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VILLAGE VOICE BRINKLEY…..BURROUGH GREEN..…CARLTON..…WESTLEY WATERLESS APRIL 2020 As official advice is changing regularly on Coronavirus, if you intend on going to an advertised event please do contact the organiser in case it has been cancelled. ANNUAL MAINTENANCE DAY BRINKLEY FETE 2020 ST. AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH, To all our friends and helpers in the past 4 years, we Burrough Green would like to inform you that due to the coronavirus SATURDAY 4th April from 10.00 am in our country, and the indefinite period of time that If you are able to offer an this will affect us all, it is impossible to organise the hour or two of your time to help with the village fete. annual cleaning and maintenance of St Augustine’s we’d be very Therefore, we have taken the decision now to cancel grateful. It’s good fun and we always the Brinkley Fete 2020. We are disappointed that have time for tea and biscuits and some friends and our community will not get together this homemade soup for lunch. Do join us and help year. However, we wish you all and your families good preserve this wonderful historic building and health, and be healthy for the rest of the year. churchyard. Thank you. Ros & Martin Contact Church warden: Lucy Talbot: 01638 507060 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ nd BRINKLEY CHURCHYARD AUCTION SALE – BRINKLEY – 2 May The auction has been indefinitely postponed. We are MAINTENANCE DAY hoping to hold this in the autumn. Please can you spare an hour or two on Saturday 4th April Enquiries please to John Robertson on 01638 507484 from 10am – 12 noon to help with a bit of tidying in Ros Pates on 01638 507240 Brinkley Churchyard. All help is much appreciated. Or Trish Bull on 01638 507495 Please bring your own tools. Thank you IN AID OF ST MARY'S CHURCH, BRINKLEY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MOBILE LIBRARY RECYCLING - check council websites for changes The Mobile Library will be at BRINKLEY Memorial Hall on the 1st Tuesday of each Carlton & Willingham Green – Mondays : th st month between 3.00 - 4.00pm; Black bin – Monday 6 , Tuesday 21 th th 7th April. Blue & Green – Wednesday 15 , Monday 27 BURROUGH GREEN by the BUS STOP on 4th Wednesday of each month at 3.50 - Brinkley, Burrough Green, Westley Waterless – 4.10pm; 22nd April. Thursdays : nd th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Black sacks weekly. Thursday 2 , Wednesday 8 , th rd th OPEN GARDENS Thank you Friday 17 , Thursday 23 , Thursday 30 . nd th th Many thanks to all who supported the Open Garden Blue Lid – Thursday 2 , Friday 17 , Thursday 30 . th rd for NGS at The Old Rectory in Brinkley, and the Green Lid – Wednesday 8 , Thursday 23 . refreshments in Brinkley Memorial Hall on 1st March. All the cakes and gifts donated were much Ink Cartridges The Opportunity Group which meets appreciated and raised £286 for Brinkley Church at the Ellesmere Centre would be very grateful for funds. your old ink cartridges to help with fund raising. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please drop them in the box on the gate at White KNIT & NATTER – CANCELLED FOR THE Hart Cottage, High Street Brinkley or in the box at FORSEEABLE FUTURE the Ellesmere Centre. Thank you. (The Opportunity Group provides one to one care for Every Monday 1:30 to 3 pm in the children with special needs and their siblings, also community room at Sheriffs Court (off provides respite for their parents/guardians.) Church Lane) Burrough Green. Come and ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ have a knit or a natter or both, just SCRABBLE and MAHJONG turn up. There is a small charge for April’s meeting has been cancelled refreshments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHAT’S ON AT THE RED LION If you know of any groups, FB pages, individual BRINKLEY initiatives we may not already be connected with and should be, please send an email with that information. 01638 508707 We have had offers of financial donations already. If anyone would like to donate a small amount of By the time you see this, we’ll have much more money that we can turn into food or care packages information on our website about what we have been for elderly people in the area, we will without working on this past few weeks. hesitation accept your generosity and make the very www.redlionbrinkley.co.uk We also post on best use of it that we can for you over the coming www.facebook.com/RedLionBrinkley If you want to weeks. join our mailing list, email our personal account Gwyn & Morris [email protected] or call us on 01638 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 508707 BRINKLEY MEMORIAL HALL For weeks we have been preparing for when 125,000 If you wish to hire the hall, please contact UK businesses were inevitably closed. That happened Susie Shuter on 01638 508729 th on March 20 , will probably followed by many more businesses closing soon and there’s the possibility of The charges to hire the Memorial Hall are £8.00 per a local lockdown. We are closed – there can be no hour for VV cluster and £11.00/ hour for outside. We coffee morning or anything else happening until cater for one off parties and Groups looking for a further notice. venue. The Hall can cater for 80 people. Of course, we can provide a takeout delivery service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ and how that happens, and our daily changing menu is WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY BRIDGE? on our website. We’d be incredibly grateful if that was used because of need or just because you want There is a small group of people in to support our business in the coming months. We’ll Burrough Green and the neighbouring be set up to produce cheaper oven cook-at-home villages who enjoy playing bridge. fresh and frozen meals for your family by the time They regularly meet and play in Burrough Green at a you read this. cost of £2 per evening with refreshments. We are a We’ve been more focused lately on our list of things friendly group and do not take the game too that we can maybe do for you or someone you know, seriously. We would like to invite a few more local which is only going to grow and expand as the weeks bridge players (or local people who would like to learn go by and new difficulties arise we all have to deal to play) to join our group. If you are interested in with. By the time you read this we’ll be able to finding out more please e mail Kathie on receive prescriptions either for collection from us or [email protected] or call 07923 526555. drop-off to your house. Go to our website. Please leave a message if I am not available and I will We have a network of customers that live in and return your call. around the area in place to help you, and it is growing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We’ve bought some more equipment in case we need ELLESMERE ARTS it and must try to bake bread in any sort of quantity, Presents for example. If we need to turn our big room into a HI-DE-HI little grocery store at some point – we’re working on it. If you know an elderly person that cannot get out Thursday, 4th June7.30 pm and may soon have almost no social contact, someone Friday, 5th June 7.30 pm has offered to sing to them from their front garden, Saturday, 6th June7.30 pm so they know they’re not forgotten. Tickets £9.00 We will do anything we can for anyone in the area. Available from: [email protected] What you can do for us – If you read this and do not and Stetchworth Post Office from 1st March use the internet – contact us and tell us who and BAR where you are. If you are elderly and do not have a --------------------------------------------------- local support network – call us for anything and we’ll HI-DE-HI find someone to help you if you haven’t already had Due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, we are an offer of help from someone in your area, or we’ll postponing performances in June to October 2020. make time to do it ourselves. As the COVID-19 Further information in the next Newsletter. We hope situation continues to unravel and we put new things to see you then. Ellesmere Arts in place, we will gladly print and drop that information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ through your letterbox for you too. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CARLTON CUM ELLESMERE CENTRE WILLINGHAM RESIDENTS The safety of everyone who either works at, or visits the Ellesmere Centre is of paramount importance and We would like to set up a village WhatsApp group as as an organisation we stand firm in our support of all soon as possible. The purpose of this is to have a efforts to combat the COVID-19 Coronavirus quick and easy method of letting the village know pandemic. about information and alerts and to share useful, In light of the advice to the public, issued by the relevant information. This is particularly important at th Government on Monday 16 March, it is with regret present in view of restrictions we'll all be faced with that I announce that The Ellesmere Centre will be over the coming months. We aim to enable to help th closed, as of 14.00hrs, Wednesday 18 March, those most in need of assistance by putting them in until further notice. contact with other residents who can help. We absolutely support the Government’s advice Additionally, having a WhatsApp group will make it regarding the importance of social distancing.