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MID-MARCH 2020
Thank you BILL RICHARDSON and family wish to express their sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone who attended Eileen’s funeral on Friday 14th February, and for their kind messages and cards. Also for their generous donations to LOROS, which amounted to £1,100.
Talent Show
Time to get your act together! CALLING ALL young people of Leicestershire, the Queen Bee Youth Project are holding a talent show on Saturday 8th August 2020 at Markfield Community Centre. It’s time to show everyone what you are made of! Got a talent? Let’s showcase it. The details: • You must be 18 or under, living in Leicestershire • One performance per entrant • Register to enter by 1st July 2020 by sending name, contact details & nature of performance via Facebook messenger @ queenbeeyouth or email: queenbeeyouthproject@gmail. com • Maximum 5-6 minutes per performance • 25 spaces available, first come basis - register now! There’s plenty of time to practise so what are you waiting for? Follow us on Facebook @ queenbeeyouth for event updates and details on purchasing tickets. Money raised will go towards taking the Queen Bee Youth Project on a week long residential full of activities to boost their physical and mental wellbeing.
Bagworth, Thornton and Stanton-under-Bardon Neighbourhood Planning Steering Group
Drop In and Examine our Draft Neighbourhood Plan! FOLLOWING many months of hard work by our various Theme Groups, our draft Neighbourhood Plan is now ready for your inspection. A ‘Drop In’ Event has been arranged for Saturday 28th March at the following locations:• Bagworth Community Centre 11am to 1pm • Thornton Community Centre 11am to 1pm • Stanton-under-Bardon Village Hall 11am to 1pm You will have the opportunity to view our draft Neighbourhood Plan and to examine the policies it features regarding the future development of our villages. Members of the Neighbourhood Planning Steering Group and Theme Groups will be on hand to answer your questions and you will have the opportunity to record your comments and opinions. The Neighbourhood Plan is a significant document which will afford our Parish Councils an opportunity to influence planning decisions in our designated area and to prevent inappropriate, speculative development. It has taken almost three years and a vast amount of work by the members of the Steering Group and Theme Groups, with the supervisory assistance of our professional planning consultants ‘YourLocale’ Ltd., to create this very important document so:
Drop In & See What We Have Achieved!
Library ‘saviour’ Ann retires MARKFIELD LIBRARY Trustees presented Mrs Ann Aveling with a gift to mark her retirement as a founder Trustee and Secretary of Markfield Community Library.
Herald readers will have recently read that she was there at the beginning of the journey to take over the library from Leicestershire County Council (LCC). I was Treasurer then and now Chair and I can say that if it were not for Ann, the library would not have survived the first year. Ann trained volunteers alongside LCC staff and became our first Volunteer Co Ordinator putting in place many of the practices we follow today. The former Chair David Pegg and I always suspected Ann slept in the library that first year, such was the number of hours she put in covering those first shifts as we all went through a steep learning curve. As a Trustee we have valued her integrity and as a volunteer she has trained and supported volunteers. Ann will continue to be on shifts when needed and involved particularly in events such as our forthcoming VE celebrations. She is also the only one that can understand the footfall survey for LCC twice a year! We are delighted that Mrs Jacqui Williams has stepped into Ann’s shoes as a Trustee .
Margaret Bowler (Chair)
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