Free First Aid Training This Friday – Few Places Available

Due to personal commitments and illness, a few places have become available for this Friday’s First Aid training. The day’s training is from 9am – 4.30pm. (Please bring a packed lunch).

Tutor: Andy Ebdon
Assessment: there will be both a practical and a knowledge assessment.
Please bring Photo ID with you.
Wear comfortable clothes so that you may complete the practical parts of the course.
A handbook & first aid pack will be provided but please bring a pen and paper for making notes.

This one day course of Emergency First Aid Training offers you a nationally recognised qualification certificate valid for 3 years. Such training & certification can usually cost in excess of £200. This day is being funded by Broadwindsor Fun Group and is FREE to participants. Places will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Contact bwfunday20@gmail.com.

Please note: It is no longer required that those who qualify from this one day course will have their names and details on display in the Comrades Hall.

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Broadwindsor Film Club – Friday, 16th December

At 7.30pm at the Comrades Hall on Friday, 16th December, Broadwindsor’s Community Film Club will be showing…

Elvis (12)

Directed by Oscar-nominated visionary filmmaker, Baz Luhrmann and starring Austin Butler and Oscar winner, Tom Hanks. Running time: 159 minutes.

The film explores the life and music of Elvis Presley (Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks). The story delves into the complex dynamic between Presley and Parker spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America. Central to that journey is one of the most significant and influential people in Elvis’s life, Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).

Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm.
Film Club members – Free entry
Guests – £4
Refreshments available, including a bar.
Seats can be booked in advance by contacting:
Emma Myers – broadwindsorem@gmail.com or
Margaret Wing – 01308 867252

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Use Scout Post This Christmas

As they did last year, with an extensive delivery list, the Scout Group are offering to post your Christmas cards for only 30p! A first class stamp is 95p and a second class, 68p.

Most households will have already received a leaflet through their letterbox. Going Green – they will be phasing them out gradually over the coming years in response to feedback.

Locally, there will be yellow post boxes in our lovely Broadwindsor Community Stores, The Royal Oak in Drimpton and Beaminster‘s Co-op. Running from 5th December – 12 noon, 17th December.

No stamp required!
Please check the address you are sending to is in one of their delivery areas.
Please ensure your card is correctly addressed and include the postcode if you know it.
Post your greetings cards in one of our many Yellow Post Boxes together with 30p for each card, they will do the rest
Deliveries are made by our small army of adult volunteers.
100% proceeds will go directly to Scout Funds.

Delivery Areas:

PLEASE NOTE: There are changes to their delivery areas each year and they are unable to deliver outside of these areas or to overseas.

Can You Help?

They need willing volunteers who are able to spend four to five hours spread over a two week period at the beginning of December to sort or deliver Scout Post in our area. Volunteers provide a useful and popular community service as well as raising much needed funds to support your local Scout Groups. You will be making a real difference to local young people and be giving something back to the community. Don’t delay, please contact: scoutpost@dwdscouts.org.uk

Scout Post is run by Dorchester & West Dorset District Scout Council
Charity registration no: 1039833

A list of cards they are unable to deliver will be held until the 12th of January and listed on the District Website – click HERE.
Enquiries to: scoutpost@dwdscouts.org.uk (01305) 852314

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The Churchfitters Christmas Cracker – Saturday, 17th December.

The Churchfitters is a folk band like no other. A double bass made out of a saucepan. Heart-wrenching vocals accompanied by a musical saw or a glass harp. Foot-stompingly fast fiddle mixed with infectious funk-rock rhythms. And traditional tunes reinvigorated with mesmerising jazz sax.

Performing at The Comrades Hall on Saturday, 17th December, you’re advised to get your tickets early for a show preparing you for Christmas with their repertoire, traditional and original festive songs, surprises, novelties and of course – what you get in every Christmas cracker – bad jokes!

The three virtuoso musicians from England and France strut their stuff on a stage that bristles with instruments – adding flute, banjo, dulcimer, tin whistle, guitar, ukulele, electric hub-cap bass-bouzouki and a sackful of percussion to their ensemble. And let’s not forget the unique ‘bing-bong’ machine made out of hack-saw blades!
Read more about the musicians HERE.

Tickets £10 & £5 for under 18s. Refreshments available.
In advance from Margaret Wing: 07796 454203 or email margaretmwing@gmail.com.
Alternatively, visit the Artsreach website.

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Thank You From Beaminster Food Bank

Chairman of Broadwindsor Fun Group, Adrian Gray received the letter shown after a £200 donation was made to Beaminster’s Food bank from profits from this year’s Jubilee events.

A further £200 was donated to Bridport’s Citizen Advice Bureau.

With the coronation set for Saturday, 6th May, the group will be posting a questionnaire through villager’s letterboxes asking the local community what they want for a Fun Day in 2023. Please be sure to respond!

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Staff Family Give Their Notice To The White Lion

The White Lion opened as Broadwindsor’s Community pub on 29th April 2022. Regrettably, the management team of Kate Staff with her two daughters, Chloe & Louise have given three months notice to Broadwindsor Community Pub Ltd. led by Chairman Rick Dyke.

In their second issue of ‘The White Lion Roars‘ newsletter Rick delivers the “Sad News To Share” stating that the Staff family will be leaving in mid-February 2023, Rick wished them well for their future and added that they are now looking for a new team to manage the pub and, of course, states he will keep us updated.

Coming back to the present day…. please support the pub this evening (Sunday 20th) as they are holding another one of their popular Quiz nights. Starting at 6pm. Teams a maximum of 4 people. £3 per person. Cash only requested.

Monday is England‘s first match in the World Cup v. Iran and the pub will open at 12 noon for the live match which will be shown on television at 1pm.

Open at Christmas and a disco for New Year’s Eve (a.k.a. Hogmanay), they are serving refreshments after the Christmas carols in Bernards’ Place at 4pm on Saturday, 17th December and welcoming back The Silver Lining Band on Friday, 23rd December.

Good luck to one and all!

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The White Lion To Show World Cup Matches On TV

The Staff family at the White Lion Community Pub announced earlier “We’ve got a telly!”

“By popular request, we’re planning to show major sporting events which are on terrestrial television and involve the national team.
(But rest assured, your community pub is NOT becoming a sports bar and the telly will be put away when it’s not being used.)
First up is the World Cup!
We intend showing all the England games in the group stages at times shown below and when, we hope, England progress to the knockout stages.”

Monday 21st November – England v. Iran
Live at 1pm. The pub will be open from 12 noon – 3pm.
Basket food will be available to order before kick-off and will be served at half time.
Friday 25th November – England v. USA
Kick off at 7pm.
Basket food will be available to order before kick-off and will be served at half time.
Tuesday 29th November – England v. Wales
Kick off at 7pm.
Customers can eat their fish and chips in the pub or order a basket meal prior to kick-off, which will be served at half time.

When England progress to the knockout stages, they will be playing in the last 16 on either Saturday 3rd December at 3pm or Sunday 4th at 7pm.
If having successfully overcome the opposition, England is involved in the quarter finals, these will be either Friday 9th December at 7pm or Saturday 10th at 7pm.
If they win their quarter final, England will play their semi-final on either Tuesday 13th December at 7pm or Wednesday 14th at 7pm.
The final is on Sunday 18 December at 6pm.

Good Luck England!

Maybe next time Scotland…

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Meet Paul & Elly Clements – Cleaner Chimneys

Paul and Elly Clements have recently moved to Drimpton, bringing Cleaner Chimneys, their chimney sweeping business they established in 2010 in Hampshire. As well as West Dorset, Cleaner Chimneys also serve South Somerset and East Devon.

Paul is qualified as a Master Chimney Sweep with the Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps, and can issue Certificates of Chimney Sweeping, valuable for home insurance. Paul is a vetted Approved Trader with the County Council Trading Standards Scheme.

Previously, Paul served for 30 years as an officer in Hampshire Police. His wife, Elly has years of public service with the NHS and vulnerable person care and office experience as a receptionist. Elly runs the office, managing customer bookings and often comes out assisting operationally.

Their services offered:

Chimney Sweeping
Advice
Bird Nests Removed
Birdguards Supplied / Fitted
CCTV Inspections
Commercial Chimney Sweeping
Historic / Thatched Property Approved Sweep
Power Sweeping

Paul and Elly are highly focused on achieving a high standard of service, with courtesy, integrity and punctuality their key drivers. They have settled in quickly, enjoying their first few weeks in Dorset and looking forward to discovering all there is to offer here.

Click HERE for their price list. More details can be found on their website www.cleanerchimneys.co.uk.

Get ready for Father Christmas and book now – tel: 01308 341189 or 07540 841022.

Welcome to the parish Paul & Elly & Good Luck for your future!

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Full Moon – Tuesday, 8th November

The November Full Moon, known as the Beaver Moon, will be at its fullest at 11.02am so will look its fullest on Monday night.

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans of North America. There was some variation in the Full Moon names, but in general, the same ones were consistent among regional tribes – those who rely on Full Moon periods to track crops and harvest.

This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. In the 1760s, Captain Jonathan Carver heard this Native American term during his travels.

The brightness of the Full Moon is when the Sun and the Moon are aligned on opposite sides of Earth, and 100% of the Moon’s face is illuminated by the Sun.

It is time to come back down to Earth. Time to settle down. Time to regroup, find your feet and ground yourself back into what’s important to you, what works for you, and what you want in life.

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Thank You From UNICEF

Further to the profit made at the coffee morning a month ago, organiser Sally Sarling received the lovely letter shown from UNICEF thanking her for the donation made.

Thank you to everyone who supported the event.

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