WHERE I LIVE
Your guide to everything that’s going on in your area
» 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.
» 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
» 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.
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.
» The Mu3ac Gig has had to be cancelled. We are hoping to have the 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.
» Bishop’s Cleeve Methodist Church Wednesday Fellowship, no meetings until further notice.
» Cleeve Ladies’ Probus Club, for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact 01242 529664.
» The Bishop’s Cleeve WI, for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact bishopscleevewi.org.uk or 01242 676647.
» Gotherington, Woolstone and Oxenton WI, for any information about meetings in the current situation, contact 01242 317276 or go to gwowi. org.uk
» Bishop’s Cleeve Library, for any information, contact 01242 672217.
WOODMANCOTE
» G & S Newsagents and General Store (next to Beautiful Bathrooms) in Station Road, Woodmancote (01242 672945) will deliver daily newspapers to Bishop’s Cleeve as well as Woodmancote residents at a cost of £3 per week delivery charge. The delivery charge can be paid by card on the phone or by cash.
» Woodmancote Saints Cricket Club junior team, for more information about this group in the current situation, contact 07948 094905, woodmancotecricketclub@outlook.com
» Woodmancote Probus Club, all meetings cancelled due to the coronavirus until further notice.
» Woodmancote WI meetings cancelled
due to coronavirus until further notice.
» Dog training classes, Woodmancote village hall, for information regarding this group in the present situation, contact 07830 247691. » Ann Lewis maggieann1949@hotmail.com 01242 70257
APPERLEY AND DEERHURST
» The Deerhurst Flower Festival was due to take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend – from Saturday to Monday, August 29 to 31.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic it has been decided to postpone the festival.
We hope it will now take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend next year instead, but look for confirmation of this in this column and on the Flower Festival website deerhurstflower festival.com
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These are of course very strange times but hopefully we will be able to look back and see the positives as well as the negatives.
Our churches are shut at the moment, even for private visits and prayers.
To help make up for this, the Severnside Benefice, of which we are a part, will meet weekly on Zoom every Sunday at 11am.
If you would like to join the service it lasts about half an hour.
You can download the Zoom app free of charge.
If you’d like information on how to do this or if you would just like to talk or if you have any other church-related questions contact our vicar Ilse by emailing apperleypriest@gmail.com or call 01452 780880.
» Apperley Village Hall is closed until further notice as gatherings are not allowed. If you do need to check out anything to do with a future booking call Pete or Sue on 01452 780610.
» We are very fortunate in the current lockdown situation because we are permitted to go out for a daily walk.
The parish has a large number of footpaths and, even if you prefer to keep to the roads, there are plenty of quiet lanes from which you can enjoy some good views of the surrounding countryside.