The Parish Newsletter of Weston Colville and West Wratting the Views Expressed Herein Are Those of the Contributors
January 2021
The Parish Newsletter of Weston Colville and West Wratting The views expressed herein are those of the contributors. Printed by E & E Plumridge Ltd, Linton (Cambridge 891407) Village Resources Christmas Tree Recycling If you need help with shopping, transport, delivering Last year the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity’s medications (including emergency supplies, eg Christmas Tree Recycling Scheme collected over antibiotics), or anything else, please contact: 2,500 trees and raised over £36,000; this year it is Weston Colville: Jo Jackson ( 07798 525300) or Mel hoped that the collection will be the greatest success Stammers (07890 296998). They are also the contacts yet, with hopes of raising £40,000 for the Hospice. for the village WhatsApp group for covid-related A team of 70+ volunteers will be collecting trees issues. between Thursday 7th and Sunday 10th January. In There is a separate Weston Colville WhatsApp group exchange, a donation to the Hospice would be warmly for general village issues: contact Jackie Brearley on welcomed. After costs, 90% of the monies raised will 07984 655116. go to the Hospice which provides essential support and end of life care to adults living with an advanced West Wratting: Suan Rowland (290788, serious illness or other life-limiting condition. The [email protected]) or Donna Gilmour remaining 10% will be donated to The Rotary Club of (07986 006129, [email protected]) Cambridge, to support further local good causes. Weston Colville also has a Facebook page, and both The trees will be chipped at temporary drop off points villages have websites. and used as mulch or taken to local waste recycling centres for composting. Register your tree (before 10 am on Tuesday Mobile Post Office Visits to Weston Colville 5th January) at arhc.org.uk/tree-recycling or call 01223 675888 for more information. A mobile Post Office comes to Weston Colville every Alison, Arthur Rank Hospice (01223 675888) Thursday afternoon between 12.30 and 1.30, and parks in the Reading Room car park. Unfortunately due to a breakdown it was unable to West Wratting Book Club attend on Thursday 10th December. A note advising The review of our December book, ‘Miss Benson’s this was placed on both the Weston Colville Beetle’ by Rachel Joyce, will appear in the February WhatsApp groups, but it was clear from the number Challenge. The book for January is ‘The Hotel’ by of people who still turned up that this does not reach Daisy Johnson, to be discussed via Zoom on everyone. Wednesday 13th January unless otherwise advised. There will be odd occasions when the Post Office is We wish everyone a Happy New Reading Year. unable to get to the village, for instance on New Linda Gorman Year’s Eve. If you want to know if it is not coming please join one of the village WhatsApp groups; see West Wratting Recreation Ground above for details. If you can't remember the defibrillator key safe code Weston Colville Parish Council (1999) don't worry, as this is registered with the Ambulance Authority, so just call 999.
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students who came to his class to learn about Parish Matters happiness. He sent his new pupils out on an exercise May I start with wishing you all to see who they could help as they went down the a Happy New Year with the hope street. All the students reported back that this exercise that 2021 will be easier for us all had gone well, and in fact one of the students was and that we will be meeting up quite put out with the result. When questioned why, with each other again. his reply was that he had enjoyed it so much that he To have a big breakthrough with had made a decision not to become a banker and make vaccine is a miracle in itself, and although it may take loads of money, but choose a different career path a while to be distributed, thankfully the most altogether. vulnerable are at the top of the list. The scientists For 2021 there are new opportunities and horizons for have worked hard together to beat Covid 19, and here us to explore as we patiently wait for the vaccine to in the Cambridge area there is so much research with arrive. We have much to be thankful for. medicine, engineering and so on, which we benefit We are thankful especially to Claire, our parish nurse, from. who has just retired. She highlighted the need for a The parishes have changed in the last few months parish nurse with new initiatives to help give people with a greater sense of community in the villages. support in the community and medical advice if People have had time to meet their neighbours needed, and over the years it became clear that this because of the lockdown. Help has been given to was not a luxury but a necessity. those who had to isolate, which has been much So whatever situation this finds you in, be encouraged appreciated. For those who have been helping I am that there is support out there for all of you. sure this has given them a sense of satisfaction and God bless. well being, perhaps even a sense of happiness. Rev Kathy Bishop Martin Seligman, a psychologist, wrote a book called ‘Authentic Happiness’. In it he spoke of a group of
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2 January 2021 Parish Nurse Vacancy Nursing in the community; Connecting with the health needs of local people
We are looking to employ a Registered Nurse to work with our ministry team in partnership both with the local NHS medical practice covering the area and with voluntary community groups. You will be providing a nursing service that integrates spiritual, physical, psychological, emotional and social health to the local community, regardless of their faith. GARDEN MAINTENANCE 15 hours per week (job share considered) based on We offer a professional and reliable service NHS Band 5 pay scale. Applicants from any nursing from lawn mowing to new planting projects. background are welcomed but must be willing to Other services include tree surgery and undertake the Parish Nursing Ministries UK training, hedge cutting. and there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement for Please telephone Zara or Francis at the applicant to be a practicing Christian. Napier Garden Planning For an application pack and full job description please Tel : 01638 508847 contact Mrs Caroline Walshe on 01223 891443, [email protected], www.grantavale.org.uk Westley Waterless, Newmarket e-mail: [email protected] Closing date for applications: 31st January 2021 Interviews: mid February Parish Nurse Training: 26th - 29th April 2021
Small Villages Community Warden My first month as your Small Villages Community Warden has been thoroughly enjoyable. I have been busy linking up with our parish councils, churches and Covid support groups. All your support teams (including me) aimed to make sure that those who were more vulnerable weren’t left alone and isolated. I witnessed the effects of little kind gestures and it was truly heart warming. Our Age UK service users enjoy being able to stay at home in their own surroundings and having someone HOME ANIMAL CARE DAYCARE they can rely on to help them remain independent. AVAILABLE Let me take care of your pets, There is space on the Small Villages scheme for more while you are out at work or away people to join, so if you’d like to try a Community on holiday. I am a very responsible Warden out, please get in touch and we can arrange and reliable registered Pet Sitter, with many years’ your two week free trial. experience. I am fully insured and would like to Faye Parker (07436 102865, have the opportunity to care for your pets. [email protected]) Phone: Catherine 01223 291411 / 07778 921334 [email protected] [email protected] National Association of Registered Pet Sitters
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5 January 2021 R BRISTLEY 9 COLLINGS PLACE, NEWMARKET BRUSH ELECTRIC SWEEP As I write this, the COVID-19 vaccine delivery has • All Chimneys Swept • Solid Fuel, Oil & Gas just begun, with the first vaccines being given • Cowls, Nets & Pots Fitted yesterday. It suddenly feels like there is hope and a • Stoves Repaired & Inspected light for us all at the end of this very long, dark • Carpets Cleaned • Competitive Prices tunnel. • Very Clean • Family Business The vaccine is currently being offered to patients in • Public Liability Insurance priority groups first, namely: ☎ Newmarket (01638) 662439 Est 1974 • People aged 80 and over who already have a hospital appointment in the next few weeks • People who work in care homes • Health care workers at high risk. It will be offered more widely as soon as possible. For further information on priorities and delivery schedules please go to www.nhs.uk The general public are asked not to contact their GP surgeries regarding the vaccination programme. The NHS will contact everyone direct when it is their turn to have the vaccine. In the meantime, thank you all for continuing to abide by all the social distancing, wearing of face masks and hand hygiene guidance. We will keep our website and social media channels updated with any developments. The Linton pharmacy is closed on Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd, and Sunday 3rd January. Prescription requests placed on those days will be ready for collection on 6th January. The pharmacy reopens on Monday 4th January, and prescription requests placed then will be ready for collection on 7th January. Sandra East (01223 627743, www.grantamedicalpractices.co.uk)
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Marsh Mail 2523 Linton Air Cadets Despite the restrictions, LVC staff and 2523 and the entire RAF Air Cadet students are finding ways to bring organisation is set to bounce back in 2021 learning to life in lots of imaginative with an industrious and ambitious training ways. An example of this is in the Arts. GCSE Dance programme at local and national levels. students are benefiting from virtual links via Teams 2021 will see many flying opportunities with our with A-level students at Abbey Gate Sixth Form usual allocation of air experience flights and College in Bury St Edmunds, and GCSE Music scholarship placement opportunities. Our camp students enjoyed being able to safely perform in a season kicks off in March, and we are hopeful that mini open-air Christmas concert at the end of term. Easter Camp 2021 will be able to go ahead as The Arts team is also busy preparing students for planned, paving the way for all of our summer camps practical exams, and a Year 7 production of ‘Charlie too. and the Chocolate Factory’ is underway. With staff using the lockdown to complete additional School staff have had to be incredibly innovative to training, when the squadron does return in the new adapt to the challenges of educating our young people year we will be better placed than ever to deliver first in the current context. The prospect of returning to aid, leadership and BTEC training from across our ‘normal’ later this school year is a welcome relief to progressive training syllabus. A list of subjects can be staff, students and parents. Learning during lockdown found on our website www.2523linton.co.uk. has taught us the value of human relationships and Once we are settled back into a routine we will look connections, and the importance of the holistic, to expand the squadron by recruiting new cadets, enriching aspects of education for students’ physical minimum age 12 and in year 8, to start their cadet and mental health. career. However, the phrase ‘necessity is the mother of Bradley Wright, Acting Pilot Officer invention’ has certainly struck a chord in schools over (07943 873272, [email protected] ) the last nine months. There are plenty of innovations and developments that have arisen through necessity I & S GROUNDWORKS LTD that we will harness in the future. Developing our use Your Local Company for of technology has enabled flipped learning, virtual Driveways parents’ evenings and click-and-collect library loans. Patios Seeing students living the Linton Learner attributes Foundations through their responsible, caring and independent Drainage conduct, and staff rallying together with community Site Clearance spirit, will certainly sustain us this term. Helena Marsh Please call Ian Boreham on 07831672907 or Simon Boreham on 07768821364
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9 January 2021 Church Services Revd Iain McColl tel: 890693 email: [email protected] Please do keep an eye on our church website, Revd Kathy Bishop, Associate Priest www.grantavale.org.uk, and our church noticeboards, tel: 892288 email: [email protected] or perhaps find out by word of mouth, to see the latest Mr Steven Wheeler, Licensed Lay Minister information on church services. Contact parish tel: 290396 email: [email protected] administrator, Cazzy Walshe, on Jeanine Kennedy, Lay Pioneer Minister [email protected], if you would like to email: [email protected] receive a weekly newsletter by email or by hand. Churchwardens: St Mary’s – Ian Ashbridge (291344) Horseshoe Lane Ford and Bridge St Andrew’s – Sebastian Bain (403415) The CCC Highways Department plans to relocate the Church Administrator: Caroline (Cazzy) Walshe, footbridge by the ford at the end of Horseshoe Lane [email protected], 01223 891443 Weston Colville Parish Clerk: Jess Ashbridge, from the left bank to the right bank so that it easier to [email protected] keep the Stour clear of silt, in an effort to alleviate West Wratting Parish Clerk: Jenny Richards, flooding in the village. The work will also involve [email protected], 01223 665260 strengthening the banks of the Stour to stop erosion at Parish Nurse: Claire Gillett, this point of the river. The work is planned to take [email protected], 07498 994205 Community Warden: Faye Parker, th place during the week commencing 11 January. If [email protected], 07436 102865 the weather is not suitable or the water level is too high then the work will be postponed. During this DIARY work the footbridge will be closed for three days, and the council apologises for any inconvenience caused. January 2021 Mon 4 Weston Colville Parish Council meeting Weston Colville Parish Council Tue 12 Balsham WI Wed 13 West Wratting Book Club
Mobile Post Office: Thursdays, Reading Room carpark, TIM PHILLIPS & Co. Weston Colville, 12.30 - 1.30 pm Accountants (EXCEPT FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE) Independent, specialist service for: Small Business • Self Assessment Mobile library: 5th January, 2nd February Personal Taxation High Street, West Wratting 12.15 - 12.45 pm Free initial consultation – no obligation Weston Green 1.50 - 2.15 pm EASY, FREE PARKING Mill Hill, Weston Colville 2.20 - 2.50 pm Copley Hill Business Park, Cambridge Rd., Babraham Off A1307 between Wandlebury and Babraham Black bins: Tuesday 12th & Monday 25th January, Tel: 01223 830044. www.tpaccounts.co.uk Monday 8th & 22nd February Blue bins: Wednesday 6th & Monday 18th January, Monday 1st & 15th February Green bins: Wednesday 6th January, SMB GAS Monday 1st February CALOR GAS Editor: Anne Bragg (290550) or email: DELIVERIES [email protected] NEW TO NEWMARKET AND SURROUNDING Thank you for all your articles, news, etc. If these are sent by VILLAGES. CALL FOR A QUOTE OR TO CHECK email, they are always acknowledged; if you don’t get a reply, DELIVERY AREA your items haven’t been received, so please resend. Some STILL OPEN FOR DELIVERIES contributions may have to be edited, to fit the space available, 01638 570046 and are published at the discretion of the editor. February issue’s copy date [email protected] Wednesday 20th January
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