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Stinchcombe Village Hall update January 2025

After almost 5 years of planning and fundraising the Village Hall Committee are very pleased to announce that Building work will commence on the 17th of February on our Improvement project. Following the installation of acoustic panels in the main Hall building work will commence on a much-needed extension to the dated and tiny Kitchen, we are also enlarging the storeroom and hallway and creating a new main entrance.

As a bonus a new 1st floor amenity room will be created which will be ideal for family parties, larger meetings and will suit some of the smaller groups that regularly hire the main hall.

We are always looking for new Committee members to assist in the management of the Hall and in September we will be looking for a chairman who will have a gradual handover from the current chairman. We usually meet about 8 times a year and are also Trustees being responsible for the day-to-day management and maintenance also ensuring we meet current legislation. It can be very rewarding working alongside a small group of local people and sharing responsibilities.

For either position contact any committee member details are on the hall website www.stinchcombehall.org.uk

Stinchcombe Playground

Auction of Drawings and Paintings

A Silent Auction to raise money for the Stinchcombe Playground and Community Space

Eight local artists have donated paintings to be auctioned off to raise money for the Stinchcombe Playground and Community Space.

There are also eighteen mounted prints of drawings of houses and other features in Stinchcombe that are available to bid for.

How it works

  1. It is a Silent Auction.
  2. Your offer is confidential.
  3. Bids by email are invited until midnight 1st March. On 1st March, the works can then be viewed on exhibition all day from 10.00 am in St Cyr’s Church.
  4. The successful bidders will be notified by email on 2 March. As well as here on the Village Website.

There will also be a Wine-tasting evening in St Cyr’s church. The Auction finishes at the end of the Wine-Tasting.
Prior to 1st March, Works can also be viewed by appointment at Court Barn, Stinchcombe Tel 07779 872711.

Please be generous and help us create a playground and community space

View towards Uley – Claire Failes
Torres river Patagonia – Christine Dack
The War Memorial – John Pinch
The Village Hall – John Pinch
The Telephone Box – John Pinch
The Malt House – John Pinch
The Old Parsonage – John Pinch
The Old School House – John Pinch
The Old Vicarage – John Pinch
The Swedish Houses – John Pinch
The Drinking Fountain – John Pinch
Sweet Chestnuts – Joyce Pinch
Stragglers Field – John Pinch
St Cyrs in Spring – Nola Bradley
St Cyr’s Church – John Pinch
Manor Lodge – John Pinch
Melksham Court – John Pinch
Personalised Monogram – Miranda Songer
Pet Portrait – Catherine Sharpley
Piers Court – John Pinch
Maelstrom – Cherie Rimmel-Faulds
Langside John Pinch
Lamport Court – John Pinch
5 & 6 The Buildings – John Pinch
3 & 4 The Buildings – John Pinch
1 & 2 The Buildings – John Pinch

The Prints by John Pinch

  • There is only one print of each.
  • The prints measure 42cm wide x 30cm high, including the card mount.
  • The full-size prints are of original ink drawings by John Pinch.

The Paintings by Local Artists

  • Catherine Sharpley A pet portrait of your choice created in pastels on paper, unframed A3
  • Cherie Rimmel-Faulds “Maelstrom” Acrylic and Resin on canvas 30cm wide x 24.5 cm high framed
  • Claire Failes “View towards Uley from Cam Peak” Acrylic on canvas 39.5cm x 21.5cm unframed in A2 mount
  • Joyce Pinch “Sweet Chestnuts” Acrylic on board 38cm x 38cm framed
  • Nola Bradley “St Cyr’s in Spring” Acrylic on canvas 20cm wide x 25cm high unframed
  • Miranda Songer has offered to create a personalised monogram, similar to the image provided.
  • Christine Dack “Las Torres river, Patagonia” Oil on board 34cm wide x 38cm high framed

Email Bidding

Bid directly using email to:  johnpinch46@gmail.com

Stinchcombe Parish Council - A community with Spirit

Please Complete our Household Survey

The Parish Council is the first level of local democracy with responsibility for representing and promoting the interests of our community. Although Gloucester County and Stroud District Councils are responsible for strategic matters (housing, highways, infrastructure, open space development etc), working at the local level, the Parish Council can create a shared vision, influence decisions and take local action.

To help us do that, we need to know the views of residents and are asking you to spend a few minutes completing this short survey.

We are intent on making Stinchcombe Parish Council work for you so plan to engage with you regularly to ensure we keep you informed as things change.

In the last Census (2021) the Village had a population of 482. Every resident’s views are important to us, so, we hope each household survey will capture the opinions of both our adult population and the 70 under 18 year olds who live here.

Survey responses will be submitted by completing the survey here but hard copies will be available at our Community Open Evening (see below) or we can deliver one to you if you let Mandy, our friendly Parish Clerk know using the contact details below.

Please complete and submit your survey by 5th December.

Everyone is welcome to join us for some festive refreshments, to meet your Councillors in person and discuss your preferences for the parish at the Parish Council Community Open Evening on Thursday 5th December from 6.30pm December in the Village Hall Committee Room.

We will also be launching the Crowd Funding initiative for the long awaited development of the Community Space and Playground on the Church Field.

Thank you very much for taking the time to complete this short survey.

Stinchcombe Parish Council

Church Wardens Report from St Cyr’s

Church Warden’s Report from St Cyr’s – December 2024/January 2025

As usual in November two services of Remembrance were held at St Cyr’s church with the All-Souls service at 6pm on the Sunday 3rd November to honour and give thanks for those who have departed this life and the Remembrance Day services on Sunday 10th November to remember those who gave their lives to our country during the World Wars. Once again, we gathered by the War memorial for a short service to honour those who died with a two-minute silence marked by the bugler and the immortal words “We will remember them.” The names of the fallen were read out by Howard Cordle and the poppy wreath was laid by Albert Wyatt whose uncle lost his life in the First World War. Maintaining such poignant family links in Stinchcombe is important and it was good to see so many members of the village present. A special Holy Communion service then followed in the church.
Meanwhile it’s hard to believe that once again Christmas is fast approaching, and it will soon be that wonderful time of the year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus! In preparation, we look forward to Advent and to the services that tell the story of the arrival of the son of God.
With our smart new Notice Board at St Cyr’s firmly in place, we hope that you will have no difficulty in knowing what is taking place over the next couple of months!

Please note in anticipation of Christmas there are several dates at St Cyr’s church to mark in your diary as follows:

Sunday 1st December 6pm – Advent Evensong at St Cyr’s church

Sunday 15th December 5pm – Candlelight Carol Service followed by mince pies and mulled wine. Prior to the Carol service, the Scratch Choir will meet for several practice sessions, please contact Jayne Kirkham if you are interested in joining.

Saturday 21st December 10.30 a.m – 12 noon – Christmas Coffee Morning.
All are welcome to enjoy the festive decorations, Christmas cookies and coffee in aid of St Cyr’s church plus a special Book sale and Raffle. Also there will be a highlight on the new leaflet that focuses on “St Cyr’s Stinchcombe: Your Church” and ways you can offer support.

Saturday 24th December – 2pm – Christmas Eve – Once again on Christmas Eve there will be a special Live Nativity Service for all to take part in starting at 2.00pm, meeting first in the yard are at Church Farm opposite St Cyr’s church, to follow the Star and tell the story of the birth of Jesus in a manger with the animals watching round.

Sat 24th December 9.00 pm – First Holy Communion of Christmas First Holy Communion service to celebrate Christmas in St Cyr’s church will be a held at 9pm on Christmas Eve. All are welcome to celebrate this joyful time of year.

Christmas Day – 25th December – This year there will be no church service on Christmas day at St Cyr’s. The church will be open however throughout Christmas day for private prayer.

Sunday 29th December at 11.10am – Benefice Eucharist – the last Holy Communion prior to the New Year 2025.

As we look forward and prepare for Christmas, do please share details of the forthcoming dates and events with your friends and neighbours. All are welcome here at St Cyr’s church especially as we continue to enjoy the improved access facilities following the “Open to All project” that has extended the opportunities offered.

Looking ahead to January 2025, the sequence of services will continue to be as follows:

First and third Sunday of the month- Evensong
Second and fourth Sunday of the month – Holy Communion


With all good wishes for a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year 2025
Pippa Leggate

Photo taken by Caroline Marshall

Cargo Bike

Do the French have the right way of it?

Having just returned from my holiday in France I was amazed that in so many towns and cities cycling is fast becoming the No.1 form of transport. More and more urban centers are becoming pedestrianised and cycle lanes delineated. Also people stay in them, so I saw no “near misses” while walking around.

Cargo Bike

The other thing that fascinated me was proliferation of different types of “Cargo Bikes”. All electric, some for mothers taking children to school, some for shopping and some for extremely large cargos.

Cyclist Counter in La Rochelle

The are so enthused and proud of getting the population onto bikes they even have a counter by the road to monitor the numbers.

Back in the UK, cargo bikes are still so unusual that sightings of them is a cause for Newspaper Articles!

Anna Tyzack rides an electric cargo bike carrying her four children Credit: Andrew Crowley/The Telegraph

Anna Tyzack rides an electric cargo bike carrying her four children Credit: Andrew Crowley/The Telegraph

It’s time here that the government took cycling seriously and thought about the movement of people of goods and people. For instance, all those houses built down by the railway station in Box Road, would have never been built in Europe without a clear pedestrian and cycle path to the shops and center of the village. Instead, the new footpath / cycle path to connect the Box Road houses to the shops ends after 100m at an abrupt stop…

Apple day and Playground update

Thank you to all of those who joined us at Apple Day 2024.

A huge thank you to our amazing host John and Lynn for allowing us to enjoy their beautiful garden.

Further thanks to all the people who came together to put on fantastic event, Steve and John for sorting all the equipment, Alex Irons for the setting up, Russ and Roger for the bar and Tracey for running a fantastic raffle. There were also several people who baked cakes. Thanks to all. It takes a village!

Apple Day 2024

It was great to have so many friends join together for some ‘Apple juice’ and in the process over £650 was raised towards the playground.

The playground is now moving into an exciting phase, with the lease being agreed and a third of the fund raised. Now the playground group is looking to secure further grants. A crowd funding initiative will shortly be launched too with the support of Stroud District Council. More details to follow soon.

If you would like to get involved with the group new members are warmly received, particularly if you have experience in applying for grants.

Apple Day 2024

Neil Forsyth

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Update from the Rugby Club

It is with great sadness that we recently announced that our club President, John Darlaston passed away at the age of 91. There will be a celebration of his life on the 1st November at the club. A minute’s silence was held before the recent game at the club.

Minutes Silence

Sporting Update

The rugby season has started with a bang – Our men’s teams have already played a number of fixtures both home and away. The Mini and Youth have also started back, mostly with training at the club so far but our Colts team (under 19s) have played a couple of fixtures with a trip to local rivals Stroud rugby club shortly. Our ladies team will kick off their season soon after their first fixture was unfortunately postponed.

Our new scoreboard has been put to good use !

Scoreboard

School’s Cross Country

We have also now agreed dates for the very popular schools cross country events. We advertised these in the last eNews but one of these has changed – the first event is now the 12th October.

New dates for the schools cross-country now confirmed as:

Saturday 12th October 2024
Saturday 16th November 2024
Saturday 7th December 2024
Saturday 18th January 2025
With a backup date of Saturday 8th February 2025.

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