~ D A T E S F O R Y O U R D I A R Y ~ All in the Village Hall unless otherwise stated. September 2022 Saturday 3rd Music on the Green 2-5pm Monday 5th Parish Council meeting 7.30pm All Welcome Friday 9th Talk by Lord Gardiner 7.30pm in St Andrews Church Saturday 10th Suffolk Churches Ride & Stride 9am to 5pm Tuesday 13th Hilltop Women’s Group 7.45pm Finding Your Past Wednesday 14th Lunch Club 12 for 12.30 Advance Bookings Please Monday 19th Village Hall Committee 8pm All Welcome Wednesday 21st ‘When Buffalo Bill Came to East Anglia’ Geoffrey Robinson 7.45pm Thursday 22nd Mobile Library van. 2 stops at 10.05 & 10.20am Saturday 24th Book, jam and jigsaw sale 10am 1 Broadway Sunday 25th Harvest Festival St Andrews Church 9.30am Tuesday 27th Gardening Club Talk by Ian Seager 7.30pm Friday 30th Macmillan Coffee Morning 10-12 October 2022 Saturday 1st Annual Village Garage Sales from 9am Saturday 8th Country Dance evening with bring-and-share buffet Friday 14th Dessert evening 7pm Welcome Welcome to the Day family, Colin, Lisa, Isabella and Presley, who have been working hard to restore The Grange and are now living there. And to Darren and Amanda who have moved into Rose Cottage, The Broadway WickhamNewsletterSkeith September2022Feb2022
October 8th Country Dance with caller and a bring-and-share buffet This is a fun event, and no experience of dance is needed. The bar will be open, and we will sell tickets nearer to the time for £3 for adults and £1 for children. We are asking people to bring a plate of food to share.
The group called Maggie and Stan, who play a wide variety of music including folk and music hall. Check out their foot-stamping rhythms here: http://www.maggieandstan.co.uk/gig.html They will be playing 2 sets of 45 minutes. We are also pleased to announce that our own Steve McKie will be playing, and Katie Durrant and Mark Little will also be performing. This is a free event however a bucket will be available for donations towards the upkeep of the village hall. The bar will be open for drinks and there will be a BBQ from 3pm onwards. Bring something to sit on, a blanket or a chair and bring along your friends for a great afternoon of music refreshments and let’s hope the sun shines.
October 22nd Pub night We are planning to hold a pub night. We haven’t had one for some time but as the evenings draw in what a great way to spend time with friends and a beer (or any other tipple of your choice) in the village hall!
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rd Music on the Green (in the Village Hall if wet) from 2pm to 5pm.
Early Notice! Here is a date for your diary – 26th November will be the Village Hall Quiz, back by popular demand. A great night out.
Gill Colchester Telephone 01379 788040 or Mobile 07850 641233 Email. gillyano@live.co.uk
Hourly rate: £8.00 The rate is per hour or part thereof. Minimum booking period 2 hrs. Day rate (24-hour period): £85.00. 25% reduction in rate for Wickham Skeith residents and Wickham Skeith village groups and organisations. Official bodies (e.g., elections): £200.00 per day. A 30 minute "warming up" period will be allowed in cold weather conditions.
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September 19th Next Village Hall Committee Meeting 8pm at the village hall. All are welcome when we meet on the 3rd Monday each month. All bookings of the Village Hall and its equipment should go to:
Liz & Pete will show you how to find out about your ancestors with a simple guide to the information available and share some of the colourful snippets you might find along the way. There will also be a chance to have a go yourself with help during coffee time. Some of you may have long family trees to hand already, but this introduction will smooth out the initial steps or encourage you to delve further. The competition will be an old family photo. Do come along. We aim to offer a night out, for fun or education or interest or activity etc., etc. Hoping to appeal to everyone in some form to other.
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Lunch Club
Subs for the year will be due. A princely sum of £10.00 will ensure your membership and you will only pay £1.00 per session . Tea and bix included!! Incredible value…….probably the cheapest night out in a warm village hall in the district! Guests are more than welcome too, with a fee of £3.00 per meeting. Do join us . Enquiries to Margaret Knights 01449 767708 rosecottageflowers@hotmail.co.uk Or any committee member.
In August, during our heatwave, Lunch Club diners enjoyed a lovely dish of Coronation Chicken made for us by Mel Rowe and served with new potatoes, salad and peas. Dessert was a fruit sponge with custard cooked by Romaine Elsden. Huge thanks to both our cooks and to Will Elphick and Harriet Bowes for their help in the Nextkitchen.Lunch club is on the 14th September at 12.00. The cost is £4 for a 2-course meal with coffee/tea. If you wish to book a place, please contact Jenny Elphick by Friday 9th September by phone 01449 766885 or mobile 07745416091 or email at jenny.elphick@sim.org
Hilltop Women’s Group After our summer break we are back in action again, meeting in the village hall on Tuesday 13th September at 7.45 pm. Our opening event is an introduction to “Finding Your Past.” We are so pleased to welcome local experts Liz and Pete Davidson to lead us gently through the steps you could take. Have you wondered about your family history but are unsure how to start?
Following two wonderful summer trips out to Blooms and RHS Hyde Hall it is now time to return to the village hall for the first of our Autumn talks. This will be held on Tuesday 27th Sept and will be given by Ian Seager who will, very appropriately, be giving us an illustrated talk on the subject of Fruits and Berries. The meeting will be held at Wickham Skeith village hall and start at 7.30pm. As usual all are welcome - non-member fee is £3 for the evening. Tea/coffee Onincluded.
Gardening Club
October 25th we welcome Adrian Bloom - gardener, author and nurseryman. Adrian is also a past presenter on Gardeners World and has been awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the RHS.
Entry Fee £2, including tea/coffee and biscuits.
Starting from an empty meadow in 1967 Adrian and his wife began creating their garden and now, more than 50 years later, Foggy Bottom is a world renowned 6-acre garden full of colour and year-round interest and part of the larger 17-acre Bressingham gardens in Norfolk. Adrian will tell us some of the story of how the garden ‘grew on him’ and why he believes the devil is in the detail. Please save the date for what promises to be an entertaining evening.
Contact: Pete Davidson 766622 or pjdavidson42@gmail.com
This month we welcome Geoffrey Robinson for an illustrated talk on “When Buffalo Bill Came to East Anglia". In 1903 the famous Wild West character came to East Anglia with his spectacular show. Performers included Cowboys, Native Americans & the sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
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History Group
59 Club Recent winning numbers: Aug – 12, 20, 59.
All are welcome so do join us in the Village Hall at 7.45pm on Wed 21 Sep.
2. Another book, jam and jigsaw sale on Saturday 24th September from 10am at Margaret's 1, Broadway. Cake and savouries on sale too.
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The annual fundraiser for this amazing charity is here again. Please come along to support it on the morning, or pop a donation in Rose Cottage letter box (Margaret Knights) Or to Sue Merriam. Contributions of Cakes, etc., on the day to the village hall please. We always do really well to raise funds each year for such a small village. Looking forward to seeing you all again this year.
‘Crafternoon’ There will be no Crafternoon in September. Save your craft projects for October 8th Fundraising Events for St Andrew’s Church
1. 7pm on Friday 9th September in church we are delighted to be holding a talk by Lord John Gardiner about Parliamentary Life. Tickets available from Mary Paine 01449 767897 and Margaret J-E 01449 767121 or on the door. Questions after the talk will be very welcome. Wine and nibbles after the talk included in the ticket price of £7.50.
3. On the 14th October there will be a Dessert evening in the village hall. As before you may taste as many desserts as you wish. £10 per ticket, Margaret JE, Mary Paine and LIz Davidson will have tickets 4. The 19th November is the date of the stir-up. Father Christmas will be with us and his silver band too. They will play Christmas Carols while we stir Christmas pudding mix ready for you to buy.
Macmillan Coffee Morning Friday 30th September. Village Hall 10-12
Thank you for the support that you all give - Margaret Jones-Evans Church warden
~ C O M M U N I T Y P A G E~ Wickham Skeith Oil Syndicate - how it works Our oil scheme has been running for 13 years now and over that period has saved the village tens of thousands of pounds. The vast majority of oil users in the village are already members but if you’re not and want to join, just drop me an email with contact details or give me a call if you don’t have email. There’ll be five opportunities to place orders over the next 12 months. On or before: - 30 September - 30 November - 31 January - 31 March - 30 BeforeJuneeach of these dates I’ll place a reminder in the village newsletter and also send you an email reminder. Then let me know by email (or phone) that you’d like to be included in the next order. I’ll need to know: - address and telephone number(s) - unless you’ve ordered before - quantity required (min 500 litres) - any special instructions - eg concerning delivery Within a couple of days of the above dates, a bulk order will be placed with the oil company which offers the best deal, which is usually several pence per litre lower than the price available to customers who order individually. I'll let you know the same day: - the name of the company - price - expected delivery date - the company's contact details in case you need to speak to them directly I'll pass your address and phone numbers to the company which will contact you (but normally only if you don't already have an account with them) and they’ll bill you Ifdirectly.you've any questions please ring Jerry on 765908 or email jerrybassett@icloud.com
~ W I C K H A M S K E I T H P A R I S H C O U N C I L ~ Members of Wickham Skeith Parish Council are hereby summoned to attend the next meeting of the Council, to be held at the Village Hall on Monday, 5th September 2022 at 7.30pm. The public and press are hereby notified of the meeting and are invited to attend At the Village Forum agenda item, the public will be invited to give their views/questions to the Parish Council on issues on the agenda, or raise issues for inclusion at future meetings. This item will be generally limited to 15 mins. duration and will be followed by any County/District Councillors’ or Police reports. AGENDA (DRAFT) 1. Chairman’s Welcome (to include apologies and approval of absences) 2. a). To receive members’ Declarations of Interest on Agenda items b). To consider requests for dispensations. 3. To resolve that the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 11th July 2022 are accurate and note Matters Arising. 4. Village Forum: an opportunity for the public to raise any relevant issues to the Council. 5. To receive reports from County and District Councillors, Police, Parish Clerk and Parish 5.1.Councillors:SCC:Cllr Stringer 5.2. MSDC: Cllr Warboys 5.3. Suffolk Police 5.4. Parish Clerk 5.5. Parish Councillors, including: 5.5.1. Community Speed Watch 5.5.2. General Data Protection Regulation 5.5.3. Community Emergency Plan 6. Correspondence Received 7. Finance: 8. Planning Matters: to consider planning applications and note planning decisions received. 9. Working Parties: Village Green 10.Matters for next agenda 11.Next Meeting: November 2022 TBC.
Wickham Skeith Reg Charity 303 838 GARAGE SALES Sat. 1st October from 9am lots of garages …… lots of bargains Maps of locations (50p) available at Village Hall from 08.30am. Refreshments from 10am.
ANNUAL GARAGE SALES WHEN? Saturday 1st October 2022 WHERE? Garages, sheds, yards, lawns, or just your gate. WHAT TIME? 9am start HOW MUCH? £5 per garage Involve all your family NOW!! Sort out the loft; spring clean, blitz the garage and shed; check those cupboards and Getdrawers;ridof unwanted gifts, clothes, toys, videos, books, jewellery. Convert unused household and garden equipment into cash!! Make some money for yourself, the village hall, your village group or a charity of your choice. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS....... Register your sale in advance by filling in the tear off slip at the bottom of this Enclosesheet. £5.00 cash or a cheque made payable to Wickham Skeith Village Hall. Please give to Jeanne Mason, Rushmere Cottage, The Green, no later than Saturday 17th September This is important if you wish to be included on the map The event will be well advertised and posters will go up in the surrounding villages. The Village Hall will be open from 8.30am all for location maps, toilet facilities and refreshments NB If you still have a numbered sign from last time please return as soon as possible as it costs to keep laminating new numbers. Thanks. Jeanne Mason 01449 767800 Cut this strip off here or ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------photocopy Name TelAddress……………………………………………………….…………………………………………………….No.……………………. I enclose £5 cash/I enclose a cheque for £5 (delete as appropriate)
The Village Hall Committee cannot be held responsible for any theft or damage to your duringpropertythis event.
Margaret Jones-Evans will co-ordinate the food contributions from St Andrew’s so please contact her if you would like to help.
Ride and Stride – the annual event will be on 10th Sept this year. Please sign up to visit as many churches as you can in the local area or sign the rota to sit in church for an hour to welcome the visiting cyclists or support our cyclists & walkers looking for sponsorship. All money raised is split between our St Andrew’s and Suffolk Historic Churches Trust. Contact Margaret for more information or to offer help with church sitting.
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~ S T. A N D R E W ’ S C H U R C H ~ Church of England, Wickham Skeith Facebook: @bactonbenefice Rector: The Revd Carl Melville, The Rectory, Bacton, IP14 4LJ 01449 781650, email: carlmelville@hotmail.com Wardens: Liz Davidson 766622 and Margaret Jones-Evans 767121 Services in September 2022 All services at 9.30am in church unless otherwise stated 4th Sept 11.00am Benefice Service, Bacton (see below) 4th Sept 3.00pm Benefice Evensong 11th Sept Café Church 18th Sept Holy Communion 25th Sept Harvest Festival 2nd Oct All Age Communion Forotherbeneficeservices,pleaseviewourFacebookpage. Weekly Email and News – if you’d like to sign up to receive our weekly news email, please contact the Rector.
Back to Church Sunday takes place on 18th Sept. All are welcome – especially if you haven’t been to church for some time. Harvest Festival at St Andrew’s will be supporting the work of BOB foodbank (donations of money) and Stowmarket Foodbank (tins of food). Windowsill decorators please note and include tins in your decoration if possible. Tins can also be left in the church over Harvest weekend.
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September will start with a Benefice Service on Sunday 4th Sept at 11.00am in Bacton Church, followed by a bring a share lunch and parish discussions. It would be great to have as many folk as possible from our church present to discuss the future of St Andrew’s worship, life and witness. The day will end at Gipping Chapel for Evensong at 3.00pm if you would like to join that.
By looking at the poor, vulnerable and outcast, Jesus was re-focusing the direction of God’s mission and love on earth. Jesus dared to move the focus from “ourselves” to “others.” This was a dangerous thing to do in a religious system that was very much about who “was in” or who “was Christianity,out.” then, in its true form, is always about others. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look after ourselves or provide nice things for our families. It does mean that our outlook on life, work and faith should always be to the benefit of others. That’s why Christians are often seen working among the homeless and hungry, or seen confronting issues such as climate change and global
Suffolk Churches Ride & Stride – Sat 10 Sep
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If you would like to take part, I have sponsorship forms & further information. Alternatively, if you would like to sponsor me, please let me know.
Jesus’ ministry focused on the poor, the vulnerable and those pushed aside by the religious and political systems of the day. Nowadays, our understanding of what it means to be poor, vulnerable and outcast are very different. The Government and different charities or welfare groups will define those terms differently according to their own aims, outlook and experience.
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Pete Davidson – tel. 01449 766622 or email pjdavidson42@gmail.com
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fall at the end of this month and early October. It is a chance to shift our focus from ourselves to others. Particularly so this year when so many are struggling because of rising living costs. Why not come along and journey with us one Sunday, as we seek to build up others, our communities and our world?
Suffolk Historic Churches Ride & Stride event will be going ahead on Sat 10 Sep 9am – 5pm. Many churches will be open & you can get sponsored to visit as many or as few as you feel able, by cycle or on foot. Of the money raised, 50% goes to the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust & 50% to your nominated church. I have done the ride for most years since 1987 & it’s a good way to see churches in Suffolk & Norfolk. It’s also a great way to raise money for the building fabric of the church.
If there is anyone willing to sit in church for an hour on 10th to welcome and sign in any cyclists/walkers and offer them refreshment please contact Liz Davidson.
~ A D V E R T I S E M E N T S ~ ***** GISLINGHAM PLAYGROUP ***** We provide a safe, warm, friendly and caring setting for children aged 2-5 years, in a brand new purpose-built building on the same site as Gislingham CEVCP School, with whom we work closely to provide an excellent education. The Playgroup is following government guidelines so please check with us for opening arrangements. Please visit our website www.gislinghamplaygroup.com or phone us on 01379 788934 Fruitful Please explore the Community Orchard on the Little Green. Everyone/ anyone can help themselves to the fruit before the wasps get them all. First come first served. The trees were bought by the parish council a few years ago and off the following 1varieties:Apple- Lady Henniker 2 Apple - Bramley 3 Apple - Egremont Russet 4 Apple - Scrumptious 5 Plum - Victoria 6 Quince 7 Plum - Czar 8 Morello Cherry The Suffolk Mobile Library van stops in the lay-by outside the chalet bungalows, from 9.45 to 10am. Then outside Haymead House in The Street from 10.05 to 10.20. Next visit – 22nd September 2022. The Library Service apologised for the nonappearance of the library van over the last couple of months due to the Platinum Jubilee holiday, Covid and staff injuries.
~ A D V E R T I S E M E N T S ~ GRAHAM MOORE ELECTRICAL LTD Blacksmiths Cottage, Silver Street, Old Newton IP14 4HF For all your electrical needs For a friendly and efficient service Call Graham on Tel: 01449 616946 Mobile: 07867 560357 *FREE ESTIMATES * ALL WORK GUARANTEED *
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