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BARROW UPON TRENT PARISH NEWSMAY 2017 www.barrowupontrentparish.co.uk

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THE most exciting news this term (and as usual there were a lot of exciting things hap-pening) was that on the last day (cutting it fine!) our latest Ofsted report was published – hooray, at last we could announce the re-sult to the world.“Ofsted came knockin’ and said we were rockin’

Ok, not rockin’ exactly but they rated us as GOOD following their most recent visit (and a “really ‘good’ good” in the inspector’s words), and we are thrilled! They had so many lovely things to say about our playgroup that they almost made us blush! We are, quite literally, bursting with pride and have treated ourselves to a spanking new logo.”

Easter FunThe last day of term also saw our customary Easter bonnet ‘parade’ and stay and play for all our parents and friends. A lovely morning was had by so many of our fabulous supporters who enjoyed hot cross buns with tea and coffee, and the children

had made Easter nests earlier in the week which as you can see, were enjoyed in the sunshine.

Any Bears Out There?As part of our “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt” theme, we took the children across to the Suzie Dixon Park for lots of exploration, puddle and mud splashing, and fun on the equipment – we all love using the fabulous space just across the road, such an asset

LAMBSAnother excitement was a visit by Tamara from Betty’s Farm with four adorable lambs, to tie in with our ‘baby animals’ topic, for the children to pet and feed. The children were absolutely enthralled, and who can blame them.

And then of course we have the usual fun and mayhem. Snow angels indoors, car washing ‘just because’ (well all children like playing with water), planting Jack’s beans to climb up to the Giant’s Castle, and exploring colours for Holi with paint in spray bottles.Don’t forget we’re quite social, why not drop by and say hello…

Facebook: www.facebook.com/saleanddavysplaygroup Twitter: www.twitter.com/sale-anddavyplay Website: www.saleanddavys-playgroup.co.uk

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around the village.There had been a problem with the small holding next to the cemetery as animals had escaped both onto the com-munity park & into the Cem-etery, the Clerk has spoken to the owner of the animals. A large sighting of vermin had also been reported to SDDC to see if anything could be done to get the area cleaned up a little.

The Clerk’s ReportAll correspondence has been dealt with and the Clerk had sorted out issues at the cot-tages. The Clerk had called SDDC pest control in to deal with a vermin problem at the back of the cottages. The TVC group had worked well at Greenacres and tree guards and posts had been supplied for them to install. Reports from representa-tives on Outside bodiesMr Chris Holt had attended a meeting regarding the future of sport in the area and reported that Elvaston, Melbourne and Hilton dominated proceed-ings The main agenda was for us as a council motivating our Parish into more exercise and healthy interests which should be set up by volunteers in the Parish and could be grant ap-plied for if successful and fund raising friendly. I did point out whilst the SDDC keep giving planning permission to all developers buying all the plots in the Parish which would of made wonderful venues and areas for recreation the scheme just would not work in the Parish as facilities are few and far between with premium time mostly taken in the small vil-lage hall we have. I used the Vicarage as an example which in our eyes would have been a perfect donation of land and venue funded by the council for the Parish to use as a facility to attract archery, bowling, walking club HQ just to name a few options. I was given a lot of support from the chamber for this point and I was assured the Council would look at why all planning permissions are being granted in the Parish before consideration of a leisure facility option to be funded by grants and local fundraising.

Parish News The front cover of the May edition will be hopefully by the playgroup. All the reports from the Parish Meeting will also be included.

Risk Assessment in the Parish this had been done by Mr Chris Holt, nothing major was reported. April will be done by Cllr Atkin, May Cllr Heathcote, June Cllr Davison, and July Cllr Holt & August Cllr Cheshire.

Greenacres A letter had been received from the TCV group who had been working down there; after discussions it was resolved to implement their proposal - they will be deco-

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PARISH COUNCIL REPORTReport from the Parish Council Meeting held on Tues-day 4th April 2017

Public Participation A parishioner raised concern over the state of the pavement between Hall Park & the Church Gate, this will be reported to highways by CLLR Rob Davison & the Clerk. A chevron is also falling off the post on Church Lane this will also be reported.The street light was reported as not working at the Swarke-stone end of the parish opposite the houses, this will be re-ported.� Bags of rubbish have been dumped in the hedge on Barrow Lane. These will be reported.

Police Liaison Officer, County Councillor and District Councillor.District Cllr Peter Watson commented that round � of the Boundary Commission review was now complete and we should expect round 3 very soon.Part � of the Local Plan sees the next consultation on the �4th, �5th & �6th April. 3 more reports of overweight Lorries crossing the causeway have been reported and details passed onto trading standards. Community Clean-ups have been taking place and bags are available from Teresa Wilkins at the Clean Team.

County Councillor Rob Davison reported that warning signs for overweight Lorries will very soon be installed. Cllr Davison congratulated everyone on the successful Boundary Review as this happened on �st April �0�7.Cllr Davison had attended the Gravel Liaison meeting and reported that letters of concern and action requests will be sent to the County Council & Highways regarding the Cul-vert on Green Lane and this will be kept as an urgent mat-ter.Cllr Davison was thanked for his recent grant to the Parish from his community Leadership fund, the Clerk has ordered 3 new benches for the Parish and a set of 5 a side goal posts for the Susie Dixon Park.The problem of Parking was once again mentioned and Cllr Davison requested that photos be sent to the Police to deal with them and also for the Clerk to request the Police pres-ence at school pick up time in the new term.

The police had commented that all is well in the area.

Co-option of additional Councillor onto the Parish Coun-cilMr Chris Holt had expressed an interest to fill the vacancy as Parish Councillor as no other applications had been received he was duly co-opted onto the Parish Council.

Chairman Cllr Heathcote reported that she had attended the recent Gravel Liaison meeting and that Lafarge are 3 months away from completing extractions as per the current plan and hope to get approval for the extension asap. Cllr Heathcote reported recent problems with mud on the road and that the stock piled heights seemed high both these is-sues will be looked into.Cllr Heathcote had received reports of people speeding in the parish, the Clerk has ordered some signs to be placed

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ratively hedging off some sections of the lake shore in the Autumn with the pruning’s to enable birds and other wildlife to breed and prevent dogs from disturbing them when they enter the water.

Susie Dixon Park Due to a grant we have been able to or-der some 5 a side Goal Posts these will be installed shortly. There has been a huge increase in the amount of Dog Mess being left in the park, this is really unacceptable and the Par-ish Council & the Dog Warden will be installing covert cam-eras to catch the offending owners.

Cemetery All in good order.

Small Play Park The slide & the Seesaw have finally been fixed the Clerk will thank SDDC.

Parish Cottages No � had reported boiler problems and ver-min had been spotted at the back of the cottages, both prob-lems had been dealt with.

The Annual Parish Meeting is on the ��th April, it was resolved to serve light refreshments, and the Clerk will ar-range this.

The next meeting of the Parish Council is on Tuesday 2nd May this will be the Annual General Meeting 2017 at 7pm. planning applications will be available to view from 6.45pm.

Anyone interested in what’s going on or if you have any concerns about things in the parish you are more than wel-come to attend this meeting.

Agendas for this meeting will be available on the Parish Website www.barrowupontrentparish.co.uk four days before the meeting. If you require a paper copy please contact the Clerk.THE VICAR, THE REVD TONY LUkE, WRITES...Dear friends,

Having just experienced 7 Annual Church Meetings during the last month, I am truly amazed at the breadth of our Church life and above all at the wonderful contributions made by so many people towards its ministry. As I go around the 7 par-ishes I am so appreciative of the dedicated service exercised by churchwardens and vergers; those who deal with corre-spondence and administration and those who keep an impor-tant eye on the finances; those who care for our beautiful, ancient buildings, offer their musical gifts or ring the bells to call people to worship; those who teach and encourage the young and those who care pastorally for the elderly and the infirm; those who clean, tidy and decorate our churches; those who take part in leading public worship by reading, leading intercessions and distributing the sacrament; those who teach and preach; those who in quieter ways encourage affirm and pray for others; those who cook, bake and make for social events; those who exercise a ministry of welcome to newcomers and visitors; those who arrange events and lead groups, which enable people to come together for mu-

SERVICES IN MAY

Barrow Twyford

Wed. 3rd May 9.30 am Holy Communion Paul Hygate

7th May 4th of Easter Acts 2. 42-47 John 10. 1-10

9.00 am Holy Communion Tony Luke

10.30 am Holy Communion Paul Hygate

14th May 5th of Easter Acts 7. 55-60 John 14. 1-14

10.30 am Morning Worship Bruce Ward

3.00 pm Evensong Paul Hygate

21st May 6th of Easter Acts 17. 22-31 John 14. 15-21

10.30 am Holy Communion Ian Winterbottom

10.30 am Morning Prayer John Lear

Thurs. 25th May Ascension Day

2.30 pm Sung Eucharist at Aston with Mercia Deanery M.U.

28th May Ascensiontide Acts 1. 6-14 John 17. 1-11

10.30 am Worship for All The Barrow Team

3.00 pm Holy Communion Ian Winterbottom

4th June Pentecost Acts 2. 1-21 John 7. 37-39

9.00 am Holy Communion Paul Hygate

10.30 am Holy Communion Paul Hygate

tual support and fellowship; those who exercise their min-istry in the workplace or the wider community and reveal Christ’s love in their day-to-day dealings with people; those who support the Church’s work financially, and so the list goes on...

Thank you for all your time, energy and money. We are all called to have a ministry for Jesus. It is our response to his love for us. At the same time, the Church cannot func-tion without people offering themselves to bear office and give leadership to the body of Christ. No clergy, readers or churchwardens drop from heaven, all begin life as hesitant occupiers of the pews, who one day think, “Perhaps God would like me to do that!”

It is a real blessing this year that we will be joined by two new licensed ministers. As I announced last month, Ed Backhouse will be joining us as stipendiary curate on the �nd July. Graham Streek will also be licensed as a Reader on the 9th September. Please pray for both of them as they prepare to begin this new stage in their ministry.

Remember though, that the Church would fail to be the Church if there were not many others exercising their Chris-tian ministry in a variety of ways, both within the organised life of the Church and outside in the wider community and world.

The current season of Easter culminates in the Feast of Pen-tecost, when we celebrate the Holy Spirit, the giver of all good gifts and the one who equips and strengthens each of is for ministry. Where do you exercise ministry for Christ?

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THE ANNUAL BENEFICE MEETING This will take place on Wednesday �0th May at 7.30 pm in the All Saints’ Heritage Centre at Aston. Everyone is welcome to what is always a very relaxed meeting and an opportunity for people from all the parishes to get to know each another better. I shall present my Rector’s Report and we will have a bring and share supper. Do come along!

THE FRIENDS OF ST WILFRID’SThe Friends of St Wilfrid’s organisation was established at the end of �0�4 as a group of people who were interested in the preservation of the building that is St Wilfrid’s Church, Barrow.

Since that date, over �00 people have signed up to be in-cluded as Friends, and several social and fund-raising events have taken place over the last two years to support the 8-strong committee who are leading the project to transform the building into a community space for the whole of the parish, and for wider use.

Currently, the main thrust of the project is to seek funding for extensive changes to the heating, lighting and drainage of the church. Not only will this result in the building being preserved for future generations, but it will also provide a large and comfortable venue for many uses by everyone, not just for religious purposes.

Fundraising events have included an antiques valuation day, several open days, a Salvation Army band concert, Travel-ling People concert, a Jazz concert and other social events. An amazing Auction of Promises raised £3000 in December. In the summer, a Hoe-Down dance has been arranged for the first weekend of July.

An application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for major grant-funding is currently underway and we hope that a successful outcome will enable a speedy beginning to the project.

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SALE AND DAVY’S PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATIONAt the AGM in September �0�6 the Chairperson, Vice Chair and Secretary were all re-elected to their posts. Jean Crofts stepped down from her role as PTA Treasurer and was re-placed by Penny McQuilton. Specific projects requiring our support for this school year were agreed at this AGM. Subsequently, we have enjoyed another busy year of fund-raising to date. The family events continue to receive great support from parents and children. As in the previous year, we held Chocolate Bingo in February and this was as well attended as ever. In fact we had to ticket this year’s event to avoid overcrowding and the evening raised more money than any previous bingo event. We also held another Easter Egg hunt around the village recently which started and ended at a busy and buzzing Brookfield and received great support from the village as well as the school.

PARISH AGM REPORTS

The school discos in October, May and the Year 6 leaver’s party in July were once again successful and well attended. We continue to host the school Christmas party where every child receives a present from Father Christmas! The Christ-mas and Summer raffles continue to be popular and raise much needed funds for the PTA.

The ‘Cinema Night’ continues to prove very popular with the children. Recent cinema nights have run very smoothly with additional food options, and the children love them. We have renewed our annual license so this allows us to run any number of these film events throughout the year and we continue to maximise this opportunity.

This year our fundraising initiatives have enabled the PTA to contribute towards Arts and Sports Weeks in the form of school trips and theatre visits and Science week activi-ties. Specifically this year we have set our sights on raising enough money to fund an outdoor activity park or trim track for the school and village. We are well on track to hit our funding targets by the end of this school year in July and at that point hopefully we can proceed with the development.

At the beginning of term we ran our ‘Silver Smarties’ campaign specifically with a view to funding this exciting project. We provided all the children with a tube of Smarties and asked that they be rewarded with �0p’s to fill the empty tubes for any ‘odd jobs’ they were able to do for their par-ents. We were overwhelmed by the response of the parents and children to this fundraising initiative and once all the Smarties tubes had been returned in January and we counted up the �0p’s we had raised a staggering amount towards our target.

The PTA meetings continue to be well supported and we are delighted to have gained some new members this year from the September intake. Gingerbread Men were sent out to all new children on their first day with a note attached for their parents which we hope made them feel welcome and also encouraged them to participate in our events. This has been demonstrated by their amazing support for our most recent activities.

We are actively exploring new initiatives for the �0�7/�8 school year after a very positive fundraising effort in �0�6/�7. We continue to enjoy working in partnership with Sarah Briggs and all the school staff and their proactive sup-port in promoting and attending our events continues to be greatly appreciated.

We are also tremendously grateful to the continued support of the parents at Sale and Davy’s whose amazing generos-ity allows us to host these fundraising events on very small budgets and enables us to maximise the money that we make and are able to pass on to the school. Their attendance and participation in our events never ceases to amaze us.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the PTA committee for their hard work and support in continuing to make the events so successful and raising valuable funds for our school. It truly is a team effort and I am proud to be part of this group of people who volunteer a significant amount of their time to support the aspirations of our children’s school.

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It was also noted at our AGM that there were some parents leaving the PTA this year as their children moved on to new schools and we said a very spe-cial thank you to them as their contribution over a number of years to the PTA had been in-valuable.

SALE AND DAVYS Hello my name is Evelyn and I’m Lily.

We would like to present our report to the Parish Council.

Sale and Davys Primary School has a very active School Council. Members are elected by the children at the start of each aca-demic year and the current school council consists of 14 members usually made up of one boy and one girl from each year group.

We would like to talk about some of the events that the School Council has organ-ised over the past year:

The joint Church and Summer Fayre – We organised games and stalls and ensured that members of the School Council were able to help out on the day. Everyone had a brilliant time.

Children in Need – This is always a really fun day. The staff and chil-dren paid £1 to come to school dressed in pyjamas or any-thing with Pudsey on. We raised money from lots of activities we had organised.

Comic Relief – We asked the children and teach-ers to come to school dressed as superheroes. We organised some events to raise money in-cluding a cookie bake off. We sold the delicious cookies at the end of the day. We learnt about children in Africa who are less fortunate than ourselves and how the money we raised would help them. An African lady called Bemma came to visit school. She told stories, taught us dances and helped us to make our own African artwork.

Festive Afternoon – This Christmas we held a Festive Afternoon where parents were invited

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to see a variety of Christmas themed perform-ances. This got everybody feeling really fes-tive. We raised money from the sale of re-freshments and some kind donations.

At School Council meetings we regularly review our savings account, discuss spending plans and decide which charities we want to support and fun ways to do it.

We hope this report provides an insight into how the School Council works. As you can see we are all re-ally busy, have lots of fun and enjoy raising money for worthwhile causes.

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BARROW ON TRENT WI This has been another very good and enjoyable year for the WI. We increased our membership to 34 during �0�6.

Our finances are healthy and in fact have been boosted by no less that the tax man after our treasurers successfully applied for gift aid.

We have again enjoyed some interesting evenings at the Vil-lage Hall. We started the year off with a very topical talk on Bee Keeping which was extremely informative and luckily no bees were present.

In February our very own Chris Johnson did a presentation on her group charity bike ride from Eggington to Nice - a ride of over �000 miles which is a fabulous achievement.

March saw the return of Bob and Del Neill with their Bits and Bobs – teams having to guess what objects from the past were used for. In April we had a very interesting talk on the RNLI and in May we had two small people talking about their lives and the problems they had to cope with.

June saw us tasting cheese and July was hearing about ani-mal rescue.

In September we had a talk by Catrin Rutland (Professor of Anatomy) on Life at a Vet School. She was incredible and had achieved so much she left us all wondering how she managed to do everything and this was certainly not good for our self-esteem!

In October we heard about life as a Fire Fighter and author.November was our AGM.

Outings included a visit to see the snowdrops at Hopton Hall, theatre visits to see Legally Blonde and Guys & Dolls. We had a very informative outing to the Birmingham Back-to-Backs with time for shopping and lunch.

Our summer outing took us to Rosliston Forestry and Fal-conry Centre where we all had the opportunity to handle the beautiful owls. Supper was taken at the local pub (natural-ly). There was a trip to the Christmas Market at Chatsworth and we finished the year with our Christmas meal at The Winery in Burton.

So another successful and enjoyable year for Barrow on Trent WI

CHAIR OF THE PARISH COUNCILThe Parish Council has had another very interesting and busy year, ably supported by Alison, our Clerk, who has again worked tirelessly to support the Council and our cot-tage tenants, and to look after the business of the Council and parish over the last twelve months. As ever, Alison has always been business-like and diligent in her duties, but always with humour and goodwill. Thank you. We also welcome Chris Holt who has volunteered to join the Parish Council to fill the vacancy left by Jim Ault.

Our thanks go to Peter Watson and Hilary Coyle of South Derbyshire District Council who have regularly attended

our Parish Council meetings, and to our Safer Neighbour-hood Police officers and PCSO who have always made themselves available if we have needed their assistance. Cllr Rob Davison, our County Councillor, has attended our meetings each month and has supported us or offered advice on many of the issues of the Parish. We would like to thank all of these people for their continuing support of the Parish Council and the parishioners in both general and specific issues.

A specific issue that has dominated the work of the Parish Council this year has been our application to move our parish boundary by transferring an area of future residen-tial development to the Parish Council of Stenson Fields. After six years of hard work and persistence, the boundary change was agreed by South Derbyshire District Council early in March and took effect from �st April.

This would not have been possible without the determined and overwhelming support of parishioners. On two sepa-rate occasions they were asked to put pen to paper, or to e-mail their support of the Parish Council proposals; their overwhelming support played a large part in persuading SDDC of our case, and the achievement of the boundary change. Again, thank you all.

Earlier this year the Parish Council discovered that the Government had approved the development of the In-finity Garden Village within our parish boundary. After much discussion with the District Council, we now have more information about the proposals; it is intended that the majority of the new village will be contained within the area transferred to Stenson Fields, and with some in-dustrial / business areas within the parish of Barrow upon Trent. However, there is still some uncertainty surround-ing the area off Lowes Lane that may, in the future, be-come part of the Garden Village, but is still within our parish boundary.

The Government has proposed a change to our Parlia-mentary constituency boundary that would move this par-ish from South Derbyshire to Derby South. Many people have expressed their concern over this and we await the outcome of the consultation.

The Council continues its representation on local area committees, representing the views of parishioners and acquainting the village with developments outside of our immediate vicinity. The Parish has representatives on the Gravel Liaison committee with Derbyshire County Coun-cil, South Derbyshire District Council, the Environment Agency and Tarmac.

In recent months we have been made aware of an appli-cation by Tarmac to extend their current workings in the vicinity of the processing plant; this is to keep the quarry open whilst awaiting the result of an extensive planning application to extend the gravel workings south-west-wards over the River Trent. Please be assured that the Parish Council, via the Gravel Liaison Committee, will constantly monitor work at the quarry and raise any con-

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cerns that parishioners may have about the site.

The Parish Council continues to support the residents of Arleston and Merrybower in trying to resolve the issues of speeding, anti-social behaviour, fly-tipping etc. in that area of the parish.

Planning issues in the parish continue to take time and effort in trying to ensure that decisions made by outside bodies have limited impacts on our community. We ac-cept that there is a constant need for more residential dwellings, but will continue to engage with planning au-thorities to give our views on these proposals.

The Parish Council continues to support the production of the Parish News and the Parish Website. Everyone is wel-come to make use of these media, and if there are any sug-gestions for change, we would welcome feedback. These are the main vehicles for information from the Council to parishioners

The cottages continue to provide attractive and comfort-able accommodation for parishioners, and the Council maintains a list of eligible parishioners who wish to be considered as future tenants.

The Council continues to maintain the cemetery as an at-tractive and peaceful area of the village. Our thanks go to Patrick, our Parish Lengthsman for his continued work around the village, keeping the cemetery, roadways and parish areas clean and tidy.

The area between the Cemetery and the Susie Dixon Park has been enhanced by the provision of a pond-dipping area. We hope that children of all ages will be able to make safe use of this area to study the natural habitat of the pond, and to enjoy the wildlife in this area.

The Greenacres area continues to develop and mature, and the Parish Council has begun to undertake planned maintenance of the trees and bushes in the area. Work has begun with The Conservation Volunteers to clear and tidy the shrub and tree areas, and to ensure that Greenacres continues as a natural and well-maintained area for eve-ryone to enjoy.

The Parish Precept has been held this year. We continue to undertake extensive work around the parish and fol-lowing the major investments of recent years, we are now able to gradually build a reserve fund for unexpected ex-penditure.

The Council is continually grateful for the interest of pa-rishioners in Parish Council matters, and welcomes any questions or comments, especially during the public ses-sions within each Parish Council meeting. All Council-lors are very happy to receive questions or comments at any time, and we shall continue to do the best we can for the parish and the people who live here.

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BARROW UPON TRENT PARISH COUNCILRECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT

FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2017

Year ending Year ending 31st March 2016 31st March 2017

£ £9812.00 11027.004743.00 0.00

33383.08 34106.08642.40 418.00

7.62 6.761770.00 1420.00

50.00 40.00535.61 50.45

0.00 1856.46440.00 8806.00740.00 650.00

52123.71 58380.75

£ £17809.91 4826.66

3019.12 3670.231520.00 Tennant deposit refund 1130.001274.50 1058.553855.49 407.002165.18 1679.928631.78 9145.792185.40 2345.67

0.00 0.00479.96 709.96

0.00 411.002767.51 3466.061344.50 1034.50

779.98 Village Hall Car Park 391.50777.74 Ni & Paye for Parish Lengthman & Clerk 835.01

1710.00 3490.32

25.00 25.002083.69 2152.00

830.00 160.000.00 8000.00

51259.76 44939.17

£ £17994.13 18857.9852123.71 58380.7551259.86 44939.1718857.98 32299.56

£ £3801.68 6236.5

14491.15 25497.73565.15 565.33

18857.98 32299.56

1. ASSETS

At 31st March 2017, the following assets were held

Value£2,500.00

Community Assets

Section 136 (incl footpaths)Precept

Bank Reconciliation as at 31st March 2017

Donations/GrantsVATGeneral AdministrationAllotments

Parish Lengthsman

Greenacres

Sportsmobile & Playmobile

Cemetry FeesBank Interest

CemeteryPlaying FieldsSection 137

General AdministrationHousing

TOTAL RECEIPTS

Add income

Balance as at 31 March 2017

Balance held at 1st April 2016Receipts and Payments summary

TOTAL PAYMENTSpond dipping area at community park

NatWest Reserve AccountNatWest Current Account

Deduct expenditure

TotalNatWest Tenant Bond Account

Parish NewsGrounds Maintenance

Cemetery

PAYMENTS

Cottage Deposits

Parish NewsHousing Rents

Chairman's Allowance for Purchase of Remembrance Wreath

AllotmentsVATSalary & Expenses

Parish PlanDog Waste & Litter Bin Servicing

RECEIPTS

£10,000.00£2,500.00£5,000.00

£80,000.00£1,000.00

£100.00Goal Posts £1,800.00Community Park £18,000.00

£250.00

£894,706.00£10,000.00

£1,025,856.00The basis of this evaluation is replacement costs on insurance.No movement or disposal of buildings took place during the year.Ownership of Greenacres passed to the Parish Council in 2007.

The following Section 137 payments were made in 2016-2017Village Hall £300.00New Year Lunch £558.55Barrow Badgers £200.00

£1,058.55

£1.00 per annum

Display Boards

Village Hall Car Park

Playing Field SDDCwith the Parish Council as a tenant

TOTAL

4. DEBTS OUTSTANDING

5. SECTION 137

6. TENANCIES

2-18 Twyford RoadBuildings

2. LEASESAt 31st March 2012 no leases were in operation.

Allotments

The PinfoldGreenacresNoticeboards

Road Barriers

3. BORROWINGSAt 31st March 2017 no loans were outstanding.

At 31st March 2017, a VAT rebate of £3947.32 was outstanding

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County Councillor Davison reported on issues over the last �� months and also reflected over his term of of-fice which began in �0�3. He referred to the impor-tance of the 3 tiers of councils working together to get good outcomes for local residents. To do that, he had attended in excess of 90% of parish council meetings over 4 years. That was about 39/40 out of 44 in Barrow. Because he represented 6 parished areas, in total that meant �30/�40 out of about �64.

The most important change for Barrow was the re-drawing of the boundary with Stenson Fields, finally achieved in April this year and which he had actively supported from �0�3. Barrow got 5/6ths of what was needed for the future and was secured through the ef-forts of residents and their parish council. He referred to the January �0�7 SDDC announcement of an ‘Infin-ity Garden Village’ on land that would have been part of Barrow, were it not for the boundary changes. He had put an article in his Broadside newsletter about this, which he described as a scandal.

He commented that the Broadside had been produced on a quarterly basis, so over 4 years each village ad-dress will have received �6 copies.

Referring to very local Barrow-upon-Trent issues over the last 4 years Cllr Davison cited:

gaining resolution over access to Footpath No.� (when Ken Atkin was the parish rights-of-way lead); the continuing flood-risk problems at the Green Lane culvert; the quality rebuilding and surfacing of the paths on both sides of Twyford Road; ecuring the clearing of the Barrow to Swarkestone Nursery pathway to its original width, enabling pram and wheelchair use;the recent restoration of Chapel Lane’s surface.

Cllr Davison referred to chairing the Tarmac liaison committee for 4 years and was pleased that the operator generally maintained a good relationship with the vil-lage. Future operations were in the process of consid-eration through the planning system.

As regards Swarkestone, he said the planned new weight limit warning equipment would be installed in April. The new Infinity Park Way had caused the unintended consequence of worsening northbound congestion. This meant turning out from Barrow towards Derby or Mel-bourne was more difficult; at the Cuttlebridge junction the extra volume had made that junction more danger-ous and two serious accidents had occurred. It was now

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essential to get improvements at both junctions.

In response to a question about the Infinity Garden Village, Cllr Davison referred to the weaknesses of the SDDC application. Apart from the criteria not be-ing met, the west-east road would not relieve the extra northbound traffic generated from the development. In-cluding the possibility of a new A50 junction on Deep-dale Lane he felt could only be described as aspiration-al. He would not let this go.

This is a message sent via Derbyshire Alert. This infor-mation has been sent on behalf of Derbyshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Officers are advising owners and drivers of Ford Transit vans to be vigilant after a number of incidents in the Amber Valley where thieves have managed to get inside without forcing the vehicle’s locks.

There have been a number of reports to police about tools and valuables being stolen from Ford Transit vans in the area, but where no damage has been done.

It is believed the offenders may have used a device on these vans to bypass the lock system.

PC Andy Swift is from one of the Safer Neighbourhood policing teams in the Somercotes and Riddings area. He said: “We are aware of a method to bypass the lock systems of Ford Transit vans so we are advising drivers and owners to make sure they remove any tools or valu-ables when it’s parked up, especially overnight, and to set an alarm.

“If this isn’t possible then we would urge people to consider additional security such as deadlocks or Slam-locks independently of manufacturers to help reduce the risk of being targeted in this way.”

PC Swift added: “We’re working hard to investigate all incidents where vans have been targeted by thieves, and to find those responsible.

“Most tradespeople will be dependent on their van and tools to earn a living, and the time to restock these tools can be costly, frustrating and time consuming so we cannot stress enough how important it is to help reduce the risk of having them stolen.”

Anyone with any information about crime, or to re-port any suspicious activity in your area, call 101.For more advice and information about crime pre-vention visit the website: www.derbyshire.police.uk.

ADVICE FOR FORD TRANSIT OWN-ERS FOLLOWING VAN THEFTS IN THE AMBER VALLEY AREA

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ST WILFRID’S CHURCHThis year has seen a slight increase in average con-gregation numbers and a continuation of the excel-lent relationship between the church and Sale and Davys school.

The usual service rota of communion and more informal services means that we are able to offer a service that suits all types of church attender. Our thanks go to Tony and his team of unpaid service leaders who ensure that we are able to provide a service every week.

The Youth Group contin-ues to take place every term-time Wednesday evening; the average age of the members has re-duced this year as a re-sult of opening the Youth Group to Year 6 pupils. We are now into our �3th year as a Youth Group, and games and activities keep us all busy.

In addition to our normal services we have special events such as Harvest, Christmas and Easter that are always very well at-tended, especially when they are led by our younger members. The annual Re-membrance service at the cross, when we are joined by members of the Brookfield, again took place.

The school again organised an afternoon Summer Fete that was supported by parents and congregation and raised money to help with the continued upkeep of our church building for the parish.

The churchyard is mown by the South Derbyshire Dis-trict Council; this work continues to be supplemented by the Parish Council, when required, to ensure that the churchyard is kept as tidy as we would all wish.

The Parish Share for �0�6 was again more than St Wil-frid’s was able to afford, and the Church Council gave notice to the Derby Diocese that it would only be able to pay a proportion of the amount. Our church building

Medieval Barrow

The Order of Knights to whom Robert de Bakepuiz

gave our church, were known as the “the Knights

Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem”, or more

commonly as the “Knights Hospitallers” (like the

Bagpuiz family, their names changed through the

centuries) but they were officially ‘recognised’ by the

Pope in the early 12th century (1113– just over 900

years ago, so things do tend to change! They are

often confused with the “Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon” better

known as the “Knights Templars” (formed 1118 - just less than 900 years ago!) The

Knights Hospitallers grew out of a hospital for sick pilgrims in Jerusalem formed

c.1070 as carers of the sick, (with vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience) and

became military Knights when they found that they also had to protect pilgrims and

fight in the crusades. The Knights Templars started as a military organisation, also

fighting in the crusades. In addition to being an elite force, the Templars devised a

form of ‘power of attorney’ taking care of travelling knights’ and pilgrims’ money so

they were not robed on the way, but could always collect money whilst travelling in

Europe, when they needed it (an early form of the ‘cash point’). This was to be their

downfall. They became very wealthy and this attracted the attention and disapproval

of the King of France. From 1307, Knights Templars were arrested all over Europe;

terrible things were said about them (mostly untrue) and within five years many had

been tortured and executed and the order disbanded. Did the Hospitallers suffer

the same fate – no, very different – but we will look at that next month!

insurance costs over £3000 per annum, and this, along with other regular running and maintenance costs means that we have again only been able to pay £�600 towards our Parish Share. These funds are raised by a small con-gregation, but please continue to be assured that money donated for the future of the building will never be used to fund everyday running costs.

A further application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the transformation of the church building will be submitted this year.

We are grateful to all who contribute in any way to the maintenance of this beautiful building and its church-yard, and to the people who have expressed a wish to support the Friends of St Wilfrid’s.

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After a gruelling 8 months of playing games and training week in week out , through sun , rain , snow , floods and wind the 2016/2017 has fi-nally come to an end.

It’s been a very positive season for all involved and I am very proud of what the club has achieved.

Having played 21 games the Barrow Badgers U9S record was:

Played 21 Won 14 Drew 2 Lost 5

A fantastic record for a fledgling team that has only been together 16 months. The boys have been magnificent in both attitude and passion and have given everything representing the Vil-lage and you should all be very proud of them as they love playing for Barrow On Trent and give 110% every game.

With many highlights including qualifying for the Derbyshire Cup as group winners and getting to the last 16 of the tournament . The team is now recognised as a Grade A team (Top 12) and the Badgers are now well and truly established club with a fantastic parent base , players and most importantly a wonderful ethos on how the beau-tiful game should be enjoyed. Add to this the FA Charter Award and over 20 regular children every week down at the Susie Dixon Park being coached with passion and lots of fun the club goes from strength to strength.

Our end of season awards night is on Satur-day 10th June at 7pm at the brookfield and I would like to welcome you all to come and have a drink and meet the wonderful parents and most importantly the children who wear the Barrow Badgers badge and represent the village with wonderful enthusiasm and pride..

SALE & DAVYS CE PRIMARY SCHOOLOur School Community

The school continues to be a popular choice for parents and there are currently ��� children on roll who are placed in 4 classes; most of which are mixed aged97.9% of children come from a white British back-ground.The school continues to strive to be at the heart of the local community.

Achievements and Standards

Children achieve above the national average at the end of Key Stages � and �. �00% of Year � children passed the phonics screening test compared to 77% nationally.93% of Year 6 children achieved the expected level in English and maths compared to 53% Nationally.

Activities and Links with the local CommunityStaff of Sale and Davys School and Sale and Davys Playgroup participated in Health and Safety training in September.The annual Science Week took place in the spring term and children learnt about investigations and fair tests.Music tuition continued for Year 3 and Year 4 where the children learned to play the clarinet. Four school church services took place last year at St Wilfrids Church. These were well attended by parents, grandparents and members of the village. Dr Scarfe has continued to support the school by playing the piano at these services. The joint school and church fete took place in July and once again this was attended by villagers, pupils and parents. Money raised was spilt equally between the church and school.The school has continued to have a very successful net-ball and football team and children have participated in a range of matches at Barrow and other neighbouring schools. The Tri-Sports tournament has continued this year involving Sale and Davys and Weston and Aston Schools. Children have played competitive games in-cluding benchball, dodgeball, hockey and rounders. The school continues to have a very strong and enthusi-astic PTA and a range of events have been organised in order to raise money for the school. Current fundraising is aimed at providing a tyre park and trim trail on the field next to the school.The school began working very closely with the Parish Council in developing a Forest School site at the com-munity park and it is hoped that children will be able to start activities in the summer term.The school continues to have strong links with neigh-bouring schools and cluster moderation for writing has taken place at Stenson Fields and Aston.

Future events and activitiesThe school is busy preparing for the May SATSThe annual School and Church Fair will take place on Saturday �0th MayThe annual Sports Week will take place in June.The annual swimming gala and sports day will take place in July

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We thank the Parish council and our sponsor George Simnett Funeral Directors of Chellaston for all they have done as without them we would not have such a wonderful club to be so very proud of. We continue to train every Saturday to maintain the friendship and hard work and sum-mer tournaments will be entered around Derby-shire and Staffordshire.

On a personal note I would like to thank Lisa and Kristian Hood and my wonderful wife Donna for their total dedication and commitment to the club behind the scenes. Amazing people who are the true heroes who without them I could not be left to do the fun bit and coach such wonderful kids.

Fancy joining the club as either a potential coach or Badger? Please contact Lisa or Chris on 07490 127230 / 07789 277224

Thank you all !!

COME ON YOUBADGERS!!!!!

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Secretaries Barbara Hateley 01332 691637 Rita Bacon 01332 701548

Invite the Parishioners of Barrow-Upon-Trent to attend:

Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 17th May at 7:30pm

We have some officer vacancies on the Village Hall Committee that require filling.

If the vacancies are not filled unfortunately the Village Hall may have to close and all users will need to look elsewhere to hold their clubs, events etc. We sincerely hope that this will not be the case.

There are just 6 meetings per year to attend

We look forward to seeing you there.

Kind regards The Village Hall Committee

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