CLEEVE
Due to the coronavirus outbreak causing significant changes to services, meetings and events in all local churches, clubs and groups in the Bishop’s Cleeve, Woodmancote, Gotherington and Stoke Orchard area, if you have any special messages to send out to your members or wider community, please contact me on email or by telephone.
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St Michael and All Angels Church is reaching out to the community, especially the young, by offering online services and activities.
Sunday morning service, 11.15am on St Michael’s Facebook page. Biblewatch – facebook.com/groups/ stmichaelbishopscleeve/ Children’s Ministry – cafministry.stmichael@gmail. com
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Bishop’s Cleeve Foodbank. The foodbank in Bishop’s Cleeve has seen a big rise in demand last week, following the closure of local schools.
Grateful thanks to those remaining local volunteers who have provided extra cover to run this service as more than half of the existing volunteers are now self-isolating following the latest guidelines.
Besides local volunteers, there are also volunteers working at Guiting Power Central warehouse doing extra shifts processing donations and preparing food parcels.
Please can you take any donations to the only open local collection point, currently at Bishop’s Cleeve Parish Office (next to Tesco’s car park), any Friday morning between 9am and noon. Thank you for your generosity supporting local people who don’t have the money and are really struggling to feed their families at this time.
Please refer to the latest shopping list for further details of shortages on the ‘donating food’ link at northcotswold.foodbank.org.uk and for details on making direct monetary donations.
The Co-op on the Green is also taking donations for the foodbank.
Lidl Supermarket also has a food bank collection point in store.
The following stores are offering the following services:
Andy Hill, the butcher on the Green is open and has put up a serving counter in his doorway and will also provide a free delivery service. Website andyhillandsonsbutchers.co.uk or call 01242 672193.
The Court Farm Shop at Stoke Orchard is open. They are providing a limited delivery service to the over 70s but are extremely busy at the moment and are only taking orders via email for delivery after April 13.
Click and collect website can be found at courtfarmshop.co.uk
Cleeve Dry Cleaners are open on: Tuesdays, 10am–3pm; Thursdays, 10am– 3pm; Saturdays, 10am–3pm. There is an emergency telephone number on 07771 888 292.
Cleeve Supplies are open on: Monday, 10am–2pm; Wednesday, 10am–2pm; Friday, 10am–2pm; Saturday, 9am– 3pm. Telephone 01242 672806.
The Church Road Butcher is closed on Monday and Wednesday afternoon and is open all other normal times.
The Launderette in Bishops’ Cleeve is open all day.
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Webbs Garden Centre has re-opened. Restrictions are in place.
The restaurant and clothing department will continue to be temporarily closed to adhere to government guidelines.
Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, the centre will not be open for browsing from 10 -10.30am on Sundays. Store opening hours may be subject to adverse weather conditions. Bank Holiday opening times are 10am - 6pm.
Danny’s Café, proposes to be open on June 1, offering a service in line with Government restrictions.
The Cobalt Cancer Service is making its mobile CT scanners available to NHS England to support patients with the coronavirus, cancer and other urgent health conditions across the country where they are needed.
The mobile CT scanners will be staffed by the service’s radiographers and may support the new field hospitals.
The imaging centres in Cheltenham and Birmingham will provide urgent scans for cancer patients to enable them to continue with their treatment.
To all Cobalt Centre volunteers. In line with current advice, the service has unfortunately decided to close Linton House to all but essential personnel during the crisis.
Those volunteers who help in the community by delivering cards and collecting tins, there is a pause on these activities until further notice.
All events are cancelled and the service also advises all external card groups to please suspend meetings until further notice.
The website will be updated with further details.
Volunteers are so important to the charity.
We would really like to keep in touch with you during this difficult time. Please phone 01242 535922 to have a chat anytime during normal working hours. event in October, all being well.
New tickets will be issued nearer the time, replacing the current ones for May 2.
Refunds are available if required. Please contact the person you bought them from.
More details will follow once the situation becomes clearer.
Gotherington Singers will be welcoming Phoebe Tak Man Chow as their new musical director when choir resumes.
Check out their website gotheringtonsingers.co.uk or ring 01242 317276 for more details.
There will be no table top sales at Denley Hall, Bishop’s Cleeve, until further notice.
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Cleeve Ladies’ Probus Club, for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact 01242 529664.
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The Bishop’s Cleeve WI, for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact bishopscleevewi.org.uk or 01242 676647.
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Gotherington, Woolstone and Oxenton WI, for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact 01242 317276 or go to gwowi. org.uk
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