The Three Inone

The Three in One

June 2020

Benefice Directory

Vicar: The Revd. Daniel French The Vicarage, Devon Road, Salcombe, TQ8 8HJ 842853 [email protected]

Assistant Priest: Father Stephen Ball 859006 [email protected] (South Sands Hotel) (Special Responsibility for Malborough)

Deacon: Revd. Christian Hill [email protected] 562693

Benefice Administrator: Debbie Plummer Office 842626 [email protected]

Wardens: Salcombe: Lynn Hillaby 561478 Roger Petty-Brown (Assistant) 842732 Tony Axtell (Assistant) 842155 Malborough: Trevor Rendle 561674 Margaret Ellis 853385 Gill Boyce (Assistant) 561698 South Huish: Bruce Williams 561621

Organists: Salcombe: Trevor Becker 07410 186962 [email protected] Malborough: Gill Rogers 843614 South Huish: Trevor Becker 07410 186962

Benefice News: ‘The Three in One’ Editor: Ann Merritt 854069 [email protected]

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Holy Trinity Church Salcombe PCC Secretary (Vacant) Deanery Synod Representatives David Parkes, Sheila Reed 842387/842392 PCC Treasurer David Stevens 843156 Gift Aid & Weekly Envelopes Joan Parkes 842387 Electoral Roll Secretary Ann Woodhatch 843654 Friends of Holy Trinity Charles Rowse 843941 Parish News Editor Ann Merritt 854069 Proofreader Nikki Turton 842847 Typist Nola Baylis 842877 Distributer Sue Flynn 842244

Malborough Baptist Church Church Administrator Hywel Jones 561700 Family Worship on Sundays 10.30am Communion on first Sunday Catholic Church Priest Monsignor Fr. Andrzej Jablonski 852670 Mass: 5pm Saturday, Salcombe 10.15am Sunday, Kingsbridge Methodist Church Kingsbridge Rachel Mitchell 852073 Hope Cove Sue Morgan 560237 Worship: 10.30am Sunday, Kingsbridge 6pm Sunday, Hope Cove

Malborough Church PCC Secretary Deborah White 561978 Deanery Synod Representative Jane Brannan 561531 PCC Treasurers Trevor & Pauline Rendle 561674 Electoral Roll Secretary Patricia Handley 562240 Gift Aid & Weekly Envelopes Pauline Rendle 561674 Bell Tower Captain John Cole 561831

Galmpton & Hope Cove Church Warden Bruce Williams 561621 PCC Treasurer Pam Windle 562021

Editorial - June 2020 - Three Worlds

It is becoming apparent that Christians are now having to navigate three worlds. Each world interacts with one other world. It strikes me that we do well to grow in confidence around this and be fluent in the dialect of each. This for churches will be a crucial part of transition to the new normal.

The first world is the earth itself, the material world. If your relationship with the material world has not changed in the past two months then I do not know where you have been. The joke going around is that by the end of lockdown we are going to be a monk, a hunk, a drunk or chunk - choose carefully. Lockdown has dramatically quietened down the planet from human activity. The quiet world looks almost like an alien land. There are all sorts stories and anecdotes of this ecological lift. Some for example are appreciating birdsong for the first time and wondering why they have not taken that in before? My kids are playing on empty roads, and the echo of footballs resounds up and down Devon Road. It reminds me of a 1970s childhood where few cars interrupted play. Do we want to go back to what it was before Covid-19? Can we justify treating God’s world as a consumer item? My son has mild asthma and rarely uses his pump but if we venture to London he needs it five times a day. Do we want to return to that?

The second “world” is cyberspace. This is a manmade sphere of pure information. Even the most secular of newspapers, The Guardian, had to grudgingly confess that one in four Britons were daily using the internet to pray. ‘Prayer’ and ‘God’ now top the search engine polls as opposed to more seedy enquiries. As of writing last Sunday the UK churches rush to use Zoom meant that the app overheated in Britain. Prayer, it would seem brought the internet to its knees - literally. Churches are rising to the task of live-streaming and significant numbers are dropping in. Perhaps like an anonymous Christmas service this allows the less familiar to take a peek without commitment? Certainly our views on Facebook livestream have been very marked and recently came near to a thousand views on a Sunday.

The third “world” we have to navigate is that beyond this one, heaven. A pandemic presents the easily forgotten reality of our mortality. Modern life has had a tendency to swerve away from questions about our finality. But, now we know that we are no longer invincible, we are faced with stark realities that would have been normal to our forebears. For Christians this presents a moment of serendipity where the “greatest story ever told” has remarkable relevance. The sceptic might say that this is all pie in the sky, and that heaven has no relevance except as a comforting fairy-tale. The faith story of the Bible and the saints speaks of this other world as the kingdom from which all good values and principles derive. It is the metaphysical layer upon which all that is beautiful, good and noble is founded on.

How these worlds relate is essential to the good news. But, it is easy to get mixed up and muddled and in doing so present a Gospel-lite version of Christianity. First, the internet is not everything. It is a shadow of its mother world. Sometimes this is a hard fact to digest because the internet is very beguiling and rewarding. Try and confiscate a phone from a teenager and you will see what I mean! The internet for the churches is both simultaneously important and not that important. At its best it can be a window, or a mirror, into the real world. A window, however, remains just a window. Likewise, this world is but a shadow of the next, or to use another analogy - the suburbs, the outer rim. If we get too caught up in this world we lose that greater perspective and the present world will feel very flat as if it were folding in on itself. Just as the internet can become addictive so a materialistic mind-set can also limit us.

What is the next life like? In C S Lewis’ Great Divorce, heaven is presented as a world of giants while hell is a grey town of diminished, squashed and small minded individuals. I believe that when God made us in His own image (Genesis 1.27) that wry image is not so much about us having free will, consciousness, imaginations and creativity. Those things are fantastic but we are limited in those and I imagine that even in heaven we shall not have brains as if we were infinite super computers. What God has given us of infinite capacity is the human heart. St Benedict spoke of the human heart as a sanctuary with infinite walls. This we share with God, the ability to love, forgive, and be compassionate. This spiritual organ is appropriate because if we are to inhabit eternity we need to learn to get along with even our adversaries. For eternity we need infinite hearts.

Let me conclude with an anecdote I heard recently. A prominent Christian journalist went to a series of Washington parties for Christian leaders. He was surprised that all conversation and gossip was about power, political intrigue and social media. The gatherings were put together to bring politicians with influential church figures for the greater good. From the church “movers and shakers” no one ever talked about Jesus or the Bible. He said that after a few years of these charades he stopped going. They were exhausting.

In the “new normal” my hope is Christians speak with confidence of the three worlds and how Jesus is the saviour that links all three.

With blessings

Father Daniel

MALBOROUGH CHURCH

What do we have to say at this present time!!! These are very extraordinary circumstances we are living in and the hope is that you are all keeping fit and well and observing the 2m distancing and all the other regulations. Hopefully, this will help to get us back to some form of normal life in the not too distant future, but this could be a very different world we will be living in.

We are endeavouring to keep the congregation up to date with a Weekly Update, which includes a Sunday Service which Fr Stephen has kindly put together along with hymns and our prayer list. If there is anyone that needs to go on our prayer list please let me know so that they can be included. The idea of the Sunday Service sheet is down to Pauline (Rendle) and our thanks must go to her for discussing this with Fr Stephen and getting it up and running and to Gill (our organist) for choosing the hymns. The actual production of it then comes down to me but as we have so many of our congregation on e-mail, this makes life so much easier. Trevor keeps his exercise up by delivering the one or two that remain. This last week we have been able to include Bob & Trixie on e-mail and also Keith & Mary Rushton from Macclesfield who spend the summer with us and join our congregation.

During this pandemic, we are truly indebted to Fr Stephen and Fr Daniel for being able to keep our services going on a daily basis through the wonderful world of technology. However, Fr Stephen is no longer broadcasting but is continuing with the daily services from home. Please, if you are not on Facebook, as I know a great many of you aren’t, go to www.dailywithgod.co.uk where you will be able to watch all the services and keep up to date with any news in the Benefice. We are so lucky to be able to have this available to us so please make use of it.

Saturday 23rd May was a very special day for two of our congregation – John & Pauline Cole who celebrated their Golden Wedding. We congratulate them and wish them all the very best for the future. Enjoy your celebrations at a later date.

As I write these notes, please pray especially for David & Betty Unwin, as David’s mother passed away earlier this week after a long illness. Please keep them in your thoughts at this difficult time.

Take care everyone and stay safe.

Margaret Ellis

From the Benefice Registers

Funeral

John Derek Burton Service at Bonfire Hill Cemetery 3pm Friday 15th May 2020

Holy Trinity Salcombe Treasurer’s Appeal

As you can imagine, the Church like all businesses is also facing financial difficulties, especially being closed. We still have outgoings to meet, for example this month over £3,000 for insurance. I have just completed accounts for the 3 months to 31st March and these show a deficit of over £7,000.

We rely heavily on donations, especially on those Church Members who have generously signed a Standing Order and a Gift Aid form. Please consider increasing your monthly payment or if you wish to make a one off payment - this should go into the same bank account.

If you wish to start making a regular payment or donate a lump sum. Please contact Joan Parkes first as you will need to sign a Gift Aid form, if appropriate (Tel 842387). If you are unable to Gift Aid, then donations can be sent to me at the Church. Cheques payable to Salcombe PCC. A Gift Aid donation makes a big difference as an additional 25p can be claimed for every £1 donated.

David Stevens Treasurer

South Huish Parish

The beauty surrounding us in our parish is almost beyond compare in these early summer months. The sights and sounds around us are all the more vivid through the lack of traffic and visitors. Both our churches remain closed until further notice of course, but I thought I’d remind you that through all of this our original parish church of St Andrew, in South Huish, has remained open (it’s difficult to lock up a church with no doors, windows or roof!). The church and churchyard are particularly beautiful now, with numerous wildflowers, and even a bees’ nest in one of the walls of the tower. If you haven’t been past there for a while, stop and have a look around. It’s such a peaceful place, perfect for prayer and contemplation. With numerous public footpaths around the parish, it’s a lovely walk to St Andrew’s, no matter which direction you have come from.

Let’s hope it won’t be too long before we can go back inside our places of worship. In the meantime, Holy Trinity stands tall in the valley, waiting for better times. Julia Williams

COVID Resolution: We Will Remember! Won’t We?

"In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." A Time for Prayer - Rudyard Kipling

I can’t remember a time when we were being subjected to the tsunami of data hitting us today - in the press, online, in social media, on the radio or on our televisions. In the era of ‘fake news’, the less we trust the more insatiable we have become for what we call information - we must know, we must have clarity, there must be transparency…why can’t people speak in ways that deliver the facts?! However, I wonder if this insatiable clamour is because, first and foremost, we haven’t taken the time to understand the question we are asking.

Those of you of a certain bent will have read Douglas Adam’s The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In that book there is a part where an enormous supercomputer, named Deep Thought, was set to contemplating the question: “what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?" After 7.5million years of contemplation Deep Thought arrived at the answer: “42!” You might think: what the heck does that mean? But by turning the question on its head one quickly realises it was the question at fault, not the answer. Do we understand the question we are posing in the first place? Too often we are quick to demand answers (“it is our right to know!”) but have given little time to really thinking about the question we are posing. Nor are we properly considering its relation to the context we are setting it in - sometimes questions about gloomy issues, as legitimate as they might be, heaped on more gloom only helps corrode confidence and sap morale to no real gain overall.

Let’s go back to data and our drive for more and more information. Do we understand the terms we are using? Data is just stuff. Facts and figures that can be presented in any way one wishes. If there is no coherence to the presentation of such data, if there are no controls to relate that data to, how is one to judge the value, or make sense, of that data? And, as we see all too often in the press, this results in us trying to compare metaphoric apples with oranges or pears with bananas. The classic failing is comparison of percentages. For example, how often has one seen a headline along the lines of “there has been a disastrous 50% increase in prevalence of such and such amongst the population.” 50% of what? It matters – an increase by a few (eg 10 to 15 people) or tens of thousands (eg 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 people)? And then what is the trend in this data – for instance, a temporary spike of change or more enduring progression? The bottom line is that data handled poorly is effectively an attempt to massage the facts to fit a narrative.

So, data must be developed into coherent information where peer review ensures it is of a quality that might, in subsequent discourse, be turned into intelligence and a starting point from which we might begin to understand the questions we want to ask.

And right now, one has to ask, have we begun to properly consider the events and hurt of the last three months in order to really frame the questions that will ensure we will truly learn lessons from the pandemic? So many people talk about us being on the cusp of a new normal. Really? Hand on heart, how much do you think we have collectively learnt? Do you think ‘we’ has really become more important than ‘me’?

And don’t confuse sympathy for resolve. Every Thursday there is an extremely natural public demonstration of sympathy for key workers – and especially those in the caring professions – but has that substantially changed our collective resolve? Or have we all, in one way or another (often for seemingly very rational reasons) begun to chip away or corrode the rules needed to bring on the new safe normal because, as many would still argue, “we are grown-ups and only sensibly adapting the rules (for our personal advantage they don’t add)”?

Rudyard Kipling exposed a truism when it comes to the public and its military. In times of crisis sympathy in bucket loads has been routinely heaped on servicemen and women who, although poorly resourced, perform their duties in hugely dangerous environments. But there is little public resolve to properly learn lessons once the crisis abates. And is this truism to be mirrored more broadly in the country following the Covid-19 crisis; are we just expressing sympathy or are we truly collectively resolved to change for the better? Like the soldier, do we forget him and God in peace time?

I would truly hope the current pain is not for nought. And, from the data coalesced into tested and proven information, that we now develop the intelligence to start asking more of ourselves. And in due course, I hope, this will help us set well considered questions, the answers to which will ensure we will remember and change for the better for all.

Bruce Williams Churchwarden, South Huish Parish

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A message from Holy Trinity Church Gift Aid Secretary

As the church office is closed at this present time I am unable to print the end of year letter advising you of the amount you have kindly donated for 2019-20 through our Gift Aid scheme. As it was the end of the tax year on the 5th April and you require this figure, for completion of your tax return, please contact me either at [email protected] or 01548 842387 and I will let you have the details. If you normally support the church through regular payments in blue or yellow envelopes you can still do so by either making a one off or regular payment to the bank via the counter or direct transfer or deliver to me at Flying Swans, Lower Batson TQ8 8NP, as part of your exercise.

Account details: Lloyds Bank, PCC Salcombe -2 30-94-72 a/c number 07389759 Reference: your name please.

If you normally make donations by cash you can also make a one off or regular payment to the bank as above. For reference: cash payment or your name. The church still has commitments to make financially so your donations would be gratefully received. The church as a building is very much used by the people of Salcombe and like all buildings needs to be kept up to standard. In these difficult times money is still needed, but in the absence of services or fund raising this is causing a short fall. If you are able to support us in any way we would be grateful. Donations can be made through the bank above, and if you pay Income Tax and would like to support the church through Gift Aid then I can forward a form for completion. Every pound donated by Gift Aid means we can claim another 25p from the Inland Revenue. Thank you to those who have already sent donations or set up online regular payments. Keep well, keep safe, keep praying, we will get through this. Joan Parkes

The Friends of Holy Trinity, Salcombe

It’s May, the flowers are beautiful, and we escaped this morning at 5.30am to go and see the birds on Bolberry Down - it was worth the effort! Yellow Hammers, Linnets, Sky Larks and lots of Meadow Pipits, bluebells and gorse with blue sky and the sun coming up; the lines of Wordsworth’s Ode on Westminster Bridge came to mind “Earth has not anything to show more fair, dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty”. With the lockdown we are all spending more time at home; the evening television programmes are either depressing or supposedly comedy, but not a humour to my taste. With all their concerts being cancelled and their love of making music, a group of musicians are coming together to play on an online platform. They are called The Philomel Project and are being led by Pavel Timofeyevsky, who came to play for us last year. You will find them on Facebook. The Vicar puts a daily Eucharist on Facebook, with a short homily. It gives you things to mull over as you pluck the weeds from the ground and the technology is advancing by the day. Daniel and Nathaniel are putting a lot of time and thought into these services and I find that they give a structure to the start of the day. Last week we had VE Day. It was very different from 1945 but we had a social distancing gathering and sing-a-long in the street, even met some new neighbours! Look forward to meeting you all again, stay safe and healthy. Charles Rowse

Good News … It’s arrived

Galmpton now has its own Defibrillator, which we hope will stay in its own little box! but available if needed. Last year Hope Cove Weekend donated the money to the Parish Council to pay for the Defibrillator. Thanks to the generosity of Andrew Turner, it is now fitted to the wall outside his house The Old Parsonage, Southern route ( lower road ) Galmpton. Andrew has paid for the installation and will continue to pay for the electricity to “keep it warm” through the winter months. A very big thank you to him.

The Parish Council are also renewing the 2 Defibrillators in Hope Cove. They intend to hold a meeting to brief everyone on the operation of the equipment, when it is safe to do so. However there are clear instructions with the Defibrillator so if you need it - use it - don’t wait for the meeting! Andrew is happy for people to take a look when passing to familiarise themselves, so please do.

Julia Williams

Malborough with South Huish C of E (VC) Primary School

‘The roots to grow, the wings to fly. All within the love of God’

Since I last wrote my report, school has stayed open for key workers children. Every week we are sending out a newsletter to our parents/carers, which is full of lovely photos and stories of what the children have been doing while school has been closed. The Foundation children have been busy designing a new hair style for their teacher! Each week our teachers are phoning all of our families to see how they are and how they are coping with having their children at home. To support them with home learning, we have introduced a new virtual home learning package and all year groups are able to access this and have some interaction with their teachers, which has had a huge benefit for everyone. Our children have been very creative while being at home, painting, growing sunflowers and other plants, making dens in the garden, baking, mathematics, writing stories and enjoying being able to access the countryside and the beach. For VE Day we decided to put up the Union Jack and decorate the school gates with some bunting. It was not what we had planned, but as with everything, we shall celebrate some other time. We have had installed some new fencing and gates around the school to be compliant with health and safety and Ofsted. We are all on half term for a week and our school shall be reopening on the 1st June for our Foundation, year 1 and year 6 children. Parents will not be fined if they decided to keep their children at home and as a School we shall not be penalised for poor attendance. We are more than ready to welcome our children back into school, the staff have all had training, school has had a deep clean and the classrooms have been adapted to cope with the social distancing guidelines. But we will obviously be listening to the Prime Minister on the 28th May to see how things may change. It has been, as for all of us, a challenging time and the Governors meetings are much more frequent than usual, all being conducted virtually. But for now, we send our prayers and thoughts to everyone and hope we can all meet again soon. Jane Greaves – Chair and Foundation Governor for The South Hams Federation

MALBOROUGH KNIT & NATTER As I write this it is week 8 of lockdown, anyone else counting? I wish everyone good health. Once again, in this period of self-isolation, I have turned to knitting. My grandma knitted for the War Effort, my mother knitted for Victory and we in the Malborough Group are knitting ‘Traffic Light’ hats for the Torbay Special Care Baby Unit. Knitting is thought to have started in the Middle East. Examples of knitting from Egypt actually made from cotton not wool and knitted socks dating from 11th CE have been found. So we are an elite band!! I look forward to welcoming old and new faces soon. Needles and wool available in Malborough area. With love and peace Lynn Hillaby tel 561478

SALCOMBE WI

Salcombe WI postponed its Annual Meeting - and the election of officers for the coming year- which was due to be held in May. We are still unsure as to when Meetings will restart. But our Members have kept busy. They have produced scrub bags, which have been sent to Derriford hospital for frontline staff, and facemasks for the Redfern Health Centre. Derriford has asked for more neonatal hats and bootees so our Members will continue to knit these. Otherwise, we continue to use our ‘link’ system to keep in touch with each other and we have so far produced three issues of a newsletter that is sent to Members electronically (or delivered by mail or hand to those not on the internet). It includes information from the Town Council and others as well as photos of Members’ craft activities. The latest edition also included some history of Salcombe WI as we approach our 90th birthday in October 2020. We are all looking forward to the time when we can, once again, get together and enjoy our regular meetings and speakers. Our meetings are usually held monthly at Salcombe Rugby Club at 2.00 pm for 2.15 pm on the third Tuesday – though we cannot yet say when the next one will be. In the meantime, if you would like more information about what we do, our planned programme of monthly meetings and our active and varied social calendar, please contact our President, Janis Fice, on 01548 844560 or email [email protected]. New Members are always welcome!

Karen Wolstenholme Scrub bags for Derriford Hospital

Bloopers from Church Notices (not from this Benefice!)

"Diana and Don request your presents at their wedding."

"Announcement to the Mums Who Care ladies group: There will be no Mums who care this week.

"The class on prophecy has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances."

"Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our Church and community."

Registered Charity Number 1166469

Regrettably, all minibus trips remain cancelled until government guidelines suggest that we can resume in a safe fashion. Obviously, many of our passengers are vulnerable to the Covid-19 virus and the recommended level of social distancing is not possible in the confined space of the minibus, so it is only sensible to stop all trips until the risk of infection has considerably reduced. The Trustees agree that it is too early to restart trips but, when the time is right, we will consider a variety of measures such as improving isolation on the bus by removing aisle seats and installing Perspex screens, and giving PPE to drivers & couriers etc.

In line with most other social and fund-raising events in Salcombe this year, the Trustees and I have agreed to cancel our annual cream tea at Woodcot in August. It would not be safe to hold this event because social distancing, for passengers and volunteers serving the food & drinks, would not be possible and there is a high risk of infection from the visitors coming to the popular event. Furthermore, many businesses in the town are also struggling to survive and we feel it unreasonable to ask them for donations and raffle prizes to support the event this year. We are hopeful that we can start again in 2021.

The AGM was held “virtually” at the end of April with Trustees discussing items on the agenda via email. A record of the “discussions” and agreements reached was emailed to the Trustees and is available upon request. In line with Charity Commission regulations, the end-of-year audited accounts were approved by the Trustees and have been made public by uploading them to the Charity Commission website, well in advance of the legal deadline.

My thanks go to all the Trustees and volunteers for their help over this difficult period.

Stay home and stay safe, Tim Mattocks, 842140 or 07970 374666

CLIFF HOUSE TRUST Well what a topsy-turvy world we have been living in for the last couple of months! Obviously this has had a tremendous impact on our day to day lives at Cliff House with numerous events and weddings having to be postponed. Sadly, we’ve also had to cancel events such as our Salcombe Jazz Trio evening and two Kick in the Head productions due to have taken place this Spring. We will be setting new dates however, so watch this space!

Our plans for a rip roaring VE day celebration also had to be shelved, but Simon, our Buildings Manager, still managed to decorate the House and raise the flag in support.

On a more positive note, Simon, who lives on site and is therefore able to ‘work from home’ easily, has managed to paint the majority of Cliff House from top to bottom. When you next visit we hope you’ll be delighted with how smart we’re looking! He has also taken some ‘never before seen’ images of glorious May days on the harbour with not a boat or visitor in site. Sad, but interesting nevertheless.

More photographs are posted on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ cliffhousesalcombe/.

Simon, Nicola, Tania & Annabel

Salcombe Harbour

Salcombe Harbour Authority is adjusting its stance in line with recent Government guidance (published May 11th) to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 but allow for the reopening of public spaces and activities from Wednesday 13th May 2020. This includes the ability to spend time outdoors for recreation including unlimited exercise or sport, where (unless from the same household) social distancing can be maintained. Having reviewed the related Government documentation, we interpret that from Wednesday 13th May the Salcombe-Kingsbridge Estuary can be used for local exercise, sport, or spending time outdoors, where social distancing can be maintained. Should you wish to use your vessel please bear in mind each step of the process and how you can maintain social distancing, especially whilst accessing pontoons or landings which might become busier than normal as people venture out, as well as making every attempt to remain safe and reduce the chance of requiring assistance. Our pontoon landings are generally not over 2m wide and cannot be adjusted, however their layout does provide for passing places; please observe the pontoon you wish to access, anticipate having to use extra precautions, use common sense, and be patient. Please note that toilet facilities will not be re-opening at this time. Most other facilities and businesses remain closed in surrounding local towns. The Harbour will remain closed to visiting yachts (from sea) as government guidance is clear that, apart from day trips, leaving your home - the place you live - to stay at a second home for a holiday or other purpose is not allowed. This also pertains to resident vessels cruising elsewhere; local ports will not be expecting arrivals. Currently the Boatman will continue to run 7 days a week, but only between 09:00 and 16:30 monitoring VHF channel 14. We will attempt to monitor activity to the best of our ability and may impose limits or restrictions on accessing certain facilities (or busy areas) should their use prove to be concerning. The Harbour Taxi will resume a restricted availability/capacity service to prevent overcrowding a particular trip and remove waiting or queuing. Advanced booking is essential by phone or email, half hourly between 09:30 and 16:00, daily. The Harbour Taxi will be monitoring VHF channel 12 and mobile 07807 643879. We will begin to plan for the reopening of the Harbour Office in a safe manner but we continue to monitor our phones and email, Mon - Fri, 09:00 - 16:30. All staff are operating to a revised risk assessment to ensure their (and others) ongoing safety in line with current Government guidelines. We anticipate this safe system of work may have to be adjusted to follow any further guidelines which may influence the service without notice. Ferry operators and other commercial passenger carrying craft, where operating, will also be severely limited and a backlog could present its own problem for customers queueing. Please check their current status before assuming a service is provided. Hand in hand with the ability to use the estuary, we will begin to launch those boats stored on Batson Car Park and those boat owners are welcome to continue with their own preparations for this to take place, whilst observing social distancing measures. Should your facility be temporarily unavailable whilst we try to catch up with those tasks we have not been able to complete under lockdown, and you require an immediate option, please contact us. Salcombe Harbour Authority has had to interpret the government guidelines so as to provide a balance between social distancing and your ability to enjoy the estuary. We reserve the right to review these measures at any time if it is clear that social distancing is not, or cannot be maintained in the course of enjoying the estuary. The Harbour Authority, Harbour Board and SHDC will continue to review Government guidance and update our own guidance in early July at the latest. We appreciate your continued support in maintaining safe and efficient port operations whilst being able enjoy the benefits of getting afloat. Cameron Sims-Stirling Salcombe Harbour Master

Salcombe Library

The library building (Cliff House) is still closed, and for now all we know is that we will 'probably re-open in phase 3 from the government guidelines', but of course that is all subject to change.

However, the library service is still available - online!

The Devon Libraries Homepage has been revised to try and make it easier to access these online resources: ebooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines, so do take a look here: https://www.devonlibraries.org.uk

Access to Ancestry Library Edition has been extended until the end of June, so do take a look while it's free from home. I've had a go, combining it with my normal free Ancestry account (available from ancestry.co.uk, where I have created a family tree) but now you can actually search the collections by typing in details you already know about someone and seeing if there are any matches; it's quite fun when you find one. You do need time to delve into it though. Access is available through logging in to your Library account on the Devon Libraries Homepage and then clicking on the Ancestry Library Edition link.

Please email [email protected] if you need your library card number or PIN number to access your account and any of the online platforms: BorrowBox, Libby/Overdrive and RBDigital.

Do keep an eye on the Facebook page too (www.facebook.com/ SalcombeLibrary) as I continue to update it each week with information, photos, crafts and of course books!

Becky Wall – Library Assistant

Cliff House now offers a choice of rooms for small or large meetings, parties, weddings and celebrations. Both rooms are also licensed for civil ceremonies. Discounted rates are available to local clubs, charities and other community organisations.

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South Hams Centre

Due to the coronavirus outbreak we are continuing to postpone or cancel some of the events in our summer programme. This is in line with the latest government and National Trust recommendations. The National Trust is, however, actively considering options for reopening some of their sites and car parks. We will continue to keep the situation under review. Up to date information regarding events is available from Joan Johnstone on 01548 857014 (9am to 5pm only). Malcolm Wesley

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