Month: June 2024

England’s largest festival of history and culture!

Heritage Open Days 2024: 6-15 September

Every September thousands of volunteers across England organise events to celebrate our fantastic history and culture. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore.

As part of Heritage Open Days, St Peter’s Church, Thornton, will be open over the weekend of 14th and 15th September for all to visit.  It’s your chance to explore this lovely Grade 1, historical church for yourselves, and discover its wealth of history.  An Exhibition in the church entitled ‘Historic Thornton’ will provide a fascinating insight into Thornton’s history.

The church will be open between 10 am and 6 pm on Saturday 14th and from 1 pm till 5 pm on Sunday afternoon.  Entry is free.  Refreshments will be available to purchase. 

Any contributions towards the exhibition are welcome.  Please contact churchwarden.thornton@gmail.com and thorntonvillage@aol.com

For details of other Heritage Open Days venues go to http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk

Our next meeting is this Wednesday 3^rd July from 2 until 4 pm at the community centre as usual.

Gemma from the rural hub will be with us to help with  all your questions and for a chat.  She can offer advice on finances, well being,  health, family, schooling anything really, or is happy just to have a good chat.

Hope to see you there.  Let me know if you need a lift.  Do let others know. 

I have lost a lot of email addresses and am having to start again. If you haven’t heard from me for a while, please email me, your address is probably one I lost when the computer crashed!

Thanks.

Shirley G ~  01530 230422

The ‘Helping Hands’ enterprise

Would you like to help with….

Supporting a small group of adults with learning disabilities with their contract gardening enterprise.

You will be responsible for the following:

 Driving a truck and trailer

• Supporting a small group of adults with learning disabilities to safely carry out basic garden and maintenance tasks in a variety of gardens within the community.
• Safely loading the truck with the machinery and tools required (Lawnmower etc)
• Ensuring safety while using all machinery or tools involved.
• Ensuring those involved are carrying out tasks to suit abilities.
• Being a positive representative for WHM within the community.
• Time keeping- to ensure the group sets off on time, carries out work efficiently, breaks are planned, and that the group returns to main site on time.
• Completion of relevant risk assessments and ensuring they are kept up to date.
• Organising the ‘Helping Hands’ diary with future bookings/ cancelations with help from the CECIC enterprise coordinator.
• Organising payments and money handling.

 Requirements

• Driving license, with approved use of trailer attached to vehicle.
• Competent use of gardening machinery and tools- Lawn Mower, Strimmer etc
• First Aid Training
• Health and Safety Training
• Good time keeping, organisation and planning skills.

 

Kind regards,

Catherine Stockdale

Enterprise Coordinator – Countryside Enterprises CIC

 

07591301764

Countryside Enterprises – Work Connections

 

St Peter’s Church Thornton

The bells will be ringing out on Saturday 15th June

Visiting ringers from Market Harborough will be  ringing 10am until 10.45am

RInging wil then take place for 30 minutes at 12.30pm for a wedding at 1.0pm and for further 10 minutes after the wedding ceremony.

Eric (Tower Captain)

The next churchyard working party is this Saturday 8th June 2024 10 am to 12 noon.

If you would like to join us, please do, even if it’s only for a short time.

Jobs include

· Gathering fallen branches and twigs and move to bonfire site.

· Remove moss from church walls, Bishop’s walk etc, especially the area near the water butt.  If you look you will see what needs doing – please leave the Lichen.

· Clear holly, ivy, saplings moss etc from headstones, graves, trees and surrounds.

And anything else you feel needs doing.


Please bring a drink, any tools you might find handy, stout gloves and suitable footwear.

Thanks.

Hope you can join us.

Shirley