The Haslingfield and Harlton Luncheon Club is organising a day course for those who would like to gain this qualification. It will be held at Haslingfield Methodist Church on Saturday 8th November from 10.00am to 4.00pm. The cost is £20.00
If you would like to enrol, or get more information, please email Christine Kipping at grahamkipping@aol.com
A Haslingfield resident with a guide dog has told us about a campaign called Guide Dogs’ Talking Buses. It concerns people with sight loss who need audio visual announcements on buses so they know where they are and what the next stop is. To find out more and sign the petition, please go to www.guidedogs.org.uk/buspetition. Thank you.
Haslingfield Cricket Club has won promotion for the first time in decades. They came second in the Junior League 2 South, with Thriplow 2nd XI topping the table. Haslingfield narrowly missed out on winning the league by half an average point. Click Read More for more details…
Cricket Club
All Saints’ Haslingfield, Sunday 5th October at 10.30amJoint service with the Methodist Church, and all the village. Do bring harvest gifts, traditional or tinned etc. We will send what we can to the local Food Bank.
The service will be followed by a bring and share lunch in the Methodist Church. All are welcome.
An SOS has gone out to find volunteers to be part of the Age UK Cambridgeshire Visiting Scheme; which offers support to people who are lonely & isolated in later life. Age UK has a waiting list of clients in Haslingfield & adjoining areas and it is keen to hear from your readers. For more info. go to READ MORE Read more
Services for October, 2014
Pub Spanish at the Little Rose in Haslingfield starts on Monday 6th October.
Beginners (and false beginners): 7.30-8.30
Post GCSE or equivalent: 8.30-9.30.
£6 per lesson (10% discount of paid termly)
Contact admin@cambridgespanish.com to register (just to give me an idea of numbers). Please feel free to come along and try it out without committing. If you aren’t sure of your level, get in touch and talk it through.
The new owners of the Little Rose pub, Wrenbridge, have published their plans to build two houses on the newly fenced off part of the pub garden. They’ll both be detached, one will have 3 bedrooms and the other will have 5 bedrooms. Access will be via Badcock Road. Wrenbridge will be holding an exhibition of their plans in the Lounge Bar of the pub on Wednesday 8th October from 4pm until 8pm and then again on Saturday 11th October from noon until 4pm. Representatives of Wrenbridge will also be there to answer any questions you may have about their plans. Click “Read More” for more information and to see the plans
Baby Owls exists to give new parents the opportunity to meet each other somewhere very local, have a drink and a biscuit and/or fruit, let the babies play while you chat. The group is brand new – it’s first session was Wednesday 10 September, so it is as yet fairly unformed. It will be whatever you make it, we have no fixed idea for it, it’s up to you.
Methodist Church, 3-4.30, Wednesdays.
Email: Haslingfieldlittleowls@gmail.com
Join our Facebook group, search for Baby Owls
The History and Traditions of Chapel Hill, Haslingfield: The Pilgrimage to Our Lady of White Hill Speaker: Jonathan Spain His talk will look both at the historical evidence for the existence of the chapel or shrine and the role which local historians played in preserving that tradition over 350 years down to the present day, looking at the historical and religious motivations. It is a study in the way in which ‘local’ history and tradition is created and maintained. Haslingfield Village Hall, Tuesday 16th September 2014, 8.00pm. All are welcome.
There will be a public consultation meeting on Monday 22nd September 2014 at 7.30pm in the Methodist Church Hall with a presentation of the proposed new local street lighting scheme by Balfour Beatty. There will be an Open Forum for public participation
EVERYONE IS INVITED
Drawings can be obtained from Balfour Beatty email:enquiries@lightingcambridgeshire.com tel: 0800 7838 247 or by appointment with the Parish Clerk.
IMPORTANT: Please note that Balfour Beatty intend to start the work in the Village from 6th October 2014 and that all comments have to be in to them by 1st October 2014. They apologise for the short notice.
Issued by Frances Laville, Parish Clerk, 11th September.
The next Concert will be on December 6th, 2014 at 7.30pm in All Saints Church, Haslingfield. See Programme below.
The next Messy Church will be on Friday 19th September from 3.30-5.00pm at the Methodist Church.
The theme will be ‘A Fresh Start’.
Creative crafts – Refreshments – Conversation – Fun – All age – Informal Worship – All welcome – Relax – and of course be MESSY. No commitment, no cost. Come and try it.