From : Susan Mockler

This is a new venture for the Athelstan Museum. This will be the second Saturday workshop, the first was a great success. 

It is fun for the adults who attend with their children too ! 

Susan Mockler 
Vice Chair Athelstan Museum Management Team 

From : Michael Bromley Gardner (mrbg1@outlook.com)

As most will know, the Local Elections are on Thursday 1 May this year.  They include the Wiltshire Council election and the Parish Council election.

Hankerton has 7 seats on the Parish Council, each for a 4-year term.  No doubt many of the current Cllrs, and maybe all of them (we will not know until the names are published on 3 April), will decide to stand again – but that doesn’t mean that any other Hankerton resident may not also stand for election.

If you would like to stand, you should look up the following links – https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-candidates-parish-council-elections-england/resources-candidates-parish-council-elections-england (this is the Electoral Commission advice for parish council candidates and includes a link to the nomination papers that you would have to fill in) and https://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/local-elections-candidates (this is the Wiltshire Council information for candidates).

You will need to hand-deliver your nomination papers to the Wiltshire Council offices in Chippenham (don’t blame Wilts Council for that – it is UK law) by 4pm on 2 April.  Wilts Council recommend that you book an appointment to have your nomination papers checked by them when handing them in – you can find the link for that on the Wilts Council link above.

If you are interested, by all means contact the Parish Clerk (mrbg1@outlook.com) for further advice of any kind, including how to fill in the nomination papers.

From : Susan Mockler

I put three months of the schedule on the website homepage <here>. To be honest it’s partly for me ! A little late this time I’m afraid but normally there if your house echoes to that weekly question “is it recycling tomorrow ?” like ours does !

From : Shayne Smith (shayneandreasmith@gmail.com)

From 25 February MPCC will start inviting patients to book their Spring Covid Vaccinations in clinics on Saturday 5th and Saturday 12th April.

Patients eligible for the spring 2025 programme are:

👩‍🦳adults aged 75 years and over

👩‍🦰residents in care homes for older adults

👨‍🦱Those 6 months and over who are severely immunosuppressed

MPCC will be vaccinating patients in Care Homes and those who are housebound as well as in clinics.

Eligible patients will also be able to book via the National Booking Service from 18 March 2025.