Village news
Barrow Jane Tindle 01509 414201 Jane.Tindle@outlook.com
BISHOP BEVERIDGE CLUB
NEWS. Last week, at a small ceremony at our Coffee Morning, the Club awarded Sylvia Steane a Lifetime Membership in recognition and appreciation of her work for the club over a number of years.
The next Fun Quiz is on Wednesday, April 11, starting at 2.45pm. All very welcome, and the cost of £2 includes prizes for members of the winning table, a raffle, and tea and cake. An extra 50p is added for visitors. As usual our quizmasters are Alan Willcocks and Roger Grew. Just come along and help make up a table of 4 or more, or less, and join others in this fun afternoon.
On Monday, April 16, our Monday Movie is ‘ Victoria & Abdul’. This starts at 2pm and doors open at 1.30pm. Starring Judy Dench. A true story, Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. Cost for members is £4, visitors, who are most welcome, £4.50. This includes tea and cake.
Friday, April 20 is the next lunch date. Call Sylvia if you cannot attend on 413565.
The next Afternoon Tea is on Wednesday, April 25, at 3pm. Cost remains at £3.50 members, £4 visitors, booking list is now on the notice board with details.
Our Games Afternoon takes place every Tuesday starting at 2.30pm. Come along and join in. We have fun scrabble and card games. Come alone or bring a friend. Cost to members is just £1 or £1.20 for visitors and includes tea and cake.
The next bingo will be on Wednesday, April 18, starting at 2.30pm. Cost is £2 For members, £2.50 nonmembers. Including tea and cake, six games with 2 prizes for each, and a raffle. Our May Fayre, is on Saturday, May 12. Please consider donating goods for sale, bric-a-brac, good quality book and items for our tombola stall. Last year we had few cakes so if you could bake for us it will be much appreciated.
Any donations can be brought to the club anytime we are open, or to 8 Ribble Drive.
The date for the trip to Charlecote Park (National Trust) is Monday, May 14. The cost is £24 for members (£14 for National Trust members) and £26 for visitors (£16 for National Trust members). Look out for the list on the notice board, call Wendy on 413212 for details. Posters outline details about the venue.
Friday, 1 June will be our first canal trip of the summer from Pillings Lock, this time we will be having a break at the Waterside Inn, Mountsorrel, for a 2 course lunch.
Please note this is mainly aimed for members who are less able and be given priority. Cost will be £24 for the six hour ‘voyage’ and lunch. We hope to repeat this later in the summer.
On Wednesday, July 4, in the afternoon, we are having
a group guided visit at Goadby Marwood Hall Gardens with refreshments.
This is not a coach trip so you will need to make your own travel arrangements, or ask if a lift is offered. The cost will be £10 which includes tea and cake, just £7 without the refreshments. For details call Joyce on 414519.
We have a small number of tickets for the Curve Christmas production by Irving Berlin ‘ White Christmas’, which will be on Wednesday, 9 January 2019 in the afternoon. Ticket price is £29.50 for a balcony seat, but if we sell 10 or more this is reduced to £24.50. Speak to Joyce 01509 414519. SILVER SPORTS AT THE
BAPTIST CHURCH. Join us for table tennis, carpet bowls and other indoor games every Friday from 10am – 12 noon in the Gap. This group runs during term time and most school holidays.
HELP NEEDED! We hope you value Barrow Voice. We hope you value it enough to help make sure that it continues to exist. Barrow Voice is paid for by its advertisers. The income needs to cover the cost of its design and printing by Mulberry Square (who give us a very generous discount; thank you Mulberry Square!) The present Advertising Manager will be retiring from the job shortly. WE MUST FIND A VOLUNTEER REPLACEMENT!!!
What does the advertising manager do?
i) Gets advertisers, existing and new
ii) Collects copy and passes it on by a deadline to Mulberry Square and the BV Treasurer
iii) Sends out invoices (made by treasurer) iv) Collects money in Initially, we expect that someone new in post would work with the existing advertising manager to learn the ropes. This is a job that could be shared. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT BE Able to help, please email Judith on judithrodgers155@gmail.com or phone on 07718153117. THANK YOU. A huge thank you to everyone who supported Molly last Saturday , raising funds for her international trip to Austria with the girl guides, she raised £290 and is absolutely thrilled.
To everyone, whether you just came to see us, gave up your time to help or for the fantastic donations of prizes, thank you very much, she couldn’t have done it without you all. BISHOP BEVERIDGE IT SERVICE. Barrow Library outreach IT session continues weekly at the Bishop Beveridge Club Thursday Coffee Morning and is held by volunteers from the Library as an outreach service, is free to use, and aimed to assist anyone with queries about the internet and obtaining advice on how to make your money go further by seeing how much you can save using comparison sites for energy, insurance and other queries. Please come along. We are open between 9.30am – 11am at 22 South Street and coffee is available at just 50p.
LADIES CIRCLE. Barrow Ladies Circle is meeting in the Methodist church rooms at 7:45pm on Wednesday, April 4. MOTHERS’ UNION. Barrow Mothers Union is meeting in the Trinity rooms on Wednesday, April 4, at 2.30pm. Chris Watkins will be speaking about Loughborough Street Pastors.
RHYME TIME. On Friday, April 6, Barrow community library has Rhyme Time for 3’s and under, from 10.30am – 11am. £1 donation is suggested. Refreshments are available. GET CRAFTY. Come along and get crafty at Barrow community library, on Friday, April 6 from 1.30pm – 3pm. A weekly group for knitters, stitchers, crocheteers and other crafters of all ability levels. £1 donation suggested towards library funds. Refreshments available. MINIMART. On Saturday, April 7, come along to the coffee morning and Minimarket between 10am – 11am at the Methodist church rooms. CRAFT and CROCHET CLUB. On Saturday, April 7, from 11am – 1pm the Methodist Church has a craft and crochet club. Everyone is very welcome.
GARDENING CLUB. The talk in April is really very timely and is entitled ‘Organic Gardening’ but includes environmental gardening and what plants we should grow to encourage wildlife to take away our pests for us.
Paul Baxter will talk about the right soil, companion planting and gardening with corridors to encourage frogs and toads and newts to eat our slugs and snails.
If you would like to know more about natural pest control then come along on Wednesday, April 18, at 7.30pm to the School Room in the Baptist Church in Beveridge Street. P
aul is committed to gardening naturally and describes himself to me as ‘the weird one’ and tells me he is eccentric - so we are in for a night of fun. He is bringing along lots of plants shrubs and seedlings to sell, some of which will be unusual.
It sounds as though it will be a very interesting evening and something to look forward to. Everybody is very welcome, guests and visitors on the night just £3. CRAFT AND CROCHET CLUB. The Methodist church are having their craft and crochet club on Saturday, April 7, from 11am – 1pm. COACH TRIP TO SPRINGFIELD’S. The April coach trip organised by the Bishop Beveridge Club is to Springfield’s near Spalding on Monday, April 9, this is a popular destination, a garden centre expanded into a shopping centre with 50 outlet stores.
The cost to members is £13, visitors £15. Call Wendy 01509 413212. We will leave Sileby at 10am, Barrow pick-ups shortly afterwards. All welcome to join us, you do not have to be a member.
MONDAY MOVIE. Monday Movie at the Bishop Beveridge Club, 22 South Street. This month’s film is ‘ Victoria and Abdul’, on April 16.
A true story, starring Judy Dench, it tells of the unlikely friendship between Queen Victoria and a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. Cost for members is £4 for visitors, who are most welcome, the price is £4.50. This includes tea and cake. Professionally presented on a large screen, doors will open at 1.30pm, start time is 2pm.
COACH TRIP TO HARROGATE SPRING FLOWER SHOW. Coach Trip to Harrogate Spring Flower Show on Thursday, April 26. Cost £35 to cover coach and entrance to the show. The coach will leave from Three Crowns at 9am prompt, returning at 6.30pm approx. Contact:- Tilly Yates 01509 413085 for more information or to book seats. THE KING AND QUEEN OF UK COUNTRY ARE BACK. For Barrow’s last Centre Stage performance of the season we are incredibly lucky to host classic country music husband-and-wife team Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish in an uplifting evening of classic country music of pure gold.
Both are incredible singers, with spellbinding voices, and songwriters of the very highest calibre.
Add a 50s-60s golden era styling to the mix, and just a little knowing tongue in cheek and expect My Darling Clementine to deliver terrific countrified thrills, with every song sounding like a forgotten Nashville classicthey revitalize the country duet with a heavenly set of original songs that brilliantly evoke the spirit of June Cater & Johnny Cash and George Jones & Tammy Wynette.
The roots of their music are taken from the folk music of working class Americans, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional English ballads and the blues.
But this show is not just for fans of county music, rather for fans of great songs, great voices and great entertainment. Friday, April 27 at 7.30pm at Humphrey Perkins Community Centre, Cotes Road, LE12 8JU.
Tickets can be bought from Barrow’s Paper Shop or the library in Barrow or by Paypal from www.busca.org.uk (you don’t need a Paypal account; just use your card).
Bought in advance of the show they cost £10, £9 (concessions) and £5 (children under 16). With the feel of cabaret, you can enjoy our well stocked bar while you watch the show. Easy parking and excellent disabled facilities.
Mountsorrel
ST PETER’S PARISH CHURCH. All are warmly invited on the morning of Sunday, April 8, ( The First Sunday after Easter) to the Parish Church of St Peter (Market Place) MountSorrel for a traditional celebration of Parish Communion (with Hymns) at 10am.
The celebrant will be the Parish Priest and coffee / tea will follow the Holy Eucharist in the Antill Vestry.”
Bunny
LITTER PICK APOLOGIES. Bunny parish council have given apologies to those who turned up on the original date for this year’s Litter Pick which had to be postponed at the last minutes due to due to bad weather and a flood at the Village Hall, which was to have been the starting point for the event.
The pick will now take place on Saturday this weekend, April 7 meeting at 9.30 at the Village Hall
It is hoped to be able to provide the traditional Bacon Butties, but this depends upon progress with the repairs of the Hall
This year it is intended to concentrate efforts on Keyworth Lane, covering the en-route part of Loughborough.
All welcome, but particularly the young.
ANNUAL PAROCHIAL MEETING. The parish church of St Mary’s at Bunny is to hold its annual parochial meeting on Sunday April 15, at 7pm.
Willoughby on the Wolds
PLAYGROUP SUCCESS. illoughby Pre-School Playgroup continues to be successful as it offers ‘Learning Through Play in the Heart of the Community’.
It is staged in the village hall and is open Monday to Thursday from 9.15am to 3.45pm.
On Wednesdays a Baby and Toddler group is available, from 10am to 11.30am – during Nottinghamshire term times. Songs, music, baby area and outdoor space are all on offer.
£2 per adult and up to 2 children.
Find us in the Village Hall, London Lane LE12 6SX. Call in to see what we can offer your child or contact Kathy on 07482 062367 or at willougbyplaygroup@hotmail.co.uk or www.willoughbyplaygroup.wixsite.com/home
Oaks in Charnwood
TENNIS CLUB. The Oaks & District Tennis Club, Oaks Road, LE12 9YD are holding an open afternoon Saturday, April 14, from 2pm to 4pm.
Refreshments of tea, coffee, soft drinks and cakes will be served throughout the afternoon. We are a small friendly club in a unique rural setting.
New members are welcome of all abilities. We have three all-weather asphalt courts and a fully equipped clubhouse. Our subscription rates are very competitive.
Junior coaching available with LTA Registered Coach.
For more information see our website www.oakstennis. co.uk
Quorn Joan Bloodworth 01509 620481 mail@joan99.plus.com
ST BARTHOLOMEW’S. There is only one Service at St Bartholomew’s Church this Sunday; 10.30am Service of the Word with Rev J Pugh. WEDNESDAY FILM SHOW. Come along on Wednesday April 11th to help Hercule Poirot to solve the “Murder On The Orient Express”! This new film stars Kenneth Branagh as Poirot the best detective in the world!
He was travelling on the Orient Express when the train accidentally got stopped because of a small avalanche. Little did he know that a murder was planned and that a person on this train was able to commit such crime!
Doors open at 1.45pm for 2pm screening Pay £4 at the door to include tea, biscuits and a free raffle ticket. ABBEYFIELD QUORN. There is a coffee morning on Friday, April 6, from 10.15am till 11.45am at Holloway House 35 Sutton Close Quorn.
Stalls include cakes etc, raffle, bring & buy and tombola. Introduction tours round the house happily given.
Admission includes drink and biscuits £1.50
Wysall
WINE TASTING. A Wine Tasting evening is being held at Wysall Village Hall on Saturday next week, April 14, with a 7.30pm start. Jonathon Punt will be presenting the event for which tickets are £20 to include six glasses of wine and an accompanying meal.
Castle Donington Mike Elliott 0115 937 6506 elliottnews@btconnect.com
FARMERS’ MARKET. The next Castle Donington Farmers Market date is Saturday April 14 and is a popular monthly event for the village. Contact for it is Helen Fountain who can be reached on : 01332 850723 or at helen.fountain@ care4free.net
The event takes place at the Hub car park previously the Tudor Hotel – and since the move from the bowls club to the new site the market is going from strength to strength.
Normanton on Soar Heather Herrington 01509 646240 heather.herrington@live.com
ST JAMES’ CHURCH There will be a service of Holy Communion on Sunday, April 8, starting at 9.30am. Everyone is welcome to the service.
HEARING AID CLINICS Do you wear hearing aids? Come along to our free walk-in hearing aid clinic for new batteries, new ear mould tubing, advice on equipment, advice on how to use and clean your hearing aids, and information on hearing loss and all the services that can help you.
The clinic is held at Normanton on Soar Village Hall on the second Tuesday of the month between 2pm - 3pm.
The service is provided by the Ear Foundation and is supported by fund-raising. The next clinic will be on Tuesday April 10. There is no need to make an appointment – just drop in.