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Age Concern - vacancy for volunteer in Ashfield and Cretingham
Mothers Union Service of Welcome and Celebration
Friends of St Peter’s Cretingham
East Anglian Academy programme
Earl Soham - Rota for Altar & Roll of Honour Flowers & Brasses
St Mary’s Ashfield - Flower & Cleaning Rota
For events see also Services and Events.
Age Concern Suffolk’s Local Link Scheme
Vacancy for a volunteer in Ashfield and Cretingham
Local Knowledge is invaluable. This is where Age Concern Suffolk’s Local Link scheme is such a benefit to older people in Suffolk.
Local Links act as a contact and information point for senior citizens in their own community, and can refer older people to Age Concern Suffolk for support and advice where it is needed. This scheme has been very successful and there are currently 115 Local Links across the county of Suffolk, but we always welcome new volunteers to this simple yet valuable service.
There is a vacancy in the villages of Ashfield and Cretingham. If you are interested in helping and supporting older residents in your community we would like to hear from you.
For more information, please contact Anne Powell, Local Link Officer, Age Concern Suffolk. Telephone 01473 738984. Email anne.powell@ageconcernsuffolk.org.uk
MU Service of Welcome and Celebration
From Bishop Richard:
Can I extend an invitation to you and every member of your church to join me and members of the Mothers’ Union for a very special Service of Welcome and Celebration taking place at 7.15 p.m. on 24th June in Portman Road Football Stadium, Ipswich?
For the first time the Mothers’ Union, the world’s largest Christian membership organisation will be holding its General Meeting in East Anglia. Thousands of members from the United Kingdom and Ireland will be joined for the, first times by the 26 Provincial Presidents representing the organisation’s 3.5 million members in 76 countries.
On the Friday night we hope to fill the 8,000 seats in the Britannia Stand at Portman Road, for what would be the largest Christian Act of Worship staged in Suffolk for at least 25 years. It promises to be a unique occasion.
Tickets are free but the seats have to be allocated, so can I encourage you to secure those for your parish very soon. The ticket line number is 08704 286939.
In choosing Ipswich as the venue for its General Meeting, the Mothers’ Union has also enabled the diocese to stage an evening of Christian Youth Worship on Sunday 26 thJune starting at 6 p.m. using the same facilities. The event, Xpression05, will feature four of the UK’s leading Christian bands including delirious?, who have a worldwide reputation. Tickets for this event are priced between £17.50 and £45. I hope that that many parishes will be able to support their young Christians in attending this event. Tickets for Xpressiono5 can be booked on 08704 286940 or via the website http://www.xpression05.com/.
Late June promises to be a very exciting time for us all. I hope you and many from your parish will be able to join us at Portman Road.
Bargain Bicycles
The Rectory needs to reduce their ridiculous bicycle collection to more manageable proportions, so they would love to find homes for:
- a boys bike 18” wheel 5 gears £10
- another boys bike 20” wheel £5
- a Man’s Mountain bike 18 gears £20 - sold
- a girls/ladies bike Stanley Archer gears £5
- as well as a guinea pig grass run £20
- a small hutch £10
Tel: 01728 685779 or email: claresanders@suffolkonline.net
Pentecost Ale
A very big thank you to all who supported our Pentecost Ale event, and an especially BIG thanks to John Bjornson, for brewing the ale, highly acclaimed by everyone, and John Hutton, for donating the meat, again much appreciated and commented on, by those who don’t normally enjoy the quality of John’s produce. Thanks too, to Terry Fisher for a supply of very superior chocolate.
See photos here.
The performances of dancing by Barleybrig, and the mumming of the Thameside Mummers made it a day long to be remembered. Both are eager to return next year, perhaps it could become another Earl Soham tradition.!?!
Bills have still to be paid, but over £750 was taken on the day, which is a very much-appreciated amount to enter the Friends of St. Mary’s Account, their coffers having largely been spent on the repair of the windows, now complete.
Clare Sanders
Brandeston Fete
Saturday 18th June.
Friends of St Peter’s Cretingham
Moira Coleman’s talk ‘From Still Room to Tea Room: the park and gardens at Helmingham Hall’ was one of the most successful lectures put on so far by the Friends. 46 people enjoyed an interesting and light-hearted look back at activities at the Hall, greatly assisted by Moira’s memories from her days of researching the archives at Helmingham Hall. Food and drink production as well as the felling and sales of timber were amongst the subjects covered. The audience has a further opportunity to learn more about the estate when the field trip to Helmingham Hall takes place on Sunday 5 th June at 2.30 p.m. Ticket reservations at £7.50 each, on this Moira Coleman’s accompanied visit, are available from Pamela Pinner, secretary, on 01728 685 406.
Final arrangements are in hand for the Friends Charity Golf Day at Cretingham Golf Club on Thursday 14 th July, starting at 9.00 a.m. Participation for teams of two (men, ladies or mixed) is £60 per team and this includes coffee, 18 holes of golf and lunch. Team prizes total £190 and entry forms (to be returned by 1 st July) are available from Eric Brown on 01728 685520. Look forward to seeing you there!
Tony Whitmarsh Chairman Forge Cottage
Debenham Players
East Anglian Academy Programme for Summer 2005
Saturday 28th May, 5 pm
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Wednesday 29th June |
Mozart Exultate Jubilate Lindsay Gowers – soprano |
The Organ Revealed Malcolm Russell & Peter Bumstead |
The East Anglian Academy was founded to awaken the interest and enjoyment of music lovers in the organ and its music. We are privileged to have as our base St Michael’s Church Framlingham, which houses the famous Thamar organ. Thanks to Peter Willard a house organ built by Rayson of Ipswich in 1890, which was in the redundant Congregational Chapel in Fore Street Framlingham has found a new home in Kenton Parish Church.
Further information and booking contact: Malcolm & Judith Russell
14 Norfolk Crescent Framlingham WOODBRIDGE Suffolk 1P13 9EW
email russell.org.acad@macunlimited.net.
Ashfield Ladies Group
21st June |
AGM |
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19th July |
Backstage visit to Snape Maltings |
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For further information contact Susan Hansen on 01728 685738.
Earl Soham - Rota for Altar & Roll of Honour Flowers & Brasses
June |
Mrs D Haines |
685234 |
Mrs M Wade |
685234 |
July |
Mrs H Sharpe |
685356 |
Mrs V Brumfitt |
685408 |
If you are unable to do your flowers, please contact Margaret Buckland on 685329.
Earl Soham WI
The WI, which meets every fourth Thursday at 7.30 in the village hall, recently enjoyed a talk from ‘Make a Wish’, a charity that aims to make a dream come true for children with life threatening diseases, and another, by Jenny Gibson of Pettaugh, about her life in rural Turkey. Plans are afoot for participation in the Suffolk Show and Harvest Supper, and a coach outing to Holkham Hall is proposed for September. Splinter groups for bridge, books, croquet, walking and scrabble are flourishing. New members, especially anyone who has recently moved to the area, are always made welcome. It’s a great way to meet people and make friends.
For further information, call the Hon Sec., Debbie Sharman, on 01728 724544.
St Mary’s Ashfield - Flower & Cleaning Rota
June |
Jane Davidson |
685332 |
July |
Doreen Baxter |
685617 |
If you are unable to do your month please contact another person on the list to arrange a swap.
Duck Race
Earl Soham Scouts famous Duck Race 24th June.
RIP
Bobbie Moore
We extend our love and prayers to Dick Moore of Swynford Cottage, Earl Soham, on the death of his wife Bobbie. Her funeral took place on April 28th in Earl Soham Church, followed by internment in Earl Soham Cemetery.
Bobbie and Dick met in the last year of the war, and for Dick it was love at first sight. Bobbie was serving in the WRNS, as a Warrant Officer Radio Mechanic, and their courtship was conducted often from a distance, with Dick in India, for some of the time. Bobbie had many war time stories to share with her family, and all enjoyed her telling and re-telling of the occasion when she became engulfed in a parachute in an airplane, whilst still on the tarmac, and having to be cut free from yards of silk, for which she was fined 10 shillings!
Much of their married life was spent in Knowle in the West Midlands, and here she and Dick raised their family, Tim, Sam, and Liz. She was a devoted mother and grandmother to Anna and Lorna. She was a keen gardener, something she had inherited from her father, who was known to have taken cuttings from shrubs whilst attending a garden party at Buckingham Palace, and hiding them under his top hat!!
For a time in retirement, Bobbie and Dick lived in Cretingham, where they still have a number of friends, but more recently, they have lived in Earl Soham, tucked away on Little Green. While she had her health and energy, Bobbie joined the Senior Citizens for their monthly meetings, but in the last few years she has been more confined to home, where she has borne her illness with great dignity and a quiet inner strength. She died peacefully in Aldeburgh Hospital on April 21st. May she rest in peace.