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Felsted Parish Council FELSTED MAY 2020 FOCUS COMMUNITY MAGAZINE Features: Editor’s Letter: 3 Something to brighten us all up: 4 Clubs: 5 Felsted Memorial Hall: 6 Volunteers: 7 Felsted Parish Council: 8/9 District Councillers’ Corner: 10 Birds Eye View: 11 Recipe: 12/13 Felsted People: 14 Churches: 15 Puzzles: 17/18 Rainbow Seekers: 19/20 Gardening Tips: 21 Local Food Directory: 22/23 Local Services: 24/25 Trade Directory: 26 FELSTED Note from the Editor FOCUS COMMUNITY MAGAZINE Welcome to the second edition of Felsted Focus. Thank you so much for all the kind words sent following the first edition. We really appreciated them. Thanks to all of you, who kindly contributed pictures and articles for May’s edition. I had so much content that, even after increasing this issue by 4 pages, there was not enough room for it all. Please keep sending it. I will use as much as possible in the next or future issues. Remember that only150 words are enough to fill half a page! There is a new section in this issue with details of local food outlets in the Village, Flitch Green and Little Dunmow. I wanted to make you aware of our local businesses and the choices we are lucky to have. A lot are having a hard time at the moment so let’s try and support them. Look for rainbows drawn by children in support of the NHS, when you are out for a walk, and listen for the bagpipes in Chelmsford Road and clapping everywhere at 8pm on Thursdays. From the 60 volunteers helping with shopping and so on, to Felsted School hosting paramedics in training, we have a lot to be proud of here. Keep safe and healthy. Janice Ratcliffe Editorial Team: Janice Ratcliffe [email protected] Margaret Attwood Sarah Gale Graphic design and layout: Astragraphic Design [email protected] www.astragraphic.co.uk Print: Paul Clark Printing Parish Council: 01371 823071 Clear Sight Drones www.felsted-pc.gov.uk 3 Something to brighten us all up Don’t the village flowers look good this spring? There aren’t only flowers on the main road through the village though, there are tubs outside Oxney Villas on Watch House Green and Bannister Green. These plants (and containers) are paid for by your Parish Council and planted and watered by a lot of volunteers. We change the plants twice a year, in May and October, which involves 8 - 10 volunteers emptying the containers of spent plants and some soil replanting with over 700 plants. One of our volunteers borrows a trailer and water butt, which is a great help. I don’t know what we would do without them (let’s hope he doesn’t stop volunteering or worse, move away!) The plants we remove in October cannot be re-used so one of our volunteers puts them on his compost heap! The plants that we remove in May, usually Polyanthus, can be planted elsewhere to establish and flower again for a number of years. They seem to start flowering very early, too. If you want any of these plants let me know. There are a lot in Felsted gardens already. Once the volunteers have done the planting in May we rely on 13 waterers around the village to keep them alive. Each year I ask all these volunteers if they will continue and I’ve never had a refusal yet. Recently, Felsted School have offered to water some containers if we get stuck for volunteers. The nursery that supplies our plants tells me that a delay of 1-2 weeks in our planting schedule this year will be OK. Let’s hope the country will be in a better position by then. We could always do with more volunteers of course - it only involves about 2 mornings per annum. David Dempsey 01371 820665 4 Felsted Friendship Club Felsted Friendship Club is not meeting while we are all self-isolaing. Members have received an Easter card and are reminded of telephone numbers for committee members who can be contacted whenever required. We hope to be ableto resume our 2020 programme in July. Please see the article about Book Boxes at Chaffix and Willows Green if you have runout of books to read. Alison Moore (821632) Wool and Waffle Whilst at present there are no meetings I have had a request from a charity for jumpers (see pattern below) and also either scarves measuring 5” x 26” and hats in any colour/s for war children and children in India. Thank you, Kitty 01371 820444 ‘Jhuggi’ jumpers Cast on about 56 stitches. Knit in k2 p2 rib for 4 rows. Knit plain, preferably in stripes, for about 50 rows (approx. 7 inches). Cast on 20sts each side. Knit for another 50 rows, Rib k2 p2 for the centre 36 sts of the next 3 rows (to make a firm neckline). Next – k30, cast off 36, k30 Next – k30, cast on 36, k30. This completes half the jumper, to the neck opening. Complete the jumper by reversing the pattern. Sew up sides and under arms. 20st. 7in 56st. Size 8 or 10 needles may be used. 5 Felsted Memorial Hall Hello everyone. For those of you that don’t know me, I am Hazel Fox, Chairman of the Memorial Hall committee, and I will be giving you updates about the hall in the new look community magazine. What a refreshing new look too! Lots of interesting and “newsy” articles. Well done Janice and the team. We have had to close the Memorial hall during the current lock down. All our regular hirers are affected as well as those of you that have booked your parties and celebrations, but we must follow Government instruction. One advantage is that the builder, who is going to refurbish the toilets, can start earlier so that when we re-open, we’ll have smart new facilities. He is working alone, so will not be breaking any rules. During the lockdown, we are keeping the car park barriers closed to try and reduce the anti-social behaviour occurring at the back of the hall at night. Our AGM was due last month, but like many organisations, we had to improvise and have a virtual one. If you are interested in joining the committee, please get in touch. We hope to be writing next year’s panto very soon, then start rehearsals in October if we can. If you would like to join the crew, in whatever capacity, just give me a ring on 01371 820108. Keep yourselves safe. Hazel Fox 6 Volunteers Following a request from the government for 250,000 volunteers, over 750,000 people came forward. So, we were confident that the good folk of Felsted would be similarly keen to join the Parish Council’s more modest local initiative. And we’ve not been disappointed! With around 60 volunteers we’ve been easily able to meet every request for help we’ve received. Some volunteers will not yet have been asked to do anything at all and we hope that’s the way it stays. We need capacity to be comfortably ahead of demand. Low demand also reassures us is that there are many local, informal, support networks throughout the parish, ensuring that vulnerable people are already being identified and routinely helped by neighbours. Our volunteers represent the best of Felsted, with residents and short-term visitors, caught by the lockdown, throwing their hats in the ring with equal enthusiasm. Most of the requests we have received have been for help with shopping or collecting prescriptions: easy to fulfil when our superb village shop and our wonderful dispensary are working flat out to keep village life as normal and as safe as possible. One positive side-effect of this awful virus is that it has distilled community spirit to a much stronger proof that will survive long after the virus has been defeated. People want to help. TILING | SLATING | LEADWORK | GUTTERING | FLAT So, to all the many NHS ROOFS | CHIMNEYS | ALL REPAIRS health care professionals living in the Felsted, a | Free Estimates | | All work guaranteed | special thank you and if we | Over 30 Years Experience | can do anything to make | Honest & Expert Advice | your lives easier, give us a call. We’d be proud to help! Home: 01371 811308 Mobile: 07951 349837 Felsted Community [email protected] Support Line: 07936 070732 7 Felsted Parish Council There has been a lot happening in the last few weeks centred around the Coronavirus situation. The Parish Council Office is currently closed continuing to work from home. If you need to contact the Parish Council please use the telephone number and e-mail address given below and arrangements have been made to forward all post. In accordance with Government guidance, to slow the spread of the virus, all children’s play areas have been closed, along with the public toilets and car park in the main playing field. The weekly Green Waste collections at Bannister Green have been suspended by UDC to save resources and the Beacon Lighting ceremony scheduled for 9 May has been postponed. On a brighter note, the allotments remain open, as they are designated as a suitable exercise facility, but only allotment holders should visit the site to work their plot and safe distancing must be maintained at all times. Dedicated Parish Council helpline during the Coronavirus situation The Parish Council set up a dedicated Felsted Helpline on 18 March to respond to requests for assistance from from elderly, vulnerable or self-isolating residents. Appointment of a separate Responsible Financial Officer for the Council As part of the arrangements leading up to the Clerk’s retirement later this year, Daniel Plunkett had been appointed as the Council’s RFO.
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