Parish Cake - Winter 2019
Your slice of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst life - published by Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Council
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update<br />
News<br />
and views from Cranbrook<br />
& Sissinghurst <strong>Parish</strong> Council<br />
Optimism About the Future<br />
Cllr. Kim Fletcher, new chair of the parish council, looks ahead<br />
AT A time when there is<br />
division and discord in<br />
the nation there are great<br />
reasons to feel optimistic<br />
about the future of the<br />
parish of Cranbrook and<br />
Sissinghurst.<br />
During the past five<br />
years Bridget Veitch<br />
has led us through<br />
tough times as austerity<br />
eviscerated public<br />
services and laid far more<br />
responsibilities on the<br />
parish council. However,<br />
there are many reasons<br />
to be cheerful because a<br />
number of organisations<br />
are really making a<br />
difference and some<br />
projects look as though<br />
they will finally come off.<br />
Cranbrook in Bloom<br />
is an organisation that<br />
goes from strength to<br />
strength, involving<br />
many people of all ages<br />
making a real difference<br />
to our environment. A<br />
gold award in South and<br />
South East in Bloom<br />
and a silver gilt in the<br />
national competition are<br />
remarkable achievements<br />
and anyone can join in.<br />
Cranbrook goes Nuts<br />
in May and the Apple<br />
Fayre are both unique,<br />
creative events when the<br />
real Cranbrook emerges<br />
from the shadows<br />
and expresses unique<br />
quirkiness and creativity,<br />
all created by small<br />
groups of hard-working<br />
people making fun for<br />
the rest of us.<br />
The Rugby Club is<br />
becoming a multi-sport<br />
club, with a new multiuser<br />
clubhouse coming<br />
to fruition. Beside the<br />
men’s and women’s<br />
teams, there are about<br />
ABOVE: Wellbeing in<br />
the Weald allotment<br />
holders<br />
300 children involved<br />
at the club each Sunday<br />
morning - a wonderful<br />
place to learn to work<br />
together at an early age.<br />
The NHS is changing<br />
the delivery of primary<br />
health care and our<br />
GPs are now part of a<br />
Primary Care Network<br />
(PCN). Part of this is the<br />
increase in encouraging<br />
people to interact with<br />
one another. We now<br />
have the magnificent<br />
Wellbeing in the Weald,<br />
which during the past<br />
year has created a new<br />
choir (the Compass Choir<br />
meets on Wednesdays<br />
at 5pm in the Vestry<br />
Hall), an allotment group<br />
(who won the second<br />
prize in the allotment<br />
competition in their first<br />
year), walking groups<br />
(meeting every Tuesday<br />
morning), plus other<br />
ideas in the pipeline.<br />
The parish council is<br />
48 <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Cake</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2019</strong>
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