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Plowmans, Pudding & Quiz £8.00Pp DUNTON BASSETT NEWSLETTER January/February 2016 Issue 69 HELLO Is it too late to wish everyone a Happy New Year? We hope not. So here’s wishing you all a wonderful 2016. It’s the end of January already and we don’t seem to have been hit by winter yet apart from one brief flurry. So whatever happens now it’s lovely to think that Spring is just around the corner – we have even seen our first daffodil on a grassy verge. Once again we would like to thank Richard Underwood from Oakberry Farm for providing the splendid Christmas tree outside the village hall and for Colin Hill from CH Electrical who made sure it was lit so beautifully. DUNTON BASSETT COMMUNITY SINGERS The Dunton Bassett Community Singers have had another busy year. A Summer concert and the Christmas Concert at the beginning of December. The Church was full and once again I would like to thank all those who give us such wonderful support. The ticket price continues to be very good value at £5 or £4 concessions which includes refreshments during the interval. This covers the costs of printing, decorations, refreshments and a donation to the Church for the cost of heating and lighting during our rehearsals throughout the year. We also performed a Christmas medley at the Cosby Old People’s Welfare Association Christmas Lunch and we also provide a choir for the Women’s Day of Prayer in March. The Monday before Christmas, for the seventh year running, we went carol singing around the village and helped by Alex Mofford’s excellent mulled wine we collected £70.00 for the Sir Frank Whittle Trust. A small donation which will go towards the cost of cleaning and repairing the E28/29E ‘plane on the roundabout outside Lutterworth. Nevertheless the Trust was very grateful for our contribution. 2016 rehearsals begin on Wednesday 27th January at 7pm, the following week will be on Thursday 4th February and thereafter they alternate between Wednesdays and Thursdays. Reading music is not a must but enjoying singing is. Anyone who is interested do turn up at All Saints Church. Ann Fuchs 202370 QUIZ NIGHT IN AID OF WHIZZ-KIDZ Please find all the info on the quiz that we are hosting on 20th February -we hope to see you there. PLOWMANS, PUDDING & QUIZ £8.00PP In Aid of Whizz- Kidz (Helping disabled children become mobile) by Adele Vines running the London Marathon 2016 Dunton Bassett Village Hall 7.30 Saturday 20th February Prizes & Raffle Maximum 6 per team Please bring your own wine, beer etc Call Jacqui or Jayne on 01455 208064 for tickets or on [email protected] 1 URGENT INFORMATION FROM PARISH COUNCIL The Parish Council has received notification of a proposed housing development of 37 dwellings off Station Road, on land between No 23 and Station Farm. The proposed development is outside the developed area of the village, additional to draft proposals for further development and there will be concerns about the extra traffic which will be generated in Station Road. An additional Council meeting has been called to discuss this topic and will be held at the Village Hall on Tuesday 23rd February at 7.00 pm. You can view the plan and associated documents of the Harborough District Council website (http://www.harborough.gov.uk/view-and-comment-on-planning-applications). The reference no is 16/00026/OUT. In anticipation that some residents will wish to object, you are reminded that each person, any petition and the Parish Council itself each only count as one ‘voice’. Comments should be submitted on an individual basis direct to the District Council. Steve Blackburn Clerk to Dunton Bassett Parish Council 11 Wakes Close, Dunton Bassett, Lutterworth, LE17 5LL 01455 209398 : 07941 849907 [email protected] www.leicestershireparishcouncils.org.uk/duntonbassett MESSAGE FROM MARGARET BROOKES Margaret would like to say a very big thank you to everyone who helped make her 80th birthday so special. She was so surprised but delighted with all the lovely presents she received. Sharing the day, not to mention the delicious cake with all her friends and family gave her so much pleasure – thank you. LEIRE & DUNTON CUBS & SCOUTS We have reports from both Ceri & Elisabeth – thank you for all your news The Leire and Dunton Scout Group has been very busy over the last few months, and you may well have seen us out and about. Although it seems a long time ago, we had a fantastic turnout for Remembrance Day in November with most of our young people attending the parade on a very cold Sunday morning making all the leaders very proud of the respect that they showed. The drinks and cakes in the church afterwards were very much appreciated as a chance to thaw out! We have also been actively fundraising as a Group in Leire doing an evening of Carol Singing in December and raising £112 for The Children’s Society; and you may have also seen our entry in the Leire Christmas Tree Festival – which we were delighted to win! We are currently practicing hard for the Group Pantomime, Hansel and Gretel, which will take place in Broughton Astley Village Hall on Saturday 6th February (6.0pm start). If you would like to come and support our young people, tickets are available from [email protected] at a cost of £5 per adult, £1 per child (ticket price includes a drink). Although we have a fantastic bunch of young people and a thriving Group, we still desperately need a Cub Scout Leader to take the reins. Our Scout Leader is currently running both the Scout and the Cub sections and this is obviously not sustainable in the long term. We do have 2 assistant Cub Scout Leaders, but we need someone to take on the overall co-ordination for the section. There is plenty of training and help available, so please if you feel that you could give a couple of hours a week to help our Group please give me a ring on 01455 202752, or email [email protected] . Elizabeth Hope (Group Scout Leader) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 The annual L&D Panto will be taking place on Saturday 6th February, starting at 6:00pm. It will be starring the Scouts, Beavers and Cubs as usual. We will be performing Hansel & Gretel this time, and rehearsals are well underway in all of the sections. Contact Ceri at [email protected], or on the phone number below. The whole group went carol singing around Leire in December, raising a whopping £112.30 for the Children’s Society. Also in December, after many years of trying, the group won the Leire Christmas Tree Festival! The Cubs are this year celebrating the section’s centenary. Many events are taking place at group level, district and county level. In June there will be a huge centenary camp held at Mallory Park racing circuit, at which Cubs will be able to take part in a massive range of activities on and off site. Over the year, the Cubs have been set a series of mini challenges, which we started at the beginning of term. Each term they will have 33 challenges (or as one smart Cub pointed out, 33.333333 recurring challenges) to complete, some small, some larger. Last weekend, some of the Scouts went on the County Caving weekend. It was in the Peak District, staying in a very posh bunk house near Sheffield. They went down two caves on the Saturday, getting very muddy in one and very wet in the other. Unfortunately, the snow on Saturday night meant that they couldn’t go down the caves on the Sunday, but they all had a fantastic time anyway, and were promised a free caving day trip later in the year to make up for it. The next camp on the agenda is Soaring Fox. The Scouts are looking to hold onto the trophy for the annual county incident hike, taking place in March. The group is on the lookout for more Leaders to join our team. If you feel you could step into uniform and assist with as little or as much time as you're able, you would be made very welcome indeed. You would be given all the training you'd need. As Leaders, I think we have just as much fun as the young people, and are a very friendly and welcoming team. If your son / daughter is between the ages of 8 and 14 and would be interested in joining Cubs (8-10½ years) or Scouts (10½-14 years), or if you would like to become a Leader with either Beavers, Cubs or Scouts, give Ceri Sinfield a call on 0116 2338646 for more information. CLEAN FOR THE QUEEN Dunton Goes Green together with the Parish Council will be holding a litter picking day on Saturday 5th March from 10 am until 1pm, joining the UK’s largest litter pick on the run up to the Queen’s 90th birthday. The meeting point will be in the Village Hall where directions will be handed out and refreshments will be available later in the morning. The first national anti-litter campaign was carried out in 1953, the year of the Queen’s Coronation and was shortly followed by the establishment of Keep Britain Tidy. So it is an appropriate time, the year of the Queen’s 90th birthday, that Dunton Bassett should band together with the rest of the UK and attempt the biggest clean up in history.
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