Packington Newsletter Issue 55 August 2014 Dates for Your Diary For Church Services, go to next page 10th September 2014 WI - Shakespeare’s Quotes 7.30 p.m. - Undercroft 2nd October 2014 Harvest Supper 7.30 p.m. – Packington Hall 8th October 2014 WI – George Formby 7.30 p.m. - Undercroft 6th November 2014 Coffee Morning 10.30 to 12 noon – Packington Hall 12th November 2014 WI – Annual Meeting 7.30 p.m. - Undercroft 10th December 2014 WI – Bring & Share Supper 7.30 p.m. – Undercroft th Carols by Candlelight 13 December 2014 4 to 5 p.m. – St. James Church Bournville Graduates Line drawing of the Church by by Jon Brierley of Forest Ground Cottage ! ! ! ! ! ! ! THE ESTATE CHAPEL OF ST. JAMES GREAT PACKINGTON, MERIDEN WARWICKSHIRE ! THE PRIVATE CHAPEL ADMINISTERED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM 1ST APRIL 1994 SUNDAY SERVICES AND ALL OTHER USES BY PERMISSION ENQUIRIES TO LORD AYLESFORD ! CHURCH! NEWS ! September 7 Trinity X11 Holy Communion - 10.30 October 5 Trinity XV1 - Harvest Festival November 9 Trinity XX1 - Remembrance Day December 7 Advent 11 Holy Communion - 10.30 December 20 Carol Service 6.30 December 25 Christmas Day Family Communion January 11 Epiphany 1 TBC Plough Sunday February 1 Sexagesima TBC The Litany & Holy Communion March 1 TBC March 29 Lent 1V TBC Mothering Sunday ! ! ! All are most welcome to these Services! ! Revd John Bradford In the Diocese of Coventry Peter M. Gregory, Organist! 0121 704 9895 Revised 18.03.13 0121 705 4428 ! ! Lend a Flower Rota! ! We have set up a rota to do flowers for the once a month service. If it is your turn, please take them home after the service to enjoy them, otherwise they would be wasted! If you cannot do the month allocated please let me know: !Lady Aylesford.....01676 522274 (E-mail..... [email protected]) ! We really need more volunteers for the flower rota so that everyone need !only do it once a year?! ! ! August 3rd Mrs. Dalton September 7th Mrs. Hall October 5th Farmers Wives November 9th - Remembrance Day Mrs. Smith December 7th Miss Joan Griffiths Christmas Lady Aylesford January 11th TBC Mrs. Beaty February 1st TBC March 1st TBC April 5th TBC ! ! ! Lady Aylesford will do all Flowers and the Tree for Christmas/Easter Packington Hall, Meriden Nr Coventry CV7 7HF Tel: Estate Office - 01676 522020 Fax: 01676 523399 ! Lord and Lady Aylesford ! " invite you to a Cofee Morning In Aid of The Chapel of St James, Great Packington ! At Packington Hall Packington Park ! On Thursday 6th November 2014 10.30am - 12.00 noon Please bring your friends ! ! Cakes Entrance £4 Rafe inc: Cup of tea and biscuit Brick a Brack ! Books Further Information 01676 522274 Packington and Maxstoke NEWS August 2014 ________________________________ COMING MEETINGS …. Why not join us at 7.30pm in the Undercroft at Packington Hall for one of our forthcoming meetings … new members are made very welcome. Please telephone one of the Officers (see below) if you need a lift 2014 # Wednesday 10 September: “Shakespeare’s Quotes” Alycia Smith Howard # Wednesday 8 October: “George Formby” Kevin Barfield # Wednesday 12 November: Annual Meeting # Wednesday 10 December: Bring & Share Supper Contacts: President Laraine Jones....................01676 - 540693 Secretary Jan Wade.......................... 01676 - 523118 Treasurer Kate Beaty..........................01675 - 443623 The Estate and Farmers invite you to the 2014 Packington Parish Harvest Supper at Packington Hall - Pompeian Room Thursday 2nd October at 7.30 pm ! Tickets £7 each ! Bring and take away….. Wine and Beer given by the Estate Knives, Forks and Spoons!!!! Raffle Some Form of Entertainment!!! ! Tickets will be restricted to Past and present staff, residents, congregation and immediate (ie wives/husbands and children) families of the above! Tickets are very limited and we really want Estate members and their families to attend .This is an Estate Party first and foremost. If you would like tickets, please complete the reply slip below, and return to The Estate Office, c/o Kay Gleeson, Packington Hall, Meriden, Coventry, CV7 7HF You will hear if you have been successful in getting tickets by one of the 3 methods below, so PLEASE provide! Email address………………………………………………………………………. Mobile no……………………………………………………………………………… Home no……………………………………………………………………………….. If you could provide an Apple Pie or 2, or Table Flowers, please indicate. Please reply by Monday 22nd September so we can contact everyone. We will not be chasing anyone by telephone as this is time consuming and expensive! PLEASE CAN YOU CUT OUT THIS INVITATION AND FORM AND PUT ON YOUR NOTICE BOARDS OR IN YOUR DIARIES SO THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO WASTE TIME IN CHASING YOU FOR YOUR FORMS! ! HARVEST SUPPER ! Thursday 2nd October 2014 7.30 pm ! ! ! NAME:………………………………………………………………………………………………. ADDRESS: ! ! ! !Tel No: ! TICKETS REQUIRED AT £7............ ! AMOUNT ENCLOSED: £........... ! Cheques made payable to Lady Aylesford ! ! ! I can provide ...... Apple Pies ! I can Provide ..... Flower Arrangements ! !Family Members : ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Packington Estate Social Club The Summer sun has made a big difference this year and everyone has been spending more time in the garden or enjoying outdoor activities. Looking back a few months to April, we decided to have an Easter egg hunt in the Undercroft which proved very successful for the children that came. Lots of yummy eggs were found in the strangest of places. Nice to see residents entering into the spirit with unusual Easter Bonnets too ! Our quiz night and fish and chip supper in May was again a great success. The Undercroft was full, with lots of enthusiastic teams taking part in the quiz. In June, it was rubber gloves and mop buckets at the ready as Social club committee members completed the annual spring clean. We now have a sofa and coffee table for those who want to sit away from the bar area. We also have plans to start serving coffee if you prefer a hot drink. We were so fortunate with the weather in July for the Summer cricket match. The sun shone down as the 'farmers versus the estate' match took place. The estate managed to retain the trophy for a another year. After the match everyone piled into the Undercroft for a well deserved drink and who could forget the fabulous pork and stuffing rolls. A big thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make the afternoon and evening such a huge success. The social club is open on the last Friday of every month so please support us. We will be arranging lots more events and will be planning another 'family night at the dogs' in November for those who are interested. Remember - everyone is welcome and all profits go to charity so please bring your friends and family and enjoy a night with us. i. A Wonderful Fundraising Effort My name is Jasmine Burchel! and I am 7 years old. I live on Packington estate. Last year I heard about a charity called The Little Princess Trust. They raise money to pay for wigs for children who have lost their own hair through illnesses like cancer. I thought it was sad that some children are so poorly and decided to have my long hair cut short to be made into a wig for a little girl who is very poorly. I told my friend Daisy and she decided to have her hair cut too. !t costs f350 to make each wig so we declded to try to raise enough money to have a wig made To raise the money we held a raffle at school and asked people to sponsor us. My dad, John, had a charity fishing rnatch at Packington for us and my mums friends at work grew silly moustaches and got sponsors (the ladies wore fake moustaches too!). We held a fun day at Meriden Schoolwhere we had lots of raffles, tombolas, cake stalls etc and this is where Daisy and I had our hair cut. We started off hoping to raise f350 but we think we did really wel! as we ended up raising .... f10089.55!!! Not bad for two little girls! Thank you to everyone that sponsored us and came along to our events. Love from Jasmine Burchell Bournville Graduates present CCCaaarrrooolllsss bbbyyy CCCaaannndddllleeellliiiggghhhttt St. James’ Church Great Packington, Meriden, Warwickshire, CV7 7HF Sunday 13 December 2014 4 to 5 pm Tickets £5, from Anne on 0121 458 2331 A talented ‘a capella’ group from South Birmingham Policing Update Rural Watch is being re-vamped and Carol Cotterill who has done so much work for Horse Watch is steering the project. Once best practice is developed in North Warwickshire we will be spreading the initiative throughout the County. With this in mind we are going to have a property marking initiative in each of my parishes and if necessary going to those unable to get to us. By making your property identifiable to your premises it becomes less desirable to thieves who find it more difficult to dispose of and easier for us to deal with them positively when caught or just stopped in routine checks. I will be letting you know when we plan to do this at Packington and please bring what you can to us. I reiterate if you think something is suspicious then it probably is so please report all incidents, I can’t do anything about problems I know nothing about. WPC 86 Ellen Beaty Rural & Horsewatch Bulletin – 23 July 2014 Please be aware of the following incidents, which have occurred at rural premises across Warwickshire over recent days: Incident 292 of 18 July – Curdworth Between 11.30am on 17 and 5.10pm on 18 July, offenders forced open a ground floor stable door at a farm premises in Curdworth and entered the property.