Long Whatton and Diseworth

VILLAGE HALL. Event organisers are being encouraged to hire the village hall in Diseworth for their activities.

David Bamford, the chairman of the Village Hall Committee, has sent out a reminder to local people in this month’s edition of Diseworth Village Magazine he says: ”Our wonderful village hall is available to hire for parties, celebrations, business meetings, training sessions or other events of your own.”

Residents of the village qualify for a special discounted rate to hire the hall. For booking details interested people are asked to see the hall website – www.diseworth hall.com/ booking.

PUDDING EVENING. Thanks have been expressed to everybody who helped to make a Pudding Evening in St. Michael’s and All Angels Church in Diseworth such a success.

The event raised £546 for church funds and thanks have been expressed by the organisers to everybody who attended and particularly those people who provided puddings.

RECYCLING. Recycling empty crisp packets in Diseworth will raise funds for the local primary school.

Gerry Riley (01332 811737) is coordinating the new village recycling scheme and he has applied for his home on 25 The Woodcroft to be registered as the official collection point for the village.

Posters advertising the scheme have been printed and they are to be displayed throughout the village and at Diseworth Primary School.

The Friends of Diseworth Primary School fundraising organisation (FODS) has been nominated as the charity to be benefit from the recycling scheme.

FODS is a group of parents, teachers and volunteers who are a registered charity and raise much neede3d funds for the children at the village school.

Every five kilograms of crisp packets will convert into £10 for the FODS funds. Shipments from the village efforts need to weigh a minimum of 8 kg and be at least every six months.

A carrier will collect each shipment free-of-charge.

The scheme is being sponsored by Walkers Crisps, but any branch of crisp packet can be included. Popcorn bags, crisp tubes, pretzel bags and meat snack bags are not accepted.

Villagers may either bring their collections to Gerry’s house or people may telephone him at home and he will collect them. he will collect them.

Thanks have also been expressed to the landlord of the Plough Inn in Hall Gate in the village where crisp packets are also be collected for the scheme.

MEMORIAL BENCH. A new bench has been provided in Diseworth churchyard in memory of Beryl Adkin, the former Baptist Church organist in the village,

Diseworth Heritage Trust has expressed grateful thanks to Harold Adkin who has provided the bench, which is dedicated to his mother, Beryl. commenced at 10.30am, there was an announcement concerning a letter received from Rev Canon Helen Cameron, our district chair, concerning our Christian response to Brexit. In it she recommended extra support for food banks as the hardest hit folk will be those who need these facilities most.

To this end, we, as a Church, have decided to have a table set up in the church during the month of November, so that anyone who so wishes, can contribute items to be donated to Josephs Storehouse in Loughborough for distribution during the Christmas period.

If you wish to join in with this effort, please bring along your contributions on Thursday or Saturday, or indeed to our service on Sundays, and we will be delighted to receive your gifts.

Our local pastor, Granville Mercy was our preacher on Sunday and his message was about our immortal, invisible God who encourages us to help others, love our neighbours as ourselves and do as much as we can.

Our DJ Martyn was on form with the cds and we do thank him for this service. Following our worship, as is usual now, we had refreshments and drinks and Debra, Granville’s wife, had brought along delicious homemade cake. Many thanks for this Debra, we do so enjoy your baking.

Mrs Karen Wormald is our preacher next week and we look forward to seeing her again. If you would care to join us our service commences at 10.30am and we would welcome you warmly.

On Saturday, November 2, it is our annual Gift Day and Granville will be pleased to receive your gifts. There will be various stalls and refreshments will be served.

We will open from 10am to 12noon and the school car park across the road will be open. We are so grateful to Redland School who allow us to use this facility.

Don’t forget, if you wish to book our premises for your event, phone Dave on 07706 205070 and he will be delighted to assist you in any way he can.