Events Diary for June 2018 Fri 1 6pm Flicks —Early Man —630321/638038 SpArC Sun 3 11.15am Morning Prayer St Swithin’s, Clunbury Sun 3 Noon -5pm Shropshire Historic Churches Trust Open Gardens Broadward Hall, Clungunford The Parish Post 93 Number 2018 June Mon 4 Clunbury School back from half term Mon 4 9-11.30am Parent&Toddler Group -every Mon in term time. Just turn up Clunbury Village Hall for Beambridge Clunbury Clunton Coston Cwm Kempton Little Brampton Obley Purslow The Llan & Twitchen Mon 4 7.30pm Table Tennis every Mon not the last one of the month £1 Aston on Clun Village Hall Tue 5 Mobile Library: Clunbury Bridge 10.10 -10.30am, Clunton 10.40 -11.00am, Obley 12.45 -12.55pm Congratulations to Harry and Tue 5 7.15 Oscar Wilde Season Live -An Ideal Husband -660493/660893 Aston on Clun Village Hall Rene Collins — Wed 6 Quiz proceeds to Midlands Air Ambulance Kangaroo Inn, Aston on Clun arry and Rene, from Fold Farm Thu 7 10 -11.30am Clunbury Café Clunbury Village Hall H Clunton, celebrated their 70th Thu 7 7pm NT Live —Macbeth —660493/660893 Aston on Clun Village Hall Wedding Anniversary on 3 May. Rene is Sat 9 Strawberry Tea Abbeyfield, Bishop’s Castle now being cared for in St Nicholas Sun 10 11.15am BCP Holy Communion St Swithin’s, Clunbury House, Churchstoke, where Harry visits Sun 10 2.30 -5pm Open Garden & Afternoon Tea Purslow Hall regularly. They had a congratulations Tue 12 2pm Flicks —Up —630321/638038 SpArC card from the Queen and many cards Thu 14 Tim’s Travels -Beautiful:The Carole King Musical -640506 Wolverhampton from their friends near and far. They Thu 14 7pm Flicks —3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri —630321/638038 SpArC enjoyed a family tea party at St Nicholas House to celebrate their special day. Fri 15 8pm Flicks —Murder on the Orient Express —660727/660781 Clungunford Parish Hall Sat 16 10am -1pm Craft & Collectables Market Aston on Clun Village Hall Sun 17 6.30pm United Evening Prayer St Swithin’s, Clunbury 16 June -1st July Ludlow Fringe Art Trail -01584 -873182 Scrumpers’ Open Garden and - - - Tue 19 Mobile Library: Clunbury Bridge 10.10 10.30am, Clunton 10.40 11.00am, Obley 12.45 12.55pm Afternoon Tea Thu 21 10 -11.30am Clunbury Café Clunbury Village Hall Cider Evening Thu 21 7.30pm Flicks —Mountain —630321/638038 SpArC Harry’s Yard at Purslow Hall Sat 23 6.30pm Clunton Scrumpers’ Cider Evening -660309/660120 Harry’s Yard, Clunton Clunton by kind permission of James and Annabel Morris Sun 24 11.15am United CW Holy Communion St Mary’s, Clunton 23 June at 6.30pm Sunday 10 June Wed 27 10am -1pm Clunbury Craft Group Clunbury Village Hall Light Wed 27 7.30pm SWSGC -Herbaceous Perennials -Leila Jackson Lydbury North Village Hall refreshments 2.30—5.00pm Admission to AND CIDER Tickets £6.00 gardens £4 Advance In aid of St Swithin’s Church, Notices Book with Clunbury and St George’s Church Clun Anne 660309 or Pauline 660120 Purslow Hall is located on the B4368 Ludlow Dog Day Sunday 22 July Clunbury Village Hall At Mossy Bank Clunbury Stokesay Court Invites you for Saturday 16 June, 2.30 - 4.30pm Organised by the Rotary Cost £4.50 Club Cream Tea In aid of local charities Clunbury Village Hall if wet Contact: Alister Thompson 661180 or Barbara Freeman 660629 Please send your contributions by the 20th of each month Warden, reported that the replacement Clun river undercutting , Beambridge Fantastic Fundraising poles which had been ordered had road: Cllr Hill has contacted the proved unsuitable. New ones have been Environment Agency and will continue to SpArC Campaign Hits £100K ordered. liaise. aunched in March 2016, Save the SpArC supporters have worked tirelessly to Planning: Erosion of bank at Silvermere, Twitchen: L raise both awareness of the leisure centre and funding. Money has come from a Clunton Coppice: Cllr Hill reported that caused by large HGVs, has been variety of sources including £12k from an M&S energy grant for a new pool cover, the application for an affordable dwelling reported to the Council. fundraising events held in and around Bishop’s Castle, crowd funding and private had been granted. Correspondence: donations. Jean Shirley, Chair of Trustees, thanked everyone who helped to reach Clunton: the application which appeared Parish Clerk laptop : Cllr Hill and the this massive goal and said that a regular income stream now needs to be to have been granted has been Clerk to go to Bill Blake and see which maintained to replace the significantly reduced funding available from Shropshire withdrawn. Councillors had no objection was most suitable. Council in the future. to the application, other than its proximity Finances : The Save the SpArC campaign has not just been about raising funds for to the road. Bank accounts: £9,034.65 improvements - new swimming pool lockers and a hairdryer have been purchased, Removal of existing builder's yard and Expenses: £656.04 but also money was spent on a very successful Easter sports programme for erection of dwelling , Hawthorn Cottage, A finance meeting will be held to discuss children, with an ambitious summer programme to follow. The Charity is also 4 Beambridge. No objection. external auditing. Gisèle Wall to carry committed to increasing the skills of local young people by offering training for South West Shropshire Local Joint out internal audit. lifeguards, swimming instructors and sports leaders. Committee Clerk’s salary: The Clerk asked for a pay For more information about the Save the SpArC campaign please see NHS : Sylvia Jones reported that the rise. To be discussed. savethesparc facebook page or visit the website www.savethesparc.org promised public consultation would start AOB on 30 May and would end on 3 Kempton Broadband installation : the box £400 Raised for St Swithin’s September. It is most important that is in but is not connected to power (see article in the Parish Post) hank you to everyone who came to people should participate, to try and T the coffee morning on 27 April at the make sure that the best choices are Annual Parish Meeting venues : should Lawn Farm, for there was a dire made for the care of the community in be rotated so that people from other Shropshire. areas can attend (at the moment they forecast of heavy rain, but lots of people came and the sun shone, and by Gemma’s Cake Bake The Treasury has underwritten seem to always take place in Kempton). midday we were able to be in the e made an amazing £700 for the £312million which will have to be repaid, General Data Protection Regulation : the with interest; however, it appears that the Parish Council is to make arrangements garden (mostly the children!) W National Deaf Children’s Society to ensure that it complies with the new Thank you too to our brilliant helpers at the event in Clunbury Village Hall on detail of how this repayment money will 12 May!!!! I want to say a massive be found has not yet been disclosed and regulations to be implemented on 25 on the raffle, the tombola, bring & buy and in the kitchen; and to everyone who thank you, from me and my family, to will not be until after the consultation. May 2018. everyone who came along to support us The proposals are to use the best part of Next meeting : Clunton Village Hall, 19 donated prizes. We managed to raise just over £400 for St Swithin’s - and all those who donated cakes and this money for an Emergency July, 8pm. Gisèle Wall Department (possibly to be based in fantastic! Christina Whitehead prizes. Gemma Fletcher Shrewsbury) and an upgrading of some Clunbury Crafters existing buildings. Many of the other Barrett on her Bike services would be relocated in Telford. - - Next meeting anice Barrett formerly of Pool House Farm, Clunbury Community hospitals do not appear to Jset herself a challenge to bicycle from Land’s End to John figure very highly on the agenda and Wednesday 27 June O'Groats, before she reached 67! some services like Shropdoc are under On 22 April, at Land’s End, totally unsupported, booking threat. Clunbury Village Hall B&B a night ahead, doing all running repairs, she battled the Should the Parish Council wish to invite elements in April and Scottish midges in May. She stopped parishioners to a meeting, S Jones 10:00am - 1:00pm overnight, in Wistanstow, at the beginning of May and on offered to provide speakers for both £3.00 Tues 22 May reached John O’Groats. She has lost a stone in sides of the debate. The Chairman weight, is super fit, brown and happy! proposed to discuss this at the next All levels of ability welcome Janice is raising money for the Severn Hospice, where her mother was cared for meeting, in July. before she died, and also Hillside Animal Sanctuary, Norwich. Anyone can donate on Roads : Contact Lynne Thompson 01588 661180 Justgiving.com for Janice Barrett on her Bike. At present, she has raised over £1000. Potholes : Still many unrepaired. Clerk to write Congratulations Janice. Barbara Freeman to the Council again to remind them. Parish Council Meetings Report 17/5 • Youth budget South West Shropshire Gardening Club • Annual Parish Assembly Libraries • Herbaceous Perennials Garden and Produce Show Present: 8 councillors, the clerk + 4 Children’s Centres A talk by Leila Jackson members of the public The 15 County Councillors who are Saturday 1 September Wednesday 27 June, 7.30 pm Lydbury North Village Hall Apologies for absence: Cllrs Morgan & receiving a Special Responsibility Hartin Allowance have rejected the proposal of Lydbury North Village Hall n early reminder of our upcoming eila Jackson of T3 Plants near annual show! Gardening is not an Chairman’s Report : the Chairman cuts to their allowance.