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Villager Makes Bridport News

75yr old Peter Davies from Fullers in Broadwindsor has made page 7 of this week’s Bridport & Lyme Regis News 🙂

Peter is due to do a parachute jump on Sunday morning, 31st October with his daughter, Emellia raising funds for Bridport’s RNA – you can read more HERE.
If the weather is poor then it will be postponed and not cancelled 🙂

Please show your support by visiting their Crowdfunding page:

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Re-register With Dorset Housing By 1st December

A new deadline of 1st December 2021 has been set to help ensure everyone who wishes to remain on the register for social housing has time to re-register.

Existing applicants were contacted over the summer about the changes and interim arrangements have been put in place to support people who have a change in circumstances or an urgent housing need.

For anyone with the ‘local connection‘ criteria who is interested in applying for the Broadwindsor Group Parish Community Land Trust development in Drimpton, they should note on their application that they are applying for CLT housing. (broadwindsorgroupparishclt.org)

To re-register, click HERE.

New deadline gives more time:

Originally customers were advised they needed to re-register by 1st October 2021, but a new deadline of 1st December 2021 has been set to help ensure everyone who wishes to remain on the register for social housing has time to re-register.

Bidding for properties

Existing applicants will be able to continue to bid for properties that become available on the current system until the end of November 2021.

What about new applicants?

They are also opening the new register for people who want to apply for the first time from 1st October 2021. They will be updating their website where applicants can create a new customer account and submit a new application.

They will prioritise the assessment of all customers who are carrying out a re-registration process in the first instance but submitting your application and required documents early will mean new applicants can benefit from an earlier effective date.

These applicants will be able to bid for properties from 1st December 2021.

To re-register, click HERE.

If you have concerns, please contact our current Dorset Councillor – Simon Christopher:

Address: Hawthorne Cottage, Ryall Road, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, DT6 6RH
Home: 01297 489582
Mobile: 07798 833715
Email: cllrsimon.christopher@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

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Continue With Masks At Film Club & Jazz

They are not cancelling but due to the rise in local cases of Covid-19, Broadwindsor Community Film Club, run by the Comrades Hall, are asking all attendees to continue wearing masks moving around the hall whilst attending films.  This also applies to Sunday’s Matinee Jazz.
Furthermore, they’d like bookings to be made in advance.

  • Film Club members – Free entry
  • Guests – £4
  • Refreshments available, including a bar.
  • Please book!
  • Enquiries: Emma Myers – broadwindsorem@gmail.com or Margaret Wing – 01308 867252

Annual subscription is now due please – £20 under 65 / £15 over 65.
New Members very welcome!

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Leon Teaching Women Self Defence

Village resident & Kung Fu teacher, Leon Lord is offering a 5 week course for women teaching them the same self defence he taught his daughter.

The course will be held at Glow, Unit 15 in St. Michael’s Trading Estate, Bridport starting on Saturday, 6th November and will run in the afternoon 2pm – 3.30pm until 4th December.

Leon continues with his Pilates in the Lewesdon room, upstairs at the Comrades Hall:

  • Wednesday evenings at 6pm
  • Saturday mornings at 9am

Cost is £12 per session or £50 for the full course.

To contact Leon:
Call – 07860 870790
Email –lordswingchun@gmail.com
Visit his websites – www.DorsetWingChun.co.uk & c

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Vacancy: Broadwindsor Group Parish Councillor – Broadwindsor Ward

Contact elections@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk.

The Parish Clerk, Helen Cudmore may be contacted at hello@broadwindsorgroup.gov.uk.

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Sign Up For Advent Windows 2021

Following last year’s fabulous Advent windows trail around the village* there is some energy to have another go. This year the theme is much broader – The Heart of Christmas.

There is a list in Broadwindsor Community stores – please sign up there 🙂

  • Sign up for which day in December you want to light your window.
  • Interpret the theme any way you want.
  • Windows are lit up each day around 4pm and kept lit until later in the evening, switch off when you like.

As the month progresses more and more windows appear 🙂
Please sign up choosing dates from the end of the month (24th Dec.) first – that way if we have fewer than 24 people we can just start later through December.

Please sign up no later than Sunday 21st November.

Any queries, get in touch with Jo Neary: revneary@gmail.com

Many thanks,
Jo
Rev Jo Neary
Pioneer Priest
Beaminster Area Team

Tel: 01308 867816

* View 2020’s Advent trail HERE.

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Dave Brubeck 40th Anniversary Tour Polo Top Raffle

At Broadwindsor’s Artsreach event on Sunday, 31st October – there will be an exclusive opportunity to win a Dave Brubeck’s 40th Anniversary Tour Polo Shirt (Large size) in a raffle to be drawn at the interval. The black polo shirt is unworn with coloured embroidery which reads “The Dave Brubeck Quartet” in gold and “40th Anniversary Tour” in green.

Tickets at £5 are on sale now at Broadwindsor Community Stores and will be on sale prior to the start of the Matinee Jazz on 31st October.

  • 50% of the proceeds go to the Comrades Hall.
  • Attendance is not necessary to win. 

David Warren Brubeck – (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an Californian jazz pianist and composer, considered one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.
Dave Brubeck married jazz lyricist Iola Whitlock in September 1942; the couple were married for 70 years, until his death in 2012.

The 40th Anniversary Tour of the U.K. produced a 1998 live album by Dave Brubeck and his quartet recorded over three consecutive concerts in the United Kingdom, some 40 years after he had first visited the country.
The line up then was:

  • Dave Brubeck – piano, liner notes
  • Bobby Militello – baritone saxophone
  • Alec Dankworth – double bass
  • Randy Jones – drums

Often incorrectly attributed to Brubeck, the song “Take Five“, which has become a jazz standard, was composed by Brubeck’s long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. Written in 5/4 time, “Take Five” has endured as a jazz classic forever associated with Brubeck.

The local supply ot tickets for Neil Maya’s Quarteret on 31st October are almost out 🙂  Any remaining tickets are held with Artsreach – please visit www.artsreach.co.uk

Good luck in the raffle!

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Save the White Lion NEWS Update #2

A summary of the latest minutes from the Steering Group’s meeting on 18th October, provided by Margery Hookings:

Work is going on behind the scenes to re-open the White Lion at Broadwindsor as a Community Pub. The community needs to raise at least £30,000 to make it happen.

The Steering Group comprises:

  • David Leader (Chair)
  • Elaine Leader
  • Susanna Newall
  • Chris Newall
  • Sandra Burrows
  • Charles Ouin
  • Luke Pickering
  • Andrew Hookings
  • Margery Hookings
  • John Heys
  • Fraser Hughes
  • Chris Edgerley
  • Rick Dyke.

 The following is a summary of the latest meeting, excluding commercially sensitive or personal information.
Save the White Lion, summary of meeting 18/10/21

Community Benefit Society application –

Slight delay while the Plunkett Foundation, which is advising us, talks to the Financial Conduct Authority about the legality of the set-up before we can go to the community with a share offer. We should know within three weeks.

Grants and fundraising –

Broadwindsor Group Parish Council has agreed a grant of £5,400 which represents three years’ grant all in one go. A great deal of work has been carried out to identify suitable grant-making bodies. It is difficult to pursue these while we await confirmation of the legal set-up of the organisation running the pub. Comrades Arms had made a profit of £700 in the first two weeks. People within the local community are working on fundraising events in the village.

Manager –

There have been several expressions of interest so far. Discussions and advertising ongoing.

Business plan –

An abridged version has been amended to include skill sets and this will be used in grant applications. A three-year cash flow will be put into the plan. Firm costings for the refurb will need to be included in the plan.

Refurbishment –

A great deal of time and research has been put into structural work and furnishing needed before the pub can reopen. This has to be costed to put into the business plan. Volunteers have offered help with structural work. The Steering Group was unanimous on the proposed physical layout of the pub and furnishings as per the plan drafted in conjunction with the brewery. More details will be unveiled when the community is approached to buy shares.

The next meeting is due to be held on 1 November.

SaveTheWhiteLion.Org

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Chris Loder MP Allows Raw Sewage Dumping Into Our Rivers

While the U.K. prepares to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October, last week MPs voted on Amendment 45.

“Lords’ Amendment 45 to the Environment Bill would have placed a legal duty on water companies in England and Wales “to make improvements to their sewerage systems and demonstrate progressive reductions in the harm caused by discharges of untreated sewage.”

“Despite the horrendous environmental impact of the disgusting practice, shortly before the vote, the Conservative Environment Secretary George Eustice recommended to his fellow MPs that they should reject it.”

“And, owing largely to the government’s 80 seat majority, the amendment was indeed defeated – by a margin of 268 MPs to 204.”

EvolvePolitics

 

West Country Bylines published an article two days ago with the following information from Evolve.  They extracted the names of those MPs in our region whose vote was against the Amendment.  Chris Loder MP was one who voted against the Amendment.

TO ASK CHRIS LODER WHY – PLEASE CONTACT CHRIS LODER MP AT: hello@chrisloder.co.uk

Those who voted against the Amendment:

  • Steve Double – St Austell
  • George Eustice – Camborne and Redruth
  • Liam Fox – North Somerset
  • Marcus Fysh – Yeovil
  • James Heappey – Wells
  • Simon Jupp – East Devon

Chris Loder – West Dorset

  • Cherilyn Mackrory – Truro and Falmouth
  • Anthony Mangnall – Totnes
  • Scott Mann – North Cornwall
  • Anne Marie Morris – Newton Abbot
  • Sheryll Murray – South East Cornwall
  • Neil Parish – Tiverton and Honiton
  • John Penrose – Weston-super-Mare
  • Rebecca Powe – Taunton Deane
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg – North East Somerset
  • Selaine Saxby – North Devon
  • Gary Streeter – South West Devon
  • Mel Stride – Central Devon
  • Robert Syms – Poole
  • Michael Tomlinson – Mid Dorset and North Poole
  • David Warburton – Somerton and Frome

TO ASK CHRIS LODER WHY – PLEASE CONTACT CHRIS LODER MP AT: hello@chrisloder.co.uk

Those who voted against Raw Sewage Dumping:

  • Ben Bradshaw, Labour – Exeter
  • Simon Hoare, Conservative – North Dorset
  • Luke Pollard, Labour – Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
  • Derek Thomas, Conservative – St Ives

TO ASK CHRIS LODER WHY – PLEASE CONTACT CHRIS LODER MP AT: hello@chrisloder.co.uk

The full list of MPs (all Conservative) and how they voted can be found HERE. If you do not see your MP’s name, they did not vote.

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Remembering The Broadwindsor Pram Race

It is rumoured that the Broadwindsor Fun Group may hold a pram race as part of their 2022 Jubilee celebrations.  Village resident, Pip Cadwell recalls his memories…

The Broadwindsor Pram Race was founded in the late 1980s and it was the idea of a small group of regulars of the Cross Keys Pub.

The idea of the race was that teams of 4 had to push their hand made craft from Broadwindsor to Drimpton and back again. The vehicle had to be home made, with no  form of propulsion (motors, pedals, Elastic bands, etc etc)  whatsoever. 1 member of the team had to be seated on the vehicle at all times. The vehicle had to have at least 4 wheels in contact with the ground at all times.

Now, as we all know, going down to Drimpton is very easy, coming back from Drimpton to Broadwindsor is a different story. The race started at The Comrades Hall, and each team had to stop at The Cross Keys, The White Lion, and The Royal Oak , and had to consume at least half a pint of Beer. or Cider, or a soft drink for the under 18s, there was no limit on the alcohol intake at each Pub.

There were roadside drink stops on the road whish were supposed to dispense soft drinks to the teams as they passed. I took part in every race , and I seem to remember the Barley water at these roadside stops tasted very ‘strange’, almost ‘Apple based’ and it affected my speech and my legs…

By the time we got back to the Comrades Hall all that running affected our legs and our ability to talk sense, we soon got over that after a few refreshing glasses of ‘Barley Water’ or whatever it was.

The record holders in a time of 41 minutes , (there and back) were the Whacky Racers from Beaminster.

Over the years we raised many thousands of pounds for local good causes , and a lot of fun was had along the way.

 

Thank you to Pip for the photographs too!

And from 1988 – (Rev) Richard Thornburgh – the In-Flight Catering team and plane visible at the back with him as the chef and Chris as Pilot.

1988: The In-Flight Catering team

 

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