BERRIEW NEWSLETTER See Berriew YFC report and photographs, page 12 NUMBER 380 APRIL 2020 BERRIEW DEFIBRILLATOR PLEASE REMEMBER A DEFIBRILLATOR (AED) IS LOCATED IN THE VILLAGE AT: THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE COMMUNITY CENTRE. ACCESS CODE: 1111 PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING EVENTS HAVE BEEN EITHER POSTPONED OR CANCELLED. BERRIEW’S GOT TALENT MARCH 27TH POSTPONED ANTIQUES VALUATION DAY AT BERRIEW BOWLS CLUB 27TH MARCH POSTPONED COFFEE MORNING MARCH 28TH IN AID OF ROYAL BRITISH LEGION POSTPONED MONTGOMERYSHIRE COMMUNITY DRAMA ASSOCIATION ONE ACT FESTIVAL 1ST TO 4TH APRIL POSTPONED BERRIEW PRE-SCHOOL AND TODDLER GROUP EASTER BINGO 2ND APRIL - CANCELLED LADIES FASHION SHOW AND SHOPPING EVENT 18TH APRIL - POSTPONED OPENING OF THE GREEN AT THE BOWLS CLUB 18TH APRIL - POSTPONED SENIOR CITIZENS EASTER AFTERNOON TEA 18TH APRIL – POSTPONED BERRIEW NEWSLETTER ANNUAL FUNDRAISER 25TH APRIL - POSTPONED THE PRESIDENT’S PARTY MAY 8TH POSTPONED The Diary of events has been suspended until further notice. Please contact the individual groups and associations for guidance on any events listed in this Newsletter. The following articles offer help to those residents self isolating and to everyone wishing to continue using the services available in the village – all subject to continually changing circumstances. BERRIEW COMMUNITY HELP If you need any help in the difficult times to come, we have started the Berriew Volunteers Face- book Page to try and simplify things and save lots of ringing around. https://www.facebook.com/groups/BerriewVolunteers/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/Berriew Support/ If anyone needs any help at this difficult time post details in the group and hopefully someone will be able to help. Or call me on 01686 640869 or 07875 702496 as there are also a few volunteers that don't do Facebook. If anyone just needs a chat that's good too. IF YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SPARE ANY TIME NO MATTER HOW SMALL TO HELP PLEASE JOIN THE GROUP OR PASS ME YOUR DETAILS. Let's get through this thing together as a Community. Darrell Shephard Lychgate tea Room After the latest announcement by the Government with regard to COVID19. The Tearoom will be open but we will only be offering a “Takeaway Service.” The Deli counter will be stocked with savoury items and cakes which can be bought to take away. Sandwiches, Paninis, Baked Potatoes, & Soup is available. We can also provide family meals or meals for the freezer. Cottage Pies, Lasagne, Curry, Meat Pies, Quiches. We can deliver for you to save you coming out. Our new opening hours for the next few weeks are as follows;Monday - Saturday8.30-3.00. Look forward to seeing you or hearing from you, Stay Safe Sarah & Team 01686 640750 Berriew Stores Deliveries From Monday 23rd March we will be doing a delivery service for Newspapers and groceries for customers who are elderly or self isolating for Berriew and the outlying villages and hamlets. Please phone or email your order to the shop during our opening hours and we will take your order, and payment over the phone. Please note we cannot deliver at a specific time of day as we have to cover the shop and also some deliveries are been done by a wonderful team of volunteers. Please do not panic buy! We are having bread, milk, fruit and veg and groceries in every day. CORONAVIRUS - Do You Need any Help? The next few weeks might be difficult for many. You are not alone. We have a few volunteers around the village that will try to help with a variety of tasks such as: Collecting shopping, meals, newspapers from the village shops, deli, pubs Prescription runs or Just a reassuring chat Call Gill: 01686 640 559 Darrell 01686 640 869 Caroline 01686 640 644 You can ask on Facebook - Just search for “Berriew Support” Berriew Stores Opening Hours From Monday 23rd March until further notice. Monday 8am – 6.00pm Tuesday 8am – 6.00pm Wednesday 8am – 6pm Thursday 8am-6pm Friday 8am – 6pm Saturday 8am – 6.00pm Sunday 8am – 5pm PLEASE NOTE POST OFFICE OPENS 10AM – 6PM, WEEKDAYS, SATURDAY 8AM – 1PM AND SUNDAY – CLOSED. These hours may change due to staff sickness or holidays. Berriew Community and Youth Centre Hello all. Just a few lines to update you on the activities and refurbishment plans for the Community Centre. In these challenging months ahead the Community Centre will still be available to be used for community activities, but these may be somewhat different to what has been traditionally hosted! Though we are discouraging large gatherings we have not cancelled any events. Any cancellations or postponements are entirely at the discretion of the group or individuals booking or using the Centre – so if you are unsure if any event is going ahead please contact the organisers of the event, not the Centre or committee members. We intend to keep the Centre open for as long as possible for use as a community facility and if anyone has any ideas or requests for ways that the Centre may be used to assist in meeting the challenge of this difficulty facing us, please get in touch with me and we can discuss. Please also be assured that we have significantly scaled up the hygiene regime inside and outside the Centre in line with government and clinical recommendations. Turning to future refurbishment plans, the Community Centre committee are still evaluating best ways to upgrade the Centre facilities to improve and increase community use while maintaining optimum facilities for our local school. We undertook a user engagement survey some time ago and are trying to incorporate as many of these “wish list” items into our upgrade plans. One area in particular is causing some logistical headaches and that is the problem of car parking. We are examining various options with Berriew School and the Community Council to increase, upgrade and improve parking safety and if we can resolve this then refurbishment works should follow soon after. As always, any question or suggestions please give me or any member of the committee a call. Regards and keep safe. Martin Creaven Community and Youth Centre Chairman [email protected] Berriew Community and Youth Centre AGM Please note the Community and Youth Centre AGM will be held on Tuesday 26th May 2020 (current Coronavirus situation notwithstanding). All user groups and members of the public are welcome and encouraged to attend to give your opinion on how we can improve our community facility and its management. Berriew Darby & Joan Club Please note that meetings of the Darby & Joan Club have been postponed until further notice. Mollie Evans. Berriew Newsletter AGM. The Newsletter AGM has been arranged for Monday 11th May at 7pm at the Refail Assembly Room. All members of the public are invited to attend. This meeting is of course subject to current restrictions and may have to be re-arranged. Our New Vicar Hello. My name is Caroline Rhodes and I am really pleased to have been appointed as the new Vicar of Berriew, Fron & Pantyffridd, in addition to Buttington and Guilsfield, where I’ve been vicar since June 2015. I’m looking forward to getting to know you all, and thought you might appreciate a bit of an introduction to me. I grew up in Gillingham, Kent, then studied pharmacy at the University of Bath in the mid 80s. I spent a training year working in a London children’s hospital, and then worked as a pharmacist, starting in hospitals in Gt Yarmouth and Norwich, and then moving to retail pharmacy in working Norwich, Coalville, Ashby de la Zouch and Tutbury. I spent two years training at Ripon College Cuddesdon and then served my curacy at St Edmund’s Allestree and St Matthew’s Darley Abbey, on the northern edge of Derby which I enjoyed enormously. I then spent nine months working in the Wirksworth team ministry, helping out in a team that covers one small market town and nine villages in the Peak District, while the team vicar was on sick leave. That helped me (a suburbanite) to develop an understanding of the ‘rootedness’ of the small rural communities, and the sense of generations belonging to a place. I now live in the vicarage at Guilsfield with my husband Geoff, who works as an architectural technician for a company based in Hereford. He was home working before it became all the rage. We don’t have any children. I enjoy in a number of crafts (which I am not necessarily very good at!) and find that a good way to explore how we relate to our God who is a Creator through expressing our own creativity. I am also interested in the links between physical and spiritual health and well being, and enjoy leading healing services and quiet days. I hate having to commence ministering in Berriew with the sad news that in order to take seriously Jesus’ command to love our neighbours as ourselves, and to protect everyone from the possibilities of infection with corona virus we have to suspend all public worship services in church until further notice, in line with government advice and Church in Wales instructions. For the foreseeable future funerals will be conducted only at the graveside or crematorium. Bereaved families will obviously be welcome to hold memorial services in church, once normality has returned. In the meantime the church building remains open daily, for people to enjoy the peace and beauty and pray. We are not able to disinfect the door handles if that bothers you please wear gloves or bring a hankie to separate your hand from the door. There are booklets of a simple service of morning prayer to say at home, and bookmarks with a prayer for all affected by Corona Virus and some comforting bible verses- please help yourselves, and join with the congregation saying morning prayer together, but dispersed in our armchairs, each Sunday at 10am.