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Festive Drinks & Nibbles At Post Office – Friday, 10th Dec.

The Post Office Users Group will be spreading some Christmas cheer next Friday when they will be serving festive drinks and nibbles alongside the Post Office OutReach service.

Raffle tickets will also be on sale with the draw taking place at 12 noon.

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Three Churches Coffee Morning Tomorrow, 10.15am

On Saturday, 4th December the Three Churches are holding a Christmas Coffee morning at the Comrades Hall in Broadwindsor from 10.15am – 12.15am.

Your £2 admission includes a coffee and a mince pie 🙂 There will also be –

  • Cake stall
  • Tombola
  • Bric-a-brac
  • Books
  • Christmas stall

Come along and bring some friends!

For details, please contact:

Peter Hardwill: 01460 30661
Kate Penney: 01308 868083
or Philip Coltart: 01308 867646

** Please do a flow test before attending – thank you **

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Save The White Lion NEWS Update #4

A summary of the latest minutes from the Steering Group’s meeting on 30th November, provided by Margery Hookings:

Work is going on behind the scenes to re-open the White Lion in 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
  • 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 30/11/21

Company structure:
Work ongoing. A set of articles has been drafted for a new company limited by guarantee with Community Interest objects. If acceptable this entity will shortly be registered at Companies House.
Business plan and application for membership almost ready for publication for circulation to donors. 

Bank account:
Once the new company is established, a bank account can be set up.

Timescale:
The earliest for us to be ready to go to the public would be the first week of January.
Looking at four weeks for refurb so maybe opening in March.

Call for action:
Public meeting, possibly mid-January, followed by door-to-door around the village, coupled with social media campaign. Unanimously agreed that company membership to cost £30. Like a supporter’s club, people can donate any amount to the appeal (less or more than membership costs). By buying membership, members can attend an annual meeting.

Grant funding streams in addition to public donation:
Ongoing research and submission at any time.

Staff:
Ongoing discussions with applicants.

John Heys:
John is standing down from the steering group because of other commitments. He was thanked for his hard work. He still wants to be involved in practical side of refurb.
Chris E will help with in overseeing quotes etc.

Next meeting:
Date to be confirmed.

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Where To See Broadwindsor’s Advent Windows

Windows should be lit at 4pm until at least 9pm or later if possible.  Thanks to everyone taking part!

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Beaminster Area ECO Group Need Assistance This Weekend

Broadwindsor Co-ordinators of Beaminster Area ECO Group, Sheila Hawkins & June Ruffle have a request:

We are contacting you to ask if you would like to take part in a hedge-planting session at Burstock Grange just outside Broadwindsor. The Beaminster Area ECO Group has been invited to help plant 1,500 mixed tree whips to create a double hedge.

This will take place over the weekend of 4th/5th December, between 10.00am-3.00pm on Saturday and continuing, if necessary, on Sunday afternoon from 2.00pm.

Refreshments and instructions will be provided. The weekend of 11th/12th December will be held in reserve should the weather on 4th be too awful. If possible, please bring a spade and gardening gloves, and wear wind /waterproof clothing and wellies/boots.

Please let us know if you will be available to help, even for part of the time. Once we know how many of us there will be, we will send out further details, parking arrangements, etc.

We hope you can join in this community effort to benefit nature, and look forward to hearing from you.

Sheila Hawkins & June Ruffle
Broadwindsor Co-ordinators
Beaminster Area ECO Group

Please contact Sheila: 01308 868806 or June: 01308 867055

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The Bishops’ Kitchen – December 21

This month you have two recipes for Christmas:

CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING

  • 350g pitted prunes
  • 100g crystallized ginger
  • 40g walnuts
  • 225g raisins
  • coarsely grated rind & juice of 2 oranges
  • 125g fresh brown breadcrumbs
  • 125g veg suet
  • 1 tsp ground cloves
  • 3 large eggs
  • 3 tbsp brandy

Method:

Generously butter a 1.7 litre pudding basin. Cut the prunes into fairly small pieces & roughly chop the ginger & walnuts. Put the prunes, ginger, walnuts, raisins, grated orange rind, breadcrumbs, suet & ground cloves in a large bowl & stir to mix.

In another bowl whisk the eggs until frothy & thickened & stir into the dry ingredients. Lastly stir in the orange juice & brandy. Spoon the mixture into the buttered basin & smooth the top. Cover with a double layer of buttered foil & tie very tightly with string & steam gently for 6 hours.

When the pudding is cold put away in a cool place for Christmas day. Replace the foil with fresh buttered foil & steam for 1 hour to serve turn out onto a warmed plate & pour over bubbling brandy & set alight .Serve with rum butter recipe below

RUM BUTTER WITH ORANGE RIND

  • 225g unsalted butter
  • 175g light muscovado sugar
  • finely grated rind of 1 orange
  • 5 tbsp dark rum

Cream the butter with an electric whisk until soft thoroughly whisk in the sugar, followed by the orange rind, then whisk in the rum a little at a time.

Keep in fridge but take out & bring to room temperature well before you start the meal.  Serve with the pudding

All recipes are from village resident, Richard Childs.

Missed a recipe? Click HERE to view Richard’s earlier recipes and other seasonal ideas.

Christmas Garland

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Buy Local Christmas Cards And Save The White Lion

The picture being used is adapted from an original painting by Hursey resident, John Iveson.

Cards are available in sets of 5 in compostable wraps at Broadwindsor Community Stores now, priced at £2.50.

All profits to the Save the White Lion fund.

Why not use Scout Post too? More HERE.

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Last Call To Take Part In Advent Windows!

In Lockdown last year, there was no hesitation to take part and there were no gaps in the month of December when it came to ‘Choose a Christmas carol and dress your window accordingly‘.  Everyone enthused and enjoyed “getting out” to walk around the village as Christmas approached, encouraged by the creativity of those who took part. (Last year’s gallery can be viewed HERE.)

The theme this year set by our Rev. Jo is ‘The Heart of Christmas‘.  Perhaps not as definitive but for whatever the reason, there are still 10 dates left unused for next month – this Wednesday being the 1st of December.

Please contact Rev Jo in the first instance at: revneary@gmail.com or tel: 01308 867816 to be involved. You’re not too late to be included on the map if you contact Rev. Jo very soon. An up-to-date list will also be online at Broadwindsor.org.

By taking part, it is taken as permission that you are happy for the date and name/number of your house to be published so people can come and view.

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Bunting For Jubilee 2022

Can you help make the 2022 Platinum Jubilee Weekend really special for Broadwindsor?

Village resident, Parish Councillor and member of Broadwindsor Fun Group, Jacqui Sewell is at the helm of our village’s Bunting Project for our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations next June.

Jacqui, who is known to be proficient with her sewing machine skills through her work at local craft fairs and with Dawn Newberry at Dorset Designers on Facebook, has this request:

Will you help me make fabric bunting as it would have been in the 1950’s, not noisy plastic flags flapping in the breeze? I want to recycle – repurpose – reuse as much as possible!

  • Do you have any cotton fabric (flowers, abstract, plain) that you could donate?
  • Are you able to cut out triangles (template provided)?
  • Or could you fix the triangles onto the tape ready for sewing?
  • Perhaps you could sew up the triangles?

If you can help in any way please telephone me on 01308 867145. I’m also starting monthly Bunting Workshops at the Post Office on 2nd Friday of every month beginning on 14th January 2022

– Jacqui Sewell

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Rainbows Over Broadwindsor

Social media was made brighter yesterday with many images of the beautiful double rainbows that covered our village.  Visitor Scott Dutton and his wife parked their car in the village and enjoyed a lovely walk around the area  and submitted these beautiful images of the rainbows.

Photo: Scott Dutton
Photo:Scott Dutton

Another lovely photograph of the rainbows over Redlands Yard was also released on social media –

Photo: Jayne Burton

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