Dear All,
Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on FRIDAY 21ST AUGUST 2015 at 10.00pm for approximately 8/10 mins and will be run by Coates Fireworks.
Kindest Regards,
Claire
Claire Shea
Kingscote Barn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8YE
01453 861161
The Forerunner – August 2015
Service Calendar for August 2015
| Sunday | 2nd | Nailsworth
Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley |
8.00 am
9.30 am 11.00 am 11.00 am |
Holy Communion BCP
Morning Prayer BCP All-age service Holy Communion |
| Wednesday | 5th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 9th | Kingscote
Nailsworth Horsley |
9.30 am
11.00 am 11.00 am |
Holy Communion BCP
Holy Communion Family Service |
| Wednesday | 12th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 16th | Kingscote
Nailsworth Nailsworth
Horsley
|
9.30 am
11.00 am 6.00 pm
11.00 am |
Family Service and Baptism
Family Communion ‘One Voice’ service at Christ Church on Newmarket Road Family Communion & Baptism |
| Wednesday | 19th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 23rd | Kingscote
Nailsworth Horsley Horsley |
9.30 am
11.00 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm |
Holy Communion CW
Holy Communion Messy Church Evensong BCP |
| Wednesday | 26th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 30th | Kingscote | 11.00 am | Benefice service followed by shared Picnic Lunch* |
* By kind invitation of Godfrey and Vivienne Ainsworth this will be held, weather permitting, in the garden at Kingscote House. In addition to your picnic, please bring available tables, chairs, rugs, gazebos etc. Some wine, tea, coffee and soft drinks will be available.
The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall on Tuesday 8 Sept.
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 Vicar’s Letter
Dear Friends,
As it is now holiday time for many people I am also taking a holiday from writing as there is some good news for us in our diocese about the arrival of our new Bishop.
For me it is exciting as we welcome to Gloucester the very first female Diocesan Bishop. Bishop Rachel is young and outgoing and should give us the kind of lead that we need as we seek to reach out in new ways into our communities. The Dean of Gloucester has sent round the letter below, which I now share with you.
The Dean of Gloucester Cathedral writes:
It is my pleasure to announce that Rachel Treweek will formally begin her new role as the Bishop of Gloucester on Saturday 19 September. We are expecting over 1,000 people to attend a special event in Gloucester Cathedral to mark this occasion which will begin at 4.30 pm.
Rachel will be consecrated as the 41st Bishop of Gloucester at Canterbury Cathedral on 22 July, but the service on 19 September will mark the formal start of Rachel’s ministry in the Diocese of Gloucester.
Invitations to attend the service will be sent across the diocese and beyond.
With every blessing,
Mike Smith
The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group will meet again in September.
Flower Rota
| 2nd August
9th and 16th August 23rd and 30th August 6th and 13th September |
Tracey Pool
Lorna Reynolds Carol Paton Jenny Tibbert |
No Weddings in August.
Lorna Reynolds
Cleaning Team
The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 10 August.
Anyone interested and prepared to spare an hour in the afternoon on the second Monday of the month, occasionally or regularly, please contact me on Tel. 860 367.
Teresa Day
Village Hall Programme
There will be no events in the Village Hall until September but the hall facilities, including two table tennis tables and a pool table, are available if anyone wants to arrange an event during the school holidays. Please contact Pauline McTear on Tel. 861 311 for details.
Carol Paton
Grumbolds Ash Group
On Tuesday 11 August Angela Wooldridge has kindly invited us to an afternoon tea party at her home from 3.00 pm, for which we are most grateful.
It would be helpful if you informed Angela on Tel. 860 697 of your intention to take part, particularly if you would like to contribute some food.
Jutta Tubbs
Book Club at 8.00 pm
- Wednesday 5 August Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey and/or The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins at Teresa’s
- September meeting to be announced later
New members always very welcome.
Angela Wooldridge
Free-range eggs for sale
Mrs Pat Cooksley of 2 The Windmill normally has some free-range eggs for sale at £1 for six. Best call afternoons.
Kingscote Parish Council
The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on Tuesday 13 October at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.
Planning Applications
- St Bartholemew’s Church, Newington Bagpath, amended works to listed building.
- Preliminary notice of possible future application to develop a solar farm at Woodleaze, Kingscote.
Planning Appeal
Anearobic Digester at Chavenage (Stroud District), Kingscote PC has joined with other neighbouringcommunities to produce a joint submission objecting to the scheme. More information is available on the Kingscote website.
Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244
Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays.
Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 7 and 21 August.
Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 7 and 21 August.
Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.
Mobile Library
The next visit will be on Friday 7 August when the van will park as usual in front of The Walled Garden from 9.30 to 11.30 am.
Magazine
Any materialwhich may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 August to H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.
The Editor
Commercial Kingscote
The following US website www.houseofnames.com/kingscote-family-crest appears to offer a range of Kingscote branded goods such as coffee mugs and ceramic tiles carrying the Kingscote Coat of Arms.
The Editor has not used the website and can give no recommendation at all as to its integrity, but some residents might be interested in investigating it further.
The fall of English agriculture in the late Victorian era
An extract from the book ‘English Social History’
By G M Trevelyan
From 1875 onwards the catastrophe set in. A series of bad seasons aggravated its initial stages, but the cause was the development of the American prairies as grain lands within reach of the English market. The new agricultural machinery enabled the farmers of the Middle-West to skim the cream off virgin soils of unlimited expanse; the new railway system carried the produce to the ports; the new steamers bore it across the Atlantic. English agriculture was more scientific and more highly capitalised than American, but under the conditions the odds were too great. Mass production of crops by a simpler and cheaper process undercut the elaborate and expensive methods of farming which had been built up on well-managed English estates during the previous two hundred years.
The overthrow of the British landed aristocracy by the far distant democracy of American farmers was one outcome of this change of economic circumstance. An even more important consequence has been the general divorce of Englishmen from life in contact with nature, which in all previous ages had helped to form the mind and the imagination of the island race.
The other states of Europe, which still had peasantry and valued them as a stabilizing element in the social fabric, warded off the influx of American food by tariffs. But in England no such policy was adopted or even seriously considered. The belief in Free Trade as the secret of our vast prosperity, the unwillingness to interfere with the world-commerce on which our power and wealth seemed to stand secure, the predominance of the towns over the country in numbers and still more in intellectual and political leadership, the memories of the ‘hungry forties’ when the Corn Laws had made bread dear for the poor – all these circumstances prevented any effort to save the rural way of life.
Least of all did the Victorians see any need to grow food in the island to provide the necessities of future wars. After two generations of safety won at Waterloo, real national danger seemed to have passed away forever.
A WISH
Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive’s hum shall sooth my ear;
A willowy brook that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near.
The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch
Shall twitter from her clay-built nest;
Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch,
And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Around my ivied porch shall spring
Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew;
And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing
In russet-gown and apron blue.
The village-church among the trees,
Where first our marriage-vows were given,
With merry peals shall swell the breeze
And point with taper spire to Heaven.
S Rogers
It’s war on Centre Court, but tennis teaches us to love
(Taken from an article by the Rev Dr Lincoln Harvey published in The Times on 4 July)
The church is best placed to explain why the unnecessary but meaningful nature of tennis makes it so popular. That’s because the church teaches that we are (unnecessary) too. God created our world out of nothing, and – because there is only one God – Christians believe that his act of creation was completely unnecessary. It’s not as if there was a bigger God in the background, cracking the whip, forcing God to create a world which would meet their stringent demands.
Nor was the one God in anyway deficient, with some intrinsic need forcing him to act. Instead, the church proclaims that God is eternally complete in himself, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, perfectly fulfilled. Therefore, when this God creates, it is a completely unnecessary act. God created us freely. The church believes that God created the world in order to share the life of the Trinity, which is to say the meaning of creation is love.
With all this in mind, a simple equation presents itself. Creation is fundamentally unnecessary but deeply meaningful in character, and so are sporting events.Therefore when we are sitting down to watch tennis, we are witnessing an event that is itself unnecessary yet meaningful and therefore expresses something of our deepest identity as unnecessary-but-meaningful creatures. The tennis effectively provides an arena in which our fundamental nature can be celebrated,giving us chance to resonate with our core identity as creatures who are created freely for love.
Of course, this way of seeing things raises as many questions as it answers. However, it helps us to see that it is good that Wimbledon punctuates the seriousness of our working life, reminding us that we are playful creatures, unnecessarily but endlessly loved into existence by the one true God. That’s what is really going on amid the strawberries and cream of SW19. We are celebrating who we are.
The Editor
A General Thanksgiving
(From the Book of Common Prayer)
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all men;
We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we shew forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives;
By giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end.
Parish Directory
Vicar: Reverend Mike Smith, Nailsworth, Tel. 07840 260 182
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: 860 194
Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Kingscote, GL8 8XY Tel: 861 683
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, 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, Jane Nichols.
Electoral Roll: Elin Tattersall, 3 Boxwood Close, Tel.01453 860 182
Mowing Team: Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy, Godfrey Ainsworth, Ken Davies,
Brian McTear, John Moore, Tony Wooldridge.
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.
Planning Appeal ref APP/C1625/W/15/3032550
Please find attached documents relating to the Planning Appeal above.
Appendix A Response to Statement of Case
Car Radio Found
A car radio has been found on the road between Hazlecote and Tipputs. It’s an RM Audio Radio which has wires hanging from it (so possibly it has been stolen).
Contact Blake on 832354 for more information.
The Forerunner – July 2015
Service Calendar for July 2015
| Wednesday | 1st | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 5th | KingscoteNailsworth
Nailsworth Horsley |
9.30 am 8.00 am
11.00 am 11.00 am |
Morning PrayerHoly Communion BCP
All-age service Holy Communion & Baptism |
| Wednesday | 8th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 12th | KingscoteNailsworth
Nailsworth
Horsley |
9.30 am11.00 am
3.30 pm 11.00 am |
Holy Communion BCPHoly Communion
‘Messy Church’ at Nailsworth School
Family Service |
| Wednesday | 15th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 19th | KingscoteNailsworth
Horsley
|
9.30 am11.00 am
11.00 am |
Family Service and BaptismFamily Communion
Family Communion & Baptism |
| Wednesday | 22nd | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 26th | KingscoteNailsworth
Horsley Nalsworth |
9.30 am11.00 am
6.00 pm 6.00 pm |
Holy Communion CWHoly Communion
Evensong BCP ‘One Voice’ worship service at Christ Church |
| Wednesday | 29th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45am at Nailsworth. Refreshments served afterwards in the Parish Room.
The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall on Tuesday 8 Sept.
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 Vicar’s Letter
Dear Friends,
So – summer is finally here ! School term ends, holidays are planned – all is good …
Except for some, this is not the time of ease and relaxation it might be.
Some will have an anxious wait for the results of their efforts during the exam periods – wondering whether they will get back into the 6th form or make it to their college or university of choice.
Others, bringing up families on their own, will be trying to juggle work and family life and the extra stress that can place on everyone.
And the whole idea of a ‘holiday’ may be a million miles away from the minds of many as they simply cannot afford to spend the money it costs these days, especially during the peak school holiday periods.
However, the word ‘holiday’ did not originally mean a week in the sun on the beach. It is derived from ‘holy day’. It was a day set apart from the usual bustle of life to recharge the batteries and renew our relationship with God. And I guess that we all need to take time out from the busyness of our lives.
There is a great verse from one of my favourite hymns that sums up my hopes and prayers for everyone over this summer period – that you will find time to stop and recharge your batteries:
‘Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease.
Take from our souls the strain and stress
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of they peace.’
May God give you His peace however and wherever you spend the summer this year.
With every blessing,
Mike Smith
Flower Rota
| 5th July12th and 19th July
26th July and 2nd August |
Jane Nichols Carol Burness
Tracey Pool |
No Weddings in July.
Lorna Reynolds
Cleaning Team
The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 13 July.
Anyone interested and prepared to spare an hour in the afternoon on the second Monday of the month, occasionally or regularly, please contact me on 860 367.
Teresa Day
Village Hall Programme
Coffee Morning – Wednesday 15 July 10.30 to 11.30 am in the Reynolds Room, all welcome £1-50 for coffee and cake.
There will be no other events in the Village Hall until September but the hall facilities, including two table tennis tables and a pool table, are available if anyone wants to arrange an event during the school holidays. Please contact Pauiline McTear on Tel. 861 311 for details.
Carol Paton
Grumbolds Ash Group
On Tuesday 14 July we plan to take a ride on a horse- drawn barge on the Tiverton canal, North Devon. The barge trip costs £12-35, departing at 2.15 pm and returning after 2 1/2 hrs. If you would like to take part let me know by Monday 6 July.
We meet at the Village Hall at 10.00 am to share transport and drive to lunch – Tiverton Canal Co: EX16 4HX.
Jutta Tubbs
Book Club at 8.00 pm
Wednesday 1 July The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion, at Angela’s.
Wednesday 5 August Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey and/or The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins at Teresa’s. New members always very welcome.
Angela Wooldridge
Free-range eggs for sale
Mrs Pat Cooksley of 2 The Windmill normally has some free-range eggs for sale at £1 for six. Best call afternoons.
Kingscote Parish Council
The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on Tuesday 14 July at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.
Plannng approvals
Calcot Manor, conversion of ‘cowshed’ building from existing staff residential & office accommodation to hotel guest suites.
Matara, Kingscote Park, replacement of existing signs and illumination.
Planning Applications
St Bartholemew’s Church, Newington Bagpath, amended works to listed building.
Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244
Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays.
Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 10 and 24 July.
Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 10 and 24 July.
Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.
Mobile Library
The next visit will be on Friday 10 July when the van will park as usual in front of The Walled Garden from 9.30 to 11.30 am.
Magazine
Any materialwhich may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 July to H. Tubbs,
3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.
The Editor
From The Bard of Bagpath
Fascinated
Rosemary went down to Buckingham Palace,
With her went Carole instead of Alice.
They gave her a mirror and a chair,
So that she could fascinate her hair.
They took the train and returned to Stroud.
‘Broomy’ her mother would indeed have been proud.
John Giddings
The above ditty was composed by John for our tea party gathering on Saturday 30 May, held to celebrate Rosemary’s visit to Buckingham Palace and to debrief social and fashion aspects of the event. We had an excellent turnout, great fun and delicious cakes.
The Editor
A Cotswold Village or
Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire
(An extract from the book by J Arthur Gibbs, 1898)
The Parson
This reminds me that at the age of twenty-four I accepted the office of churchwarden of a certain country parish. I do not recommend any of my readers to become churchwardens. You become a sort of acting aide-de-camp to the parson, liable to be called out on duty at a moment’s notice. No, a young man might with some advantage to others and credit to himself take upon himself the office of Parish Councillor, Poor Law Guardian, Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, High Sheriff, or even Public Hangman; but save, oh, save us from being churchwardens ! To be obliged to attend those terrible institutions called ‘vestry meetings’ and to receive each year an examination paper from the archdeacon of the diocese propounding such questions as, ‘Do attend church regularly ? If not, why not ?’ is the natural destiny of the churchwarden, and is more than human nature can stand: in short, my advice to those thinking of becoming churchwardens is, ‘Don’t with a very big D’.
Since this book was written in 1898 thousands of happy and fulfilled individuals have served the church as Churchwardens and other PCC officers. The Editor.
You never know who you may meet in the Churchyard
One afternoon early in May as I was leaving the church, I met a group of Australian tourists coming in to see the inside of the building. In conversation, they mentioned that they were from Adelaide and I told them that my father had been out there in the 1920’s building a pumping station on the River Murray at Cobdogla. To my amazement one of them said that he had seen in the local newspaper recently an appeal for funds to do a restoration programme on the pumps.
I had always assumed that they had been long since scrapped, but in fact they were still running in 1965. They are now owned by the Australian National Trust and the site is the Cobdogla Steam and Irrigation Museum. Even more amazing is that just in January this year I sent all of his files, drawings and photographs to Emma Wong Yang at the Beardmore Archive at Glasgow University. It really is a small world.
Harry Tubbs
Old and young must partner God to care for Earth
(Extracts from an article by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg in The Times on 20 June 2015)
Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si (Praise be to You) marks a critical moment in the history of life itself. It is rare that anyone has the wisdom and courage to propose to a massive audience a comprehensive agenda for humanity, at once spiritual, moral, social, economic and environmental. It is done with love, knowledge and humility. Whatever our faith or philosophy, we owe the Pope our gratitude.
We also owe a duty to respond, because the letter calls for everybody’s participation and no less is at stake than the survival of life on Earth. Pope Francis’ understanding of the world is profoundly rooted in the Hebrew Bible. “The Earth is the Lord’s”. The human task is to “work and protect” the Earth and all life on it.
Equally biblical is the outspoken coupling of social with economic justice, the insistence that we must “hear both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor”. Whatever grows must be shared between poor and rich, citizen and refugee, domestic and wild animals.
The force and authority of the encyclical is inspired by that deep love of nature as the expression of God’s sacred oneness, known to mystics of all faiths. It is equally animated by an unremitting commitment to knowledge. Science is not regarded as hostile but rather as the essential partner of religion in seeking to comprehend and cherish God’s world: to love God is to study God’s works.
Laudato Si sets the results of such scrutiny before us with unsparing comprehensive frankness, including the state of oceans, forests and farms; cities, buildings and transport; and above all the fate of the poor, the first to pay the price of our spiritual and moral disorientation. The rabbis put into God’s mouth the blunt demand: “Do not destroy my world, because there is no-one to repair it after you”. The Pope’s plea for “intergenerational solidarity” may be his most powerful, painful appeal.
Texts selected by the Editor
Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo
(From the 1928 Book of Common Prayer)
O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands:
Serve the Lord with gladness,
And come before his presence with a song.
Be ye sure that the Lord he is God;
It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves;
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving,
And into his courts with praise;
Be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name.
For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting;
And his truth endureth from generation to generation.
Parish Directory
Vicar: Reverend Mike Smith, Nailsworth, Tel. 07840 260 182
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: 860 194
Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Kingscote, GL8 8XY Tel: 861 683
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, Chris Alford.
Flower and Clean Team: Teresa Day, Vivienne Ainsworth, Angela Wooldridge, Pauline McTear, Annabella Lucy
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, Jane Nichols.
Electoral Roll: Elin Tattersall, 3 Boxwood Close, Tel.01453 860 182
Mowing Team: Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy, Godfrey Ainsworth, Ken Davies, Brian McTear, John Moore, Tony Wooldridge.
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.
Voneus Satellite Broadband Feedback Meeting – Tues 30th June
Voneus will be back in the Village Hall on Tuesday 30th June at 7pm to update you on the trial. We want to answer your questions and hear about any issues you may have had. Please come along and feed back to us on the trial.
We want to ensure you get a good uninterrupted service on this trial and to help us to provide that your feedback is essential. If you cannot make this meeting please email your comments to: alan.seldon@Voneus.com
We look forward to seeing you.
Fireworks at Kingscote Barn
Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on SATURDAY 4TH JULY 2015 at 10.00pm for approximately 8/10 mins and will be run by Coates Fireworks.
Kind Regards,
Katherine
Katherine Levitt
Kingscote Barn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8YE
01453 861161
BBQ at the Village Hall – Friday 19th June
Come for bangers, burgers and a bun followed by strawberries and cream ….and dance if you feel like it!
7pm-11pm
The weather WILL be good by then and it’ll only cost you £8 for an adult £4 for children under ten…..or £20 if you bring the whole family. Get into summer before it’s too late and let Carol know if you’ll be joining us.
Road Closure – A4135 A46 to Beverston
A4135 A46 to Beverston
This road will be closed (as per the attached) for 1 or 2 days between 1st July and 31st August 2015 for to allow for essential carriageway surface dressing by Amey working on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council
If you require any further information regarding this closure please contact the office on 08000 514514.
Charleston Fitness Classes in Nailsworth
Anyone interested in keeping fit through dancing? Join Nicky at her classes in the Sawyer Hall, Nailsworth on Mondays; £5 per class. See below for full details.
