Quorn

ANNUAL PARISH COUNCIL

MEETING. Quorn Parish Council Annual meeting is being held on Tuesday, May 22, in the Quorn Village Hall at 7.30pm

This your chance to have your say on how Quorn Parish Council runs your Village and spends your money.

1940’s EVENING. NQSC are holding a 40’s evening in Quorn Village Hall on Saturday, May 26, Tickets £10 ( Ration included ) are available online at www.nqsc.co.uk or Quorndon Formal Hire High St Quorn or ring 01509 567176 .

Join the New Quorndon Shakespeare Company for an evening of 1940’s themed entertainment and dancing . An evening buffet is included in the ticket price .

Please bring your own drinks, 1940’s style dress is encouraged.

HEALTH WALK. The next Quorn Medical Centre Patients Participation Group, health walk will take place on Thursday , May 17. We meet at 10.30am at Quorn Village Car Park.

Today we will walk over meadows to the Navigation Inn, along canal and return via Barroow ‘Slabs’. Approx. 1 hr 15 minutes.

Everyone welcome. Phone 01509 812956 for further details.It is Pentecost this Sunday; Services this Sunday at St Bartholomew’s Church are, 8am Holy Communion, 10.30am Holy Communion (Sung) 6.30pm Pentecost Songs of Praise. All services with Rev D Bowler

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE. May is Resolution month, and this year the resolution was Mental Health Matters, to take action to make it acceptable to talk about mental health issues as much as physical health issues and to lobby government for better support for mental illness.

A discussion took place and one or two members spoke about their experiences.

The WI meetings themselves offer companionship and perhaps a way of talking to one another, but it is difficult to know what else we could do as a group to help.

Various suggestions were made and these will be investigated.

The vote was unanimously in favour of the resolution and our decision will be given to our delegate who will vote on our behalf at the NFWI meeting in June.

Cynthia Brown attended the meeting to speak about Votes for Women and the Suffragettes. Cynthia explained the difference between Suffragists who campaigned with peaceful methods and the Suffragettes who employed more violent methods.

There were several ladies in Leicester who campaigned and Cynthia told us that there were rallies in Leicester and Blaby station was burned down! It was shocking to hear that women in days gone by had no equality at all with men.

They paid tax but were not represented in parliament. They had no equality in marriage, they could not own property and were not considered worth educating. Many men were illiterate, but still had the vote. Cynthia outlined the fight women put up and the things they endured.

We still have some way to go to gain complete equality with men and we are grateful for the women who went before and who fought so hard, eventually gaining the right to vote.

It is sad to hear that the amount of women voting today has gone down.

Last year’s resolution was to reduce the use of plastic, and at the next meeting Sue Drage will be coming to tell us about re-cycling and show us the things she has made from re-cycled items, so we may gain some inspiration!