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Wednesday 23^rd August and 13^th and 27^th September – 2pm to 4 pm

Join us at Thornton Community Centre for a cuppa, cake, and time to chat.  Everyone is welcome, including well behaved dogs on leads.

Drop in to 3Ts at any time, even if it’s only for a short while for a good chat, laughter and warmth.  You will be very welcome.

Jigsaws, and board games, books, and the jigsaw ‘library’, and a small play area for young families will be available most Wednesdays. 

If you feel even a tiny bit energetic, join in with a game of table tennis – we are all amateurs!!

Thornton Tea with a Twist takes place on the 2^nd and 4^th Wednesdays of every month.

A big thank you to LRCF who have given us a grant to help us through the following years.

If you would like to help with these Wednesdays, even for just the odd one, please do let me know.

Organised by the village for the villagers.

For more information contact me, Shirley, on 01530 230 422 or email shirley.garlick19@btinternet.com

Look forward to seeing you.

St Peter’s Church, Thornton will be open to visitors during the weekend of 9th and 10th September. 

Come and explore our lovely Grade 1, historical church for yourselves.

There is no charge. Refreshments will be available to purchase.

The church will be open as follows:

Saturday – from  10 am to 5pm

Sunday – from 1 pm to 5 pm.

Shirley Garlick (church warden)

https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/printable-area-lists/laa/Leicester

https://www.visitleicester.info/whats-on/heritage-open-days-p722141

Click to access Heritage%20Open%20Days%202023.pdf

Ride and Stride raises money through sponsorship for your chosen church and Leicester and Leicestershire’s Historic Churches Preservation Trust.

You may walk, ride or drive to some of the 400 churches and chapels open on 9th September, St Peter’s church, Thornton is one of them.

Ride+Stride is the foremost annual event enabling you to raise funds for repairs and improvements to historic churches, chapels and meeting houses throughout Leicester and Leicestershire

Over £1,207,459 has been raised in Leicestershire since our first Ride+Stride in 1990. Despite Covid, the event raised £107,700 in 2020-2022.  This is an amazing total considering the difficult circumstances, and a fantastic tribute to everyone who took part – a long list that includes area and local organisers; cyclists, tandems and mobility scooters, walkers and horse-riders; welcomers and those who open our churches on the day; and especially everyone who sponsored an individual participant or donated via the Trust’s JustGiving page. 

https://www.lhct.org.uk/ride-and-stride/

Contact Shirley for sponsorship forms, a list of churches taking part and more information on 01530 230422

If you enjoy walking, why not join us on Saturday, 16th September on a Parish walk of about 8 miles and a few stiles through beautiful countryside visiting some of our local churches: St Michael’s in Markfield, St Mary’s in Stanton, the Quiet Garden at the site of Holy Rood, Bagworth, Cross Hills Baptist Church and St Peter’s in Thornton.

The walk starts at the Lych-gate at St Peter’s Church in Thornton (LE67 1AA) and heads to Markfield following the Leicestershire Round through Brown’s Wood.  From here our path takes us to Stanton, and then onto Bagworth, and finally back to Thornton through the new woodlands.

We will leave Thornton at 11 am.  You will need to bring drinks and a packed lunch.  Footwear suitable for walking is necessary.

If you would like more information or you would like to take part, please contact William & Shirley on 01530 230422.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thornton Community Centre with live music from local band Sixties Sounds.

All profits will be donated to the Centre to help fund all the improvements still in the pipeline.

They include; constructing a large decked area to the rear of the Main Hall off the patio doors, extending the car park to add a further 27 spaces, fitting 2 new toilets in the existing Sports hall kitchen and moving the kitchen into the storeroom, replacing the sound proofing panels in the Sports hall, resurfacing the car park, landscaping the driveway.

Work already completed in the past 6 months includes; decorating – glossed and emulsioned throughout, new LED lighting fitted in both halls, roof repairs, £16,000 on a new drainage system from the hall to Main Street, new toilets and washbasins in the Main hall, and last week new white doors fitted throughout the Centre to replace the old brown varnished doors, Main hall floor re varnished. The hall is looking good – an ideal location for parties, weddings, business meetings.

We need your support to make the centre fit for the next 50 years.

See poster for more information or email gilltevents@aol.com

A few tickets are still available – £10 per person.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Rebecca Heath (landlady of the Bricklayers Arms, Thornton), will be shaving her hair off in honour of two very brave and important women with whom she has shared her life, to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.

“One who’s battle was lost, Olive Quince, the most important woman in her life whom she loved with every fibre of her heart and soul and miss more and more every day, she was stolen from this earth far too early, sleep tight & fly high angel.”

“And one who is currently kicking cancer in it’s butt, Emma Burrows. You’ve got this Mrs B, we’ve shared so many moments from belly laughing to kicking each other into gear, I will now go bald with you along your journey as I can’t find any words to show you how much I admire your courage and bravery through this life changing time you face”.

The Bricklayers Arms will be hosting a huge fun day on the day of Rebecca’s shave, Saturday August 26th 2023, a day to not only raise awareness and fingers crossed, some much needed fund-raising, but a day for families to spend quality time together, to laugh, enjoy each other and make memories.

Life is too short, lets enjoy and embrace every moment – Rebecca Heath

Rebecca has already reached 76% of her £300 target (£230) please help her reach her target and more by donating to this very worthy cause by clicking on the link below….

https://bravetheshave.macmillan.org.uk/Shavers/rebecca-heath1/

Thornton Tea with a Twist will be held in the cafe at Thornton Nurseries on Wednesday 9th August 2023 at the usual time of 2pm.

This is whilst major repairs and refurbishments are carried out at the Community Centre (laying new drains).

We have a published author in our midst.

At a recent gathering of the Thornton Ladies luncheon group at the Bricklayers Arms it came out in casual conversation that a member of the group is a published author, writing under the pseudonym of Catherine Cliffe.

Four books have been published and are available on Amazon with more on the way.

For more information check out her website – https://catherinecliffeauthor.co.uk/#books

Do you know who the mystery author is?

The ‘Ladies who lunch’ will have to take care what they say or they could find themselves subject of the next plot!

Major works will be taking place at the Centre for up to 2 weeks from Monday 31st July 2023.

Due to collapsed drains from the centre to the main road there will be no access to the Parish Council recreation area and reservoir via the centre driveway which is being dug up for a new drainage system to be laid.

Originally this work was planned for the Easter holidays but the contractors were unable to commit to this date and cancelled at the last minute,

The work will be carried out by SPS Groundworks & Building Ltd (0116 3678233) under the supervision of architect David Beaumont.

The entrance to the driveway from Main Street, the car park, and the alleyway at the side of the Sports Hall will be fenced off, so there will be no vehicular or pedestrian access to the recreation area between the centre and the reservoir.

To access this area on foot pedestrians will have to take the path along side the school.

It is anticipated that this work may take up to two weeks, but hopefully less.

During this time the refurbishment of the Main hall toilets will be completed and new modern white doors fitted throughout the centre.