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Social Afternoons for All

Following on from the great success of the Jubilee afternoon tea there will be social afternoons at Thornton Community Centre.

Twice a month on a Wednesday afternoon (2pm to 4pm) until December.

The first two dates will be Wednesday  14^th and Wednesday 28^th September.

Everyone is invited to drop in for a cuppa, cake and chat. 

Board games will be provided and a book swap available, but not compulsory! Just sit and chat if you wish.

There will be toys available for young families.

Meet old friends and make new ones, exchange ideas, learn new skills or just come for the company.

Just pop in and spend some time in happy surroundings.

If this new venture proves successful, we hope to continue in the New Year.

However, to make this initiative successful and ensure it does continue into the New Year – HELP is required.

Help with funding, help making the teas, help baking cakes, help assisting the less able get to the hall, donating games and books, giving talks, forwarding ideas etc.

For more information and/or you would like to offer to help please

Contact: – Shirley on 01530 230422 or email shirley.garlick19@btinternet.com

Please pass this information on to your friends and neighbours.

County Councillor Peter Bedford will be holding an open Surgery scheduled on Saturday 6th August, 10.30am – 12.00pm, at Bagworth Community Centre.

Please come along and raise any concerns you may have or any suggestions on improvements that can be made in the Parish.

Bank Holiday Monday – 29th August 2022

10am – 3pm

Always fancied attending a car boot sale to sell your unwanted items to raise a little extra cash in these difficult times?

But can’t face getting up at the crack of dawn and standing in the middle of a field somewhere; or can’t be bothered with the faff of selling on the internet.

Well now is your chance to sell those items from the comfort of your own home at a much more sociable hour.

Villager Chris Fitches is organising a ‘Yard Sale’ – if you are interested then please contact him as soon as possible so that he can gauge the level of interest to determine whether to go ahead or not.

Contact :- Chris Fitches – Email cf-print@hotmail.com or Mobile :- 07583 812436

The second National Forest Trek will be held over the weekend of the 9th, 10th and 11th September 2022. The first stage of the walk is from Beacon Hill to Thornton and the walkers will be stopping at Thornton Community Centre for refreshments from 11am onwards.

Interested in taking part? Then contact the organisers as below.

In this expected Heat wave

St Peter’s church will be open from around 1 pm until 5  or maybe later if needed on Monday and Tuesday afternoons for folk to enjoy the cool.  This afternoon the church stayed at a steady 20 degrees despite it being 31 degrees outside.

Everyone is welcome, and welcome to bring anything to pass the time, books, games, knitting even comfortable seating! Or just come to explore the church history.

I will be there and will provide drinks – hot and cold, and chocolate biscuits.

There is also an assortment of games in church – chess, scrabble, uno, dominos and packs of cards.

Let’s use this building to bring relief from the heat. 

Shirley, churchwarden.

If you would like to enter you can obtain a form from the Corner shop or print this one off the website.

Completed forms must be returned by Monday 1st August to either Sam Newman, The Corner Shop or the Bricklayers Arms.

For further information :-

Contact Sam on 07525 334535 or Charlotte on 07864 782531

Thornton residents opened their gardens ‘for real’ this year, after two years of Covid lockdowns when only ‘virtual’ open gardens were available; with residents filming their own gardens and forwarding to organiser, Lis Muller, who then edited, set to music and uploaded to YouTube. A great success, but not as good as the real thing. (See the results below).

There were 14 gardens open for visitors for 5 hours, from 1pm to 6pm on Sunday 10th July.

253 people bought programmes (at a cost of £3 per person) and walked round the village on one of the hottest days of the year, taking refreshments at various stopovers, including in the lovely cool of the church and the village hall, where there was a roaring trade in cream teas.

The amount raised was £1144.54 by the Friends of St Peter’s who fund raise for the maintenance, restoration and improvement of our beautiful historic church.

If you wish to donate to this very worthy cause – then please get in touch and we will tell you how.

The event was considered to be a great social event with many locals getting to know one another on walking around the village.  

The organisers would like to thank local firm, the Garden Design Company for supporting their event – http://www.thegardendesignco.co.uk