SummerFREE 2018 Haydon Wick living PRODUCED BY HAYDON WICK PARISH COUNCIL Regular Events: Thursday Meat Draw at 9.30 Saturday Live Bands/Soloists/Disco’s Sunday Bingo at 8.00 and ‘Open the Box’ at 9.30 – New members and their families welcome – Sky TV and BT Sport Major sporting events always on our back bar 8ft dropdown screen and front bar large plasma screens. Check out the website to see what's on www.haydonwickclub.co.uk Room Hire: Members only, full catering facilities for up to 200 Anniversaries – Birthdays – Special Events – Weddings Enquiries and correspondence to: The Secretary, Haydon Wick Club, 10 Blunsdon Road, Swindon SN25 1JD. Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01793 721028 Haydon Wick Club 2 Haydon Wick ‘living’ is assembled and Summer produced by Haydon in the Parish of Haydon Wick Wick Parish Council Issue No 128 Summer 2018 Contents Letter from the Editorial Team Hi, Tommies ..........................................6 Planning and Highways ....................9 In this issue we talk about the Mann Tracht ................................... 10 importance of remembrance, and why Haydon Artists' Society .................. 12 we have decided to buy a Tommy Figure Justin Tomlinson MP ...................... 14 and benches (page 31). And for those who Young at Heart ............................... 17 don't know about Tommy and the “There WI .................................................. 18 But Not There” campaign an explanation Tuesday Art Group ......................... 19 is given on page 6. We hope you'll agree Open Garden .................................20 that this is a fitting way to acknowledge Responsibility and Priorities ...........22 11 November 1918. Chairman’s Bit ................................25 On page 10, we talk snow - and the Over 60's .......................................27 impact on grass cutting and other things. Haydon Wick Bowls Club ...............29 Playground Refurbishment .............32 Linda Brown has taken time to explain Broadband .....................................34 the community orchard (page 38). Haydon Wick Petanque Club ..........35 This magazine is only published three Heaton Close Opening ...................37 times a year, and can only give a snap Orchard ..........................................38 shot of what we are doing. If you have Solar Panels ................................... 41 suggestions on articles you would like Swindon and Cricklade Railway .....42 to see, please contact editor. Attendance, Committees and Precept ...................................48 Have a good Summer, we will be back Haydon Wick Ward Update SBC ....55 again in the Autumn. Quiz Page ......................................56 If you would like to submit an article Contact and small print ..................57 contact [email protected] or What's On In Haydon Wick.............59 Haydon Wick Parish Office, Thames Important Local Numbers ............... 61 Avenue, Swindon, SN25 1QQ. And we can provide information about formats, Now serving Communities of Oakhurst, word counts and deadlines. Taw Hill, Priory Vale, Haydon View, Haydon Wick Village, Abbey Meads, Haydonleigh, Haydon End, Greenmeadow, Pembroke Front cover photograph provided by the Park, Woodhall Park and Western Moredon. “There But Not There” Campaign www.haydonwick.gov.uk 3 New Volunteering Service Launched in Swindon No previous experience is required, full bespoke training and ongoing volunteer support is provided as an integral part of the service. The service has a great deal of local support including local care homes, health and social care, the voluntary sector and our local MPs. Sarah, Care Home Volunteers volunteer, Salisbury “Volunteering is absolutely rewarding. I just spend one morning a week, but I come away always feeling fulfilled” Jeni Burchell Swindon Volunteer Coordinator, said: Swindon is the third town in the “This is such an innovative and county to benefit from the launch important service, that works closely of an exciting new service. with local care homes to enhance and Care Home Volunteers was set up in compliment the care that is already 2013, as an independent charity, to provided. We have seen from our recruit, train and support volunteers projects in Salisbury and Chippenham who then spend quality time with older, the fantastic difference that our individual residents in care homes - volunteers make, particularly where and now this innovative service is residents don't have friends or family now available in Swindon. nearby. The service creates an Care Home Volunteers is now looking enjoyable and fulfilling experience for for caring, friendly and compassionate both the volunteer and older person volunteers to support individual residents, being visited”. by providing social contact and For further information please contact friendship. They would love to hear from Jeni Burchell, Swindon Volunteer people who are interested in a new and Co-ordinator on 07922 507848 or fulfilling volunteering opportunity that email her at enhances the well-being, health and [email protected] enjoyment of life, for older people in There will be many drop-in sessions care homes. planned over the coming weeks – please Even if volunteers only have a small amount visit www.carehomevolunteers.org. of time to spare, it makes all the difference. uk/infosessions for all the latest news. 4 d un Day North Swin on F More Fun in 2018! The North Swindon Community Fun day returns on the 1st of September 2018, 12.30-5.00pm at Brook Park in Redhouse. Now in its 5th year this year’s event will be bigger and better than last with a wide range of fun activities for all the family. Come and learn to juggle, spin a plate and try some other tricks at the circus workshop, visit the reptile man, have fun on the fun fair, or just indulge in a few chocolate fancies from Bob Brownies. For those energetic ones who fancy a bit of tennis Swindon community tennis will be on tour with one of their pop-up courts. A great opportunity to play some tennis for free! Trader applications close the 30th June 2018 with opportunities also available to any local talent interested in performing on the day. The committee are also pleased to announce details of an interschools talent show (for 11-17 year olds) will be made available to the local secondary schools shortly with the winner getting their song burnt to cd and played on radio! To express your interest in any of the above or to request further information please email: [email protected]. You can also check out their website: nscommunitygroup.org.uk or Facebook page facebook.com/nsFunDay 5 WW1 ‘Tommies’ mark start of Nationwide Centenary Campaign ❖ Ghostly figures of World War One soldiers or ‘Tommies’ pop-up all over the United Kingdom ❖ The Tommies form part of an art installation marking the centenary of the end of the First World War ❖ Campaign hopes to raise in excess of £15 million for armed forces and mental health charities ❖ Campaign led by former Chief of the General Staff, Lord Dannatt and supported by Birdsong novelist, Sebastian Faulks. WEDNESDAY 28TH FEBRUARY: Hoping to raise in excess of £15 million Ghostly figures of First World War for armed forces and mental health soldiers or ‘Tommies’, have sprung up charities, the six foot high Tommies all over the UK today, as part of a new are part of a nationwide art installation fundraising campaign led by former called ‘There But Not There’. The Chief of the General Staff, General Tommies appear as 2018 marks The Lord Dannatt and supported by 100 years since the end of the First Birdsong novelist, Sebastian Faulks. World War. 6 Alongside the touring Tommies, local community groups, such as schools, businesses, places of worship and village halls will be given the opportunity to host their own ‘silhouette installations’. The silhouettes, different in shape to the standing Tommy, are designed to fit into seated spaces and were inspired by an art installation by Martin Barraud at Penshurst Church in Kent in 2016. The installation at Penshurst Church included 51 silhouettes, one for each name on the local Penshurst war memorial. It is hoped that communities will honour the fallen on their own local war memorials, by placing a silhouette for every man that fell in local community spaces. Tommy installations have appeared in sentry boxes usually manned by Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London, on Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, at Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon, South Wales and at Heart of Midlothian Football Club in Edinburgh. The Tommies will be touring the country until Armistice Day and members of the public are being encouraged to buy their own 10 inch versions to remember their own relatives. The money raised from the sale of these commemorative figures, which are made by military veterans, will be distributed evenly between The Royal Foundation: Heads Together, Walking With The Wounded, Combat Stress, Help for Heroes: Hidden Wounds, The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation and Project Equinox: Housing Veterans. 7 A soldier for forty years, concluding his Commonwealth soldiers, they are also military career as Chief of the General supporting the veterans of today, with Staff, the head of the British Army, all profits going to charities supporting Lord Dannatt was Constable of the the armed forces community.” Tower of London until July 2016. As Novelist and There But Not There such, in 2014, he oversaw the iconic Ambassador Sebastian Faulks said: Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red “One hundred years ago this country installation where 888,246 ceramic offered its best young men to the war. poppies were installed in the moat of Many never returned. This nationwide the Tower of London. campaign will honour those men at a There But Not There Patron, Lord local level – in the villages and towns Dannatt said: “The poppies at the from which they came. Tower of London captured the start of He continued: “Just as Pals Battalions the national WWI commemoration – were formed from local offices, factories There But Not There will be the abiding and schools, so each community now concluding image.” has the chance to remember its own.