Wereham News August 2012

August 2012

BINGO every Wednesday evening at the Village Hall, starts 7.30 pm. Cash prizes.

KARAOKE at the George and Dragon

Friday 24th August starts 8.00 pm. .

VILLAGE ‘FIT CAMP’

The Village ‘Fit Camp’ is held in the Village Hall on Monday and Friday evenings from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. The sessions are motivational, fun and designed to help weight loss, toning, general health and fitness.

Booking is essential as there is limited space. The cost is £5.00 per session or block book 6 weeks for £24.00.

Contact Shaun on 07878770230 or 01366 501130

HOT POT SUPPER

Wednesday 22nd August 2012 - Tickets from £8.00 each. Contact Mrs. Everitt 01366 500761. In aid of the restoration of the East Window, St Mary’s Church, Stradsett.

CAR BOOT SALE

to be held 23rd September - on the playing field and in the Village Hall. £5.00 per pitch. Some tables will be available for use if you cannot bring one! There will be Fish and Chips, Ice Cream Van, a Bouncy Castle, Dog Show and we are hoping to arrange Pony Rides, and much more. Further details in next month’s issue…

Doreen 01366 500218

Janet 01366 500732

WEREHAM VILLAGE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Thanks to everyone for attending the village youth club on Monday's 4-5, It's been a great success with the children. We are closed over the summer holidays, but will re-open on MONDAY17TH SEPTEMBER at 4.00 pm. As usual we would like to ask for any kind donations of Games, tea/coffee etc - or even just great ideas that you might have that we can include in the club. To all the children and parents in the village, have a great Summer Holiday -and enjoy the break. Jacqueline and Nicki.

VILLAGE YARD SALE A big thank-you to everyone who took part in the first Wereham Village Yard Sale on Sunday 8th July. It was a fantastic success, and we raised some extra much needed money for the Village Hall. To all who opened their Yards and to the people who just walked around, it could not have been possible without you - even the rain held off for the four hours. Lets do it all again next year and see if we can beat our Yard numbers. With thanks Jacqueline and Nicki.

**BARN DANCE

**To end the Summer Holidays, a Barn Dance in the Village Hall has been organised for Saturday 1st SEPTEMBER- starting at 7.30pm. We have fantastic live music by Fiddle and Squeeze and Barbara doing the dance calling. NO EXCUSE - get those dancing shoes on, cowboy hats at the ready and lets have a twirl around the Hall, Hay-bales also included!! Food will be provided in the interval. Its a good old knees up and only costing £6.OO a ticket and under 16's £3.00. Tickets will sell fast so please contact JACQUELINE 500880 OR NICKI 500527. WEREHAM ON FACEBOOK

To find out what’s going on in the village and look at local and event pictures log into Facebook we are Wereham Village Group.

FIRST AID

Calling all parents/carers who would like to learn First Aid that is accessible and affordable covering the following -

* Resuscitation

* Choking

* Unconsciousness

* Bleeding

* Burns and Scalds

* Common illnesses

The course is a 2 hour session @ £15, conducted by Simon Hale, a registered Paramedic.

You will gain valuable knowledge, life saving skills, first aid book and a certificate of attendance.

Subject to sufficient numbers, this course will run in September.

If you are interested, please contact Angela on 500115 or Victoria 501277.

WEREHAM TOTS (Fridays 10.00 to 12.00) -

We celebrated birthdays with Freddie, Rose and Nancy during June.

All the children are busy painting and decorating for an exhibit in the Church Festival on the 22nd July - we hope you'll enjoy their efforts!

We had a surprise visit from our local MP Elizabeth Truss, who discussed our re-build appeal and we got our picture into the Lynn News. See further details and picture in Wereham Village News (Facebook page).

Although Tot's will continue to open during the school holidays, we ask that parents with children of school age, please respect the safety of the 'little ones' by not bringing older siblings during the holidays.

Thank you from all of us at Tots

MP visits Wereham village’s hall appeal

Pictured are from left to right - Elizabeth Truss MP for South West Norfolk, Angela Godden Parent and Toddler Group organiser and Sandra Pickwell Village Hall Committee Chair, with some of the toddlers and parents behind.

Published on Tuesday 26 June 2012 10:00

A CAMPAIGN to raise more than £200,000 to rebuild a West Norfolk village’s hall has been boosted by a visit from the area’s MP.

South West Norfolk MP Elizabeth Truss visited the Wereham village hall to discuss the appeal by residents and community groups to redevelop the site.

Officials say the hall, which dates back to World War One, urgently needs rebuilding work.

The Wereham village hall committee is spearheading a campaign to raise the £220,000 needed to complete the project.

They are staging fundraising events and applying for grants to meet the cost of the work.

The village also has a Facebook page where residents and supporters can keep up to date with the campaign’s progress and forthcoming events.

Log on to www.facebook.com/groups/142161115907583/ for more details.

WEREHAM OPEN GARDENS

In the middle of this soggy, sorry Summer, how great it is to report on the success of Wereham Open Gardens. We celebrated our 10thOpen Gardens with 11 gardens open and raised the magnificent sum of £1085.00 after expenses, our highest total yet.

Once again, thank you to all the garden owners for your hard work and the warm welcome that you gave to the record number of visitors - and this despite the most unpromising weather in the preceding days. Interest and variety was increased by welcoming 3 new open gardens this year and two of these were ’family gardens’ which were enjoyed by our younger visitors.

Thank you Sarah and Angela for selling maps, raffle tickets and welcoming the visitors.

Lunches and Teas were busy throughout the day. Thank you for all the super cakes that were made so willingly - we had a great choice to offer both at lunch and afternoon teas and all the catering received compliments from our visitors. Many thanks also to those who worked so hard preparing and serving the lunches and teas and washing up.

Ronnie’s plant stall gets better every year! She has established a reputation for quality plants at good prices and her stall was busy all afternoon. Ivy organised a Tombola stall in the Village Hall which was also a great success.

A group of us joined together in the evening for Gardeners’ Songs of Praise and the raffle for the Garden Voucher was drawn. It was won by one of the gardeners!

So ended a successful and satisfying day for all of us - once again my sincere thanks to everyone involved.

One final note …. Our young waitress in the Village Hall, who did an excellent job, took a drinks order for two elderflower cordials. At the serving hatch she asked for two elderly cordials! A slip of the tongue or what??

Lizzie Baddock

WEREHAM DIAMOND JUBILEE

Picture 1 - Organisers Jacqueline, Helen, Nicki and Victoria, pictured with the mini Kings and Queens, judged by Cllr Colin Sampson

Picture 2 - under 12's sack race

To see all the fantastic pictures from this event

, please log onto our facebook page - Wereham Village Group. If you would like copies of pictures from the facebook pages, they're available for £1 each, all proceeds to the village hall rebuild - call Victoria 501277.

Update from the Wereham Village Hall Committee

In response to a structural survey of the village hall (WW1 wooden structure, brick skin applied in the 50's) it has become apparent, that we are in desperate need of funding to re-build our village hall. Committee members have been working hard fund-raising for many years, but this alone isn't enough to fund a re-build.

The most competitive rebuild quote is in excess of £220k.

Good news at last ...............

Due to the hard work of our Committee Chair - Sandra Pickwell - we have at last been awarded a £15,000 grant from the Borough Council towards a new village hall - hurray!!! We will be creating a press release to help raise awareness, details to follow.

This is a good starting point and we're hoping that other funding body's will follow suit.

In light of the amount of work required to apply for grants, we have created a sub committee for grant applications. Sandra has kindly agreed to be our mentor - while she continues to push the lottery application through (again!). The grant team consists of myself, Helen Richardson and Nicki Cooper. We are in need of someone who has excel and enjoys collating data. If you would like to help with data collation or grant applications, please call Victoria on 501277.

BIG THANKS

to Iain Hart and Ivan Voutt for volunteering their repeated attempts and many hours of work on the village hall roof - I'm please to report that they have succeeded in stopping the leaks in the men's toilets and store cupboard!!!! A big thank-you from all of us.

We are pleased to welcome 4 new committee members, Helen Richardson, Nikki Loake, Iain Hart and Janice Jones - welcome aboard.

As always, we welcome new members, we are a friendly bunch always looking for new ideas to bring our community together and increase our fund-raising - whilst having fun! Our next meeting is 7.30 on the 31st July.

I hope you are all enjoying the events that the committee have been organising. To keep up to date with events and pictures, follow us on Facebook - Wereham Village Group.

Watch this space for more info on events planned for the rest of the year - Barn Dance, village fete and car boot, village car wash, Halloween party.............

Victoria - on behalf of the Wereham Village Hall Committee