Winstred Hundred Parish Council
Supporting the local community
On Wednesday 14th March, 7.30pm in St Mary’s Peldon, the Friends of St Mary’s, Peldon present Constable and his Country: a talk by Simon Gallup.
Come and join us for a pictorial journey through the landscapes that inspired John Constable in his famous paintings.
Tickets (£8) still available (Bill Tamblyn 735770) or pay on the door. Refreshments are available.
Kate Gladwin’s latest newsletter is now live on Wigborough Traditional Meat’s website with some amusing tales of how the snow affected them this year as well as news of upcoming offers and freshly hung beef.
You can download the newsletter or visit their website at http://garrhousefarm.co.uk to find out more.
The Peldon Village Hall Management Committee were pleased to announce that plans for a new village hall for Peldon took a big step forward in December when they were awarded a grant of £100,000 from the Abberton Reservoir Community Fund towards the project. Following the granting of planning permission in August, this is a significant contribution towards the estimated £600,000 needing to be raised.
As a condition of the grant, the new building will have a lobby area that is open throughout the day, even if the hall is not in use. This area will include toilet facilities, an information area about the reservoir and a vending machine for the convenience of visitors who may wish to park in the hall’s car park before setting off to walk round the easterly side of the enlarged reservoir, once pathways have been created.
Together with the £30,000 already awarded from Essex County Council’s Community Initiatives Fund and £20,000 accumulated from fundraising events in recent years, the committee are now about a quarter of the way towards their target. Three further grant applications have been lodged and more will follow, including a major one to the Big Lottery, about which more will be said in coming months.
In the meantime there are lots of fundraising events coming up you can support to help:
To find out more about these, of how to help PVH in general, contact Bob Holmes on 01206 735510.
They go in on a Monday and are available to collect from noon on Thursday. Each half pig weighs about 35kg and storage space of 60cm x 40 cm x 20 cm – two shelves should be OK.
Price: £2.90/kg or about £97 / half pig.
You have the choice of how they are cut and bagged. Common choices are:
Sausages and burgers are £1.90 / kg extra. Flavours normally available are: plain, Old English, Cumberland, Pork & Leek, Tomato & Basil, Garlic Chilli and Fennel – be warned theses are hot, Pork & Apricot, Pork & Apple.
Bacon, gammon and ham are £2.30 / kg extra and take 2 weeks.
The bones, liver, kidney and heart are yours if you would like them.
If you have further questions or to place an order please contact:
Kate Gladwin 01206 735 694 [email protected]
Beauty and the Beast by Stuart Arden adapted for the Peldon Players, will be performed in Peldon Village Hall for 5 performances; Wed 25 to Sat 28 Jan starting at 7.30pm and running to about 9.50pm. The Saturday Matinee starts at 2.30 pm and should be over by 4.50pm.
The two Saturday performances are already sold out with a waiting list, a few tickets remain for Thursday and Friday nights with plenty still available for Wednesday but we do tend to sell out so it is best to contact Mel Newton on Email: [email protected] Tel: 01206 736118/07738 000378 if you fancy coming along.
Prices are:
Adapted and Directed by Alison Biegel, Angela Buckley and Mel Newton, this annual entertainment has been a part of the village calendar for 25 years, involves local residents from 7 to 70 and is a terrific way to spend a dreary January evening. Oh yes it is!
The annual report and accounts of the Peldon Village Hall management committee are now online to review on the Peldon Village Hall webpage. Reviewing the year the committee’s chairman, Keith Banks, considers the progress made towards building of a new Village Hall as well as the huge amount of work needed going forward to turn it into a reality. He gives thanks to volunteers perhaps the most notable being 79-year-old Ethel Miller who, whilst standing down from the committee, still intends volunteering as a cleaner and regular provider of home made cheese straws and sausage rolls. Yum!
Medieval Combat Display team
Main show schedules available as PDF download (print 2-sided on A4 to make A5 booklet) or from:Dog show contact
The Parish Council has been awarded a grant from the project’s Community Fund to help improve the Parish Council website and to incorporate up-to-the-minute Reservoir Development news within it, so keep checking on www.winstred100.org for more updates as we invest this money. To find out more about how the project is progressing and how wildlife is being affected, you can download the project’s quarterly newsletter here or read the following précis.
Following a period of bad weather with exceptional snow and rain, the predicetd finish date for the project has been put back a couple of months since some ‘critical path’ tasks were unable to be completed. Nevertheless, work has now resumed all over the site including the new section of the B1026 and ballast extraction at Rye Farm pit together with clay extraction at Blind Knights borrow pit. More material is being carted to the main dam, by the Layer/Abberton Road, as this becomes wider and taller.
The temporary off-take pumps will soon be working to pump the water to the treatment works, this will enable the old pump building to be altered so that various vital bits are not underwater when the level goes up. The causeway on the B1026 will soon have a large hole in it (hopefully not in the lane that the traffic is using) so that the culvert under the road can be strengthened. Soon some of the concrete facing of this causeway will be removed allowing the whole thing to be widened.
The pipeline that will help supply the enlarged reservoir is being put in place very soon. They are starting at the Layer Church and Wormingford ends simultaneously and, using the wonders of modern mapping, will meet by the A12.
This winter there have been more birds than expected using the reservoir, including a rare Water Rail (RSPB estimate less than 1,400 breeding pairs in the UK). Others seen include Bewick’s swans, smew, goosander , gadwall, goldeneye, pochard, black-tailed godwit, curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe, a turnstone, a bearded tit and bittern.
