ISSUE 652 BARNHAM BROOM and FEBRUARY 2021 UPPER YARE GROUP NEWS Welcome to the February Group News. Please continue to check on the needs of friends and neighbours, especially the elderly, and stay safe and well during a third lockdown. LENT COURSE Join us on Zoom for this year’s Lent course, hosted by Garvestone Methodist Chapel and led by Rev’d Anne Richardson. It will be a five-week course based on the York series, Caring for Creation. We will meet Wednesdays at 2pm starting February 24th. For joining details, please contact Rev’d Louisa at [email protected] STUDY LEAVE We wish our Rector Tim a well-deserved Study Leave after working tirelessly for 12 years. Meanwhile, our Assistant Curate Rev’d Louisa is doing a great job seamlessly taking over for three months. Louisa can be contacted directly or via Tim’s email (details, page 2) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby’s free national phone line bringing worship, prayer Here is the Markham family from Wramplingham & exercise into your home. gallantly collecting rubbish from our beautiful country lanes. The free line, 0800 804 8044 Wouldn’t it be wonderful if mindless rubbish-throwing is available 24 hours a day. from the windows of passing vehicles would STOP. Something for everybody! Thanks to the many litter pickers in our Group of villages. Group News is produced (and normally delivered to your door) by volunteers. CLOSING DATE FOR THE MARCH ISSUE: Adverts and News by February 6th. Due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, you may like to collect this issue from your local church porch, or other central point in your village. MINISTRY TEAM Rector: Rev. Dr. Tim Weatherstone, The Rectory, Reymerston NR9 4AG [email protected] 01362 858021 Assistant Priest: The Venerable Arthur Hawes 01362 822441 Assistant Curate: Rev. Dr. Louisa Pittman, The Vicarage, Honingham Road, Barnham Broom, NR9 4DB 01603 759641 Email: [email protected] Reader: Roger Walpole, 1 Woodfarm Cottages, Reymerston, NR9 4QZ 01362 820284 GROUP OFFICERS Group Office: The Rectory, The Street, Reymerston, NR9 4AG [email protected] 01362 858021 Group Treasurer: Adrian Rodford, Church Barn, Southburgh, IP25 7TF 01362 822186 Lay Chairman: Philip Richardson, 16, Vicar Street, Wymondham, NR18 0PL 01953 607564 Website: www.groupof15.org.uk F Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/Groupof15/ Twitter link https://twitter.com/groupof15 GROUP NEWS EDITORIAL TEAM p Rev. Dr. Tim Weatherstone, Rev. Dr. Louisa Pittman, Joy Smiley, Fiona Winser, Advertising and Finance: Mr Francis Woodcock Flat 2, Kimberley Hall, Barnham Broom Road, Editor: Jane Howard NR18 0RT Summer Barn, 07879 379181 Mill Road, Email: [email protected] Hardingham, NR9 4EH Distribution: Christine & Ivan Revell-Burrows 01953 851215 3, Low Road, Carleton Forehoe, NR9 4AP Email: [email protected] 01603 759695 Email: [email protected] Guidelines: adverts should be sent in Doc., Pub., JPG ADVERTISING RATES: files. Please do not send a PDF. The Group News is 1 issue 6 issues 11 issues printed in black and white. For best clarity please send bright images in black and white. Coloured 1/8 page 9 x 6.3 cm £15 £75 £115 logos or posters cannot be printed clearly. LANDSCAPE Inserts & Leaflet Distribution: When making an 1/4 page 9 x 13 cm PORTRAIT £26 £143 £227 enquiry about leaflets, please advise on the size and type, and indicate which villages you would like 1/2 page 18.5 x 13 cm £47 £266 £432 covered. Prices are from 5p for each single A5 leaflet. LANDSCAPE Please address any enquiries about advertising and leaflets direct to Mr Francis Woodcock (see above) For historical reasons, no one-off, unpaid for, ‘For Sale’ advertisements can be accepted. Our Group website is www.groupof15.org.uk For our advertisers, we can offer to place their advertisements online on the website for a small additional monthly charge. Payments to ‘Group News Community Account’. Details: Sort Code 20 - 28 - 20 Account No. 4389 5424 Payment to include the invoice number. If you know anyone outside the Group who would like to receive Group News, this can be arranged for a small fee. Please contact anyone on the editorial team. Group News is published by the Barnham Broom and Upper Yare Group of Churches. It is managed, edited and distributed by volunteers. Donations are always welcome to help with printing costs and can be sent to Francis Woodcock at the above address. Cheques should be made payable to Group News. Please See page 3. Any views expressed in Group News are not necessarily those of the publishers or the editorial team. Whilst every effort is made to ensure accuracy, we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions. Group News accepts advertisements in good faith and we cannot guarantee the goods or services offered by advertisers. GROUP NEWS IS PRINTED BY: HOLLINGER Print ltd, 01603 309000 www.hollinger.co.uk 2 With thanks to Philip Richardson for the Editorial: In 2019 I published a book about the likely changes in the food and farming industry over the next few years in response to climate, environmental and social pressures. As we know, 2020 has proved a time of considerable and unwanted change to all of our lifestyles because of the Covid-19 virus. Change of any kind, particularly if it is too big and too fast, is unsettling, even though it can sometimes brings benefits which we only recognise in hindsight. But because it upsets what we are accustomed to, we often try to resist it, or pretend that it does not affect us, or we allow it to worry us. Mental health problems have affected many people since the virus began to change our lives. There is much we can do to help, as individuals or as groups. Over-reliance on the State to solve our problems is, perhaps, a defining characteristic of our age. In previous times communities pulling together to face hard times was all that was available. Disease, wars and natural disasters were commonplace then, and to give perspective it is helpful to reflect how our ancestors dealt with the consequences on their lives. Many fell back on their faith in God and in the human values of ‘good neighbourliness’ expressed in the Gospels. Today, in our material society which puts a price on everything, except on our personal relationships, we also need to reflect on what is truly of value: Good neighbourliness implies giving comfort in times of trouble, valuing family and friends, always acting with honesty and politeness, offering love for and charity to others, especially those in need. We enter a new year knowing the whole world faces a long period of dramatic change, partly because of the pandemic and its consequences, but more particularly the challenge of climate change and all the ramifications that it has for the way we live our lives in future. There will be enormous challenges for politicians and economists to surmount, but we must not forget the pressures on individuals to change, which will cause stress and will require us all to be better neighbours to one another. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— If you feel that you could help to support SUPPORTING OUR VILLAGE CHURCHES your local Church. Text a donation: please send your donation to Adrian Rodford, £1 Number: 70201 £3 Number: 70331 Church Barn, Southburgh, IP25 7TF £5 Number: 70970 £10 Number: 70191 (or cheque made payable to Barnham Broom Group Fund) Barford HYDF011 Reymerston HYDF004 or directly into the bank. Barclays Sort Code 20-99-08 Barnham HYDF009 Runhall HYDF016 Account number 80153273 Broom Collections. Parishioners who normally like to give to the Brandon HYDF015 Southburgh HYDF014 collections at services might like to set up a Parva standing order for giving to their church. Bank details can be obtained from their Carleton HYDF010 Thuxton HYDF005 PCC treasurers or churchwardens. Forehoe Cranworth HYDF013 Westfield HYDF007 Cllr Lynda Turner, Chairman Breckland Council Lynda and Paul Hewett are the elected district councillors Garvestone HYDF002 Whinburgh HYDF006 for Shipdham with Scarning, including Cranworth, Woodrising & Letton. For useful information ie gritting Hardingham Wramplingham routes; grant availability; cold weather; homelessness HYDF008 HYDF012 support, etc please go to the BDC website: www.breckland.gov.uk or call 07500 818315 Kimberley HYDF003 All churches HYDF001 For your interest, Lynda formerly lived in Garvestone All quiet in and edited and produced Group News single-handed RUNHALL before Julie Walpole took over! BRANDON PARVA and COSTON 3 PARISH COUNCIL NEWS The dedicated help phone number is 0344 8008020 Everyone has a key role in promoting www.nhs.uk/coronavirus and www.gov.uk/coronavirus as trusted sources of information to the public. It is really important to ensure people go to the right sources of information and keep up to date with how to look after themselves. Garvestone, Reymerston & Thuxton Parish Council Please also see Page 8 - ‘The Remembrance Space’ The Parish Council is continuing to hold its meetings virtually using Zoom. Members of the public are welcome to observe, and can speak in the public session. Agendas are put on the three village noticeboards one week before each meeting and details can also be found on the website, or you can ring the Parish Clerk. The next meeting is on March 15th. The Parish Council would like to install new benches in each of Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton. The cost is likely to be in the region of £470 for each bench. We hope these benches will be used and appreciated by residents for the next twenty years, plus. There may be people or organisations in the parish who would like to contribute towards a bench for their village.