CHIPPING NORTON TIMES Issue 30 • March 2013

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From the Editor Inside this edition For a short month February certainly packed a punch this year! The weather alone has been extraordinary FEATURES and I suspect that after those few sunny days in the 7 Six month Charity Challenge in aid of Kate’s Home Nursing middle of the month, we are all longing for more – roll 10, 11 A cold morning in the Windrush Valley – from Will Masefield of on Spring! Glos Wildlife Trust 15 Natural, organic and local - milk from Nell’s Dairy With Spring come the daffies, Mother’s Day, 16 ‘The Black Fields’ - Short Story by Nicholas John Gold Cup and Easter, all bringing visitors 20 What value is our AONB? Encouraging Rural Business Growth to the area and a welcome lift for many of our local 34 Easter eggs – Carole Foster is doing things differently this year businesses. Have you noticed how the days are 35 Not a False Alarm as a new Chipping Norton band wins a place on getting noticeably longer - what a joy it is to be getting Cornbury’s Festival stage. up in daylight again! With any luck at all Easter will bring us an opportunity to sit outside in some long- awaited sunshine – even if it is with scarves and REGULARS woolly hats! 9 Up the Creek – Peter Creek on wine 15 Robb Eden – Starting out in business’ In the magazine this month - we feature an 21 Local Church Services inspirational story of building an otter holt in the 22 - 24 News from Local Authorities & Associations Windrush Valley; I looked at some of the science behind the growing success story of a local herd of 25 Rural Cinemas & Regular Events Guernsey ladies, and Peter Creek our wine 26 Wardens Walks, Open Gardens correspondent has some tips for you on the 27 - 30 LOCAL EVENTS and EVENTS DIARY, Local Cinemas, regular events Cheltenham runners. There is a wonderful range of 31 - 36 Community News – Cotswold AONB, Family Bike Day, Chippy Literary things going on with a host of gardens opening for Festival Easter to show off their daffodils and herald in the 38 - 41 Reports from some of our local Schools Spring, with an idea or three about painting Easter eggs. Plus very new news - there’s a brand new girl 47 - 50 News & Reports from some of the local Sports Clubs, etc.. group to look out for who took the Battle of the Bands 50, 51 Rotary Clubs of Chipping Norton and Kingham & Daylesford by storm and won that coveted place on the stage at 52, 53 List of local Clubs, Societies and Associations Cornbury Festival – with luck, you may be privileged to 54 List of local Village Halls see and hear False Alarm before then. 55 Local Business Directory

Oh, and don’t forget to put your clocks forward on Sunday 31st March, Easter Sunday– this time we lose The regular team (Jan, Christabel and Chris) have worked at speed this an hour in bed, but the light evenings are coming! month to bring together a packed edition – what a short month! Will Best wishes for a Happy Easter, Masefield of Glos Wildlife Trust put a group of volunteers to work one frosty morning (including Mike Boyes, who took photos) and provided a great feature; the story of a very special local milk had me researching; if you follow local planning there’s a letter on p22 which you should read… Best wishes, Jenni Turner Plus our regular contributors. A packed edition – I hope you will enjoy it! Editor With luck our wonderful team of volunteer deliverers will have warmer Our next edition is for April 2013. weather for deliveries. We are short of deliverers in Stow so, if your copy didn’t arrive through your letterbox, your area may need a new deliverer – It comes out at the end of March 2013. can you spare 10-30 minutes, once a month? If you can help to deliver in The copydate is 15th March 2013. your area we will really appreciate hearing from you – just ten minutes delivering your road will help!.

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8 9 A cold morning in the Windrush Valley

Cotswold Community Wildlife Of icer for Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust at Greystones Farm, Bourton on the Water

Will Mase1ield

Volunteers crossing the windrush Minus four degrees, an ice‐bound landscape before us and a frigid pall of mist hanging over the Windrush valley. Are these ideal conditions for spending the day calf deep in water, volunteering for your local Wildlife Trust? You bet they are – our volunteers are made of pretty stern stuff! It was gratifying to see, as we picked our way down an icy slope towards the river, that the mood was jovial, each comment and laugh expressed in sound with a wisp of visible breath. It helps, of course, when the locations we visit are so inspiring. With hoar frost accentuating every twig of every tree, the whole impression of the world around us was magical. The valley itself revealed to us from time to time as the curtain of mist brie1ly thinned, its far slopes clad in sparkling trees and the river meandering through the hills – a vision of natural beauty; a vision to lift the spirits. And the more intimately we get to know these habitats, these valleys, the more exciting and rewarding become the tasks we are involved in. It’s the connectivity that is so inspiring. Working with landowners and tenant farmers both upstream and downstream of a Wildlife Trust nature reserve, we are helping to in1luence conservation of the landscape by enhancing habitats and connecting SSSI* hillsides that have particular 1lora and butter1ly interest, with a SSSI marsh and, of course, that beautiful river. The idea is to enhance a natural working landscape in which wildlife can move freely and 1lourish, and bring pride to those who own and farm it. Of course there are some ‘easy’ wins and some less promising landscapes to work in, and this is one of the former, being sympathetically managed already and with a high wildlife value.

On the left the Windrush, on the right the old Some of the enhancements that we have been making here, apart from watercress beds now partly cleared working on our own nature reserve, have been to open up some stretches of the riverbank to let more sunlight in, to bene1it marginal and aquatic vegetation, invertebrates and 1ish. At the spot where we were working on this particular day our aim was to enhance the value of some historic watercress beds, hidden away with no public access, and overgrown. (*Sites of Special Scienti1ic Interest)

Scarlet lace cap fungus Building an otter holt

Left: Below: Lichen Xanthoria

Vapour rises from spring water lowing into the old cress beds Hot soup for the volunteers

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When we reached the river an eerie blanket of mist drifted across the shallow bays adjacent to it, formed when the warmer spring water, gushing from several points in the hillside, is impounded by stone walled bunds. These stone walls separate the cress beds from the Windrush, and further stone bunds compartmentalise them into six distinct units. Small openings in the walls eventually allow the spring water to meet the Windrush after 5lowing across the shallow gravel base of the cress beds – when there was plenty of light, this provided ideal conditions for watercress growth. The cress beds were still being cultivated in the early 1920s but over the years have become over‐shaded by mature ash trees on one side and smaller ash, willow and hazel trees along the stone wall bunds, restricting the growth of aquatic vegetation in the bays and destabilising the structures. Our role here was to coppice the large ash and fell and treat the smaller trees, allowing more light into the cress beds to promote growth again and provide a magni5icent habitat once more for water shrews and the aquatic invertebrates such as freshwater shrimps, may5ly and caddis5ly nymphs that prop up the river’s food chain. Our 5irst major challenge was to get across the river itself but, for such adventurous volunteers, an icy log across a high, freezing river presents few dif5iculties, and not a single volunteer was swept off to their doom, which was pleasing. The woods on the opposite bank were positively heaving with interesting fungi, such as earth‐star fungus and the beautiful and whimsically‐named scarlet elf‐cup. Pretty soon we were all hard at work creating more dead‐wood habitats for the fungi, then warming up to sub‐ lethal temperatures, aided (eventually) by hot soup cooked on an open 5ire.

GWT volunteering Distinctive droppings (spraints) containing fish bones and scales betrayed the occasional presence of otters at the site, so some of the brash and logs were used to build a deluxe apartment for them to use as a cubbing den, or holt. It remains exciting to me to see how much people get out of such activities – enhancing their own local environment, with good company, beautiful scenery, brain‐numbing cold and hard work. It is yet more exciting to see good quality wildlife habitats being connected up through their work, and through the goodwill and interest of landowners throughout the Cotswolds.

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12 13 14 15 THE BLACK FIELDS A short story by Nicholas John. This is real, this ain't mere history. I can remember the faces Let me tell you about gold. You can find it running in veins, worn that blackened my childhood. And they're gone, long gone, clean by the waters in the creeks and streams up in the hills. dead and good, but my heart's still beating strong, here among Some ore lies in the riverbeds, some in the rocks above - they the ghosts. Wooden buildings burn well, my friend and I can call it "bench gold." Well, I said I could start a fire, 'cause I'd start a fire believe me, even when the air is so cold that every started so many before, high up on the tributaries of the Yukon: breath rasps from your throat and the tears in your eyes sting Bonanza Creek, Dominion Creek, anywhere the prospectors hard as frost. worked. You lit the fires to melt the permafrost, to soften the ground, so the debris and gravel could be cleared and you could Me and my daddy came up from the south early in dig. We had spent near most of '97 working our way across 1897, by boat into Skagway, 'fore crossing White Pass and on what was called the "black fields", where word had it that the down the Yukon River into Dawson. They were building it high rock was so black you could spot the gold threading through it back then, hotels and shops for the incomers, constructing from a hundred yards. My daddy had paid for his licence and, warehouses for the supplies and renting land for the log cabins one night when we were back in Dawson replenishing food and and tents that sprang up everywhere on the settlement. You needed money to buy food and equipment for the journey up to buying supplies, he heard news of deposits being found near the goldfields, whatever you hadn't brought in with you, and you Heddon Falls on White Bone Creek, so we headed back to the needed money to stake your claim in the hills. There was a mountains. It was early '98 - I remember the old year sliding pioneering spirit in the air, the hope of new prosperity and good away and my daddy toasting the new, what would be "our lucky fortune. Dawson City lived like a woman: she breathed deep year", so he said. It took us three days to reach the Falls and we and pure and could inhale you, draw you in - but you needed to found we weren't the only ones there neither; every plateau, make your luck 'fore she spat you out and took up with another. every bank of the river, had a tent pitched. Daddy said it was too It was just that kind of a place. cold and I was still too young to pan the creek with him, and besides, someone was needed to mind our belongings. So for Streets here were never paved with gold, don't ever three weeks, I held camp, clearing the ground and lighting the think that. Most of the year, everywhere was snow, thick and fires and sometimes cooking for the men mining the rivers, or hard, making your legs ache just to cross the sidewalk. If not running errands. Skinning rabbits for stew if I was lucky, or snow, when the thaw came, everything turned to mud, heavy more'n likely, boiling vegetables or warming frozen breads. An' and puddled, the dung of the horses spewed across the roads, while I earned myself some small pittance, my daddy mined the churned by the wheels of wagons and carts. There was a fire in frozen creeks, slipping and sliding amongst the tumbling '97, but that weren't me. Rumour had it, a dancehall girl started boulders and icy pools. He would work from dawn till nightfall - that one. The houses were made of wood, heated with stoves till his hands were blistered, fingers black with frostbite from and lit by candles and oil lamps and, in truth, water was scarce, turning boulders in the freezing waters, sweating his guts, especially in the winter. You can't put a fire out with snow and digging with his bare hands or the rotten, wooden handle of a ice, though many people tried. We were out at Triple Creek an' shovel or a pick. we could see the reddening glow from camp that night an' for two nights after. An' all for nothing as it would turn out. He never said so much to me, but I think the light was dyin' inside. He staked his An' all the while, more prospectors would arrive in town, drawn by news of the finds, of the promise of wealth claim up on Heddon, trusting on that one throw of the dice, that beyond imagination, and the men would come down rich from one find that would change our lives. And sure, he found the the fields, and Dawson rose in all its godless glory; the occasional poor deposit, the odd speck here and there, but dancehalls, the saloons, the Grand Hotel, the brothels and the nothing that did more than just pay for another week of meagre gambling dens. They said you could pay for whatever you rations and bandages for his bleeding hands. wanted in gold dust while they weighed it on the countertop. They said a man could drink and whore himself to death on the We came back down to Dawson for good in the spring specks of dust swept off the saloon floor. But they said a lot of of 1899. They called her Klondike City now, but like the girls in things back then. the dancehalls that now stood empty, she'd seen better days. Front Street echoed to the sounds of the passing years and the buildings on York lay deserted and abandoned. Wages for casual labour were so low, a day's work barely made enough to eat. The Gold Rush was over, a new century dawned, but so many thousands had lost, not made, their fortunes. You either died trying or you gave up and sailed away.

My father was a broken man. He left what spirit he had up on the black fields and that was where he left his soul too. An' all for nothing. Nothing. Just to die one frozen night in the April snow, lying cold on a shit-filled backstreet, knifed down in front of me by four of them for a handful of silver and his claim of - precisely nothing. Not worth the paper it was written on. Not worth the blood in the snow.

16 An' so they burned. Their blood and their whiskey and their sins. If my daddy had taught me one thing, it was how to start a fire and through my tears, the Grand Hotel burned like a torch in the dark and collapsed in upon itself and took them to their hell. I can see it now, behind the shadows, behind the memories, behind the charred and blackened remains of what it once was. What the whole town had been, before the fires and the epidemics killed her and left these ghosts singing on the north wind.

And on that night in April, whatever was left in me as a child, became a man, just like my daddy. We never went home, either of us. I left Dawson that same dark night, headed back up to the goldfields and worked for those others that were left up there, lighting fires and digging dirt for those still chasing their dreams. Or, like me, hiding from their past. I never saw my mama again; couldn't figure on telling her the truth of how her husband died, or how her firstborn became a murderer. Wooden buildings burn well, my friend. Nicholas John 17 monthly wine column by Peter Creek of Sheldons Wine Cellars, Shipston-on-Stour.

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(20/02) Recent research including a survey of businesses in the Source: www.defra.gov.uk (05/02) Cotswolds AONB has revealed the total value of economic activity within the AONB to be worth around £2billion, with many At least 90,000 would-be business people will benefit from a new businesses significantly benefitting from being located within the £20M business training scheme being funded by the Government Cotswolds. The survey included businesses across all industry to bring new skills and business knowledge to rural areas, sectors throughout the Cotswolds - 140 responses were received. assisting them to take up new opportunities in UK & export The results will be presented at the Board’s Annual Forum on 1st. markets. March at Forest Green Rovers, Nailsworth. www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/annual-forum-2013 Owen Paterson the Environment Secretary said: “Having the right skills to run a business is crucial if budding Among some of the key findings arising from the research entrepreneurs want to be successful. For too long the needs of include: rural business people have been overlooked. Businesses in the • Total business income in the AONB is estimated at £5.3billion remotest parts of the country will now have access to the best and Gross Value Added (a measure of economic contribution) is training, so they can grow and help our country to compete even estimated to be £2billion. more in the global race.” • The proportion of self-employed (16%) is double the national average. Through the Rural Development Programme for England (RUPE) • Over two thirds of businesses surveyed said that the quality of Defra will provide 70% of the costs of training to be matched the environment had a positive effect on their business. funded by individuals or their employers. • Other positive benefits of being located in the Cotswolds including being centrally located; having access to tourist Courses will be available in subjects such as business and markets; helping the image and marketing of products and management, market opportunities and information technology, services; and good infrastructure. and will range from one-day workshops to industry-recognised • More than 30% of businesses stated that there were no qualifications ran on college campuses, in village halls, on farms negative effects of being in the Cotswolds. and in business centres. • Among the negative effects stated were: increased costs; lack of affordable housing; and staff recruitment difficulties The courses are open to adults working in the agricultural, • Over 60% of businesses surveyed use their AONB location a lot horticultural and forestry sectors or an individual or small for marketing purposes. business in the traditional rural skills or tourism sectors based in • Nearly half of businesses indicated that being located in the a rural area. Cotswolds and the AONB has a positive impact on turnover; not surprisingly this was higher among tourism-related businesses Training provision will focus on the following themes: (61%). 1. Business Management, Leadership and ICT Skills for • In terms of the overall impact of being located in the Cotswolds, Agriculture, Horticulture & Forestry 86% of all businesses stated that it has a positive impact. 2. Knowledge Transfer, Innovation and Technical Skills for Agriculture Horticulture & Forestry 3. Agricultural Animal Health and Welfare A reminder about what it means to be part of an 4. Marketing and Supply Chain Efficiency for Agriculture, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Horticulture & Forestry • The Cotswolds was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural 5. Resource Use Efficiency in Agriculture, Horticulture and Beauty (AONB) in 1966 in recognition of its rich, diverse and Forestry high quality landscape. 6. Traditional Rural Skills and Rural Tourism • The Cotswolds AONB is looked after by the Cotswolds Conservation Board – an independent organisation established Training will be delivered through a range of packages, formats in 2004 which has 37 members - 15 nominated by local and methods e.g. courses, workshops, seminars, mentoring, authorities, 8 by parish councils and 14 appointed by the conferences etc. and Defra is currently working with the training Secretary of State. providers to develop the detail. This is a staged approach so • The Cotswolds is the second largest protected landscape in contracting for the training activity is an on-going process and England after the Lake District National Park and represents this website will be updated as contracts are awarded 10% of the total AONB area in the UK. It covers 2,038 square www.rdpenetwork.defra.gov.uk/funding- kilometres (790 square miles), stretching from Warwickshire sources/skills-and-training and Worcestershire in the north, through Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, down to Bath and Wiltshire in the south. Requirements/Eligibility: • Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), along with If you are an adult working in the agricultural, horticultural and National Parks, are considered to be the most special forestry sectors or an individual/small business in the traditional landscapes in the country and belong to an international rural skills/tourism sectors based in a rural area you can sign up family of protected areas. There are 38 AONBs in England and to the training. Wales, and a further eight in Northern Ireland. www.landscapesforlife.org.uk In the majority of cases 70% of the training will be funded through RDPE the remaining 30% will need to be funded by you So why are the Government encouraging developers to build or your employer. across it ‘at will’ ignoring local planning policy and opinion? Ed

20 21 CHIPPING NORTON TOWN CHIPPING NORTON TOWN Chipping Norton COUNCIL COUNCIL Police Station MEETS on the 3rd MONDAY Notes on the Council Meeting for London Road, Chipping Norton, Parishioners are very welcome to attend all DATE 18th March OX7 5AW meetings; some confidential matters may be Full Minutes of meetings, associated Non-Emergency Number discussed by councillors in camera. committee meetings and correspondence are Parishioners wishing to ask about local issues available in the Council Office. 101 are given 5 minutes at the start of the meeting, Mrs V Oliveri Opening Times subject to advising the clerk in advance. Monday to Friday The Guildhall, Goddards Lane 8am – 4pm Local groups and organisations can apply for Chipping Norton, grants; Council also supports a variety of Oxon, OX7 5NJ Saturday & Sunday – Closed causes including The Town Museum, 01608 642341 (9am to 1pm) Closed for lunch 12.15 – 1pm The Silver Band, The Lido, The Theatre and [email protected] other charities operating in the parish. Town Councillors are available before and West Oxfordshire Business Award – 2013 short-listers after the meetings. District & County Councillors, representatives of the Police and local press may attend. Last month the Caterham Formula 1 facility outside Leafield hosted the shortlisting ceremony for the 2013 West Oxfordshire Business Awards , bringing together WEST OXON DISTRICT COUNCIL Committee Meetings this year’s entrants with sponsors and past winners for Members of the public are encouraged to attend some high-powered networking and socialising. meetings of the Council and Committees. If you live in the District and are on the Electoral Register you can take part in the meetings. Information about this and Six Chipping Norton businesses have made it through to the final stages your Councillors and committee members is available online at www.westoxon.gov.uk of the WOBAs.

MARCH 2013 CETA - (finalists in two categories - the Owen Mumford Innovation Award Monday 4 Uplands and the STL Communications Large Business Award Wednesday 13 Cabinet Monday 18 Lowlands Chipping Norton Builders - finalists in the CT-UK New Business category. Thursday 21 Audit & General Purposes Chippy Lido - finalist for the Agrivert Green Business Award Thursday 28 Himan Resources Committee Meetings are held at the Council Offices, Chipping Norton Literary Festival and mark making * are both finalists in Woodgreen, Witney. Start time 2pm. the Urban Element Social Media Award. For further information contact Committee Services: 01993 861523 The Theatre are hoping to repeat their 2012 success and are finalists in EMail: [email protected] both the Heythrop Park Leisure, Tourism & Hospitality Award and the Agendas, reports and minutes are available Strategic Mentors Small Business Award. online: www.westoxon.gov.uk/meetings Oxfordshire Rural Communities Council is a finalists for the Rural Business Award category, sponsored by .

With Chippy businesses challenging for seven of the eleven awards Chipping Norton may find itself listed for The Coutts West Oxfordshire Business of the Year Award, which is chosen from the winners of each of BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS THIS MONTH: Willersley, Village Hall 04/03 the awards. Stow, Royal British Legion 25/03 Do Something Amazing... WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED on 8th March 2013 at a Gala Dinner & 96% of us rely on the other 4% to give blood. Awards Ceremony at Heythrop Park. Please don’t leave it to someone else. For more information/ to book an appointment to attend a session, please call 0300 123 23 23 or visit ROAD CLOSURES INFORMATION Tel: 01452 425000 www.blood.co.uk Information continuously updated. Celebrate English Tourism Week Please check by phone or online (www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/roadworks) 16-24 March 2013! In November Thames Valley Police Constabulary introduced You may be running a bed and breakfast 101 -the new national police non emergency telephone establishment, pub, café, local attraction number. Our current non-emergency number 0845 090 or be the managing director of a national 1234 will be phased out. Calls will cost 15p irrespective of hotel or restaurant chain… every sector how long that call may last, on landlines and mobiles. counts! So take advantage of English Tourism Week to promote your business. Call 999 In an emergency, such as when a crime is in www.visitengland.org – for loads of ideas, progress, when there is danger to life or when violence is both simple and grand, on how to be involved. being used or threatened.

22 23 24 Rural Cinema – March

The Playhouse, St GeorgeF s Hall The Old School Victoria Hall Lower Town Hall BLOCKLEY BOURTON-ON-THE-HILL BOURTON ON THE WATER CHIPPING CAMPDEN Thursday 28 March Saturday 30 March Monday 18 March Friday SKYFALL ARGO ARGO SEE LOCAL NOTICE BOARDS 2013 Season Tickets available – £25 7.15pm Tickets £3.50 Film 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets £3 Film 8.00pm, Tickets £4 Doors/Bar open at 7.00pm – 7.45pm film refreshments. Advance tickets/queries 01386 841206 Advance tickets £3.50/ on the door £4 Family Tickets £10 (2 adults, 2 children) from Ch C. Information Centre/on door. Advance tickets/queries 01386 700647/593386 Tickets/queries 01451 822365

Village Hall Screen On The Green, Village Hall Village Hall Village Hall CHURCHILL ILMINGTON LITTLE WOLFORD ODDINGTON Friday 8 March Friday 22 March Thursday 21 March Tuesday 19 March SKYFALL SKYFALL ARGO ARGO Film 7.30pm, Tickets £4.50 Film 7.30pm Tickets £3.50 (students £2.50) Film 7.30pm Tickets £4.00 inc. refreshments 7for7.30pm Advance tickets/queries 01608 659903 Advance tickets from Village Store & Red Lion Advance tickets/queries Advance tickets/queries 01451 830817 [email protected] Licenced bar. Refreshments 01608 684223 or 01608 674200 Refreshments served in the interval

And why not join other film fans for supper – byarrangementwithTheChequers,special St. Andrew's Church Films two course film menu for £15: main course at NAUNTON 6pm, dessert after the film. Tuesday 7 March Skyfall (13 PG) 143mins BOOKING ESSENTIAL. To book film and ARGO supper or just film ring Jackie on 01608 Daniel Craig is back as James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running 659903 or email Doors open 7.15 for refreshments, Film 7.45. film franchise of all time. BondFsloyaltytoM(JudiDench)istestedasherpastcomesbackto [email protected] Tickets £3.00 at the door haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter 01451-850897 or bob@markets- how personal the cost. international.com Argo (R) 120mins Thriller comedy about the covert operation to rescue six Americans who sought refuge in the REGULAR EVENTS Canadian embassy when Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979.

First MON Folk Night Ebrigton Arms 9pm. www.theebringtonarms.co.uk MON Dance Fusion Adult dance class. Mixed styles. No experience necessary. Exercise in a FirstTHURS Free Self Defence / Jeet Kune Do Lessons for Men and Women (Adults only) fun way. No pre-booking necessary. Chipping CampdenTown Hall 9.30-10.30. £4.50 Stow-on-the-Wold Primary School 07977 560086 www.selfdefencevoucher.co.uk MON Scottish Country Dancing St Edwards Church Rooms, Stow. 5.30-7pm Children THURS Belly Dancing Informal & relaxed classes for ladies of all ages, shapes & sizes and 7-9pm Adults 01451 831876 Longborough V Hall, 7.30-9pm, Beginners 7-8.30pm, 01608 663480 MON Childrens Dance Class Chipping Campden Town Hall.6-8 yrs 4-5pm, 9-11 yrs 5- THURS Quiz Night at The Volunteer Inn, Ch.Campden 8.30pm 01386 840688 6pm. Single class £7pp, Monthly membership £22pp. 07527 757057 FRI Belly Dancing New beginners class. 11-12.30The Church Room, Chipping Campden. MON Yoga Chipping CampdenTown Hall. 2pm Starts again 21st Sept 01386438537 Informal & relaxed classes for ladies of all ages, shapes & sizes. 01608 663480 MON ‘Old Sweats NAAFI break’ at Royal British Legion, Bourton on the Water (10am FRI Blockley Brass Band 7.30-9.30pm St George's Hall. Rachel Galt 01386 841677 -12) for anyone to come along for a cup of tea and a chat, FRI Dance Fusion Adult dance class, mixed styles. No experience necessary. MON Burford Orchestra Rehearsals 7.30-9.30pm at Witney Community Primary &MON All Welcome. Ch.Campden Town Hall, 9.30-10.30 £4.50 (conc £2.50) School OX28 1HL. [email protected]. 07984 492 976. New members FRI Active & Able Fitness & Falls classes for older people at the Baptist Church welcome; no audition. Rooms, Stow 01285 623450 MON Powerfreestyle Kickboxing at Guiting powerVillage hall. Juniors 7-7.50pm.Adults FRI Line Dancing Willersey Village Hall, near Broadway 01386 438537 7.50-8.30pm. freestyle Kickboxing or adult Boxersize. CallAdam 07774285459 FRI Active & Able Classes Posture & Stability –Tai Chi Chi Kong at Bourton,Moreton MON Bridge Club @ Northleach 7.30pm. Partners not necessary. Non members and Stow. 01285 623450 welcome, 01285 750288 Tim Morris FRI Moore Cottage Lunch Club Bourton Hospital from 10am -2 pm. Jenny Stanfield Last MON Whist Drives at Burmington Village Hall. 7.30pm. In aid of the village hall 824338 or Jill Robbins 810325 MON term time Creative Writing –sessionsaimtostimulatecreativity,encouraging SAT Drama sessions for 5-7 year olds. 10-11am or 11.15-12.15. Lead by Lucy participants to share their work. 10-12noon.Ann Gill 01608 649102. £60 per Joseph, sessions build confidence and creativity through improvisation. £55 per 10 week term. Ch Norton Theatre, OX7 5NL. 01608 642350 10 week term. Ch Norton Theatre, OX7 5NL. 01608 642350 TUES Fit For Life at Baden-Powell Hall, Bourton.Tai Chi: 9.30-10.30am £4/session. Balance & strength: 11-12noon £4/ session. Contact Denise Nethercott 07909874186 or email [email protected] TUES Pottery Classes Lower Swell Village Hall, 9:30am to 12:00 noon 10 week term £90 plus £15 materials/firing cost. Beginners welcome Contact [email protected] 01451 870734 TUES term time Sessions include drama exercises, breath & voice work, BOX OFFICE – 01608 642350 exploring –plays, improvisation and characterisation. 6.30pm – 8pm [email protected] www.chippingnortontheatre.com (intermediate); 8.15pm – 9.45pm (beginners) £55 per 10week term. Ch Norton Theatre, OX7 5NL. 01608 642350 March 2013 First WED Free Martial Arts Lessons Separate adult & children’s classes. Chipping Norton 1 Lee Hurst FILMS All these films at 7.30pm Leisure Centre. 07977 560086 www.martialartsvoucher.co.uk, 2 Flamenco Dance Ensemble 10&30 Lincoln WEDS Weds Walk Easy/moderate walks. Start at 10am. 01451 862000 7-16 The Glass Menagerie 11 Zero Dark Thirty WEDS Chipping Campden Bridge Club 7.15 for 7.30pm Duplicate Bridge. Upper 20 For Once 24&26 Hyde Park on Hudson Town Hall.Non members welcome.Partners not necessary,01608 664456 22 Philomusica 29 The Master FirstTHURS Free Martial Arts Lessons Separate adult & children’s classes Stow-on-the-Wold 27&28 Boeing Boeing! Primary School. 07977 560086 www.martialartsvoucher.co.uk, 25 26 27 28 Market Days March 2013 BOURTON ON THE WATER Full Information is available at the Visitor Information Centres (see below). Farmers Market 4th Sunday, 9.30–1300 Car Boot Sale – Countrywide forecourt 2nd Sunday, 9.30am (Mar to Oct) (for Northleach & Fosse Lions Club) EXHIBITIONS CHIPPING CAMPDEN W I Country Market every Thursday, 9–11am -13 Nature's Best An exhibition of ceramics, fine art, furniture and photography Country Market every Friday, 9–11am Weekly Market every Wednesday by cooperative members. 10.00-17.00 daily The Gallery at the Guild The Old Farmer's Market 3rd Saturday morning Silk Mill Sheep Street Chipping Campden GL55 6DS. 07711009393 CHIPPING NORTON -3 The Simple Life: the Guild of Handicraft artisans and their families, Farmer’s Market 3rd Saturday, monthly from 8.30am Country Market every Saturday 8.45–11.00 Lower Town Hall their transition from East London to Chipping Campden and what became of (with Farmer’s Market on 3rd Saturday) them after the Guild disbanded in 1908.Tues to Sun10.00-17.00 Court Barn Weeklymarket everyWednesday Museum Church Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6JE. 01386 841951 KINGHAM 15-24 April Bright and Beautiful, Great and Small An exhibition of ceramics, Farmer’s Market 1st Sunday, 10am–1pm (June to Sept) MORETONINMARSH paintings and textiles by cooperative members Sue Calcutt, Caroline Green and Weekly Market every Tuesday, 9–3.30pm Jackie Stringer.Open daily 10.00-17.00 The Old Silk Mill Sheep Street Chipping Country Market every Thursday, 9.30–12noon Campden GL55 6DS. 07870417144 NORTHLEACH every Wednesday, 8.30–3.30pm STOW ON THE WOLD DIARY Farmer’s Market 2nd Thursday, 9.30–13.00pm Della Robbia and Contemporary Potter Heidi Warr.Court Barn Musuem, Church 1Women'sWorldDayofPrayerInterdenominational service. Speaker Helen St, Chipping Campden, GL55 6JE. 11.00-16.00. www.adantiques.com 07811 Munro. Refreshments after the service.All are welcome. St Catharines Church, 783518 Chipping Campden. 14.00. www.wwdp-natcomm.org 01386 840261 22 Tea Dance in Bourton-on-the-Water Come and enjoy an afternoon 1BonhamsValuationDayValuations £3 per item with Simon Davies of dancing. Royal British Legion Hall, Bourton-on-the-Water.£3. 14.00-16.30. Bonhams, Oxford & others. In aid of Bledington Music Festival. Bledington 07977 976320 Village Hall.10.00-15.00. 22 Bledington Village Hall – Hot Cross Bun Morning Coffee & hot cross 2TheBigStandUpNightHosted by Jo Romero. Creative Cows, Campden buns.10.30am-12noon. Stalls: including ‘Once Bitten’ handmade chocolates Comedy Club. Refreshments by the Eight Bells. Church Rooms, Calf Lane, and ‘Wild Berries’ preserves.All proceeds to Village Hall funds. Chipping Campden. Strictly limited £12.50. Doors open at 20.00, starts at 23-7 April The Big Batsford Chicken Hunt an Easter Egg Hunt with a difference!Find 20.30. 01386 849228 the chickens hiding in the Arboretum and win a chocolate Easter Egg! No 2IntroductiontoBeekeepingThis one day course is an ideal introduction to booking required. Batsford Arboretum, Nr Moreton-in-Marsh. £2.50 plus the world of beekeeping. No prior knowledge required.Adlestrop Village Hall. normal admission charge. 09.00-17.00. www.batsarb.co.uk 01386 701441 £39 including light lunch & refreshments. Booking required. 01608 659396 24 Battle of Stow Walk Marking the 367th anniversary of the Battle of Stow, 2-3 Flea Market and Collectors Fair Antiques, collectables, jewellery, new Simon Marsh will lead a walk to the site of the battlefield.The C/P adjacent to children’s books, greeting cards, militaria, silver,arts and crafts, glass, teddy Tesco,Stow-on-the-Wold.Free to members of the BattlefieldsTrust.Non- bears, perfumery and much more. Snacks, tea and coffee upstairs. Disabled members £5, family groups £7. 13.30.Approx. 2 hours/4 miles.All age groups. friendly. St Edwards Hall,The Square, Stow on the Wold. Free Entry. 10.00- Dogs on leads welcome. www.stowcivicsociety.co.uk 01451 833783 16.00. 01451 870675 24 Farmers Market Bourton-on-the-Water.Fresh, high quality food direct from 8MaudesleyandShoesmithareDeviousMindsWestcote Village Hall at local farmers and small producers. Countrywide Stores, Station Road, Bourton- 7.30pm.A show like no other by two members of the Magic Circle.Tickets on-the-Water.09.00-12.30. 01451 844134 £10 (including first drink) from 01993 831196 or 832981.Supportedby 24 Bourton & Sherborne Hockey Club Easter Prize Bingo Royal British Air in G. Legion Hall, Bourton-on-the-Water.Doors open 19.00 Eyes down 19.30. 9‘ArtforBusinessandBusinessforArt’from The Wychwood Workshops 01451 822065 Shipton-under-Wychwood. Visit thewychwoodworkshops.co.uk or call 01993 28 Moreton-in-Marsh Flower Club Sallying Forth AdemonstrationbySally 832357. Taylor.Visitors welcome.BroadwellVillage Hall,Broadwell,Glos.Doors 10 Mothering Sunday Cream Tea Special on the Glos.Warks Railway. Must open19.00 Meeting starts: 19.30. be pre-booked at least two weeks in advance. Early booking is advised to be 28 Cotswold Cricket Museum Jazz & Buffet TheJBJazz&BluesBandwith sure of a seat.Adults: £19 Children: £11.The Railway Station,Toddington, Glos. pianist & vocalist John Beckingham. £15 includes buffet & entry. Cotswold GL54 5DT. 14.30. 01242 621405 Cricket Museum, 7 & 8 Brewery Yard, Sheep Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, GL54 11 The Redoubling of the Cotswold Line Talk by David Northey who leads 1AA. 20.00. 01451 870083 the project by Network Rail to double the Cotswold (Railway) Line. St. George's 6&7 April The Creative Craft Group will be holding a Craft Fair from 10am until 4pm Hall, Park Road, Blockley.Visitors & guests pay £2 on the door.20.00. in the Redesdale Hall, Moreton in Marsh. 01386700418 13 North Cotswold Arts Association Jonathan Pitts, demonstration in mixed media, something for the adventurous! 2.00- 4.00pm. All welcome. Broadwell Tickets, Booking information etc. from – Village Hall.More information Sandi 01451 822550 BOURTON ON THE WATER VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE,VictoriaStreet,Bourtonon 14 Valuation Day Free valuations on jewellery,silver,gold,paintings,objet d'art, the Water. 01451 822583 Open 9.30-5pm Mon-Fri: 9.30-5.30 Sat: Closed Sunday E: [email protected] antiques etc. Valuation donations to Helen and Douglas House. Preston Room, Huffkins,The Square, Stow-on-the-Wold. 10.00-14.00. www.jphumbert.com BURFORD INFORMATION CENTRE, High St, Burford, OX18 4LS. Open (Nov-Feb) Mon-Sat 9.30-4pm. 01993 823558. E: [email protected] 01327 359595 15 The Rissingtons Local History Society Ancient Woodlands of CHIPPING NORTON VISITOR INFORMATION POINT Gloucestershire. John Heathcote.Will cover flora & fauna in Lineover Wood near Guildhall, Goddards Lane, Chipping Norton OX7 5NJ. Office hours Mon-Fri. Cheltenham. Non-members welcome.Wyck Rissington Village Hall,Wyck STOW ON THE WOLD VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE To be advised Rissington, Glos. 20.00. 01451 824161 MORETON AREA CENTRE, High Street, Moreton. 01608 650881 16-17 AD Antiques Signed and Designed Ceramic Design from 1870 Selling Mon 8.45am-4.00pm,Tues-Thurs 8.45am-5.15pm, Fri 8.45am-4.45pm, Sat 10.00am-1.00pm exhibition of British art pottery by factories and designers such as William de (BST), 10.00am-12.30pm (BWT), Sun CLOSED. E: [email protected] Morgan, Martin Brothers,Wedgwood, Doulton, Moorcroft, Pilkingtons Lustre,

29 30 31 Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust BIGGEST EVER EVENTS PROGRAMME

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is launching the biggest wildlife events programme that the county has ever seen, with over 140 bookable events and 3,600 places. “The events that we run are wildly inspiring,” said Head of People and Nature, Sarah Mason “from night owl walks to otter holt building, fossil hunting to looking for dragons in the Forest of Dean!”

This year's programme sees the return of popular bushcraft events led by instructor Nick Skinner, where you will enjoy lighting fires, whittling wood, shelter building and even longbow making. He will also be leading more adventurous types down the in open canoes, where you will be making and sleeping in your own shelters for the night!

There will also be the annual ‘Walk 4 Wildlife’, the Trust’s sponsored walk, which this year takes place in nature reserve, over 600 acres of ancient woodland near Wickwar on the 9th June.

New for 2013 are wildlife photography workshops led by professional wildlife photographer Iain Green, who will be running a series of exciting wildlife photography workshops at Trust nature reserves throughout the year.

You don’t have to be a member of the Trust to take part and you can find details of all Trust events plus new ones at www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/whats-on

The Cotswold Rivers Living Landscape Programme aims to reconnect and restore healthy river habitats throughout the Cotswolds. For this to succeed , it is essential for communities to value and get involved in protecting their local wildlife.

A map showing the main watercourses covered by the Cotswold Rivers Living Landscape programme Come and help us and experience for yourself the valuable work we do in the county. - Survey and Monitoring: Regular training events are put on for our volunteers, to enable wildlife identification skills and get involved in projects to monitor our river wildlife. - Invasive Species Control: Plants like Himalayan balsam can really damage the diversity of our riverbanks, and regular ‘balsam bashes’ are organised throughout the summer months. Mink monitoring rafts also need to be checked for signs of this invasive, non-native predator of water voles and water birds. - Habitat Enhancement: Help to maintain our rivers by joining work parties to remove scrub from the waterside. This promotes the growth of low bank-side and in-stream vegetation that water voles need.

Other Events: Other events include making and erecting bird and bat boxes, hedge-laying and preventing riverbank erosion.

32 ChipLitFest is WOBA Storybook Dads is ChipLitFest 2013 Finalist 2013's Charity

The Festival has been named as a finalist in the Urban Element Social Media category at the 2013 West Oxfordshire Business Awards (WOBA), beating tough competition to reach This year's charitable support from the festival this year’s shortlist of the region’s most goes to Storybook Dads, an organisation which dynamic and entrepreneurial businesses.. “It is enables imprisoned parents to maintain family a real honour to be recognised by WOBA as contact by reading books and recording stories one of West Oxfordshire’s leading businesses and messages on to CDs and DVDs for their in social media,” says Cécile Jenkins, Marketing children. StoryBook Dads works in over 100 UK Manager. “We have an amazing team of prisons and has helped over 20,000 volunteers who tweet, pin, blog, and post on beneficiaries. Facebook about the festival line up for 2013, www.storybookdads.co.uk and their dedication, creativity and hard work is having a real effect on our business. When our tickets went on sale via our website, we The 2013 short story competition managed to create a real buzz solely through closes 5thMarch our social media networks and one of our In keeping with the aim of our charity partner events sold out almost immediately.” Storybook Dads, the theme of the competition www.chiplitfest.com is ‘Family’. Look online for more information.

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"It really is our finest line-up ever," says festival organiser, Hugh Phillimore: "I have the legends, the rock stars, the popstars – creating a “must- see” line-up for every generation." And of course more Chipping Norton talent – including new girl group False Alarm.

On Friday 1st March Phil announces the bill live on Radio Oxford Breakfast Show, followed by announcements on local Heart FM, Absolute Radio, Witney TV and Vintage TV. The bill will include the winners of Chipping Norton’s Battle of the Band, where High Phillimore was a judge.

Four-part vocal group, False Alarm, became the first band announced for this year’s Cornbury Festival 5, 6 & 7 July, after a tense Battle of the Bands competition at Chipping Norton School secured the band a spot on the Festival’s popular Riverside Stage. Grace Pashley, Tazu Walden, Evie Rose and Ellie Hiatt impressed the panel of judges, headed by Cornbury Festival Director Hugh Phillimore, with a skilful mash-up of Taylor Swift’s Love Story and Maroon 5’s She Will Be Loved, devised by Tazu Walden. Backed simply with an acoustic guitar from Ellie Hiatt, the powerful number showcased real vocal talent from the foursome, whose mastering of harmonies made it hard to believe they were just thirteen and fourteen-year-olds. The four friends have been playing together for a year now, but this was their first public performance and what a way to start!

Girl Power The evening was a triumph for female talent with the top two spots going to all-girl groups, relegating Sam John and his disciples, who played at Cornbury last year, to third place. The second slot went to The Wayward Sisters. This was the third year sisters Phoebe, Esther and Imogen Mead performed at the Chipping Norton Battle of The Bands and their gutsy version of Lady Gaga’s The Edge Of Glory earned a standing ovation from the crowd rounding off an outstanding show of talent from all seven competing acts.

The main stage line-up for the Festival will be released on Friday 1 March when tickets go on sale, and promises to be the best line-up ever. To mark the tenth Cornbury Festival there will be at least ten artists returning by popular demand along with at least ten new artists requested by Cornbury regulars in response to an audience survey carried out after last year’s event.

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37 38 39 40 MATT KEYTE BSc (hons) Dip (ossm) Sport and Remedial Massage Therapist Sporting or recreational Injury? Sprain or Strain? Muscle soreness or tension? Looking to enhance your training programme? Call me on 01451 830911/07966068604 Fully insured, Qualified and Professional Member of the

41 Moreton-in-Marsh Agricultural & Horse Show Society FARMS & CROPS PRIZEGIVING The Annual Moreton-in-Marsh Agricultural & Horse Show Society Farms & Crops prize- giving took place by kind permission of Tim and Gill Godwin at Fosseway Garden Centre in Moreton-in-Marsh last month. Over 70 people attended the event. Cups and trophies for competitions including Best Ley Crop, Best Managed Flock of Sheep and Champion Farm were presented by Society President, Dame Janet Trotter. The winner of the prestigious Brassey Cup, awarded for best crop production overall, was presented to Mr Greg Dancer of Manor Farm, Cornwell after a very closely contested competition. Norton Air once again sponsored the event and very kindly donated some wonderful raffle prizes, raising £252. ( photo: Mr. Greg Cancer is presented with The Brassey Cup by Dame Janet Trotter)

2013 Farms and Crops Schedules and entry details can be obtained from the Show Office in Moreton or downloaded from the web site. www.moretonshow.co.uk Or call 01608 651908

Patricia Cook Catering for every occasion 01451 830450 [email protected]

42 GARDENING SERVICES Stow-on-the-Wold - Northleach & Chipping Norton Areas LAWNS: Mowing & Edging, Turf Laid, HEDGES: Cut & Clippings Removed FRUIT & VEGETABLE PLOTS: Planted & maintained Practical advice on Composting, Digging & Planting Boarders, Pruning Roses, Shrubs & Climbers - Wisteria a Speciality, Seasonal tidy-ups, One offs or Regular visits. Many years of experience – References provided Please call David on 07928 161137

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A local family run business with over 40 years experience of garden machinery maintenance. COUNTAX GARDEN TRACTOR MAIN DEALER WITH LARGE DEMONSTRATION AREA Large selection of Brush Cutters / Strimmers and Lawn Mowers always available Please ring us we collect and deliver to your home Hayter • Lawn King • Castle • Honda • Mountfield • Westwood • Atco Qualcast • Wheelhorse • Murray • Toro • Flymo

43 44 Tel: 01608 651721 | Mob: 07974 030246 Email: [email protected]

45 46 MORETON RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB A FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION DEVELOPMENT CLUB www.facebook.com/MoretonRangers Secretary Chairman Treasurer Vice Chairman Martin Jones Tim Sedgley Graham Rees Paul Luker 2 Devonshire Terrace 6 St Pauls Court 5 Fosseway Drive 20 Oriel Grove Hospital Road Moreton- in-Marsh Moreton-in-Marsh Moreton-in-Marsh Moreton-in-Marsh Glos GL56 0ET Glos GL56 0DU Glos GL56 0ED GL56 0BL 01608 652696 01608 650611 01608 651737 01608 650955

m.jones125@btinternet Report from Martin Jones

Reports by Martin Jones, Club Secretary

Moreton Rangers 5 - Abbeymead Rovers 1

Moreton Rangers had a comfortable 5-1 victory over promotion rivals Abbeymead Rovers on Saturday 16th February in the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League division 2. Goals from Tom Newbould and a brace each for strikers Jon Neale and Ben Shurmer saw them keep in touch with the league leaders.

With matches against those challenging them in the League still to come, the run in for the end of the season will be exciting.

Bringing some Sunshine Fixture Backlog With the weather taking its toll on games Moreton With much of our football activity suspended due to the weather, may Rangers Teams will be playing fixtures weekends and we take this opportunity to take you to the sunny west coast of Africa week days throughout April to Catch Up. and the small country of Gambia. Our Reserve team and junior side’s fixtures are yet to Over the seasons Moreton Rangers benefit from sponsorship of our be confirmed. The latest home fixtures for the First team strips and some become replaced by newer ones. Instead of Team are as follows – all matches are at Home. leaving them in our store to become victims to the moths, we have looked to pass them on to other organisations such as St David’s School. Supporters welcome. Our latest donation was to Kairaba Christian School near Sat 2nd March (County Cup) Bakau in Gambia. v Minsterworth 2pm K.O Local Police Officer Dave Sat 16th March Hass and his wife Debbie v Ruardean Hill Rangers. 3pm .KO. support students at the Sat 6th April school and arranged for one v Wotton Rovers 3pm K.O. of our older football strips to be taken out to the school Tues 16th April for the students to wear. The v Stroud FC 6.30pm KO students have very basic Tues 23rd April facilities at the school and v Tuffley Rovers 6.30pm KO such things as football strips Sat 27th April and balls were unheard of. v Barnwood Utd 3pm K.O. Pictured are students from Wed 1st May the school in a Moreton v FC Barometrics 6.30pm KO Rangers Kit with their very Sat 4th May grateful head teacher Mr v Soudley 3pm K.O. Adams.

47 48 49 Moreton-In-Marsh Bowls Club From Mike Wainwright Joe Scott (right) is presented with Life Membership of Moreton-in-Marsh Bowls Club by David Stanfield , Chairman.

Joe Scott has been a very active member of the Club for many years. During that time he has held many Committee positions, including that of Chairman. He is an excellent bowler and a committed supporter of the development of the game.

Towards the end of the last century , when it became clear that the Club would have to move from its location on Hospital Road , Joe was part of a Relocation Committee which was given the difficult task of finding the Club a new home. With the help of members Barry Peaston and John Finch a new location was found – after well over a decade and some difficult and very frustrating negotiations. In October 2010 those negotiations were finally completed and the work on constructing the green and building the clubhouse was able to begin.

However, the Club`s move to its new home behind the Esso garage on the A429 did not signal the end of Joe’s involvement. As well as leading regular consultations with Council representatives and sourcing additional funding for the project, Joe took responsibility for commissioning services - a multitude of small issues which had to be addressed before being accepted by Building Control. Only when all these issues had finally been resolved was the go-ahead received for the new premises to be occupied and used. That everything was completed in time for the grand opening of the Club in April 2012 is testimony to the diligence, energy and attention to detail which Joe exhibited throughout that difficult period of the Club`s history.

In recognition of this outstanding service and of his contribution to the life of the Club, Joe was awarded Life Membership at the AGM in November 2012.

50 51 LocalClubs,Societies,AssociationsandCharities

Clubs Outdoor Activities Community Groups Chadlington Flower Club Angling Society Breathe Easy Groups (British Lung Foundation) Julie Thompson, 01608 676368 Robert Jarvis, 01608 643494 01451 822102/810520 Chipping Norton Bridge Club Banbury Ornithological Society British Heart Foundation Jack Viney, 01608 641454 Frances Buckel, 01608 644425 John Hunt, 01608 642556 Chipping Norton Historical Research Group BBOWT CHART-Transport Group Jan Cliffe, 01608 641057 Reg Tipping, 01295 251673 Eve Coles, 01608 643570 Chipping Norton Lions Club Chipping Norton Green Gym Chipping Norton Leisure Centre Martin Guy, 01608 641154 (environmental projects, Weds or Thurs mornings). 01608 643269, Burford Road OX7 5DY, 01993 861951 Chipping Norton Museum & History Society www.chippygreengym.org/ www.chippygreengym.org/ [email protected] 2nd Mondays 7.30pm, September to May Chipping Norton Horticultural Assoc Chipping Norton ‘The Lido’ Methodist Hall, West Street, Chipping Norton Sec. Eileen Forse, 01608 643275 01608 643188 Email [email protected] Chipping Norton Postcard Club Cotswold Voluntary Wardens Cotswold Volunteers Brenda Morris, 01608 643779 Wendy Lines, 01608 642360 (a local charity helping disadvantaged people) Chipping Norton Probus Rambles Association Jane Winstanley CEO, 01285 658802. [email protected] 3rd Tues at The Crown & Cushion 11am Peter Barbour, 01608 641081 Gateway Club Sec. Geoffrey Norris, 01608 676997 Rambling Club (social club for learning disabled adults) Chipping Norton Probus for Ladies Liz Desbrow, 01608 641222 2nd & 4th Weds/M at Rugby Club, Greystones, 7-9 pm. Sec Christine Carpenter, 01608 642155 Wychwood Forest (Friends of) Sara McCrea, 01608 683334, Jane Nolan, 01608 643855 Chipping Norton Railway Club Stuart Fox, 01993 832004 Hailcorns Tenants & Residents Association Alan Brain, 01608 641586 Keith Clandfield, 01608 642327 Chipping Norton Rotary Club Sports Lawrence Home Nursing Team Mons 7/ 7.30pm at The Mason’s Arms, Swerford, OX7 4AP Jenny Nolan, 01608 641549 David Haine, 07889 609221/01608 643964 Athletics Club Mind in Chipping Norton Chipping Norton Scrabble Club Allen Souch, 01865 372484 / 0798 1089457 (people with mental health difficulties) Sarah Turner. [email protected] Chipping Norton Badminton Club Di Taylor, 01608 645296, [email protected] Cotswold Investment Club Jeff, 01608 642006, Ant & Sheila, 01608 646687 Multiple Sclerosis Society Meets 2nd Tues of each month. Judith Borsay, 01608 650787 Chipping Norton Bowls Club Carol Owen, 01993 880099 Friends of the Town Hall, Chipping Norton Greystones Leisure Centre, 01608 644154 National Childbirth Trust Jackie Haworth, 01608 641368, [email protected] [email protected] 0870 444 8707 Inner Wheel Chipping Norton Cricket Club NCotswoldCommunityRadio Terry Howes, 01608 642423. www.kinghamrotary.org.uk/wwwribi.org Graham Beacham, 01608 810047 Old Police Station, Chipping Campden, www.nothcotswoldonline.com Kingham & Daylesford Rotary Chipping Norton Easy Riders – Cycling Club NCotswoldsFriendshipCentre(WithinAgeUK) Fortnightly Weds. Paul Jackson, 01608 658500 Jill Reynolds, 01608 642667 1st Wed monthly. Colin, 01993 842820/01608 650868. NCotswoldArtsAssociation Chipping Norton Golf Club [email protected] Sandi Garrett 01451 822550 01608 642383 [email protected] NCotswoldSupportGroup–Parkinson’sUK NCotswoldsBee-KeepersAssoc www.chippingnortongolfclub.com Mike Winter, 01451 831194 Julie Edwards, 01608 659396 [email protected] Chipping Norton Hockey Club Oxfordshire Association for the Blind N Cotswold CAMRA Clive Briant, 01608 677913 Bradbury Lodge OX1 4XL. 01865 725585 01451810305 [email protected] Chipping Norton Pistol & Rifle Club RNLI Chipping Norton Branch Alan Lamb, 01386 701603 John Chaplin, 01608 641245 Mike Howes, 01608 642423 NCotswoldDisabledClub Chipping Norton Rugby Football Club Save the Children Fund Joan M Oughton, 01451 830580 Andy Dawson, 01608 683352 Catherine Kimmance, 01295 810189 NCotswoldsFriendshipCentre Chipping Norton Skater Hockey Club The Cotswold Listener talking newspaper for the visually impaired. 01608 650868. [email protected] Contact Louise Murphy, 01608 644091 for details. 01242 252072. [email protected] N Cotswold National Trust Chipping Norton Town Football Club The Stroke Club (Part of Age UK) Sec Pat Poulton, 01608 651373 Shaun Green, 07845216412. [email protected] Caroline Seguro 01452/www.stroke.org.uk NCotswoldProbusClub Little Compton Bowls Club W. Oxfordshire Citizens Advice Bureau 2nd & 4th Thurs mornings, Sec Martin Hornby 01608 654356 All Year Club. Play stars April. Sue Grantham, 01608 642859 Adviceline 08444 111 444 NCotswoldU3A North Cotswold Cycling Club Contact Jenny Stanfield, 01451 824338 Club Secretary: Fiona Barnett, 01608 650217 Oddfellows (CN Branch) Riding for the Disabled Children & Young People Asocialgroup,3rdWed/MattheLowerTownHall,MarketStreet. Ann Nobbs, 01869 338404 Dave Talbot, 07815 099 884. [email protected] Tae Kwon Do Association of GB Children’s Art Club (ages 4–12) Over Norton History Group [email protected] www.combinedselfdefence.co.uk After school, Saturdays and holidays. Gill Parkes, 01386 700991 Jan Cliffe, 01608 641057 Chipping Norton Air Training Corps Round Table Music Steve Taylor, 01608 641299 Gavin Southwell, 01993 730888 Chipping Norton Army Cadets Royal British Legion Bledington Music Festival Clare Watts, 07383233272 Michael Dixon, 01608 643755 www.bledingtonmusicfestival.co.uk Chipping Norton Brownies 1st CN Royal British Legion (Women’s Section) Blockley Brass Band Tracey Shadbolt, 01608 645563 Betty Hicks, 01608 642551 Friday 7.30–9.30 pm St George's Hall. Sec: Rachel Galt 01386 841677 Chipping Norton CN Rainbows Rural Living Group Burford Orchestra (community orchestra) Alison Dunbar, 01608 644480 Betty Bryan, 01608 674255 Rehearse Monday evenings at Witney www.wospweb.com/site/The- Chipping Norton Crusaders (11–13) Salford Players (Drama Group) Burford-Orchestra [email protected] David Radcliffe, 01993 831472 Doreen Herrington, 01608 642853 Helen Jenkins, 01993 830559 Chipping Norton Crusaders (14+) Scottish Country Dance Group Burford Singers David Radcliffe, 01608 646202 Brenda Parsons, 01451 831876 www.burford-singers.org.uk. (Box Office The Madhatter Bookshop, Chipping Norton Guides 1st CN Shipston on Stour ‘The Literary Society’ High St Burford) Tracey Shadbolt, 01608 645563 Meets on the last Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm at the George Chipping Norton CHAOS (Amateur Operatic) Chipping Norton Pre-School Hotel. 01295 680628 or 01608 663482 Martin Hannant, 01608 643653 01608 643376 Tangent Chipping Norton Choral Society 6th Chipping Norton Scout Group and Explorer Scout Unit Val Carpenter, 01608 641452 Roger Stein, 01295 721522 Gp.Scout leader Ian Bushrod, Brian Sargent [email protected] The Theatre Friends Chipping Norton Creative Arts Society Chipping Norton St Mary’s Toddler Group Heather Leonard, 01608 643691 Kathee Coonerty, 01993 891312 Julie Jennings, 01608 643796 Trefoil Guild Chipping Norton Folk Club Kingfishers Playgroup Betty Gardener, 01608 641664 Peter Allum, 01608 642296 01608 659502 Twinning Association Hook Norton Film Society Methodist Junior Church Club Jo Graves, 01608 643976 Harry Smith, 01285 737417 Sec 01608 643847 WI Chipping Norton Kingham Choral Society Monkey Music (pre-school music classes) Prudence Chard, 01608 642903 Derek Woods, 01608 658738 Tues afternoons, 01242 890200 or [email protected] WI Over Norton Naunton Music Society Noah’s Ark Toddler Group Becky Pearman, 01608 643463 Barbara Steiner, 01451 850897 Justine Fowler, 01608 659853 WI Salford [email protected] Mary Smith, 01608 642577 North Cotswold Chamber Choir WI Spelsbury Shauni McGregor, 01608 642352 Michelle Horace, 01608 641749 Nortonians Amateur Dramatic Society Weavers Spinners & Dyers Club Andrew Pitman, 01993 830930 Rose Kirkcaldy, 01295 253789 Society of Recorder Players Wine Appreciation Club Jenny Graham-Brown, 01285 740156 David Megson, 01608 645382 Stour Singers Wychwood Old-Time Dance Club 01451 870361, [email protected] Margaret Pitman, 01993 810897 Stow Youth Singers (Ages 9+) Linda Green, 01451 830327 Fridays term time, 6–7pm at St Edwards Church, Stow

52 LocalAuthorities Key Information National Health in Gloucestershire Chipping Norton Town Council Childline 0800 11 11 0845 numbers now start 0300 The Guild Hall, Chipping Norton OX7 5NJ Chipping Norton First Aid Unit 01608 642341 [email protected] Rear of Chipping Norton War Memorial Community Hospital, Russell Way, Chipping Norton Intermediate Care Unit off London Road. Open Monday to Friday 5.00pm– 9.00pm, weekends Glos Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Russell Way, Off London Road. Ward clerk and nurses office in-patient and bank holidays 10.00am–9.00pm, no appointment necessary number 01608 690411. Out-patient unit which houses physio, x-ray, Chipping Norton Police Station 08454 22 becomes 0300 422 + podiatry and other clinics 01608 648200. London Road, OX7 5AW. 0845 8505505 extension number Chipping Norton Visitor Point Chipping Norton West Street Surgery The Guildhall, Middle Row. Mon to Fri 8.45–13.00, 14.00–16.00. West Street OX7 5AA 01993 861000 Appointments, 01608 642529 NHS Glos/Glos Care Services* County Councillor Hilary Hibbert-Biles Prescriptions, 01608 645999 0845 422 & 0845 659 become 01993 831822 / Mob07793 935655 All other calls, 01608 644655 [email protected] Chipping Norton White House Surgery 0300 421 + extension number District Councillor Eve Coles Horse Fair OX7 5AL. Appointments 01608 642742 01608 643570 [email protected] [email protected] District Councillor Robert Evans Crime Stoppers 0800 555 111 This means that calls from landlines 01608 643800 [email protected] First Responders (St John’s Ambulance) and mobile phones are charged at no District Councillor Annie Roy-Barker 01865 378228 [email protected] www.sja.org.uk 01608 644107 [email protected] John Radcliffe Hospital Casualty more than the cost of a call to an 01 or Oxfordshire County Council 01608 644655 02 number. County Hall New Road OX1 1ND. Tel 01865 792422 NCotswoldsDistrict,CommunityFirstResponders, West Oxfordshire Council Offices Notgrove Training Centre, SJA, Bourton-o-t-Water The Guildhall, Middle Row, OX7 5NH 3rd Monday/M at 7.30pm. You can train to be a CFR in this area, Open Mon–Thurs 08.45–13.00 & 14.00–16.00 William Warmington, 01608 651886 Fri 08.45–13.00 & 14.00–16.00. NCotswoldStJohnAmbulance&StJohnCadets (from age 10) Meets at Bourton Thurs 7–9pm, 01451 820570 WORK IN PROGRESS! These lists are as good as the information we have available. If your club or society or association isn't listed it may because we don't know about it – yet! If the information isn't up to date, then please let us know. We will do our best to keep the lists up to date – and we will For our February meeting we had a lively discussion initiated by our appreciate your involvement. (Our contact details Town Councillor David Lydiatt, who presented us with a debate on what are on p3.) Thank you. Editor. is necessary if we are to achieve success at the 2015 general election? A wide range of issues and topics were considered, including the areas which are challenging the party and causing some concern. We also considered the achievements - restricting the spiralling cost of the public sector, highlighting the challenge of unlimited immigration, and the recent material changes made by David Cameron in regard to restricting the rising cost of the proposed EU budget and working with other EU countries to achieve this.

For our next meeting on Thursday 14th March we look forward to hearing what has been achieved by our County Councillor Hilary Hibbert Biles, and her plans for future contributions from County to Chipping Norton. This will be an opportunity to hear and discuss a wide range of topics and services supplied by Oxfordshire County Council.

We are entering interesting times both nationally and locally.

Please let me know if you would like to come along to our next meeting at The Blue Boar on Thursday 14th March or on a subsequent second Thursday in the month. Join us for lunch and enjoy a friendly occasion. Have a look at our web site www.chippytories.org for updates on events.

We meet on every second Thursday in the month. For further details please give me a ring on 01608 642423 or via e mail to [email protected] . Mike Howes. Lunch Club Organiser.

53 Great Rollright Village Hall         KINGHAM VILLAGE HALL GL54 5TX Main hall, small meeting room, verandah, views, Beautiful hall; capacity 100. Spacious hall seats 110 people kitchen facilities, disabled access & toilets, parking. Off-street parking; disabled access. Large stage with artistes dressing room Suitable for meetings, parties, exhibitions. Available to hire at very competitive rates. New well-equipped kitchen, tea room, toilets/shower Private free car park. Very reasonable and flexible rates. More information: Booking Sec. 01608 730268 Contact Jacki Jones, Contact – Mike Edwards Tel 01451 850232 The Barn, Orchard Way, Kingham. OX7 6YT [email protected] Tel: 01608 658089

LITTLE WOLFORD VILLAGELONGBOROUGH HALL & SEZINCOTE LO W ER SW ELL VILLA GE H A LL VILLAGE HALL Rural position 5 miles from Moreton and Shipston, Traditional Cotswold VH on picturesque village green. accommodates 60 – 80, good parking, We are fully equipped with a few unexpected bonusses Recently refurbished – fully equipped kitchen, heating, fully equipped kitchen, china etc., •an extendable stage with pull-down screen tables & chairs. Disabled facilities. Seats up to 70. disabled facilities, projection screen, hearing loop, • 3/4 sized snooker table • table tennis table • piano Competitive rates (inc.heating) vary with use. stage available, reasonable charges • Hi-Fi system • all equipment for short mat bowls. Perfect for parties and receptions, Shows, displays, For further details T: 01451 830944 or evening classes, etc Details and booking 01608 684704 email: [email protected] Tel: 01451 831916 Eml: [email protected]

MORETON IN MARSH, REDESDALE HALLODDINGTON VILLAGE HALL SALFORD VILLAGE HALL

Two venues with a stair lift. Newly refurbished - full c/h, new kitchen and toilets. Spacious main hall with seating for 100, Attractive and flexible venue in Cotswold village. The Lower Hall accommodates 80; modern kitchen Recently refurbished. facilities. Beamed Upper Hall accommodates 120. also a smaller meeting room. Stage, pull down projector screen and hearing loop, Seats 80. Disabled access. Parking. Reasonable charges. Nearby parking. Toilets. Modern well equipped kitchen. Historic town centre building Facilities for the less able. Spacious parking. Children have access to the adjacent playground. Clerk 01608 654064 [email protected]. www.salfordvillagehall.co.uk Tel: 01608 642853 www.redesdalehall.org.uk Telephone 01451 830817 or 01451 831917

 "   !  Stow on the Wold ST EDWARDS HALL, STOW ON THE WOLD ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CLUB  "  Panelled 1st floor room with Civil War portraits & Inthe community for the community Clubroom and bar with entertainment system for discos, memorabilia. Holds 100. Spacious hall, recently refurbished, fully-equipped new karaoke, etc. Small lounge bar. Hearing loop. Lift and staircase from lobby. kitchen facilities & disabled toilets. Large and small meeting rooms with conference facilities Kitchen, toilets, anti-room. CCTV. Usage Policy: we support community-focused groups. for up to 150 (seats 60/12 dining); Competitive rates. 2 Hrs Free C/P(day) We do not lease the hall for commercial events Catering. Parking. Minibus. 2012 dates available. 01386 761514 01451 870437 [email protected] Enquiries to Colin and Alison 01451 830242 [email protected]

TO D EN H A M V ILLA G E H A LL WYCK RISSINGTON STOW YOUTH CLUB VILLAGE HALL Two large rooms (accommodating 50-60 people) in quiet location • Internet café with 12 computer terminals • Projector & screen Large Hall seats 60. Small anti-room. •Pool table • Table football • Nintendo Wii • Modern kitchen Recently refurbished • Disabled access & toilets • Rates negotiable for regular users. New modern well equipped kitchen Aperfect venue for Family Occasions The Club is next to the Police Station on the Fosseway and Disabled entrance and facilities Seats 40/20 for Dinner. Disabled access & loos accessed easily from The Square. Car parking at rear. Very attractive rates. Fully equipped kitchen DNeill: [email protected] Tel: 01451 830656. S-J Rich: [email protected] Tel: 01451 830654. Contact Karen 01608 651301 Enquiries - Call Judith Wheeler 01451 821094

ADLESTROP VILLAGE HALL LITTLE VILLAGE HALL ST GEORGES HALL, BLOCKLEY •Spacious,light,warmandcolourfulandavailableto hire for your special functions, classes or any event – Bell Bank, Blockley Fully Licensed Village Hall in good decorative order. Seating capacity 160. Large well equipped only £6 an hour Quiet rural venue with modern facilities for exhibitions, servery/kitchen. Toilets. •Discountedfeesforlongtermbookings. meetings, classes, parties, weddings, etc. Gas central heating. Off street parking for 40 cars. •Justredecorated •smallstage,kitchenfacilities, 35-50 people. Reasonable charges, ample parking. disabled toilet and disabled access. Suitable for wedding receptions etc. •Excellentparking. WITH WIRELESS BROADBAND incl BT OPENZONE. Raised stage. Excellent sound system. (No discos) Enquiries: Brian Clayton – 01386 701528 Please phone 01608 658710 for bookings and further info 01386 700880 / email [email protected]

BOURTON ON THE WATER BLO CKLEY CO M M U N ITY Victoria Hall, H ERITAGE CEN TRE THE ROYAL BRITISH Bourton on the Water Recently refurbished, the Jubilee Hall seats 80. LEGION BRANCH HALL Available to hire - very competitive rates. Light, bright and warm, drop down screen, parking. Local functions, childens parties etc welcome Available for hire; 150 seated / 250 standing. Disabled access & facilities Suitable for all sorts of events. Very good rates. Ample off-road parking. Office Tel: 01451 824303 Call Richard Mooney 01451 820679 Enquiries to Laurie Clayton, 01386 701528 for bookings and information

BRO AD W ELL VILLA GE H A LL CONDICOTE VILLAGE HALL EVENLODE VILLAGE HALL New modern village hall built in Cotswold stone adjacent to Green in quiet village Lovely rural location with spacious parking. The perfect setting for that special occasion. Seats 90, Large main hall, & 2 meeting rooms. •weddings, parties, clubs, classes, and family events. Ideal for classes, clubs, parties, receptions, Stage with electric drop down screen. •Large car park, modern kitchen, pull-down projector presentations & family events. Built in sound system with microphone and hearing loop. screen, disabled toilets and access, hearing loop Newly decorated; light and spacious. Modern kitchen Kitchen. Toilets. Disabled facilities. Contact details: Philip Johnson 07587 097795 or at and loos. Disabled access. New pull-down projector email: [email protected] screen. Tables, chairs, china and cutlery available. Bookings - Frances Dodwell on 01451 830994 Come and see what we have to offer Please call Philip Pratt, 01608 652499/ 07051 867493.

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Suitable for meetings, parties and exhibitionsThis list has been updated to include more entries. Accommodates 60 Each entry contains the key information about the Kitchen facilities, hearing loop, disabled accessfacilities and available, contact details etc.. in an A-Z list facilities, public car park nearby (that circulates each month) Competitive rates (incl heating) vary with use Entries are free. Booking details from June Crowe 01608 650641 Editor

54 Local Business Directory For Stow Times, Moreton Times, Bourton Times and Chipping Norton Times Animals & Pets CHIROPODIST / PODIATRIST Dog Walking/ Sitting Service Telephone Carol 01451 820661 Dr R J Davis HCPC Registered CH 17482 Accommodation For all your Foot / Lower Limb Healthcare needs 3* Tourist Board Approved B&B, Bourton O/T Water Clinics in Stow ; Chipping Norton ; Bloxham Lin Stevens 07740 805250. “Comfortable & friendly” Home visits available throughout all Cotswolds area Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Tel. 01451 831277 or 07776136208 email [email protected] GRIMEBUSTERS 01993 868924/ 07778 298312 Professional service at unbeatable rates Marquees Clothes & Curtain/Alterations dave payne electricians COTSWOLD MARQUEES LTD Domestic, Commercial and Industrial Work How to Use a SEWING MACHINE or How to Make Tel 01608 686900 Fixed Wire inspections for Business and Landlords. Curtains, Cushions, Blinds or Clothes www.cotswoldmarquees.co.uk Electric Boilers and Heating Energy efficient Lighting www.sewing-tuition.co.uk•Ring Sue on 01608 644877 Pest Control Services 01451 861758 07866458044 [email protected] Beautiful Handmade Curtains and Blinds MIKE VICKERS PEST & MOLE CONTROL Domestic, Commercial, Agricultural Tel 01608 642531/07788 668740 From Re-Wires to Changing a Light Bulb www.jackie-whitehill-handmade-soft-furnishings.com ‘Watt ever you Want!’ Stow on the Wold Tel: 078376 02004 [email protected] Photography BERNIE’S ALTERATIONS – 35 yrs experience Tel 01451 833831 or 07768 305427 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY. 0145186012 Florist [email protected] Competitive Prices - Album │CD │A4 photo canvas. ALLIUM FLORIST www.alliumflorist.co.uk Property & Garden Services More than just Flowers 1 Oxford Street, Moreton-in-marsh, GL56 0LA Tel 01608 650630 Batsford Timber Ltd – Fencing & Sheds 01608 651096. www.batsfordtimber.co.uk Brian Halling - Window Cleaner Marsh Flowers 01608 651406 | 07969 934230 FLOWERS FOR... TREE CONNECTION.CO.UK - Climbing tree surgeon Weddings, Sympathy, Every Day Fully insured & qualified. Free quotes. Excellence in Design, Service & Value 07588417514 (E)[email protected] High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0AD Professional Services 01608 652234 [email protected] Just Wills - Will Writing Service. Your instructions are taken in the comfort of your own home. Hair & Beauty From £47.50 single will £80 joint/will. No payment until your will is produced. 01608 643142 or [email protected] Health & Fitness PHYSIOTHERAPY – Orthopaedic & sports injury specialists. WORK SMARTER MCSP HPC Reg. Spinal & joint pain. Acupuncture. JSM BOOK KEEPING SERVICES Small business Working all hours? Bourton-on-the-Water. 01451 822660 specialist, monthly accounts, VAT, Payroll, etc.. 07779 384998 / 01608 644242 No time to have a life? PILATES 4 U - Tel Robert - 07500 188 445 For £22 / m this space can work for you in every Bourton on the Water/ Northleach www.robertpilates4u.com Oliver Bridge Architect home and business in our delivery area. Home Care Fine Quality Traditional Architecture. New Houses, Extensions, Garden Buildings. 07789 175 002 M & H CARE SERVICES www.oliverbridge.eu Personal Care & Support. NVQ Qualified & fully insured. 07540 237948 / 0778 552 5640 Taxi/Private Hire SHIRLEY - REGULAR RESPITE CARE . CRB. STOW TAXI SERVICE – 07887 714047 MMaatttt FFeerrggyyssoonn INSURED. EXPERIENCED. 01451-821-626 [email protected] DDrryy SSttoonnee WWaalllllliiinngg 0011445511 885511992277 /// 0077779922 33331122441 1 STOW TIMES, MORETON TIMES, BOURTON TIMES & CHIPPING NORTON TIMES ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS IN EVERY EDITION OF ALL 4 MAGAZINES FOR AS Private Home Care Professional Domestic & Home Help LITTLE AS £12/MONTH Companionship & Care Anne Knight, BA Qualified and Experienced Carer Local Business Directory INDIVIDUAL CARERS PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE Entries are for a calendar year (eleven editions) and priced per business. Your Telephone: 07826 849429 advert can include photos and logos as well as text - Email: [email protected] IT’S STRAIGHTFORWARD AND SIMPLE Enhanced CRB & References available on request Competitive rates

SMALL BOX = 15mm high x 60mm wide(1 column) £12/month (by DDM) or £120 /year Include photos & logos as well as text LARGE BOX = 33mm high x 60mm wide (1 column) £22/month (by DDM) or £220/year

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