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HARDWICK HAPPENINGS
July, August, September 2019
The Theresa May memorial library? See page 67
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VILLAGE DATABASE
Cambridgeshire County Council: www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk 01223 717111
Community Association:
Anne Jones [email protected] 01954 211417
Community Car Scheme:
Lizzie Coe 01954 211838
Gill Stott 01954 210942
Nicky Kerr 075 39 429394
Community Primary School: Headteacher: Andy Matthews [email protected] 01954 210070
Caretaker: Alison Berkeley [email protected] 01954 211591
Community Speed Watch Alan Everitt [email protected] 07739322905
County Councillor: Lina Nieto [email protected] 0740 2351821
Doctors’ Surgeries:
Surgery/Dispensary 58 Green End, Comberton 01223 262500/262399
Bourn Surgery 25 Alms Hill, Bourn 01954 719313
Surgery/Dispensary 58 Green End, 01223 262500/262399
Child & Family Nurses: 01954 282830
District Councillor: Grenville Chamberlain [email protected] 01954 210040
Evangelical Church: [email protected]
Co-Ministers: Steve & Kate Gaze 01954 211900/212556
Secretary: Liz Pamplin [email protected]
General:
Community Education Office: 01223 264721
Ashcroft veterinary surgery: 169 St Neots Rd 01954 210250
Cambridge Water Co (supply): 01223 403000
Anglian water (sewerage): 08457 145145
Eastern electricity: 0800 7 838 838
Gas Emergency: 0800 111 999
Guides: Janet Hayman [email protected]
Rainbows Jane Muncey [email protected] 01954 210570
Guiding information www. Girlguiding.org.uk
Hardwick Happenings: Eds Peter Cornwell Howard Baker [email protected]
Hardwick pre school [email protected] 01954 212823
Member of Parliament Heidi Allen [email protected] 01223 830037
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BIN COLLECTIONS
Netball Club: Alison Beresford
Meeting rooms for hire Daniel@bourngolf and leisure.co.uk
Neighbourhood watch Ashley Shepherd [email protected]
Parish Council: [email protected]
Parish Clerk: Gail Stoehr [email protected] 01954 210241
Chairman Tony Gill [email protected], 01954 211108
Vice chairman Pauline Joslin [email protected] 01954 212395
St. Mary’s Parish Church:
Priest in charge: Revd Alison Myers [email protected] 01954 212815
Clare Bigg Treasurer [email protected] 01954 211673
South Cambridgeshire District Council: wwwscambs.gov.uk
Road repair: 03450 455212
Street light failure: 0 800 253529
Sports and Social Club:
www.hardwicksportsandsocialclub.co.uk
[email protected] 01954 210110
Lindsey Haynes [email protected] 07925208108
Three fifteen club:
Sharon Turner [email protected] 07787910490
Date Colour
Wednesday July 3rd Green & Blue
Wednesday July 10th Black
Wednesday July 17th Green & Blue
Wednesday July 24th Black
Wednesday July 31st Green & Blue
Wednesday August 7th Black
Wednesday August 14th Green & Blue
Wednesday August 21st Black
Thursday August 29th Green & Blue
Wednesday September 4th Black
Wednesday September 11th Green & Blue
Wednesday September 18th Black
Wednesday September 25th Green & Blue
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Hardwick Happenings July, August, September 2019
Issue number 351
Printed by Victoire Press and delivered free to every Hardwick household,
independent, but affiliated to the Community Association
with financial support from the Parish Council.
Facebook: Hardwick Happenings
Twitter: @hardwickhap
The Hardwick Happenings Team
Editors: Peter Cornwell and Howard Baker
Home and garden : Carole Oakes
Advertising: Roger Worland
Treasurer: Jeff Jones
Social media manager: Alex Babouris
Distribution: Marian Gibbens, Yvonne Sawyer
Village calendar: Anne Jones
Proof reader: Sue Cornwell
Cover : Phone box near the Blue Lion
CAR SCHEME NUMBERS
Co- ordinators to phone are;
Gillian Stott; 01954 210942
Nicky Kerr: 075 3942 9394 or email;
Lizzie Coe; 01954 211838
In emergencies only, Sheila Stephenson; 01954
210638
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CONTENTS Bar Hill interchange photo 65
Bottle tops 29
Bourn airfield planning 28
Car scheme 58
Colour wheel new group 43
Comberton library 55
Comberton squash 11
Comberton twinning 39
Community drop ins 28
Evangelical church 56
From the school
From Heidi Allen MP 30
Guides 40
Hardwick allotments 33
HH is going green 14
Hardwick neighbourhood
plan 19
Hardwick preschool 12
Hardwick village plan
report 52
Housing developments 48
Letter about trees 9
St Neots Rd development 10
Sports and social 34
Sustainable transport 32
Swavesey camera club 22
Wanted deliverers 21
What is important? 42
Village diary 36
Village people 62
WI 18
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EDITORIAL After four years of working with Peter on Happenings I have been given the job of writing the editorial. There is a practical reason why this has not happened before: Peter’s computer skills are more advanced than mine and it was logical that he, having laid out all the pages, would be in a position to comment on some of the content. I came in at the end of the process and, as proof-reader, I was more intent on finding spell-ing mistakes rather than enjoying the content of the pages. So it has been a chance for me to fully appreciate the many activities that are going on in the village and how many interesting people live here. To start with the front cover. The Parish Council are still looking for suggestions about a new use for the phone box in the main street. ‘The Theresa May Memorial Library’ is one and a suggestion I have re-ceived is for a defibrillator. Keep the suggestions coming in to the P.C. (page 57) Some of the best material we receive for the magazine is from our junior editors at Hardwick Primary School. This month they write again about their gardening activities and their visit to Graffam Water and a former junior editor, Lucy Byatt, now at CVC, has written about what’s of interest to young people, namely climate change. Talking of which, the next edition of H.H. will be a green edition. We welcome material for this special edition. This is an issue that affects us all. I notice that a new village organisation has quietly sprung up in the village without a great fanfare, Colour Wheel (page 43). It’s good that we continue to publicise activities in neighbouring villages, in particular the twentieth anniversary of the Comberton Twin-ning Association (page 39). Which makes me wonder why we have no twinning arrangement ourselves. Any readers’ thoughts on this matter would be welcome. We always welcome readers’ letters and this month a reader has reacted to my article in last month’s edition about the Meridian Fields Development. There is a three month summer break now. Enjoy your holiday and we look forward to our ‘green’edition in the autumn. Howard Baker.
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Dear all, As you know I recently supported our Environment and Cli-mate Change motion… air pollution is something that con-cerns many of us. There is one thing that locally we can do to help capture carbon and support green infrastructure: tree planting… This organisation and many more as I found online are giving away free trees. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/free-trees/
Why not apply and plant more trees in your community,
school, etc. LIna Nieto
Dear Editors,
I read with interest your article in Hardwick Happenings re the Meridian
Fields development.
I too have had meetings with Hills.
When they started using diggers on the site we were swamped with rats. I
went on site to speak with them and met a man who promised to look into
it and get back to me but didn‟t. Over the weekend we counted nineteen
rats in my garden and thirteen in the garden of the house next door. We
took in all our bird food because the rats were eating it,
On the following Monday I went on site again and was told that they were
having a meeting that day and he would bring up the subject of rats. They
said they would put down traps for the rats as they are not allowed to use
poison. Next day a new fence was erected but the rats were still there. In
that week my dogs killed a rat which was over nine inches long not count-
ing the tail.
It‟s only this week that I‟ve been able to start putting out bird seed again.
It‟s lovely to see the woodpecker and other birds back in the garden.
Yours faithfully,
A Hardwick Resident. (name and address supplied)
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Steve Rose The St Neots Road development The St Neots Road development will be delayed beyond what we were told to expect. The development programme was about a year behind the Grace Crescent development and now that could increase to 21 months to two years with corre-sponding delays to receipt of s106 contributions. The HCCWG and Hardwick PC will have to look at how this affects the plans for the timing of the new community centre by the Sports and Social Club. The consortium of landowners in the village have an agree-ment with a housing association, Clarion, for Clarion to buy the land. In order for this to complete there needs to be a sur-vey of the land to ensure there are no adverse conditions which would add to the costs of construction. This survey and report remain to be done and Clarion appear to be in no hurry to do it. Once it is done Clarion have to complete the transac-tion and pay the landowners. Once this happens Clarion would have every incentive to complete the development as planning permission is time limited. The landowners can ap-point their own expert to survey the land but this will add to their costs but they are now considering taking this step if Clarion don’t do so themselves because the landowners re-main keen for the purchase to be completed sooner rather than later. This final step to complete could drag on for an-other three months. At that point Clarion could start construc-tion but they have to allow a period of six months for one of the landowners to vacate their property and for that property to be demolished to provide access to the site.
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Comberton Squash is Looking for New Players Comberton Squash club is a friendly, member-run club based in courts at Comberton Village College. The club welcomes new players of all abilities and has opportunities for both junior and adult players. Six Week Free Trial – join the club for six weeks without obligation. New – Pay to Play – book courts through Comberton Sports and Arts. For Junior players there is Free coaching on Saturday Mornings. 09:00 – 10:15 Mini Squash (for Year 6 and below) 10:15 – 11:30 Starters / Improvers age 11 and over 11:30 – 12:45 Experienced players. For Adult members either returning to squash or picking up a racket for the first time, there’s a session for you too at Sunday afternoon training. 15:00 – 16:00 Beginners and families 16:00 – 17:20 Advanced 17:20 – 18:40 Intermediate There is also an active Racketball community in the club. www.combertonsquash.com or email [email protected] for more informa-tion
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Hardwick Pre-School
Green Fingers Across The Generations
The children of Hardwick Pre-School were busy
planting the pre-school garden this month with
guidance from a grandad and the pre-school
staff.
The children planted broad bean plants which
they had grown from seeds. They also planted
nasturtiums, sweet peas and carrots.
Sharon, the pre-school Manager, said “it is im-
portant for the children to learn about their en-
vironment and where our food comes from. We
hope the children will enjoy eating their carrots
although broad beans may be more of an ac-
quired taste”.
The seeds and plants were given to us by Oak-
ington Garden Centre along with children‟s gar-
dening tools. A spokesperson from Oakington
Garden Centre said they were delighted to sup-
port the pre-school and encourage gardening for
all ages.
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Toft Allotments
There are still a number of allotments to
rent at the Toft Allotments at the top of
Mill Lane.
Only £10 a year
Contact Martin Yeadon 01223 2663
Or Gail Stoer 01953 210241
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The October edition of
HH is going
GREEN.
We want to
hear from
you.
Do you have ideas to share about motoring?
How green are you in the garden?
What would you like to see others doing?
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What green policies does you firm or busi-
ness have? (eg Lord Conrad‟s brewery does
not deliver during rush hours.)
Have you read anything good which you
could pass on?
What green organisations do we have in the
village?
Do you care about the future for the next
generation?
How do you monitor your carbon footprint?
Does the Hardwick Parish Council have a
green policy?
CONTRIBUTIONS
PLEASE BY
15th
SEPTEMBER [email protected]
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FROM THE SCHOOL
G.W.C
A YEAR 4
TRIP Every year, the Year 4s in our
school have the opportunity to go to Grafham Water Centre. Read
on to find out what exciting adventures we enjoyed there.
It only took our school 40minutes to get there. There was a huge
range of activities to do there, unfortunately we couldn‟t do all of
them! Though the ones we did were really fun, so these are a few
things you can do:
Enjoy funboat sailing for your whole family, although 2-3 people
would be best.
Also, we did archery and rock climbing where you really had to
put trust into other people.
Canoeing was a teamwork based activity, and at one point we had
a quick look around fossil beach.
These are only some of the activities we enjoyed. But, when we
weren‟t in our rooms or doing these activities the kitchen staff pre-
pared for us to have great meals there.
Should we tell you all of the places you can go to in your free
time? Well, there is a huge lounge, but if you have plenty of time
you can go on a 10 mile walk around the reservoir. Another thing
you can do is the Grafham challenge, which is like an obstacle
course except you do it blindfolded! A Year 4, Alex, had a quote
for us. “The food was delicious and you get to have seconds!”
Grafham was the best place to go on a trip. We would love to go
back and do it all again!!!
Alex, Katie and Eilidh.
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Regular readers will know that
Hardwick WI do not sit around
all day knitting and making jam!
But our trip to Tiptree in Essex
was brilliant and showed us how
the professionals do it. Most of us came away laden with un-
usual jams & pickles and we ended up with...you guessed it...a
cream tea (though not a knitting needle in sight!).
On 1st June we held a “Get Creative Workshop” (during Pip-
pins) where a group of us demonstrated how to recycle materi-
als to create new things- it was a trial to see what interest there
is in the village, and this was sufficient enough to decide that
this event should be repeated – next one probably sometime in
the Autumn.
Two members attended the Annual National WI conference
held in Bournemouth where the Resolutions were passed 97%
in favour of the Don't Fear the Smear Campaign and 96% for
the revival of Rural Bus Schemes; - people from outlying vil-
lages need these buses which in some cases only run ONCE a
week – how lucky are we in Hardwick.! Of course the Village
Plan also addresses the bus matter
We have also paid another visit to Denby to see (and buy) their
wonderful ceramics.
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On 6 July we are running a Tombola bottle stall at the Village
Carnival and on 23 July a Strawberry Tea in aid of Breast Can-cer Care in the SSC. Do come along and all contributions will
be gratefully received!
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There are plans to run a WI “Home Produce” stall at the Madingley
village fete on 24 August. We hope to get some more members as
Madingley has no WI of its own.
A future initiative is to run a local group called “Colour Wheel”.
This event will kick off on 7th August at the SSC and there is an
article giving more details elsewhere in this magazine.
We are always open to new members so do come and try us out on
the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm in Hardwick Primary
School. For more details see our website below.
https://hardwickwi.weebly.com/
Naomi Roy
Hardwick Neighbourhood Watch
The next open meeting of Hard-
wick NHW will be at the school
at 7pm on Wednesday 4th Septem-
ber. Mr Robin Sutton, chairman of Cambridge-
shire NHW, will give a talk on the role of the
co-ordinator, running of the scheme, support-
ing the community, preventing crime as we go
towards the darker evenings and finally taking
questions from the floor.
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Steamroller Ironing Services
Free pick-up and delivery
24/48 hr turnaround
Price: 1lb = £1.50. Minimum =
£15 Established for 16 years
Please call Susie on
07742 319631
01954 210672
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WANTED
Someone willing to
take on occasional
deliveries of HH
when regular
deliverers are
on holiday, or unwell. Please contact:
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Swavesey Camera Club Our new season starts again on Thursday 5th September 2019 at 7.30pm. This first meeting is free to attend for non members. Come along and try us out! At Swavesey Camera Club we are proud to cater for photographers of all standards. Whether yours is a basic compact camera or the latest digital SLR, our programme is designed to help you get the best out of it. Some of our meetings are instructional and some are meant to in-spire with the opportunity to listen to and meet accomplished local and national photographers and to look at some great images. One way we share our own work with other members is via our pro-gramme of competitions, where independent judges provide a use-ful and always constructive commentary on the pictures entered.
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We also have a public exhibition (free entry) in Spring each year, when all members are invited to contribute their work. We charge a nominal guest fee of £4 for our meetings. If you de-cide to join the club, any guest fees you have paid during the sea-son will be offset pro-rata against your annual fee. The full annual subscription this season is £63 (Concessions £50, Youth membership - £17). The Club meets in the 'Global Environment Centre' room at Swavesey Village College, which is at the end of the corridor to the right of reception, every Thursday 7.30-9.30pm during term time (Competition nights start at 7.00pm) For further info and to see some of our members photos check out our website - website: www.swaveseycameraclub.co.uk/ Maggie O’Moore Committee member Richard Harrison Swavesey Camera Club President Email: [email protected]
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C2C Community drop-ins.
GCP are holding two community drop-in sessions at Hard-
wick Primary School on Thursday 11th July, 5pm to 8pm
and Saturday 13th July, from 10.30am to 1.30pm to see pro-
posed features and biodiversity, and ask questions of the
project team.
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Bourn Airfield New Village Supplementary Planning
Document.
Public exhibitions will be held at the following locations, when
officers will be on hand to answer questions:
Thursday June 27th at Cambourne Village College 3.30pm to
8.00pm.
Wednesday July 3rd at Caldecote Village Hall 3.30pm to
7.30pm.
Wednesday
July 10th at
Sheltered
Housing Build-
ing,Hall Close,
Bourn.
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Bottle Tops– no
longer needed
Unfortunately, Arthur Rank
Hospice Charity no longer want
us to collect plastic tops for
them. So please do not leave
them at the school or on my
doorstep any more. Instead,
wash out your milk carton,
squash it and then return the top
onto it and recycle in your
BLUE bin.
Thank you very much for sup-
porting this while it lasted.
Anne Jones
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Before I launch into my usual monthly constituency update, I
thought it important to explain what has happened recently in
terms of my own party allegiance. As you will know, I left the
Conservative Party in February to sit as an Independent MP be-
cause I was concerned the Party had drifted to the right and it
was more concerned with its own survival than the national in-
terest. Early polling results gave us, as Independents, the confi-
dence to formalise into a party structure, named “Change UK”
to fight the European elections at the end of May. However it
soon became clear that the Brexit Party was storming ahead.
Believing passionately that the National interest must always
come first, and that Nigel Farage did not have the right answers
for the country‟s future, I felt our support should shift to other
Remain parties who were faring better than us in the polls.
I was unable to convince a majority of Change UK MPs of this
strategy and they remained steadfastly of the opinion that the
party should seek to achieve as many votes for itself rather than
collaborate with other parties
Now the European elections are over, I remain unwavering in
my strong belief that the country must always come first. As
such, I have stepped down from Change UK and returned to sit
once again as an Independent with four other colleagues – Sarah
Wollaston, Luciana Berger, Angela Smith and Gavin Shuker.
There are two principal reasons as to why I have done this.
I do not believe I can serve my constituents and country well if I
put party interests ahead of theirs.
Secondly, the political landscape remains very volatile. In the
coming weeks and months I can easily envisage MPs leaving
the Conservative Party because they cannot tolerate a new Prime
Minister who advocates a hard Brexit or no deal Brexit. Equally
From Heidi Allen MP
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, there are Labour colleagues who will no longer tolerate Jeremy
Corbyn„s inability to fight as an opposition leader should.
Recognising that it is very difficult for MPs to leave their parties
and immediately join other ones, I believe my role will be to help
convene a safe neutral space in the centre ground of Parliament and
offer a home for those MPs. It will allow us to work alongside the
Liberal Democrats, Greens, SNP, Change UK and Plaid Cymru in
the national interest, ensuring we do not crash out of the EU with no
deal.
As an Independent MP with a reputation for cross party working and
prioritising the national interest over party allegiance, I feel strongly
that I will be able to help act as a convener.
It is my strong belief that this is what the country needs right now.
A more detailed statement, including a video setting out my views,
can be seen on my website: https://heidiallen.co.uk/explaining-the-
decision-to-sit-as-an-independent-member-of-parliament/
Coton Bowls Club
is looking for new members to
come and join us. We are a
friendly bunch from Coton and
the surrounding villages. We
play competitive league matches
as well as friendlies with local
villages between May and Sep-
tember. Beginners and experi-
enced players all welcome.
Contact Vernon Spencer,
07831657045 if you would like to
come and give it a try.
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Sustainable Community Transport for Hardwick
The rapidly progressing Meridian Fields housing development
will contribute £45,000 towards the costs of a sustainable Com-
munity Transport initiative in Hardwick. There will be a similar
£20,000 contribution from the proposed housing to the south of
St Neots Road once this development gets underway. These sig-
nificant financial contributions were part of the S106 agreements
negotiated by the Parish and District Councils as part of the plan-
ning approval process.
The sustainable community transport initiative is intended to sup-
plement existing bus services and is complementary to the com-
munity car scheme that many Hardwick residents already use as
passengers or support as volunteer drivers.
Given that the majority of the funding for this Initiative will be
provided by the Grace Crescent development, it is considered es-
sential that this initiative provides an effective supplement to the
current limited public transport services in the Southern part of
Hardwick.
The first tranche of funds will soon become available and it is
now time to start serious discussions and detailed planning about
what form this transport solution might take and how it will oper-
ate.
If you want this project to succeed and are prepared to com-
mit some of your time to help develop detailed proposals for
this community operated transport service for Hardwick,
please contact me.
Martin Cassey
01954 212173
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Hardwick Allotment Group
If you are interested in joining the waiting list for an
allotment in the village, please contact Fiona on 01954 210932 or email
[email protected] with your name, phone num-ber & email address & we will
add you to our waiting list.
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The Sports and Social Club committee is now 11 strong with a
sub committee to oversee events. We hold monthly meetings
(2nd Monday of every month) which are well attended. Our
main incentive is to continue making improvements to the
Club, providing a safe & friendly environment for members &
guests and to support local charities & clubs.
The membership system allows us to offer our members
slightly discounted prices & perks such as „Happy Hour‟,
„Ticketed Events‟& door access all with their membership
cards. Membership is only £10 per year & the renewal price
remains £5 so pop in or call 01954 210110 after 5pm Mon-Fri
or after 12 noon Sat/Sun. Renewals are now £10 for 2019.
Our Events Team have been working so hard and have put to-
gether some fantastic events with the support of our new Man-
ageress. We now host regular events such as Cheese & Wine
Night, Poker Night, Karaoke, Themed Food Nights & Live
Music, all of which have become increasingly popular and will
be repeated throughout the year. Our events are open to every-
one (not just members) & we have continued to support local
clubs & organisations. With the money raised from our charity
day we have now got a defibrillator outside the main entrance
of the club which was kindly installed by Paul Church Electri-
cal. This life saving equipment is now accessible to all villagers
24 hours a day.
We have both Sky Sports & BT Sports, and with our larger HD
TVs and Projector Screen you can enjoy watching all televised
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Sport, or even support our 2 local teams who play most Saturdays
on the recreation ground. We currently have two Pool Teams that
play competitively in the Cambridge Area Pool League on Thurs-
day nights, a Crib Team and a darts Team both that play competi-
tively on Wednesday evenings. If competitive sports aren‟t for you
why not come along to one of our Quiz Nights (1st Thursday of
every month) & Bingo (2nd Friday of every month) for some light
hearted fun, both of which are open to Non Members. Our Mem-
bers Draw is held on the last Friday of every month, with food
available from 5:30pm & we play games the kids can join in too
with the chance to win free drinks & cash prizes. The Friendship
Group meets weekly at 1.45pm on Wednesdays welcoming new
faces. A card making class is held monthly on Monday mornings
9.30-11.30am, for more details or to book contact Mo Rootes for
details on 07906008125.
We are a friendly inclusive club always welcoming new faces so if
you haven‟t already, please pop in or look at our website: hard-
wicksportsandsocialclub.co.uk, or Facebook Page „Hardwick
Sports and Social Club‟ to see our upcoming events & what we are
about. The club is also available for private hire at a competitive
rate, or free if it is for a fundraising event.
Finally, we are holding a Charity Darts Competition on August 17th
to raise money for Children‟s Leukemia, from 1pm. Please contact
Jamie Davey on 07561 345971, for more details. The day is about
getting the community together & raising money for this worthy
cause,.As always, everyone is welcome.
Look out for continual exciting changes & improvements at the
Club. Watch this space!!
HSSC Committee.
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Former junior editor Lucy Byatt writes about.......
What is important to young people?
If you have been reading the news lately then you may have seen
the numerous reports of young people going on strike for climate
change. This matter really affects young people directly and lots
of them think that it is something that should be heard about by
the government.
Fortunately these protests have paid off as they made the head-
lines of several big newspapers and Climate Change: The Facts has come out on the BBC. In this program David Attenborough
tells us about what could happen if we do nothing to cut our car-
bon emissions. One young girl who really cares about this matter
is Greta Thunberg. She started by just missing school and going
and sitting outside the government buildings in Sweden - she
took her school work with her. After a few weeks, more and more
kids started to join her until it turned into a national then global
movement. In 2018 she then gave a speech about global warming
to several of the world leaders.
I personally feel that climate change is an issue that is so impor-
tant governments and leaders should pay attention. It is more im-
portant in my opinion than Brexit or who the next prime minister
is. It is vital that we pay attention to this problem of consumption
so that we can ensure a safe and sustainable future for ourselves
and future generations. What responsibility can be more impor-
tant than that?
To conclude, climate change is an important matter to young peo-
ple and things have to be done in order to prevent it happening in
the future.
We look forward to Lucy‟s next piece „Reflections on year 7.‟Ed
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Community Impact
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Since the last Hardwick Happening re-port the Guides have been doing camp activities – learning how to do a bedding roll, cooking on a wood fire, playing some camp games and other activities. The Guides all voted for their favourite things to do this term and we are now doing the most popular. We’ve had an evening cooking sausages and other food on a wood fire and all went home smelling of wood smoke! Last week we were going to have a picnic at Newnham but as the rain didn’t let up for well over 24 hours we had a picnic at the Scout and Guide Hut instead and kept warm and dry….. This week we’re going to Clip and Climb together with Hardwick Brownies and other planned meetings are to go paddleboarding, punting and to have a treasure hunt. At the end of July some of us are camping together with our Guide friends from Bredon at a lovely campsite approximately half way for both groups with a stream going through the campsite. Let’s hope for good weather! In September we’ll be looking at the Skills Builder badges, unit meeting activities and badges to do from the not so new programme now and seeing if some of the Guides are close to getting a Theme award. If you are aged 10 – 15 years old and would like to know more (or are younger and would like your name to go on our joining list) please get in touch. Email [email protected]
The Rangers are joining us for most of this term’s meetings, and will be planning a whole new programme in September. If you are aged 15+ and would like to know more about Rangers please email [email protected] Janet Hayman and Kirsty Orange
Guide and Ranger leaders
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Update on Housing Developments in the village As you will have noticed, the first properties at Meridian Fields (previously known as the Grace Crescent Development) have been completed and are available for sale. There will eventually be 98 properties built. 39 of these will be available as social housing and shared ownership with Hardwick residents having some priority. The St Neots Road development for 155 properties on land be-tween Hall Drive and Meridian Close will be delayed beyond what we were told to expect. This development programme was about a year behind Meridian Fields but that could now increase to two years (or even more). The developers have obligations (“Section 106”) to contribute to village amenities and services e.g. our new community centre, play and recreation facilities. The delays in starting the St Neots Road development will mean corresponding delays to receipt of these Section 106 contributions. The Hardwick Community Centre Working Group and the Hardwick Parish Coun-cil will have to look at how this affects the plans for the timing of the new community centre by the Sports and Social Club. The delays in starting the St Neots Road developmentare for two main reasons. There has been a delay by the developer (Clarion Housing Association) in completing the land purchase as further surveys are required. In addition, the detailed planning applica-tion that was submitted late last year by Clarion was withdrawn in March this year as South Cambs District Council planners were seeking changes to the scheme before granting approval. Clarion are now working with the planners to draw up a scheme that will satisfy the Local Planning Authority. All the indications are that the development will eventually go ahead. Steve Rose
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St Mary's Church
A Date for your Diary
Saturday
10 August 10am – Noon
CAKE STALL
outside the school
to raise much needed funds for fabric repairs to our village church
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CONTRACTOR
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Hardwick Village Plan Report –
Parish Council Annual General Meeting 21st May
2019
In September 2015 a small group of like-minded volunteer residents
met and decided to form the Hardwick Village Plan Group. Our aim
was to seek the views of residents regarding the future of Hardwick and
its needs for the next ten to fifteen years, looking for ways to protect its
individuality and diversity and to maintain the rural beauty of the vil-
lage and its surroundings. The hope was that this Village Plan would
become the forerunner to the Neighborhood Plan which would become
a legal and binding document to protect our future.
The group met monthly and worked hard trying to come up with a
questionnaire to find out what the residents wanted or did not want to
see in Hardwick. Key stakeholders in the business community were
contacted and agreed to help with the development of the questionnaire
and in November 2016 it was finally agreed, advertised with posters
around the village, made available online and paper copies distributed.
At this point we would like to thank Nisa, SCS, The Blue Lion, The
Social Club and many others for their valuable help in compiling the
questions and also the team who helped with delivering the question-
naires.
Since receiving the completed questionnaires, both hard and electronic
copies, we‟ve spent countless hours collating and interpreting the re-
sults and writing and re-writing the report. It was a huge undertaking
for us and we were always aware that we had to remain impartial and
report in a fair and accurate manner.
In December 2018, after many months of hard work, we were ready to
go to print. And it is with great pleasure and pride that I am here now,
on behalf of the committee, to say that the plan has been printed and
they are ready for delivery.
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We would like to thank the Parish Council for their continued support
and for arranging the printing of enough copies to be able to supply
one to every household.
We would also like to thank everyone for their help with this pro-
ject,with special thanks to our Chairman, Martin Cassey, for his pa-
tience and professionalism, and to Tim Dodd for the endless hours
painstakingly analyzing the survey results and drafting the final report.
And on a final note, Martin would like to add his special thanks and a
debt of gratitude to all the unsung heroes on the committee.
Thank you
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Comberton Library
Opening Hours:
Monday: 10am – 1pm
Wednesday: 10am – 1pm, 2pm -5pm
Friday: 2pm – 5pm
Saturday: 10am – 1pm
More details can be found on the Library Service website at:
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/library
We are getting ready for an out- of- this world adventure with Space Chase,
this year‟s Summer Reading Challenge. As our children read their library
books over the summer holidays they will be able to solve clues and collect
stickers to complete their mission folder and help a super space family, the
Rockets, track down books taken by the mischievous aliens. All children,
who read six books to complete the challenge, will receive a special Space
Chase certificate and medal. Registration to take part begins at the library
on Saturday 13thJuly, so do bring your children along to sign up from that
date onwards.
We will be running our special Summer Reading Challenge sessions in the
library throughout the summer holidays; full details will be available on reg-
istration. In addition, alongside the Summer Reading Challenge, we will be
holding some special events for families. Please do come along and support
the following activities:
Wednesday 31st July (2.30 -4.00 pm) Decorate a moon rock
Monday 5th August (11.00 - 12 noon) Summer Storytime with craft
Friday 16th August (11.00 – 12 noon) Family Board Games
Wednesday 21st August (2.30 – 4.00 pm) Make a solar system
Friday 30th August (2.30 – 4.00 pm) Create an alien
To help cover costs, there will be a small charge per child for these events.
Upcoming Rhymetime sessions: 1st& 15th July(10.30 -11.00 am). Please
note that although these sessions are aimed at very young children we wel-
come older siblings and pre-schoolers who enjoy singing too!
Rhymetime stops for the summer holidays, but will re-start on Monday 9th
September. We wish, once again, to thank our wonderful volunteer, Bar-
bara, for her commitment and enthusiasm, which has made our Rhymetime
sessions so much fun for our youngest children and their parent/carers. If
you would like to see Barbara again before September, she has kindly
agreed to lead our special Summer Storytime on Monday 5th August.
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You are welcome
to join us at Hardwick School
on Sunday
Family Service, Sundays, 10.30am, Hardwick
School
We meet to praise God, listen to a talk and pray together. Part way through,
the children go to Young Church. The service is informal, and we sing a mix of
modern and older songs. Typically the service ends at noon, followed by re-
freshments.
With Communion on 7&21 July, 4 & 18 August, 8 & 22 September(1st& 3rd Sun-
days).
NO SERVICE ON 25 AUGUST – “Visit Another Church” day!
Young Churchis for children from babies to Year 7. We join the grown-ups in
the School hall then go to the Community Room for Bible teaching, sing-
ing&activities.
Young People of secondary school age usually have their own group.
Gracefield Service, 7 July, 4 August, 8 September, 3.00 – 4.00pm
One Sunday a month a team of people from Hardwick Evangelical and St Mary‟s
churches leads a short service at Gracefield Care Home.
Midweek activities
Home groups - We have midweek groups during the day and evenings that meet
in people‟s homes, for fellowship, Bible Study and prayer.
Prayer meeting - First Thursday of the month.
Contact: Administrator: Enid Instone-Brewer [email protected]
01954 210009
Visiting: Pauline Blower [email protected]
Children & Families: Liz Wadsworth [email protected]
Ministers: Steve & Kate Gaze [email protected]
Steve & Kate are on sabbatical leave until September; please contact Enid or Pauline
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Gatherings for Parents of Children with Additional Needs
Two opportunities to get together with
other parents in Hardwick for a drink
and a chat.
Thursday 11 July
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Children are also welcome
to come and play.
Please contact Liz on
07814883724
for details of the venue.
Monday 22 July
8:30 p.m. onwards
Hardwick Sports & Social Club.
For more information please contact Liz (see
above).
(organised by Hardwick Evangelical Church)
Looking forward to seeing you!
Visiting Hardwick?
If you are visiting Hardwick over the Summer to see relatives,
or are a student of one of the Cambridge language schools and
staying in Hardwick, you are welcome to join us, whatever your
usual church – or if you've never been at all!
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Caldecote Dry Drayton and Hardwick Commu-
nity Car Scheme
The car scheme is there for anyone who needs taking to essen-
tial destinations and has no other means of transport. In May
2019 the scheme did 1616 miles of driving in 150 journeys for
largely medical connected visits but also valid social runs.
We give a big thank you to all our co-ordinators and drivers.
Without them this help could not be achieved and in this rural
area people who cannot drive would be stuck for getting to es-
sential facilities.
Please note; The booking times for journeys to local destina-
tions should be made at least 48 hours before the appointment
and for longer journeys please book a week in advance. Please
make the bookings between the hours of 8.30am and 5.30pm
and please do not ring at evenings, weekends or bank holidays.
The Co- ordinators to phone are;
Gillian Stott; 01954 210942
Nicky Kerr: 07539429 394 or email; [email protected]
Lizzie Coe; 01954 211838
In emergencies only - Sheila Stephenson; 01954 210638
If no reply to any of these and the lift is urgent please try Pan-
ther Taxis on 01223 715715 – or Cambridge Country Cars
01954 211742
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The costs for the journeys are as follows; From villages Calde-
cote, Hardwick and Dry Drayton to local destinations it is a mini-
mum of £3.50.
From any other village to local destinations or for longer distant
journeys -and for ALL villages to further places - (e.g. Adden-
brookes or Hinchingbrooke hospitals) the journey is charged at 30
pence a mile.
Currently we are in urgent need of one more co-ordinator to help
spread the work. The aim of this role is to receive the phone calls
and match them to a driver. All phone calls are reimbursed.
As you will see above, the scheme is getting much busier with 150
runs done in May this year. Thus we also urgently need more
drivers who have the availability that the scheme requires.
Please do think if you can help. Fuel costs are reimbursed.
Please ring Sheila for more information on 01954 210638. We,
and the passengers, would be very, very grateful.
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Looking for a Nursing home for your dear ones!
Gracefield Nursing Home provides excellent Nursing and
Residential Care to people with Dementia and
Mental Health problems.
Please contact us for more details:-
Tel: 01954 210833
Email: gracefield1@hotmail.
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Sharon McMahon
When Sharon McMahon was four years old her parents bought her a toy piano and to their surprise, they found that she could pick out a tune on it. Neither of her parents was particularly musical but they did all they could to support their daughter’s musical talent. Sharon was born in Hove, an area where music was greatly en-couraged among young people. At primary school she learnt to play violin and cello and when she moved on to comprehensive school, she joined the Brighton Youth Orchestra. After leaving school, knowing that she wanted to be a teacher, she went to Homerton College, Cambridge to take a four year Bachelor of Education degree in English and Education. She did not choose music as a degree subject because she did not have a piano qualification but her musical talent was encouraged, and she obtained Grade A in cello. One of her other interests at university was ballroom dancing and she became the national universities quickstep champion. Two weeks after graduating she married her husband Paul, who had been a student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and who, on graduating, obtained a post with Rolls Royce in Derby. With Sharon in her first teaching job in Cambridge they spent three years living partly in Derby and partly in Cambridge. Eventually Paul got a job in Cam-bridge and, having looked for houses in the surrounding area, they eventually settled in Hardwick.
For four years they were both working full-time and did not get to know many people in the village or become involved in any village activities. But everything changed when their first daughter Roseanna was born. Then there was, as Sharon puts it, a social explosion in her life. She became involved with the Parents and Toddlers group, help-ing with fundraising and using her guitar to accompany the children’s singing. She had given up teaching to concentrate on being a full-time mother and realised that Hardwick was the perfect place to be living. Their second daughter, Kristina, was born by this time.
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Sharon started taking both girls to activities at St Mary’s church
and began to get to know people there. She vividly remembers being late one Sunday morning and as they entered the church the whole con-gregation turned and smiled at them. Sharon became a regular member of St Mary’s and helped with some of the children’s activities. She was also active in the P.T.A 500 Club and helped to organise their monthly raffle. While her daughters were young Sharon continued to teach part-time at several schools including Hardwick Primary but as they grew
older she returned to full-time teaching at ………………….., the school where she began her teaching career. Ro-seanna learnt to play the trumpet, took a degree in maths at Bath University and now works in an in-vestment bank in London; Kristina’s musical talent is for singing. She has studied to be an
Orthoptist (dealing with injuries to the eyes) at Liverpool University and is now applying for jobs. Some years ago, a day-time television called ‘The View’ and pre-sented by Lloyd Grossman (remember him?) announced that they were looking for ‘a posh Sharon.’ As a result of replying to this quest, Sharon appeared on the show dressed as Madonna and sang one of her songs. Media fame is ephemeral. Sharon McMahon will be remembered as a devoted family woman, an interesting and innovative teacher and for her involvement in many activities in the village.
Howard Baker
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Residents views welcomed.
Hardwick Parish Council is refurbishing its telephone
kiosk located in Main Street back to its former glory.
It would like to seek the views
of the residents in the village for ideas for the use
of the kiosk, once it is finished.
If you have any ideas, please send them to the Clerk on
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End note Hardwick Happenings archive on line can now be found at
hardwick-cambs.org.uk
Thanks to Elise Croft for her part in updating the system.
The hard copy archive is kept at Cambridgeshire libraries and
was updated four years ago when we searched the village for
back copies. Unfortunately a very small number are still
missing.
Thanks to Jeff Jones for making sure that a copy goes to the
Central library each month.
Last month we asked if anyone could identify the place men-
tioned in Alan West‟s poem. The answer was King‟s Lynn.
Thanks again to all the contributors and the team involved in
putting HH together. Peter
Some late dates from HSSC
Thursday 4th July Monthly Quiz Night
Sunday July 7th 4pm - Live Music with Jenna, all welcome
Tickets £5 members £6 non members
Sunday 21st July 2-4pm - Gospel Choir, all welcome.
Friday 26th July - Members Draw Night with Sausage n Mash.
Thursday 1st August - Monthly Quiz Night.
Saturday 10 August -Live music by Simon Rose from 6pm
(Tickets £5 non members, £6 non)
Saturday 17 August - Charity Darts Tournament from 1pm.
Friday 30th August - Monthly Members Draw Night with sau-
sage n mash.
Thursday 5th September - Monthly Quiz Night.
Sunday 8th September, Live Music from 4pm (£5 members, £6
non members).
Friday 27th September - Members Draw Night with sausage n
mash.
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