a business it makes sense for sale by to contact an accountant who can guide you through the maze. Whether you’re a sole trader, partnership or a limited company Marina Christopher of it is important that you keep up to date with the ever changing Phoenix Perennial Plants legislation that affects your business. Whether it’s Vat, Payroll, Corporation Tax or Self-Assessment it’s vital that you understand your obligations by filing your returns and paying any tax due on Whichford Pottery, time. The financial penalties for not doing so are severe. Whichford, Nr. Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 5PG Robb Eden is based in Moreton-in-Marsh. He can be contacted
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ALAIN ROUVEURE
GALLERIES TIBETAN RUGS, HIMALAYAN TEXTILES, TRIBAL ART AN UPDATE ON AL AIN AN D NEP AL T his could be a c hieved by le tters between the c hi ld ren, by f undra is ing From Julie Hall, abbreviated to include an update from Alain Rouveure pr ojects, o r e ve n b y ‘tw inn ing ’ w ith a s u itab le sch ool h ere in the C otswolds! If yo u a re re ad in g th is a nd are a te ache r, ch ild o r pa ren t w ho Just over a year ago I interviewed local entrepreneur, shop-owner and t hink s th is is th e o ppo rtun it y you have been looking for, then please philanthropist A la in Rouveu re, and f oun d him to b e p assio nate and self- con ta ct Alai n via his w eb sit e or the Gall eries – w hat are you waiting for , let the ad ven ture begin ! sacrifi cin g in h is effort s to help the peo ple o f Ne p al thro ugh his ow n mean s and by fundraisin g as pa rt o f his b usin ess at th e Alain Ro uveure G a lleries The Nam o Bu ddh a S chool th re e h ours away from Kathm andu wa s hit , in Todenham . Re c ent dev elop me nts bo th a t ho me and a bro a d w arra n ted bu t lu ck ily only th e old origina l far mhouse th at ha d bee n converted into a a return vis it, and we m et in April, i nit ially to discus s the pr ogress of his prima ry sc hool. Th e new classroom block we are building with an anti- existin g p roje c ts a nd the de vel opm e nt of ne w one s – w ith an u pd ate by se ism ic re info rced concr ete structure has only suffered minor damage. A la in (in red ) fol low ing the e a r thqua k e i n N ep a l on ly day s la ter. The T he Rou veeu re G alleries se ll gen ui ne T ibet an ru gs m a d e b y w or k ers empl oyed an d su p porte d by Alai n in Ne pal, u sing un ique an d tr ad iti on al dyes to produce high qua lity rug s tha t are s old thro ugh t he shop. The
exqu isit e jewe llery ha ndm ade by silvers miths in Ne pal also se lls w e ll , as
do the smaller ite ms and t extiles . Alain p ays h is w ork ers well – he is a strong advocate fo r Fair T rade rat he r tha n Ai d and i s a me mbe r of
RUGMARK, a w orld organisation. The new gallery exhibits a small part of Alain’s extensive collec tion o f an tique a nd h ighly c oll ectabl e textil es, masks and other w are s, includ in g so me rare and valu able Sh am an dresses recently exhibited in Paris and Venice. He has been collecting since 1979. For tu nately , on the day of the fir st and m ost powerful earthquake, many Approximately every four months Alain returns to Nepal, seeing his s tud ents were aw ay a nd t he b oarding child ren w ere play ing ou tside. wo rkers an d fo llowin g up with h is cha ritab le w ork amo ngst th e fa mili es M ost people wh o w ork and live in th e Kathm andu valley c om e f rom and co mmuni ties h e supp orts . For Alai n, th is is th e most impo rta nt part o f distant village s, whic h are left peop led by wom en, chi ldre n and the what he does: the welfare of the people he has come to know and love , elderly. They hear that most of their family homes have been raised to pro viding wor k so tha t they c a n b en e fit an d p rofi t from hi s sup po rt ( bo th the g ro un d. The ma jor ity o f th ese co mmu nities a re very iso late d at th e p ractic al and em o tion a l) a n d bec om e as ind epe ndent a s po ssible . be s t o f tim es , m a king i t di ff icult for aid to reach them fa st. I am still s pen ding a lo t of t ime on the phone trying to contact the Our gla ss- mak er friend Bha rat ( som e of you will have met him at the galler ies) his wif e and little bo y, are safe families we know in Nepal. As electricity cuts prevents mobile phones from charging it makes it difficult and extremely frustrating. Howev er, l do amongst the ma yhem in Kathman du manage to speak to most we know and love, and get news of othe rs via and so is our silver sm ith frie nd K rishn a their network. The school we and man y of ‘our g roup ’. M os t of t h eir rela tives i n the vi lla ges m a de it, but no t sponsor was af fect ed bu t luck ily, as it was Saturda y, very few childre n all. Like millions of Nep alis, th ey cam p were in and no one was hurt. All our outside with the bare m i nimum, und er
other friends have escaped serious plastic, sharing w ith others the litt le they
injuries but unfortunately there has still have. been major damage to their homes, Of c ours e peop le will try to re build
traditionally built with mud and brick. their h omes a s rapid ly as the y can. I p erfe ctly know t hat in Nepal, Many communities are completely e sp eci ally rural Nepal, mo st do no t have ba n k accou nts o r ac cess to planning to help build at least one solid (anti-seismic wrecked. The wors t is in the ba n k lo ans , cha rged at rates of betwe en12% and 16 %. M a ny will hav e r countryside whe re houses were often old an d w eak . M ost h ave now to r e ly on m on ey len ders a t inter e st ra te s bet wee n 3 0% a nd 50%,
gone … with a monsoon abou t to start … if the cur rent sit ua tio n was n ot so me time s hi g h e r. I ha v e s een it to o m any t imes, ba ili n g ou t some
famil ies wi th lon g te rm inte re st-fr ee l oan s. Altho u g h I am sure some of bad enoug h a lready! the financial aid coming in will be put to good use, Nepal has its fair The Alain Ro uv eure Nepal Relief Fun d wa s set up over 30 ye ars ago share of financial scandals operating with impunity. specifically to ac ce pt contribu ti ons fr om w ell-wish ers an d supporters also Long term funding is important, and cash without strings to buy the wanting to make a differ e nce . Durin g his re gular visits t o Ne pal Alain buil ding ma terial needed to get th e poor est in t he c ommu nities back on monitors the differe nt pr ojects an d ensure s that 1 00% of th e d on ations their feet. receiv ed are sp en t dir e ctl y w her e th ey c ou n t, w i th ou t o ne sin gle p enny l feel th at p lannin g to he lp b uild a t le ast one s olid (anti-seismic spen t on ‘ad m in ’. Al ai n’s fou nd ati on is to o sm al l to m ak e it reinforced concre te p illa r system) community centre / v illa ge h all, t hat administratively via b le to bec ome a r egist er ed c harity , so he re lies solely would very li kely b e t he mos t re sis ta nt and the safes t p lace in the small on his own inco me and that gene rated b y the G alleries; d ona tions are commu nity, cou ld be a star t. It w ould al so be a good investm ent that very gratefully received (details on his website www.alainrouveure.com); would be ru n by the co mmun ity eld ers. And importa ntly, in my even a small regular con tribut ion of £5 or £ 10 a mo nt h ma kes po ssib le e xpe rienc e, this w o uld als o minimise jealous y betw een families as to some of his pro jects in Nepa l on a long- te rm basi s. who ge ts he lp an d w ho does not - because it is not if but when the next
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on’t begin this book unless you are prepared to be Review of Derek Taylor’s ‘Magna Carta in 20 Places’ distracted from work and everyday obligations: it is © by Colin Piper for Cotswold Times (May2015) witty and enchanting and impossible to put down. DObservant, discursive, immensely well-researched, it’s like an unravelling detective story. The vibrant and racy narrative will contemporary politics and always challenging the received enchant you. And a surprising exposure of our complacently- wisdom, with amusing and deliciously robust language held beliefs about Magna Carta will present current truths as (describing the barons as ‘a self-serving bunch led by myths (implying, as in the tongue-in-cheek reworking of English manipulative thugs’) or with snippets of fascinating observation history by Sellar and Yeatman in ‘1066 and all That’, that the of contemporary life (as when the author notes that freedom back story behind the sealing of Magna Carta was not from oppression, so grounded in Magna Carta, is a relatively necessarily ‘a good thing’ for all). new concept for a group of young Czech tourists he observed in The book takes us on a journey through Europe and the London, or how Magna Carta almost brought down President Middle East to America, identifying twenty places which are Clinton). I defy you not to be captivated. significant in the 800-year tale of Magna Carta, seamlessly The text is laced with a sharp, narrative evocation of weaving its history with sharp and relevant observations of places, architecture and people, much reminiscent of Charles Dickens who, as a reporter, shared this author’s journalist eye for detail, infusing the text with an appreciation of military and political strategy. (In deliciously journalistic language, King John is described as being given ‘a bad press’ by the religious chroniclers of the day (the abbots themselves being powerful barons in their own right), who forged a distorted image of John as, ‘a tyrannical, vicious, depraved, cowardly, sacrilegious and incompetent king’: quite a reputation to rebuff. We start exposing the Magna Carta myth with a memorably-photographic description of the pomp of The Royal Exchange in London, in which a Victorian painting reveals the history books’ version of a weak King John who has abused his power, faced down by the upright barons who stood up to him (a far cry from thugs!). We move from there to the lawless Fenlands, where the ruthless barons are shown in their true colours, and then to Clarendon Palace in Wiltshire to reveal John’s father Henry II’s administrative base, with his attempt to rein in, and wrest power from, the barons and the powerful church, leading to the death of Thomas á Becket. Thence we go to Acre in
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the Middle East, with King John’s martial brother, Richard the Carta gave a universal right to freedom, saying that it is ‘far Lionheart, whose crusading wars nearly crippled England, more a rule book for the king’; he proposes that it was probably requiring the unpopular taxes which John had to collect, to fund seen as little more than a short-term stalling tactic between the them. A link in the story’s chain is forged and Magna Carta’s warring king and barons and might not have survived, had not wording will reflect the barons’ displeasure! John died of food poisoning: and our inalienable rights of trial In truths stranger-than-fiction we read with fascination of his by jury, habeas corpus and due process of law may well be put amazing crusading mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and of John’s down to the brilliant Sir Edward Coke’s 1628 erroneous, ‘but political ineptitude and violent capriciousness in France determined fight to make Magna Carta live in a new age’ by (stealing a child bride at the altar; murdering a nephew of her securing the Petition of Right at Westminster in 1628. It’s family!) as well as in the Welsh Marches (where he cruelly fascinating stuff. crushed the powerful baron William de Briouze and appointed And so, with Coke, to America, where Magna Carta’s foreign mercenaries). So he alienated both the French allies he reputation blossomed. We visit Jamestown, hear the gruesome needed to maintain his lands in Normandy and the powerful history of the first settlers and of the royal charter that backed barons at home. With the loss of the Virginia Company of London, granting the colonial settlers Normandy (helped by the battle not only land, but also protecting their fundamental rights. We we are reminded that the English learn that it was drafted by ‘that great proponent of Magna choose to forget, at Bouvines) the Carta, Sir Edward Coke himself’ and led in 1641 to the passing world changed and the barons’ of The Body of Liberties’ and to the incorporation of Magna noose tightened. Carta into all subsequent means of government and legal Thought-provoking contrasts administration in the American colonies. We hear, after the between today’s egalitarian struggle in the War of Independence, that James Madison society, and the abject ‘near slave turned to Magna Carta, with its central role as a defence status’ of 99% of the population, against tyranny, in framing the American Bill of Rights as a colour chapters contrasting life in constitutional weapon. It makes Magna Carta an icon to all Derek Taylor Laxton (where farming and life is Americans. little changed from the time of Part history, part travelogue and good part myth-busting Magna Carta) and cities like Lincoln (then a city made wealthy (the first sight of Magna Carta in the British Library is by the rise of the Guilds and a rich Jewish community). These described as ‘what looks like a grubby piece of paper, about cities proved vital allies for the barons. In a brilliant parallel with the size of the Sun newspaper … No wax seal even’), this contemporary days, the author proposes that Magna Carta was shrewd observer of people and places makes subtly relevant ‘an early attempt to regulate the financial markets’, with clause associations between past events and today’s politics. 13 being, ‘the free market in operation, a politico-economic Throughout the book lies the contention that all myths will market’. At the same time he explodes the myth that Magna have a golden thread of truth running through them, and Derek Taylor hands us one end of this thread, using it to lead us to revealing conclusions. The book ends on the fields of Runnymede, where Magna Carta began. By serendipitous coincidence, the unusual floods of our century mirrored the muddy and open fields which offered King John protection against military assault in 1215. He is revealed in this book to be no longer the villainous, weak character of our history books, but a complex man of his time, coping with a turbulent and changing feudal system. The myth of Magna Carta as the birthplace of democracy is shattered, but it is placed instead in its true context in the long lineage of English law and American history, its influence urging following generations, from Chartists to opponents of today’s IS, to stand up and be counted. ‘A good thing’ then, after all. Available at the Borzoi Bookshop in Stow
Colin Piper Colin Piper is a conservator of historic objects, has worked extensively for the National Trust and the National Museum of Ireland, and is proprietor of Piper Chatfield Fine Furniture in Digbeth Street, Stow on the Wold.
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We are fortunate in the North Cotswolds to have an impres- It is thanks to our agricultural sive range of public houses and gastro pubs in our towns and villages, with four independent breweries whose ales and heritage that we still have a beers can be bought all over the area – we must be the envy of other parts of the country! It is thanks to the area’s agri- good collection of pubs in the cultural heritage that we still have a good collection of pubs in the Cotswolds. Cotswolds
Domestic brewing was widespread The Donnington Brewery In the seventeenth century domestic brewing was widespread, Almost hidden in a valley west of Stow on the Wold, the Don- taking place in the kitchen, buttery or bake house, but by the nington Brewery is one of the most picturesque breweries in eighteenth century brewing at home became more expensive the country. Constructed between the thirteenth and nine- largely due to high taxes being levied on malt and hops, and teenth centuries, the buildings form two sides of a triangle the common brewers and public houses enjoyed a virtual mo- with the mill pond on the third side. They are built of Cotswold nopoly. By the nineteenth century brewing was increasingly stone and the central building with its steeply pitched roof and more industrial with scientific control over the manufacture of chimney is capped by Welsh slates. beer, the introduction of improved and more efficient plant, and an ever growing range of beers. The Donnington story began in 1291 when one of Broad- way Manor’s mills stood on the site. The mill race was built In Stow the first large industrial brewery was built in Sheep in the 16th century when the building, like others in the Cots- Street in 1837, at the time of Queen Victoria`s accession. wolds, was used as a wool cloth mill before being converted Operated by a number of local families, the brewery office by the Manor into two corn mills in 1580. Inside the building faced with flint stones on Cotswold stone was added in 1869 nearly all of the parts that helped to grind the corn are still by Richard and William Gillett, whose family ran the brewery in existence, including the grinding stones, gearing, cogs and at the time. It was later sold to the Cheltenham Original Brew- external waterwheel. ery who subsequently closed it. In 1827 when it was bought by Thomas Arkell, there were In most of the market towns brewing was on a more three mills, a bakery and a malthouse. Arkells Donnington domestic scale. In Bourton on the Water the northern wing Ales were established here in 1865 by Richard, grandson of of Harrington House was used as a brewery from the 1860’s Thomas Arkell. Initially he sold his beers to the local gentry by Hadley and Sons, who sold their beers from the Jubilee but over time Donningtons established its own family of tied Inn nearby. Both the Woodman Inn and Lansdown Inn (now public houses to sell ales to the working man. the Mousetrap Inn) had brew houses in use in the nineteenth century and in Moreton in Marsh during the 1880’s, ale was The business remained a family concern right through the brewed in the Swan Inn by another member of the Gillett nineteenth and twentieth centuries but it was Claude Arkell, family; it relocated to the High Street before being sold to who came back from the Second World War as a RAF Officer Flowers in 1914. in 1951 who, taking over the brewery from his father, ran it for more than fifty years and established it as one of the leading small breweries in the country. On his death in 2007 his cous- in Peter Arkell took over the reins with his son James, who had learned the art of brewing at Doddington before running Arkell`s Brewery in Swindon.
The Donnington Run – all 15 tied pubs Until 1959 all power was supplied by two water wheels (still occasionally used), and until the mid-1960’s the brewery grew its own barley and malted it on a special malting floor. Today the malt is brought from Norfolk and the hops come from Herefordshire ad Worcestershire. As the water is drawn from a natural spring besides the mill pond, only the sugar is imported. There are ten workers at the brewery and with the help of The Queen’s Head, Stow one lorry and a van they deliver 2,000 gallons of beer a week through the winter, rising to 3,500 gallons in the summer. Small scale brewing also took place in Stow and the Queens Bottled beers and draught beers are brewed for sale through Head in The Square had a brew house in 1848. The seven- their fifteen tied public houses around the Cotswolds. A ‘Don- teenth century inn was sold to the Arkell family in the 1860’s nington Run’ means visiting all the original fifteen pubs in a and became one of the first acquisitions of the Donnington single evening, but probably more manageable is The Don- Brewery, which this year commemorates its 150th year and in nington Way, the 62 mile walk which connects all these pubs 2010 was voted “Best Small Brewery “by the Good Pub Guide. – it could be covered over a long weekend. 18 Nigel Moor explores the history of brewing in the North Cotswolds and the legacy for today
Both these breweries have survived through the determina- tion of families wanting to remain independent and offer their customers bespoke brews that are not found everywhere. It is heartening that elsewhere in the North Cotswolds there are newer breweries that show these same characteristics.
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Donnington pubs are now as well known for their food as their beers but this is a fairly recent change. The Coach and Hors- es at Longborough was known for its ‘beer only’ philosophy (well, maybe a bag of crisps . . .) and a note ‘No food served here’ was often found on the door.
The Hook Norton Brewery Hook Norton Brewery Walk down Brewery Lane past the Pear Tree Inn in Hook Norton and you will suddenly see the massive Victorian tower brewery built between 1899 and 1901 to the design of the London brewery architect William Bradford. It is described by Stanway Brewery Pevsner in his Buildings of Oxfordshire as ‘an extraordinary Stanway House east of Winchcombe was built for the Tracy essay in brick, iron-stone, slate, weatherboarding, half-timber, family between the late sixteenth and mid seventeenth cen- and cast iron.’ turies; Sir Richard Tracy obtained a lease from Tewkesbury Abbey in 1533 and bought Stanway estate and its buildings ‘If it is working keep it, but if it breaks then after the Dissolution. Like many manor houses it had a brew house and in 1993 brewing was restarted by Alex Pennycock, replace it with the most modern and innovative with the support of the owner of the house, Lord Neidpath. Al- device available’. most uniquely in England wood–fired coppers are used, which The brewery began in 1849 when John Harris bought land and require fifty tons of wood each year. Beers such as Stanney maltings in the Scotland End area of Hook Norton. In 1869 he Gold and Cotteswold Gold are sold in local pubs including The entered the tied trade with the purchase of the Pear Tree inn Crown and Trumpet in Broadway. nearby and began to sell his beers as far afield as Birming- ham, Witney and Byfield. This was helped by the arrival of the North Cotswold Brewery Banbury to Cheltenham railway to Hook Norton in 1884. To the east of Stanway the North Cotswold Brewery is a Successive generations of the Harris family have helped to family-run craft brewery established in 1999 on the Fosseway ensure that this independent brewery survives the ups and near Moreton in Marsh and Shipston on Stour. The brewery downs of the brewing industry; a major success was after the has a core range of four beers - Windrush Ale, Cotswold Best, first world war in 1918 when the company secured a license Shagweaver and Hung Drawn’n’Portered, available in both to supply Coventry Working Men`s Clubs. Now it has over 40 draught and bottles. Managing director Guy Holiday and his pubs and its visitor centre is a top tourist attraction with over family went to the National beer competition in Sheffield 10,000 visitors. If you visit the brewery beware - the climb to earlier this year to represent the Wales and West region. the top of the five-storey brewery tower is not for the faint Visitors are welcome but please book in advance. hearted! On the ground floor is a fine 25 horsepower steam engine supplying motive power to the brewery through a series of belts, cogs and shafts, and I was impressed by the Further Reading : brewers’ pragmatic approach: ‘If it is working keep it, but if it Bond, J. & Rhodes, J. (1985) The Oxfordshire Brewer Oxford Oxfordshire Museum breaks then replace it with the most modern and innovative Service. device available’. Hook Norton produce a wide range of beers Edgell, T. ( 2010) Cotswolds Pubs and Breweries Stroud Amberley. Handy Colin ( 2003 ) The Donnington Way : Cotswold Walks between Donnington including the ever-reliable ‘Hooky,’ which has a sensible 3.5% Brewery Inns Cheltenham Reardon & Son. alcohol volume and is always drinkable. Moor, N. ( 2009) The Donnington Way Blockley Church and Village News. 19 OPPORTUNITY FOR FREE-LANCE GARDENER An opportunity to work on a range of interesting and varied garden projects, with an experienced garden designer. Work would be on an ‘as and when’ basis to assist with digging, ground preparation and planting. I am looking for someone with: • ability to do some heavy digging, e.g. tree planting • a genuine interest in plants & some horticultural knowledge • previous experience of planting work • own transport Please contact: Nick Williams-Ellis on 01386 700883 [email protected] www.nickwilliamsellis.co.uk
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Ever dreamt of owning a beautiful one-off piece of furniture, specifically designed for you?
You may think it a sheer flight of fancy and head straight for a run-of-the-mill flatpack next time you need that new wardrobe or bookcase – or you could consult inspiring designer and craftsman Robin Furlong, who firmly believes that a tailor-made individual item is a lasting treasure. “Everyone should have a least one bespoke piece of furniture to enjoy and relish,” he enthused at his Moreton-in-Marsh workshop and showroom. “It’s a real feature in a room as w ell as a talking point. Our ethos is to design and make beautiful furniture that is bo th functional and aesthetically pleasing. Pretty much everything we make has a purpose – to store things in, place things on, eat at or sit on – that’s the nub of it. Furnitur e and civilisation kind of go together. It reflects the evolution of people and creates a lovely environment for us to live and work in.”
Can’t see the wood for the trees? However, Robin does admit that commissioning a unique contemporary piece could be bewildering, so for those who can’t see the wood for the trees he’s de-mystified it in his new Handbook to Bespoke Furniture. In it, he outlines the whole process from start to finish. “There’s a smorgasbord of wood and options available that might seem daunting to people. There’s a lot involved in the process, and a great deal of skilled
craftsmanship – and I can guide people through that, dealing with any fears or concerns.”
Our portfolio also acts as a springboard for ideas It is very much about teamwork and interpreting people’s visions imaginatively but realistically. Robin explained: “I love meeting clients and hearing what they’re looking
for. Some people know exactly what they want, others don’t have a clear idea, and we’ll be working to different budgets, too. People can come into the workshop and look at examples of furniture and wood samples, and we can explain the details and different finishes. We rarely make the same thing twice and our portfolio acts as a springboard for ideas. I keep discussions quite fluid and give some suggestions, and fairly quickly we can start to sense the direction of the design.” An exquisite display cabinet grew out of a collaboration with creative jeweller Michele White, from the Birmingham jewellery quarter. She visited Robin with the plans for her new gallery. The initial brief was quite loose – Michele had thought about two cabinets in an L-shape for a corner, with different lit display areas, but had no idea in what wood. “It was left to me to kind of decipher and develop, so I designed something very nice, and fairly straightforward,” said Robin. “Michele wanted it to be more visually exciting so I created something more avant-garde and came back with three concept sketches. Michele went with a cabinet with convex and concave curves, and I developed the idea with computer-aided design into a presentation drawing. Then we chose the wood.” The result was an exceptional interplay of shapes – the cabinet has convex-curved doors flanking two pairs of central concave doors. It is framed in cherry wood with a maple interior and the door panels are green ‘ripple’ sycamore.
22 Go that extra furlong for fine furniture!
It’s all about the proportion, shape and the wood Robin’s imagination was left to run riot for a speculative show piece for last month’s Inspired: Festival of Silver at the Goldsmiths’ Centre in Holborn. He devised a stunning BRITISH DESIGN & CRAFTSMANSHIP crossbow side table in burr walnut and burr oak with ebony Robin Furlong Furniture was inlay. It has a shelf and curved legs, and can be made with established in 1989, following a decade of two dovetailed drawers. “It sprang from a dining table experience working for other furniture design for a client,” said Robin. “It isn’t grandiose in makers and interior designers in London and embellishment but it is in form – it’s a gorgeous piece with Devon, including Alan Peters and Martin a lovely elegant shape. But I also love making understated Grierson. pieces because it’s all about the proportion, shape and the wood.” The show was jointly organised by the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers for excellence in design and craftsmanship, from whom Robin has won four Guild Marks. Robin is also fresh from exhibiting at the May Design Series at London’s ExCeL, the UK’s definitive international furnishings fair and interior design show. Robin’s trainee
Ollie has recently completed a furniture apprenticeship with A great influence in his design and him. Ollie said: “It’s a good opportunity to get a career and craftsmanship has been leading Arts and a unique skill that will earn me a living for the rest of my Crafts light Charles Rennie Mackintosh, life. We all work as a team – once we get the main designs ‘discovered’ when he was at Rycotewood they always throw up problems, and everyone gets the College. chance of saying what they think is the best way forward.” Robin takes inspiration from his Robin commented: “Ollie’s quality of work is already superb surroundings and draws on experiences, as and he is continuing to gain experience.” well as his clients thoughts, ideas and wishes Cotswold Times©May2015 for each project to create fresh ideas – and design the perfect piece of furniture.
Robin has built his reputation as a furniture designer of distinction whose work represents some of the finest style and craftsmanship of its age.
Prices start from £98 for a T:Ray – a stunning fishshaped tray. Finished furniture pieces are for sale in the on-site shop. For a brochure, full costs and the new guide to bespoke furniture visit www.robinfurlongfurniture.co.uk.
Fosseway Business Park, Stratford Road, Moreton in Marsh GL56 9NQ Tel 01608 650567 Email [email protected]
To meet Robin to discuss specific requirements, please call in advance. Opening Times: Weekdays: 9am-5pm, Saturday: 11am-4pm
23 VILLAGE HALLS
This is free A-Z listing of village and community halls in our towns and villages which are available to the public to hire for functions and meetings, etc. The information is provided by the local community or committee and, to our knowledge, is up to date. This is not a comprehensive list of every hall in the area. If your hall is available to hire to members of the public and is not currently included in our free A-Z listing please email the information to be added to [email protected]. (If the information about your community or village is not up to date or inaccurate, please let us know using the same eml address.)
ADLESTROP VILLAGE HALL LITTLE VILLAGE HALL, Bell Bank, Blockley ST GEORGES HALL, BLOCKLEY • Available to hire - special functions, classes /event - £6 an hour Quiet rural venue with modern facilities for exhibitions, Fully Licensed Village Hall in good decorative order. Seating • Discounted fees for long term bookings. meetings, classes, parties, weddings, etc.35-50 people. capacity 160. Well equipped servery/kitchen. Toilets heating. Off • Redecorated • small stage, kitchen, disabled toilet / access. Reasonable charges, ample parking. . With Wireless Broadband street parking. Suitable for wedding receptions etc. Raised • Excellent parking. Tel 01386 700880.email [email protected] stage. Sound system. Enquiries: Brian Clayton – 01386 701528 Please phone 01608 658710 for bookings and further info
BLOCKLEY COMMUNITY HERITAGE BOURTON ON THE WATER Victoria Hall, Bourton on the Water
CENTRE THE ROYAL BRITISH Available to hire - very competitive rates. Local functions, Refurbished, the Jubilee Hall seats 80. Light, bright and warm, LEGION BRANCH HALL childens parties etc welcome. Disabled access & facilities drop down screen, parking.. Suitable for all sorts of events. Very Available for hire; 150 seated / 250 standing. Call David Tebbutt 01451 821098 for bookings and information good rates. Enquiries to Laurie Clayton, 01386 701528 Ample off-road parking. Office Tel: 01451 824303 bourtononthewatervillagehall.co.uk
GEORGE MOORE COMMUNITY CENTRE BROADWELL VILLAGE HALL CONDICOTE VILLAGE HALL ▪ Excellent, new facilities ▪ Function Room seating 75 Lovely rural location with spacious parking. Seats 90, Large main Weddings, parties, clubs, classes, and family events. Large car ▪ Conference Room seating 14 hall, & 2 meeting rooms. Stage with electric drop down screen. park, modern kitchen, pull-down projector screen, disabled Refreshment Facilities & convenient on-site Parking Built in sound system with microphone and hearing loop. toilets and access, hearing loop Contact:: Philip Johnson 07587 Email: [email protected] Kitchen. Toilets. Disabled facilities. 097795 or at email: [email protected] Tel: 01451 820712 Bookings - Frances Dodwell on 01451 830994
EVENLODE VILLAGE HALL Great Rollright Village Hall GUITING POWER VILLAGE HALL Ideal for classes, clubs, parties, receptions, presentations & Spacious hall seats 110 people. Large stage with artistes family events. Newly decorated; light and spacious. Modern Main hall, small meeting room, verandah, views, dressing room. New well-equipped kitchen, tea room, kitchen and loos. Disabled access. New pull-down projector kitchen facilities, disabled access & toilets, parking. toilets/shower. Private free car park. Very reasonable and screen. Tables, chairs, china and cutlery available. Suitable for meetings, parties, exhibitions. flexible rates. Contact – Mike Edwards Tel 01451 850232. Please call Tim Proger 01608 652392 / 07718 207097. More information: Booking Sec. 01608 730268 [email protected]
KINGHAM VILLAGE HALL LITTLE COMPTON VILLAGE HALL LITTLE WOLFORD VILLAGE HALL Beautiful hall; capacity 100. Off-street parking; disabled access. Rural position 5 miles from Moreton and Shipston, Seats approx 60. Fully equipped kitchen. Easy disabled access. Available to hire at very competitive rates. accommodates 60 – 80, good parking, Fully equipped kitchen, Fixed projector for showing films. Good parking. Nicole Marina, 07733 238334. china etc., disabled facilities, projection screen, hearing loop, Email: [email protected] Contact 01608 674437 for more information stage available, reasonable charges. Details and booking 01608 684704
LONGBOROUGH & SEZINCOTE VILLAGE HALL LONG COMPTON VILLAGE HALL LOWER SWELL VILLAGE HALL We are fully equipped with an extendable stage with pull-down Recently refurbished – fully equipped kitchen, heating, screen. 3/4 sized snooker table • table tennis table • piano Up to 100 people, separate meeting room, china and furniture tables & chairs. Disabled facilities. Seats up to 70. • Hi-Fi system • all equipment for short mat bowls. hire, kitchen, lawn, parking. 01608 684834 or Competitive rates (inc.heating) vary with use. Parties, shows, For further details T: 01451 830944 or email [email protected] for information or to make a booking receptions, displays, evening classes. Mo Griffiths 01451 [email protected] 832241, 07903 829685, [email protected]
MORETON IN MARSH, REDESDALE HALL Women’s Institute Hall, Moreton in Marsh COTSWOLD HALL Northleach Two venues with a stair lift. The Lower Hall accommodates Suitable for meetings, parties and exhibitions. Accommodates 60 Ideal for wedding receptions, Parties, Dances, Exhibitions 80; modern kitchen facilities. Beamed Upper Hall Kitchen facilities, hearing loop, disabled access / facilities, public Accommodates up to 100. Lift, Licenced bar, Kitchen facility, accommodates 120. Reasonable charges. Nearby parking. car park nearby. Competitive rates (incl heating) vary with use Disabled access and toilets. All-round sound system, Hearing Historic town centre building. Clerk 01608 650040 Booking details from Pam Clarke 01608 652575 loop, Competitive hiring rates [email protected]. Information and booking phone Jacques 01451 860366 www.redesdalehall.org.uk
THE WESTWOODS CENTRE NORTHL EACH NOTGROVE VILLAGE HALL ODDINGTON VILLAGE HALL Large hall plus two additional rooms to let separately or as a Large hall with seating for 80 plus additional small events tent. Newly refurbished - full c/h, new kitchen and toilets. Spacious whole, fully fitted kitchen, large enclosed garden, wifi access, Raised stage. Disabled access and toilets. Licensed bar. main hall with seating for 100, also a smaller meeting room. disabled friendly, good off-road parking, well equipped, marquee Reasonable rates. Stage, pull down projector screen and hearing loop. Facilities for lining available, licensed bar. [email protected] Contact: [email protected] / the less able. Spacious parking. telephone: 01451 861499 Keith on 01451 850726 Telephone 01451 830817 or 01451 831917
OVER NORTON VILLAGE HALL Stow Baptist Church Hall, Stow GL54 1AA SALFORD VIILLAGE HALL In the community for the community Large hall with stage, separate bar and kitchen area. Ideal for Attractive and flexible venue in Cotswold village. Spacious hall, recently refurbished, fully-equipped new family gatherings, children’s parties, exercise classes etc. Recently refurbished. Seats 80. Disabled access. Parking. kitchen facilities & disabled toilets. Usage Policy: we support Seating capacity approx. 100. Off street parking. Toilets. Toilets. Modern well equipped kitchen. Competitive rates with discounts for regular users. community-focused groups. [email protected] For bookings/enquiries please call 07880593597 www.salfordvillagehall.co.uk Tel: 01608 642853 Tel: 01608 650624. We do not lease the hall for commercial events
Stow on the Wold Stow on the Wold Rugby Club ST EDWARDS HALL, STOW ON THE WOLD ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CLUB Large venue with seating for 200 & plenty of private, Panelled 1st floor room with Civil War portraits & memorabilia. Clubroom and bar with entertainment system, karaoke, etc. free parking. Licensed bar and kitchen. Ideal for weddings, Holds 100. Hearing loop. Lift and staircase from lobby. Kitchen, Small lounge bar. Large and small meeting rooms with courses, classes, clubs, parties & presentations etc. toilets, anti-room. CCTV. Competitive rates. 2 Hrs Free C/P(day) conference facilities for up to 150 (seats 60/12 dining); Contact Amanda on 07940 141192 dates for 2014 -15 available. 01386 761514 Parking. Enquiries to Colin and Alison 01451 830242 [email protected]
STOW YOUTH CLUB TODENHAM VILLAGE HALL WESTCOTE VILLAGE HALL Two large rooms (accommodating 50-60 people) • Internet café with 12 in quiet location Recently refurbished hall in quiet rural village. Seats 50 computer terminals • Projector & screen • Pool table • Table football • Large Hall seats 60. Small anti-room. New modern well Well equipped kitchen. Disabled toilet Nintendo Wii • Modern kitchen • Disabled access & toilets • Rates equipped kitchen. Disabled entrance and facilities. Car parking negotiable for regular users.. The Club is next to the Police Station on the at rear. Very attractive rates. Contact Karen 01608 651301S-J Enquiries: Christine Walford 01993 831196 or Tony Gibson 01993 Fosseway and accessed easily from The Square. Rich: [email protected] Tel: 01451 830654. D Neill: [email protected] Tel: 01451 830656. 830699 S-J Rich: [email protected] Tel: 01451 830654.
WYCK RISSINGTON VILLAGE HALL Small hall in quiet, attractive setting. Ideal for small groups, LIST YOUR VILLAGE HALL classes and family gatherings.. Seats a maximum of 30 for LIST YOUR VILLAGE HALL dinner in comfort. Disabled access. Fully equipped kitchen. HERE HERE
Enquiries Judith Wheeler 01451 821094
24 LOCAL AUTHORITIES JUNE 2015
C.D.C. Committee STOW TOWN COUNCIL STOW TOWN COUNCIL Meetings NEXT MEETING THURSDAY 25TH JUNE NOTES FOR COUNCIL MEETING PLEASE CHECK NOTICEBOARD MAY 2015 Meetings are held at the Council Offices, Trinity Road Cirencester, GL7 1PX. Agendas, reports and Minutes are published Residents are welcome to attend Abbreviated notes from the Meeting by online five working days before each meeting at meetings. Questions* from the public relating Caroline Doran, Clerk, are published monthly www.cotswold.gov.uk. to a proposal in discussion by in Stow Times. Members of the public are encouraged to attend Cllrs may be taken prior to Council voting Full Minutes of meetings, associated meetings of the Council and Committee. If you on that proposal. General questions are committee meetings and correspondence live in the District and are on the Electoral Register taken at the end of the meeting. are available in the /stow Council Office situated in George Alley off The Square. you can take part by asking up to two questions * A max of 3 minutes allowed. per meeting. Information about your Councillors There is a letterbox in the main door. and committee members are on the website www. Town Councillors are available before & after The Council office is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays cotswold.gov.uk the meeting. District & County Cllrs, & Thursdays, 10 am – 1 pm (subject to meetings) representatives of Stow Police and local Tel: 01451 832 585 JUNE Press regularly attend. E: [email protected] Tues 2nd Overview & Scrutiny Wed 10th Planning Thurs 11th Cabinet ROAD CLOSURES INFORMATION Tel: 08000 514 514 Tues 30th Audit The information is continuously updated. Please check by phone or online www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/roadworks Questions to the Council or a committee about any matter on which CDC have any powers or duties or which affects the district must first be received in writing by the Head Your new Councillors are: of Democratic Services – Cotswold District By email no later than 5pm on the prior working Bourton-On-The-Water District Councillors– Len Wilkins, Richard Keeling day: [email protected] By post to CDC at Trinity Road, Cirencester. Bourton Parish Council – James Cowen, John Harden, Lynda Hicks, Ernest Hovard, GL7 1PX. Sandra Morgan, Nigel Randall, Julian Stocker, Bryan Sumner 01285 623204/ 201 Moreton-In-Marsh District Councillors– Alison Coggins, Robert Dutton Petitions can be presented to express local feeling about an issue or a suggested action that we Moreton-In-Marsh Town Council – There was no election. Two new councillors will might take. A petition must contain at least 10 be co-opted. signatures. Details of Meeting Agendas, Reports and Minutes can Stow-On-The-Wold District Councillor – Barry Dare be found on the Council’s Committee Information Stow Town Council – Simon Clarke, Richard Clifford, Ben Eddolls, Michael Curtis, System. Also available are details of your Councillor, Valerie Davies, Tom Edwards, Susan Green, Michael Moseley, Jenny Scarsbrook, Colin Committee Meetings including dates, times and venues and Membership of the Committees. Smalley, Alun White West Oxfordshire District Chipping Norton District Council – Guy Wall Chipping Norton Town Council – Mrs L Carter, G Saul, G Wall
Motoring complaints lead to two-day police operation BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS THIS MONTH: Following local concerns Gloucestershire Police carried out a successful traffic operation in Moreton and Bourton. CHIPPING NORTON, Glyme Hall, 24/06/2015 98 Burford Road, OX7 5EF Two vehicles that were being driven illegally were seized by police on April 22nd and WILLERSY, The Village Hall, Nr Broadway, 22/06/2015 23rd in Moreton and Bourton during a two-day vehicle operation. WR12 7PJ In response to a number of local complaints received, Operation Wheeled Respect WINCHCOMBE, Abbey Fields Community 12/05/2015 had been conducted and focused primarily on road safety and vehicle related crime. Centre, Back Lane, GL54 5PZ HGVs, vans and cars were checked over the two day operation. A substantial number of fines were issued with fixed penalty notices for a range of offences including tyre Do Something Amazing... and brake defects. Further operations have been planned throughout the year – these 96% of us rely on the other 4% to give blood. will continue to focus on community concerns throughout the North Cotswolds. Please don’t leave it to someone else. Sgnt Payne of the Cotswold Police in Stow on the Wold said: “The operation has been well received within the community and proven very successful”. For more information/ to book an appointment to attend a session, please call 0300 123 23 23 or visit First published in the Cotswold Journal. www.blood.co.uk Gloucestershire Mobile Police stations 02/06 Lower Slaughter, Upper Slaughter, Naunton, Guiting Power, Temple Guiting, Cutsdean 03/06 Clapton-on-the-Hill, Great Rissington, Little Rissington, Upper Rissington, Wyck Rissington, Westcote, Calls will cost 15p irrespective of how long that call may last, 05/06 Bourton-on-the-Hill, Blockley, Paxford, Ebrington, Mickleton, Willersley on landlines and mobiles. 08/06 Bledington, Icomb, Oddington, Evenlode, Broadwell, Longborough Call 999 In an emergency, 19/06 Chipping Campden (0900-1200) Northleach (1300-1700) such as when a crime is in progress, when there is Dates & Times may change at short notice. The MPS can be called to attend local incidents. danger to life or when violence is being used or threatened. NB. After June the Cotswold Mobile Police Service will cover the whole of Gloucestershire. Visits tothe Cotswolds will be restricted to the larger communities. The MPS can still be booked to attend local community events by contacting PCSO Simon King, 07718 708520. [email protected] 25 Stow Town Council COUNCIL MEETINGS (h eld on the last Thursday/month) th Council Meeting: 30th April 2015 Next: Thurs 25 June - 7.15 pm at Stow Youth Club. These are UNOFFICIAL NOTES from the meeting ALL COUNCIL MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC WHO CAN taken by Jenni Turner ASK QUESTIONS & RAISE ISSUES. COUNCIL MEETINGS for AREStow HELD Times AT STOW YOUTH CENTRE AND ARE OPEN TO THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS at STOW YOUTH CLUB PUBLIC WHO ARE WELCOME TO ASK QUESTIONS AND RAISE ISSUES. MINUTES Any additional meetings will be notified in good time. OF ALL COUNCIL AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNCIL Traffic & Parking Tues 2nd 7pm OFFICE LOCATED IN STOW YOUTH CENTRE. THEY CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE Parks & The Square Thurs 4th 7pm TOWN COUNCIL WEBSITE AND ON THE NOTICE BOARD OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY. General Purposes Tues 9th 7 pm Present: 7 Cllrs, Clerk, CCllr, 6 public. No DCllrs Burial Board Weds 10th 9.15am Planning * Tues 16th.h 7pm An Overview of the key points of the meeting. Finance Tues 18th 7pm MINUTES of the previous meeting - AGREED NB. Meetings can be subject to change – a notice would normally be placed on the REPORTS Town Notice Board and website Police: (read by the Clerk)1) Speed checks conducted on Oddington 01451 832585 [email protected] Rd, Back walls & Evesham Rd. Speeding drivers will receive warning
letters by post for exceeding 40/50 mph according to the speed limit. *Planning applications can be seen online at Co.Cllr (NM) 1) Resurfacing Stow Hill will start in September, some cotswold.gov.uk and stowonthewold.net patching before then. 2) Stow Square Scheme – it is important that there is a consensus of opinion from STC and the public before any YOUR COUNCILLORS ARE: (A-Z) progress can be made on the plans. 3) Parking Review Mtg at Shire Stow Town Council: RC , Richard Clifford; SC Simon Clarke; MC th Hall 30 May – to review additional areas for enforcing parking Mike Curtis; VD, Val Davies; BE Ben Eddolls; TE Tom Edwards; SG restrictions rather than additional restrictions. STC will attend. 4) Final Sue Green; MM Michael Moseley; JC, Jenny Scarsbrook; CS Colin agreement on VIC in the Library - subject to consultation with the Smalley; AW Alun White. Trustees of the Hall regarding extra opening hours, when volunteers Cotswold District Council: BD Barry Dare will man the VIC in the lobby. 5) Revised 802 Bus Service from July County Council: NM Nigel Moor with additional services for morning and evening peak periods from
Stow and The Rissingtons. STC could review public response. STOW TOWN COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Stow Youth Club (AW) 1) CDC planners responded positively to the Planning: SC, MC, VD, BE, SG, MM, JS, AW idea of a shed on King Georges Field – STC will need to explore ways of Parks & Square: RC, SC, MC, VD, BE, TE, SG, MM releasing the present building held in trust by Fields In Trust. Burial Board: RC, MC, VD, JS, CS, MM March Statement of Accounts. (SG) Full year figures show a large Traffic & Parking: MC. SC, MM, JS, AW surplus due to underspending the budget, notably by Parking & Traffic Staffing: MC, TE, SG, AW Committee, Parks and Planning. STC has agreed new guidelines to Finance: MC, TE, SG, MM, AW prevent this reoccurring – committees will receive Community General Purposes: MC, TE, BE, MM, AW Delegated Powers within limits, to encourage spending. Charity Stow Town Council Representatives: Donations (made from monies received by STC for parking on QE2 & Neighbourhood Plan: RC, BE, AW KGF (Horse Fair, weddings, etc) + from a film company for shooting in Stow & Maugersbury Action Gp (SMAG) MC, JS, CS Stow). STC agreed that KHN, Stow Disability Fund, Glos Air Ambulance - Silver Gp: MC, CS and Acorn Childrens Hospice would each receive £125. (NB. Stow Trustees of St. Edwards Hall MM Youth Club was not a recipient this time as they received +/- £27K Trustees of St Edwards Almshouses MC, CS from STC during the year, as rent and additional financial support.) Liaison with Glos Market Towns Forum AW Cooperative Investments- STC agreed to place £52K into a 1-year Liaison with Glos Assoc Parish & Town Councils TE Bond with LTSB at 1.05% interest. 6) Standing Orders & Financial Regulations had been circulated Neighbourhood Plan (Clerk’s Report) 1) Questionnaires completed by and were agreed. the public last summer show support for a small number of housing 7) Inventory of land & assets is incomplete, Work in Progress (WIP) association homes, plus a Community Centre on KGF. 2) Bretton 8) Policies & Procedures: Cllrs agreed to establish a programme to House Planning Appeal - issues are damage to the AONB, hazardous develop & adopt Council’s policies & procedures (incl. committee access to/from Stow Hill, pathway across the allotments. STC have roles and responsibilities) formally objected to this application. A Site visit is expected by the Planning Inspector and traffic experts. 3) Drs Surgery - application for 9) Schedule of Meetings: A meeting was scheduled for 19/05 to a new surgery on the gypsy field was rejected by CDC. Two new discuss a 4 Year Plan, monthly mtg dates and times. applications will go forward to the July Planning meeting. STC th unanimously support a new surgery and will consider the new Council Meeting: 14 May 2015 applications when they are presented. (NB. STC are consultees only) UNOFFICIAL NOTES from the meeting taken by Jenni Turner A.O.B. The organisers of the Farmers Market have requested 2 Matters arising from the Minutes of previous meeting: markets/ month between April and September. 1) Clerk asked to write to Police requesting a bi-monthly attendance at STC meetings. 2) A review of Youth Club proposals – STC th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: 14 May 2015 previously agreed to SYC conducting a survey of Stow residents; BE These are UNOFFICIAL NOTES from the meeting, taken by Jenni will identify and report on any links to the Neighbourhood Plan. Turner. Present: 10 Cllrs, Clerk, 9 public. (DCllr later) Minutes Agreed. NO REPORTS APRIL statement of Accounts agreed 1) Nominations for Chairman accepted by AW– only MC was put forward; unanimously agreed. Vote of thanks to outgoing Chairman. Delegated Expenditure agreed for Clerk – STC will purchase a 2) Nominations for Vice Chair- CS put forward in his absence. No camera/phone to use as appropriate for reports, etc... other nominations. CS elected in his absence. A review of cleaner’s hourly wage/ increase to a living wage, passed 3) Cllrs urged by Clerk to check & sign the Register of Interests. to Staffing Committee 4) Present Committee structure - Cllrs recommended to review all AOB: 1) A request for STC to make their meeting more audible. (STC committees and terms of reference for review at the June meeting. does have a mike/speaker which may need practice to master.) 2) 5) Committee members: (NB. Co-opted members do not generally have Stow Hill surface patching work 9-19th JUNE will restrict carriageway voting rights) to 1 lane. A convoy system will enable traffic to pass at 10mph. 26
Planning Applications & Approvals
Information about large / major new developments or those CDC Planning Committee meets once a month – the details are which are likely to raise public interest (not ‘general domestic’ on p25 of this magazine. Full information is available online at and small residential applications). The top table includes the www.cotswold.gov.uk. This website also explains planning Applications within our area that went to the recent CDC procedures, how to comment on applications and speak at Planning Committee Meeting for decision. public planning meeting at CDC.
PLANNING COMMITTEE May 2015 - No Meeting
New Applications received between 06/04/15 and 10/04/15 Parish Application No. Location Proposal Officer & Deadline Hazleton 15/01115/FUL Barns To The North- Proposed alterations & Owen Parry east Of War Memorial extensions to barns to Salperton Park Estate create enhanced 01/05/2015 Hazleton Cheltenham hospitality facilities in connection with existing GL54 4EE use
New Applications received between 13/04/15 and 17/04/15
Parish Application No. Location Proposal Officer & Deadline Winstone 15/00890/FUL Ivy Croft Jackbarrow New drive and entrance Chris Baynham Road Winstone to the cottage. Change of Cirencester Glos. GL7 7JZ use of land for new drive 05/05/2015 will run from agricultural to domestic Moreton-in-Marsh 15/01516/PAYPRE Land adjacent to 04/05/2015 Dunstall Farm Moreton in Marsh Lower Slaughter 15/00984/FUL The Old Quarry Improved access (part Chris Baynham Fosseway Broadwell retrospective) 08/05/2015 Gloucestershire
New Applications received between 20/04/15 and 25/04/15 Parish Application No. Location Proposal Officer & Deadline Moreton -in-Marsh 15/01250/FUL White House Surgery Alteration and Chris Baynham High Street Moreton-In- conversions of former Marsh Glos. GL56 0AT GP's surgery to create 11/05/2015 four 2 bedrooms dwelling units Stow-on-the-Wold 15/01328/FUL Windy Ridge Station Erection of a single Owen Parry Road dwelling house and Stow-On-The-Wold associated works, 15/05/2015 Cheltenham Glos. formation of a new GL54 1JU access and erection of a garage
New Applications received between 27/04/15 and 01/05/15 Parish Application No. Location Proposal Officer & Deadline
Bourton-on-the-Water 15/00889/FUL 32 Springvale Bourton- Erection of dwelling at Chris Baynham On-The-Water side 20/05/2015 Cheltenham GL54 2ES
New Applications received between 27/04/15 and 01/05/15 Parish Application No. Location Proposal Officer & Deadline Evenlode 15/01320/PAYPRE Land at Evenlode 29/05/2015 Moreton in Marsh GL56 0NN Cold Aston 15/01349/FUL The Ridge Fosseway Erection of 4 detached Chris Baynham Bourton-On-The-Water dwellings and 2 garages 26/05/2015 Cheltenham.GL54 2LE 27
COUNTRYSIDE RESIDENTS CAN MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD
IN NATIONAL CRIME POLL The biggest ever survey to uncover true impact of policing and crime in rural areas
20 May 2015 The largest ever survey into crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) in rural areas has been launched in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to find out how the police can better serve rural communities. The survey, launched by the National Rural Crime Network* (NRCN), is calling for people who work or live in rural areas to come forward and give their views on policing in their community, the impact crime and ASB has on them and their neighbours and to ultimately help shape the future of crime prevention and rural policing.
Anyone living or working in rural areas is encouraged to take part in the survey to help build a picture of what is a widespread but often misunderstood issue. You don’t need to have been a victim of crime to have a view on how the police work. You may be concerned about police visibility or response, see incidents that go unreported, or you may have a local officer who is engaged and proactive.
Any crime that happens in an urban area can, and does, happen in rural areas too, and how policing is delivered affects everyone living and working there. Traditional farm-related incidents such as fuel theft and sheep rustling make up just one part of the problem; we need to understand all the other issues that affect people in our remoter areas, as well as in market towns, villages and the countryside more generally.
The fear of crime can be as detrimental to people’s wellbeing as crimes themselves, so we are keen to find out more through this survey. Our aim is to build a clear picture of the issue to shape future delivery of services locally and nationally. By completing the survey, people can really have their say on how crime affects them and what they expect from local police and their partners involved in community safety.”
The findings will be important to ensure the human costs, such as the psychological impacts of crime, are taken into account and police funding is spent where it is most needed, rather than simply being channelled to urban conurbations. The ultimate aim is to make rural communities safer.
While the survey will aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the scale and financial cost of crime and anti- social behaviour, it will also measure the emotional impact of crime in rural areas by asking how incidents made victims feel and the longer term effects on confidence and security.
Chair of the NRCN, Julia Mulligan said: “While average crime rates do tend to be higher in urban areas, tackling rural crime comes with its own specific challenges, whether that be the ability of police forces to respond quickly or the scale of crimes which may go unreported. This survey is an important step towards delivering a better service to communities and making the countryside a safer place to live and work.”
The National Rural Crime Network (NRCN) is supported by 29 Police and Crime Commissioners and police forces across England and Wales. The Network includes a wide range of organisations with an interest in community safety and rural affairs such as the National Farmers Union, Historic England, Neighbourhood Watch and Crimestoppers. The survey will be open until Wednesday 24 June To complete the survey, visit: www.nationalruralcrimenetwork.net/survey?member=Gloucestershire *For more information on the NRCN visit: www.nationalruralcrimenetwork.net 28 Bobbies on the beat are becoming an ‘endangered species, police leaders have warned.
"Bobbies on the beat are not an endangered species in Gloucestershire," Police and Crime Commissioner Martin Surl
The Police Federation says three-quarters of forces have The Federation has made a series of doom-laden warnings axed or merged neighbourhood teams, and budget cuts about the impact of the Government's cuts claiming they mean forces are concentrating more on responding to would deliver 'Christmas for criminals'. emergencies than local policing, with younger generations In a speech at the organisation's annual conference at the only seeing an officer if there has been a 'serious crime'. end of May, Police Federation chairman, Steve White, said:
"Neighbourhood policing is the foundation of local Gloucestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner Martin Surl confidence, trust and reassurance in communities - that the has disputed the claims. He said: "The police in this county police are there, that we will be there when needed, policing are visible. You only had to go to Gloucester Park at the with their consent. weekend to see our officers engaging with the public at the Paws on Patrol event. PCSOs are also out and about so what “Neighbourhood policing – it is the source of so much The Police Federation is saying simply isn't true”. He added: information that stops the public from becoming victims of "The public do see the police but the idea of an officer crime - and now neighbourhood policing is just one of the randomly patrolling on foot or in a car went out 20 years ago endangered species in the new, streamlined, barren policing and is just not appropriate." landscape." He added: "A generation of young people is growing up never seeing their local police unless they are “Axing neighbourhood policing – unfortunate enough to experience a serious crime. Is that the I won't let that happen” type of remote, faceless police service the public deserves?" Mr Surl said: "In the last four years the cuts have been “Crying ‘Wolf’ has to stop” difficult but manageable and the force is now in good shape Home Secretary Theresa May accused leaders of the body of financially. We haven't been told exactly what we face in the ‘scaremongering’ over the effect of cuts while crime was next four years but we know it will be challenging and that it falling. She said: "Please - for your sake and for the will lead to a loss in officers. But axing neighbourhood thousands of police officers who work so hard every day - policing - I won't let that happen. Even though we will have this crying wolf has to stop." to cut our costs we will be as efficient as we can." Mr Surl added: "It is more of an operational challenge. Crime is currently at its lowest ever level and fell Obviously with less police officers and staff, operations have by a quarter during Mrs May's first five years in the to change. I will be working carefully with the police Chief Home Office. Constable on that." Based on an original article in The Citizen on May 20, 2015
29 Post to: PO Box 6, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold GL54 C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Email: [email protected]
STOW SURGERY WELL LANE, STOW ON THE WOLD CHELTENHAM, GLOS GL54 1EQ Dr T J G Healy Tel No: 01451 830625 Fax No: 01451 830693 Dr J Thornett Appointments Tel No: 01451 830805 Dr C Lawrence Dr P Sherringham VAT Reg No: 881 2692 03 Dr A Chiles
To: Stakeholders and interested parties Including:- Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Stow Town Councillors Nigel Moor Clerks of local Parish Councils Barry Dare Martin Short Paul Hodgkinson Friends of Stow Surgery
30th April 2015
Update from GPs in Stow Regarding Proposals for the Development of a New Surgery Building
The doctors and staff at the surgery would like to thank everyone for their recent support following the refusal of the planning application for a new surgery on the Gypsy Field site. Bexs Buckley, a local lady started a petition to save the surgery and this currently has more than 1,000 signatures on it and the Friends of Stow Surgery with Brian Honess arranged a rally in the Square on 18th April attended by hundreds of people. We have received many more letters and phone calls from concerned patients, ex-patients and other supporters. We have been overwhelmed by the response and this has spurred us on to continue the fight to provide modern, contemporary medical facilities for Stow and the surrounding villages.
We are pleased to report that a revised application for the development of a new surgery building on the Gypsy Field site was submitted yesterday. The key differences to the application are:- Re -design of the GP surgery in line with Cotswold District Council (CDC) recommendations and removal of the pharmacy element.
Reduction in size and redesign of the 5 residential houses The Section 106 agreement, which was to be a condition by CDC on the original application, to protect the field from future development, is recommended to be extended to include the whole of the field. This is in addition to the protection which will be afforded by the consortium of residents from Maugersbury village. We confirm that we will be meeting with the landowner and her architect to discuss the proposal of a new surgery building on the land adjacent to Tall Trees on the Oddington Road in Stow. We firmly believe that the viability of this scheme is questionable and a
business plan has been requested (again) but so far has not been forthcoming. We believe that a planning application for this scheme has already been submitted but it is not yet registered on the CDC website and we have no information about its content except a site plan.
We confirm that Rose Cottage is still in our possession and that we are making plans for the disposal of this asset, on the open market, to invest in the new development. We are approaching this professionally and openly. Consideration will be given to the disposal of the current surgery building upon completion of the new premises as it will be required until then.
An application is to be made to NHS England and CDC planning department for the location of a portacabin in the surgery car park to provide additional clinical space which is so desperately required. This will be fully accessible for patients with mobility issues but will require the loss of 4/5 parking spaces. th An update to the Action Plan required by the Care Quality Commission by 30 April 2015 has been completed. A deferment on an update on the premises situation has been requested until 31st July 2015 and letters supporting this request have kindly been provided by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, prospective MP and Lynden Stowe, Leader of the Council (CDC). We would like to reassure everyone, that in line with our duties as General Practitioners, the treatment of patients politely, considerately and respectfully is at the top of our agenda as is acting honestly, openly and with integrity. We have sought professional advice along every step of this process over the last 14 years and are able to justify our decisions and actions. We would be very willing to meet with anyone that has concerns over this should they wish to approach us directly.
Finally, we all feel honoured to be part of this community and like some of the local politicians have indicated, we hope to see diggers in Stow in the not too distant future. Dr TGJ Healy Dr J Thornett Dr P Sherringham Partner Partner Partner
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Post to: PO Box 6, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold GL54 C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Email: [email protected] A NEW SURGERY FOR STOW and the DEVELOPMENT OF THE ‘GYPSY FIELD’
STOW SURGERY To Mrs Jenni Turner Dear Mrs Turner, WELL LANE, STOW ON THE WOLD By Email: Although the name & address are withheld, CHELTENHAM, GLOS GL54 1EQ I have never written to you before, but I have always been told correspondence can be forwarded via the Editor. Dr T J G Healy Tel No: 01451 830625 Fax No: 01451 830693 that when you write to people you do not use their Christian Dr J Thornett Appointments Tel No: 01451 830805 Dr C Lawrence names, as it is not etiquette and bad manners. I have just been NHS England and their statutory Dr P Sherringham VAT Reg No: 881 2692 03 Dr A Chiles reading your correspondence about the surgery. You have obligations summed it up nicely we do need a bigger surgery for the ever Having made various calls to 1) House of Commons, 2) growing population of Stow and the surrounding villages. I To: Stakeholders and interested parties Department of Education 3) NHS England 4) Gloucestershire Including:- wrote a letter to the CDC at Cirencester and I wrote to Clifton Clinical Commissioning Groups, I finally spoke to a very Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Brown. My mum used to write to Clifton Brown if she had any helpful lady at Gloucestershire CCG called Becky Parish. (tel: Stow Town Councillors Nigel Moor Clerks of local Parish Councils grievances. 0300 421 1513) Barry Dare She advised that “It is the responsibility of NHS England in Martin Short Paul Hodgkinson I live at Donnington, which is two miles north of Stow. We do partnership with Gloucestershire CCG to ensure that Friends of Stow Surgery not want any more houses. The surgery is the main priority and communities have access to primary medical what do you think to the poor doctors who are working in 30th April 2015 services.” Should the doctors at Stow Surgery decide that small confined spaces? We need more car parking spaces - can they want to retire or close the surgery “NHS England in Update from GPs in Stow Regarding Proposals for the Development of a New Surgery Building you push the issue? I have been with Stow doctors for the past partnership with Gloucestershire CCG would work to identify sixty years and I have not had any complaints. I hope they do The doctors and staff at the surgery would like to thank everyone for their recent support following the refusal of the planning the primary health care needs of the local community and not close the surgery and leave Stow without any health cover. application for a new surgery on the Gypsy Field site. would put in measures to meet these. Measures could What is going to happen for the foreseeable future? Can we include a temporary contract, while long-term plans were Bexs Buckley, a local lady started a petition to save the surgery and this currently has more than 1,000 signatures on it and the back up the doctors and give them all the support they need? put in place, or inviting other practices to come into the th Friends of Stow Surgery with Brian Honess arranged a rally in the Square on 18 April attended by hundreds of people. We have Is there anything we can do help? town.” It is the role of Gloucestershire CCG to ensure that received many more letters and phone calls from concerned patients, ex-patients and other supporters. local communities have good access to good primary care We cannot have the surgery the other side of Stow because services. We have been overwhelmed by the response and this has spurred us on to continue the fight to provide modern, contemporary you are governed by Stow hill; nobody would want to be going medical facilities for Stow and the surrounding villages. I think we can therefore say that Stow would not ever be to King Georges field, but we thought about what used to be in a position where it was without GP services. We are pleased to report that a revised application for the development of a new surgery building on the Gypsy Field site was Stow agricultural services at the Lower Swell road, or the land A message left on the Editor’s mobile phone: submitted yesterday. The key differences to the application are:- up by Tesco’s seeing how the dementia unit and houses had been turned down. “….sadly, I think its time that Stow realised it is allowing its Re -design of the GP surgery in line with Cotswold District Council (CDC) recommendations and removal of the pharmacy heritage to slip away, and with it the raison d’etre for most element. Best of luck for the future. of its tourism. With careful planning, we can have both a Reduction in size and redesign of the 5 residential houses Miss Jill Garbett, Donnington Resident sparkling new surgery and an AONB. Whoever thought it The Section 106 agreement, which was to be a condition by CDC on the original application, to protect the field from future PS We want our surgery please had to be one or the other was mistaken.” development, is recommended to be extended to include the whole of the field. This is in addition to the protection which will be afforded by the consortium of residents from Maugersbury village. We confirm that we will be meeting with the landowner and her architect to discuss the proposal of a new surgery building on the Stow Youth Club on the move? land adjacent to Tall Trees on the Oddington Road in Stow. We firmly believe that the viability of this scheme is questionable and a business plan has been requested (again) but so far has not been forthcoming. We believe that a planning application for this scheme The Trustees of Stow Youth Club are exploring the possibility of relocating to a new building on has already been submitted but it is not yet registered on the CDC website and we have no information about its content except a King Georges Field. site plan. This feasibility study is being carried out with the help of a grant from Gloucestershire County We confirm that Rose Cottage is still in our possession and that we are making plans for the disposal of this asset, on the open Council and with the encouragement of Stow Town Council. market, to invest in the new development. We are approaching this professionally and openly. The project would be to create a Sports Pavilion which would provide changing facilities for Consideration will be given to the disposal of the current surgery building upon completion of the new premises as it will be required people using King Georges Field and include suitable accommodation for the Youth Club. until then. As part of this exercise questionnaires are being circulated to young people and to older residents An application is to be made to NHS England and CDC planning department for the location of a portacabin in the surgery car park to in the town to get their views on what facilities they would like to see. provide additional clinical space which is so desperately required. This will be fully accessible for patients with mobility issues but will The questionnaires have been developed by Gloucestershire Rural Community Council who will require the loss of 4/5 parking spaces. be responsible for their processing. An update to the Action Plan required by the Care Quality Commission by 30th April 2015 has been completed. A deferment on an Those wishing to participate online can follow the following links, provided by GRRC. update on the premises situation has been requested until 31st July 2015 and letters supporting this request have kindly been provided by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, prospective MP and Lynden Stowe, Leader of the Council (CDC). For the Young Peoples’ questionnaire go to:- www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=143151227694 We would like to reassure everyone, that in line with our duties as General Practitioners, the treatment of patients politely, For the Household questionnaire go to:- www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=143168573399 considerately and respectfully is at the top of our agenda as is acting honestly, openly and with integrity. We have sought professional advice along every step of this process over the last 14 years and are able to justify our decisions and actions. We would Any resident who has not had a copy of the questionnaire, or would like further copies should be very willing to meet with anyone that has concerns over this should they wish to approach us directly. contact the Town Clerk on 01451830704. They can be returned to the Stow Town Council office or to the Library. Finally, we all feel honoured to be part of this community and like some of the local politicians have indicated, we hope to see diggers in Stow in the not too distant future. Alun White, Chairman, Stow Youth Club Dr TGJ Healy Dr J Thornett Dr P Sherringham [email protected] Partner Partner Partner
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ST EDWARDS CHURCH The Catholic Church MASS TIMES FOR JUNE Stow-on-the-Wold JUNE Our Lady, Help of Christians,
th Bourton-on-the-Water Sunday 7 8am BCP Holy Communion Sunday Mass: 8.30 a.m. 11am Morning Service and Holy Communion 6pm Choral Evensong Our Lady & St Kenelm,
Sunday 14th 11am Sung Eucharist Back Walls, Stow-on-the-Wold 6pm Evening Reflection st Sunday Masses: 10.00 am & 6.30pm Sunday 21 8am BCP Holy Communion 11am Morning Service and Holy Communion For times of Confessions, or other information, please call 01451
Sunday 28th 11am Sung Matins 830431 or visit our website: www.stowrc.co.uk 4pm Pet Service
Special Services at Stow Saturday 20th 3.00pm Royal British Legion Drum Head Service in the Square near the Old Stocks Hotel Sunday 28th 4.00pm Pet Service at St Edward’s Stow. Bring your BAPTIST CHURCH pet, or if you or your pet would prefer a picture of your pet, for this short SHEEP STREET STOW ON THE WOLD service where we give thanks for our pets and each is blessed
There is a service of Holy Communion in Stow every Tuesday at In the Community for the Community 10.00am. More details of our services can be found on our website Welcome to our family service every Sunday morning at 10.30am. The st rd www.scats.org.uk 1 and 3 Sunday’s communion is celebrated during the service. Benefice Services Our speakers for the month of JUNE are: th th st Sunday 7 9.30am Holy Communion at Lower Swell th 7 DR STEVE SIZMUR 21 GEOFF ENOCH Sunday 14 9.30am Holy Communion at Condicote 14th DAVID HUGHES – RURAL MINISTRIES – 355 years celebration 11am Matins at Upper Swell th st 28 TONY GIBSON Sunday 21 6pm Evening Reflection at Lower Swell Sunday 28th 9.30am Morning Service + Holy Communion at L Swell MUMS AND TOTS every Monday during term time Everyone is welcome to join us. 9.30am - 11.00am. £1 per to cover snacks.. EVERY TUESDAY 10am - 12noo - COFFEE MORNING AND FOOD BANK. All welcome!! Please check our Website: STOW METHODIST FELLOWSHIP www.stowbaptistchurch.org.uk ------We meet on Tuesdays from 2pm Contact Michael on 01451 830579 for information & details. Eyford, Guiting and The ST JAMES’S CHURCH Slaughters LONGBOROUGH Sunday Services JUNE Sunday Services in JUNE Sun 7th 8.30am – HC at Lower Slaughter Sunday 7th 8.00am - Holy Communion 9.30am – HC at Temple Guiting 9.30am - Morning Service 9.30am – HC BCP at Naunton Sunday 14th 9.30am - Holy Communion 11am – HC at Upper Slaughter Sunday 21st 4.00pm - Countryside Service and Picnic 11am – Family Service at Guiting Power th Sunday 28th 9.30am - Holy Communion Sun 14 8.30am – HC (said) at Naunton 9.30am – HC at Farmcote 9.30am – HC at Lower Slaughter 11am – Eleven4All at Temple Guiting 11am – Matins at Upper Slaughter The morning service at St David’s, Moreton in Marsh is recorded each 6pm – HC at Guiting Power week and broadcast online every Sunday at 4.30pm. www.nccr.co.uk Sun 21st 8.30am – HC (said) at Upper Slaughter 9.30am – HC (said) at Cutsdean 9.30am – Morning Praise at Guiting Power Quakers – The Religious Society of Friends 11am – HC at Lower Slaughter Sunday 11:00 a.m. at The Friends Meeting House,Pytts Lane, Burford 11am – Spirit of Naunton (Black Horse Inn) at Naunton Everybody Welcome. For more information contact Howard Crook 6pm – Choral Evensong at Temple Guiting th 01451 810 447 or go to http://www.burford-quakers.org.uk Sun 28 8.30am – Holy Communion (said) at Guiting Power 9.30am – HC (said) at Cutsdean 11am – Family Holy Communion at Lower Slaughter 11am – Holy Communion at Temple Guiting 6pm – Choral Evensong at US with LS and Naunton
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A special r new Children’ s Trail at
St Edward ’s Church, S to w on the Wold
We are delight ed to announce that w e have a ne w Children’s Trail at St Edward’s Ch urc h, St ow on the Wold, devised with the assistance of B lo ckl ey Decorative and Fine Arts Society , (p art o f the W National Association of Decorative a n d Fine A rt s www.stowcotswoldfestival.com Societies, NADFAS). Combining NADFAS expertise with our d es ire to bring the Christian faith alive for young people a nd w elco m e them in church, the trail takes you ng people t o so me o f th e i nt e res tin g and significant points in our beautiful building. They learn about the Christian faith alongside the histor ical an d architec tural fe ature s of t he Church and, most importantly, threy are invited to pause fo r thought and spend some time thinking imaginatively.
During the development of the trail we haven’t only had the assistance of representatives from NADFAS, we’ve also been helped by pupils from Stow Primary School and Swell LOCAL businesses, public bodies, clubs, groups and associations Church of England Primary have given a rousing rally to Stow Cotswold Festival on July 4. The community is banging the drum for the event to celebrate American School who have road-tested the trail during its planning stages. Independence Day and all things Cotswolds. Overall sponsor Stow Town Council has given £2,000. Other major The trail will be launched on Wednesday 3 June at 11am in St sponsors include the Grapevine Hotel, Knight Frank, William Hinton, Edward’s Church. We’ll be joined by those involved in developing the RA Bennett, Scotts of Stow, Eastabrook Architects, Stow Lodge, Stow trail, representatives from NADFAS, pupils from local schools and Flea Market and Hawick Cashmere. To date, 81 tombola prizes including members of the St Edward’s congregation, all looking forward to 20 ‘star’ prizes with a value of £25 or more have also been donated. experiencing the new trail. The event, which starts on the evening of July 3, supports four main On Sunday 7 June at 11am in St Edward’s our usual Worship for All charities: Springboard Children’s Centre, Stow; Stow Disability service will include the chance to experience the trail as part of our worship. Association; the Sue Ryder hospice, at Leckhampton, Cheltenham and All are welcome at both events – do join us – it’s fun for all ages! the Sam Pilcher Trust. For further information contact Revd Josie Goodwin on 0771 808 9099 The schedule of events is now finalised – so come along and be a or email her at [email protected]. Yankee Doodle Dandy!
FRIDAY 2ND JULY 10am – 5pm. Events are in the Square, the Churchyard, on The Shrubbery and Stocks Green, in Brewery Yard and the town centre. The Secret Garden Cotswold Market Stalls, USA Vehicles Display, Fire Engine, Tombola, Bran tub, Craft Tent, Face Painters, Treasure Tray, Splat the Rat, Giant Snakes & Ladders, Giant Noughts & Crosses, Children’s Rodeo Bull, at Upper Slaughter Manor. Magic Man, Silver Bough, Treasure Hunt, Bouncy Castle – with pop corn & candy floss and an ice cream vendor. By kind permission of 6-8pm GRAND SUMMER FAIR at Stow Primary School Mr and Mrs Feller, 7.pm (TBC) Military Wives Concert at St Edwards Church SATURDAY 4TH JULY (check specific timings) this beautiful garden will be 10.15am. Celebrity Opening in The Square From 10am – 5pm. Events are in St Edwards Hall, an Arena in the OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Square and in the Church Rooms. 6.45pm. Stow Primary School Summer Fete Prize Draw for the first time in many years on 7-10.30pm. Square Dancing with the Silver Bough th Sewing bee, American-style Refreshments, making a Quilt to send to Saturday 27 June, America, Appomattox / Civil War film, Glos Gladiators Marching Band, Magic Man, Best dressed Dog competitions, Story Teller, Back in Black, 11am - 5pm. Lya Stuart & Not Taken, and a Fancy dress competition.
SUNDAY 4th JULY 11am. Civic Service in St Edwards Church
The Festival is supporting three main charities: Springboard Children’s Centre, Stow; Stow Disability Association and the Sue Ryder hospice, at Leckhampton, Cheltenham. Homemade cakes and teas Tickets for the Military Wives Choir, £12, £5.00 entrance fee. Children free are available now from the Borzoi ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO KATES HOME NURSING Bookshop, Stow and www.musicatstow.com. The choir is 07540 893 143 directed by conductor/organist David Ashley and features soprano Rose CHURCHES Johnson. a place to worship 33 Times June 15_ST_OCT_11 19/05/2015 14:08 Page 1
Market Days June 2015 BOURTON ON THE WATER Farmers’ Market 4th Sunday, 9.30–1300 Full Information is available at the Visitor Information Centres (listed separately) CHARLBURY Farmers’ Market 13 June, 12 September, 12 December Playing Close, Charlbury OX7 3RJ (9-1pm) EXHIBITIONS CHippiNg CAMpDEN to 7 Selling Exhibition by contemporary designer-makers. Tues-Sunday 10-5pm Court Country Market every Friday, 9–11am (excepy January) CHippiNg NORTON Barn, Chipping Campden GL55 6JE.01386 841951.www.courtbarn.org.uk Farmers’ Market 3rd Saturday, monthly from 8.30am to 21 Shamanic Art Of Nepal.Antique Textiles and Ritual Implements. The Himalayan Country Market every Saturday 8.45–11.00 Lower Town Hall Room, Alain Rouveure Galleries, Todenham nr Moreton GL56 9NU. Weds-Sunday (with Farmer’s Market on 3rd Saturday) (& BH Mondays) 10-5pm. 01608 650 418. [email protected] Weekly Market every Wednesday gREAT ROllRigHT 4 Crawfurd Christie English Civil War Collection - 60 period portraits of C17th. Village Market last Saturday monthly (except December) characters involved in the Civil War and Battle of Stow. Free entry (donations KiNgHAM welcome). 10.30-3pm. St Edwards Hall, Stow Square. Farmer’s Market 21 June, 20 Sept, 13 December MORETON-iN-MARsH 13 - 21 Exciting Art Exhibition with 3 local artists, all very different in their styles. Private Weekly Market every Tuesday, 9–3.30pm Gallery in Bourton-on-the-Water. Open daily 10am – 5pm. Preview evening on Country Market every Thursday, 9.30–12noon 13 June, open till 9pm. 01451 810234/01451 823127 Farmer’s and Craft Market 1st Sunday (except 12 July) 09.30-14.00 approx NORTHlEACH every Wednesday, 8.30–3.30pm 13 - 21 Conserving our Heritage. Blockley Decorative & Fine Arts Society exhibition of sTOW ON THE WOlD work including conserved textiles from stately homes, churches and places of historic Farmer’s Market 2nd Thursday, 9.00–13.00pm interest. Court Barn, Church St, Chipping Campden GL55 6JE. Admission £5 with concessions.Tues-Sun 10-5pm. www.courtbarn.org.uk 01386 841951 27 -12 July Warwickshire’s Open Studios - over 229 artists and makers in 120 venues in 14 Classic Vehicle Day. Admission charge to car displays. Normal train ticket prices and around the towns and villages in Warks. 2015 Brochure at Richard Harvey will apply. Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Collection, Shipston on Stour 01608 662168/ www.warwickshireopenstudios.org 14 Car Boot Sale Fundraising for Northleach & Fosse Lions. Countywide forecourt, to 30 Venice-Paris Exhibition of Black & White Photographs Peter Martin Station Road, Bourton on the Water. GL54 2EP. 01451 861210. Gallery/Studio, 2 Digbeth Court, Digbeth St, Stow GL54 1BN. 07479 610511 www.northleachandfosselions.org.uk [email protected] 20 Armed Forces Day: RBL Parade & Drumhead Service, Stow Square. Parade until Sept Artist in Residence at Hidcote Manor Garden. Local artist Ali Grant’s bronze leaves Well Lane at 1300hrs. Please come along or march with us. Refreshments & sculpture ‘The Hidcote Bower’, capturing the spirit of Hidcote, on display until entertainment at the Club. September. Hidcote Manor Garden, near Chipping Campden, GL55 6LR. 01386 20 & 21 Days Out with Thomas. Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends visit the 438333. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hidcote Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Please note that entry to the site will be by DIARY ticket only. There is no free entry. Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway 21 Kate's Great Escape !!! Car Rally www.sportantiques.co.uk/blog/images-for- Tuesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 JuneVinyasa Flow Yoga classes at a beautiful kates-great-escape-rally-2013 [email protected] studio and grounds in Little Compton, GL56 0SH. 6.30-7.45 pm. 07932 611042 or 21 Chippy Town FestivalOrganised and presented by the Rotary Club with the help email [email protected]. of a band of committed individuals from the town. www.chippingnortonrotary.org.uk 2 Coffee & Cakes Fundraising for Northleach & Fosse Lions, at Victoria Hall, Bourton on the Water. GL54 2BU. 01451 861210. www.northleachandfosselions.org.uk 21 The Klee Quartet– concert of Chamber Music at St John the Baptist Church, 2 - 4 Bledington Music Festival presents Pianofest ’15 at St Leonards Church, Gt Rissington. 6.30pm. Tickets £12.50 (£10 in advance) Incl. interval refreshment. Bledington. O01608 658669. www.bledingtonmusicfestival.co.uk 01451 820497/ 820395/820129 or [email protected] 4 Cotswold Friends’ Volunteer Open Day. 10 -3pm at The Library, Stow Road, 24 Think. Grow. Eat – a talk on Permaculture by Caroline Aitken followed by a Moreton-in-Marsh. Kirsty Holder, Befriending Services Manager 01608 652019 summer BBQ. £15pp. 6.30- 9.30pm at Lower Farm, Ramsden, Oxon OX7 3AZ. Book [email protected] online www.wychwoodproject.org/cms/content/events 5 WordSong presents: ‘Wild Words’ – a vibrant showcase of contemporary 25 How to work a Community Project GRCC invite you to see & learn at storytelling and acoustic music. Garden Terrace Café at Batsford Arboretum. Tickets Mickleton Community Archive. Booking essential Marilyn Cox ([email protected]) £7.50 (£6.50 Batsford Season Ticket holders) At Batsford or call 01386 701441 or Helen Richards ([email protected]). Or GRCC 01452 528491. 5 - 14 Burford Festival 50 great events – new and entertaining experiences to amuse 26 Jane Phillips Memorial Golf Day & Gala Dinnerat Cotswolds Club, Chipping and entertain the people of Burford and surrounding villages, as well as our visitors. Norton. Par 71 Course; prizes; buffet lunch & evening entertainment; Gala Dinner, Brochure online www.burfordfestival.org Raffle & Auction. Fundraising for Lawrence Home Nursing. 01608 684475. 6 Sale on the Green, Stow – Women’s Section RBL. 12-2pm. Stalls, games, www.lawrencehomenursing.org cakes, Tombola. (set up 9am) To book a stall/ contribute a Tombola prize contact Chris on 01451 831592 FORTHCOMING EVENTS 6 KidsArcade Pop-Up – Cotswold Edition 1. Independent Shops, Brands & Stanton Guildhouse– Summer programme. Information: stantonguildhouse.org.uk Designers with Pop Up studio – photographs, model scout, creative workshops and 1 July Dinner recitalat Dumbleton Hall Hotel at 7 for 7.30pm with the Astaria String children’s entertainment. @kidsACADE (t@Kids_Arcade) Quartet playing Mozart. Followed by a two course dinner. 01386 881240 ext.306 6 - 7 Burford Collectors Club 5th Annual Rally Rough Grounds Farm, (A361) [email protected] Lechlade GL7 3EU. Start 10.00 am, Classic Vehicles, Trade Stands, Raffle and 3 July Summer Fair at Stow Primary School. Music, BBQ, stalls, licenced bar, games. Programme draw each day. Admission £4.00 Adults. £2.00 Concessions. Under 16s 5-8pm. Fundraising for Stow Primary School. www.stowprimaryschool.co.uk free (must be accompanied by a paying adult). www.burford collectors club 7 Open Farm Sunday– a great family day out. Walks or tours, meet the animals, machinery & demonstrations. Look for your local farm and the events at www.farmsunday.org. 7 Strawberry Cream Tea supporting Cobalt.Upper Farm, Clapton-on-the-Hill, Tickets, Booking information etc. from – GL54 2LG 2-5pm. For more information call: 01451 820453 BOURTON ON THE WATER VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE Victoria Street, Bourton 9 - 13 ‘HMS Pinafore’ and ‘Cox & Box’ double bill presented by The Cotswold on the Water. Open Mon-Fri 9.30-5pm, Sat 9.30-5.30, Closed Sunday 01451 820211 Savoyards. Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. 7.30pm (Sat Matinee 2.30pm) E: [email protected] Box office: 01242 572573 or www.everymantheatre.org.uk BURFORD INFORMATION CENTRE, High St, Burford, OX18 4LS. Open Mon-Sat 9.30- 13 Friends of St Mary’s Church fete 12-4pm the Old Vicarage, Church Street, Chipping 5pm, Sun 10-4pm. 01993 823558 E: [email protected] Norton with a BBQ, afternoon teas, competitions, games and a variety of stalls CHIPPING NORTON VISITOR INFORMATION POINT 13 Midsummer Murder Mystery fish and chip evening. Pre-booking is essential. Guildhall, Goddards Lane, Chipping Norton OX7 5NJ. Office hours Mon-Fri. Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. STOW VISITOR INFORMATION St.Edwards Hall, The Square, Stow. 13 Ballet Central 2015 nationwide tour. Central School of Ballet’s ‘stars-in-the-wings’ Library (open library hours) + Information Point in the lobby (open every day). perform established and new works. 7pm at Chipping Norton Theatre, Spring Street, OX7 5NL. Box Office 01608 642350 www.chippingnortontheatre.com MORETON AREA CENTRE High Street, Moreton. Mon 8.45am-4.00pm, Tues-Thurs 13 - 21 30th Anniversary exhibition of Blockley Decorative and Fine Arts Society at 8.45am-5.15pm, Fri 8.45am-4.45pm, Sat 10.00am-1.00pm (BST), 10.00am-12.30pm Court Barn, Chipping Campden. Contact Pamela Hudson Bendersky for more (BWT), Sun CLOSED. 01608 650881 E: [email protected] information on 01608 661158. 3344 Times June 15 events_Layout 1 19/05/2015 13:39 Page 3
Longborooughugh & Sezinc o te CricketetSix -a-Sid es COUNTRY MUSIC NIGHT at Notgrove Village Hall th 7.30pm – 11.30pm Longborongborough Villag e on July 4 2 015 LIVE MUSIC – Licenced Bar, £5pp entrance Thursday 11 June: Tonight's act is Kenny James. Contact Ken on 07870795560 for further details.
First ball bowle d at 1 .00 pm BBaar, BBQ and Raffflele Please join us ffororr a lovellyy affternoonternoon
Saturday 13 June – Sunday 21 June
Conserving our Heritage Celebrating the 30th anniversary o f Blockley Decorative & Fine Arts Society, this exhibition at Court Ba rn, Chipping Campden will sh ow a snapshot of the Society’s important work including conserved textiles from stately homes, churches and places of historic interes t. Thursday 18 June at 18.00 Talk Dr Florian Schweizer, NADFAS Chief Executive and June Robinson, National Chairman will discuss NADFAS and its charitable role including Warwick shir e's P rem ier Artist-led Event their vision for the future. 27 t o 1 2 Ju ne – t h e b ig gest ex hib itio n of unique and original art and Tickets £7 craft wit h o ver 229 arti sts and m akers in 120 venues in and around H the t ow n s a n d v i llag es of o u r l eafy co u nty. Court Barn Museum, Church Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6JE 2 Admission charges: Standard £5.00, Gift Aided £5.50 Entry is free to all our venues. Meet the artists and makers; many Under 18 and full time students free demonstrations and workshops. Tuesday – Sunday 10.00 – 5pm, closed on Mondays MICKLETON ART BARN behind the Kings Arms. Mickleton. (except Bank Holidays) Hosting four artists – Usha Khosla, ceramics; Mark Baker, architectural drawing; Susan O’Grady, textiles; Suzzi Tayara, silver & bead jewellery. A wide range of items for sale; commissions; all budgets. Burford Singers at the Burford Festival 2015 Brochure available free from Mickleton Art Barn and online at www.warmwickshireopenstudios.org. Sunday, 14 June at 7.30pm Church of St John the Baptist, Church Green, Burford OX18 4RY
Karl Jenkins: Gloria JUNE Bob Chilcott: Little Jazz Mass John Rutter: Feel the Spirit Burford Singers with Cotswold Youth Choir and the 20 Cotswold Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Brian Kay Our summer concert brings together music by three of the most popular choral composers in the world today, with music to lift the spirits at Festival time. Tickets reserved at £25, £17.50, £13.50, unreserved at £10 Telephone booking: 01993 822412 or at The Madhatter Bookshop, 122 High Street, Burford OX18 4QJ Public Rehearsal 2.30 pm Sunday 14 June (Tickets £5) Details and booking form available on our website www.burfordsingers.org.uk FETE & FUN DOG SHOW 4 July Prize Draw at Stow Cotswold Festival Square Dance, fundraising for Stow Primary School. Wonderful prizes, tickets available now www.stowprimaryschool.co.uk PLUS NEW PLAYGROUND 4 July Great Rollright Big Bake & Food Fayrein aid of Tearfund’s ‘No Child Taken’ GRAND OPENING campaign. Stalls, teas, BBQ, Pimms tent & more. www.rollrightreview.webplus.net 9 - 20 July NCAA Summer Arts Exhibition at St Edward’s Hall in Stow on the Wold. 9 July preview, 6.30 to 8.00pm and then daily, 10am to 5pm until 1pm 20 July. Guiting Power Village Fete 10 - 12 July Cornbury Music Festivalat The Great Tew Park. Oxfordshire. Saturday 20th June 2015 0844 581 0777. www.cornburyfestival.com Noon - 4pm on the playing fields 12 July Bus Rally at Toddington Railway Station.Bus service from Toddington to Broadway. Normal ticket prices apply on the trains. 16 & 20 Aug Bourton Panto Group Fete 24 - 26 July Heritage Diesel Weekend and Open Days. Restored locomotives from the 60s and 70s. Entry to the site will be by ticket only. The Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway will be steaming. Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
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Advance tickets are available from all the Visitor Information Centres
Battle Proms Picnic Concert
at Blenheim Palace on Saturday 11 July BOX O FFICE – 01608 642350
[email protected] A celebration of classical music with Fireworks, www.c hippingnortontheatre.com Cannons, Cavalry and Spitfire air display.
Adults £36.00 (£40.00 on the day) Child £17.00, under 4 free. JuneSUMMER 2015 ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 5,6 Table Manners FILMS at 7.30pm 10 It’s Th thate O timether of h ayearlf when parents’ thoughts turn4 to,7 those longA Li tsummertle Cha weeksos and finding activities for their children. Don't forget we sell discounted entrance tickets for Blenheim Palace 12 Fairport Convention 11 A Pidgeon Sat on a Branch in Woodstock and also for Shakespeare’s Houses in Stratford – 13 At B Thealle tTheatre, Centra Chippingl Norton, young people take over theRef lbuildingecting o forn Efourxist weeks.ence We have so many workshops to choose from, including Orange Hat Summer Adventures for a great saving if you have family or friends to entertain. 19 babies, Fredd toddlersie Flint oandff their carers; drama, dance and14 singing,21 F forar f5r o–m 7 yearthe olds;Mad dance,ding C dramarowd 24 a nd G emusicalrvaise theatrePhinn for 8 – 12 year olds and a dance28 week forClo teenagersuds of S iasls wellMar iasa a full-scale production of Grease. Please contact your Visitor Information Centre for further information. 25 Bob Fox: Warhorse Songman We also provide outreach activities in Moreton in Marsh, Carterton and Woodstock and transport the participants to The Theatre for some of the week at no extra charge!
LOCAL ARTISTS’ OPEN STUDIO
Saturday 13 June to Sunday 21 June, Daily 10am – 5pm Perhaps this Preview Day: Saturday 13 June open till 9pm y ! ! Bledington Fete The Gallery, Grey Gables, Bow Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water "#$" % "$&'() "#$" % " $&'()) Judy Harden (watercolours and ink), Mandy Selhurst Saturday 6 June 3V^WefdabAbW`6Sk3 ^ W e f d W ` k !!*+,- . ),,/.0 *+,- . ),,/.0 (acrylics) and Barbara Beale (watercolours) )12),,1lun c he)s1 f 2),,rom 1 2noon, official opening at 1pm Eg`VSk#& Allll proceedseeds to benet Adlestrdlestropop Churcch,h, our Village Hall, Medicaledical Detetection DogsA &ll C optswrooclde Weardensdenss .to benefit Adlestrop Church, our Village Hall, Medical Detection Dogs & Cotswold Wardens How to get there: A GREAT DAY OUT, Adlestrop i s situate d ab o ut 3 mile s fro m S tow o n t he W old and 6 mi les from C hip ping N or ton – just half a mile o the A436 Disabled facilities in Viillagellage Hall and accessess possible to some gardens. All enquiries to Victoriiaa Huxley – 01608 659328 email [email protected] ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE OOrr visit our website www.adlestrop.org.uk 18th Annual Charlbury Beer Festival on Saturday 27 June at Charlbury Cricket Club, Oxfordshire from 12 noon to 10pm The country’s biggest independent one-day beer festival PLUS the 5th World Aunt Sally Singles Championships. For further details, please visit the Charlbury Beer Festival website : hp://charlburybeerf estival.org or email nick.millea@b tinternet.com 3366 1 Nick Millea, Publicity Officer – n T h Times June 15 events_Layout 1 19/05/2015 13:39 Page 1 BLOCKLEY DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY a lecture The Age of Elegance: Georgian furniture ODDINGTON VILLAGE FETE by Janusz SUNDAY JUNE 28 1-4 PM Karczewski-Slowikowski at 2.30pm on 15 June 2015 BBQ LUNCH in St George’s Hall, Blockley STRAWBERRY TEAS TIPPLE TENT Please contact Elaine Parker (01386 840326) STALLS GALORE! for booking guests (which is essential) PLANTS KITCHENWARE BOOKS and more details. EVERYTHING STRAWBERRY CAKES & JAMS ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES POTTERY BEE KEEPING ART WORK Longborough RACES & GAMES FOR KIDS AND GROWNUPS Traditional Village Fete is on Saturday 13th June 2015 TOMBOLA GRAND RAFFLE from 2.00pm - 4.30pm NORTH COTSWOLDS WIND BAND held along the High Street with many stalls plus a Hog Roast, GRAND DOG SHOW Morris Men, Bar, Longborough exhibition, Village School contributions All welcome. Holy Trinity Primary School, Chipping Norton BROADWELL & DONNINGTON FETE SUMMER FETE and FUN DAY! Saturday 13 June, 12 noon to 4pm Broadwell village green is the perfect setting for an afternoon of Sunday 14 June, 11.30am – 2.30pm traditional fun and entertainment for all the family. BBQ lunch … Jake the Entertainer, pony rides, face painting, fun races Come and join the fun! All welcome! for the children and of course our ever popular duck races! Bring your dog along and enter them in our Dog Show. Fantastic raffle prizes, p ony rides, bungee run, Plenty of stalls: books, cakes, bric-a-bac, plants, tombola and toys. giant bouncy slide, traditional games, craft stalls, BBQ lunch, Pimms and teas, a grand raffle. It will be an afternoon to BBQ, bar and mu ch, much more! remember – fun for all the family. DON'T MISS IT !!!! 2 St D C of E Primary School MORETON IN MARSH Adults 50p Children FREE Join us and support Cobalt SUMMER FAIR Auctition of Prommisises Friday 5th Ju ne from 7pm SAT 20th June Sponsored by NFU Moreton-in--hMars 11am-2pm Strawberry Cream Tea Sunday 7th June 2pm5pm Upper Fa rm, Clapton-on-the-Hill, BOUNCY CASTLE FAIRGROUND RIDES GL54 2LG For more in formation call: 01451 820453 PIMMS TENT GRAND DRAW GREAT PRIZES TOMBOLA FACE PAINTING PONIES Join uuss an d support Cobalt DISPLAY ARENA |MUSIC |SKITTLES |PLANTS Helping peo ple affected by canancer and othee-r life limiting conditi ons BBQ & REFRESHMENTS Lots more stalls, fun and games. To book a stall Tel : 01608 651500 or call into school 3377 Times June 15 events_Layout 1 19/05/2015 13:47 Page 5 Dig out your wellies – it’s time to get ou t on farm for th is year’ s Open Farm Sunday 7 June 2015! Since 1927 the National Gardens Scheme has raised more than £45 million for nursing and caring charities http://www.ngs.org.uk NB. Some of these gardens are not open generally to the public and open specifically to support the NGS fundraising. All the farms are organising events – and each event is unique; Gardans open in June activities may i nclude farm w alks or tou r s, me et the a nim als, 1 0 Roc kcliffe House, GL 54 2JW mac hinery displays, sheep shearing and Eyford House, GL54 2JN even milking demonstrations. Ernest West Memorial Garden FARMS within an easy distance: Campden Hou se, GL55 6 UP Greystones Farm, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Bourton on the Water GL54 2EN (0 1451 81 0853) 14 Blockl ey G ardens , GL56 9 D B Old Farm, Dorn, Moreton in Marsh GL56 9NS (01608 650394) Stanton Village Gardens, WR12 7NE Guiting Manor F arm, Gui ting Po wers GL 54 5UX ( 01451 Whic hford & Asc ott Gar dens, C V36 5PP 850320) Butlers Road Far m, Long Compto n CV 36 5 LQ (016 08 6 84413) 2 1 The O ld Vicara ge , Bledingto n, OX7 6UX Washbrook Farm, Ebrington, Chipping Campden GL56 6NW Stowell Park, GL54 3LE (01386 59322 2) Ramsden Rare Breeds, Wood F arm, Le afiel d Ro ad, Fin stock 2 4 Daylesford House, GL56 0YG OX7 3AS (01993 868844) 26 Snowshill Manor & Garden, WR12 7JU More Open Farms and mor e informa tio n o n www. farmsund ay.or g 28 Littlefield Garden, GL54 5SZ Sezincote, GL56 9AW Gardens Open in Bou rto n-on -the-Hill 14 June from 1p.m. to 6 p.m. Price £6.00, also includes Bourton House Gardens Parking oppos ite Bourton House Tea and Cakes in the Vil lage Hall MILL DENE GARDEN M RHS Partner garden and offers cream teas by the millpond, plant sales Open Wednesday to Friday 10 – 5, Saturdays 9am to 1pm. Entrance £7, (£6.50 for concessions.) Directions: follow brown tourist signs from Bourton on the Hill, A44 Info from 01386 700457 ww w.millden egarde n.co.uk ELKSTONE VILLAGE GARDENS OPEN DAY Our 23rd year! The Cotswolds Awards have been created to give everyone Sunday 7th June in the Cotswolds a chance to nominate their favourite 2.00pm – 6.00pm pm businesses, hotels, restaurants, spas and shops, and to Adults:Interesting £5 Open Children: Gardens to ViewFREE • NormanFREE Church CAR & PARKINGBell Tower Visits give every Cotswold business a fair chance to win an award • Tractor ‘Hay’ Rides • CreamElkstone and lies Traditional midway between Teas Cheltenham & Ice Creamsand Cirencester just off the A435 or A417 voted for fairly by customers. Local Art Exhibition and Items for Sale • Stalls,All proceeds such in asaid: ofPlants the Church and andWhite Village Elephant Hall Garden games We’re all the best at something … so get nominating on No dogs please www.elkstonevillage.co.uk www.CotswoldsAwards.co.uk 3388 Times June 15 events_Layout 1 19/05/2015 13:47 Page 4 Sunday 21st June 2015 Live music from 11.00am until 8.0pm The Moreton Show The Friends of St Mary's Church fete Saturday 13 June, from 12:00-4:00pm See the countryside in a day The Old Vicarage, 5 Church Street, Chipping Norton There will be fun for all the family, with a BBQ, afternoon teas, competitions, games and a variety of stalls. on September 5th Also a grand draw with some spectacular prizes The summer is here and the countdown is well underway If you would be interested in buying raffle tickets, donating items for this year’s Moreton Show, which takes place on for stalls or helping on the day, we will be outside Sainsburys on Saturday 6th June – or you can contact the church office. Saturday, September 5th. It is one of this country’s biggest one-day agricultural shows and yet, at this stage of the process, the day-to- day organisation lies with just a handful of people led by the chairman, Katharine Loyd. Unsurprisingly, the show’s stow-on-the-woldstow-on-the-wold PPRIMARYRIMARY school new headquarters in Wychwood Court, on the Cotswold Business Village, London Road, Moreton in Marsh is a er Fair hive of activity. S umm 5pm- Entries are pouring in for the livestock classes, the horse 88PMPM show and the Home and Garden Marquee while bookings Fr 3 July for trade stand space is rapidly approaching capacity. iday, Those bookings will close on June 30, when 350 traders will have secured their pitch. It takes a week to prepare the showground site just off the on the school grounds Fosse Way and then more than 500 people will be BBQ, Beer, Wine, Pimms & plenty more refreshments working on the show, Ice creams and cakes Games for the childrEN which will feature Crafts and Trade Stalls for your choice of local goods some 2,000 animals, EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO COME ALONG AND ENJOY including pigs, sheep, THE WONDERFUL ATMOSPHERE WITH MUSIC goats, cattle, poultry, COME ALONG, HAVE FUN AND RELAX WITH A GLASS & GOOD COMPANY rare breeds, horses TO START STOW FESTIVAL OFF IN STYLEI ENTRANCE IS FREE and dogs. There are displays and attractions too as well as the finest food produced in the Cotswolds. One of the themes this year is the Future Farmers’ Initiative and BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER the call has already gone out to young stock handlers all 126th VILLAGE SHOW over the UK, who want to show their cattle, sheep, pigs organised by and goats at this important event in the agricultural BOURTON VALE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY calendar. Everyone is invited to show. The aim, of course, is to build on last year’s success, The schedule includes which saw 25,000 visitors and an increase in entries in Flowers • Fruit • Vegetables • Honey • Wine • Cookery • Preserves almost every section. As a result, the Moreton in Marsh & Flower Arrangements • Arts and Crafts • Junior and Children’s items District Agricultural and Horse Show Society, which is a Raffle • Refreshments charity, made a profit to October 2014 of £23,253 – an 2.00 pm Saturday 29 August 2015 increase on the previous year of £26,996. Royal British Legion Hall, Bourton on the Water You can save money by Admission: Adults 50p Children 10p booking early and tickets are Presentation of Prizes 5.00 pm available online at www.moretonshow.co.uk Schedules now available from Tickets are also on sale at the Visitor Information Centre, Victoria Street, 200th anniversary celebrations Hartwells, Bourton Basket and Countrywide Farmers, and from of the Battle of Waterloo in the www.gfgs.org.uk/clubs/bourtonvale or 01451 824141 centre of Moreton in Marsh on June 17. 3399 Times June 15 events_Layout 1 19/05/2015 13:47 Page 6 Local walks with the Cotswolds Voluntary Wardens in June Isbourne Way 3 (Toddington to Wormington) – Tuesday 2 June – Moderate Third in a series of five circular walks which will incorporate the whole of the new Isbourne Way. 3 hours: 6 miles. Start: 10:00 am The Pheasant Pub, Toddington. OS Map ref SP 047 325. A Circuit of Batsford – Thursday 4 June – Moderate We go to Batsford village where we will hear about its connections with the Mitford family. We take in views of Batsford House before returning along the Heart of England Way. 2.5 hours: 5 miles. Start: 10:00 am Blockley Village Green. Please park considerately in the village. OS Map ref SP 164 349. Wild Farming – like other farming but harder – Tuesday 9 June – Moderate Farming wildlife instead of wheat?! With Ellie Phillips (Conservation Officer) and David Stevenson (Ranger) from the Cleeve Conservators, join us to discover Cleeve Common as a working farm. PLEASE wear sturdy footwear as the route may be steep/muddy in places. 3 hours: 6 miles. Start: 10:00 am Cleeve Common Quarry car park (past Golf Club). OS Map ref SO 989 271. Literary Connections 1 – Thursday 11 June – Moderate We take in Stanway and Snowshill and trace the literary figures past and present who have found inspiration in the Cotswolds. Some steep ascents from Stanway and Snowshill. Please bring a packed lunch. 4.5 hours: 8 miles. Start: 10:00 am Stanton Village Car Park. OS Map ref SP 067 344. A Remote and Beautiful Valley – Tuesday 16 June – Moderate Passing through some of the North Cotswolds' most remote and beautiful countryside. 2.5 hours: 5 miles. Start: 10:00 am Hinchwick Hamlet. Please park tidily on the grass verge. OS Map ref SP 145 300. A Mitford Hero – Saturday 20 June – Moderate. A favourite circuit visiting the church on the Batsford estate & looking at how events can change the course of history. Please bring a packed lunch & protective bags for boots. 5.5 hours: 9.5 miles. Start: 9:30 am Longborough. Meet by bus shelter in High Street next to school. OS Map ref SP 179 296. Greystones – A Walk on the Wildside – Tuesday 30 June – Moderate An opportunity to explore this Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust gem with the Reserve Manager. We complete the walk via Wyck Risssington. 3.5 hours: 4 miles. Start: 10:00 am Bourton-on-the-Water, Station Road car park. OS Map ref SP 170 208. PLEASE use appropriate footwear as some walks may be steep and muddy in places. EASY – Length may vary but terrain is mainly flat (level); MODERATE – includes some hills and rough ground. We welcome guide and hearing dogs – sorry, others not allowed. Walks are free although we do invite donations to help fund our conservation and improvement work. The Wardens run a full programme of guided walks throughout the Cotswolds. For more information see www.escapetothecotswolds.org.uk or Tel: 01451 862000, also for any changes to arrangements such as due to extreme weather. DOWNLOADABLE WALKS INCLUDE: Miles without Styles; Car-free Walks; Walkers are Welcome and Walks on Wheels www.escapetothecotswolds.org.uk/ walking 4400 Times June 15 events_Layout 1 19/05/2015 13:58 Page 7 Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo 17th June 2015 – Moreton in Marsh High Street What was Moreton like in June 1815? The main industry was wool – the railway came to Moreton in Marsh to transport wool. The railway brought more people and the town bustled with life. The w ar in Fra nce seemed a long way off … Morris dancing COME & SEE: Suffolk punches and an Oxford cart Livestock M o r r i s ad ahugencin gtraction engine and a steam organ Suffolk pu nc hes and a n O xford cart a h u g e beertract iandon e ciderngine tents and a steam organ Bring aa p icni c or ENJ OY the ox roast beer and cider tents an d free apple jui ce for kids WITH a live band and dancing in the evening PLUS: Moreton’s hotels have been challenged to produce the best Beef Wellington - with top local foodie Pru Leith judging the competition! Pupils from 12 l ocal Sc hools ha ve be en i nv ited to get in volved Choosing projects a bou t the im p ortance o f woo l, how the railw ay cam e to Moreton and wha t happen ed at th e Battle o f W aterloo – with plays – maypole dancing – decorating shop windows – dressing-up and picnics on the green. Everybody is welcome Longborough Village Fair – 17th May 2015 4411 Times June 15 clubs_CNT_APR_12 21/05/2015 09:10 Page 5 Local Clubs, Societies, Associations and Charities Clubs London Chinatown TaeKwondo Community Groups Weds 6.30pm kids and families, 7.30pm teens and adults Blockley Blokes Choir (BBC!) Thurs 7.30-9 pm Little Village Hall. Redesdale Hall, Moreton 0751 7437300 Breathe Easy Groups David Artingstall, Sec: 01386 701556 [email protected] 3rd Weds / month, Baptist Church Rooms, Bourton on the Water. Club Notices Moreton Badminton Club Bourton Panto Group www.bourtonpantogroup.com Mike and Joyce Rees 01608 650825 01451 822102 07845 542336 Bridge Club at Broadwell Village Hall Moreton in Marsh Bowling Club Cotswold Volunteers (a local charity helping disadvantaged people) Weds evenings at 6.45pm. Mary Wood, 01451 822313 Club Captain, Brenda Dix 01451 821020 [email protected] Jane Winstanley CEO 01285 658802, [email protected] CH. Norton Amateur Astronomy Group www.cnaag.com Club Chair, Helen Tuff 01608 650893 [email protected] Essential Skills in Moreton-in-Marsh, run by YES 3rd Monday/m. 7.30pm. Methodist Rooms, CN. North Cotswolds Aikido Club Mondays & Tuesdays at the library. Sally 07988531774 Chairman Robin Smitten 07527 224411 or [email protected] Thursday nights 8-10pm.Village Hall, Naunton, GL54 3AS. 07554 Fair Shares, N Cotswolds Community Time Bank Charlbury Art Society 252021 www.northcotswoldsaikido.co.uk 01608 812338 [email protected] Second Weds/month at 7:30 pm. Marion Coates, 01608 810116 North Cotswold Cycling Club Friends of Stow Surgery 01451 832200 & 830610 Cotswold Investment Club Club Secretary: Fiona Barnett, 01608 650217 Home-Start N Cotswolds Meets 2nd Tues of each month. Judith Borsay, 01608 650787 N Cotswolds Youth Cricket Club Family Support Charity 01451 831781 Cotswold Wardens (conservation, guided walks) Shaun Williams 01608 652138 www.nycc.co.uk Independence Trust mental health, drug and alcohol support 01451 862000 www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk Stow Badminton Club 01608 652232, www.independencetrust.co.uk Dinner Hosts Single 35–55 yr olds, social life through dinner parties. Forbes Campbell 01451 832188, Dennis Fisher 01451 830068 Sue Tomlinson – local contact East Glos Mental Health www.DinnerHosts.net Stow Cricket Club Captain Ash Andrews 07891 536418 01285 650523/07920 427608 Knit One, Sip One Knitting Group [email protected], http://stowotw.play-cricket.com/home Insight Moreton Area Centre, High St, Moreton Mondays 10am–1pm Alternate Weds at 8pm Coach & Horses, Longborough Stow Rugby Club 01242 221170. [email protected] Contact Carlin on 07769646996 or [email protected] Tim Bevan/Liz Fraser/Andrew Cartlidge www.stowrfc.co.uk Kate’s Home Nursing (palliative nursing care at home) Life Saving Club (Fire College) Tae Kwon Do Assoc of GB Karen Pengilley, [email protected], 0754 0898 143. Co-ordinator Lynette Mantle 01386 882430 Lee Chapman 07977 560086. Tues 6.30 Adults, Thurs 6.30 Juniors, Medical Detection Dogs (charity no 1124533) Northleach & Fosse Lions Club 7.30 Seniors, 8.30 Adult Self Defence Oxon and Cotswold Volunteer Support group. Organising fundraising 2nd Tuesday/month (business meeting) at The Wheatsheaf Inn, [email protected] / www.combinedselfdefence.co.uk events and talking to local groups. 01993 831909 Northleach, 8pm. northleachandfosselions.org.uk 0845 8339825 [email protected] N Cotswold Arts Association Sandi Garrett 01451 822550 Moore Friends N Cotswold Bee-Keepers Assoc Music Secretary, Sandra Morgan 01451 824316 [email protected] Julie Edwards 01608 659396 [email protected] Bledington Music Festival N Cotswold Community Radio N Cotswold Bridge Club www.bledingtonmusicfestival.co.uk Old Police Station, Chipping Campden, www.nothcotswoldonline.com Meets Bourton-on-the-Hill on Tues, Weds, Thurs Blockley Brass Band N Cotswold Neighbourhood Watch Alan Lamb 01608 650202 www.bridgewebs.com/northcotswolds Friday 7.30–9.30 pm St George's Hall. Sec: Rachel Galt 01386 841677 Non-emergency 0845 0901234 www.northcotswoldsnw.co.uk N Cotswold CAMRA Blockley Ladies Choir N Cotswold Support Group – Parkinson’s UK 01451810305 [email protected] Tues 7.30–9pm Little Village Hall. Ruth Wright 01451 831104 Mike Winter 01451 831194 N Cotswold Disabled Club Sue Wareham. 01608 654299, 07917198327 [email protected] P3 Stow on the Wold Drop In Centre Joan M Oughton 01451 830580 Burford Singers Youth Centre: every 2nd & 4th Tuesday 1pm to 4pm N Cotswold Digital Camera Club www.burford-singers.org.uk Read Easy North Cotswolds 1-1 reading coaching for adults, 0844 James Minter 01451 824175 www.ncdcc.co.uk (Box Office The Madhatter Bookshop, High St Burford) 493 0686 [email protected] N Cotswold Friendship Centre (Within Age UK) Campden Music Society RNLI N Cotswold Branch Chairman Diana Porter 01451 830508 1st Weds monthly. Colin 01993 842820/01608 650868 Carol Jackson – concert mgr [email protected] The Cotswold Listener talking newspaper for the visually impaired. [email protected]/[email protected] Cotswold West Gallery Group 01242 252072. [email protected] North Cotswold Model Aero Club Annette Smith 01451 830160 The Stroke Association (Age UK) Flying site at Far Heath Farm, Moreton-in-Marsh Cotswold Youth Choir Louise Read 01452 520723, [email protected] Ken Rathborne, 01386 858649 sites.google.com/site/northcotswoldmac/home Every Saturday for children ages 3-6, and 7 upwards. Burford Methodist U3A – Bourton & District Sec Janet Prout 01451 821478 N Cotswold National Trust Pat Poulton 01608 651372 Church. Contact Amanda Hanley 07976 353996 u3asites.org.uk/bourton N Cotswold Rotary Club Kingham Choral Society YHA Stow on the Wold Dudley Mills 01451 820704 Bourton on the Water, Brian Honness 01451 Linda Sale, 01608 658647 www.yha.org.uk. Manager Dawn Rankin. [email protected] 830052 Stow, Barry Peaston 01608 650526 Naunton Music Society Young At Heart Club N Cotswold U3A Contact Jenny Stanfield 01451 824338 Barbara Steiner 01451 850897 [email protected] 1st and 3rd Fridays monthly, 10.30am-2.30pm Lounge at Chamberlayne u3asites.org.uk/bourton Stow Youth Singers House. A light lunch is served; Carer Respite Service available for a Oddington WI (Ages 9+) Linda Green – 01451 830327 modest charge. Please call Val on 01451 810637 for more information. Meet on the 2nd Tue each month Oddington Village Hall Fridays Term time, 6–7pm at St Edwards Church, Stow Sue John 01451 830989 Rotary Kingham/Daylesford Local Authorities Meets fortnightly Weds evening, Sat morning. www.kinghamrotary.org.uk Young People & Children Breathe Easy Groups (British Lung Foundation) Royal British Legion/Stow on the Wold Social Club Activity Camps 2nd Tues/monthly 2–4pm. 01451 822102/810520 Branch chair Derek Arthurs 01451 831550 All holidays for ages 3-13 years old. 07793949198 www.activity-camps.com Baden Powell Hall, Bourton o/t Water Club at Well Lane, Stow. 01451 830242 Bledington Toddler Group Cotswold District Council Salford Players Drama & Music Group Nicki 01608 658137 Mon 10–11.30am Trinity Road, Cirencester. 01285 623000 www.cotswold.gov.uk Doreen Herrington 01608 642853 Children’s Art Club (ages 4–12) County Cllr Nigel Moor 01386 700240/07778 207034 Scottish Country Dance Group Brenda Parsons 01451 831876 After school, Saturdays and holidays, Gill Parkes 01386 700991 [email protected] Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2GT Single File Chipping Norton social group for unattached 50- Condicote Playgroup & Toddlers Stow-on-the-Wold District Councillor Barry Dare 70s. Fortnightly pub nights for new members. 077655 98518 Leader Jo Abrahams 07796 987173 [email protected] (01386) 700457 [email protected] Guiting Power Brownies (age 7–10) Glos Homeseeker applying for affordable housing Stow Disability Association Tuesday Evenings 6.15–7.30pm, Leader Cheryl Millar 01451 831233 www.gloshomeseeker.co.uk 0300 666 6330 –charged at local rate George Hill 01608 658636 www.stowda.org.uk Guiting Power Pre-School Playgroup Glos Rural Community Council Marilyn Cox 01452 528491 Stow & District Civic Society 01451 851742, Becky Roseblade, leader [email protected] [email protected] www.grcc.org.uk Meets 1st Friday evenings alternate months, St Edward’s Hall, Stow. [email protected] Moreton Area Centre Nigel Surman 01451 833783 Monkey Music (pre-school music classes) High Street, Moreton 01608 650881. [email protected] Stow and North Cotswold Probus Club Tues afternoons. 07768 457403 or [email protected] Stow Town Council Stow Council Office, Stow Youth Club, Stow, 1st & 3rd Thurs mornings, Broadwell Village Hall, Broadwell nr. Stow, Moreton Scouts GL54 1AB 01451 832585 [email protected] 10.30 a.m. Secretary Martin Hornby 01608 654356 Beavers Mondays 17:30–18:45 Age 6–8½ Village Agents Stow on the Wold and Countryside Embroiderer's Guild Cubs, Mondays 18.45–20.15 Age 8–10 [email protected]. [email protected] 01451 821291 Explorer Scouts, Wednesday (fortnightly) 20.00–22.00 Age 14–18 Stow on the Wold Social Club Well Lane. 01451 830242, Scouts, Thursdays 19.30–21.30 Age 10½–14 Key Information incorporating Stow RBL Branch and Women's Section Dave Manley, Moreton Scout Group Secretary 01608 650814 Springboard Children’s Centre Childrens Physio Direct helpline 0300 421 6980 St Edwards Drive, Stow on the Wold. 01451831642. 9.00am-12.00pm, Monday-Friday (except Bank Holidays) Sports & Outdoor www.springboardcc.co.uk Childline 0800 11 11 Chipping Norton Veterinary Hospital Adlestrop Cricket Club Mr S/N Kean 01451 831458 Stow Gymnastics Club Every Saturday,Tuesday and Thursday for a fun Gymnastic Session for Albion Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5BN 01608 642547 Angling Club Chairman Neil Halley 07961 920708, mac- Crime Stoppers 0800 555 111 [email protected] www.moretonanglingclub.co.uk 2-13 year olds. Caroline:07793949198 www.stowgymnastics.co.uk Stow Youth Centre First Responders (St John’s Ambulance) Bourton Vale Cricket Club 01452 858220 [email protected], www.sja.org.uk Philip Winter 01451 821920 [email protected] Fosseway, Stow. Youth Worker, Linda Burke, Stow Town Council, 01451 832585. Office hours T, W, Th, 10am–1pm Glos Heart Support Group Bourton Badminton Club Weds 10.15am. Moreton Congregational Church Rooms Monday evenings 6.30–10pm. 07840 113477 [email protected] John Green 01451 824141 Bourton Hockey Club Business Associations & Groups N Cots. District, Community First Responders, Chairman Stuart Colmer 01451 821921/07900028732 Notgrove Training Centre, SJA, Bourton-o-t-Water Home fixtures at the Cotswold School, The Avenue, Bourton-on-the- Cotswold Business Clubs Cotswold Business Centre, [email protected] 3rd Monday at 7.30pm. You can train to be a CFR in this area, Water, GL54 2BD William Warmington 01608 651886 Bourton Roadrunners Tuesday & Thursday evenings at Bourton Stow Fund Trustee Robert Barnett North Cotswold Hospital Stow Road, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0DS. Leisure Centre, 7.00 and 7.30pm. Info on adult sessions Lynn Hudson daily 8am-8pm, 0300 421 8770 www.gloshospitals.nhs.co.uk 01242 820920. Juniors meet at Cotswold School, Tuesdays 7pm. Tesco Community Champion Ann Lattimore [email protected] N Cotswold St John Ambulance & St John Cadets Richard Bufton 01451 824379/ Chris Hartley 01451 830015 (from age 10) Meets at Bourton Thurs 7–9pm. 01451 820570 Cotswold Walkers 07514 408598 WIRE Network (Women in Rural Enterprise, N Cots) Police Station High Street, Stow on the Wold. Mon-Fri 08.30–16.30. Sarah Clifton-Gould 01285 623450 Every Thurs 2pm Moreton Area Non-emergency 101, Emergency 999 Centre. Wed 2pm Bourton Parish Church. Alan Robinson 01451 821067 Emma Heathcote-James. www.wire.org/networks 01386 Great Rissington Archers 831379/07977 226025 Sat 10.30am at Gr Rissington Social Club (+ Weds 6.30pm in summer) Michael Ebelthite 01451 824161, Niall McIntosh 01451 870221 4422 Club Notices STOW & DISTRICT CIVIC SOCIETY Stow on the Wold and Countryside Calling all bakers! Embroiderers Guild Do you fancy baking a few muffins or cookies? And do you enjoy eating We meet every first Tuesday of the month for some fascinating talks on them! Then please think of helping us at the Stow Cotswold Festival on textile and needle related work. This month, 2nd June, the talk is by Saturday 4th July when we’ll be providing American-style refreshments Maryke Phillips "My Stitching Obsession" followed by tea and cake, from for our special ‘quilting sewing bee’ in St. Edward’s Hall. Offers of help 2-4 at Broadwell Village hall. Visitors are always welcome, £5 charge. Our with refreshments - or to take part in the quilting - all gratefully monthly workshops or sit and stitch days are open to non - members. received! Please contact Rachel for more details on what will be a fun For info contact Fiona Vann - Chairman 01451 821 291 event! (Tel: 01451 833783) Our next talk, “Barley, Beer and Barrels” is on Friday, 5th June at 7.30p.m. in St. Edward’s Hall, Stow when Martin Way will give a potted look at the ‘Mystery of Brewing’. Please note: this talk follows our short MORETON IN MARSH W I AGM which begins at 7 pm. (Members free / visitors warmly welcome.) For our May meeting we welcomed Lt.Colonel Lesinsky on a return visit Interested in joining us? who explained to us the historical significance of "The Crown Jewels" and how they have been adapted and renewed over the centuries. We were Please call Rachel or Nigel on 01451 833783. Membership - single £8, extremely pleased to welcome some new members and guests. joint £14. Full details of our 2014-15 programme are on our website th and noticeboard. www.stowcivicsociety.co.uk Our next meeting will be held in the W.I.Hall on Thursday 4 June at 2pm.The speaker will be Jill Salmonds on the "Culture and Costumes of South Western China". New members and guests will be warmly welcomed. For further information contact Trish on 01608 651367 Naunton W I Meets in the Village Hall on the BOURTON & DISTRICT 1st Wednesday of every month Visitors very Welcome This month’s meeting will be on Wednesday 24th June at the British Legion Contact 01451 850475 Hall, Bourton on the Water. Tea and coffee from 10am. The talk will be on “Droving through the Cotswolds” by Brian Smith, this will start at 10.45am. £2 per head. The University of the 3rd Age (U3A) is a group for retired and semi retired people that enables members to meet and share many educational, creative and leisure activities. Visitors very welcome, MORETON IN MARSH (EVENING) W I why not come along and see what we have to offer? More details Our May meeting welcomed Lynda Warren, a WI historian, who took us available from www.u3asites.org.uk/bourton [email protected] back to our roots in 1915, when at one of the first meetings the Susan Dodd, Publicity Officer 01451 822431. programme consisted of, amazingly, a demonstration of a breadmaker,two other talks, one of which was goat management, including live goats, two musical solos and tea and cake. RLNI NORTH COTSWOLD BRANCH We now look forward to a busy summer programmes of Outings and At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Branch, our Activities and two of our Quiz Teams are delighted to be through to the Chairman, Mrs. Diana Porter, BEM, gave a resume of the next round of the GFWI County Quiz. past year’s activities. These included various coffee mornings, Car Boot The next meeting will be in the WI Hall on Thursday 11th June at 7.30 Sales, Personal Donations, House to House collections and Supermarket when the Speaker will be Kathy Butterworth talking on the “Lighter Side collections. In total the Branch raised over £13,000 for the Royal National of Dementia” – looking after Uncle John. Please contact Jo on 01608 650821 if you would like to visit. Lifeboat Institution with only £101 being paid out in expenses. A congratulatory letter, from Headquarters, on the Branch’s fund raising was read out. This gave a summary of RNLI life saving activities during 2013 when Lifeboats were launched across the UK and Ireland 8,304 Upper Windrush Local History Society times rescuing from the sea 8,384 people. In community fund raising a Next meeting on Monday 8th June at 7.30p.m. total of £13.4m was raised by Branch’s such as ours across the UK. In Vikings in Gloucestershire - Speaker Tony Roberts conclusion our Chairman asked members to note that the next fund Temple Guiting Village Hall. Visitors Welcome. Members £1 Visitors £2 raising collection will be at the Tesco store in Stow on the Wold on Friday and Saturday 23/24th May. A couple of Thank You’s FUNDRAISING PLANT SALE IN MAY Thank you to everyone who donated cakes & plants, and who helped to raise £1,200 for Thank you to everyone who came along to Kate’s Home Nursing. Blockley May Fair, a lot of fun was had by all! 43 Times June 15_ST_OCT_11 20/05/2015 09:31 Page 4 Northleach and Fosse Lions Club The Rotary Club The President-Elect Dave Murphy inducted two new of the North Cotswolds members at the recent business meeting of the Club. Lion President Keith Messenger sponsored Primrose and Tim Unwin from Northleach. Aid for Nepal following Earthquake Members approved a donation to ‘Hope for Tomorrow’ charity and this will be presented to Christine Mills MBE, founder and Trustee of A very big Thank You to Rotarian John Hackling and John Hackling the Charity. Christine is the guest of honour at the Club’s Charter (Transport) Ltd for waiving charges on his company's car park in Station Anniversary Dinner. Road, Bourton-on-the-Wate, and allowing North Cotswolds Rotary Club to collect from cars and buses parking there on Saturday 9th May, with The winner of this month’s “100 Club” draw was Adam Gardner of all the takings (£1400, including donations from bus and car passengers) Aldsworth. going towards longer term reconstruction projects in Nepal. On June Fundraising Events Saturday 2nd May club members and their families collected £1200 in Bourton, which went to ShelterBox and Aquabox for immediate disaster • The next car boot sale will be on the 14th June. These are held on relief, and the previous week the club donated £2000 for emergency the Countrywide forecourt in Bourton-on-the-Water on the second relief in Nepal. Also on 2nd May Rotarian Phil Randall collected for Sunday of each month. Nepal outside Budgens in Moreton in Marsh, raising £753 in four hours, • Members will be serving teas/coffee and cakes at the Victoria Hall and this will be added to the funds for reconstruction projects. Thus the in Bourton on Tuesday 2nd and attending the Northleach Charter total raised or donated so far comes to £5353, and we hope to contribute Fair on the 27th. further towards reconstruction projects through Rotary in Nepal in the future. Many thanks to all who donated. The hand-over of the Presidency of the Club will take place at a meal in the Sherborne Arms Inn in Aldsworth in June. The Club holds its business meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at 8 pm. The June meeting will be held at the Wheatsheaf Inn in Northleach on 9th June. From July, the Club will hold its monthly business meetings in The Ox House in Northleach. All interested people are welcome to attend. For further information the Club website is northleachandfosselions.org.uk or telephone 0845 8339825 Northleach and fosse lions club A Newsletter from Derek G. Arthurs, Branch Chairman Stow-on-the-Wold Royal British Legion Rotarians collecting for Nepal in front of a ShelterBox tent in Bourton. Legion, Branch & Women’s Section Know Your Blood Pressure ‘Live On’ To the memory of the fallen and the future of the living North Cotswolds Rotary Club completed a very worthwhile day's service 01451 831550 Branch 01451 831592 Women’s Section in our local community on Saturday 18th April. At the end of Know Your Blood Pressure Day in Bourton-on-the-Water a total of 115 people had Lunch Clubs: their blood pressure taken, of which 18 were advised to see their GP The welfare division of our branch help out at two lunch clubs initially within a month and several to see their GP immediately. In other words formed by Cotswold Friends. The second Wednesday of the month at there were concerns about nearly 20% of those seen. The exercise was Wyck Rissington Rissington Hall 12 midday and Stow Social Club the run in conjunction with the Stroke Association, and Rotary clubs up and forth Thursday of the month also 12 midday . Come along and meet down the country participated. friends and make new friends. If transport required give me a call. This is extremely successful in enabling us to reach ex-service people and others that need help. Events: June 6th: Women’s Section Sale on the Green 10am June 20th: Armed Forces Day Parade 3pm July 3rd: Military Wives Choir St Edwards Church evening, R.B.L to help steward July 4th: Stow Festival R.B.L Stand/Square Aug 1st: Steve Perry’s Party for O.A.P’s , afternoon Stow Social Club Aug 15th: Garden Party Rectory (If you are a charity and would like a stall give me a call please) Women’s Section: These good ladies now I believe have a standard bearer, well done. Watch the parade on June 20th and applaud her like mad horray. Don’t forget their sale and they are there to help you if you have a need. Both our sections are always pleased to welcome new members. Regards to all, To find out details of our club go to www.NorthCotswoldsRotary.org.uk Derek Arthurs, Chairman, R.B.L or visit our club Facebook page. 44 Times June 15 cinema etc_ST_OCT_11 19/05/2015 14:00 Page 1 Rural Cinema – June 2015 The Playhouse, St George’s Hall The Old School Victoria Hall Memorial Hall BLOCKLEY BOURTON ON THE HILL BOURTON ON THE WATER CHARLBURY’S OWN CIMEMA (ChOC) Thursday 25 June Saturday 27 June Monday 15 June Sunday 14 June MY OLD LADY SELMA SELMA THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING 2013 Season Tickets available – £25 7.15pm. Hot dogs on sale from 6.30. Film 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets £3 Film: 7.30pm – Doors & bar from 6.45pm. Doors/Bar open at 7.00pm – 7.45pm film Wine with a donation. £3.50 on the door. refreshments. Tickets £5 / U15s £3, at the door. Advance tickets £3.50/ on the door £4 Tickets/queries 01386 701385/01386 701396 Family Tickets £10 (2 adults, 2 children) Family ticket £12 (2 adults, 1 or 2 children) Advance tickets/queries 01386 700647/593386 Queries 01451 822365 Queries: 01608 810713 served in the interval Village Hall Screen on the Green, Village Hall Village Hall St. Andrew's Church CHURCHILL AND SARSDEN ILMINGTON LITTLE WOLFORD NAUNTON Saturday 20 June Friday 26 June Thursday 18 June Tuesday 2 June MR TURNER SELMA SELMA SELMA Film 7.30pm. Film 7.30pm Tickets £3.50 (students £2.50) Film 7.30pm Tickets £4.00 inc. refreshments Doors open 7.15, Film 7.45. Tickets £4.50 at the door Advance tickets from Red Lion or Outreach Advance tickets/queries Tickets £3.00 at the door Advance tickets/queries 01608 659903 P.O. or on door if available 01608 684223 or 01608 674200 01451 850897 or bob@markets- [email protected] Refreshments. Queries 01606 682806 international.com Village Hall Films ODDINGTON Tuesday 16 June The Theory of Everything (PG13) 123mins Selma (PG13) 128mins My Old Lady (PG13) 107mins The extraordinary and uplifting story of one of A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to Kevin Kline plays Mathias who travels to Paris SELMA the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned secure equal voting rights via an epic march from in order to liquidate a valuable apartment he 7 for 7.30pm. £3.00 Wine and soft drinks. astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, and of two Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. has inherited from his father. He finds an old Advance tickets/queries Ted 01451 830738 people defying the steepest of odds through woman and her daughter living in it and they love. With award winner Eddie Redmayne. have bad news regarding his plans. REGULAR EVENTS WEDS Awareness Through Movement classes 7pm at Church Westcote Village Hall, OX7 1st MON Folk Night Ebrigton Arms 9pm. www.theebringtonarms.co.uk 6SF £10/£40 for 6 classes. Karin 01993 832520 [email protected] MON Dance Fusion Adult dance class. Mixed styles. No experience necessary. Exercise in a fun WEDS Dance 50+ Termly, 9.45am-10.45am. Keep fit and mobile. Upstairs in The Theatre's way. No pre-booking necessary. Chipping Campden Town Hall 9.30-10.30. £4.50 Gallery. £60 for ten week term. 01608 642350 www.chippingnortontheatre.com MON Scottish Country Dancing St Edwards Church Rooms, Stow. 5.30-7pm Children and WEDS Weds Walk Easy/moderate walks. Start at 10am. 01451 862000 7-9pm Adults 01451 831876 3rd WEDS N Cots Support Group for Parents & Carers of people with additional needs. Childrens MON Childrens Dance Class Chipping Campden Town Hall.6-8 yrs 4-5pm, 9-11 yrs Centre (behind Stow Primary Sch) 7.30-9pm. [email protected] 01451 831642 5-6pm. Single class £7pp, Monthly membership £22pp. 07527 757057 WED & FRI Adult Garden Workshop.1.30 - 4pm. P3, The Windrush, High Street, Moreton. MON YogaChipping Campden Town Hall. 2pm Starts again 21st Sept 01386438537 Tel: 01608 653377 for more info. MON ‘Old Sweats NAAFI break’ at Royal British Legion, Bourton on the Water 1st THURS Free Martial Arts Lessons Separate adult & children’s classes Stow-on-the-Wold (10am -12) for anyone to come along for a cup of tea and a chat, Primary School. 07977 560086 www.martialartsvoucher.co.uk, MON Burford OrchestraRehearsals 7.30-9.30pm at Witney Community Primary School OX28 1st THURS Free Self Defence / Jeet Kune Do Lessons for Men and Women (Adults only) Stow- 1HL. [email protected]. 07984 492 976. New members welcome; no audition. on-the-Wold Primary School 07977 560086 www.selfdefencevoucher.co.uk MON Powerfreestyle Kickboxingat Guiting power Village hall. Juniors 7-7.50pm. Adults THURS Fitness League Exercise and movement to music. 9-45am to 11-15am in the British 7.50-8.30pm. freestyle Kickboxing or adult Boxersize. Call Adam 07774285459 Legion Hall, Bourton on the Water. Kathy Kirk 01993 882350 MON Bridge Club @ Northleach 7.30pm. Partners not necessary. Non members welcome, THURS Belly Dancing Informal & relaxed classes for ladies of all ages, shapes & sizes 01285 750288 Tim Morris Longborough V Hall, 7.30-9pm, Beginners 7-8.30pm, 01608 663480 MON Dance FusionAdult dance class, mixed styles. No experience necessary. THURS Ceramics Class (adults). Blockley High Street, 4.30-7pm. 01386 700903. All Welcome. Ch.Campden Town Hall, 9.30-10.30 £4.50 (conc £2.50) [email protected] MON Robert Cox Pilates 4U relocation for Monday 7pm classes to Haybarn, Daylesford THURS Quiz Night at The Volunteer Inn, Ch.Campden 8.30pm 01386 840688 near Kingham, GL56 0YG THURS Chippy Art Club Fortnightly in Glyme Hall, next to Leisure Centre. £5 per morning. MON Jun/July Samba drumming group Bourton-on-the-Water. (Not bank holidays) 7.30- 10.30-12.30 Friendly group. All abilities. 01608 730268 9pm British Legion Hall. £5/£4 per drop in session or block discount. www.olasamba.co.uk THURS Adult Arts & Crafts Workshop. 09.30 - 12noon. Moreton Congregational Church 3rd Mon West Oxfordshire WI St. Mary's Parish Rooms, 7.30pm. 3 sessions at £4 and then Hall. Tel: 01608 653377 for more info hope you'll become a member! Contact Hilary Dix 01608 646228 THURS Line Dancing1.45pm beginners, 2.30 others. King George Hall, Mickleton 01386 438 537 Last MON Whist Drives at Burmington Village Hall. 7.30pm. In aid of the village hall THURS Notgrove Country Music Every other Thursday, 8pm to 11:30 pm. £5 entrance. TUES Fit For Life at Baden-Powell Hall, Bourton. Tai Chi: 9.30-10.30am £4.50/session. Contact Ken on 07870795560 for further details. Balance & strength: 11-12noon £4.50/ session. Contact Denise Nethercott THURS Blockley Blokes Choir (BBC) 7.30-9 pm Little Village Hall. David Artingstall, Sec: 07909874186 or email [email protected] 01386 701556 [email protected] TUES Art Class by Jill Jarvis at Oddington Village Hall 9:30 - 12:00. 01451 831862 /07908 THURS Toddler groupVillage Hall in Upper Rissington. 10-12. £2 per Family. Newborn to 512734 [email protected] 5 years old. Contact 01451 822379 or [email protected] TUES Seated Tai Chi11.15am – 12 noon. Henry Cornish Care Centre, Rockhill Farm, Close off FRI Kettle’s On coffee morning. 10.30am to 12 noon. Henry Cornish Care Centre, London Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AU. £2 per session. Sylvia Evans 01608 642364. Rockhill Farm, Close off London Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AU. Contact Sylvia Evans TUES Pottery Class Lower Swell Village Hall, 9:30-12:00 noon. £95 plus materials/ firing cost on 01608 642364. per 10 weeks. Beginners welcome. [email protected] 01451 870734 FRI Belly DancingNew beginners class. 11-12.30 The Church Room, Chipping Campden. TUES Great Rollright Baby and Toddler Group 10-11.30am in the village hall. Ann White Informal & relaxed classes for ladies of all ages, shapes & sizes. 01608 663480 01608 737437 FRI Blockley Brass Band 7.30-9.30pm St George's Hall. Rachel Galt 01386 841677 1st TUES Stow on the Wold and Countryside Embroiderer’s GuildAfternoon meetings FRI Dance FusionAdult dance class, mixed styles. No experience necessary. All Welcome. with speaker then tea & cake. Broadwell Village Hall. 01451 821291 Ch.Campden Town Hall, 9.30-10.30 £4.50 (conc £2.50) 1st WED Free Martial Arts Lessons Separate adult & children’s classes. Chipping Norton Leisure FRI Active & Able classes for older people. Baptist Church Rooms, Stow 01285 623450 Centre. 07977 560086 www.martialartsvoucher.co.uk FRI Art Class by Jill Jarvis at Oddington Village Hall 9:30 - 12:00. 01451 831862 /07908 2nd WED Charlbury Art Society 7:30 pm. Many other activities arranged throughout the year. 512734 [email protected] Marion Coates 01608 810116. FRI Line DancingWillersey Village Hall, near Broadway 01386 438537 WEDS Fitness classes and Kettlercise 5.15 - 6.30pm/6.30 - 7.45pm. Stow on the Wold FRI Active & Able Classes Posture & Stability – Tai Chi Chi Kong at Bourton, Moreton and Primary School. email millyjopt@gmail Stow. 01285 623450 WEDS Art Class by Jill Jarvis at Oddington Village Hall. 1:30 - 4:00 01451 831862/ FRI Moore Lunch ClubThe Naight, Bourton on the Water. Secretary: Sheila Thorpe 01451 07908 512734 [email protected] 822846 [email protected] WEDS Chipping Campden Bridge Club 7.15 for 7.30pm Duplicate Bridge. Upper Town Hall. SAT Drama sessionsfor 5-7 year olds. 10-11am or 11.15-12.15. Sessions build confidence Non members welcome. Partners not necessary, 01608 664456 and creativity. £55 per term. Ch Norton Theatre, OX7 5NL. 01608 642350 WEDS Environmental projects 10-1pm. Chipping Norton Green Gym is a friendly group with Last SAT (exc December) Great Rollright Village Market 9.30-12.30 in the village hall. jobs for all! 01608 643269, [email protected] www.chippygreengym.org www.greatrollrightvillagemarket.weebly.com 45 45 Banging Down the Doors Article researched and written by Caroline Fisher for Cotswold Times © May 2015 NORTHLEACH’S Houseto of Northleach Correction wasn’t somewhere youHouse wanted of Correction to spend much time 200 years ago - but current custodians hope people will be banging down the doors to get in, if a state-of-the-art transformation gets the go-ahead. This month (June 2015) the Friends of the Cotswolds are bidding for a Heritage Lottery Fund of £3.3m towards a £5m radical refurbishment of the centre, designed to put it firmly on the map. The Friends of the Cotswolds bought the run-down and neglected Grade 2 listed building from Cotswold District Council in 2013, planning to re-launch it as a true gateway to the Cotswolds Area of CCB Director Martin Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and a destination in its own Lane with Café right. They are working with their tenants the Cotswolds manager Jess Hughes at the back of the Conservation Board (CCB) who run the venue, and the Cotswold Lion building. Café manager Jess Hughes, to provide visitors and local people alike an emotional connection with the environment. Below: A painted “If you’re coming to the Cotswolds we want THIS to be the place you cart and a shepherd’s hut are must come and see first,” said CCB director Martin Lane. “Here part of the display you’ll find all you need to know about the area - where to go and of farming artefacts how to get there. We’ll explain what makes this special landscape and tools tick, what you might see and how it changes with the seasons.” The building is ‘crying out for an imaginative revamp’ Cutting-edge new buildings will give a ‘wow’ factor to the present rather dour and uninspiring site, which is crying out for an imaginative revamp. The outdated plot on the busy A429 Fosseway houses the Escape to the Cotswolds Discovery Centre and Cotswold Lion café –both clad in draughty single-paned glass – complete with prison cells and a courtroom. The old police station is sub-let as private offices and the CCB has its HQ above the courtroom. Across a large grassed courtyard languishes the nationally-important Lloyd Baker Collection of Rural Life featuring agricultural artefacts including waggons, farm machinery and tools. The fascinating farming bygones are cordoned off in a 1980s semi-circular open shed with a corrugated asbestos roof. Evocative shepherds’ vans are also behind barriers. A sweeping new glass-fronted gallery will give a shining showcase for the Lloyd Baker exhibits. It will feature an impressive central two-storey building, acting as a facility for rural skills courses, giving stunning views up into the valley. The café and Discovery Centre will be revitalised inside new alluring and eye-catching modern glass structures. The new-look architecture is designed to complement and set off the existing historical core of the building. The panelled Court Room The panelled Court Room There’s a rich story to tell Mr Lane said: “The old gallery was open to the elements and fell a long way short of modern-day curatorial care. We’ll have the opportunity to take down the wooden fence barriers which said ‘look but don’t touch’ and have staff on hand to make our display really interactive. There has been little or no interpretation of the Lloyd Baker Collection, so we’ll help it to come alive with audio visuals. The carts grew out of the landscape, built to control the brush on the high wold – let’s explain the design features and it was actually like working the land. 46 Banging Down the Doors Escape to the Cotswolds Centre The Old Prison, Northleach GL54 3JH 01451 862000 Article researched and written by Caroline Fisher for Cotswold Times © May 2015 Follow our latest news and talk to us! www.escapetothecotswolds.org.uk/events EVENTS at THE OLD PRISON NORTHLEACH’S Houseto of Northleach Correction wasn’t somewhere youHouse wanted of Correction to spend much time 200 years ago - but current custodians hope people will be banging down the doors to get in, if a state-of-the-art JUNE 2015 transformation gets the go-ahead. This month (June 2015) the Saturday 6th June - Birds and Breakfast Friends of the Cotswolds are bidding for a Heritage Lottery Fund of Andy Lewis of the North Cotswolds Ornithological £3.3m towards a £5m radical refurbishment of the centre, designed Society will be taking you on an informative and to put it firmly on the map. fascinating walk in the Cotswolds. Tickets* £9 The Friends of the Cotswolds bought the run-down and neglected Saturday 6th June - Don't go into the Cellar! Grade 2 listed building from Cotswold District Council in 2013, planning to re-launch it as a true gateway to the Cotswolds Area of CCB Director Martin Lane with Café The courtroom was still in use in the 1970s and there are Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and a destination in its own right. They are working with their tenants the Cotswolds manager Jess Hughes opportunities for re-enactments in this historic space and in the at the back of the cell block. There’s a rich story to tell in each of our areas and we Conservation Board (CCB) who run the venue, and the Cotswold Lion building. Café manager Jess Hughes, to provide visitors and local people alike can combine this with a new-look café specialising in local Morbid Curiosities featuring Houdini, Conan Doyle & HP an emotional connection with the environment. produce and working with the community, hosting events.” Lovecraft. “Designed to scare!” Tickets* £10 Below: A painted “If you’re coming to the Cotswolds we want THIS to be the place you cart and a Café manager Jess said: “We have a facility for people to hold Tuesday 9th June - Cotswold Grassland Week shepherd’s hut are must come and see first,” said CCB director Martin Lane. “Here their own events here and we can do catering and bar. We’ve part of the display Magnificent Meadows at Night you’ll find all you need to know about the area - where to go and already set up an agreement with The Cotswolds Friends, a of farming artefacts Join two local experts who will introduce you to the beautiful how to get there. We’ll explain what makes this special landscape and tools charity for the elderly, doing a once-a-month lunch club. This kind moths and fabulous bats that inhabit meadows at night. tick, what you might see and how it changes with the seasons.” of thing helps spread the word. Other regular groups include mums and toddlers, spinning and weaving and Northleach and Friday 12th June – The building is ‘crying out for an imaginative revamp’ Fosse Lions. The space fits 60 to 70 people seated and up to 110 Managing Grasslands for Wildlife Cutting-edge new buildings will give a ‘wow’ factor to the present standing for a music event, for example, and we did a very An illustrated talk exploring our amazing wildflower grasslands rather dour and uninspiring site, which is crying out for an successful Pop Up Gourmet Dinner in May. and their ecology and management. imaginative revamp. The outdated plot on the busy A429 Fosseway houses the Escape to the Cotswolds Discovery Centre and Cotswold *BOOK TICKETS for these events – 01451 862000 Lion café –both clad in draughty single-paned glass – complete with th - prison cells and a courtroom. The old police station is sub-let as Tuesday 16 June Cotswold Friends: Lunch Club private offices and the CCB has its HQ above the courtroom. Across Come and meet other local people and enjoy a cooked lunch a large grassed courtyard languishes the nationally-important Lloyd £5.50 for two courses (over 60’s only) Baker Collection of Rural Life featuring agricultural artefacts Every third Tuesday of each month To book a place or transport call Wendy on 01608 651745 including waggons, farm machinery and tools. The fascinating The Cotswold Lion cafe farming bygones are cordoned off in a 1980s semi-circular open shed with a corrugated asbestos roof. Evocative shepherds’ vans are Escape to the Cotswolds Centre also behind barriers. A really local ‘Cotswolds Ploughman’s’ The Old Prison, Northleach A sweeping new glass-fronted gallery will give a shining showcase GL54 3JH for the Lloyd Baker exhibits. It will feature an impressive central “We’re sourcing local produce in the café such as Witney-based two-storey building, acting as a facility for rural skills courses, giving UE Coffee and Jeeves and Jericho tea. A Cotswolds Ploughman’s 01451 862000 stunning views up into the valley. The café and Discovery Centre will would consist of Simon Weaver organic cheese from Upper be revitalised inside new alluring and eye-catching modern glass Slaughter; Cotswold Curer salamis (Cirencester); Little Pickle Follow our latest news and talk to us! structures. The new-look architecture is designed to complement pickles (Moreton); bread from Hobbs House Bakery (Cheltenham), and beer from the Cotswold Brewery.” and set off the existing historical core of the building. The panelled Court Room The panelled Court Room Looking around, Martin added: “It’s a very flexible indoor- There’s a rich story to tell outdoor space. If we ran it as a hard-nosed commercial venue it Mr Lane said: “The old gallery was open to the elements and fell a wouldn’t fit in with the community agenda. Right at the start The long way short of modern-day curatorial care. We’ll have the Friends, with crucial local support, fought off a good level of opportunity to take down the wooden fence barriers which said commercial interest, convincing CDC they were the right party to ‘look but don’t touch’ and have staff on hand to make our display sell to as they would keep it open for the community.” really interactive. There has been little or no interpretation of the Lloyd Baker Collection, so we’ll help it to come alive with audio HLF should give its verdict on the bid in three months. visuals. The carts grew out of the landscape, built to control the Meanwhile, The Friends are going all-out to fundraise to make up brush on the high wold – let’s explain the design features and it was the shortfall. If the bid succeeds, they want lots of local input and actually like working the land. ideas to refine the scheme. Building work could then start by autumn 2016 to create a jewel in the crown for the Cotswolds. 47 STOW-ON-THE-WOLD SUMMER Have you ever fancied being on PRIZE DRAW & SUMMER FAIR the stage or seeing what happens behind the scenes? #& #& 1" #$$'30 1" 12)4 C 2$45 160 ' ##$ 7 1" !)'2( 3#$$ ()0&1#&! 2& %#$4 0"'3 2$$ ' %20# & $2!"1)5 $! $ % # " "$ # " @ @9 9 !' &!$ '% C a n y o u volunteer your t ime & friendship? ABEAF EDBCBD 1"8'103'$ )#&05')! 48 Local businesses boost launch of How to work a Community Project Shipston Food Festival Shipston is set to host its third annual Food Festival, with local businesses at the heart of the action. Building on the success of the previous two events, organisers have ambitious plans which will th th see the festival run from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September. Taste of the Country will be Mickleton Community Archive and GRCC unveiling its new shop and invite you to a FREE see and learn session expanded product range at the Please contact Marilyn Cox ([email protected] ) or Helen Food Festival, following a Richards ([email protected]) at GRCC (01452 528491) if you complete refit. The shop will be would like more information or to book a place. offering free hot and cold tastings as well as selling Let us know when you book what your project is about, and snacks, drinks and lunches what stage you’ve got to. throughout the festival. Light refreshments will be available. Event organiser, Dan Scobie, said: “ Shipston Food Festival is grateful for the strong commitment from Taste of the Country and other local businesses to support the event and help put Shipston Children’s SUMMER FUN on the food-‐lovers map.” For further information, please contact: activities! Philip Vial, Shipston Food Festival07814 on 192161 or Children across the Cotswolds will have a fantastic range of activities on offer this summer many of which are free. [email protected] Jim Cherry, Taste of the Country07813 on 916329 The 2015 ‘Summer off the Streets’ programme provides activities for children of all abilities to have fun, learn some skills and make new friends. These four ‘week-‐long’ programmes will run alongside the centralmer ‘Sum off the Streets’ programme. THANK YOU A great big BINGO to Night the Moreton Community St for David’s supporting C of our first E ever Primary School. at We hope you enjoyed the evening. In total we raised £1005 to support the development of the reading The programme is coordinated by community organisation, corners in our classrooms. Please look at the school World Jungle, who this year were delighted to have received website to see the amazing results. further support from Gloucestershire County Council to run additional Summer Holiday Activity Programmes for children SUMMER FAIR and families to enjoy Bourton in & Northleach, Stow-‐on-‐the-‐ We look forward to welcoming you again to our Saturday 20th June ● 11am-‐2pm Wold and South Cerney . The funding was made available under the ‘Children’s Activity Fund’, a grant scheme from Gloucestershire County Council with the backing of the Local Councillor for the area: Cllr Nigel Thanks again, from all of the Children, Staff and Moor (Stow-‐on-‐the-‐Wold), Cllr Tony Hicks (Tetbury) and Cllr Friends of St David’s Association (FOSDA). Paul Hodgkinson (Bourton and Northleach). 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Maureen’s’ life had been Prison, a truly shaped around her Mum’s needs, even to the loss of job great opportunities, so grief was compounded by having to rediscover family and rebuild her life to regain some equilibrium and sense of Nickday Turner out purpose. Photograp hy Maureen has reached out to make links with the Community but as she says, it’s not that you want to be labelled as a ‘former-Carer’ but some mutual support and encouragement from others who know what it’s like to be in that situation can go a long way to assist in reclaiming your life. Others who can listen with understanding, even though their actual circumstances may be very different, makes a real difference. We are keen to organise get-togethers in Moreton for any such ‘former’ Carers living in the North Cotswolds. Similar groups in other parts of the County enjoy one another’s company with plenty of time for laughter, ‘general’ chat and socialising; but they do allow for people to talk about how they’re doing, and share coping strategies and ideas that have proved useful in taking life forward. If you’re interested please contact: Roger Hare 01452 872241 or [email protected] Cotswold Friends Volunteer Open Day Thursday 4 June If you have a free hour a week available and you would Sunday 7th June enjoy befriending a lonely neighbour, please contact us! Pittville Park - Cheltenham We are currently looking for volunteer befrienders, drivers, IT mentors and helpers at our lunch and social events – just an hour a month can make a difference. ‘Walk a mile in my shoes’ People volunteer for a number of reasons. It can be a Every day, 22 people in Gloucestershire become Carers, taking on great way of getting work experience, to gain employ- the huge, unpaid responsibility of looking after someone who ment or get into a university. For some volunteers it’s a needs them. Last year they saved the local economy an incredible £580 million. With your help we can continue to support Carers way of putting something back into their local facing a life that will never be the same again. community and meeting new people. If you have skills and experience that could be used to help support some of the more vulnerable people living in your village or Simply swap shoes… town come along to our open day for coffee, cake and a with a friend or family member chat. There is no personal care involved, we offer full and walk together around training and support and any out of pocket expenses. Pittville Park on the big Our Volunteer Open Day - Thursday 4 June 10 – 3pm at day to raise money for The Library, Stow Road, Moreton-in-Marsh. If you can’t Gloucestershire’s make the day, call us on 01608 651415 or look at our unpaid Carers. website www.cotswoldfriends.org Register Online – www.carersgloucestershire.org.uk 52 all students will exPerience the success that is essential in buildinG self esteeM, GaininG a SchoolsPositive attitude to learninG, and develoPinG indePendent learners. By Helen Monteith Our GCSE and A level scholars are now in the midst of a heavy At Kitebrook we aim to give our children a solid foundation in art timetable of exams. We wish them all every success and look forward which will allow them to appreciate and enjoy this activity to celebrating with them in August! throughout their school career and beyond. Confidence is key to Amongst all the revision and the hush of exams – for all year groups - success in the early years and we develop we have been enjoying a wide variety of successes and activities too. a hands on approach using a wide range Our students have excelled in the UK Maths Challenge again this year, of materials and by developing individual while others have been selected for County Cricket. Aidan Hughes (Year techniques in drawing, painting, ceramics, print making, sculpture, mosaics and textiles. 8) has been selected to represent Great Britain in the U-12 British Inline Our Year 4 children recently studied desert Puck Hockey Team and is off to California next month to compete in the landscapes in their Geography lessons. We USA Amateur Athletic Union’s (AAU) Junior Olympics. No sooner back, linked this to a project painting desert Aidan will then be off to the European Championships in Switzerland! scenes influenced by the work of the American artist Georgia In performing arts our students have also been showing off their O’Keefe, subsequently making sculptures of her famous bleached talents. Our wonderful Jazz Band – Back in Black – gave a tremendous cattle skulls, decorating these with individual interpretations of her performance at The Cheltenham Jazz Festival last month to a very huge abstract flower paintings. Year 6 are currently constructing appreciative audience. At the end of this month, Emma’s Trust, a th low relief sculptures inspired through the study of 12 century charity that has supported our students – not to mention hundreds of architectural detail. Examples of other current projects are glazing young people in the region – through sponsorship of sports and the fired ceramic pieces, screen printing fabric for a Design performing arts will be winding up after 10 years. The Trust is going out Technology project and multimedia canvases of seascapes using painted acrylics, collage, photography and construction in style with an exciting performing arts festival under the direction of techniques. West End professionals. Our students are invited to attend the open The school also provides the option of afternoon art clubs where auditions which are to be held on 30 June 2015 from 3.30pm – 6.00pm the children can explore more adventurous options for example; at The Cotswold School, and are asked to bring along the sheet music creating glass mosaics, print making with exciting colour mixing of for a song they would like to perform. We are looking forward to many metallic inks, computerised cartoon making and creative cookery. of our young singers taking part and hope you will join us in attending Specialist support is tailored to help pupils prepare for scholarships what will be a memorable event when it takes place in September. to senior schools and the department maintains an excellent We are delighted with the take up in all the clubs and activities that are record in this area with the most recent successes including an Art on offer at the school. The variety is terrific and includes: karate, air Scholarship to The Cheltenham Ladies’ College in 2015. rifle shooting, floorball, gymnastics, volleyball and more. More students will be involved in Duke of Edinburgh practice expeditions this month while our Scientists will be off to the Cheltenham Science at Condicote Village Hall Festival. It is wonderful to see our students enthusiastically taking part. As June draws to a close, we will be welcoming pupils and two teachers from Dulwich College in Suzhou, China. This is a cultural exchange On polling day we couldn’t use our usual base at opportunity for all concerned with the Chinese pupils attending lessons Condicote Village hall so we went on an exciting and experiencing life as Sixth Formers in the Cotswolds. bus trip to Sandfield farm near Evesham where we saw all sorts of exciting animals; bulls, chickens and even a newt. We followed a tyre track though the woods and played in a mud kitchen and we were all really tired when Swell School we got back, Thank you Emma! We have bought 4 new balance bikes with recent fundraising and are all learning how to use them, they go From Judy Morgan School Administrator quite fast, even on the grass. Next term we will be doing lots of This term we have seen the start of whole group music lessons for the preparation for going to school with school sessions and visits from Junior class. The sound of recorders filling the building is becoming more teachers, time is going to fly. Our Playgroup session is 9.15am – 1pm musical by the week. Gardening Club along with regular visits to the Monday to Thursday with extended sessions available on a Monday and school allotment has seen the start of a very productive season, the year 2 Thursday until 2.45pm. Contact Jo Abrahams, our Early Years potatoes are growing very well. The school greenhouse is full of both Professional / qualified teacher on 07796 987173, website flower and vegetable seedlings and cuttings. www.condicoteplaygroup.weebly.com The Infant class have continued their studies with a visit to Pebbley plant Toddler Group on Fridays from 10am – 12am, all ages welcome nursery in Bledington. Here they learnt about the growth cycle from seeds to plants each child planting their very own marigold. A visit to the woodland in Longborough for the morning was great fun. Activities included den building, making magic sticks and a woodland observation. I think they would have stayed all day had they not needed to return to school for their cooked lunch! A visit to Rectory Farm has completed the visits for the Infant class. The Junior class have taken part in a Rounders Tournament and an Athletics event and thoroughly enjoyed both. With warmer weather on its way many more activities are planned and the children are all looking forward to taking part in sports Day. 53 St Mary’s C of E (Aided) Primary School, Chipping Norton ST JAMES’ AND EBRINGTON Headteacher: Mrs Yvonne Barnes BEd (Hons) NPQH C of E PRIMARY SCHOOLS Headteacher: Joanna Jonson We are in the middle of a very busy summer term which started with a chocolate bingo night which was a fun (and chocolate) filled evening MFL Language Festival for all our families and friends. It was wonderful to see the hall so full On Wednesday 22nd April, St. Mary’s Yr 3/4 children attended the MFL language at Chipping and a really big thank you to John Griffiths for his bingo calling, and to Norton School. The children were split into groups of different countries Portugal, Italy etc. They Emma Taylor, Lorna Oswell and their team from St. James’ PTFA for learnt three foreign languages, French, Russian and German. They also had to try some different organising the event. £546.24 was raised for the school. types of cheese e.g. Brie, Portsatou, etc. Twenty eight children of all were able to enjoy this Of course, May would not be the same without our traditional May wonderful experience. Joanna Pike Day Maypole Dancing. Well done to all our dancers (and their Yr 3/4 Science supporters) for turning out for a 7am start on the 1st May to continue the tradition of maypole and Morris dancing in Chipping Campden A few weeks ago all of year 3 and 4 were focusing their topic on how light travels. The pupils Square to welcome in the day. Thank you also to Mrs. Morrey for worked on a project that showed that light travels in a straight line. To prove this fact the children teaching our dancers and to The Cotswold House Hotel who very kindly took 3 pieces of paper with holes in them. The pupils put these pieces of paper in a straight line, fed us all with delicious bacon sandwiches. making sure they were straight by threading string through the holes, a light was then shone On the sporting front another successful month; we took part in the through the holes. The experiment was good fun. Kaya Malone swimming gala at Chipping Campden School, we beat St. David’s School Competition Winner at football and netball and are now looking forward to summer sports In April I won tickets to go to Cornbury Music Festival. I took part in a completion in St Mary’s of cricket and tennis and our sports day at the beginning of July. School along with other musicians and singers, they were more singers than instrument players. We are very fortunate to be able to benefit from the Music and All of the acts were brilliant and many people were applauded with great enthusiasm. However, Literacy Festivals organised in the town. We have enjoyed many there could only be one winner and the winner was chosen by the Head teacher and the musical activities including visiting authors (Jason Rohan and Julia Fulton) a correspondent, they chose me to win! I will be receiving the tickets from a presentation at graffiti artist (Adam Bolton) and our children very much enjoyed Chipping Norton School. Charlie Weaver. visiting Mill House Nursing Home. The residents love hearing the Author Visit children reciting poems and the children received many positive On 23rd April 2015 Steven Butler came to St. Mary’s Primary school to talk about his book the comments. We have also been able to take part in music workshops in “Diary of Dennis the Menace”. He read nine of the ten menacing rules and said we had to read the school, which have been greatly enjoyed, and some of our children first book to find out what the final rule is. After that he read part of the “Diary of Dennis the were entertained and instructed by the Lux Quintet. Menace Bash Street Bandit” which is the fourth and final book so far. Then he answered some In light of the recent events in Nepal, we have raised £600 to send to questions. help the people of Nepal. The children sold ice-creams at playtime and held a ‘‘Bring and Buy sale’ and a cake sale. Thank you to all the parents and children who contributed. Thank you also to the Y6 pupils for helping to organise the events. Other activities have included a visit from the local community police officer to deliver ‘stranger danger’ talks to all the children; We are now looking forward to maypole dancing at Scuttlebrook Wake and many outdoor activities. Let’s hope the English summer will be kind to us for our last weeks of this academic year. Cold Aston C of E Primary by Katie Walker School St David’s C of E Primary School Headteacher: Miss Alexandra Symondson Headteacher: Mrs F Heming Our whole school value for the summer term is ‘Trust’ and classes are Enquiring minds, caring hearts, creative hands exploring this in various ways through worship, topic work and the Thank you to the staff at Travis Perkins who curriculum. Class 1 have been learning about the circus and have their welcomed our Reception classes to their premises own mini big top in their classroom! To coincide with a trip to a local in Moreton earlier this month to help the children estate, Class 1 have been learning about life on a farm. Meeting alpaca’s find out more about building materials. It was a on their visit was a great talking point and a big success! pleasure to see all of the children in their Class 2 are looking at topics based on books and are currently studying high-visibility jackets, walk up to Travis Perkins ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’, and also animals, food chains and where they had a tour of the premises and the life cycles. To support this, the class went on an exciting visit to Birdland staff showed them various types of wood and explained how cement was in Bourton where they were treated to an interesting talk on owls. made. The children really enjoyed seeing the forklift truck in action! Class 3 are learning about forces and magnets in science, and have been On a sporting front, two determined Year 3 & 4 tag rugby teams travelled planning and carrying out their own exciting investigations. Who could to Cirencester Rugby Club to attend the North Cotswold Schools Games have guessed that chocolate and jelly made such poor surfaces for competition. Both teams participated in 5 group matches each in the vehicles to travel on! Class 3 are also learning about programming in morning and were then split into finals groups to play another 4 matches computing and why the Bible is sacred in RE. As well as this, the whole in the afternoon. Both teams performed really well, with one team class have been learning to play the clarinet! coming second and the other winning the Bowl trophy in their group. All Class 4 are looking at ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron the children showed teamwork, determination, respect, passion, self- Age’. Their work is taking the form of a historical study. This is a new topic belief and honesty; values at the heart of our school games ethos. from the 2014 National Curriculum and is proving to be interesting and On 24th April the whole school took part in the ‘Jump Rope for Heart’ enlightening. The whole school are looking forward to their performance skipping event to raise money for The British Heart Foundation. It was of ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ which takes place in June. lovely to see everyone enjoying skipping in the sunshine whilst raising Every Wednesday we have ‘Creative Curriculum Afternoon’. This is where over £700 for the charity. the whole school mix up into 5 small mixed aged groups and undertake The summer term is shaping up to be as busy as ever with sports day, a termly workshops learning skills for life. This term the groups will be music evening, theme events and a number of leavers’ events for the taking part in cookery, drama, PE and Forest School. We welcome input Year 6 pupils. Our school orchestra will be playing at a number of events from parents and volunteers for these afternoons. in the summer term including Broadwell Village Fete on Saturday 13th In sport, we have sent representative teams to hockey, rounders, cricket, June, St. David’s Summer Fair on Saturday 20th June and our music athletics, and archery and mountain biking. evening on 8th July. Please see the school website for further details: A busy, exciting and enlightening term! www.stdavidsprimaryschool.co.uk 54 Stow primary school CHIPPING NORTON SCHOOL Rebecca Scutt, Headteacher Simon Duffy: Head Teacher Hard on the heels of the General election, came Installation artist and sculptor Angela Palmer talked to students from our school elections. Four parties from Class 4 across the school about two of her projects: The Ghost Forest and battled it out with policies as wide ranging as “we Adrenalin. The students were enthralled by her story of how she acquired will help you with your handstands” through to huge rainforest trees from the Suhuma Forest in Ghana and brought them “we want compulsory finance education for KS4 to Trafalgar Square to raise awareness of the impact of deforestation. pupils” After a very well run election campaign the children then took it 13 Year 7 students took part in a STEM Challenge Day in turns to be polling clerks and returning officers whilst the rest of the organised by The Smallpeice Trust. The students were split school cast their votes. The winning party were The Future party. into small teams and challenged to design and build the We have had a number of sporting successes recently. Our Y5/6 fastest super capacitor –powered car. All the Chipping rounders team did really well at a local tournament Norton School cars performed brilliantly. The car produced despite having only played a few times together due by Ettie Rux-Burton, Keira Koch, Matilda Donaghy and Santi to Y6 SATS revision taking priority! We will be Kenneford was the overall winner with their car reaching entering the North Cotswolds school athletics, Quick speeds of just over 7mph. cricket tournaments, football, rounders and cricket The KS4/5 Geographers had a fantastic week exploring the south coast of matches! We’re also taking part in National School Iceland. This trip is an invaluable opportunity to study at first-hand many Sports week where everyone will have the opportunity to participate in a aspects of the GCSE syllabus. The students had a wonderful week. range of sports throughout the week. The Year 9s were treated to a thought-provoking talk by author Stewart Donations for Nepal - We were thrilled with the Ross as part of this year’s Chipping Norton Literary Festival. Stewart talked massive pile of wonderful donations from the Stow about his dystopian novels, The Soterion Mission and The Revenge of the Community for Nepal. Mrs Gorton (Sophie Y6 mum) Zed. In the evening football fans enjoyed an interview with Matt Dickinson works with several friends who are driving out to about his researched biography Bobby Moore: The Man in Full. Nepal. They have relatives there who have lost Year 4/5 pupils took part in an able, gifted and talented Great Inventions everything so we know it is all going directly to help those in need. Thank Science Workshop. The children learnt about scientific discoveries you very much on behalf of Mrs Gorton and her friends for your th associated with three particular inventors and carried out a series of generosity and kindness. Sports Day will be held on Thursday 4 June. All pupils are being asked to bring any new balls in with them so that we practical experiments. the Primary Languages Festival can donate them to our friends in Halale so that their pupils can benefit. 201 Year 4 pupils took part in . The sessions had all been planned by and were run by Sixth Form Languages Leaders, who were so skilled and professional that some of the primary teachers who came with their classes thought they were actually teachers! 60 Year 12 students have been working towards achieving Community Sports Leader Awards this year. At the end of last term the students planned, organised and managed a Schoolympics Festival for 440 Year 2/3 pupils. The competition between the teams was fierce but fun and the Dormer House Pupils Go Nutty for Nepal winning team including pupils from Charlbury, St Mary’s, Enstone and Last week, children from Dormer House put on their fundraising hats Middle Barton primary schools. Congratulations to all the pupils that took to raise money for the people of Nepal in the aftermath of the part – you were all amazing! devastating earthquake last month. On Thursday 7th May, pupils from Dormer House School in Moreton- in-Marsh, held a fete to raise much needed funds for the people of St Catharine’s Nepal. Last month, Nepal was rocked by an earthquake measuring Catholic Primary School 7.8 on the Richter scale. Thousands lost their lives and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. Vast areas of Nepal were destroyed. In the run up to the general election our Year 6 students were so keen As the world rallies to provide aid to the people of Nepal, the children to ensure that they got the right to vote that they decided to run their of Dormer House were keen to make their own contribution and so own local election. It was completely child-initiated by Harry Jeavons. organised their ‘Let’s Go Nutty for Nepal’ fete. Groups formed to represent the different major parties and hit the campaign trail rallying support amongst other students in preparation for polling day. It was wonderful to see our children on a quest to understand more about the political shape of Great Britain. May has been a busy musical month. Class 4 have taken part in a three week Serenade Composition Workshop, we were delighted to host a concert by the Bute Clarinet group one evening, a large number of KS2 Year 6 pupil, Hywel Gadsby-Evans, explains, “We had lots of great pupils chose to attend the Chipping Campden Music Festival’s stalls; a marble jar, splat the rat, knock over the can, throw the fish, lunchtime concerts and as I write, the whole school are recording a CD hook the fish, touchy feely things, suck the skittles, apple bobbing, of the children’s favourite assembly Music. and stick the tail on the unicorn. We also sold friendship bracelets in As part of the Chipping Campden Literature Festival our KS1 children the colours of the Nepalese flag. At the end of the day, we raised enjoyed a visit from author Julie Fulton and back by popular demand, £650.00. This was more than double what we hoped to raise. This author Stuart Reid, inspired KS2 children’s creative writing skills. money will hopefully buy tents, water, medical supplies and blankets Sporting highlights included the football match against Bourton on the for the people of Nepal. We all had a great time raising funds.” Water where St Catharine’s ultimately won 7-3. Congratulations to new The children were extremely grateful to Dormer parent, Mrs. pupil, Louis Parr for his 4 goal contribution! And St Catharine’s came Muschamp, who made the friendship bracelets. They were also second in a swimming gala competing against other local schoolsOne of thankful to Year 1 pupil, Amelia Balhatchet, who donated £7, which our young pupils, Georgia Snape-Jones, was commended for a represented 14 weeks’ pocket money. Dormer’s Headmistress, Mrs photograph that she took as part of a Class 2 project. It is the Thomas, comments, “I am incredibly proud of the children for taking Cheltenham Camera Club’s 150th anniversary this year and you can see it upon themselves to raise much needed funds for the people of Georgia’s photograph, alongside a photograph accepted to the Nepal. They organised some wonderful activities and raised a exhibition by Edward Smith, at the Wilson Gallery in Cheltenham. fantastic amount of money. Well done!” Please come and support a new initiative: St Catharine’s School in To find out more about the huge range of opportunities that Dormer conjunction with Campden Rural Cinema will be showing ‘Big Hero 6’, House can offer to your child, please telephone 01608 650758 to from the Disney creators of Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph on SATURDAY arrange a tour of the school. For more information, please email 27th JUNE. Film Showing 3pm (Doors Open 2.30pm) at Chipping [email protected] or telephone 01608 650758. Campden Town Hall. Tickets £4 available in advance from TIC and St www.dormerhouseschool.co.uk Catharine’s School. ENQURIES TO 01386 593795. 55 Blockley C of E School From Jenny Bruce Temple Guiting Church of England School Air Ambulance Art Competition All the children from Reception to Class 5 entered the David Ogden, Headteacher Air Ambulance Art Competition. It was quite a tricky brief…to include St. George and the Dragon and an Air Ambulance helicopter in a drawing, painting or collage. Susie Godwin, Regional Fund Raising Manager judged the competition and was so impressed with all the entries that she asked if she could take them all back to the airbase to show the crews. Susie chose Kan Ikeda as the overall winner with Archie Fletcher as the winner in KS2 and Max Spodofora as the winner in KS1. Susie then announced runners up…..Max Bolam, Ruby Aylett-Magee, Cody Hutt, Zara Sampsan, Alice Webb and Freya Aylmore. All nine children have been invited to visit Strensham Air base on Friday 10th July to meet the crew, see the District Athletics Tournament helicopter and learn more about the work of the charity. Nearly four hundred youngsters from eleven schools converged on our Knex Challenge Ben Denyar-Freeman and Jamie West travelled to playing field for the district athletics tournament. We were very Mill Academy, near Gloucester for the Knex Challenge. Each pairing had pleased at how many of our pupils progressed to the next level. 1 hour to complete their 'build'. The task was to build an International Science Festival Rescue Vehicle, for land, sea, air, space or all. Additionally, each vehicle The PTA are generously paying for each of our Juniors to go to the had to incorporate into its design a mobile unit and locking door. The Cheltenham Science Festival this month. boys made a Rescue Truck, with a grabber attached and a stretcher on a winch. They shared their ideas with the judging team very Summer Term Topics enthusiastically and eloquently. Class 1’s topic is ‘The Seaside’. Besides looking back to the golden Friends of the School Blockey May Day was a great success with fine age of Victorian seaside holidays, they will be making model beach huts, kites and homemade ice-cream. Class 2 have supported Water weather and a good number people attending. Thanks to all the Aid this year and much of their work has been stimulated by what helpers, in particular those pupils (past and present) who sold sweets, they have learnt of the importance of this vital commodity. Class 3, did fabulous face painting and encouraged people to buy cookbooks, our oldest pupils, will be studying the fascinating history of our key rings and enter the treasure map game, the friends raised locality and hope to benefit from the knowledge of local amateur approximately £150. historians. A century ago, folk tunes and playground games were Class 1 Celebration of St Georges Day Class 1 and collected from our school and we are relearning them for a special their teacher celebrated St Georges Day by dressing concert at the Winchcombe Festival of Music and Art. up as knights and princesses. The theme this term is castles and so the imaginative play areas, both inside [email protected] 01451 850304 and out, have been transformed into a castle with www.templeguiting.gloucs.sch.uk appropriate dressing up clothes and artifacts to extend the play. On St Georges Day there were many other activities planned around the theme including making articulated figures of knights which the children had to colour CHIPPING CAMPDEN SCHOOL in and then cut out. They were then fixed together with split pins. The by Lise Evans children really engaged in this activity needing a little help but showing great perseverance. Another group made bunting. All-weather pitch joy for school! Chipping Campden School is celebrating the completion of an ambitious sporting project as part of its 575th anniversary in 2015. Work to finish a brand new £555,000 all-weather LONGBOROUGH PRIMARY artificial grass pitch has come to an end and on Friday 1 May the new facility was handed over to SCHOOL From Tracey Hampshire, Administrator the school by contractors S&C Slatters. The floodlit all-weather surface provides a full size hockey pitch or two During the Easter break the children of Longborough were all sent home junior pitches and a full size football pitch or three junior pitches. In with a tube of Smarties which they of course enjoyed eating, however they addition there will be a cricket mat that will enable cricket training to take were set a challenge to fill the tubes with money earned by doing jobs place regardless of weather conditions. around the house. Through their hard work and effort this year they raised The new pitches mean that the school will be able to significantly improve over £100! Not only were the children working hard but so were the its sport offer to students all year round, and local clubs and the Parents on our Big Dig day. On Sunday 19 April, Parents and teachers gave community will be able to access it at evenings and weekends. up their own time to help clear our gardens and grounds ready for the In order for the project to get off the ground, Chipping Campden School glorious weather ahead of us, everyone worked really hard and the received grants from a number of sources including the school trust, school playground and surrounding areas look fantastic. governors, Sports England, Cotswold District Council, Gloucestershire We were able to add a further 18 books to our collection which were linked County Council and Gloucestershire Land Fill Fund. to the new topics in the National Curriculum as a result of a book bursary Principal John Sanderson said: “I can honestly say that seeing the from Moreton & District History Society’s Book bursary, which we’re very excitement of the students as they first stepped out onto the completed grateful for. pitches made the years of planning and fund raising all worthwhile. As a Lottie Oxton (on left) reached the finals of the school we are very grateful to the various local and national grant fund Knex Challenge at Millbrook Academy in holders for their partnership in enabling us to realise this ambition and Brockworth. (pictured here with Lilly Arthurs must acknowledge the contribution made by S&C Slatters in delivering from Swell). such a first class facility on time and on budget. To have built it during the Class 1 visited Pebbly Hill Plant Nursery near year of our 575 celebrations is particularly special and I now look forward Bledington to support their current science topic to seeing it being used as a major focal point for sport development at the of plants. The children observed and drew plants growing at all different school and in the wider community.” stages, from seed germination through to mature plants. A key objective of There will be an official opening on 4 July during the school’s Day of the visit was to support children's learning of plant names. Children chose Celebration to mark 575 years the school’s founding in 1440. their favourite plants to draw and name (including: snap dragons, red hot Any local sports group wishing to enquire about hiring the pitches should pokers and bears breeches). They also got to plant their own dahlia to take get in touch with the Chipping Campden School on 01386 840216. home, kindly donated by the Nursery. 56 Holy Trinity RC School NURSERY PRACTITIONER REQUIRED We celebrated ‘Our Lady, Mary’ in our annual May Procession. Each class prepared for this occasion by creating artwork, writing prayers, poems and reflections. STEPPING STONES DAY NURSERY We welcomed M & M Productions to Holy Trinity to Manor Farm Buildings , Upper Slaughter, GL54 2JJ perform a version of Tom’s Midnight Garden to the Tel:-‐ 01451 820345 whole school. This proved to be very thought provoking and produced some excellent fictional writing. Foundation stage class enjoyed their first experience of Forest School. Full or Part-‐Time hours available (Competitive Salary offered) They looked for signs of spring in Worton woods and Pool meadow and found lots of evidence that wild creatures live nearby. They enjoyed exploring the outside environment and came back muddy but full of fun! Please ring and speak to HelenMichelle or On Saturday 9th May, Katie Hickman had 12 inches cut off her hair! The to discuss further or email your CV to hair that is being cut will be sent to the charity ‘Little Princess Trust’. [email protected] They will use her hair to make a wig for a terminally ill child with cancer. Katie would also like to do some fundraising for the children's cancer charity “Clic Sargent“. They help not only the child who is suffering, but support the family too, at home and in hospital. If you would like to Kingham Hill School - sponsor Katie, she has set up a Just Giving page online. Alternatively, The Brains of Oxfordshire there will be a collection box in the entrance hall for any donations. Katie would also like to thank Colin John Hairdressers in Morton in Marsh for General knowledge quizzing has taken off as a hugely popular cutting her hair. Just Giving link activity at Kingham Hill School. The arrival of Mr Gareth http://www.justgiving.com/owner-email/pleasesponsor/Katie-Hickman What a fantastic month for sport at Holy Trinity. Williams (Head of Languages), a self-confessed general We won five trophies in total, four in athletics knowledge obsessive, lead the School to enter the national and one in tennis. Well done to both our A & B competition, Schools Challenge. Third time lucky, Kingham teams consisting of Years 4, 5 and 6 at the Hill achieved the distinction of being ranked first in the recent athletics and especially to Year 5 A team who will represent us next year when in Year 6 for regional heats in Oxfordshire. The team, Tyler Smith (capt), the WOSSP finals. Our tennis team – six Year 4s Tom Kay, Nick Stell and Ben Onime, won their first two and 2 Year 3s won by 60 points and have qualified for the WOSSP finals. matches, beating Abingdon School 440-330 and St Helen and We would like to congratulate Emily Notman who competed for our St Katharine, Abingdon 380-240. In the final, against Dr school at Addington Manor Horse Trials during the holidays and came first in both her classes. She will now be going on to the National Challoner’s School from Buckinghamshire, the Kingham Hill Championships and will be representing Holy Trinity School and team lost 240-490. However, the valiant efforts of our team Oxfordshire. Well done Emily. Also, congratulations to Isabella Howard had ensured that we are the top team in Oxfordshire. and Grace Jarrett Rawlence (Y5) who have been selected for the U17 Climbing Squad at Far Peak, Northleach. At School, Inter-House Challenge, based on the rules of We welcomed Amy from Explorabox to spend the day working with the University Challenge, is popular with a thriving Quiz Club children in Foundation and KS1. Amy travels around schools with a where the School team and other keen quizzers pit their wonderful collection of resources based around popular children’s wits against the toughest of questions on the buzzer. books. Her aim is to inspire the children’s imaginations through role play and drama. During their workshops, the children the descriptive The mastermind behind the quiz revolution at Kingham Hill language and were encouraged to empathise with the character in the is Mr Williams himself. A competitive quizzer since sixth story. The day ended with a presentation to their parents showing them some of the activities they had taken part in. As you can see from the form in the 1990s, he reached the quarter-finals of University photos, the children really enjoyed their day. Challenge in the University of Manchester team. He has appeared on many TV quiz shows, winning against one of the chasers on ITV’s The Chase last year. This year it has been Mastermind, and we are very proud to have a Mastermind Grand Finalist on the teaching staff at Kingham Hill. Sherborne C of E Primary School Tel: 07923483970 From Gill Stratford, School Administrator [email protected] St David’s Centre, Church Street Sherborne pupils were at the forefront of the village community May Moreton in Marsh, GL56 0LT Merrie celebrations. After a family service in the church, pupils delighted the audience with their traditional dances around the maypole. Sessional childcare for children: 2 – 4 years Refreshments from FOSS, a BBQ lunch and more entertainment at the GOOD Ofsted 2013 Social Club finished off a lovely day. Bristol Standard Quality Assured Certificate Congratulations to our Wildlife Quiz team of Henry, Ellen, Amy, Fletcher For a Free Stay & Play session to find out more about us, and Ellie L who retained the GWT North Cotswold Trophy. The team will please get in touch. Registered for 2, 3 and 4 year old now represent the North Cotswolds in the county semi-final in June. funding. Childcare vouchers accepted DON’T FORGET- registration for the Sherborne 10k race in June is now active – go to www.sherborneschool.co.uk for further information. Qualified SENCO and staff with experience in Total Communication to support the learning and development of all children During June we will be thinking about holidays and days out. The children will be encouraged to find out about different: environments, activities, languages, cultures, foods and transp ort. We also hope to gather their ideas and suggestions for things they like to do at home to compile a summer holidays ideas book for parents. 57 THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CADETS m e Being a Cadet means being a good citizen in the community. d i BECOMING A CADET: A young boy or girl may join Cadets at age 13 or a year 8 at school. T20 BASIC TRAINING: Recruits learn: Helping your Cotswold business reach the history of the Cadet force • what it means to be a Cadet – i.e: being a good citizen in the a wider audience via social media community; • caring for the uniform SETUP | MANAGEMENT | SUPPORT • general appearance and discipline. • An introduction to the Cadet training programme and who is who in the organisation. “The four Cotswold Times There are different stages of training culminating in the Master Cadet magazines have launched onto course at the national cadet centre at Frimley Park. This will include social media! With so much military and organisation skills (including learning teaching skills). information to share each SUMMER CAMP: Cadet have the opportunity to attend a 2 week month, it’s been crazy not to summer camp, where they will take part in all aspects of cadet training take advantage of social media as well as a host of adventurous training including:- drill, target but, with time always a shooting, map reading, hill walking, expedition skills, canoeing, sailing, premium, I needed help - Tom raft building, climbing, assailing, archery, first aid – with an outdoor 48 hour exercise sleeping in makeshift shelters (called bashers). Arkell was the obvious choice to enable this to happen.” LOCAL COMMUNITY PROJECTS: Cadets are involved in local community projects for charities including raising funds and assisting Jenni Turner, Editor with welfare. Cadets are encouraged to assist with their local Royal British Legion Branches and become affiliated to them. www.t20media.co.uk ADULTS: An adult aged 19 or over can become a cadet assistant / [email protected] instructor. They must attend induction course over several weeks at a cadet centre to evaluate their capability and to introduce them to the 07765 424022 cadet training syllabus. All potential candidates are vetted nationally before being introduced to cadets and are supervised initially by qualified regular arm instructors and cadet superiors. LOCAL CADET UNITS: Bourton on the Water: Royal British Legion Hall. Meet Wednesdays, 19:30 to 21:30 hrs. Moreton in Marsh: Fire College. Meet Wednesdays, 19:30 to 21:30 hrs. 4 WEEK TRAININg PASS AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR 07977 56 00 86 WWW.mARTIALARTSVOUCHER.CO.UK Chipping Norton ACF Detachment SEPARATE ADULT AND CHILDREN’S CLASSES The Chipping Norton Army Cadet Force parade in the ATC NOW TRAININg AT Hut on Burford Road in Chipping Norton on Wednesday CHIPPINg NORTON & evenings, under Detachment Commander Colin Tye. STOW ON THE WOLD The Army Cadet Force is a Voluntary Youth Organisation for young people ranging from 13 years to 18 years of age and covers such activities as Military History, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and Physical Recreation. It aims to introduce cadets to general Life skills such as First Aid and Cadet in the Community. We are a registered charity and, contrary to popular opinion, are not a recruiting tool for the Army (although we do not discourage cadets from considering a move to any of the Regular or Reserve Forces). Anyone interested can contact: Sgt Colin Tye Detachment Commander Tel: 07917273535 58 THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CADETS Being a Cadet means being a good citizen I get to grips with a 50 year old icon! in the community. Ben Eddols goes out with an E Type BECOMING A CADET: A young boy or girl may join Cadets at age 13 or year 8 at school. Some of us, not in the first flush of youth, bordering on the’ BASIC TRAINING: Recruits learn: old’ even, carry vivid childhood memories which can provoke the history of the Cadet force forbidden thought’s, nudge nudge, wink wink - totally • what it means to be a Cadet – i.e: being a good citizen in the unacceptable in PC Britain today. Ask an old ‘un about the 1960’s community; and their eyes may glaze over as memories slowly fall into place • caring for the uniform – Twiggy, mini skirts, Marilyn Monroe, and the E type Jag. • general appearance and discipline. • An introduction to the Cadet training programme and who is Ok, image s from a seemingly male dominated world, pure who in the organisation. voyeurism, sultry, curvaceous, fast and dangerous, beyond the There are different stages of training culminating in the Master Cadet reach of the common man - until with the benefit of age an course at the national cadet centre at Frimley Park. This will include opportunity comes along, not to meet the star or relive the military and organisation skills (including learning teaching skills). age, but to get to grips with an E type! SUMMER CAMP: Cadet have the opportunity to attend a 2 week summer camp, where they will take part in all aspects of cadet training Jaguar made their mark on the racing world in the fifties with C as well as a host of adventurous training including:- drill, target Type and D type racers winning the legendary Le Mans 24 hour shooting, map reading, hill walking, expedition skills, canoeing, sailing, raft building, climbing, assailing, archery, first aid – with an outdoor 48 race. The cars employed three important elements, their proven hour exercise sleeping in makeshift shelters (called bashers). six cylinder XK engine, an aerodynamic body to help slip through LOCAL COMMUNITY PROJECTS: Cadets are involved in local the air and disc brakes to stop. As the fifties came to an end all of community projects for charities including raising funds and assisting this was suddenly combined in a road going sports car, the E with welfare. Cadets are encouraged to assist with their local Royal Type, which could charge up the newly built M1 at a reported British Legion Branches and become affiliated to them. 150mph, unthinkable stuff at the time. Car restorer John ADULTS: An adult aged 19 or over can become a cadet assistant / Hodgson has recently acquired one and allowed me to drive it. instructor. They must attend induction course over several weeks at a cadet centre to evaluate their capability and to introduce them to the We meet up on a sunny day. I open the driver’s door to step in - remember we cadet training syllabus. All potential candidates are vetted nationally are now going back to a car designed 55 years ago - the door opens wide and is before being introduced to cadets and are supervised initially by qualified regular arm instructors and cadet superiors. hinged quite far forward giving surprisingly good access for legs and feet, unless LOCAL CADET UNITS: you are in a mini skirt, I wasn’t this time! Once in the comfy leather bucket seat I Bourton on the Water: Royal British Legion Hall. Meet Wednesdays, took stock ; two big dials in front, the familiar Smiths speedo and rev counter 19:30 to 21:30 hrs. then, in aircraft style, a row of smaller gauges and switches stretching out to the Moreton in Marsh: Fire College. Meet Wednesdays, 19:30 to 21:30 hrs. left over the tunnel where the gear lever and handbrake protrude. The steering wheel is big, with a thin wooden rim and three alloy spokes. I think to myself that as there is no power steering I will be struggling with this and constantly jiggling it to keep the car straight. I reach for the seatbelt - Oh! It’s not there, this is an early 1965 car made before seatbelts became compulsory - without it I suddenly feel quite vulnerable. I turn the key, press the black starter button and without drama, it lives. The engine itself is a thing of beauty, two shiny alloy cam covers sitting atop the engine, three carburettors feeding fuel and air from one side, six chromed exhaust pipes existing from the other. Ok, I push the clutch pedal down and slip the notchy lever up into first, hand brake off, a bit of throttle, foot slowly off the clutch and we move, no drama, stop, turn left onto the road and start to take stock again. As I have said, the seat is comfortable but it doesn’t have the sideways support found in modern cars; controls are fine; she drives well over the rough roads thanks to higher profile tyres ironing out the imperfections; the steering, although heavy at parking speeds, is surprisingly light and precise when out on the open road - and of course the view down that never ending louvered bonnet is fantastic. 4.2 litres in a slippery old sports car feels great, it has loads of low down grunt and John urges me on. As the revs rise the warble of six cylinders sets the senses tingling. The speedo rises dramatically, the front end rising under acceleration; at first I feed her into corners then ease the power on as we exit, accelerating gingerly out; the steering is much more precise than I had imagined it would be and with only four gears to choose from I get much more robust with the old car, the roads are dry and there’s little chance of a calamity unless I am really stupid. We trundle back to base with an inner glow. She’s not bad for a 50 year old icon! ©BenEddols.05.2015 59 ValeVale Tel: 01386 831000 TO BLACKMINSTER R d . Round Vale of Gras Pub B i r m n g h a A 4 6 Badsey TO BRETFORTON TO EVESHAM A 4 6 Birmingham Road, Badsey, Evesham, Worcestershire. 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The roads will be open, but there may be some James Hurrell currently stands at 21st place in the World British disruption to traffic. Anybody wishing to enter the race, Darts Organisation and recently or support on the day, is very welcome; look online for won the Finland Masters. more details: www.Bourtonroadrunners.co.uk We hit the ground running! Whilst it might not be the most appropriate image to associate with a group of Senior golfers, the Section certainly hit the ground running when the season started in March and there was no slackening of pace through April. SENIORS’ SPRING CUP A Stableford competition played off of the Yellow tees and won by Richard Lee with 44 points; second was JAC Smith with 39 and third with 37 was Barry Dingle. APRIL MEDAL & STABLEFORD Stroke-play off of the White tees - won by Jon Smith with 81 gross (handicap 15) 66 nett. Second was Peter Edwards 86 (17) 69 and third (after countback) was Bill Cretney 90 (21) 69. When scores were recalculated on a Stableford basis, prize winners (excluding those above) were John Brennan with 38 points, Paul Gwilt with 37 and (after countback) Alan Pinder also with 37. MATCHES The first 7 of 32 matches have been played. The match at home to Wychwood was lost 2 - 4; that away at Gloucester Great Western Railway Benches was halved 3 – 3; that at home to Whitney Lakes was lost “Direct from the manufacturer” 2 - 4; that away at South Hereford was lost 3 ½ - 4 ½; that at home to Stratford Oaks was won 4 – 2; that away at 14-15 Fosseway Business Park Thornbury was halved 3 – 3; and, that at home to Moreton in Marsh, Bransford was won 4 - 2. These last two Clubs are new GL56 9NQ fixtures this year and will be played on an annually alternating home & away basis. E-mail:[email protected] Alan Pinder ([email protected]) April 2015 Tel: 01608 652505 63 Bourton & Sherborne Hockey Club Stuart Colmer - Chairman T. 07900 028732 E. [email protected] by Stuart Colmer & Sean Clarke End Of Season Awards Eighty members attended the Annual Awards Dinner on the 9th of May and had a cracking night. They were held at Stow Rugby Club for the second year running and Locojos provided an excellent 2 course meal with the bar staff kept very busy. The evening is of course a highlight of the club year and with so many young and new players coming through both the Junior ranks and Back To Hockey sessions it is only right that they get the recognition they deserve. Hannah Maclean started Back To Hockey at the club a year ago and has quickly risen to become an interregnal part of the Ladies 1sts. Team captain Niki ‘Killer’ Coombes was pleased to award her both the Most Improved Player and Captain’s Player awards. Richard Wiggins has a similar story and he took the Mens 2nds Captain’s Player trophy after a great season. Liam Wallis, a graduate to the 2nds from The Men Are On The Move the Badgers, won a trophy for each team with the 2nds Most After years of asking to be allowed to join a central league, the Improved Player and Badgers Captain’s Player. Ed Gum, who two Mens’ teams will be playing in the MBBO leagues next has also played for both teams, won the Badger’s Player’s season. The reason is quite bizarre with the club being expelled Player and young goal keeper Ryan Dixon the Most Improved. from the Davies Wood Hockey League because it couldn't fulfil a 12 hour away match against Pembrokeshire on St. Valen- tine’s Day. Although a number of clubs in the DWHL expressed their dismay at their league’s actions, this cloud had a gold rather than a silver lining. Most away matches in the MBBO league are less than an hour away with the furthest 1 1/2 hours. This will mean easier recruitment and retention of players so if you’re looking for a club, get in touch with Stuart Colmer above. Stop Press - Ladies 2nds Sarah Collett, the Ladies 2nds Captain, confirmed at the Awards that, after a great season, the team are promoted. Hannah MacLean & Niki Coombes Richard Wiggins & Cam Lane BASHC PLAYER CARD For the Vixens Eleonore Gilbert won Most Improved Player, Name: Paddy Boxall Sophie Franklin was the Player’s Player and Zoe Lenihan the Captain’s Player. Other highlights included Dougie Haseler, AKA Mr. Quiet who moved up from the 2nds to the 1sts, winning the Most Team / s: Mens 2nds Improved, rising star Georgia Hamilton winning the Ladies Position: Centre Back 2nds Most Improved, Emma Stewart and Bredon Baker of the Ladies and Mens 2nds respec- Secret to Your Success: tively both winning awards 2 Encouraging all to years in a row and Tracy Dixon support each other & both go forward & defend as a team winning both the Ladies 1sts Player’s Player and the Good No. of Hockey Years: Started at 15 on grass Girl Award for going a whole BASHC Facts: Always played for 2nds in season without being carded ! my 6 years at club with 2 as captain. The Chairman's Shield went to Important to encourage both young Alan Smith, Most Important payers coming up from Badgers and Club Member to Heidi Larner older ones feeling their age ! and the Ladies Memorial Shield Collect Them All was awarded to Emily Sarah Collet & Georgia Hamilton Walthew of the Ladies 2nds. www.bashc.com Photos: Stuart Colmer and Alex Schilling (Copyright ) 64 Stow on the Wold Bourton & Sherborne Hockey Club & District RFC Stuart Colmer - Chairman T. 07900 028732 E. [email protected] by Stuart Colmer & Sean Clarke The Clubhouse, Oddington Road, Stow on the Wold , GL54 1JAH . 01451 830887 www.pitchero.com/clubs/stowrtfc/ CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR REPORTS, PHOTOS, NEWS & INFO From Sean Clarke End Of Season Awards Eighty members attended the Annual Awards Dinner on the 9th Minis, Medals & Awards Old Boy Back For Dinner of May and had a cracking night. They were held at Stow Rugby Gloucester and England U20s second row player Elliott Stooke Club for the second year running and Locojos provided an returned to the club as Guest of Honour at the Junior Awards Dinner excellent 2 course meal with the bar staff kept very busy. The to present the trophies. It was a full house with parents invited to evening is of course a highlight of the club year and with so eat for the first time and it made for a great atmosphere. After the many young and new players coming through both the Junior speeches, Elliott was happy to take questions from the floor and the ranks and Back To Hockey sessions it is only right that they get players gained an insight to what it’s like to be a professional rugby player. The Juniors have an extra award with Most Improved (MI), the recognition they deserve. Hannah Maclean started Back To Best Forward (BF), Best Back (BB) and Player’s Player (PP). The U13s Hockey at the club a year ago and has quickly risen to become were up first and their winners were high try scorer Freddie Rob- an interregnal part of the Ladies 1sts. Team captain Niki ‘Killer’ erts (MI), Arthur Clark (BF), James Ingham (BB) and Edward Hitchins Coombes was pleased to award her both the Most Improved (PP). This age group also has a supporter’s award in memory of Fox Player and Captain’s Player awards. Richard Wiggins has a Hauxwell and the joint winners were Edward Hitchins and Freddie similar story and he took the Mens 2nds Captain’s Player trophy after a great season. Liam Wallis, a graduate to the 2nds from The Men Are On The Move With the end of the season comes the recognition of all the players the Badgers, won a trophy for each team with the 2nds Most After years of asking to be allowed to join a central league, the for the part they have played and awards for those who have been Improved Player and Badgers Captain’s Player. Ed Gum, who two Mens’ teams will be playing in the MBBO leagues next outstanding. In the Minis, 3 awards are given: Most Improved (MI) Coaches’ Player (CP) and perhaps the most important because it is has also played for both teams, won the Badger’s Player’s season. The reason is quite bizarre with the club being expelled decided by your team mates, Players Player (PP). It was the first Player and young goal keeper Ryan Dixon the Most Improved. from the Davies Wood Hockey League because it couldn't fulfil year of awards for the U7s (pictured below) and the winners were a 12 hour away match against Pembrokeshire on St. Valen- William Kenyon (CP), Ben Mustoe (PP) and Joseph Allport (MI). The tine’s Day. Although a number of clubs in the DWHL expressed U8s winners were Oliver Bragg (MI), Harry Clarke (CP) and Jacob their dismay at their league’s actions, this cloud had a gold Brewerton (PP). In the U9 County Champions, Jack McKinnon-Little rather than a silver lining. Most away matches in the MBBO (MI), Beau Griffin (CP) and Oliver Allport (PP) took the trophies league are less than an hour away with the furthest 1 1/2 hours. home. For the U10s ,James Hoole Jackson (MI), Will Ingham (CP) This will mean easier recruitment and retention of players so if and Harry Williams received awards. The winners in the U11s were Arthur Bowen (MI) Jago Tarrant (CP) and Emile Lendis (PP). It was you’re looking for a club, get in touch with Stuart Colmer above. the last Minis Presentations for the U12s and they were given their Stop Press - Ladies 2nds club ties to mark their progression to the Juniors next year. Ben Sarah Collett, the Ladies 2nds Captain, confirmed at the Bright (MI), Tom Kitto (CP) and Bertie Taylor (PP) were the winners. Awards that, after a great season, the team are promoted. Hannah MacLean & Niki Coombes Richard Wiggins & Cam Lane BASHC PLAYER CARD For the Vixens Eleonore Gilbert won Most Improved Player, Name: Paddy Boxall Sophie Franklin was the Player’s Player and Zoe Lenihan the Captain’s Player. Other highlights included Dougie Haseler, AKA Mr. Quiet who moved up from the 2nds to the 1sts, winning the Most Team / s: Mens 2nds Improved, rising star Georgia Hamilton winning the Ladies Position: Centre Back 2nds Most Improved, Emma Stewart and Bredon Baker of the Ladies and Mens 2nds respec- Secret to Your Success: Encouraging all to tively both winning awards 2 years in a row and Tracy Dixon support each other & Each Month the Spotlight both go forward & defend as a team Spotlight On is focused on a player winning both the Ladies 1sts from the club Roberts. The players who took the trophies in the U14s were Harry Player’s Player and the Good No. of Hockey Years: Henry ‘Chugger’ Foster Stanton (MI), Kieran Cooper (BF), Theo Hayward (BB) and Liam Started at 15 on grass Girl Award for going a whole BASHC Facts: Wood (PP). Although there weren’t enough players for a team in Always played for 2nds in Team U16s season without being carded ! my 6 years at club with 2 as captain. the U15s this season, several trained with the U14s and were a Position Prop The Chairman's Shield went to great asset to the squad. Every year the Roger Crouch Memorial Important to encourage both young Best Rugby Moment Winning Man Alan Smith, Most Important payers coming up from Badgers and Shield, donated by Stow Town Council, is given to the player in the of the Match for the most successful Club Member to Heidi Larner older ones feeling their age ! U15s who has been the most encouraging to his team mates. Oscar tackles & getting my nickname Dodridge, above with Elliott Stooke, was this year’s winner. The and the Ladies Memorial Shield Collect Them All Favourite Player Jonny May (Gloucester eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed Eliott’s England U20s was awarded to Emily and England) World Cup shirt in the background. In the U16s Henry Foster (MI), Walthew of the Ladies 2nds. Sarah Collet & Georgia Hamilton I enjoy Rugby because it’s a team sport Alex Karpathios (BF), Matt Webb (BB) and Neil Atkinson (PP) were and great for fitness & letting off steam the winners. Well done to all the players from both sections for www.bashc.com another brilliant season. I think we can say that all the players, My Rugby ambition is to play for Stow 1sts or 2nds Photos: Stuart Colmer and Alex Schilling (Copyright ) parents, coaches and supporters enjoyed another great year ! 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