Siddington's First Parish Plan: a public meeting, Thursday 18th February, 7.30pm in the Village Hall

We hope everyone has received a Summary of the Parish Plan with their February Village News. If so, there is no need to write more about that here except to say that a meeting will be held on Thursday 18th Feb at 7.30 p.m. in the Village hall.  Do please try to come along, hear all about it and maybe offer your support for the next stage – turning the Plan into action. The intention is to set up a ‘Parish Plan Action Group’ to take over from the ‘steering group’ that produced the Plan – and we are keen that it is not seen as a ‘closed shop’. It would be excellent if we could recruit some new faces to give fresh impetus.

We will be sending copies of the full version of the Plan (about 20 pages) to all the groups and organisations in the parish that we know about – and more will be available at the meeting.  If you’d like a personal copy please contact Alison (see below).  See you on the 18th.  In the meantime do please read the Summary document!
Malcolm Moseley (Chairman)  & Alison Wagstaff (Secretary - 655838))
on behalf of the Steering Group. E mail alisonjwagstaff@yahoo.co.uk) 
 

The Village Stores - longer opening hours on a Saturday              
From the beginning of February the shop will be kept open until 7pm on Saturdays.  The Post Office will close as usual at 12:30pm.  Peter and Ann look forward to serving old and new customers.  They offera full range products and services from gas and electricity prepayment to mobile phone top up, photocopying, faxing, dry cleaning, off licence including chilled wines and beers, newspapers and magazines, chilled foods, bread, cakes and milk, greeting cards and general groceries and many other household items.

 

Roaring 40s weekend - 8-9 May 2010                  

On Saturday 8th May 2010, it is the 65th anniversary of VE Day and here in Siddington we are hoping to celebrate this important  anniversary in style.  Over the weekend we hope to be welcoming a number of wartime military vehicles and hold ‘period’ events on the Playing Field. The Air Raid shelter in Cirencester will be open too.   On Saturday evening it is proposed to hold a ‘Roaring 40s’ Dance in the Village Hall where wartime dress, food, music and dancing will be the order of the evening with special guests, Jackie and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen joining us.

On Sunday 9th May, we are proposing to hold a Drumhead Service in the village to mark this significant occasion.  We would like to make this weekend a whole village event so if you would like to be involved, hear more about it, just lend a hand over the weekend, have any suitable props that you could lend or memorabilia you could share, please contact either Denys Young (659486) or Georgie Hayward (658235).  Look out for further details in the News and on the Village Hall and Village News websites