Spring 2008 ISSUE 112 (PUBLISHED SINCE JANUARY 1967) WWW.HENDRED.ORG BulletinEAST HENDRED Launch of the Parish Plan The new Parish Plan was launched at an event in the village on Sunday March 9th attended by those involved in its preparation. Work started on the Plan in late 2005 and many village people and organisations have contributed to its preparation. It has already been circulated as a draft to the District and County Councils and received a good response. East Hendred now joins several other local villages in having an up-to-date Plan which can be used to support planning and development opportunities in the village. It is important that the Plan is reviewed on a regular basis to check on progress. It is encouraging that some of the action plans are already being developed. Elsewhere in this Bulletin there is a report on a grant application to develop the nature reserve and school footpath, both of which are part of the action plans. Thank you to all those who provided input to the Plan and particularly to the members of the Steering Committee who met on many occasions to develop individual parts of the Plan. A summary version of the Plan is being made available to all houses in the village along with this Bulletin. The full document is available on the Hattie Young with the Parish Plan cover village web site (www.hendred.org), and hard copies of the full which she designed. document are also available from the Council clerk. Village Nativity Procession Could we say a big Thank You to everyone who participated and helped us with the Village Nativity Procession, I think you will agree it was a big success and we all enjoyed it very much! Thank you again, Pam and Val. Easter Egg Hunt! Good Friday 21st March to Easter Monday 24th March See if you can spot all eight coloured in pictures of Easter Eggs in East Hendred village windows. Pick up your entry forms from Hendred Stores for £1.00 before the Easter weekend. Prizes for all! Organised by Hendreds Pre-School (Reg. Charity No. 1023329) East Hendred Bulletin • Spring 08 • www.hendred.org 1 Advertisements Charlton Park Phone Link Vale Game Are you housebound? Do you have little Garden Centre P e s t C o n t r o l S e r v i c e s contact with the outside world? Prop: Mr P.B. 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It review. These cover a wide has allocated grants totalling chair is encouraging that some range of interests from the £1200 to 4 village March 9th is a special date action plans are already well proposed reservoir, to organisations and £155 to for several reasons. Not only in hand or being developed. decommissioning at Harwell external groups that benefit is it my eldest daughter’s An Environment Group has and assisting the local the village. The Parish Plan birthday but it was also the been set up. A start has Councils to develop their has also identified several date that Snells Hall was been made on a village own strategies. The Parish action plans that will need opened in 1974 (I was energy audit (through Council considers it is some level of Parish Council closely involved in the “HENERGY”). Funding for important to provide funding for them to proceed. preparation for this). More the nature reserve and path comments on these recently it was the day this to the Hendreds School is documents as it is an Parish Council work year that the new Parish being sought, with a hoped- opportunity to input local continues unabated and we Plan was launched after for start date later this year. views which may hopefully are advertising for a Minute much hard work. East The proposed extensions to lead to change in the final Secretary, to assist our Hendred now has an up-to- the village Conservation outcome. current Clerk who carries a date Plan which expresses Area (CA) are being high load dealing with the the wishes of the community considered by the Vale For the coming financial finances, planning and all in planning for the 21st Council, following a timely year the Council has the correspondence with century, which is very review of the village CA last decided to increase its outside bodies. It is a paid encouraging. A summary of autumn. We also already precept higher than the rate post and also an opportunity the Plan accompanies this have a “green” column in of inflation to a total of to keep up to date and in Bulletin. Please look at it as this Bulletin. £18,000. All of these funds touch with what is it represents the considered are available to benefit the happening in the village. views of many village As can be seen from village and in particular the residents expressed via the another article in this Council was aware that questionnaire and many Bulletin the Parish Council several village organisations John Sharp meetings and consultations. has been busy (again) in may be seeking grants Wanted- Minute Secretary for Parish Council Supporting the Parish Council is a time consuming occupation. Our current Clerk carries out many duties, including taking minutes, administering the management of the Council’s finances as well as dealing with correspondence and planning applications. Some support for the Clerk is required, in taking minutes at meetings and preparing a draft following the meeting. Meetings are held at 8pm on the second Tuesday each month and last about 2 hours; a draft of the minutes would be expected within 7-10 days of the meeting, ready for checking and approval before circulation to the Council members, mainly by e-mail. Ability to use a computer is an essential requirement. Payment will be made. It is also an opportunity to find out what happens in the village. Please contact John Sharp (8333657) or Val Bacon (833403) for more details. Computer Classes Did you make a New Year resolution to catch up with the younger generation, and learn to use a computer? Would you like to be able to communicate by email with family and friends world-wide, or use the internet to book travel, to find the best price for shopping, or to search for items not available locally? A new round of classes is planned for the dedicated computer room in Snells Hall, East Hendred. There are only 6 students per class, and we are lucky to have a very patient and experienced tutor, so you will have plenty of opportunity to ask for individual help. New classes can start as soon as enough students are available at the same time as the tutor. Classes are two hours long, and a course of five at weekly intervals costs £48. The most popular courses so far have been Computers for Absolute Beginners, and Email and the Internet. An additional one day course is being planned on learning how to use Ebay (for either buying or selling). It will be in the form of a one-day workshop on a Saturday in April, running from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a break for lunch in the middle. Students must be conversant with using a computer, and also preferably be able to take digital photographs beforehand of an item intended for sale. The cost is likely to be about £20 for the day’s course. Please contact Pauline Gardner (01235 833319) or Margaret Sharp (833367) if interested in either of the first two of these courses, or Margaret for the Ebay course. East Hendred Bulletin • Spring 08 • www.hendred.org 3 Parish Council News Vale Council Matters A few points of note have happened since my last bulletin; The Reservoir Thames Water are due to publish their Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) in the next few months, which will make interesting reading. The lobby group GARD held a well attended public meeting at the beginning of February to set out their thoughts, and the Reservoir Affected Parishes liaison group has been reformed to co-ordinate information. We will have to wait to see what comes out of the WRMP, but it seems likely that they will press on with their proposals for a very large reservoir between The Hanneys and Steventon/Drayton.