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November 15, 2021March 5, 2023

Planning for Festival Field 2022

Festival Field 2022 – Our Next Village Fete

Festival Field 2022 is the working title for next year’s Village Fete. Planned to take place on 4th June 2022 it will be closely linked to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations with the beacon lighting on 2nd June. Planning started in September with a group of parish councillors and members of the public sharing ideas. Their outline plans for Festival Field include:

Sports

Sporting plans so far include:

August 22, 2021August 24, 2021

St Mary’s 5T’s Return Edition

Harvest Festival, Gathered Services & 5T’s Return

As we gather more confidence in more normal activities it is good to see 5T’s return in September. In other news:

July 6, 2021March 5, 2023

Return of the Fete

The Village Fete returns on Saturday 24th July

Barney Beagle looks forward to seeing you there!

Last year we had to cancel the Annual Fete due to COVID-19, but this year we cautiously open back up again after lockdowns. Taking place on Saturday 24th July between 12 – 4 pm, the Fete will be held entirely outdoors and scaled down, but we hope it will still bring joy and allow us to celebrate being together again!

June 4, 2021June 4, 2021

Fundraiser for Year 6 Leavers & Other News

We’ll start with the fundraiser but other stories include:

Nayland Road Closure from 28th June,
Crisis Café,
Solar Panel Scams,
Mercury Theatre update, and
Kids Active Recovery Hub.

Year 6 Leavers Fundraiser

Help raise money to give Heathlands’ Year 6 leavers a good send-off this year. Kelly, who runs regular High-Intensity Interval Training classes in the village, is running a special Zoom fundraising session on Monday 7th June at 7:30 pm. Kelly describes her HIIT sessions as:

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

St Mary’s Ascension Day Edition

Gathered Services, Ascension Day, Christian Aid

Ahead of Ascension Day, this update from St Mary’s starts with news about a return to ‘gathered services and then continues with:

Messy Church & Praise on 4 Services,
Christian Aid Week,
Celebrating Ascension Day,
A blessing,

… and the usual listings of services and contacts but first:

Resuming Gathered Services

March 26, 2021May 6, 2021

Easter 2021 at St Mary’s

This Easter 2021 update from St Mary’s starts with a message from Revd Anne and also includes:

An Easter Blessing;
Easter Events;
Muddy Church Adventure – fun for kids & family (win an Easter Egg!);
Open Church;
Appointing a New Priest;

… and the usual listings of services and contacts but first:

Revd Anne’s Easter Message

You may be reading this article around Eastertime, or a little earlier. It’s at Easter that Christians the world over celebrate Jesus’ death and resurrection, and are reminded of God’s free gift of forgiveness and love. In the Bible we read,

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Half Term ‘ActivAte’ & Other News

ActivAte, Broadband, Bowls, Police, COVID, Voting & Toasty

As Half-Term looms Active Essex are organising ActivAte sessions for youngsters. In other news we also have:

Broadband – ECC are running a survey, make sure you have your say,
Bowls’ Big Weekend,
Colchester Policing Update,
COVID-19 Update,
Election 2021 – have pen or pencil to hand,
Warm & Toasty Newsletter.

ActivAte

ActiveEssex is organising ActivAte clubs over the Easter holidays. They are completely free for young people who are:

December 7, 2020December 28, 2020

Essex Community Watch Magazine

This December’s edition of the Essex Community Watch magazine contains over 20 pages of great information and advice. Topics addressed range from practical advice, ways to avoid fraud and scams, how to keep safe, and some ideas for Christmas – it’s well worth a read

Main Contents

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December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

The First Window Opens This Evening (& other news)

The First Window Opens

This news round-up starts with the First Window opening this evening and then also covers:

How it Started

Inspired by other places around the country that turn their village into a giant advent calendar, St Mary’s are very grateful to those who volunteered to decorate a window representing a part of the nativity story.

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November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

A Giant Advent Calendar for West Bergholt

West Bergholt as a Giant Advent Calendar?

St Mary’s Church wants to turn the village into a giant Advent Calendar; do you want to be involved? In other news, do you fancy sitting on the bench?

To celebrate Christmas and what it means to our community, we would like to turn West Bergholt into a giant advent calendar! The idea is to use 24 windows around the village with 1 new window being revealed each day. Each window will tell part of the Christmas story. You can look for a new window each day or save a few and do a trail!

Would you like your house or shop to be part of the village advent calendar? You can use an upstairs or downstairs window providing it is visible to people passing by.

Contact Liz

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