Tilford Life The Tilford Parish Council Newsletter In This Issue ....... P2 Tilford’s PCSO / Tilford Parish Council Chairman’s Report P3 Tilbourne Players P4 Defibrillator for Tilford! / A Busy day at The Tilford Institute! 019 e 2 P5 The Duke of Cambridge / Tilford WI / 1st Tilford Brownies - Jun P6 Tilford Gardening Club / Tilford Cricket Club May P7 Vehicle Activated Speed Sign / The Showcase / Road Closure Notice P8 Young Tilford Issue 27 Tilford Village Fete 2019 Balloon company are planning to come back to do a display again, weather permitting. Part owning a marquee with One Six Events has helped us reduce our highest cost. Outside of the fete the marquee is available to hire and from which we then benefit as a percentage of the profits are donated back to the fete. CALL TO ACTION • Need more volunteers on This year the fete is on Saturday 13th We have the dog show, family the day July and starts at 1.30pm and finishes challenge and tug of war for all to • Donations for our at 11pm. enter for a small fee. Wheelbarrow full of Bottles The reason for the fete is to provide We then move to the river bank evening raffle - collection an opportunity for the village behind the pub to run the duck box in the village shop community to get together, have race and our unique main attraction • Like our facebook page lots of fun with family and friends being The Raft Race!!! This is • Have a stall - forms online and raise money for the church and where the theme of the fete comes • Enter the raft race - forms other local charities. The programme together, with the tremendous effort online of events starts at 1.30pm with from the raft participants to build • Support by inviting your a themed parade. This year it’s the best and fastest rafts providing friends and family “Musicals”, showcasing the local heathy contestant competition. To • Hire the marquee from schools and kids clubs as they have top it all, great prizes to win for the www.onesixevents.co.uk an opportunity to perform in the kids and adults donated kindly by arena. The entertainment continues the Duke of Cambridge. The Tilford Village Fete provides a for all our visitors with local singers After the raft race, we encourage whole afternoon and evening of and musicians in the main marquee, everyone to come back to the main entertainment for the entire family which also has the bar run by Barley marquee and enjoy picnicking. The to enjoy on our safe and beautiful Mow. There are plenty of stalls for evening begins at 6.30pm with village green. you to shop, eat, drink, play games an entertainer and disco for the For more information, contact us via and to be informed on the local area. children. They will be followed by facebook or a local 12 piece band with a brass www.tilfordvillagefete.org.uk section called KeyNoteBlue - all freely donated. The Packhouse Welcome to our Village newsletter Tilford Parish Council specifically around the green and Tilford’s PCSO the legal working party, set up to Chairman’s Report work on clarification on use of land and other details that as a council we need to understand but, due to the Welcome to this annual assembly of constraints of this voluntary role, we 2019. haven’t had a chance to resolve. I am also hoping to meet with the Greener Community engagement is Tilford working party soon, looking something that I recognise this at strategies of sustainability for our council has been working on for a village. These working parties are number of years because as much most welcome and I find them very as we enjoy our work and our roles, exciting and see them as a chance we enjoy it all the more with the for us to be more productive with engagement of all of you and the the limited resources that we have. input that you offer. The meetings Thank you to all those members of are always richer for your presence the public and counsellors who have and for that we thank you. spent time to be on these working parties. If you might be interested in This year has been a year of change joining a working party, if you have I am PCSO 13228 David Boxall, (Dave for the council because although it is an issue you would like to bring to or David, I answer to either!). I am down to me to give the Chairman’s this, please do approach the council. the local PCSO for the Tilford, Churt, report tonight, I have only been Rushmoor, Frensham, Dockenfield, chairman for a number of weeks. It In 2016 this council secured some and Rowledge area. I have been is with the thanks of Nigel Relf, the funding to put in speed restrictions covering this area since the beginning last chair, that bought us through the outside the tennis courts on the of May 2018; however I have been in majority of the year And we thank Tilford Road. To our disappointment the PCSO role since November 2008, him for all that he did. We have an these speed restrictions never fulfilled and have previously worked in the opportunity to welcome Councillor our expectations and we have always Milford and Witley area, and also Benson and we also have a new co- questioned their affectedness. Due Cranleigh and Dunsfold, so I have a optee, Simon Wilkinson, for planning to recent resurfacing along that knowledge of rural policing and the matters and I know that the other stretch because of the potholes, the issues that go with it. councillors will join us in a warm speed markings have been removed welcome to them both. 2019 will see allowing us a chance to review what I always try to visit each of the an election for Tilford Parish Council may be reinstated. We have been villages every day I am working, on the 2nd of May 2019. This will advised that due to this being a dark however sometimes due to urgent be a chance for all of the electors to village with no street lighting, we operational needs that isn’t always choose who will be on their council cannot have speed restrictions that possible. going forward. I do hope that I will protrude from the road. However, see you all here voting on that day. we will reinstate the red markings When I am out and about I am quite “Use it or lose it” as this phrase it on the road and in addition to this happy for you to come and have a goes. will install some posts slightly and chat, and it doesn’t necessarily have visually narrowing the road driving to be a policing matter that needs to Over the past year this council has had south into the village. We have also be discussed. a number of achievements, including recently re-cited our vehicle activated creating three working parties. The speed sign to just before the church. If you need to contact me I work idea for a working party has come We plan to do a traffic survey on this as part of the Waverley Safer from issues that we have been made stretch which will allow us to create Neighbourhood Team (SNT) based in aware of in the village that need data in order to measure the success Farnham. Please contact me via the resolving. The working party is made of the restrictions. 101 Surrey police non-emergency up of one member of the council and number, and leave a message. one or more members of the public. We still strive to attain funding in For those of you so inclined, you This has been a great way to include the future to put further speed can follow us on the Waverley Beat residents, allow them to share their measures throughout the village Facebook Page. views whilst supporting the council which is something we firmly believe to work through problems and is necessary. On the subject of speed issues that need resolutions. The we, and the five western villages, three working parties have been the have recently secured funding for a superfast broadband working group, shared vehicle activated speed (VAS) a subject close to many people’s sign. This came about because the hearts, the parking working group, funding usually available has been discussing parking in the village but 2 significantly cut so we are sharing pick is April 6th. You will all be most for supporting the council by being resources. This speed sign will be welcome. High viz jackets and gloves here and thank you to all of the cited in the village and will be will be provided on the morning of counsellors who give up their time rotated every six weeks throughout the sixth. Please do approach us if on a voluntary basis to support the the five villages. This will be done you or your community group or your village in the way that you do, and by volunteers and the training family would like to take part. Thank also thanks to the clerk, Rachel, who is scheduled for June this year. If you again to Councillor Benson and keeps us all in check! anyone is interested in undertaking Councillor Shams for driving this this training, please do approach us initiative. Thank you for all that you do. as we are in need of more people. Research shows that the VAS signs Unfortunately, there have been Debra Lee have more effectiveness if they are challenges to this council over the moved from more than one place, year regarding planning applications Chair of Tilford Parish Council so we hope that this does have an in the village.