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I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Festival
Programme
2
Festival
Programme cont.
3
What’s On? 4
News from the
Churches
6
News from
Chesterton
7
Festival Venues 8
Chesterton News
J U N E 2 0 1 5 S E R V I N G O U R L O C A L C O M M U N I T Y
FESTIVAL EDITION
Chesterton Festival 2015 will take place from Friday 19 to Sunday 28 June at venues all over Chesterton.
See pages 2, 3 and 8 for details.
There are plenty of opportunities for getting involved – why not have a stall at Saturday’s
Community Fun Day on 20 June or put on your own event under the Festival Banner? Could you
help distribute publicity? Visit the Festival website at www.chestertonfestival.com to find out
more. Best of all, of course, would be coming along. There should be something for everyone, and
we’d love to see you. The Festival Steering Committee
Could you join our team of volunteer
distributors? Contact Rachel on 306150 or
for more info.
Would you like to advertise in the next edition of Chesterton News? Or to sponsor the next edition in this space?
Contact Sue Richards on [email protected]
Calling all artists – from professional to novice ‘Stuff of Life’ is an Art Exhibition with a difference. Initiated by White House Arts, it will take place
on 14 and 15 November 2015 at Stapleford Granary and offers an opportunity to everyone, all ages,
to take part and help raise funds for two chosen charities, Practical Action www.practicalaction.org
an international development charity and Rowan www.rowanhumberstone.co.uk, a Cambridge based
charity which provides creative opportunities for learning-disabled adults. The last exhibition raised
over £15,000 for charity.
Experienced artist or complete novice, you have the chance to create and exhibit an artwork in any
medium 2/3 D based on a 12”x 16” canvas and using the theme ‘Stuff of Life’. The entry fee is £10
which includes a 12” x 16”canvas and hanging fee. Completed canvases need to be submitted by 4
November and will be exhibited for £45.
You can purchase a canvas from Stapleford Granary, 9.30am-5.00pm Monday-Friday, or by contacting
Gladys Jones at White House Arts. Tel: 01223 420018, Email: [email protected].
Further information can be found at www.whitehousearts.co.uk
W E L C O M E T O T H E
F O U R T E E N T H
E D I T I O N O F
C H E S T E R T O N
N E W S
P A G E 2
C H E S T E R T O N N E W S
Festival Programme Friday 19 June, 6-10pm
Friday Night @ Brown’s Field
Green End Rd., CB4 1RU Come and join us to celebrate the start of the Chesterton Festival!
We have a fantastic line-up this year including Sugarbeat, EdwardAlice and Matty and the
Bullsharks!
We will have a range of children’s activities
with a variety of food stalls.
So bring a bottle and a blanket, buy some
food!
Free entry to the event - just turn up on the
day.
Saturday 20 June, 1-5pm
Vintage Tea Room by food4food cafe
St Andrew’s Hall, St Andrew’s Road, CB4 1DT Cream teas, refreshments and cakes. Just drop in, or get more info. from Rachel @ food4food on 272953.
Saturday 20 June, 1-5pm
Community Fun Day
Pye’s Rec, off Church
Street, CB4 1DT Stalls, Adventure Zone, Ping Pong for
all, Circus Workshops by High Wired (come and have a go at some basic
circus skills. Fun for all ages), arena
acts, including Ladybirds Jazz Band,
Wiwat! Cambridge Polish Song and
Dance Group, performances from students at Chesterton Community
College and Zumba, food and drink
and more… The afternoon’s activities
will be ushered in by St Andrew’s bellringers ringing a quarter peel.
Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 June, 2-6pm
Open Garden
17 Mariner’s Way, CB4 1BN
1 Capstan Close will also be open on
Saturday 20 June only. A small plantswoman’s town garden showing what can
be created in 6 years: abundance of roses, clematis,
variegated plants, hardy geraniums, unusual climbers, ferns, herbs, pergola, small raised beds, tiny potager,
spiral, fountains, greenhouse, conservatory, sculpture
a n d g r e e n m e n .
Cream Teas, Plants for Sale, Wheelchair Access.
£1 entrance in aid of CAMBRIDGE CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE. Phone Margaret on 01223 778667
for more details. On street parking available.
Hundred Houses Residents Association
is having its AGM on Thursday, 18 June at 7pm
in Sunflower Room at
Freeman House, Inverness Close. For further information
please contact [email protected], Mairin 07795575003 or our facebook
Hundred Houses Resident Association Community
Cambridge
Open
Studios
White House Arts
18th
& 19th
July 2015
11.00 am – 6.00 pm
Ceramics, Jewellery Drawing, Mixed Media
Textiles
To preview exhibits visit www.camopenstudios.co.uk
Elaine’s HAIR FASHIONS
1B ARBURY ROAD
CAMBRIDGE, CB4 2JB
Open Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri
& Sat
Half Day Monday
Senior Citizen Day Monday
and Tuesday
Closed all day Wednesday &
Sunday
Phone: 01223 351480
P A G E 3 S E R V I N G O U R L O C A L C O M M U N I T Y
Saturday 27 June, 7.30pm
Summer Festival Concert of
Seasonal Delights with the
Cambridge Concert
Orchestra, St Georges Church,
Chesterfield Road CB4 1LN www.cambridgeconsertorchestra.org For musical
inspired aerial theatre, the orchestra will be joined by
High Wired. Tickets £10, £8 concessions (£5 children)
a v a i l a b l e f r o m t h e A D C B o o k i n g
office www.adcticketing.com tel 01223 300085. All
proceeds to Cambridge Cruse Bereavement Care.
Flower Festival
Friday 19 June, 1-5pm;
Saturday 20 June 1-5pm
Sunday 21 June, 1-5pm;
Flower Displays, Church Tours &
Concerts
St Andrew’s Church, Church St.,
CB4 1DT This year’s flower displays at St Andrew’s will be on the theme of “Doors and Arches”
The displays will be on show after a Friday lunchtime
concert by the Alpha Choir at 1pm on 19 June.
Free Concert -“A Garland of Songs”- by the Orlando
Singers at 1pm on Saturday 20 June.
Photograph Competition – Design in Architecture
The 2015 subject for the photograph competition will be a photograph of a building (domestic, commercial, historic, folly, public or community). The photograph must have been taken by the named entrant, and not entered into any other competition. No professional photographers are allowed to enter. Each entrant may enter up to six photographs
The photograph can be taken by 35mm or digital camera and printed in black and white or colour. The print must be no bigger than 25cmx20cm (10”x8”). Closing date: 10 June 2015 Please send/take your photograph(s) with a completed entry form(s) (available from St Andrew’s Hall, Brown’s Field Youth & Community Centre or email [email protected]) to: St Andrew’s Hall, St Andrew’s Road, Chesterton, Entries must arrive before 4pm on 10 June 2015. Val Cutting
Sunday 21 June, 7.30pm
Concert
St Laurence’s R.C. Church, 91 Milton Road,
CB4 1XB
Following Chesterton Choral Society’s successful and impressive
concert last March, when, before a large audience, members
performed Welsh composer Karl Jenkins’ well known mass ‘The
Armed Man’, the society is to stage a summer concert during the
forthcoming Chesterton Festival.
Music and songs, appropriate for the warm summer evenings, will be
presented and will include Vaughan Williams lovely ‘Serenade to
Music’.
Tickets for the concert will be £7 each (conc. for over 60s and
unwaged £4), with a family ticket at £15, and can be obtained from
the church door before the performance or by telephoning 01223
243190.
Donald Flory
President
Open Gardens Saturday 27 and
Sunday 28 June 2-6pm
As part of National Gardens Scheme
In aid of charity
16 Chesterton Hall Crescent
10 Gurney Way
55 Milton Road
Three very different town gardens, stuffed full of
flowers and shrubs. There will be plants for sale
and teas at 18 Chesterton Hall Crescent
Admission £5 for all 3 gardens, children free.
More information from
http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/find-a-garden/
Garden.aspx?id=30747 and from 01223 350544
Saturday 27 June, 10am to approx 3pm
Garden Party
Willowbank, Logans Way, Chesterton (opposite the bowls club ), CB4 1BL
We are an Anchor property, providing housing for the over 55s including extra care options. We are raising funds for our tenant
group to allow them to purchase such things as a hearing loop and large screen TV etc for our lounge , We will be charging 50p
entrance fee to our gardens and are hoping to have a BBQ, bring and buy sales, craft stall, tea, coffee cakes etc and many more.
Friday 26 June, 6-7.30pm
Milton Road Library,
Ascham Road, CB4 2BD A talk on all aspects of self-publishing,
by local author and journalist Susan
Grossey. Opportunity to hear about
and buy her Inspector Plank novels.
Mondays Pilates 9.10-10.10am; 6-7pm & 7-8pm. Call 07976 677540 (SAH) ESOL Café 9.30-10.45am & Just Talk English Class 11.15-12 noon. Call 576110 (CCC) Drop-in Coffee Morning 10.15-11.30am (SAH) Chair-based Exercise Drop-in 10.15-11.30am. Call 07976 677540 (SAH) Playlanders Playgroup & Pre-school 9.15-12.15/2.45, Mon, Wed, Fri. Call 420954 (SGH) The Sunshine Club (55+) 1.30-3pm, fortnightly (BF) French Lessons for Children with La Jolie Ronde. 2.30-3pm & 4-6pm. Call 210900 (BF) Young Carers 5.15-7.45pm, fortnightly (BF) Renaissance Fitness 7.30-8.30pm (BF) Chesterton Choral Society 7.30pm. Call 420117 (CMC) Chesterton Lacemakers 7.30-9.30pm. Call 362961 (SAH)
Tuesdays Little Music Makers 9.30 -10.15 & 10.45-11.30am (CMC) Bowls Taster Session 9.45am-12.30pm (CBC) Yoga 9.30-10.45am Call 07979977540 (SAH) Mummy & Me Zumba 10-11am. Call 07985200911 (SAH) Over 50s Folk Dance 2-4pm (BF) Over 60s Club, 1.45pm, fortnightly. Call 423367 (SGH) 41st Cambridge Brownies, 5.50-7.15pm. Call 07894230310 (CMC) Yogabirth 7.30-9.30pm. Call 07881106177 (SAH) Youth Club (for ages 11+) 7.30pm (BF)
Fridays Adult Art Group 9.30-11 (BF) ESOL Café 9.30-10.45am & Just Talk English Class 11.15-12 noon and Speaking English for Work 1-2pm. Call 576110 (CCC) Soft Play 10.15-11.30 (BF) Eat and Meet (over 50s & friends) 10.30-12noon (BF) Drop-in Table Tennis 3-5pm. Call 464336 (SAH) Evenings of Social Card Games 7.30-9pm. Call 424040 (SAH)
Thursdays
Church Mice Baby & Toddler Group 9-11.15am (SAH) Pram-Pushers 10-11.30am (term-time). Call 424993 (SGH) Thursday Together-Family Support 10am-2pm (BF) Rhymetime @ Milton Road Library 2.30-3pm Zumba 6-7pm. Call 07985200911 (SAH) Zumba 7-8pm (BF) The Orlando Singers 8-9.45pm.Call 504661 (SAH)
Saturdays Pilates 9-10am. Call 07939603882 (SAH)
Weekly Wednesdays Over 60s 9.30-11.30am (BF) Good Morning Yoga 9.30-10.45 (SAH) Coffee Morning 9.30-12.30 (CMC) Bee’s Baby Massage1-2.30pm Call 07955568238 (SAH) Girls Brigade Yr R-Yr 6: 6.30-7.30pm; Yr 7+: 7.30-9pm. Call 440644 (CMC) Cambridge Bridge Club 7.15-10.45pm. Call 927061 (SAH) Renaissance Fitness 7.30-8.30pm (BF)
P A G E 4
Cambridge City Exercise Referral Service
Classes and physical activity sessions for people
with medical conditions. If you have a long-term
medical condition, disability or are recovering from
an illness such as cancer, you may benefit from
Cambridge City Council’s exercise referral scheme.
For more information contact: Cambridge City
Exercise Referral Service
[email protected] Tel: 01223 458645
Or ask your GP or health professional to refer you.
www.cambridge.gov.uk/startup
Community Navigators are local
volunteers who help older people find
the support, services and activities they
need. If you would like help or
information, please come to our Monday drop-in session at
St Andrew’s Hall, from 8 June to 20 July,
11am–12 noon, or telephone 300460.
The Friends of St Andrew's - Michaelmas Fair.
Saturday 26 September in St Andrew's Hall. 2pm-4pm.
Stalls available for hire.
Tel. 01223 249591/425915.
Tuesdays Kettle Club 1st Tuesday, 10.30-12noon for tea, coffee, a free raffle and lots of chat, all for £1.50. Call 314018 (SGH) Chesterton Local History Group 3rd Tuesdays, 2.30pm. Call 368279 (SAH) St George’s Lunch Club 3rd Tuesdays, 12.30pm. Call 425074 (SGH) Games Night at The Haymakers 3rd Tuesdays, 7pm East Chesterton Women’s Institute 4th Tuesdays, 7.30pm. Call 07971004405 (SAH)
BF: Brown’s Field Youth & Community Centre 420309 CBC: Chesterton Bowls Club 362713 CCC: Chesterton Community College CMC: Chesterton Methodist Church 424428 www.chestertonmethodist.org.uk CRC: Cambridge Regional College HHS: Hundred Houses Society, 51 Scotland Road SAC: St Andrew’s Church www.standrews-chesterton.org SAH: St Andrew’s Hall www.standrews-hall.co.uk 306150 SGC: St George’s Church SGH: St George’s Church Hall 07593 438799 [email protected]
Mondays Cambridge Macular Society 3rd Mondays, 12noon-2pm. Call 420117 (CMC) Cam Sight Monday Club 1st Mondays, 2-4pm. Call 420117 (CMC) St Andrew’s Church Healing Group 1st Mondays, 7-8pm. Call 525009 (SAH) Knitting & Crochet every other Monday 2-3.30pm (HHS)
Fridays St Andrew’s Church Healing Prayer Group 3rd Fridays, 12noon-12.45pm. Call 525009 (SAH)
Sundays St Andrew’s Junior Church 2nd & 4th Sundays, 9.50am. Contact Victoria: 704791 (SAH) Chesterton Methodist ‘Young Church’ 2nd & 4th Sun-days 10.30am (CMC) St Andrew’s Sunday Lunch Club 1st Sundays. Call 510456 (SAH) Turkish Kurdish Speakers 12.15pm (BF) St Andrew’s Church Youth Group (10+) 1st and 3rd Sundays, 5.30 -7.30pm. Call 355367 (SAH)
Saturdays Art, Crafts and Camera Club (HHS) 1st Saturdays, 10-30am-3pm Email: [email protected]
Wednesdays Light Lunch Breaks @ Arbury Rd. Baptist Church 1st Wednesdays, 12noon-2pm. Cost £3. Just turn up! Camera Club 2nd Wednesdays, 7-8.30pm (HHS) Email: [email protected]
Monthly
P A G E 5
Activities particularly aimed at: Pre-School Children & Carers
Children and Teenagers Adults Only
The Over 50’s
Our Big Community Holiday Club
Happening this year at St George’s between
Monday 24 and Thursday 27 August
Organised by St George’s, St Andrew’s and
Chesterton Methodist Church.
Come and hear stories, drama, do craft and games.
All based on stories from the Bible.
For children who will be going into
Year 1 up to those going into Year 6.
For more information or a registration form contact Linda
King on [email protected]
or 07593 438799
The Friends of St Andrew's
Lunchtime Concerts in the Church
12.30pm-1.15pm. Admission Free.
Retiring collections for The Friends
Friday 5 June. Organ, Clarinet & Piano Music with Lorna
Cowdry, Tricia Troughton, John Marsh & Richard Lake
Friday 19 June. The Alpha Choir
Saturday 20 June at 1pm. The Orlando Singers
Friday 26 June. All That Jazz with Helen Orr
P A G E 6
C H E S T E R T O N N E W S
News from the Churches
As with everyone, we are enjoying the
warm start to spring. Our annual plant sale
will take place the morning of Saturday 16
May in front of the church, with coffee and
cake available inside. Plants will be on sale
from 10am.
We are pleased to be part of the upcoming
Chesterton Festival by hosting a festival
concert on Saturday 28 June. Concert
details found elsewhere in this magazine.
We are also looking forward to the Big
Community Holiday Club, It will run from
Monday 24 to Thursday 27 August in the
mornings. If you are interested in hearing
more about this please email Linda King on
St George’s Church
If you have passed St Andrew’s you will have seen that our ‘Access for All’ building works are well
underway (and we’re sorry that this has meant the church has had to be kept closed much of the time
– come June we’ll be wide open again). The £87,000 project includes reconfiguring the main entrance
to allow easy access for the disabled – and all of us, in fact. The stone floor has been very successfully
relaid (so that it looks as though it has always been there) and the timbers of the new draught lobby
are up – glass soon to be added. The vestries are still a debris-filled building site, but the shape of
our new toilet is emerging. Outside the path has been dug up in places: partly to alter the slopes but
also to investigate the drains. There are some blockages that may prove quite costly to sort out – we
shall see.
Meanwhile our church life continues and we continue to welcome new people to our church
community. Our New Voices choir has been able to attempt some ambitious – and very lovely –
music of late. On 14 June it will be singing the Messa Solennelle of Jean Langlais for our Sung Eucharist
(10am). But we also continue to have a wide range of services – formal and less formal – for all ages
and tastes. New to our programme this year has been Creative Church, once a month on Sunday
afternoons (3.30pm); as well as corporate worship, this provides an opportunity to move around the
church engaging in reflective craft and prayer/learning activities.
Nick Moir
Baptisms
15.03.15 Jacob Laurence Ramsey
Brutnell (StG)
12.04.15 Theodore Rishi Gideon
Singh (StA)
Funerals
27.02.15 Jack John Lee (StA)
2.03.15 Barry Beaver(StA)
5.03.15 Jean Jones (StA at the crematorium)
Ruth Adams
St Andrew’s Church PROUD TO PAINT
Interior and Exterior Dec-
orations
Your local tradesman
Call for a friendly chat
and ask for IAN PROUD
01223 573820
or email
Jane Seymour
Hair Fashions
Hairdressers (unisex)
99 High Street Chesterton
Tuesday - Friday 8.30- 5.30
Saturday 8.30-3.00
Senior Citizens: Tues & Weds
Telephone: 01223 350 832
Physic Roger Giddings : Osteopath
Emma Bicknell : Osteopath
Mike Salt : Sports Massage
David Laurent : Injury Rehab 76 Gilbert Road 07715 998 447
www.physic.co.uk
From the Registers
My name is Linda King and I
have now been in post at St
Georges Church, as their new
Church and Hall Manager,
since February. As with any job,
it takes time to gather
information to be able to fulfil
the duties required. I am very
grateful to all those so far who
have helped me and made me feel very welcome.
I am very excited to be working with Ruth Adams
as we look towards what could be achieved for
the future of our buildings, focusing on the
possibility of them becoming a Community Hub to
serve the local area.
Chesterton Methodist Church Just a little update from the Methodist Church –
we have recently received the results of a
redevelopment feasibility study, commissioned
jointly with our friends at CamSight. We have
just a little more thinking to do but we really do
hope that we shall be able to invite the local
community to come and see some plans soon,
and to hear your thoughts about them. We are
looking forward to hosting the Community &
Environment day in July – see the article
elsewhere in this edition for further details.
Ian Murray
DYE’S Unisex
Hair & Beauty Salon 48 Arbury Court
Cambridge CB4 2QJ 01223 302080
St George’s Church Hall
Chesterfield Road
Cambridge, CB4 1LN
Lots of fun for children as they learn through play
Open Monday, Wednesday and Friday
FREE places for children aged 3 years, and some 2 year olds Phone 01223 420954, email
[email protected] or visit our website
www.playlanders.org.uk
P A G E 7 S E R V I N G O U R L O C A L C O M M U N I T Y
Community & Environment Day Saturday 18 July 2015 from 10.30am to 2.30pm
Two local landlords, Hundred Houses Society and City Homes (Cambridge City Council) along
with Chesterton Methodist Church are holding a Community and Environment Day.
Located in the grounds of Chesterton Methodist Church and covering the streets of Kinross
Road, Edinburgh Road, Stirling Close, Eastfields, Heath House, Freeman House, Davy House,
Scotland Road, Ashfield Road, Elmfield Road, Dundee Close, Dalton Square and Green End Road, the day will offer a
variety of opportunities and advice.
On the day, recycling skips for local residents will be available for the free disposal of bulky waste, metal, wood and
electrical goods, and a support team will be available on the day for those residents requiring help with large items. A local
environmental clean-up will also take place on the day, with volunteers welcome to pitch in.
During the day, residents will have the opportunity to visit our Take it or Leave it Stall - a chance to pass on things in good
condition that you don’t want any more and pick up something you do, for free! If something can’t be re-homed on the
day, it will be taken to a charity or sent for recycling where possible. We’ll also be on hand to pass on recycling advice and
free kitchen caddies will be available to help collect your food waste.
Also available to view will be the two landlords’ mutual exchange registers for tenants interested
in moving from their current home. Flyers will be delivered to the homes being covered prior to
the day, but all local residents are welcome to attend. Should you have any questions please
contact [email protected] , Housing Officer, (01223)458403.
Lil Speed Award 2015 We are now looking for nominations for this year’s award, which recognises the contribution made by
volunteers to our Chesterton Community. The award is named after Lillian Speed who was an avid
Campaigner for Chesterton, who sadly died last year. Lil devoted her time to taking up community issues
including campaigning for better play facilities and helping to secure the construction of Brown's Field
Youth & Community Centre.
If there’s a Chesterton resident you’d like to put forward, please first get their permission and
then contact Andrea via 420309 / [email protected] for an application form. The
deadline for nominations is Tuesday 9 June and the award will be presented at the Chesterton
Festival Fun Day on 20 June. Above: Susan Richards receiving the 2014 award from previous
winner Rosemary Tice - awarded for her numerous contributions to the Chesterton Community
including Camsight, Chesterton Festival and Open Mind.
Middle Eastern Dance Lessons
Get fit & improve your posture. Fitness classes with a difference; why not try
Egyptian Dancing? It's fun and enjoyable no matter what
your age or body type. Improve your posture and confidence.
For more information contact: [email protected]
or Tel: 07518 907704 Classes at Colours of Dance Studio,
182 Histon Road, Cambridge,CB4 3JP.
Open Mind at St Andrew’s Hall
Art In the Annexe Drawing Group – Meeting for
five weeks, beginning on Wednesday 10 June, 10.30 am
to 12.30 pm, we will explore different approaches and
materials each week, including charcoal, pen and ink
and drawing in colour, guided by local artist Catherine
Blydenstein. It will be a relaxed and supportive group
for everyone interested in drawing, whatever your
level of experience. Cost £20 to include materials –
payable at the first session
Nature – There are two sessions left being led by
Brian Eversham of the Wildlife Trust: Tuesday 2 June
7.30pm Slugs and Snails; Thursday 18 June 7.30pm
Nature walk in Logan’s Meadow extension. Brian’s
knowledge of wildlife is unparalleled, and his talks last year were very popular. Course cost: £9 or £4 for an
individual session.
To book a place on any of these courses, ring
Rachel Clarke on 01223 306150 or email
French classes for children at Brown’s Field on
Mondays (term times
only). For details of times and cost, please contact Annick Alton
(01223) 210900 or email [email protected] or visit www.lajolieronde.co.uk
www.theboxcafe.co.uk at
Chesterton Sport Centre Gilbert Road
CB4 3NY 01223 576110 ext 0162
www.facebook.com/theboxcafe
St Andrew’s Hall The Annexe
I am pleased to say that after 9
months of building works the
annexe is now open and available for hire. If you would like to
come and see our wonderful
new community space please do
call on 01223 306150, or simply
pop by during the week to look
around.
Rachel Clarke, Hall Manager
IVAN COOK
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HEATING & PLUMBING
ENGINEERS
LIMITED
Although the Women’s Institute is seen as a thoroughly British organisation, not
everyone realizes that it actually started in Canada in 1897. A farmer’s wife, Adelaide
Hoodless, lost her fourth child after he drank contaminated milk and she was
convinced that, if she had had more knowledge, he need not have died. It became her
life’s work to improve the education of women and make domestic science and
hygiene subjects that should be recognized and properly taught.
However, it took a World War before the WI really took off in Britain. By 1915 it
was obvious more food was needed for the country and that the men who would
normally provide it were away fighting. The WI was established to educate rural
women, and to encourage young countrywomen to get involved in growing and
preserving food to help increase the supply of food to the war-torn nation. Education
and the sharing of skills have always been at the heart of the organisation, and this
remains true today.
Now in 2015 the WI celebrates its centenary and if you ask its members what they
get out of it, they will tell you friendship, fun and lots of opportunities to try things or
go places that they might never have been able to without the WI.
East Chesterton WI meets in Room 2 at St Andrew’s Hall, 7.30pm on the fourth
Tuesday of the month. So why not come along to our meeting on Tuesday 22
September as our guest and just see what we get up to! You’ll find a warm welcome
– not to mention cake!
Margaret White (President)
East Chesterton WI
Property Maintenance
David Stubbings
01223 368279
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