Chipping Campden Bulletin June 2021 Issue

No 425
June
2021
A D I N F O R M A N D U M N E C Q U E V E R O
I N F L A M M A N D U M
Since 1984
Together with Broad Campden, Ebrington, Charingworth, The Hidcotes, Paxford,
Aston Subedge, Weston-sub-Edge, Mickleton, Saintbury, Willersey and Blockley.
CAMFEST
IS COMING
SUNDAY 29TH AUGUST 2021
Make a note for Sunday 29th August in your diaries.
Camfest, Chipping Campden’s own end of Lockdown
celebration, has been approved for the late summer
Bank Holiday weekend by the Recreation Ground Trust
and financial support agreed by the Town Council.
An organising Committee has been set up under the
Chairmanship of Councillor Chris Jones who is also
Chairman of the Recreation Ground Trust.
After over a year of constraints and cancelled or scaled
back events – including Robert Dovers Cotswold
Olimpicks and the Scuttlebrook Wake, it was suggested
that we hold a local Community Event over the August
Bank Holiday on the Town Recreation Ground.
A wide range of organisations, from the Football and
Cricket Clubs to the Rotary and WI have been consulted
and are more than happy to participate. Amongst the
planned activities, the Scuttlebrook Wake committee
have elected to hold the crowning of the Scuttlebrook
Queen and other events (see page 3), Campden Morris
Dancers have agreed to perform, there will be an Under
9s cricket match organised by the Cricket Club, football
organised by Campden Town FC, Rotary will be
organising a Scarecrow Competition and the Allotment
Association will be holding a produce display and
competition. Work is also underway to put on a musical
event following the afternoons activities and we are
hoping that some elements of the Dover’s Games can
be included. There will also be plenty of space for stalls
and sideshows.
The important thing is that Camfest is intended to
provide an opportunity for local residents (including
new arrivals) organisations and businesses to participate
and help to revive the Town and our community spirit
after a torrid 12 months; if you have an idea about other
activities or would like to get involved, please contact
the Town Clerk, Joanna Harrigan
clerk@chippingcampden-tc.gov.uk
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Mickleton, Willersey and Blockley.
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CHIPPING CAMPDEN SURGERY
MONTHLY NEWS FLASH
New NHS guidance for General Practice from 17th
May is as follows with an explanation as to our planned
implementation. Thank you for bearing with us through
these further changes as the guidance evolves at rapid pace:
• GP practices must all ensure they are offering face to
face appointments
From 17th May, government guidance allows up to 6 people
or 2 households indoors. We are very aware of managing the
number of people in the building due to its size and capacity,
in particular we need to reduce the risk in the waiting
room and corridor areas. We have offered face to face
appointments throughout the pandemic and will continue
to do so. For patients’ safety, we will continue telephone
triage as the first point of consultation and the clinicians
will continue to organise face to face appointments where
appropriate. We plan to increase capacity to allow for these
changes whilst still ensuring patient safety and that risks are
kept to a minimum. We will wait to hear further guidance
for the 21st June planned changes.
• Patients and clinicians should have a choice of
consultation mode. Patients’ input into this choice should
be sought and practices should respect preferences for face
to face care unless there are good clinical reasons to the
contrary, for example the presence of COVID symptoms
This choice will be discussed between the clinician
and patient during the initial telephone triage and the
consultation mode will be decided upon and arranged.
• All practice receptions should be open to patients,
adhering to social distancing and IPC guidance.
The practice reception and dispensary has been open to
patients via the front surgery entrance since 12 April 2021.
Please be aware that, at busy times, you may need to wait
outside so that we keep footfall in the surgery safe and
adhering to guidance.
• Patients should be treated consistently regardless of
mode of access.
By continuing with telephone triage as a first point of
contact, all patients will be treated consistently.
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Flooring
We are replacing the flooring in the corridors and waiting
room from carpets to vinyl to assist with infection control
measures and enable us to increase notices for social
distancing requirements in the building.
GP’s
The GP’s and staff in the practice are working extremely
hard to try and clear the backlog of work created by the
pandemic. We are also adding additional GP and nurse
surgeries where staff are available. It is, therefore, very
disheartening to hear of patients thinking that GP’s are not
working as hard as before the pandemic, when, in fact, GP
surgeries are working harder than ever for patients.
A recent BMA study showed that GP surgeries delivered
nearly 3 million more appointments (not including the
Covid vaccine programme undertaken by practices in
addition) in March than they did in the same month 2 years
ago before the pandemic. The article echoes many GP
practices’ thoughts of how “GP’s working 11 or 12 hour
days, often leading heroic efforts to protect as many people
as possible in their communities against a disease that has
had such a devastating impact on all of us, it is heartbreaking
and completely demoralising to hear accusations
that general practice is not open and that patients are not
being seen. It may feel slightly different with changes put
in place for the protection of staff and patients alike, but
General Practice is open and staff need support, patience
and understanding as they work harder than ever before”
For example, the average number of contacts per GP
expected by the NHS is 25 per day. Our GP’s are regularly
offering approximately 15 telephone consultations and
6 face to face consultations every day. In addition to
this, the GP’s deal with approximately 25 ‘urgent/on the
day’consultations per day between 2 or 3 GP’s. Each
day the GP’s process and action approximately 60-80
consultant or other letters, 50-60 medication reviews
and 50 results along with dictating referral letters and
answering e-mail and website queries. We would like all
of our patients to know that we are still here, as we have
been throughout the last year working on behalf of all of
our patients in a very difficult situation when demand far
exceeds the capacity available. Therefore, we would be
grateful if patients could ensure they are available for their
arranged telephone consultations and attend for arranged
face to face appointments or cancel if not needed, thank
you.
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Children’s Scuttlebrook treasure hunt
The treasure hunt will be run from the Tourist Information
Centre on June 5th. Please collect your clue sheet from there
on the day. Winning entries will be put into a hat and prizes
awarded on Sunday 6th.
SCUTTLEBROOK WAKE
JUNE 5 TH 2021
Last month in the bulletin we detailed our programme for
an adapted Scuttlebrook Wake. Below are a few quick
reminders and one exciting update!
The Window Competition
The theme this year is: “Dover’s Games and Scuttlebrook
Wake”- Please take a walk along the High Street to see this
year’s entries. Photos of of each window will also be shared
on Facebook.
Online photo exhibition
Our online album of photos of Scuttlebrooks past is available
to view on our website (see below), Facebook page and also
at the Post Office. Enjoy!
Exciting update!
Scuttlebrook Wake is coming to “Camfest”! Start getting your
fancy dress ready for this August bank holiday community
celebration, which will also include the crowning of our next
Scuttlebrook Queen. More information about this event can
be found on the front cover bulletin.
The Scuttlebrook Wake Committee
www.scuttlebrookwake.org
FREE
Confidential Advisory Service
available to older people to assist in
accessing the following services:
• Benefits such as Attendance Allowance
• Support services such as carers, cleaners & gardeners
• Equipment such as walking aids
• Blue Badge applications
• Adult Social Care
• Referrals to Social Care
• Advice on general well being
For free support, advice & information please contact:
Louise Kington, Campden & Cotswold Edge Advisory Service
on 07703 566772 or email louisecotswoldedge@gmail.com
This service is made possible due to Grant Aid
kindly provided by Chipping Campden Community Trust
Registered Charity No. 1058187
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
We welcome your contributions.
Email: editor@campdenbulletin.co.uk
Dear Editor,
Campden Family History Group members will recall my
illustrated talk on Chris Merriman, however most will
now know that sadly Chris passed away on Saturday 3rd
April 2021. The funeral service was held in St Marks
Church Eastmain Canada on Wednesday April 7th where
50 people were allowed to attend, many were from the Cree
community. Chris was buried wearing his Hudson Bay
badge and his British Legion Poppy badge.
Chris was from an old Campden family, and is survived
locally by four of his five siblings, two of which are still
living in Campden.
Chris emigrated to Canada when he was 18 years of age
and was employed by the Hudson Bay Company working
in very isolated out posts and with only the company of one
or two other employees, the only other human contact was
with the Cree Indian fur trappers.
There was no electric, the only light would be from candles
and oil lamps. Fortunately for Chris, being a good reader,
there would be a well stocked library at the posts. Winter
temperatures in those early days often reached 50° below.
Eventually Chris married Emily who was from the Cree
community at Eastmain and they had a son William.
Later in years Chris left the employment of the HBC and
worked for the Cree Indian community helping with their
environmental problems etc.
Sadly Emily passed away on 13th April 2014. However,
Chris carried on living and working in the small Cree
community of Eastmain which geographically is situated
close to the Eastern coast line of James Bay.
In Canada, Chris is survived by his son William, daughter
in law Mary, and his three grandchildren Kyle, Justin and
Emily, they live in Mistissini a large Cree community in
Quebec.
So it ends here Chris.
Wachiya (Goodbye)
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PLAN YOUR FUTURE
Willwriting
Lasting Powers of Attorney
Guardianship
Care home fee protection
Trusts and probate
Pre-paid funeral plans
I would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote in
the recent elections.
I’m afraid I wasn’t very visible during the election campaign
- instead I was isolating at home having caught Covid!
It’s an honour to be re-elected as your representative on
Gloucestershire County Council and I look forward to
working with everyone for the benefit of this area for the
next four years.
I’m pleased to further report that I was appointed Deputy
Leader of Gloucestershire County Council at the AGM in
mid-May and will also continue with the Finance & Change
cabinet portfolio.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you think I can help in
any Gloucestershire County Council related matter.
Email: lynden.stowe@gloucestershire.gov.uk or phone:
01386 438270
Kind regards,
Lynden Stowe
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CHIPPING CAMPDEN
LIBRARY NEWS
We were happy to welcome back customers
old and new when the library re-opened on
April 12th. Our opening hours at present
are slightly shorter: Monday 10 – 13 h and
14 – 17 h, Tuesday 10-13 h, Wednesday and Friday 10 – 13 h
and 14 – 17 h, Saturday 10 -13 h. We do expect later opening
hours to return as restrictions lift.
We ask all our customers to observe the regulations when they
enter, i.e. wear a face mask, sanitise hands and check-in with
the NHS Covid19 test + trace app.
We have two kiosks: one for returning books and one for
borrowing to ensure all our books are carefully quarantined.
We also offer internet access, but this is restricted to one PC
only with 50 minutes slots to allow for cleaning in between
customers’ bookings.
We hope to see you soon!
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE
ALL ASPECTS OF PROPERTY
MAINTENANCE
Gardening & fencing
Interior & exterior decorating
Chimney services
VC SERVICES
Vinny Campbell
07756 587568
vincecampbell76@gmail.com

PEST PROBLEM?
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Pest Control on
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LOST AND FOUND
February to April 2021
This report is compiled by Chipping Campden Information
Centre. Please contact us on 01386 841206 or email
info@chippingcampdenonline.org (not the Bulletin) if
you have any lost or found items, or come into the office
Monday to Friday 9.30am-1pm Saturday 9.30am-4pm
Sunday 10.30am-3.30pm.
Items Lost
• HSBC Card lost on High St
• Pink purse containing keys and cash
• Necklace on leather and long gold disc with 5 diamonds
• Pair of black (Block) sunglasses lost in Chipping
Campden School area
• Blue rimmed spectacles
• Boston sausage shopping bag with shopping in
• Light brown wallet
• Hearing aid
• VW car key
Items Found
• Pair of black leather gloves left at Court Barn Shop
• Black ear muffles left at Court Barn Shop
• 2 hoop earrings, 1 purple gemstone (broken)
FRIENDS OF
COURT BARN
The Friends of Court Barn Museum announce The 1902 Club
Lottery. The Lottery supports Court Barn and gives members
a chance of winning a cash prize each month.
60% of all the subscriptions go to Court Barn helping to
ensure the continued success of the museum.
The remaining 40% is awarded as prize money.
Details on how to subscribe or request an application form,
visit Court Barn Museum or email: friends@courtbarn.org.uk
The Committee have also been busy organising some
interesting activities for the remainder of 2021, so watch this
space for further announcements.
BESWICKS
On site cleaning Specialists
Carpets * Upholstery
Rugs * Curtains
Leather * Vinyl
Domestic & Commercial
For free quotation telephone
01386 830076
COURT BARN
A museum of craft and design
Open: April – Sept: Tues – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Oct – March: Tues – Sun, 10am – 4pm
Closed Mondays, except bank holidays
JUNE
The museum and shop are now open.
For your safety we have complied with the government’s
guidance on managing the COVID-19 risk. To keep us all
safe, we ask you to: wear a mask, sanitise your hands both
on entry and when browsing items in the shop and to respect
social distancing.
Please note, this is based on current information.
We would advise all our visitors to double-check the
opening days/hours on our website before visiting to avoid
disappointment.
FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
Court Barn will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of
the Festival of Britain with an exhibition in the museum
later in the year. Did you go to the Festival? Or maybe you
celebrated locally? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
VOLUNTEERS
We always need volunteers to assist us in the museum.
As a volunteer you will benefit from our volunteer social
events, free entry to our exhibitions, a 10% discount on
all museum shop purchases plus it is a great opportunity
to make new friends in a warm and friendly environment.
If you have a couple of hours to spare, particularly at the
weekend, please contact the administrator, Barbara Alderton
who will be happy to discuss volunteering options with you.
www.courtbarn.org.uk
Tel :01386 841951
Email: admin@courtbarn.org.uk
laurenjacksonpiano@outlook.com
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07518 149998
&
CHRIS BENNETT
07986 946518
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maintenance inside and out
including roofing, tiling, paving.
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Midwinter Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy in your own home.
Lung conditions: breathlessness, cough, phlegm, long covid
Bone, joint and muscular issues / pre & post operative
Falls / mobility / balance / strength and conditioning
www.midwinterphysiotherapy.co.uk
Email: sian@midwinter-physiotherapy.co.uk
Call: 07723 541664
CHIPPING CAMPDEN
WI
Our 12th May meeting was again a
Zoom meeting. The Speaker was
Jane Hitchen who gave us a very
interesting and useful talk on ‘keeping safe from frauds and
scams’.
On 9th June at 6.30 our speaker will be Marina Dunn whose
talk is entitled “From Broadway to Borders”. This talk will
again be on Zoom.
On Wednesday 26th May at 2.30 we will again get together
for a cuppa and chat on Zoom.
New members and visitors are always very welcome –
contact 07702 308 341 for details.
BDA Good Practice
Member
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T: 01386 853800
F: 01386 854620
E: enquiries@broadwaydentalcare.co.uk
www.broadwaydentalcare.co.uk
Beautiful smiles built on
solid foundations
ROOMS TO RENT -
OLD POLICE STATION
Ground Floor Room available to rent with immediate effect.
Suitable for studio or workshop. Behind Dandelion shop.
Size 3.6 x 4.2m. (15.2 sq. m.) Water supply and sink and 3
Phase electricity in situ. Wifi broadband available.
Toilet and Kitchen facilities available on first floor
For viewing and terms contact:-
John Ellis Tel: 841253 or john.ellis1938@btinternet.com or
Michael Lindner Tel: 07879 665901.
michael@michael-lindner.co.uk
First Floor Court Room. Now open for meetings/
presentations for up to 25 persons, with possible increase to
50 when social distancing rules are terminated. Adjacent to
kitchen and toilets. Audio visual equipment available. Book
via Information Centre 01386 841206 or
info@campdenonline.org
Ground Floor Meeting Room. (9.5sq. m.) suitable for small
meetings (up to 4 persons) or individual use. Wifi broadband
available. Available for hourly rent. Book via Information
Centre (as above)
Part time job opportunities in
Chipping Campden
Cleaner and Gardener required for regular
work every month hours to be arranged.
Good hourly rates for good people.
References required.
Peter and Avril Rooney
07831 407971
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Christopher Tombs Antiques Ltd
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at Unit 96 Northwick Business Centre, Blockley, Glos GL56 9RF
3000 sq ft of antique furniture and decorative items
to include dressers, tables, clocks, chests of drawers,
paintings and lamps etc., etc.
Please call 01386 700085 or 07778 655965 for further details
www.christopher-tombs-antiques.com
ARE YOU REWRITING
YOUR WILL?
Did you know that legacies to charities are
exempt from from inheritance tax?
Why not leave some money to the
Chipping Campden Community Trust?
The Trust supports local causes and is
currently seeking new funds to support
projects for the young.
For more details phone:
Norman Reid 01386 849340
OPEN DAY AT
JECCA’S HOUSE
On Saturday 10th July, restrictions
permitting, we hope to hold an Open
Day at Jecca’s House. We would love
you to come and enjoy a cup of tea
and a piece of cake in the garden. You
can tour the house, meet our nurses
and find out about our exciting plans for the future.
Can you help?
Campden Home Nursing offers a Bereavement Counselling
service to patients, their families, and friends. Our
counsellors aim to provide support for those experiencing
difficult emotions associated with having a life limiting
illness, to those people caring for them, and to bereaved
relatives of our patients. At Jecca’s House, we provide a
safe, confidential place to talk, and concerns will be heard
in a non-judgemental, caring and respectful way.
We are currently seeking to recruit volunteer Bereavement
Counsellors. We would welcome applications from trainees
or fully qualified counsellors who could commit to two
hours per week or more and work with clients aged 15
and above. In-house supervision is provided, and travel
expenses can be reimbursed.
To apply, please email:
cathy.turner@campdenhomenursing.org.
BEREAVEMENT
COUNSELLING
If you, or any anyone you know, is struggling
with grief, our trained counsellors provide
a safe, confidential place to talk and your
concerns will be heard in a non-judgemental,
caring and respectful way.
At the moment we are supporting people via
phone and Skype.
There is no charge for this service if you live
within the geographical area we cover.
For more details please email
info@campdenhomenursing.org
or call 01386 840505.
www.campdenhomenursing.org
Registered Charity Number 1178423
CHURCH WATCH AT ST JAMES’ CHIPPING CAMPDEN
Chipping Campden is a very popular visitor destination and St James’ Church is for many a highlight. It is a place to
experience peace and contemplation whilst appreciating the history and beauty of the building.
Visitor access to this beautiful building is made possible by the presence of a team of volunteers and we will be welcoming
visitors to St James’ Church again quite soon.
Volunteers make a valuable contribution to the town and if you would like to know more, please contact Heather Howell:
email hh2810@btinternet.com or 01386 840530.
Blocked Ears? EAR WAX REMOVAL SERVICES
Call me today for an appointment 01386 701650 or 07707 816073
Book online at:
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Unit 47 Northwick Business Centre, Blockley
Moreton in Marsh, GL56 9RF
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Call for an appointment on
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CHIPPING CAMPDEN
OPEN GARDENS
CAMPDEN’S GONE
POTTY UPDATE
We hope that your pots are growing well in readiness
for our Campden’s Gone Potty event on the weekend
of 19th – 20th June. We are asking gardeners and
non-gardeners alike, to plant up a pot or container
and display it outside your house over the weekend
of June 19th-20th. If you decide to join us we will
ask that you display your pot(s) or container in
your gateway or driveways or front lawns over that
weekend.
Visitors will not be entering gardens but we hope
people will walk around town admiring planted pots
that will be positioned outside houses, in driveways
and gateways - we hope that Campden will go Potty
and look fabulous! You may want to do a hanging
basket or a garland instead if your house does not
have a frontage.
If you are intending to join in with this event
please could you register with us by emailing
ccopengardens@gmail.com We will then send out
a small poster which we ask you to print out and
display on with you pots. If you are unable to print
the poster please do let us know
by email if and we will arrange to
drop one off to you.
Please do remember to contact
your insurance company and
alert them to the fact that you
are participating in this event for
charity; this should not incur any
additional premium but it is important to let them
know. Please be aware that if anyone trips over pots
that are on the public highway the liability rests
with the owner.
Rachel and Arthur Cunyghame have kindly agreed
to provide teas at Pans Place in Back Ends and we
are delighted that Geoff Soulsby will be having a
plant stall in Back Ends. This year we are again
supporting Campden Edge and Campden Home
Nursing
We are very happy to have the support of TOPS
Plants in Mickleton. Simply cut out the voucher
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SOCIETY UPDATE
Planning
We have been following the developments of the proposed
new car park and access road at the school and the new
housing development at Aston Fields. We understand that
drawings will be available for pre-planning consultation
during June or July, with the planning application expected
to be lodged in September. We are fully supportive of this in
principle and we are looking forward to seeing the proposals;
we will urge you all to have your say about the scheme.
We have been involved in further consultations over the
woodland pasture management at the Clay and we understand
that the Forestry Commission have refused the application
made for a licence to fell any trees. We will continue to watch
the situation.
We are also monitoring the discussions about the future of the
Craves. We understand that the Town Council are envisaging
a public consultation about the proposal for the field to be
handed to the Town Council in return for the inclusion of
further development of up to 40 houses on the Leasowes
field on Dyers Lane, (above the houses currently under
construction) in the Neighbourhood Development Plan.
We encourage everyone to submit their individual views
about planning applications. The Society believes it is
important our elected Councillors and planning authorities
hear from as many people as possible on matters that will
impact the economic and social future of our town.
Wolds End Orchard
187 people visited the Orchard over the early May Bank
Holiday weekend. We were
overwhelmed by the positive
feedback from our visitors,
who ranged from under
9 years to over 90 years.
Visitors came mostly from
the local neighbourhood
but also included visitors
from Stratford, Stow and
Broadway. One
of the previous
owners of the
orchard also
stopped by
and had a chat,
telling us she
was delighted
with how good
it was looking.
Visitors were very pleased to know we wish to maintain the
whole site as a Traditional Orchard, with many keen to see
more green spaces maintained in the town and going towards
mitigating the amount of development taking place. Visitors
also asked for more opportunities to visit the orchard during
the year (Answer: we agree! More on that next month); and
asked questions about whether local schools are involved in
visiting or helping in the orchard (Answer: We have two Duke
of Edinburgh students currently volunteering and would love
to talk about potential visits from Forest Schools or similar).
Our thanks to those who gave us donations towards the
upkeep of the orchard. Huge thanks too, to the Volunteers
who spent time on the gate, welcoming people, answering
questions and sharing stories – in sun, rain, wind and hail!
This month also saw a visit from Martin Jones, National Trust
Area Ranger for North Cotswolds. We invited Martin to visit
and also see our newly laid hedge, after he and the Cotswold
Wardens had kindly provided 120 hazel stakes from a local
coppicing project in Littleworth Woods, near Snowshill,
and which were essential for the project. Martin knows the
area very well and was involved in restoring an orchard
in Broadway. He was very complimentary about the work
which has been undertaken at Wolds End by the volunteers,
the Friends and the Campden Society and we shared some
thoughts and experiences about the nexus of public access
and nature conservation.
If you would like to consider joining us as a volunteer
please contact our volunteer co-ordinator, Donna Evans on
foweo2020@gmail.com or 07867 361180. No expertise
necessary!
Update from Julianne Davis - Vice Chair Campden Society
and Chair of Wolds End Orchard Sub Committee.
Society News
We are planning to hold a physical AGM in July at Chipping
Campden school. Further details will be sent out to members
when arrangements have been finalised. If you would like
to become a member and support our charitable objects of:
working to secure the protection of the architectural and
historic quality of our town, its open spaces and its natural
setting, please contact Judy Barclay on 841849 or email
campdensocietymembership@gmail.com
We are looking for members who would like to get more
involved. There are many areas of our work which could
be advanced more quickly with support and projects can be
tailored to members’ interests and time availability. Please
contact us at the email below for an informal chat.
Best wishes
Elizabeth Devas - Chair
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We would very much like to celebrate our milestone Birthday
this year by inviting anyone who has had a connection with
Chipping Campden Guides over the years to share their
experiences with us.
We’re asking you or anyone you know of to share your
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NOTES FROM
CHIPPING CAMPDEN
SCHOOL
We are near the end of an unforgettable
academic year. I have been immensely proud of
the way the staff and students have adapted to the challenges
and changes that have come about almost weekly and we
remain hopeful, along with the rest of the community, that the
coming weeks and months will see greater progress towards
a more normal way of living and learning.
Throughout the various lockdowns, our Performing Arts
Centre builder, Trendgrey, has continued to progress with
the construction. It has been a daily joy to see the building
advance since last July; the site clearance, the huge steel
posts erected, bricks laid, and most recently, the first stages
of the electrical installation.
Back in 2012, we recognised our need to improve the
performing arts facilities. Once we started planning the
project, we acknowledged that this was a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to deliver a dynamic education space, a wonderful
facility for our community and attract professional touring
artists. We have been working with a team of architects,
engineers and theatre experts who have helped us design a
performing arts facility that goes beyond the needs of the
school and will be a space I hope you are proud of and will
enjoy visiting over the years ahead.
Thanks to Duchy Homes, the School Housing Association
and the wonderful support of so many Grants, Trusts,
Foundations and individuals, we are much closer to reaching
our target to deliver our vision (see below how you can help
us ‘cross the line’). I had my first ‘hard hat’ tour in March;
as I stood in the auditorium, I reflected on my journey over
the past nine years to get to this point and was filled with
excitement for what this building will deliver over the next
few decades. More recently, my colleagues who will work
in this building had their first tour to see the reality of what
has been achieved so far and anticipate with greater certainty
what is to come. Although we cannot yet take the public
around the building, please come and find out more about
our progress and plans at our Community Open Day in the
Town Hall on the 24th June.
We have spent the past three months working with a theatre
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have been part of the
community consultation process; thank you for your help,
sharing your views and time. The Business and Operational
Plan is our latest commitment to ensure the building delivers
all the educational and artistic opportunities envisaged at the
start of the project.
Part of our arrangement with Duchy Homes was to build
thirteen new properties for the School Housing Association.
We are very fortunate to be able to offer newly qualified
or relocating teachers and support staff affordable, quality
housing. They are now all settled into their wonderful new
homes. Thank you, for your patience through their period of
construction.
To help us ‘cross the line’ with fund raising for the Performing
Arts Centre we have some ‘Name a Seat’ opportunities
available. This is a wonderful way to say ‘thank you’, ‘I
remember you’ or whatever you choose in the 60-character
limit. For a minimum gift of £250, your dedication will be
engraved on a plaque and affixed to a seat in the Auditorium,
where it will remain for the lifetime of the seat. Gifts can
be made in full or in monthly instalments. To acknowledge
those who wish to pledge £1000+, our Design Technology
Department is creating an Oak Donor Wall for the Foyer
of the new building. This will feature donors’ individually
engraved plaques.
As the saying goes, every penny counts, and we are truly
grateful for donations of any size, and all gifts will go towards
completing the Centre to a high specification. If you have any
questions, please contact the Development Office for more
information or visit perform.campden.school.
Thank you.
J Sanderson, Principal
Community Open Day
All Welcome
Thursday 24 June 2021
10-5pm Chipping Campden Town Hall
The building for the new Performing Arts Centre and
Amphitheatre is well underway, so please pop in and find
out more about our developments, student performances
and displays of:
The Centre plans
Illustration of the Amphitheatre
The six finalists of the sculpture competition
(please come and vote for your favourite)
No need to book, simply turn up.
We look forward to seeing you and we will adhere to all
Government Covid Guidelines at that time.

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE TEAM
REPORTED CRIME FIGURES 1ST FEBRUARY 2021 – 30TH APRIL 2021
Area Chipping Campden Ebrington Mickleton Weston Sub Edge
Category Feb/Apr Feb/Apr Feb/Apr Feb/Apr Feb/Apr Feb/Apr Feb/Apr Feb/Apr
21 20 21 20 21 20 21 20
Violence 5 8 0 1 10 8 0 1
Burglary 3 5 0 0 2 1 1 5
Theft 4 10 1 2 2 7 1 2
Fraud 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Criminal Damage 2 3 0 0 2 3 0 0
Drugs 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Other 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Total 17 28 1 3 16 21 4 8
The 3 months February to April have seen a reduction in
the overall crime rate when compared to the previous year.
This period has not seen a spate in any particular type of
offence.
However we aware of the current heightened concerns
surroundings reports of Dog thefts and although the
number of incidents in our area remains extremely low,
there have unfortunately been cases of dog being taken in
other parts of Gloucestershire.
With that in mind, we would like to remind dog owners to
be on the lookout.
“A dog is not just a pet, it’s a member of the family and part
of a home, we are doing all we can to stop these callous
thieves and I would urge anyone who sees anything
suspicious to call us immediately”, said Chief Inspector
Rich Pegler.
“There are also a number of ways that you can help protect
your dogs, including ensuring that it is never left on its
own outside, and making sure that it has been microchipped
and the details are up-to-date.”
Other ways of protecting your dog include:
• Keep an ID tag on your dog at all times (your surname,
mobile number and address only)
• Secure gates using bolts at the top & bottom, along with
a heavy-duty padlock & gate alarm
• Never leave your pet in the garden unattended
• Purchase a driveway alarm so you are alerted to any
intruders, these can also be used in rear gardens and yards
• Make sure your dog is micro-chipped and their details
are updated so that they can be returned if they are stolen
and subsequently found.
• Avoid leaving a dog tied up outside a shop or left alone
in a car, even for a few minutes
• Take lots of photographs of your dog to prove ownership
if it’s stolen, pay particular attention to any distinguishing
markings on your dog.
• To prevent theft during walks, Gloucestershire
Constabulary also advises owners vary walk times
and locations and act suspicious of strangers who ask
questions about your dog.
• Make a note of any suspicious, loitering vehicles,
say police. Police would like to speak to anyone who
witnessed or suspects any links with the circumstances
listed above.
Please contact Gloucestershire Constabulary online at
www.gloucestershire.police.uk or call 101.
Neighbourhood Policing Team.
Paul Hancock, Cassie Wilford & Nick Westmacott.
paul.hancock@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
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Nurture, Cherish, Shine, Flourish
St. James' and Ebrington
C of E Primary School
Ebrington's Little Pickles Nursery
Our Christian Value this term is:
Our New Library
at St. James'
Head Girl Update
Hello everyone, when we came back to school after the
Easter Holidays we were happy to find our new library
space at St. James’ and all enjoyed our class story time
there. There is a fresh selection of books, all presented
in a friendly, warm and welcoming space with a
fantastic mural depicting our local countryside and
wildlife. We also enjoyed a special cricket session with
a visiting cricket coach and all learnt new skills and
had fun out in the fresh air (when it wasn’t raining!).
The Year 6s are extremely excited for our Residential
activity trip to PGL in Torquay before Half Term and we
all hope that we can enjoy some relaxation of Covid
restrictions next term – we have missed all being
together and having to stay in our bubbles!
Imogen Yr 6, Head Girl
Ebrington Since Lockdown
This term EC1 have had great fun playing and learning in
our Healthy Café role play area. We have enjoyed doing
experiments with teabags, coffee, sugar, salt and other
substances to see what happened when water was added!
Our café is also a good place to do our maths work about
money. You have probably guessed that our work this term
is all about fabulous food! So we have been growing our
own food in the form of cress in different conditions in the
hope of making egg and cress sandwiches soon!
EC2 have been learning
about solids, liquids and
gases in Science. This week,
we did an experiment
where we inflated a balloon
without using our mouths
and instead created a
chemical reaction with
vinegar and bicarbonate of
soda to put gas into the
balloon and blow it up.
Head Boy Update
Returning to school after Easter has been lots of fun.
We have been learning about States of Matter in
Science which links to our Big Question “What would
happen if we ran out of water?” I think the world
would go into chaos if we actually did run out of
water. Hopefully some scientists would find a way to
make more.
Last week, we did a Cricket Workshop with Alex. It
was amazing!
Edward, Y6 Head Boy
St. James' Since Lockdown
Reception class have been building dens and structures
using crates, planks, bricks and tyres in their outside area.
They worked cooperatively and displayed our current
school value ‘creativity’ coming up with amazing designs!
In Year1, for science, we have been learning all about
plants. So far we have planted sunflower seeds and learnt
about what our seeds will need to grow. We've also learnt
the names of some common garden plants and enjoyed a
walk around the village identifying flowers in some lovely
front gardens.
Year 2 have been busy planting seeds and bulbs and they
have been learning to sing 'Zoo time' and playing the
glockenspiel as an accompaniment.
In Year 6, for science we have been learning about
electricity and circuits and making our own circuits to
investigate the effect of increased voltage on the
brightness of a bulb.Our RE unit and our Christian value
has been based on 'Creativity'. We have been able to
consider how God showed creativity in the Creation Story
along with our own creative talents.
We are opening a second Little Pickles site at Ebrington in September. If you would
like more information please email us for an information pack or visit our website.
littlepickles@stjeb.school www.stjamesandebringtonschool.org.uk
Nurture, Cherish, 13 Shine, Flourish

CHIPPING CAMPDEN
LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2021
Monday 20 – Saturday 25 September
Website, printed programme, and booking available after that of the Music Festival.
**PROGRAMME**
Monday 20 th joint Music/ Literature Festivals events
11am Laura Tunbridge Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces.
Afternoon Time TBC & 7.30pm I, Clara: A Life in Music
Lucy Parham on piano/ Harriet Walter narrates from Clara Schumann’s letters and diaries
_____________________________________________________________________
Tuesday 21 st
12noon Andrew Lownie The Traitor King: The Windsors After 1936
Reservations Cotswold House Hotel 840330
Charlie Bennett interview
Performance
Illustrated after lunch talk
3.30pm Court Barn Museum event:John Holmes Temple of Science: The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of
Natural History
Illustrated talk
7pm Paula Byrne The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Illustrated talk
8.30pm Jonathan Bate Bright Star, Green Light: Lives of John Keats and F Scott Fitzgerald
Talk
_____________________________________________________________________
Wednesday 22 nd
10am Naoko Abe Cherry Ingram: The Englishman who saved Japan’s Blossoms
Illustrated talk
11.30am Richard Fortey A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist & Peter Marren The Consolation of Nature Conversation
2pm Ysenda Maxtone Graham British Summertime Begins: School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 and Michael Henderson That
Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket
Discussion chaired by Richard Postins
3.30pm Helena Attlee Lev’s Violin non-fiction and Caroline Montague Shadows Over The Spanish novel share their research
methods
Discussion chaired by Caroline Sanderson
7pm Max Hastings Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Talk
8.30pm Paul Mason How To Stop Fascism/Ian Dunt How To Be A Liberal
Conversation
_____________________________________________________________________
Thursday 23 rd
10am Sophie Flynn Getting Published Manuscripts or writing ideas awaiting publication?
Presentation
11.30am Claire Nelson Things I learned From Falling nail-biting memoir
Sophie Flynn interview
2pm Rachel Clarke Breathtaking: NHS doctor’s memoir of Coronavirus.
Louise Davis interview
3.30pm Marina Warner Inventory of a Life Mislaid: WWII love match between southern Italy and upper-class England and an
exploration of Marina’s parent’s marriage.
Illustrated talk
7pm Sue Cook’s Big Book Group Stuart Turton The Devil and the Dark Water a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, optioned
for television
Audience participation
8.30pm Lenni Goodings A Bite of the Apple /Helen Taylor Why Women Read Fiction: women publishers, writers & readers
___________________________________________________________________________________________Conversation
Friday 24 th
10.30am Victoria Preston We Are Pilgrims: journeys of purpose, wonder & self-discovery
Illustrated talk
12 noon Gwen Adshead, Broadmoor forensic psyschiatrist, The Devil You Know: reveals the men and women behind acts of
terrible violence and makes the case for compassion over condemnation
Francesca Bennett interview
2.30pm POETRY BAND WAGON e: vicky@campdenlitfest.co.uk to participate ‘Open mic’ opportunity host Ann Allen
3pm Women at War CC Film Society showing of 2018 Icelandic Film with English subtitles: humorous, unique on topical
issues of climate change, environmental damage and “otherness”
Film
7pm Paul Edmondson & Stanley Wells discuss their co-edited All The Sonnets Of Shakespeare
__________________________________________________________________________Discussion chaired by Peter Smith
Saturday 25 th
10.30am Owen Eastwood, performance coach who has worked with some of the world’s most elite sports teams and other
organisations, Belonging: The Ancient Maori Code of Togetherness
Caroline Sanderson interview
12noon Iain MacGregor Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War & Berlin Wall
Illustrated talk
2pm Luke Harding Shadow State: Russia’s Remaking of the West
Illustrated talk
3.30pm Sathnam Sanghera Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain and Dan Hicks The Brutish Museums:
The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Discussion chaired by Caroline Sanderson
5pm Corinne Fowler, N T Countryside Project director, Green Unpleasant Land: Rural England’s Colonial Connections
_______________________________________________________________________________ Caroline Stanford interview
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toke’s
chicken chasseur
serves 4
This month we bring you our ever-popular chicken
chasseur. This is a punchy tomato-based sauce full of the
flavours of garlic, wine and tarragon. If you don’t want
to use chicken, cod would work very well, just poach
it gently in the sauce at the end. We like it served with
French beans and the ubiquitous buttery mash and a
cold glass of Mercurey Roc Blanc Chateau De Santenay,
whatever the weather!
Ingredients:
1 white onion, sliced
1 punnet chestnut mushrooms, sliced
1 pack unsmoked bacon, chopped
1 tin chopped tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, minced
175ml white wine
1tbsp tarragon
3 chicken breasts, diced
Salt and pepper to taste
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until the chicken is thoroughly cooked and the sauce has
reduced slightly. Season to taste and serve.
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NOTES OF THE ANNUAL
ASSEMBLY OF CHIPPING
CAMPDEN
27th April 2021 7.30pm held by Zoom!
Present: MA, CJ, MH, PS, BK, TN, RO, GB
38 attendees in all
The Mayor, Michael Allchin, welcomed residents to Chipping
Campden’s first virtual annual ssembly.
1. To Receive Apologies for Absence
Apologies received and accepted from Cllrs Greenall and Webb.
2. To Receive a Report and Outlook from the Mayor.
Michael Allchin covered the following topics: the Covid
Pandemic and the response from the Council and Chipping
Campden.
Thanked key workers, Fillet and Bone, the Co-Op, the schools,
pubs and restaurants arranged deliveries and takeaways, the
food bank at the Baptist Church and special thanks to Rachel
and Arthur for arranging the volunteers and John and Heather
Howells who organised prescriptions. Also to the surgery for
the co-ordination of the surgeries and the roll out of the vaccines.
Other important thing was the installation of the CCTV and
ANPR in the town to drive down rural crime.
A huge congratulation on the Campden Society securing the
orchard for the town without development.
Another big game changer for the town will be securing a rear
entrance and access road to the back of the school and a new car
park. It will also release the old car park for the use of the town
and we have also learned that space is going to be allocated for a
new surgery there with car parking. GCC is taking this forward
and we should be able to see some plans by the summer. The
school and the country council has involved CDC at every step.
That’s the number one thing that we will focus on next year.
The NDP’s most important part is the new road and car park.
CDC has recommended that we include a Campden Design
Code within the main body of the NDP so that has slowed things
down a little but we have appointed AECOM consultants to
produce the design code and in due course that consultancy will
organise meetings in town for different groups and individuals
to have their say.
Over the past few weeks there has been a proposal from the
Haines family for a swap for the Craves field for 40 houses on
the Leasows. They would want it included in the NDP and once
they gain planning permission they will gift the Craves to the
Town Council.
We are arranging a town vote on this for everyone one the
electoral register and we are looking at the different ways and
costs to do this.
The next big issue we have in town is speeding. We have
lobbied for several years for 20mph zone throughout the town.
We haven’t had a great deal of cooperation from the authorities
and Cllrs Orr and Spink have been doing a lot of work on ANPR
as these are the only way that you will get any sort of abeyance.
The ANPR camera in the town centre is amazing but to put ones
which are enforceable on the other roads will cost in the region
of £25k but we need the support of the police and the police and
crime commissioner. We know that Stow has received support
from their county councillor and the pcc. This is an important
thing for us next year.
We have been looking at ways to get some congestion relief in
the short-term. We have a traffic order out for consultation at
the moment to extend the yellow lines around the main area of
St James to ensure that the fire engines and emergency vehicles
and the voluntary fire fighters can get through the gyratory. Part
of the order will enable the disabled bays to be enforceable and
we are looking at a 2 hr limited parking zone on the High St
from the Police Station to Sheep Street.
We need to see some progress on verges: they are a mess but
to be fair they are a mess across the Cotswolds. We need
emergency work on Aston Road and the High Street. The
TC had a meeting last week with Highways and a number of
residents and we are waiting for a plan from Highways to do
this. They were sympathetic.
The next thing we are looking forward to is a community event
which will take place on 29th August, which Cllr Chris Jones is
organising and chairing a working group to get this done.
3. To receive a report from the Chipping Campden
Community Trust
Sally Lindner reported: Good evening everyone, thank you
Michael for your invitation to say a few words about The
Chipping Campden Community Trust.
The Trust is an independent body which was established in
1995, it was the ‘brain child’ of an ex town councillor and
another active member of the community, the purpose of the
charity was the creation and disbursement of funds for the
improvement and enhancement of the quality of life in the town
of Chipping Campden. It was actually set up under my watch
when I was The Mayor. The Town council gave a grant of
£200 to start the Trust, which was to run totally independently.
The Trust is a registered charity which relies on donations,
covenants and bequests to provide financial support to charitable
projects within its aims.
Although initially set up for the benefit of CC in later years the
surrounding villages - Mickleton, Weston and Aston sub Edge
Willersey Ebrington the Hidcotes and Charringworth - were
added in to the area, to benefit from the Trust
The Trust has benefitted from two legacies, The Tryphena Wood
bequest and the Fred Badger bequest, these legacies were left
specifically to support the elderly within our community.
Recently the Trust has benefited from a very generous donation
from the Braithwaite Trust, this particular fund has come with
no restrictions, and has therefore allowed the Trustees to
support projects for young people and associated organisations.
Braithwaite House was bought by the Royal British Legion for
service men returning to CC after the war. In 2018 the property
was sold with profits from the sale donated to the Trust, sharing
similar aims and objects as the Braithwaite Trust.
The Objectives and Aims of the Trust are:
To promote through the provision of financial assistance, (grants)
any charitable purpose for improving the educational, leisure,
recreational and supportive facilities for the public benefit
of the inhabitants of Chipping Camden and the surrounding
Campden Vale area, with special regard to the needs of the
young, the elderly, the disadvantaged and the disabled.
The legacies form the main capital reserves for the long term
commitments of the the Trust, the income from the investments
provide in, perpetuity the money for distribution through the
grants. However the Trust always welcomes small donations
and bequests and of course anyone is welcome to become a
member of the Trust for a small fee.
The Trust is run by a body of Trustees with representatives from
our whole area
A few examples of our grants.
In order to support the elderly we grant aid The Campden
and Cotswold Edge Advisory Service operated by Louise
Kington this is a free confidential service offering advice,
making referrals to groups and organisations and helping with
applications for benefits, blue badge applications and generally
helping to signpost clients in the correct direction, for help and
assistance.
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We have given grants to our primary schools in the past, to top
up educational trips where parents have not been able to afford
the full cost.
We have given grants to the primary schools for new reading
books and during the recent lockdown have grant aided the
provision for extra ipads.
We have given a CAPITAL grant to CCS Performing Art Centre
due to be open in the Autumn, although this was a one off capital
grant we felt that this new facility will be of benefit to the whole
surrounding community.
We have awarded grants to the local food bank
To the Wilson Garden Trust
To the Recreation Ground Trust.
To name but a few.
We have very recently launched our new website and I urge all
to have a look, its very easy to navigate, it has some wonderful
photographs of our area, you can even make a donation if you
would like to, and you can see in more detail the work of the
Community Trust, and how over the last 26 years the Trust
has developed, from meagre beginnings into a meaningful Trust
with secured finances to support our community in perpetuity.
Grant Application forms can be found on the website.
Chipping Campden Community Trust, North Cotswolds
4. To receive a report from Campden Home Nursing
Helen Makaritis and Heather reported that the charity started 30
years ago in 1990 to allow people to be nursed at home at the
end of life. In 2017 we were left a multi-million pound legacy
which has allowed us to increase our patients by 217% and a
315% increase in nursing hours. On top of that we started a
bereavement counselling service and in 2019 we have three
children at St Catherines who were bereaved and we helped
them. We also added 80 other people with bereavement
counselling.
We have set up Jecca’s House to be a cancer support centre and
living well centre. We have day room and we have set up the
garden so that we can do a lot of work outside during Covid.
We have set up a men in sheds facility in the double garage.
We’re open to everyone who wants to come and see us and see
the incredible facility that we are developing.
We are doing as much as we can for the community and we
never stopped one night of nursing throughout Covid. We run
at a deficit every year so we are starting to fund-raise again and
are asking for support.
The link to the website for further information is:
Home - Campden Home Nursing
5. Public Participation and Questions
John Ellis asked questions of Helen about end of life services
and whether it was just limited to Cancer. Helen said it covered
all end of life scenarios.
Carol Jackson asked about the Campden Design Code and she
reported that she has seen a lot of HGVs having problems with
Sheep Street corner. Michael Allchin explained the Cotswold
Design Code.
Rachel Cunghyme: lorries are coming down Back Ends. Asked
Campden Home Nursing to put out the message that they need
more funding.
Elizabeth Devas thanked the Town Council for all the work
that the cllrs put in. The Campden Society concurs with much
of what was said and congratulated them on the progress made.
The Campden Society has an open weekend next weekend
from 10am to 4pm for blossom day. Please come and have a
look at the orchard and see how much work has gone into it and
she thanked the volunteers for all their work.
Helen Makaritis added that Campden Home Nursing at doing
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MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL
STATUTORY MEETING OF
CHIPPING CAMPDEN TOWN
COUNCIL
Tuesday 18th May 2021
Town Hall, High Street, Chipping Campden
Key to Councillors: Michael Allchin MA, Michael Haines
MH, Patrick Spink PS, Simon Cluley SC, Teresa Newman TN,
Chris Jones CJ, Richard Orr RO, Graham Greenall GG, Liz
Hodges LH, Bob King BK, Trevor Webb TW, Lynden Stowe
LS, Gina Blomefield GB, Mark Annett MarkA
Present: Town Cllrs : TN, CJ, MH, RO, GG, LH, PS, MA, SC
District Cllr: GB
The Clerk, Mrs Harrigan.
And five members of the public.
BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT THE STATUTORY
ANNUAL MEETING
To Elect the Chairman of the Council - LH proposed CJ
and GG seconded the nomination.
RO proposed MA and SC seconded the nomination.
Following a secret ballot CJ was elected as Chairman.
PS proposed a formal vote of thanks to MA
CJ signed the Declaration of Acceptance of Office
To Elect the Vice-chairman of the Council
PS proposed MH and LH seconded and following a vote in
favour MH was elected.
Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, Risk Assessment
and Cotswold District Council’s Code of Conduct were all
re-adopted.
Appoint the Responsible Financial Officer - with a vote
in favour the Town Clerk was appointed.
To Appoint a Councillor as Internal Verifier - with a vote
in favour LH was appointed.
Signatures were authorised for the Signing of Cheques
Together with various payments to be made by Direct Debit
/ Standing Order
Chairman’s allowance was confirmed at £750 per annum
to meet the expenses of the office.
The Structure of the Committees and their terms of reference
will remain the same.
The Council agreed to continue to give the Planning
Committee delegated authority, in accordance with its terms
of reference, to act on behalf of the council in deciding the
Council’s response to Planning Applications.
The following policies were taken en-bloc and were reconfirmed:
The Data Protection Policy; Health and Safety Policy; The
Information Security Policy; Complaints Procedure; The
Unreasonably Persistent Complaints and Unreasonable
Behaviour Policy; The Records Management Policy; The
Communications Policy; The GDPR Privacy Policy and
The Memorial Bench Policy.
The following council representatives were appointed to
outside bodies:
1. GAPTC (1): Liz Hodges
2. Market Towns Forum : no one volunteered.
3. Thynne and Weymouth Trust (1) Richard Potter.
4. Keeper of the Flags (1) John Ellis
5. Broad Campden Village Hall (1) Liz Hodges
6. The Alms Houses (1) Aisla Scott.
It was agreed to appoint GG and PS as Town Council
Representative Trustees to the Campden and District Peelers
Trust from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022
Dates for Town Council meetings for the year were agreed:
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MINUTES OF THE MAY MEETING
OF CHIPPING CAMPDEN TOWN
COUNCIL
Tuesday 18th May 2021
Town Hall, High Street, Chipping Campden
Present: Town Cllrs: TN, CJ, MH, RO, GG, LH, PS, SC.
The Clerk, Mrs Harrigan.
District Councillor GB.
Five Members of the public were present.
The minutes of the meeting of 13th April 2021 were
agreed.
Notes of the Annual Assembly of 27th April 2021 were
noted.
The District Councillors Report – GB reported. The waste
collection calendar is no longer being circulated to residents
but they have put it on the website for residents to refer to
or download.
Local Community Support Grants are now being done by
Spacehive. The first one from Chipping Campden was the
Ernest Wilson Garden and they should hit their target.
LS had an email from a resident asking for the 30mph limit
to be put further up the hill on Dyers Lane and has requested
that GCC Highways look at this. Chris Nelson is the new
PCC and is happy to talk to TCs.
GB has circulated information to the Silk Mill on how to
apply for brown tourist signs. LH brought up the fact that
we now have to actively “support” a planning application
rather than just raise no objections.
GB agreed that the councils and councillors should have
been informed of this before and she will take it further.
CJ asked GB to facilitate a meeting with the new PCC. GB
confirmed.
Planning - a report from the Planning Committee Meeting
of 18th May was received.
NDP – an update on the NDP was received and a written
update was received from Martin Davidson.
The preparation of the Chipping Campden Neighbourhood
Development Plan (NDP) was approved by Cotswold
District Council (CDC) in 2013.
The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations
2012, state that, to gain approval, every NDP has to pass
successfully through a number of stages. Brief details of
Regulations 15-20 are attached to this note.
In 2020 a draft of the NDP and a Community Design
Statement (CDS) was sent to Cotswold District Council for
comment. CDC had a substantial number of comments on
both of these documents which meant that the NDP could
not proceed to approval. In March 2020, Campden Town
Council appointed Martin Davidson and Associates to
revise both documents so that they would be approved by
CDC and the NDP could proceed to the next approval stage.
It was agreed to engage CDC in this process to ensure that
a satisfactory NDP and CDS were delivered.
The original Draft NDP and CDS were revised and amended
in discussion with CDC and Campden Town Council and
after twelve drafts, the NDP has reached a stage where CDC
seems content with its ‘policies’ and ‘community projects’.

Although the original intention was to avoid the need for
a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which could
take three months to complete, CDC has stated that a SEA
of the NDP will probably be required.
Although a CDS is not a specific requirement of an NDP,
CDC has made it clear that Central Government has
emphasised the importance of ‘design’ in any development
and that a CDS should therefore be included in the NDP.
CDC’s comments on the original CDS were extensive and it
was felt that in the interests of working with the community
and CDC, an outside consultancy which specialises in
preparing CDS should be appointed.
When the final Draft NDP/CDS is available, Campden
can start the community consultation period. Campden
is required to consult residents, businesses, landowners,
statutory bodies, and other interested parties, on the Final
Draft NDP, giving them a minimum of six weeks to respond.
The Consultation Report will include their comments and
how these have been dealt with in the NDP.
Regulation 14 then requires the full draft of the final
NDP, including the Community Design Statement and
consultation statement, supported by the evidence base to be
submitted to CDC which will prepare a ‘Screening Report’
of the NDP focussing on whether the NDP complies with
statutory legislation and identifying whether a Strategic
Environmental Assessment may be required. Locality’
has been approached and agreed to finance ‘AECOM
Consultants’ to prepare a Strategic Environmental
Assessment and a Community Design Statement for
Campden NDP
• The Strategic Environmental Assessment will be carried
out by AECOM by way of a ‘Scoping Report’ which may
take three months.
• The Community Design Statement will be carried out be
AECOM and will take three to six months. AECOM has
been sent all of the existing CDS documentation. AECOM
staff visited the Chipping Campden NDP area last week and
will meet with CDC staff to discuss their concerns prior to
preparing a ‘skeleton’ CDS which can be discussed with the
local community and other interested parties so that a final
draft may be created which all parties accept.
Next Steps
While the CDS is progressing, the achievement of an agreed
NDP, with or without a satisfactory SEA, requires the Town
Council to finalise what proposals it wishes included in the
NDP. Outstanding issues include:
• The future of the Craves and the proposed development of
the Leasows and the packing Station
• A town Bypass
• Formalisation of Campden’s Green spaces
• Proposals for a school, health centre and sports centre east
of the proposed Bratches Housing development
If any of these ‘policies’ involve the development of land
they will require a detailed development appraisal.
If a decision on these ‘policies’ can be made which is
acceptable to CDC, the NDP approval process can proceed
with the required public consultation and the submission
of a Final Draft of the NDP documentation to CDC which
includes:
• The NDP document
• Consultation Report
• The Community Design Statement
• Biodiversity Report
• SAE if necessary
• A Basic Conditions Statement
• Supporting evidence surveys, consultations with the
public, statutory bodies and interested parties
NDP Regulations
• Regulation 14 - Pre-submission - consultation and publicity
• Regulation 15 – NDP Final Proposals
• Regulation 16 - Publicising an NDP proposal
• Regulation 17 - Submission of plan proposal to examination
• Regulation 18 – Publication of Examiner’s Report and
NDP decision
• Regulation 19 – Decision on NDP
• Regulation 20 – Publicising and approved NDP
Regulation 15
This sets out the information that Campden has to provide
as part of the NDP submission to CDC. This has to be the
full draft NDP including:
• The NDP document
• The Community Design Statement
• Biodiversity Report
• Consultation Report
• SAE if necessary
• A Basic Conditions Statement
• Supporting evidence - surveys, consultations with the
public, statutory bodies and interested parties
• NDP timeline
Regulation 16
Once the full draft NDP is submitted, CDC will publicise
the NDP, open up a six-week public consultation after which
any responses are then given to the independent examiner to
review against the plan.
Regulation 17
If CDC is content with the information provided an
independent examiner will be appointed to review the NDP
documentation to determine whether the NDP has been
prepared according to Government Guidelines.
Regulation 18
If the examiner is satisfied that the NDFP is in accordance
with Government legislation he/she will publish a report
saying so. However, if the NDP does not satisfy the
Examiner it may have to be revised to take his/her comments
into account and residents, statutory bodies and interested
parties consulted on the changes.
Regulation 19
If everything ogres well CDC will issue a statement saying
that it intends to adopt the NDP as planning policy. However,
CDC could decline to adopt the CDC meaning that changes
may have to be made and residents, statutory bodies and
interested parties consulted on the changes
Regulation 20
If CDC approves the NDP it will be publicised by the council
and will go to a referendum of local residents who will vote
on whether it should be accepted. This will be based on a
simple majority of those who vote. If the majority of voters
are in favour of the NDP it will become planning Policy.
Campden and District Peeler’s Trust - The following
report was received from John Ellis:
The past six months, like everything else in the country, has
been dominated by the effects of the COVID19 pandemic.
The Trust was forced to close the building to the public
during the latest lockdown, although tenants were again
able to use their offices. We again provided some rent relief
to trading tenants, and we have not reviewed any rents or
the service charge during the past year.
We have made some changes to the arrangements for the
Counselling Room. The tenant in the adjacent room needed
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additional space, so we made a lease agreement for him
to take over the Counselling Room. We have transferred
the counselling facility to the former Clerk’s office on the
ground floor, which is the room that we manage on the
Council’s behalf. We are refurbishing the room, and plan
to market it as a meeting/hot desk facility as well as its
previous counselling role. We continue to pay the Council
a rent for the room. The former workshop on the ground
floor remains vacant due to the constraints of Covid 19, but
is being remarketed now that restrictions are being reduced.
As a result of the Covid 19 constraints, in particular the
inability to offer the Court Room for rent, and rent relief for
tenants, the accounts for the six months ending 31 December
are showing a small loss. Our reserves remain lower than is
comfortable, representing only about 3 months of trading
income. However most of our tenants have been with us
for some time, and we have not had any withdrawals from
leases. This includes Dandelion, who had previously given
notice to quit, but subsequently decided to continue trading.
So the Trust has weathered the COVID storm in reasonable
shape.
In the previous report, I referred to concerns regarding the
condition of the roof tiles on the front building. A recent
survey has found that the condition is better than we thought.
Apart from a few repairs and replacement tiles, there is no
substantial work needed for some years. This is obviously
a great relief.
The forward prospects for the Trust now look more positive
with the reopening of the town and the economy, and we
look forward to seeing the reuse of the building by the
community in the Court Room and Information Centre, as
well as reletting the ground floor workshop
Report from Cllr Jones on the Craves Working Party
meeting of 19th April 2021.
CJ reported: that the working party are obtaining costs for
conducting an independent consultation of the residents.
The Clerk has contacted CDC and CJ has contacted Civitas.
Civitas has quoted but CDC hasn’t responded yet as they
have been busy with the elections.
Report from Cllr Jones on the Camfest Working Party
meetings of 20th April and 27th April 2021.
CJ reported that the event is starting to take shape. Lots
of the clubs and societies have joined and the schools. CJ
met Scuttlebrook Wake Committee on the Rec and came
up with a working layout for the event. We may have to
modify the event in case the social distancing rules change
so we are trying not to spend too much at this point but there
is great enthusiasm with the members of the public. (see
information in this Bulletin)
Public Participation
Sally Lindner asked if the Craves Working Party notes
would be circulated to the public. CJ replied in the negative.
Sally Lindner asked when the consultation would take
place. CJ advised probably July.
Vanessa Rigg asked if there would be information with
the ballot. CJ advised that the ballots would be sent out by
Civitas and there would be information about the proposal
comprising two A4 sheets.
CJ advised that if the required information exceeded two
A4 sheets then it would still be included.
Susan Hopkins queried the drainage on the Leasows. MA
advised her that the drainage plan has been approved and he
does not believe that the Council required a drain along that
edge. There are drainage tanks to take the run-off before
it goes into the new drain which goes into the Cam but
there is not a specific drain along that edge. The Clerk to
ask GCC who would be responsible if the drainage proves
inadequate.
LH proposed and SC seconded with a vote in favour to
reconvene the meeting.
Amenities - It was resolved to purchase a new waste bin
for siting opposite Court Barn Museum at a cost of £137.95
and to purchase a new yellow grit bin for Littleworth at a
cost of £99.95.
Council Meetings - it was resolved that with the return
to physical council meetings the June and July meetings
should be rescheduled to the following dates:
June meeting will now take place in the Upper Town Hall
on June 29th at 7.30pm.
July meeting will now take place in the Upper Town Hall on
July 27th at 7.30pm.
Climate Change Emergency - RO reported two new
proposals. One from LH with regard to verges and SC on
CC a plastic-free area. TN would like to see proposals to
make the centre of the town more restrictive to vehicles and
to
Financial statements for the Town Council Accounts and
the list of payments were approved.
Next Meeting of the full council will be Tuesday 29th June
2021
COMMENTS FROM A MEETING
OF CHIPPING CAMPDEN
TOWN COUNCIL PLANNING
COMMITTEE
Tues 18th May 2021, Chipping Campden Town Hall
Present: Cllrs MH, RO, TN, MA, SC, LH
The Clerk, Jo Harrigan.
Members of the public: Norman Knight (Campden Society).
PLANNING APPLICATIONS RECEIVED:
Cherry Orchard Cottage Broad Campden Chipping Campden Glos
GL55 6UU
Ref. No: 21/01795/LBC & 21/01794/FUL
Addition of a garden room and painting of the existing pebbledash -
revised version of 17/04369/FUL and 17/04370/LBC
MA proposed and SC seconded and with a vote in favour it was agreed
to raise no objections / support the application
Little Broadwell Sheep Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6DW
Ref. No: 21/01693/COMPLY
Compliance of conditions 3 (sample of roof tiles), 4 (samples of clay
tiles), 5 (sample panel of render) and 10 (samples of detail and details) of
permission 20/03398/FUL (Demolition of rear single storey extension.
Erection of part two storey, part single storey rear extension and
raising roof of bungalow with two dormer windows) Document Ref:
AT 101/CON - Containing description of information being provided
and photograph of proposed roof tile Drawing Ref: AT 101/CON(2) -
Drawing showing proposed dormer/eaves/verge details PDF Ref: 101
Window Details for Condition Release containing drawings and details
from window manufacturer
This information was noted
Jacksons Cottage 3 The Stables Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6EZ
Ref. No: 21/01669/TPO
T5 - Ash - Fell to ground level - Due to Ash dieback infection and
significant dieback within the crown Tree has been previously reduced
and shows further decline with very little useful life expectancy
remaining. Tree to be replaced with 12/14 Standard Oak (Dependant on
availability) or Lime as second choice.
SC proposed and MH seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved
to ask for a full tree surgeon’s report.
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2 Orchard Bank Sheep Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6DR
Ref. No: 21/01595/TCONR
Horse Chestnut - Remove lowest branch
TN proposed and MA seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved
to raise no objections / support the application.
3 Orchard Bank Sheep Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6DR
Ref. No: 21/01596/TCONR
Leylandii - Reduce 4 trees at front of property
MA proposed and TN seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved
to support this application.
Ennerdale Station Road Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HY
Ref. No: 21/01745/FUL
Conversion of garage to study
RO proposed and MA seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved
to support the application.
Wayside Sheep Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6DW
Ref. No: 21/01543/TCONR
Prune Yew tree by 3ft, due to the sun light blocking the garden
MA proposed and SC seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved
to support the application.
Covenant House Cider Mill Lane Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HU
Ref. No: 21/01486/FUL & 21/01487/LBC
Erection of a single storey extension to the west elevation
TN proposed and MA seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved
to support the application.
22 Fereby Close Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6ET
Ref. No: 21/01439/FUL
Conversion of loft space above existing garage to create ancillary
accommodation. Addition of bay windows and single-storey rear
extension to dwelling house
LH proposed and TN seconded with a vote in favour (RO abstained) to
raise no objections / support the application with the addition of a S106
agreement to ensure that the garage building remains ancillary to the
main dwelling and cannot be sold off as an independent dwelling.
19 Fereby Close Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6ET
Ref. No: 21/00863/FUL
Proposed side and rear extensions and replacement dormer window
incorporating Juliet balcony. Addition of external steps to garage and loft
conversion including dormer window
TN proposed and MA seconded and with a vote in favour it was agreed
to object to the external steps to the garage as they are out of keeping
with the estate and pose an overlooking problem for the neighbouring
properties. The same objections apply to the dormer window and Juliet
balcony. Should CDC be minded to approve the application then a S106
agreement should be imposed to ensure that the garage building remains
ancillary to the main dwelling and cannot be sold off as an independent
dwelling.
Five Mile Drive Blockley Chipping Campden Glos
Ref. No: 21/01390/FUL
Replacement substation at Electricity Generating Station
RO proposed and SC seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved
to raise no objections.
Bumble Bee Cottage Catbrook Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6DE
Ref. No: Our ref: 21/00964/FUL
Single storey side and first floor extensions to existing dwelling
MA proposed SC seconded and with a vote in favour it was resolved to
raise no objections.
THE FOLLOWING DECISION NOTICES FROM CDC NOTED:
Lapstone Barn Conduit Hill Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6UR
Ref. No: 21/01328/FUL Permitted
Change of use to a wedding/events/hospitality venue and restaurant
Toad Hall Angel Lane Broad Campden Glos GL55 6UT
Ref. No: 21/01287/TCONR Permitted
Leylandii (t1) - Fell to ground level to allow stone wall to be rebuilt
Lawson Cypress (t2)- Fell to ground level
Farm Piece Broad Campden Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6UR
Ref. No: 21/01110/FUL Permitted
Proposed removal of external steps and erection of a greenhouse
Fereby House High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6HB
Ref. No: 21/01284/TCONR No Objection
Sorbus - Reduce height by approx 2-3m and remove crossing branches
to thin crown
Apple Tree Cottage Back Ends Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6BP
Ref. No: 21/01146/TCONR No Objection
Sycamore Tree - Reduce growth to prevent overhang over our vehicle
parking area and subsequent tree debris and bird mess damaging our
vehicles. Remove dead, damaged, decayed or broken branches and
mitigate any hazard of falling branches to property or persons. General
maintenance of the tree to improve health and maintain it’s amenity
value. Increase natural sunlight to the property
Beehive Catbrook Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6DE
Ref. No: 21/00926/TPO Permitted
TREE T1 - Walnut remove
Wyldlands Broad Campden Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6UR
Ref. No: 21/00824/FUL Permitted
Erection of a single dwelling and garage and creation of vehicular access
Haven Cottage Broad Campden Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6UZ
Ref. No: 21/00825/TCONR No Objection
Request to trim 3 years of growth to trees within garden to previously
pollarded height. apron 6 t reduction. also a study up trim of overhanging
branches since last trim in 2018
The Fennings Back Ends Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6AU
Ref. No: 21/00751/FUL Permitted
Proposed two storey extension and single storey extension (renewal of
17/04737/FUL)
24 Littleworth Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6BE
Ref. No: 21/00689/FUL Permitted
Single storey side extension
Fillet & Bone Butchers High Street Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6AT
Ref. No: 21/00910/COMPLY Permitted
Compliance with Condition 4 (sample stone panel) of planning
permission 17/03970/FUL - Alterations and developments to former
Smith’s Butchers, including: new dwelling to rear; demolition of
redundant ancillary lean-to structures and conversion of existing Abattoir
into Cafe/Bistro; part conversion of upper apartment into office space &
reconfigured apartment; and demolition of existing modern outbuilding
group and replacement with single ancillary outbuilding
Land To The Rear Coppers And Ashlar Broad Campden Glos
Ref. No: 21/00415/FUL Permitted
Erection of 2 dwellings and associated works
Poplars Farm Westington Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6EG
Ref. No: 20/04521/FUL Permitted
Erection of single storey outbuilding to form ancillary living
accommodation and garage
The Garden Cottage Westington Mill Park Road Chipping Campden
Glos GL55 6EB
Ref. No: 20/04372/FUL Permitted
Proposed alterations and extension, including loft conversion
Rose And Crown House Lower High Street Chipping Campden Glos
GL55 6DY
Ref. No: 20/04167/LBC & 20/04166/FUL Applications withdrawn
Glazed link with glass roof to rear of dwelling
Westington Quarry Westington Chipping Campden Glos GL55 6UR
Ref. No: 20/01280/CPO CDC made observations: 20 01280 CPO-
UPDATED CDC CONSULTATION RESPONSE-1590017.pdf
(cotswold.gov.uk)
Variation of conditions 11 (Hours of operation), 12 (Starting engines) and
14 (Hours of haulage) relating to planning consent 19/0027/CWMAJW
dated 27/01/2020.
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CHIPPING CAMPDEN MUSIC
FESTIVAL 2021
Monday September 6 th – Monday 20 th
Important announcement about change to concert times
Even if there is no requirement to socially distance in September, we are unsure as to how many people
would feel totally happy mixing in a very crowded church, so we have made the decision now to proceed
on the following basis. Each concert will be performed twice on the same day to a social distanced
audience with no interval. Most will be slightly shorter in length. This will mean around 300 per day will
have the chance to hear a ‘live’ concert, which we believe will be the most satisfactory way to present this
year’s festival. The brochure will be available mid-June and the Patrons & Friends priority booking periods
will open early July. As soon as their tickets are processed we will open booking to everyone else.
Monday 6 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Paul Lewis piano
Mozart Sonata in A major K331
Scriabin Five Preludes Op.73
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Tuesday 7 th September 3pm & 7.30pm
‘Chipping Campden Festival Academy’ Orchestra
Thomas Hull Conductor Steven Osborne piano
Rachmaninoff Piano concerto No.3 in D minor Op 30
Dvorak Symphony No 5 in F major Op 76
Wednesday 8 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Mark Padmore tenor Paul Lewis piano
Schumann
Eichendorf Lieder Op39
Dichterliebe Op 48
Thursday 9 th September 3pm & 7.30pm
‘Chipping Campden Festival Academy’ Orchestra
Thomas Hull Conductor Paul Lewis piano
Brahms Piano concerto No1 in D minor Op15
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67
Friday 10 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
La Serenissima Director Adrian Chandler
Claire Booth Soprano Renata Pokupic Alto
Jess Dandy Contralto/Tenor
Vivaldi
4.30pm
Concerto ‘per violino in tromba marina’, strings & continuo
in G, RV 311
Motet Nulla in mundo pax sincera for soprano, strings &
continuo, RV 630
Concerto for violin, organ, strings & continuo in d, RV 541
Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126) for soprano, alto, tenor, violin in
tromba marina, viola d’amore, chalumeau, cello, organ,
strings & continuo, RV 803
7.30pm
Concerto for viola d’amore, strings & continuo in d, RV
394
Introduzione al Gloria ‘Cur sagittas, cur tela, cur faces’ for
contralto, strings & continuo, RV 637
Concerto for violin, organ, strings & continuo in d, RV 541
Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126) for soprano, alto, tenor, violin in
tromba marina, viola d’amore, chalumeau, cello, organ,
strings & continuo, RV 803
Saturday 11 th September 3pm & 7.30pm
‘Chipping Campden Festival Academy’ Orchestra
Thomas Hull Conductor Ruth Rogers violin
Beethoven Violin concerto in D major Op 61
Brahms Symphony No1 in C minor Op 68
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Sunday 12 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
Schubert
‘Wanderer’ Fantasie, D. 760
Sonata in B flat major D960
Mozart
Brahms
Monday 13 th 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Camerata RCO
Clarinet Quintet in A major K581
Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op115
Tuesday 14 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
To celebrate the 100 th anniversary of Dennis Brain’s birth
London Mozart Players Ruth Rogers Director
Richard Watkins Horn
Mendelssohn String Symphonie no 10 in B minor
Mozart Horn concerto no 4
Cecilia Mcdowell new commission for strings
Haydn Symphony no 44
Wednesday 15 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Steven Isserlis cello
Mishka Rushdie Momen piano
Chopin Cello Sonata Op 65
Saint-Saens Cello Sonata in F Major Op. 123
Thursday 16 th September 5.15pm & 7.30pm
The Academy of Ancient Music
Bojan Čičić director
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050
Telemann Concerto for Flute and Recorder in E minor
Telemann Overture-suite, 'Burlesque de Quixotte'
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
Friday 17 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Cuartetto Casals
Haydn Quartet in D major op. 20 Nr.4 Hob III:34
Mozart Quartet in C major KV 465 ''Dissonance'
Saturday 18th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Ex Cathedra Jeffrey Skidmore Conductor
Baroque passion
JS Bach Prelude, Cello Suite No 1 in G (BWV 1007)
Purcell Hear my Prayer
Lotti Crucifixus
D Scarlatti Stabat mater
Kuhnau Tristis est anima mea
Monteverdi Plagas tuas
Monteverdi Maria, quid ploras?
JS Bach Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV 229)
Monday 20 th September 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Joint event with Chipping Campden Literature Festival
Lucy Parham piano Harriet Walter narrator
I Clara
Clara Schumann – a life in Music

COTSWOLD YOUTH
NETWORK
Young people in the Cotswolds are being invited
to have fun and get expert advice on opportunities
for employment and support through a series of
outreach events being delivered by the Cotswold
Youth Network.
Throughout the summer half-term, the Cotswold
Youth Network will visit towns and villages
across the Cotswolds. The events will feature
some fun activities, including a ‘silent disco’
and will provide a great opportunity for young
people to share their views about what matters to
them most, and hear about opportunities in their
communities.
Everyone who attends will be provided with
useful information on where they can get
support, goodies and the opportunity to win
some great prizes.
The Cotswold Youth Roadshow is in Blockley
and Chipping Campden on Tuesday 1st June
Details of the full Youth Roadshow programme
can be found on the World Jungle
www.worldjungle.org.uk
Introducing the Bulletin’s new columnist:
JB
Ripe for the picking or nicking...
TAKES A LOOK
AT LIFE
Living in the countryside is nice, even a joy. Now its springtime I
look out of my windows and see hedges and trees full of growth,
fresh green leaves, and blossom. Well, that is if I look out the upstairs
windows ‘cos downstairs the grass has grown halfway up the glass!
We’ve had so much rain and slightly warmer days in the last month
the stuff is flying up out of the ground. I suppose if you’re a livestock
farmer you’re, well, in clover (yes, I know) but every time I think I
must open the garage and fire up the beast of a mower, to make pretty
lawn stripes, rather than the jungle which has amassed, ‘rain prevents
play’!
Living in the ‘nice’ countryside, though, means I must move a trailer
which is deliberately placed to make access to the garage doors
difficult, along with the three locks and a chain threaded through
the handles. The chain apparently needs an industrial-sized, noisy,
cutting thingy to break it and with luck will wake one of the three
musketeers who seemingly sleep blissfully through most things which
don’t involve the slight ‘ting’ of their metal feed bowls, when you are
knocked over in the rush for pole feeding position.
Oh, and apparently, we have every thief’s ‘vehicle of choice’ (according
to insurance companies) a Land Rover Defender. This too is festooned
with multiple security devices and the house is dripping with lighting
even HMP Long Lartin would boast about, to keep thieving gits from
getting between me and my pride and joy.
I rather fear the recent rush to countryside living by the ‘masses’
trying to evade COVID and exhaust fumes will possibly give rich
pickings and encouragement to the vagabonds who patrol the quiet
rural communities, farmyards and honest people’s sheds, to fund their
lifestyles.
What’s to be done? Well, a bit of a rethink is required on the old law
and order front, if you ask me. We all have a responsibility to take
reasonable steps to protect what’s ours. But also, I think we need to
re-set what we as a rural community think is acceptable / unacceptable
with regards to the thinness of the blue line. I have a theory, if you
control the roads, you control crime, that’s simply because “crims” all
drive, admittedly, mostly other people’s cars and vans but that’s not
the point. They are on the road and so therefore ripe for the picking
or nicking, by the constabulary. In Gloucestershire we pay the police
authority £330 a year out of the £2,300 Council tax bill and for a
long time I’ve been thinking this is out of kilter with what’s actually
required. Police and Crime Commissioners (some recently elected and
therefore eager to impress) are the people’s representatives and they
would, I’m sure, love to hear from you, if you hold a similar view to
me.
I plan to write, now, who’s nicked my pen…oh the joys.
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CHIPPING CAMPDEN
HISTORY SOCIETY
CCHS Archive and Local History Room,
The Old Police Station, High Street,
Chipping Campden
Tel: 01386 848840
website: www.chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk
News is added regularly so do visit us.
email: enquiries@chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk
or on the website home page.
The CCHS History Room is currently closed to the public.
Please contact us via our website if you have a query.
Our CCHS programme of talks for 2021-22 has been arranged
and will be advertised later in the summer. We hope to be
able to meet again in the Town Hall from September with
the opportunity to meet new members who are joining now,
but otherwise our talks will continue to be on Zoom. During
the summer we will be holding ‘Coffee Morning talks’ for
members on Zoom, moving to ‘real’ meetings as allowed.
Each short talk will be given by a member who is investigating
a topic relevant to Campden history. If you are not a member
and would like to attend the ‘Coffee Morning’ please contact
us via our website.
The full story of Scuttlebrook Wake is being researched now by
a CCHS group, but we do know that in 1887 George Hatwell
and two other Showmen met with the elders of Campden when
it was agreed that a fair could take place in the north end of the
town on the first Saturday after Whitsun, linking with the local
entertainments and named after the Scuttle Brook that runs
down from Aston Road through the middle of Leasbourne
(now culverted).
It’s another ‘virtual’ Scuttlebrook Wake this year, with the
hope that the real events can take place later in the summer.
We shall again miss ‘all the fun of the fair’, particularly the
rides provided by the Hatwell family who have been coming
to Campden’s annual Fair for over 100 years (wartime
excepting).
For old Campdonians the memories of Scuttlebrook and
the fair are vivid – remembering the moustachioed Hatwell
controlling the mechanism of the roundabout, standing by the
organ impassively with pipe in mouth while the horses twirled
about him. One ‘expat’ has recalled returning as usual for the
weekend festivities some years ago and being distraught to
find that Hatwell’s ‘jinney horses’ were not in place outside Ivy
House - they are now somewhere in America. Occasionally an
alternative carousel has been found, but the sadly the cost of
setting up these precious antiques for one night is not matched
by the income. The Hatwell family has continued to provide
amusements at Scuttlebrook Wake but now the roundabout
comprises cars for small children, not the magnificent horses.
We hope to see them again soon.
We will keep you up to-date with information as best we can
– on the website; by e-mail; by notices in the Bulletin; posters
up and down the High Street; and posts on our Facebook page.
SCUTTLEBROOK WAKE
JUNE 5 TH 2021
(see page 3)
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UPDATE FROM ST CATHARINE’S
CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
In a nutshell, St Catharine’s Catholic Primary School is
thriving!
We are delighted to say that children have adjusted well
to their learning back at school. Teachers have been
helping the children by adapting the planned Curriculum
content as necessary. For example, with a move towards
a ‘contactless’ society lately, we have noted that our
younger children find the concept of ‘money’ challenging, even simple coin
recognition.
We have all been working hard (within Government guidelines) to ensure that
school life is as similar as possible to the pre-COVID experience:
Our hot school lunches have resumed. The children are really enjoying the fresh
meals prepared on our school site. The children choose from 3 options each day;
KS2 children are taking part in the ‘Daily Mile’ each morning before school as
we work on our fitness and stamina. Whereas many children made fantastic use of
their school pedometers during lockdown, other children are now building up the
numbers of laps they can achieve and it is amazing how quickly the fitness returns;
Children explained to School Parliament that they were keen to return to extracurricular
clubs. Children are themselves running clubs at lunchtime such as
Dance, Nature, Calligraphy, Drawing and so on. Teachers run a range of clubs
after school including Hockey, Football, Lego, Mindfulness and more. We adhere
carefully to the ‘bubbles.’
As well as through our carefully constructed Curriculum, we make time for
children to have opportunities to gain an understanding and appreciation of the
world around them. In the last few weeks these events have included: Children
marking Deaf Awareness Week with a special workshop and opportunity to sign
one of our favourite school hymns; All children taking part in a cricket ‘Chance to
Shine’ Day with a county coach; Our ‘Schoolsbeat’ Police Officer attending school
to speak with children from Y4-6 to reinforce our online safety work; Year 1 and
2 children taking the first (non-virtual) excursion of the school year with a walk
around Chipping Campden to learn about its origins; All children participating in
NSPCC Number Day; Children entering the ‘Royal Mail’ competition to design
Covid superhero stamps.
We believe St Catharine’s can offer your child a wonderful start to life. Currently,
we have a limited number of spaces at school. If you would like to learn more,
please call us on 01386 840677. We would love to share more about our school
with you!
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September with 14 fabulous
concerts in St James’ Church.
to remind us just how precious
live music is! The festival
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these concerts. The orchestra
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for a week, arriving on Sunday
5th September, departing
the following Sunday, 12th
September. So, we are looking
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TRAVEL WITH MERV BATES
We are about to enter another summer with travel restrictions
and both the Governments traffic light system, and FCDO
travel advice are confusing to say the least.
Due to this information constantly changing, instead of me
writing about the new information it would be sensible that
you check with me on the latest advice when booking your
chosen destination. I have all the relevant information at my
fingertips and can guide you through what you will need to
do to enter into your chosen destination and of course for
when you return back to the UK.
Great news is that bookings have really started to take off
for 2022 and beyond. I think we all need something to look
forward to. If you are still little wary about booking so far
in advance, please don’t be as I can arrange your trip with
flexible conditions that allow changes up to 8 weeks prior
to travel if long haul travel and in some cases, up to a week
with short haul.
I will only ever book your ground arrangements, hotels,
excursions etc that come with flexible terms and conditions.
If you were then to change your mind about travelling within
this time frame then we can change dates, destinations
or take airline credit notes to be used in the future. When
arranging your holiday or travel with me, your money is
always safe and I will help you throughout the end to end
booking process.
I am receiving long haul travel enquiries now especially
for USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand
(although we are still waiting to see when we can freely
travel down under). Please note that most of the airfares I
use would be booked on a deposit basis so there is minimal
outlay to secure your trip. It’s always a good idea to book
ahead especially for the forthcoming year. Flight capacity is
less than pre COVID and the best flight prices are always
lower when booking early. That’s especially the case with
schedule airlines and low-cost airlines. Now is a good time
to start planning for early 2022 up to around Mid-May.
What else is selling well? Ski holidays are very popular.
As we haven’t had a ski season for near enough 2 seasons,
skiers are desperate to get away. I have just recently booked
a ski group of 24 going to Andorra in January and a few
families to the French Alps and Austria for the February
half term. Availability is already becoming limited for peak
season dates.
UK staycations are proving to be as popular as 2020 with
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Wales and East Anglia being the
most popular. Again, for school holidays there is limited
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availability, but if you can travel outside of the main school
holiday there is still plenty of choice.
Villas are proving to be very popular and I am receiving
more requests of large villas that will accommodate large
families, multigenerational families and groups of friends.
We haven’t been able to spend much time with our loved
ones for such a long time so, villas are a great way to holiday
as a family or a group.
One area that is also changing is travel insurance. It’s
essential now that you have cover in place for anything
COVID related. Our own travel insurance partner ROCK
insurance has a fantastic COVID cover included in the
price. It also covers many pre-existing medical conditions
and more affordable prices for senior travellers too. If you
hold travel insurance with your bank or have an existing
policy, it is worth checking the cover included if you are
thinking of travelling in the next year.
I am here to help and guide you through your booking
journey and will always be on hand should you have any
questions or queries.
Please get in touch when planning your next trip away.
Best wishes.
Merv Bates – Travel Counsellors.
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MAY NEWS
This Month we held our
Annual General meeting on
the 13th of May 2021. Looking back over our Rotary Year
2020-2021 we had much to celebrate despite the pandemic
disrupting normal activities.
We had a consistently high attendance at virtual meetings and
in fact we increased our membership. Our Speaker meetings
attracted huge support; and we even had a virtual club ‘outing’
to Cambridge.
We embraced the virtual world and social media with the launch
of our website and Facebook page enhancing communications
with our wider community, and with the purchase of a webcam
and microphone system we will be able to facilitate hybrid
meetings post pandemic.
We collaborated with neighbouring clubs particularly on
international projects. We were successful in fund-raising with
our Annual Tree of Light, supplemented by the generosity of
members and our Club’s general funds were assisted through
a virtual raffle.
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During this year we have been able to distribute raised funds
to many needy causes including The Rotary Foundation, The
Beirut tragedy, sanitary provision at a girl’s school in Nepal,
the pandemic relief fund in India, the performing arts theatre
project at Chipping Campden School and the local foodbank.
Just a little reminder of District 1100’s appeal to help provide
vaccines for the less fortunate countries of the world. If you
would like to donate the cost of your vaccine, around £6, you
can find details at www.rotaryvaccineappeal.com.
Our President, Mr. Drewe Lacey, would like to extend a huge
thank you to all our members for their commitment to the Club
and their patience and endurance throughout this difficult time.
You can follow us on our Facebook page and our website.
If you are interested in joining us either as a full member,
or as friend, you can contact us through our website
or email address: www.rotarychippingcampden.co.uk
chippingcampdenrotaryclub@gmail.com
CHIPPING CAMPDEN
BOWLING CLUB
Station Road, Chipping Campden GL55 6LB
www.ccbowlingclub.co.uk
STRICTLY COME …BOWLING
STEP OUT ON OUR GREEN
THIS SUMMER
NEW MEMBERS WELCOME
GIVE BOWLS A TRY
A game for all ages 8-98
COME TO OUR CLUB NIGHT
Every Monday from 5pm
From mid-April to mid-September
For more information
Call David on 01386 840869
Debbie on 01386 430016
Or email
debbiebarnesccbc@gmail.com
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The Sandwich Generation –
Is this you?
For many, the long-awaited prospect of retirement is
approaching, but does it still look like you planned? An increasing
number of people of working age are in the precarious position
of looking after their dependent children at the same time as
caring for elderly parents and are, essentially, ‘caught in the
middle’.
The issue of the ‘sandwich generation’ has become even more
pressing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, with record
numbers of adult children moving back home and with elderly
parents needing new forms of care. The pandemic has put many
in unsustainable positions; people who were already having to
juggle their own workloads are now facing the additional strain
of looking after multigenerational loved ones, whom rely on
them for financial, emotional or physical support.
The impact of these pressures can take a heavy toll both
financially and personally, at a time where you should be
planning your own financial independence. So, what can you
do?
Have the conversation
If you think your parents or elderly relatives may need care
in the future, it’s worth having the conversation with them as
soon as possible, so that you are all on the same page. Whilst
it’s an uncomfortable subject, most people’s parents do not
want to be a financial drain on their children and will want to
pay towards any costs, if not cover them entirely, if they can
afford to do so.
It’s also worth considering having wider family discussions to
make sure you are not shouldering all of the burden on your
own. However, if the issues seem complex, you may want
to call in the professionals. We can help you to assess what
financial strategies will work for you so that you are prepared
for whatever might be coming down the road.
Put yourself first
For parents that need your support during the day it can be
tempting to reduce your working hours or leave your job
altogether. But, as well as forgoing income, you could lose
valuable benefits like pension, life insurance and health benefits
offered by your employer. The long-term cost can be high and
could end up having a significant impact on your retirement
planning. As an alternative, you could consider adult day care.
You should also find out what state support you and your
parents may be entitled to, as every little helps.
Your children can also be a huge drain on your resources.
Helping them develop good money-management skills is key
to them gaining their financial independence. If your children
have debts or need to get their careers on track, paying for them
to have financial or career coaching can be a more valuable
investment than simply subsidising them. If they are earning
an income, it’s perfectly reasonable to ask them to pay their
way and contribute towards the household, whilst encouraging
them to save.
Get covered
You may also want to investigate alternative solutions such
as an immediate care plan. This provides a regular income for
life to pay for care, in exchange for an upfront, normally nonreturnable,
investment. Equity release is another option but, as
with all financial solutions, it is important to assess whether or
not it will work for your family.
If your parents need care, a review of their savings
and investments would be wise. Their need for
income will increase significantly, and it is important
that their investments are structured to support
this. A Financial Planner will be able to help you
here.
Plan for the future
Many people who have experienced the pressures
of being a part of the sandwich generation do not
want to put their own children in a similar position
down the line. If you don’t want to rely on your
children for your future care, it’s important to
think about how this cost will be covered. At BFP,
we work with all of our clients to ensure that these
types of scenarios are planned for. So whatever life
has in store for you, we’re here to provide the peace
of mind that comes with having a bespoke and
comprehensive financial plan in place.
Rebecca Ryan
Financial Planner
Broadway Financial Planning Ltd
www.broadwayfp.co.uk
enq@broadwayfp.co.uk 01386 858121
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CAMPDEN BUSINESS FORUM
We are looking to add to our executive team so we can take
full advantage of our new prospects.
This would be a perfect opportunity for someone who has
an interest in helping local business and thereby the wider
local community. We are looking for people who want to get
involved and to make things happen. Any prior experience will
be suitable, no matter what size of organisation, type of role
or even sector of employment. Just get a buzz from making
things better for businesses. What would you do? Much of
that depends on what you want to get involved in - you will
be given plenty of scope to make your own mark across any
of our activities. Today, the Forum centres its work amongst
other things on:
- highlighting for visitors the wider Campden experience
across the full range of local attractions and events. This is
focused on our new web page and our active social media
engagement.
- celebrating and enhancing recognition for our local business
success stories in particular through our Awards programme,
which includes a well recieved section for Young Entrepreneurs
- constantly expanding our subscription base . This is now at
its highest since our inception
- networking amongst our subscribers to allow building of
contacts and awareness of what local businesses have on offer
and get involved with.
- other meetings where presenters of special merit and local
relevance can engage with our subscribers
Maybe you have your own new area of activity that you would
like to promulgate.
We have recently become a Community Interest Company
which shapes us to ensure our profits and assets are made
available for the local businesses and wider community on a
not for profit basis.
The current team is a friendly, informal but competent group
who you would find easy to work alongside. The board meets
monthly for a few hours so there is no onerous admin. burden
in the role.
This is not a remunerated role, though there is significant scope
to expand contacts and raise personal profile.
Interested, or maybe you know someone who you could
nudge? Please drop me a line and we can set up to have a chat.
Stephen Spencer
Chairman.
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EBRINGTON WI MAY
The May meeting took place via Zoom on Thursday 13 May
at 7.00 pm.
President Chrissie Halls welcomed the members and
introduced our guests Jeff and Elaine Gillet who would be
entertaining us later.
It was pleasing to note that nearly all members had paid their
subscriptions for the year, thus demonstrating that that the
difficulties of the pandemic had not affected our commitment
to the Institute.
Various items were highlighted from the GFWI newsletter
including a letter from the County Chairman who noted that
the online craft club had got off to a good start. With the
outlook more positive for a resumption of actual Institute
meetings it was hoped to continue to offer some activities
by Zoom with the advantage that members did not have to
travel to participate.
We were reminded of the afternoon with David Olusoga on
July 19th and the Campaign and Debate Day on June 2nd
when we should be able to gather in groups of 6 to participate
by Zoom.
Members were reminded of the opportunity to recycle
postage stamps and a new initiative – drug blister packs.
Business being over Jeff and Elaine Gillet gave us a most
entertaining evening of folk songs from far and near. They
had been asked to include some from Gloucestershire and
it was obvious from members’ faces that some of these
were familiar. The range of songs and different musical
instruments accompanying made for a delightful evening.
We had been asked to ‘mute’ ourselves to avoid ‘noises off’
– barking dogs, partners offering cups of tea, but we joined
in the choruses with gusto. A particularly poignant song was
‘The Blue Tattoo’ and the funniest ‘The Girl Who Said a Bad
Word’. Our guests were thanked with hearty silent clapping.
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MICKLETON SOCIETY
A zoom meeting of the Mickleton Society took place on
Wednesday May 12 when the guest speaker was Jane Tudge
from The Museum of Royal Worcester Porcelain.
She was talking to us from the Exhibition Hall of the Museum
and despite the restrictions of zoom was able to use exhibits
from the museum to illustrate her talk.
The financial crisis of 2008 led to the closure of the Royal
Worcester Porcelain Factory in 2009. The factory had been
started in 1751 by Dr. Wall, when the porcelain initially came
from China, and immediately made considerable progress.
The teapot, which was the first object to feature in the talk,
was made in Worcester in 1770. It was very small, because
tea was very expensive, and would have taken 20 people to
make it.
Thanks to a charitable trust set up in the 1940s the museum
was able after the closure of the factory to start from scratch
in 2009.
In her “behind the museum” talk Jane Tudge took us in
interesting and thorough detail through the complexities in
the making of the beautiful creations that can be seen in the
museum’s three galleries – the Georgian, the Victorian and
the 20th century.
She told us of the close knit family orientated factory where
skills were handed down from master to apprentice and
where painters, engravers and gilders all played their creative
part in what was clearly a much to be admired team effort.
We learned just how difficult it is to paint fruit on a plate with
the intricacies of the layering involved – the painting, the
firing, the painting again! And we heard an audio recording
of a Mr Ted Taylor’s first day in the factory, the formality of
which sounded as though it might have been from the 1920s
but which was in fact from the 1950s.
In the 1980s the Sultan of Oman ordered a dinner service
which he liked so much that he ordered 6 more and in 2001
the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, already proud owners
of a Worcester Dinner set, visited the factory. Cleary the
museum is a must for a visit once the restrictions, which Jane
Tudge so fluently overcame, are lifted and we can get out
again!
The Society’s next meeting is on Wednesday June 9 when
Jan Scrine from the Milestone Society will give a zoom talk
on Finding your way around Gloucestershire, Worcestershire
and Warwickshire in days gone by.
For details of membership please contact Geoff Field on
geoff.field@btinternet.com or phone 07793 592 256.
01386 840 213 www.cuttsofcampden.co.uk
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GARDEN NOTES FOR JUNE
How do I do it? Last month I moaned about the cold and the drought and had
visions of rain not knowing when to stop once it did start. Well, we’ve had over
three inches so far: probably over four. With the cold and then the wet my instinct
is not to hurry my planting this spring and give the soil a little more time to warm.
April to June is famously peak planting time, but I find myself gently planting all
year, if it is not too hot, or cold, or wet, or dry! By late June, gaps in the beds tend
to appear where earlier subjects have finished. We all have favourite stand-bys to
fill those gaps: I like to have a few geraniums ready, or poke in some nasturtium
seeds. Friends in the trade tell me of customers buying summer bedding as late
as August, and it is not so daft: even then you can still hope (barring early frosts)
that a few plants will give you a couple of months’ enjoyment, all for the price of
a couple of hours in a cinema and without the stink of popcorn.
Vegetables likewise: from spring to autumn I want to see all my space used. A
gap is a wasted opportunity. Peas and broad beans generally do best if cropped
early; and then as soon as they are out I can re-fill the space. There are vegetables
(eg some beetroot, Florence fennel, Chinese cabbage) very liable to bolt (run up
to flower and seed) if sown in spring, while a mid-summer sowing has a better
chance of success. But then get on with it; have your seeds ready to go! Much
growing must be done in a short time, and it can be, given warmth and water.
Fans of rabbit-food are spoiled for choice these days, and many salad crops stand
well into the winter. Some do well in containers. So when you go to hunt out
gorgeous flowers at your local plant centre, have a look for a packet or two of
seeds which sound tempting. An empty greenhouse in winter is a waste: when
the tomatoes are out, re-plant with some winter or early spring crops which will
have gone before you need to plant next year’s tomatoes. Seed is so cheap: be
bold and experiment!
Back to this time of year. Since early childhood I have loved the big extravagant
flowers of oriental poppies, but oh dear! how quickly they are over! Peonies the
same. Such flowers are a special treat, but what about the other 360-odd days of
the year? I don’t want any day of the year to be without anything in flower in my
garden. I love the procession through the seasons of successive flowers, but I do
need some plants which just go on faithfully flowering for month after month.
Here are a few: Earlier in the season Euphorbias keep colour for many weeks.
Penstemons go on and on, so do Erigeron Karvinskianus, Erinus Alpinus and
Papaver Rupifragum (all of which gently seed themselves, usually into paths
rather than the beds).
Dead heading often prolongs flowering (famously so with sweet peas). A plant’s
one aim is to reproduce itself: once it sets seed it can rather lose interest in
flowering and these things take a lot of energy.
‘Stary Ogrodnik’
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