We will start the Village's Jubilee celebrations off with Ringing at 12 noon on Thursday 2nd June. All ringers (from all surrounding towers) and villagers are welcome to join us.
On Sunday 5th June we will end the celebrations with some more bell ringing at 6pm, again please come along and join us.
We are planning to hold a tidy up in the village on Thursday 26th May at 18:30. We will meet up at the back of the shops. If you have a litter picker and a high viz top please bring it with you although there should be some available on the night.
The main job is to tidy the centre of the village prior to the jubilee celebrations the week after.
Keep Haughton Tidy Group May 2022
Although we are not entering Best Kept Village 2022 we are instead making this Keep Haughton Tidy for the Platinum Jubilee year so we are still going to do the flower beds and keep the village tidy. We are also reinstating the best gardens and hanging basket competition open free to all villagers front gardens and front hanging baskets, judging will be on the 12th July with a prize giving in the village hall later in the month.
The BKVC competition has a communities sub competition based on photos and videos of the last 12 months, it is a bit like the portfolio we used to put forward but can be done online. We hope to enter Best Kept Village and Communities in 2023 so we would like everyone who goes to any village event to use your phones to take pictures and short videos and send them to me for next year’s application and continue to do this all year so include Christmas lights, any AGMs special evenings etc. This years pictures will be submitted for next years competition.
As mentioned last month can I remind villagers that rather than run litter picks we would like people to “own’` a part of the village and keep it litter free, tidy and ideally weed free. We have volunteers to look after the flower beds on the main road and around station road and one of the Closes of Moathouse Drive. As a recent rash of complaints on Facebook about the lateness of the grass cutting showed people want a tidy village so tell us what you are willing to do and we will try and cover the whole village. As part of this we will be calling for volunteers for the odd working party to fix specific issues (e,g, the weeds that grow outside the front of the church).
I know this is a different way of doing things but we can experiment this year to use modern technology to make things easier for us all. iansunley@icloud.com Ongoing BKV Coordinator
The practice planned to be held on 17th May has been cancelled as we haven't enough ringers available. Hopefully we will be back practicing on 24th May 8pm.
