Contact Numbers for Various LOCAL CARPENTER Groups in Rowhedge Rowhedge Under 5’s Pre-school - Mon-Fri (term time) AND BUILDER 9.30-12pm. Contact: Deborah Carroll-Head 01206 729042 Carpet Bowls - Mon & Wed 2–4pm. Contact: Ken White 01206 728363 From the ground to Cubs - Mon 6.30–8pm. Contact: Tracy Barrett 01206 a quality finish 728059 Brownies - Tues 6–7.30pm. Contact: Rosie Wignall 01206 728162 All aspects of Building Essex Concert Band (practice) - Tues 7pm. Regs and Design covered Contact: Geoff Harniess 01206 729639 Valentine Dance School - Fri 3.15–7.15pm. Contact: Val under one roof! White 01206 514419 Carolyn’s Dance - Tues 6–7pm. Contact: Harriet Cranfield Groundwork, landscaping 01206 525145 Youth Group (Years 7-11) - Weds 7–9.30pm. Contact: Keely and underpinning Rendell 01206 728436 Rowhedge Junior Football Club - Contact: Sheryl Call Lee 07855 310997 Dunningham 01206 729388 Beavers - Fri 6.30 – 8pm. Contact: Diane Paton 01206 793760 Rowhedge Village Hall Contact: Yvonne Gibbs 07780 KINESIOLOGY 923688 Kung Fu - Mon 7–9pm. Contact: Mark Adams 01206 579958 A complementary therapy Table Tennis - Mon, Thurs & Fri 8–11pm. Contact: John Andrews 01206 273961 for all the family Sea Scouts - Fri 7.30–9.30pm. Contact: Richard Barrett Helps a wide range of ailments 01206 728059 including phobias and addictions Village Lunch - 3rd Tues in each month. Contact: Barbara ‘Nothing else has helped. I felt better Sanderson 01206 728060 or Yvonne Peecock 01206 within days’ Janet 728838 For more information and to book, Rowhedge Moorings Association - Contact: Fabian Bush please contact: 01206 728577 St. Lawrence Primary School - Contact: Kerry Malcolm Anne Kerr 01206 729488. School: 01206 728517 MRPharm S. RMANM. KF Assoc St. Lawrence School PTA - Contact: Toni Clay 01206 729219 01206 728545 07985018192 Rowhedge Heritage Trust - Contact: Keith Phillips 01206 792244 [email protected] Anne has the benefit of also being a Pharmacist DonylandDespatches [email protected] A newsletter for the Rowhedge community Autumn 2010 Get in touch with the Parish Council Meetings Your Parish Councillors Parish Council The Parish Council meets on Post your comments the second Thursday of the Chairman and suggestions in the month (with the exception of Richard Keeble dedicated box outside August) at 7.00pm in the 112 Rectory Road, Rowhedge, Colchester, Essex CO5 7HY. Rowhedge Post Office. School Hall. The hall is open Tel: 01206 729588. Email: [email protected] from 6.30pm and we welcome Welcome to the Council members of the public to come Councillors At the July meeting, Doug along and have their say on Susan Allen Clay was unanimously matters that are important to 21 West Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, Essex CO5 7HW. co-opted onto the Parish them. Tel: 01206 728468. Email: [email protected] Council. The Council looks for- Some Dates for the Diary Doug Clay ward to working with Doug on The Rowhedge Proms will 117 Hillview Close, Rowhedge, CO5 7HT. many projects in the future. take place on Saturday 9th Tel: 01206 729219. Email: [email protected] October 2010 in the Village Parish Council and Police Surgeries Hall. The Essex Concert Band Tina Collins will be starting their perform- From September, the Parish 51 Fingringhoe Road, Colchester, Essex CO2 8EB. ance at 7.30pm and there will Council and Police will be hold- Tel: 07742 421675. Email: [email protected] ing joint surgeries in the be an interval with refresh- School Hall before the monthly ments. Dave Myers Parish Council meeting. The Essex Concert Band’s Fern Cottage, 29 Regent Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, Essex Christmas Concert will once A Police Officer or PCSO will CO5 7EA. again be held in the Village Hall be available between 6.00pm Tel: 01206 728063. Email: [email protected] on Tuesday 21st December and 7.00pm and a Parish 2010 and the performance will Andrew Stott Councillor will be available start at 7.45pm. The Band 27 Parkfield Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, Essex CO5 7EL. between 6.15pm and 7.00pm. will be providing refreshments Tel: 01206 728509. As there is no Parish Council during the interval and all meeting in August these monies raised will go to the Parish Clerk surgeries will be held on the Essex Concert Band’s charity of Amy Harness following (Thursday) dates: the year. 6 Stable Mews, West Mersea, Colchester, CO5 8HR 9th Sept, 14th Oct and 11th Nov 2010. Delivery volunteers Tel: 01206 729200. Email: [email protected] In the meantime, the Mobile The Parish Council are look- Police Station can be found in ing for volunteers to help with Parish Council Vacancies the Village Hall Car Park on the delivery of Donyland Are you interested in your village and the community? Do you Wednesday 25th August Despatches. If you are interest- want to get involved and help shape the future of the Village? (10.15am – 11.00am) and ed in helping out, please con- Please contact Amy Harness for further information and to Wednesday 8th September tact the Clerk, Amy Harness, on discuss what is involved in being a Parish Councillor. Telephone (10.15am – 11.00am). 01206 729200. 01206 729200 or email [email protected] Walkers website gets better, and goes national Bus Consultation on 21st April 2010 Thank to all those who attend- Managing Director and County www.walkinginessex.co.uk site has been launched. ed on the night. The hall was Council representatives have is a website packed with useful www.walkinginengland.co.uk packed, which was the best suggested that they return to information for walkers. has thousands of walks to way of letting the bus bosses the Village for another meeting With more than 430 walks to download and print – and all see that we want answers in in three months’ time, so that download and print, free, and free of charge! Rowhedge. any improvements they details of around 100 guided There is so much walking The Managing Director of envisage, based on public walks every month, it also has information on the web but it Firstbus for the whole of East points raised at the meeting books of walks, contact details is difficult to find. Walking in Anglia, Mr Alan Pilbeam, had on the 21st, will have time to for all the walking groups in the England has brought it togeth- actually asked to be present, be implemented, and they can county and much more. er in one place so whether you since he said he could see return to hear our further com- Whether you want to walk on are walking from home or there are serious problems ments. your own or with a group all the away on holiday you will be with our bus service. The second half was given information is there in one able to find a walk suitable for As a matter or courtesy, he over to question and answer, place. you. was permitted to use the first and the discussion of com- Now, after three years, John Harris half of the meeting to outline plaints led, not least, to a the Walking in England web www.walkinginengland.co.uk his company’s policy and plans promise by Mr Richard Walker Heritage Centre Vacancies for future improvements. This of Colchester Borough Council, of course took up some time, to investigate our list of An exciting opportunity has arisen to manage the but the majority of listeners felt complaints about the bus sta- proposed new Heritage Centre within the popular he put his points very well. tion, and look into ways and waterside village of Rowhedge. This talk, together with some means of improving the area. The Heritage Centre will be situated on a prime spot further explanations from Miss Please do write in with com- along the riverfront, including a Café, exhibition area Fran Garthwaite of Essex plaints. This is vital! Address and flexible space (subject to planning). County Council, made a lot of them to Mr Shane Miles, East Donyland Parish Council invite offers of interest issues much clearer for all con- Senior Customer Service from suitable applicants in order to secure agree- cerned. Agent, Roven House, Roven ment prior to construction. At the end of the evening, Road, Norwich, NR1 1RB. several major breakthroughs Rowhedge Action Travel The new Centre’s focus will be on the community, had been made, namely, the Group and will be a huge asset to the Village. First Annual Front Garden Table Top Sale To find out more, in the first instance, contact: to win in the free prize draw Mrs Amy Harness, Parish Clerk, 6 Stable Mews, West Sunday September 19th will Mersea, Colchester, CO5 8HR or call 01206 729200 see Rowhedge’s first Annual (Courtesy of our sponsors Ye ‘Front Garden Table Top Sale’. Olde Albion & The Anchor). A big thank you businesses, residents, friends Enjoy a day strolling around our If you’d like to take part as a The Committee, staff and the and family muck-in to support beautiful Village shopping as seller, please complete a book- families who use Rowhedge what has become a significant you go, taking time out to enjoy ing form (you can pick one up Under Fives Pre-school would Village event, contributing to tea and homemade cake at from the places listed above) like to say a huge thank you to the wonderful sense of The Heritage Hut, a barbeque and send it along with your everyone who contributed to community that we have in lunch in the St. Lawrence payment of £5; FAO Charmaine the success of this year's Rowhedge. School grounds or a pint or two Scott, St.