APRIL 2016 Interest Rates, We Now Have Only a Small Amount to Give out Each Year

The Haselbury Plucknett Charities Registered Charity No 201573 Who we are North

The Haselbury Charities have a small fund with a very small annual income. They are an Village News Perrott amalgamation of three old charities, the Mary Ann Woods, the Henry Parsons and the

Mary Mountford Charities. These were founded to support the poor, the elderly and the Haselbury sick of the parish, and to help fund education or tools for work for young people. With low Plucknett APRIL 2016 interest rates, we now have only a small amount to give out each year. We still aim to give grants where the need is greatest and we will consider all applications. For example, if you are struggling to pay heating bills or travel costs for hospital appointments, you may wish to apply for a small subsidy. Applicants can contact the Correspondent to the Trustees in The Big Lunch Sunday 12th June strict confidence at Haselbury Plucknett Charities, c/o Stonehayes, Haselbury Plucknett, TA18 7PH or on 01460 73141. How you can help HM The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration Count your blessings and consider villagers less fortunate than yourself. There may be Haselbury Street Party people in the village who are able to, and would be pleased to support the Charities finan- cially. This could be done either by way of a bequest included in a will or by a monetary SAVE THE DATE gift as a “thank you” to the village in the knowledge that only genuine deserving cases would benefit from such a generous gesture. Contact the Trustees via the Correspondent, details as above. “All in the April Evening” A Visit to St Michael and All Invitations to apply for grants will continue to be published in the Parish News. Angels from St George’s Singers, Bournemouth, 16 April, 7.00 pm. “VINYL NIGHT “ Hoskyns Hall Sat 30th April Disclaimer: See adverts. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of advertisements in this magazine, we cannot accept responsibility for any information given, or claims made by advertisers.

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Regular Events: . Haselbury Plucknett Monday Mornings, 10.30 – 12 noon, Coffee and Computer Club, NP Village Hall  Minister: Pastor Mark Harris Tel: 01460 73147  Tuesdays—7.30pm - Bell ringing, St Michaels  2nd and 4th Tuesday, 2 pm, Beaumont Bridge, Beaumont Room SERVICES for April 2016 rd Sunday 10.30am Celebration and Teaching Meeting  3 Tuesday, 1.00 pm, Lighthouse Lunches, BCC st Except 1 Sunday of the month rd  3 Tuesday, 7.30 pm, NP and H Gardening Club, NP Village Hall Preceded by tea/coffee from 10.00 am  1st Wednesday, 7.30 pm, Haselbury WI, BCC 10.30am CAFÉ CHURCH 1st Sunday of the month.  2nd Weds 7.30 pm, Plucknett Players, Beaumont Room (Enquiries P Brown, 73812) EVERYONE WELCOME Splash (Sunday school) during this service Alternate Thursdays, 2.30 pm Tea and Chat, BCC 6.00pm Fellowship Meeting with Communion Weekdays IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO ANY OF THE ABOVE EVENTS, GIVE THEM A Monday 10am ‘Little Wrigglers’ Toddler Group TRY! YOU CAN BE SURE OF A FRIENDLY WELCOME. Contact Andrew or Paula 01935 864414 Monday, Tuesday 9.00am Pre School Contact Sue Turner 01460 73873 Thursday & Friday (during session times only) Sunday 3rd 10.30am Café Church 11.00am Crea’8 9TH APRIL COFFEE MORNING PESTERS ORCHARD. th 16TH ST GEORGE’S SINGERS ST MICHAELS. Tuesday 19 1.00pm Lighthouse Lunches 30TH VINYL NIGHT HOSKYN’S HALL. Contact Robin Barnes 01460 74758/ The Office 01460 73147 Wednesday 10.30am Morning Devotion with Communion. th st See individual entries for full details. Thursday 7 &21 7.15pm Coffee/Tea followed by Bible Study Thursday 14th & 28th 2.30pm Tea and Chat Group 14th& 28th 7.30pm Support Groups Friday 15th,22nd & 29th 6.30pm SPLAT & JAM contact Paula Harris 01935 864414 8.00pm Youth Café contact John & Sheila Ward Church Electoral Roll 2016 01935 891316 Sunday 17th 3.00pm Visit to Bowhayes, Crewkerne. St. Michael and All Angels, Haselbury Plucknett th Sunday 17 6.00pm Supper Night, The Church Electoral Roll will be revised shortly. These rolls are mainly concerned with Saturday 7.15am Spearhead Prayer Meeting Church administration but also serve the wider purpose of joining together like-minded people Fridays 2.00pm Equippers bible school. Details from Pastor Mark 01460 74103 to resource and encourage confident Christian Communities. nd Saturday 2 7.00pm Cinema Night details from Andrew Harris If your name is already on the roll you need do nothing but if you are not on the roll and would 01935 864414 like to be please complete an application form. These can be found in Church or obtained Details of the above and other meetings ring the office 9.15am-12.30pm from Heather Butt at Cobleigh, Claycastle, Haselbury Plucknett. Monday– Friday am 01460 73147 Oasis Coffee Shop open Monday – Friday 9.15am –12.30 Speciality coffees and teas Completed forms should either be placed in the box in Church or returned directly to me by Delicious homemade cakes, tray bakes, savoury scones, toast and toasted teacakes. 8 April 2016. After that date the roll will be displayed in the Church porch to allow any Photocopying 9.15am –12.30pm Monday – Friday except bank Holidays corrections to be made. Jesus came & spoke to them saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven & on earth go therefore & make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the Heather Butt name of the Father & of the Son & of the Holy Spirit”. Matthew 28: 18-19 Church Electoral Roll Officer Margaret Barnes 0146074758/73147 February 2016

HASELBURY PLUCKNETT Hope says writer Rebecca Solnit is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky...hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope just means another world might be possible, MAY FAIR not promised, not guaranteed. When we face the enormous challenges that th we do, both abroad, here at home and in the struggles of our own lives, it Saturday 14 May 2016 is hope born in our imaginations and hearts that will sustain and nourish our faith in different possibilities for people to live together without fear or hatred. To live life in all its fullness, said Jesus. For Christians the source of such hope remains the extraordinary events that make up the season of Easter, where an apparently hopeless situation was transformed in the imaginations, hearts and lives of 12noon to 4pm those who thought all was lost by the unexpected encounter with the One who they at thought had gone forever and whose dream had gone with Him, nailed to a cross by the Empire of the day.

Haselbury Plucknett First The unexpected and barely understood event that we call the resurrection, rekindled hope that had been seemingly buried in the tomb of Gethsemane. And ever since, men School and women through the ages have discovered the transforming power of that hope in their lives; sometimes revealed through gestures of service and help; other times through brave refusals to remain locked in tombs of despair and helplessness. Sometimes FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY through small apparently insignificant actions, other times in joining together with others in finding new ways of living. In the face of impossible situations, hope makes the present bearable and the future possible and full The Rev Jonathan Morris of surprises. 01460 72356 [email protected] *RAFFLE At Easter a new power was released in the world, inviting us to reimagine ourselves and in so doing give birth to Reader: *CHOCOLATE TOMBOLA* BBQ* new possibilities - as we step out in hope. Mrs Hilde Bucknell (76450) *BOTTLE STALL* CAKE STALL* hil- With every blessing for this season of Easter [email protected]

*BOUNCY CASTLE*LICENCED BAR* CHURCHWARDENS Jonathan Morris Haselbury: *TEAS* *SKITTLES* Mr Norton Sims (72878) [email protected] *LOCAL CRAFTS*PLANT STALLS* Vicar in Haselbury Misterton and North Perrott North Perrott: Mrs Alison Stevens (76214) [email protected] All Proceeds in Aid of St Michael and All Angels Church Haselbury Plucknett and Haselbury Plucknett First School A Friend is….

LIVE MUSIC A friend never says “I told you so” - even when she did. Wendy Jean Smith

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C8339 Telephone Malcolm for a reliable service on 01460 78911 Or 07812 646620 39 Lyme Road, Crewkerne TA18 8HE [email protected] Saturday 16th April - 7.00pm TICKETS £8 from 01460 76450 or 01460 74857 Junior Tennis Coaching at Misterton Tennis Club will restart on Wednesday 13th April at the Recreation Ground Misterton. Based at St George’s Methodist Church in Boscombe, St George’s Singers are a group of Christians who enjoy singing together. The group was formed about 20 years ago and Three sessions for Years 5 to 8 , Years 8 to 10 and 11 to 16 start at 4pm. sings a wide variety of music. They have given many charity concerts, regularly sing at the National Trust Festival of the Voice at Stourhead and have been cup winners at Bournemouth Music Festival. Our concert on 16th April will feature a varied programme, More details contact Kevin Tricker on [email protected] or including Rutter’s “God be in my head”, a selection from Les Miserables and “A John Barrington [email protected] nightingale sang in Berkeley Square” as well as the title song “All in the April evening”.

Includes refreshments and a glass of wine. There will be a raffle. Proceeds to church funds. HOSKYNS MEMORIAL HALL NORTH PERROTT

Vinyl Night Saturday 30th April 7 – 7.30pm 2 Courses for £10.00. Bring your favourite records and we’ll give them a spin! Come dressed to dance the night away. Bar and Raffle.

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Shopping centres have benches so that men can sit down while they give up the will to Puddletown, Haselbury Plucknett live.. Sessions Mon 9.00 -12.00 Tues 9.00 -1.00 (Includes lunch club)

Thurs 9.00 -1.00 (Includes lunch club) Fri 9.00- 1.00 (Includes lunch club) Children accepted from age 2. For more information on available sessions and copy of prospectus please call Sue during session times on 07786904191. Wonderful willow! Christian Aid Week 2016 – 15-21 May One of the most interesting crops that excel in Somerset is the Willow, and for some 200 years people have been growing and harvesting willow here. It is a This year, Christian Aid is highlighting its relief work in Bangladesh where regular really versatile material and its many uses include basket and other container floods make for extremely precarious living conditions. making, reinforcing the banks of waterways, water filtration, and of course it is Morsheda is a young mother of four living on a low-lying island in the Brahmaputra famous for cricket bats! Some growers also make charcoal for artists or barbecues River. She lives in constant fear. ‘I feel very scared of the river. When I look at it I from their willow and some farmers are now growing willow as a source of keep thinking: “it is coming”, Morsheda says. Her single-room, corrugated-iron hut has biomass. Other people find it easier to weave than hazel for hurdle making, but be been flooded four times. aware that it will not last as long once it dries out. Many gardeners use willow to create arches and more creative structures in their gardens –it is helpful for One year, her humble house filled up to her knees with floodwater. To stay dry, and draining damp pastures or gardens but has an amazing root system so do keep it keep away from the dangerous snakes that swam through her home she raised her well way from underground drains and houses! bed up on bricks. But during the night she was woken by a loud splash. In the pitch black, her baby son had fallen into the inky water. He could have drowned in Of course willow is an indigenous plant and, being sappy, supports much insect moments. and bird life. There are over 400 species and many coloured stemmed hybrids which can be very attractive. Historically, it was a source of aspirin – a wonderful In a bad year, huge waves crashed against her house, giving her less than an hour to medicine still. uproot her home and scramble to safety. Racing against time, she gathered her terrified children together and hastily made a raft from a banana tree. At any More recently with the rise in popularity of woodland burials moment, it could have tipped and plunged them into the swirling waters, but it was and people wanting more choice in their funeral their only hope. She put her youngest daughter in a cooking pot and clung to it as it arrangements, the use of willow coffins, which can be very floated in the current. Morsheda and her children live a beautiful, and are of course completely bio-degradable – has truly precarious life. They know that the floods will come become very popular. How lovely to use a local product, again. providing employment and improving the environment, even after your death! But Christian Aid can lift people like Morsheda to safety. Just £250 is enough for a Christian Aid Home Safety For more information about willow do visit the Willow and Wetlands centre, near Package. It could flood-proof Morsheda’s home, raising it eight foot on to an earth Curry Rivel.I have used willow extensively as an easy garden divider or ‘fedge’ (a plinth. She would have a safe place to rebuild, keep livestock and grow crops. It could live fence/hedge – simply stick a cutting in the ground and where it’s damp it will also buy a goat, seeds and a wormery to help produce compost – all of which will give shoot and establish within a single season). For me, in the season of Easter, willow her a long-term income and a solid foundation for a new life. is a living example of resurrection – a few sticks, a little water and new life flourishes! Isn’t that what we are looking for in our lives? I hope you are able to As in previous years, I hope that our collectors can help once more. If you can NOT enjoy the works of the hand of God in our natural environment this April. take part in the house-to-house collection this year, please let me know. And if there Every Blessing, are any new volunteers to lighten the load, I would be delighted to hear from you. Annie Gurner, Rural Life Advisor [email protected] Hilde Bucknell (76450)

A Friend is……... Smile lines A friend respects your diet. Pam Brown The world needs more people like us and fewer like them. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck If I cannot be skinny, please let my friends be fat. PETER LEWER Newsagent

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Tel 01460 72901 Speaker: Gerald Fisher www.manorarms.net Topic; Bees and the Gardener. A beekeeper of over 40 years experience, Gerald treated us to a most FREE HOUSE FINE CASK ALES interesting illustrated talk on Bees. He gave a potted history of beekeeping from caveman to modern day. In 1992 the Varroa mite was detected in Devon and tragically by 1994 in the South West, 60% of Honey Bee colonies had been wiped out. Today it is unlikely that there are any wild Honey Bee colonies. At this moment mite infestation can be monitored and controlled by chemical or physical means. But it is still a problem. The place to be! The humble Bumble bee is also under threat from all sides even mite infestation. While most of these mites are harmless there are strains that DIARY OF EVENTS APRIL 2016 are harmful. We need to give Bumble bees (and Solitaries) a hand by providing habitats. Gardeners can help bees enormously by planting nectar secreting flowers WEDNESDAY 13TH APRIL – CHARITY QUIZ EVENING JOIN IN A LIGHT HEARTED QUIZ – TEAMS OF 4 - £2 PER HEAD. 8PM START. and shrubs, from aubretia, spring bulbs to late flowering Mahonia and Ivy. An excellent talk much appreciated by Club members.

RD SATURDAY 23 APRIL “ST GEORGES DAY” THE WESSEX MORRIS MEN Show plant plugs, donated by Castle Gardens (The Garden group) were WILL BE DANCING ON THE VILLAGE GREEN AT 8PM FOR US. WE WILL distributed to interested club members to be nurtured and produced for BE HOSTING A “BEST OF BRITISH – PIE & A PINT” EVENING WITH CHOICE OF HOME MADE PIES – from £11.95 TO INCLUDE A PINT OR the August display day. GLASS OF WINE. PLEASE BOOK A TABLE. Next Time: Tuesday 12th April.

TUESDAY 26th APRIL –“ LADIES THAT LUNCH” OUR USUAL LADIES Our annual visit to Brimsmore Garden Centre for a talk, refreshments and exclusive MEETING AT 11.30am @ £9.00 per person The talk this month will be by Kay evening shopping with 25% discount on all purchases. Townsend on “LIFE ON THE FAIRGROUND”. FOLLOWED BY LUNCH AT You can’t AFFORD to miss this! Remember 6.45 for 7.00. 1pm. £8.50 PER PERSON. PLEASE BOOK Coffee Morning—date for your diary 21st May—venue to be advised.

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ST MARTIN’S CHURCH DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

St Martin’s Church has recently received a Delivery Grant from the Heritage Lottery for re- covering the roof. We are delighted that after a long and arduous struggle we can at last see progress and hope to start the work within the next few months. However, all is not yet over, as we have a shortfall of £22,788. We would encourage you to help this very worthy cause by attending as many of our fundraising events as you can during 2016. Thank you!

SATURDAY 9th APRIL – COFFEE MORNING from 10.30am to 12.30pm at Pesters Orchard, North Perrott – Raffle, Bring & Buy, Entrance £2.50 – under 12 yrs £1 Homemade cakes. SUNDAY 19th JUNE – GARDENS OPEN DAY from 11am to 5pm. at least 8 gardens open – Display (larger than before) of Veteran, Vintage and Classic cars, Flower displays in the Church and possibly a Scarecrow attack in the village! Lunches, Teas, ample parking. SUNDAY 10th JULY – NORTH PERROTT CHURCH & CRICKET CLUB FETE – at the Cricket Club. Usual stalls & attractions and a visit from some Owls. BBQ, teas, ice creams. AUGUST – concert – details to follow. SUNDAY 28th AUGUST – THE PARRETT CHALLENGE – family day with team games. SEPTEMBER – concert – details to follow. MONDAY 31st OCTOBER – BINGO NOVEMBER – talk – details to follow. SATURDAY 3rd DECEMBER – PARNHAM VOICES – a Christmas Concert of songs & readings.

All proceeds to St Martin’s Church. Enquiries to 01460 72883 or 01460 76457

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email:[email protected] Phone: 01460 72833 This term has been busy for everyone but particularly for the Year 4 children who will leave us for new schools in July. They spent an enjoyable day of pilgrimage at Wells Cathedral where they took part in craft activities, drama and celebration. In the same week they went on a residential trip to Kilve Court, which included many exciting activities such as grass sledging, mountain biking, climbing and bush craft. On both occasions their excellent behaviour was commented on.

Pancake Day was celebrated with traditional pancake races! Some children were brilliant ‘flippers’ as they raced across the playground!

Mrs Bucknell enthralled the children of Hazel class with an informative and entertaining talk about Wulfric as part of their local history work. They thoroughly enjoyed trying on chain mail, listening to and playing the bowed psalter - an instrument similar to that played by Wulfric. Our thanks go to Mrs Bucknell for organising the very enjoyable talk.

Science Week was probably the busiest week of the term with forensic science activities, a science-centred visit to Coombe Farm as well as a Science Fair organised by Year 12 & 10 students from Wadham School. In between a lot of parents and children have been giving talks to the classes about science in their lives.

We also said good bye to Mrs White who has worked patiently as a Teaching Assistant for over 12 years, supporting the children to achieve their best. She will be missed by us all and we wish her well in all her new ventures.

There is lots of information about the school and new photographs of the activities the children are involved in, on our website at www.haselburyplucknettschool.co.uk. Please do browse through it. Haselbury Plucknett Parish Council

New Pedestrian Gates, 6 new pedestrian gates have been installed to replace some old styles, this should provide easier and safer access between North Street, Claycastle and Claycastle Lane.

The footpaths working group hope to extend this project throughout the whole village eventually, please inform the Parish Council if you know of any old styles that you feel should be included in the replacement programme.

St Michael and All The Good St Michael and DATE St Bartholomew’s Angels Shepherd Chapel St Leonard’s St Martin’s All Angels DATE CREWKERNE WAYFORD HEWISH MISTERTON NORTH PERROTT HASELBURY PLUCKNETT

3 April 8.30 am HC BCP 10.00 am Morning 11.45 am HC BCP 10.00 am HC CW - - 3 April Easter 2 10.00 am FC Worship Joint Service Easter 2

10 April 8.30 am HC BCP - 9.00 am 11.00 am HC BCP 9.30 am HC CW 8.00 am HC BCP 10 April Easter 3 10.00 am PC Morning Worship 10.00 am Easter 3 Family Service

17 April 8.30 am HC BCP 10.00 am HC BCP 11.45 am HC BCP 9.30 am HC BCP - 11.00 am HC CW 17 April Easter 4 10.00 am PC Easter 4 5.30 pm Taizé

24 April 8.30 am HC BCP - 9.00 am 9.30 am HC BCP 9.30 am HC BCP 11.00 am HC & SS 24 April Easter 5 10.00 am PC Morning Worship Easter 5

1 May 8.30 am HC BCP 10.00 am Morning 11.45 am HC BCP - - 10.00 am HC CW 1 May Easter 6 10.00 am FC Worship Joint Service Easter 6

Benefice Services April 2016

NOTES: HC = Holy Communion, BCP = Book of Common Prayer (1662). Unless marked BCP, all Holy Communion Services follow CW = Common Worship, the authorised orders of service in modern language. Family Service (FS) is an informal service for All Age Worship. SS = Sunday School