VILLAGE VOICE BRINKLEY..BURROUGH GREEN..CARLTON..WESTLEY WATERLESS MARCH 2011 QUIZ NIGHT BRINKLEY FETE It is time once again to plan the Brinkley Fete which this year is returning to its regular venue at Brinkley BRINKLEY MEMORIAL Hall. HALL Please put this date in your diaries SUNDAY 3rd July, 2011 th FRIDAY 11 MARCH 7.30pm. We are holding our first BRINKLEY VILLAGE FETE Teams of 6 or fewer. MEETING on Come along and join with others if you don’t have TUESDAY 8th MARCH enough people for a team. at The Red Lion pub in Brinkley at 8.00 pm £8 including Shepherd’s pie supper Please come along and help the team with planning and Bar new ideas for fundraising - we always need volunteers Tickets on the door. and offers of help on the day. If you would like to help but cannot make the meeting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ please call either Jim Brewin on 01638 507941 or RADFIELD HUNDRED GROUP Louise Beamish on 01638 507133. st Monday 21 March ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7.45 in Brinkley Memorial Hall BOOK SALE & COFFEE MORNING Julietta Mayer from Ely Beads giving a talk and at demonstration on beads BURROUGH GREEN New members always welcome. For more information SCHOOL call Doris on 01638 507717 FRIDAY 11th MARCH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From 10.00 am in the new school hall. BINGO Come and join the PTA for a book sale and coffee Brinkley Memorial Hall morning on Friday 11th March. You can also get to see On some of the new school from the inside! The sale and SATURDAY 5th MARCH coffee morning will be held in the new school hall, and will begin at approx 10am, after school assembly. EYES DOWN at 8PM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bring your own wine / snacks. CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENING Teas / Coffees available Cash prizes and Raffle th WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH In aid of Burrough Green Playgroup. SWYNFORD PADDOCKS HOTEL Six Mile Bottom EVERYONE WELCOME. From 7pm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Famous names from the Racing world will be there. SCRABBLE & MAHJONG We meet on MONDAYS 14th and 28th March at Tickets £10 pre-booked on 01638 570234 7.30pm in the Community Room at Sheriff’s Court in £15 on the night. Burrough Green. Do come along and join in with one of the games. Beginners and experienced players are IN AID OF BURROUGH GREEN CRICKET CLUB equally welcome! £2 including refreshments. Trish 01638 507495 http://burroughgreencc.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/2011- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cheltenham-preview1.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VILLAGE WEBSITES MONTHLY REPORT FOR CHEVELEY/DULLINGHAM www.brinkleyvillage.co.uk www.burroughgreen.com BEAT JANUARY 2011 Do have a look at the websites which contain lots of Hello everyone from Andy and Mags information about the villages and also have links to Welcome to the monthly report for January 2011 for archive material. The Village Voice newsletter is our area. available on both sites for the current month and We have had 21 crimes reported over the month from several previous issues. in and around our villages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They were as follows:- Want to get out more? Dullingham: 2 reports Can’t find a reliable babysitter? Stetchworth: 2 reports I’m seventeen, experienced with children of all ages, Burrough Green: Shed burglary. Lawn mower and I’ve been CRB checked and I’m always available! garden equipment stolen. Call Joanna on 01638 507700 (Brinkley) Brinkley: Shed burglary. Weston Colville Road ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chainsaw stolen. BRINKLEY MEMORIAL HALL Brinkley/Six Mile Bottom: Shed burglary Cowell Farm If you wish to hire the hall, please contact two chainsaws stolen. Susie Shuter on 01638 508729 Upend and Woodditton: 4 burglaries from sheds. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 theft of 1000 litres heating oil stolen from tank. CATHOLIC SERVICES Cheveley, Ashley & Kirtling: 4 reports NEWMARKET & KIRTLING. Newmarket : 5 Reports Mass Times From the house to house enquiries that Mags has Saturday 6.30pm Newmarket been conducting in regards to the shed burglaries. A Sunday 9.00am Kirtling suspicious Blue Saloon car was seen in Woodditton. 10.30am Newmarket The registration number was not seen. Holy Days 9.00am Newmarket If you see anything that looks unusual in our villages 12noon Kirtling for example strange vehicles, people knocking on 7.30pm Newmarket doors selling, flyers through your doors asking for Our Lady with St. Etheldreda, Exeter Road, scrap metal. The Police need to know. Newmarket The items taken from the shed burglaries would need Our Lady & St Philip Neri, Kirtling a van or small truck to transport them. If you see Main Address: 14 Exeter Road, Newmarket, CB8 8LT. something happening that looks suspicious call the Telephone: 01638 662492 Police. Let us check it out to establish if it is Email: [email protected] legitimate or not. Brinkley contact, John Conti 01638 508304 Look after your neighbours if they are going on ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ holiday keep an eye on their houses talk to each KATY’S BABYSITTING other. Katy Ensch – Aged 15 Anything strange happening at the property and you 01223 291947 (Carlton) know your neighbours are not in call the Police. I have passed a babysitting course and a first aid This is our community we need to work together to course for young children. help each other. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PC1608 Andy Martin PCSO 7306 Mags Harvey MOBILE LIBRARY The Mobile Library will be at Brinkley Memorial Hall If anyone has seen anything regarding these crimes On the 4th Wednesday of each month between 3.15- please call in on the Police Non- Emergency number 4.30pm. 23rd March 2011. 0345 456 456 4. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Next South Neighbourhood Panel Meeting RECYCLING scheduled to be held at Kirtling village hall on Brown sack dates for March are Thursdays 10th & Wednesday 30th March 2011 has been 24th. CANCELLED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE FOR YOUR DIARY FOR SALE On Sunday May 22nd Anne & Mike at Cricketfield Cottage, Brinkley are hosting a Cheese & Wine Party 'Tag-Along Bike' for sale, silver steel frame in from 12 noon. Tickets will be £7.50 and all proceeds very good condition; hardly been used. Asking will go to Brinkley Church. price of £55.00. If interested please ring 01223 Please make a note in your diary now to come along 290225 and ask to speak to Sally or Eddy and support this lovely fund raising event. (Carlton). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE ELIZABETH MARCH CHARITY, BRINKLEY RAF WRATTING COMMON This is a local charity to support young people, I have been collecting photographs and history of students and apprentices in Brinkley. Their needs RAF Wratting Common for many years now and could be for books, tools, tuition, travelling expenses, wonder if anyone has any old photographs which I educational trips, etc. The Trustees have the funds could borrow to copy. Anything of when the airfield to provide up to £200 for individuals to help them to was operational during the war years 1943 to 1945 achieve something special this year. would be appreciated, but of special interest too The project should have an educational benefit or would be any photographs or history of the hundreds assist the applicant in gaining skills to help them to of displaced people liberated from the war camps get a job. They must be aged 18 or under on 31 across Europe who were accommodated at RAF December 2011 and live in the parish of Brinkley to Wratting Common until the early 1950's. qualify. They would need to set out how they intend to Suzanne Langford. Tel 01223 290353. use the funds and afterwards will be asked to write a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ report for the Trustees to demonstrate that the NATIONAL CENSUS funds were used for that purpose. Help tomorrow take shape Any applicant for a grant should apply in writing to On 27 March, the census will take a snapshot of Mrs N Dixon, Secretary to the Trustees, Blackbirds, society in England and Wales. So any day now a Weston Colville Road, Brinkley CB8 0SG by the end of questionnaire will arrive in the post asking you about April 2011 stating how much sponsorship they would your household and all the people living there. If it need and what they would spend it on. The Trustees has already arrived keep it safe. Your household is will consider all applications and let the successful one of around 25 million in England and Wales taking applicant know of their decision by the end of July. part. The 2011 Census is all about numbers. It asks All information will be treated as confidential. about work, health, national identity, citizenship, ethnic background, education, second homes, language, Elizabeth March of Fulbourn died on 28 March 1722. religion, whether you are married and so on. This During her lifetime she conveyed a house and farm at information helps the Office for National Statistics Oakington for the foundation of schools in the (ONS) to produce population estimates. parishes of Fulbourn, Haddenham, Fen Ditton, Histon, Why should this matter to you? Like all local and Brinkley. The original deeds were lost but mention authorities in England and Wales, South of the gift was made in her will of 26 March 1722 Cambridgeshire District Council relies on census which stated that approximately £70 per annum was population estimates to feed into the government to be equally divided between the 5 schools. A tablet funding your communities need for public services. was put up in 1722 in her memory in St Mary’s Church, How much it gets is related to how many people the Brinkley by Roger Pepys of Impington, one of her census says live in your area – so if the census can’t executors. Subsequently the fund was divided up into account for everyone, it could lose out. Even if the five trust funds (one for each parish), with their own census were to end up just a few households short, it Trustees established.