Category: News & Events

Pleased to be able to report that the dog reported as lost is “Dixie”, belonging to Kerry in Hazlecote.  She has been returned…

Found near Binley Farm this afternoon (Thursday) – no tag, very friendly (male) dog.

Call Alice & Sebastian 860811.

Please note that the A4135 will be closed between the A46 Calcot crossroads and Beverston from 22-28 April inclusive for carriageway repairs.  Full details on the attached.

A4135 Carriageway Repairs

Service Calendar for April 2015

The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45 am at Nailsworth, except during the school holidays on Fridays 3 and 10 April.

The Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be on Tuesday 7 April at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall.

All are welcome to attend and contribute. 

     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

Easter at St John the Baptist’s Church Kingscote                      

Preparations for Easter begin on Friday 3 April – Good Friday. In the morning we will put up our Easter Cross in the churchyard. In the afternoon there is an opportunity to recall the last hour of Jesus life on earth in a meditation of words, music and silence at 2.00 pm in the church.

Then on Sunday we will celebrate the joy of Easter Day and Jesus’ new life in a service at 9.30 am. This is for all ages and will include Easter Eggs !

The Vicar’s Letter

Dear Friends,

Easter is here ! Don’t you just love it …. fluffy bunnies, spring lambs and chocolate eggs.

But before we come over all Scrooge-like (yes I know it’s the wrong season for that) there is some merit in these symbols.

The Easter Egg is a tasty way of representing a real egg – looks like a stone, yet contains the potential new life of a chick. Jesus’ lifeless body was laid in a stone tomb having been properly wrapped for burial. There was no doubt in the minds of friends and foe that he was dead. Problem sorted, thought some. Dream over, thought others.

Yet God’s love proved so powerful that even death was not strong enough to overcome it. The one and only thing that humans never conquer was defeated once and for all by God’s love as Jesus was brought back to new life.

The Easter Egg reminds us of the unlikely yet miraculous truth that Jesus was alive again. And that gives ushope for our future after death. So let’s enjoy the eggs.

But what about bunnies and lambs ?   Once again, they are meant to represent new life at this time. If you have ever watched new born lambs or rabbits in a field, they seem to spend most of their time tearing around jumping and enjoying the freedom of the field and the open air.

Maybe we can learn from them to let our hair down at this time and really celebrate the joy and wonder of Easter.

Mike Smith

Flower Rota

Lorna Reynolds

Cleaning Team

The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 13 April. We are always delighted to welcome anyone who would like to join the team.

Teresa Day

Village Hall Programme

Film night – Tuesday 14 April To Kill a Mocking Bird, afilm classic starring Gregory Peck as lawyer Atticus Finch, 7.30 for 8.00 pm. Admission free, pay bar. Last show of this season.

Coffee Morning – Tuesday 21 April, 10.30 to11.30 am, £1-50 for coffee and cake. All most welcome. 

No other events in April due to Easter holidays but two advance notices for May.

Howden Jones concert – Friday 8 May. If you missed them two years ago do come and hear this excellent singer/songwriter duo …. and take your mind off the election result ! Tickets £10.

Coffee Morning and bring and buy Plant Sale – Wednesday 20 May 10.30 to 11.30 am, all welcome £1-50 for coffee and cake.

Carol Paton

Grumbolds Ash Group

On Tuesday 14 April we visit Bristol Zoo Gardens, BS8 3HA. Several routes can be used – M5 to J17 Cribbs Causeway or to J18 Avonmouth, and A46/M4/M32 into the city centre. Admission tickets £14-53/£12-71 before gift aid supplement. We meet as usual at the Village Hall at 10.00 am to share transport.

Jutta Tubbs

Book Club at 8.00 pm

Wednesday 15 April Elephant Moon by John Sweeney, at Nikki Shelton’s.

Wednesday 3 June The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, at Jane’s.

             (We have given more time to this book due to its length)

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 will be at 8.00 pm on Tuesday 14 April at Hunters Hall.

Planning approvals

Bagpath Court Cottage, Erection of 2 story side and 1 storey rear extension, and 2 storey rear extension to    existing dwelling insertion of 2 dormer windows and roof-light to the rear.

Calcot House Kingscote, Erection of garage and part change of equestrian land to domestic curtilage.

No other planning activity has been reported.

The AGM and Parish Assembly are provisionally booked for Tuesday 19 May.

Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244 

Sponsor a London Marathon Runner

Kingscote parishioner Luke Cox lives at Hazlecote and is running in this year’s London Marathon on 26 April. He is currently in his first year at Reading University studying Agriculture, and being only 18 this is the first year he is eligible to run.

He is raising money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, after joining a friend on a family holiday and sharing two weeks on the Algarve with an MS sufferer. Luke previously ran three half marathons in 15 days and raised money for Prostate Cancer research. His training is gong well and he is aiming to cross the finishing line in under four hours.

Luke has a Just Giving page and would greatly appreciate any sponsorship from other Kingscote residents. All donations big or small will be gratefully accepted.

Please go to: www.justgiving.com/londonmarathonlukecox

Karen Cox, Hazlecote Farm

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 3 and 17 April.

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 3 and 17 April.

Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.

Mobile Police Van

The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote on Friday 24 April from 3.15 to 4.15 pm. However after June the Mobile Service will not visit Kingscote due to its deployment over a much wider area in Gloucestershire.

Mobile Library

The next visit will be on Friday 17 April 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 April to H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.

The Editor 

PCC Financial Report

The PCC accounts for 2014 are on display in the church porch for general viewing before the Annual Parochial Church Meeting in the Village Hall at 8.00 pm on Tuesday 7 April 2015. All parishioners are invited to attend.

During the past year 2014 we held a number of very well attended and enjoyable services, the collections from which were donated on behalf of the parish to specific charities. These were as follows:

The Alzheimer’s Society                                     £127

The Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust           £25

The Beresford Centre                                           £73

The Stroud Court Community Trust                     £122

The Royal British Legion                                    £148

Ebola Crisis Relief                                              £226

The Nelson Trust                                               £339

The Children’s Society                                       £155

We are indebted to the band of volunteers who give their time and talent in so many practical ways to keep our church running and in good shape, including of course the churchyard.

We are also most grateful to the people who donate by regular giving by standing order which can be Gift Aided for tax payers. If anybody would like to start contributing in this way, they should contact the treasurer Jane Nichols for details as follows: 

Tel. 01453 860 534, e-mail jane@nicholsfarming.co.uk – or write to Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote , Tetbury, GL8 8YB.

The PCC

Church Weddings in 2015 

At this time there are seven weddings scheduled to take place at Kingscote Church during 2015, all of them in April, May or September. The Village Hall is now booked for every wedding to help with parking and minimise disruption in the village, and wedding couples are advised to use mini-buses or small coaches to ferry guests where necessary.

Jane Nichols

By the Sea

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free;

The holy time is quiet as a nun

Breathless with adoration; the broad sun

Is sinking down in its tranquillity;

The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea:

Listen ! The mighty being is awake,

And doth with his eternal motion make

A sound like thunder – everlastingly.

Dear child ! dear girl ! That walkest with me here,

If thou appear untouch’d by solemn thought

They nature is not therefore less divine:

Thou liest in Abraham’s bosom all the year,

And worship’st at the Temple’s inner shrine,

God being with thee when we know it not.

                                                                                               W. Wordsworth

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. Treas-urer, 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.

From the Clerk to the Parish Council:

Please find attached the Notice of Election for both District and Parish/Town council elections.

I also attach a list of parishes by District Ward to help you identify our new District.

Notice of Election – District

New polling districts with wards Notice of Election – District Notice of Election – Parish and Town

New polling districts with wards

Winston’s Wish is the leading childhood bereavement charity in the UK, helping children and young people rebuild their lives after the death of their mum, dad, brother or sister, and enabling them to face the future with confidence and hope.

Throughout Gloucestershire, Winston’s Wish run a unique bereavement support program called SWITCH. The program is aimed at children aged 8-14 who have suffered a close family bereavement which is having a negative effect on their behaviour. The bereavement may not be recent but may still be having an impact on the child. The SWITCH program offers family work, individual work for children and their carers and group work. We end the program with a celebration day. The aim of SWITCH is to provide children and families with the opportunity to work through their experience with qualified professionals and to help them make sense of their emotions and feelings, meet other people in similar situations and provide them with coping strategy to help them reach their full potential.

We would like to reach as many of these children and families as possible in Gloucestershire. If you or you know a child or family who would benefit from the SWITCH program or would like any further information, please contact Sheila Elliott, Family Program Lead for SWITCH: selliott@winstonswish.org.uk / switch@winstonswish.org.uk / Phone the office on 01242 515157 and ask to speak to myself or a member of the SWITCH team. .

For further information about other services Winston’s Wish can provide for children who have suffered a bereavement, please go to our website www.winstonswish.org.uk

A hutch suitable for up to two guinea pigs or rabbits is available following the recent loss of our own guinea pigs. Ideal for Winter/Summer use. There is also an accompanying run suitable for Summer use, straw for bedding and guinea pig food. All free for collection as a whole.

Please contact Louise on 01453 861027 for further details.

One of our black and white Dutch rabbits escaped on Friday night.  If anyone sees it, please could they contact the Charnley-Heatons on 861179.

Thank you.

Last chance to get a table together for the Bridge Fundraising Evening on Thursday 19th March.  All profits will go to the Village Hall.

When: Thursday 19th March
Time: 7pm start, finishing 10pm
Where: Village Hall
Cost: £10 per person, which includes a delicious cottage pie
Cash Bar
Organiser: Annabella Lucy

Why not make up a table of 4 who you’ll play with all evening – you can even play Canasta if you prefer!  If you want to have a table, or you’re interested but can’t get a whole table together please email Annabella Lucy.