Poppy Appeal 2025

From : Claudine Pynn

Claudine Pynn will be carrying out ‘house to house’ collections in the village between 25 October and 8 November.

If I miss you please feel free to call at 22 Follyfield.

I will have traditional poppies, 2025 metal pins and some wooden crosses available.

Please could I ask that you are prepared for my visit by having some cash available. I don’t have a card reader but this year I do have a QR code with which you will be able to make a donation with your smart phone.

Yoga !

Restorative Yin Yoga class at our very own Holy Cross Church  🧘‍♀️⛪️🧘‍♂️

This restorative class calms the nervous system, reduces stress & enhances clarity & inner peace 🌿

3-weeks left of Term 1 then break for half term 🍁
Term 2 – 🍂 ❄️ Details below 👇 

Dates: W/beginning (7-weeks) 
Monday 3rd Nov – Thursday 18th Dec 

Contact Mark for full details to join our amazing community! 
Mark – Mybodytrainer 
www.Mybodytrainer.co.uk 
Tel/Txt: 07885 609885

Cafe Church

It’s the first Saturday of every month.

Coffee, cake, and chat.
11:00 – 12:30

Cafe Church this coming Saturday 4th October will be in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support. It will be lovely to see as many of you as possible to support this worthwhile Charity.

Thank you
Valerie

2025
October 4th
November 1st
December 6th

Adult Social Care Webinar

From : Elizabeth Threlfall

ADULT SOCIAL CARE WEBINAR

If you want to find out more about Adult Social Care in Wiltshire, there is a webinar on Tuesday 7th October from 6pm.

Anyone who would like to join can sign up via the link below. You can also use the link to send in questions ahead of the webinar.

Adult Social care webinar

Elizabeth Threlfall

Wiltshire Councillor for Brinkworth Division

Feedback Results

I said I’d report back and here are the results :

I received 16 replies. Thank you to those people that replied, it really helped !

Of those 16 replies, all 16 felt the website should continue so that’s what I will do.
Which rather suggests that I should invest some time in making it more “visible” so that people let me know of events etc. I’ll have a think about that.

An additional development
Whilst this was going on I also received an email from the Press Association.

It seems that there was a post on the website in 2017 where I was reminding people that the church was their polling station for the upcoming election. That post was illustrated with a picture of a ballot box. There were literally hundreds of similar images that Google returned but it seems that without realising I chose an image that was copyright.

I apologised and removed the post.

They came back to advise that I must buy a licence from them for £792.50 to compensate them.

I explained that the site was not commercial, non revenue generating (it actually costs me money to run it !), and really a public service site serving around 200 residents in a small village and that there were so many similar images that if I’d known it was copyright I’d simply have used another image. They’ve replied that lack of knowledge isn’t a valid legal defence…

I have to say that my view of the media wasn’t particularly positive to start with but now ?…

If anyone knows a copyright lawyer who could advise me I’d be grateful !

simon.kearsley@symmetry.co.uk

From : Caroline Adams

On behalf of Sizewell C, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology presents:

‘Archaeology of Sizewell C Development Site

An Introduction to the Archaeology’

Presented by John Boothroyd and Rhiannon Gardiner, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology

Wednesday 8th October 2025, 7pm

Free webinar

To book, visit www.tinyurl.com/sizewellcarchaeology

This is the first in a series of webinars to take place over this autumn and winter to present the initial results from the extensive archaeological excavations associated with the construction of the third generation of nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk. This has provided unparalleled opportunities to examine the Suffolk coastal landscape which has been at the forefront of numerous continental migrations over the millennia. Excavations are also providing a rare chance to look at the agricultural estate associated with the first Leiston Abbey (1183-1363), vast tracts of which have been uncovered in the course of the excavations.  This first webinar presents an introduction to the work; the how, why and where of the archaeological project and overview of the results which will be examined in greater depth in future presentations. 

In advance of Sizewell C’s construction, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology has been working on one of the largest archaeological projects ever undertaken in the east of England, to uncover the millennia-long history of human occupation in the area.

Find out more on our website: www.oxfordcotswoldarchaeology.org.uk/project/sizewell