Church Survey
During the first few months of 2014 the Parochial Church Council in conjunction with the PCCs of Nailsworth and Horsley will be preparing for the selection and appointment of our new Vicar. There are many complex legal activities involved with the diocese of Gloucester, but it is important that we make clear our wishes and hopes in the matter.
To that end, we are making a quick simple survey of parishioners in order to ensure that as far as possible they are fulfilled. Please could you consider this and let us have feedback by returning this slip to a PCC member, by depositing it in the church, or by e-mailing your reply under the headings A or B to Georgina Harford, PCC secretary georginaharford@hotmail.com or Harry Tubbs, Churchwarden harry.jutta@gmail.com.
The survey is attached here: Quick Church Survey
The Forerunner – Jan 2014
Calendar for January 2014
Wednesday |
1st |
Nailsworth |
10.00 am |
Holy Communion |
Sunday
|
5th |
Nailsworth Kingscote Horsley |
9.30 am 9.30 am 11.00 am |
Family Communion Morning Prayer BCP Holy Communion |
Wednesday |
8th |
Nailsworth |
10.00 am |
Holy Communion |
Sunday
|
12th |
Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley
|
8.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am |
Holy Communion BCP Family Communion Family Service |
Wednesday |
15th |
Nailsworth |
10.00am |
Holy Communion |
Sunday |
19th |
Nailsworth Nailsworth Kingscote Woodchester |
8.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am 6.30 pm |
Holy Communion BCP All-age Family Service Parish Communion CW United Service at The Priory |
Wednesday |
22nd |
Nailsworth |
10.00 am |
Holy Communion |
Sunday |
26th |
Nailsworth Kingscote Horsley |
9.30 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm |
Family Communion Family Service Evening Service |
Wednesday |
29th |
Nailsworth |
10.00 am |
Holy Communion |
The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45 am at St George’s Church Nailsworth when all are welcome. Followed by refreshments in the Parish Rooms.
Next PCC Meeting
Monday 27 January at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall.
Communications
Diocesan News www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/publications
www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/blog
Nailsworth Benefice www.stgeorgesnailsworth.org.uk
Kingscote Community www.kingscoteonline.co.uk
The Curate’s Letter to the Parish
January can be the bleakest time of the year with finances and weather. After the merriment of Christmas with the bright colourful cards and joyful carol singing, it can seem a long time before the next pay cheque and even longer for the first sign of spring. Yet it is also a time of new beginnings with the anticipation that things will get better and look brighter. We start the New Year well and try hard to keep to our resolutions knowing that we will probably not be able to keep to them for long.
As Bishop Michael has reminded us, Christmas is not over after Boxing Day; the season of joy carries on over the twelve days of Christmas which then leads into an Epiphany of four Sundays. Epiphany has its own message set within the arrival of the Magi, or wise men. They had been travelling for some time from the East, to arrive in Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The wise men brought with them the gifts we know so well; those of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The importance and value of the gifts not only implied honour and status to their recipient, but were chosen for their spiritual symbolism. Gold represents the kingship of Jesus, frankincense a symbol of his priestly role, and with the gift of myrrh foreshadowing his death. Myrrh was used to anoint the dead.
The climate may be bleak, but with the start of this New Year we still have much to celebrate and be thankful for as the season of Christmas flows into the festival of Epiphany and God continues to give to us.
Sue Sobczak
Flower Rota
Sundays 12th and 19th JanuarySundays 26th and 2nd February | Carol HatherallJane Bateman |
Weddings: None in January
Lorna Reynolds
Cleaning Team
The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 13 January. We are always delighted to welcome anyone who would like to join the team.
Teresa Day
Grumbolds Ash Group
On Monday 20 January we meet over lunch at 12 noon at 3 The Walled Garden for our 2014 Events Planning meeting. Please let me know that you are coming and bring your ideas.
Jutta Tubbs
Village Hall Programme
Film Night – Tuesday 14 January, ‘Topsy Turvey’, starring Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, set behind the scene at the Mikado in Victorian London. 7.30 for 8.00 pm, admission free, pay bar.
Coffee Morning – Tuesday 21 January, 10.30 to 11.30 am. Coffee and cake £1.50.
Curry Night – Friday 31 January, 7.30 pm, usual delicious selection of curries followed by ice cream and coffee. Adults £8, under 10’s £4, tickets in advance from patonbagpath@btinternet.com
Carol Paton Tel. 860 649
Book Club at 8.00 pm
Wednesday 22 January, to discuss ‘Pure’ by Andrew Miller at Sheila’s
Wednesday 19 February, to discuss ‘Arcanum’ by Janet Gleeson at Angela’s
Wednesday 19 March, to discuss ‘The Fishing Fleet’ by Anne de Courney.
Angela Wooldridge
Kingscote Parish Council
The next PC meeting will be on Tuesday 14 January at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.
Dog fouling continues to be a problem in the parish, and dog owners are asked to keep their pets on leash and remove dog mess in all public areas. The new dog waste bins are now in position opposite the War Memorial and at the kissing gate opposite the Village Hall. Remember, if your dog is loose in a public place, even if you did not see it offend you as the owner are still liable for prosecution.
Planning approvals:
Ashcroft House, Biomass boiler flue.
3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, Insertion of 2 dormer windows to front and insertion of side facing window in second floor west elevation.
Planning applications:
21 Kingscote, Demolition of two existing outbuildings and erection of single outbuilding.
Last chance to give feedback on footpath sign issues. If you know of any sign which needs replacing or repairing, please let me know.
Parishioners are reminded that property break-ins are more common at this time of year, so security and access should be checked.
A Happy New Year from all at Kingscote Parish Council.
Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244
Free-range eggs for sale
Mrs Pat Cooksley of 2 The Windmill normally has some free-range eggs for sale at £1 for six.
Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins
All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Fridays except 11 January.
Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags
All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Saturday 11 and Friday 24 January.
Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill
All current collection points – from 7.30 am, Saturday 11 and Friday 24 January.
Bus Timetable Enquiries – Ring Traveline on 0871 200 2233.
Mobile Police Van
No announcement has been made concerning the visit schedule for 2014.
Mobile Library
The next visit will be on Friday 24 January and the van will park as usual in front of The Walled Garden from 9.30 to 11.30 am.
Magazine
Any material which may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 January to
H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.
The Editor
Obamacare
We are used to reading about problems with new UK government systems for operating the NHS and Social Welfare services. It is interesting to see the views of the influential Canadian news magazine MACLEANS on the problems with Obamacare in their November 2013 issue, extracts from which are copied below.
‘It seems to be a disaster on so many levels that, arguably, it challenges our faith in the ability of American government to tackle large engineering problems. One frets: Could the USA still send people to the moon if it had to ?
The administration’s web-site, intended to be the main conduit for the American uninsured to access newly standardised policies, was supposed to have signed up half a million people by the end of October. But the Wall Street Journal reported on 11 November that only 50,000 had been able to wrestle with it semi-successfully.
The whole idea of Obamacare was to discourage uninsured Americans from staying that way, using the threat of a punitive tax to herd them all into the corral of coverage during a limited ‘open enrolment period’.
From a socialist standpoint it is natural to notice that the introduction of pure single payer medicare is never accompanied by this sort of nightmarish trouble. For their part, anarchists and libertarians are sure that America could hardly do much worse if health care and health insurance were totally deregulated.
The (existing) American health insurance system is an insane mishmash of subsidies and social engineering, all implemented as if superstition demanded it, by means of rent-seeking private companies. Such a ‘System’ cannot help behaving chaotically when it is tweaked even a little bit. That’s the real difference between creating Obamacare and sending astronauts to the moon.’
The Editor
The Word from Wormingford – A Parish Year
(An extract from the delightful book by Ronald Blythe)
Parish magazines can be divisive, having everything to say to those within church culture and making the rest of the community feel out of things. They can still include items and styles which would not be tolerated in any other publication. A part of me is not offended by this as I wander in and out of ancient buildings to look at their treasures and delights, ending up in the back pew to scan the local services, the flower rota (intriguing names), moved by the priest’s revealing monthly letter, and filled with understanding for the little book, having myself written so many of them. Yet the 339th issue of our ‘Newsletter’, as it is called, emphasises what I have always felt, which is that a parish magazine should be intelligent, unapologetically ‘spiritual’ as well as the first place you would look to find out what is going on. It should be good.
Zeal
Extracts from a meditation by Bernard Häring 1912 ~ 1998
(A leading German Roman Catholic theologian who was an
advisor to Pope Paul during the Second Vatican Council)
O faithful heart of Jesus, change us and strengthen us in this time of separation. Help all Christians to join together in strong faith and faithful love, so that the world may believe and find the truth of life, the trust that an infinitely merciful God is concerned with fatherly love for all his creatures. O Lord free the godless from their misery and emptiness.
Beloved Saviour, it is terrible to see that in spite of the alarming signs of the times so many Christians are apathetic and lazy. Awaken us all, fill us with new zeal and enthusiasm, and show us the most effective ways to proclaim faith in you and in the heavenly Father.
The PCC wishes all parishioners a Happy and Successful New Year
Parish Directory
Vicar: Interregnum – awaiting new appointment.
Curate: Reverend Sue Sobczak, Horsley, Tel. 01453 833 526
Reader Sue White, Nailsworth, Tel: 01453 835 693
Churchwardens: Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP, Tel:860194
Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Kingscote, GL8 8XY, Tel:861683
Hon.Sec.PCC: Georgina Harford, Ashcroft House, Kingscote, GL8 8YF, Tel: 01453 860 227
Hon.Treas.PCC: Jane Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote, GL8 8YB, Tel. 01453 860 534
Members of PCC: The Churchwardens, The Hon. Secretary, The Hon. Treasurer, Elin Tattersall, Zoe Nichols, Philip Kendell, Chris Alford
Flower and Clean Team: Teresa Day, Vivienne Ainsworth, Angela Wooldridge, Pauline McTear.
Nailsworth MU: Trissa Jones, Tel: 832 551
Editor of Forerunner: Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP, Tel: 860 194
Gift Aid and Envelopes: Jane Nichols, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote, Tel. 860 534.
Church Flowers Rota: Lorna Reynolds, Tel. 860 231
Organist: Rosemary Sims, 15 Badger’s Way, Forest Green, Nailsworth, GL6 0HE, Tel: 832 446
Sidespersons: Harry Tubbs, Rod Tibbert, Elin Tattersall,
Godfrey Ainsworth.
Electoral Roll: Elin Tattersall, 3 Boxwood Close, Tel.01453 860 182
Mowing Team: Tim Sage, Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy, Godfrey Ainsworth,
Ken Davies.
Village Hall: Bookings: Pauline McTear, Kingscote, Tel. 861 311
Secretary: Carol Paton, Bagpath, Tel. 860 649
Parish Council Chairman: Graham Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote, Tel: 01453 860 534
Parish Council Clerk: Anna Davison, Bagpath Court, GL8 8YG, Tel. 860 244
Village Agent: Aileen Bendall, Tel. 07810 630 156 or 01452 426 868
Printer of Forerunner: Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Tel. 861 683
The Forerunner is published by the P.C.C. who are usually most willing to accept copy from village groups and individuals. However, please note that the opinions and views expressed by the contributors within the Forerunner are not necessarily those of the Church, P.C.C. or Editor
Yoga – Kingscote Village Hall
Vanessa Andersson is proposing to offer her services as a yoga teacher at Kingscote Village Hall.
Kingscote Village Hall Annual Report 2012
Please find attached the annual report for Kingscote Village Hall, as follows:
- Independent Examiners Report 2012
- Village Hall Treasurers Statement
- Report p1 – Front Sheet
- Report p2 – Income & Expenditure
- Report p3 -Trial Balance
- Report p4 – Balance Sheet
Reminder: The Village Hall AGM takes place on Tuesday 14th May at 7pm in the Village Hall; everyone welcome.
Aggressive Salespeople
Note sent to Secretary of Parish Council regarding aggressive salespeople:
Further to the below press release issued on the 18th April we have had further calls today from Cotswold residents complaining of aggressive door sales people and telephone calls about council tax bandings. These people have nothing to do with the CDC whatsoever. Gloucestershire Police and Trading Standards have been made aware.
If anyone has any information regarding these types of callers please can they ring Gloucestershire Police non-emergency number 101 or 999 if it is considered an emergency.
Press Release (18th April 2013)
Cotswold District Council is aware that at least two men have been making phone calls to local residents, advising them that their Council Tax bands may be too high. They offer to work on behalf of the residents for a fee to obtain a reduction. The pattern of calls suggests they could be working their way through the local telephone directory.
CDC Community Safety Officer Tony Dix is concerned about these types of approaches, which have also been noted in other parts of the county and beyond, and is warning residents against any contact with firms offering this so-called service:
“Despite what these callers may suggest, there are very few circumstances in which appeals against Council Tax banding would be successful. However, I must stress that anyone wishing to appeal against their banding can do this themselves very easily by contacting the District Valuation Office on 03000 505 150. It is not a complicated procedure and there is no requirement whatsoever for a third party to intervene.”
He added:
“We are aware that some private companies have been claiming that the Valuation Office makes a charge for a reassessment, but this is untrue. Some companies have also been saying that you need an agent to act on your behalf and this is also untrue. We’ve also heard that several firms charge an up-front fee and then do nothing, putting the blame on the Valuation Office for not taking any action. Most worryingly, some are just using the promise of reduced council tax as a means of gathering someone’s personal financial details. We would advise residents against doing business with these people.”
Kindest Regards
Tony Dix
Community Safety Officer
Cotswold District Council
Tel: 01285 623611
Email tony.dix@cotswold.gov.uk
Hate Crime – Report It 0800 077 8460
Crimestoppers 0800 555 111
Polling Notice
See attached polling notice here.
Book Club
Monday 13 May ‘The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared’ by Jonas Jonassen at Teresa’s.
Monday 24 June ‘The Garden of Evening Mists’ by Tan Twang Eng. Angela Wooldridge
Pilates Classes
Pilates Classes with Ruth Carnaby
Every Wednesday
7.15pm
Venue: Village Hall
Payment in advance for a 7 week term at £9 per class; contact Pauline McTear for further information.
Aerobics Classes
Aerobics classes with Ruth Carnaby
Every Wednesday
11.00am
Venue: Village Hall
Classes cost £6; payment in advance for 7 weeks please.
Please contact Carol Paton on 860649 if you would like to join.