K I n g s w o o d    G r a p e v i n e

Issue No. 120                                                                                                                              NOVEMBER 2007     

Editors: Diane White (843783) & Gill Hemming (842734)

D a t e s   F o r   Y o u r   D i a r y

Fri          2nd      Nov       Mobile Police Station                             Chipping                                                           11.30am

Thurs      8th          “        Historical Society A.G.M            and Talk           Village Hall

Fri          9th          “        Coffee Morning for RNLI              35 Walkmill Lane                                     10am-12 noon

Sat       10th          “        Jubilee Club Bazaar                               Village Hall                                                 2.00-4.00pm

Sat       10th          “        Bridgers Project Music Night

Thurs    15th          “        Mobile Police Station                             Chipping                                                           11.30am

Fri        23rd          “        Christmas Shopping Evening                   Village Hall                                            7.00pm-9.00pm

DECEMBER/JANUARY  ISSUE  DEADLINE:                    FRIDAY  NOVEMBER 23rd

Fri        30th       Nov       Rose Hill School Christmas Fair                                                                               2.00-6.00pm

Sat         1st       Dec      St Mary’s Christmas Craft Fair                Village Hall                                            2.00pm-5.00pm

Sat         8th          “        Christmas Craft Morning             Village Hall                                           10.00am-12noon

Sat       26th       Jan       Burns Supper                                        Village Hall

Don’t forget, there will not be an issue of Grapevine in January – so let us have your entries for January by the deadline.
Rose Hill School

Rose Hill School is having an Open Day on Friday 24th November 10.00am - 12.30pm. All welcome.
Also we are holding our Christmas Fair on Friday 30th November, 2.00 - 6.00pm, with craft stalls, Santa’s grotto, mince pies, mulled wine, carols and snow!   Come and get your Christmas shopping done early. Free entry, ample parking.

Black Tie Ball 

Chipping Manor Dental Practice is holding a Black Tie Ball in aid of their work in Tanzania at Tortworth Court Hotel on Saturday 7th June 2008. Call the practice on 844646 or Shaenna on 520371 for more information, tables are going fast! 

World's Biggest Coffee Morning 

A big Thank You to all those who supported this event on the 28th September. The amount raised this year for Macmillan Cancer Support was £305.91. 
KINGSWOOD BRIDGERS PROJECT

Tickets are still available for our musical fundraising evening on Saturday 10th November, featuring our favourite live band "Against the Grain".  Tickets £7.50 each available from Barnaby Beere 01453 844040 or Claire Adams 01453 842026, or see Hilary & Barry Morgan, Rob Rayfield, Louise Willcox, Angus McCubbin, Jim Smillie, Rod and Sheila Alexander, Dave Rothwell or Jim Niddrie.  Thanks for your support!

Wotton-under-Edge and District R.N.L.I. 

 There will be a coffee morning at 35 Walkmill Lane on Friday November 9th from 10am –12 noon with Christmas cards, calendars and diaries + souvenirs and gifts. Please come and support this worthwhile cause, all most welcome. 
JUBILEE CLUB - Bazaar

The Jubilee Club extend a warm welcome to their Bazaar on Saturday 10th November 2-4pm in the village hall. Cakes, craft, books & puzzles, Xmas, Bric-a-brac, raffles and the popular pickles selection. Refreshments available.
KINGSWOOD SPORTS AND RECREATION FUND

Kingswood Sports and Recreation Fund held its AGM on 23 Oct. During the year it received £13,124.13 from 126 donors for the cricket club’s appeal for the memorial in The Chipping and £500.00 from H.B.Lewis & Sons for the football club. It also holds £603.47 for the Bridgers Bike Track project. If any village group without registered charity status wants to use KS&RF`s charity facility please contact Rod Alexander (843398). Donors, including those, who wish to leave something in their memory to the village, may also be interested in using KS&RF.

VILLAGE APPRAISAL 

We are closer to printing the questionnaires for the Appraisal and expect to be delivering them to every household in the New Year. Thank you to all those, who have volunteered to distribute and collect. We would welcome a few more. The job will not take long (probably two hours in total- not all at once - to deliver and one to collect) and will be quite rewarding. Calls gratefully received by Rod Alexander on 843398.
Village Agent News

Trading Standards are trying to make people aware of the following scam.

A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting they were unable to deliver  a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a premium rate number). DO NOT CALL this number as it is a mail scam originating in Belize. If you call the number and start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £15. If you receive a card with these details please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 02072396655

St Mary’s Church Restoration Fund Appeal

Many thanks to everyone who supported the “Roy Orbison” tribute night on Saturday 20th October. We trust that you enjoyed the event, which raised £1003. We are hoping to continue with the next stage of the restoration very soon.
Burns Supper

Saturday 26th January 2008. Tickets £15.00 will be available from 16th December. Contact Pat and Judith Harty 844016. Full payment will reserve your ticket(s).

KINGSWOOD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Next year the chapel will be celebrating their 350th Anniversary.  To think there has been the presence of a Congregational Church in our village for all these years is an amazing fact. We plan to celebrate this during 2008.   In light of this we would like to ask any person, young or old, if they have any memories of the chapel or any of its ministries, maybe from their time spent in Sunday School or Zion Club. Did you sing in one of the many musicals we have performed?  Also if anyone has any photographs they could let us use, we would be very grateful.  Please contact Lin on 843461 or email linandnorv@yahoo.co.uk.
The repairs to the ceiling of the chapel are now complete and decoration is nearing completion, meanwhile we continue to hold all our services and ministries in the Lower School Room.
Our Sunday Services are in the morning at 10.30am and in the evening at 6.00pm.  Kings Klub and Crèche start at 10.30am.  8.00pm JIMS              Zion Club is at 6.30pm on Mondays
On alternate Tuesdays Bright Hour and Prayer and Share is held at 2.15pm and at 7.30pm is Bible Study and Prayer Time
Thursday mornings at 10.15am Is Kings Kidz for Mothers/Babies/Toddlers and in the evening at 7.30pm it is Choir Practice - This year the choir are rehearsing for 'Follow that Star' and we are pleased to have Mrs Sue Marsland to conduct us.  New members are always welcome. If you would like to know more about us or if we can help with anything, transport, prayers, etc. please contact Jennie or email Lin at the above address.
KINGSWOOD COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Kingswood Primary School is looking to rent a garage or similar storage space. In order to free up space for new toys, games and equipment for the children to use at playtimes we would like to move our portable staging to a long term storage area close to the school. If anyone can help please telephone Brenda Roberts 842197. Thank you very much.
Fascinating Rhythm

Fascinating Rhythm, female vocal harmony chorus is holding 2 Christmas Concerts this year on 7th & 8th December.  Our special guests are quartet Gold medal winners QED who will perform at both shows, Silver medal winners Havoc who will perform on Friday and Castle School Gospel Choirs who will join us for our Saturday show. Tickets  £7.00 (under 12's £4.00) available from Brenda Roberts 845456 and Emma Richardson 845214. Join us on Friday 7th December at Kingswood Village Hall or 8th Dec at King George V Memorial Hall, Rangeworthy.  Both shows commence at 7.30pm.

ST MARY'S PARISH CHURCH

St Mary's News. After an exciting time over harvest we're settling down to the November things. Our Harvest service... the day after the Harvest Supper... was well attended and the Junior members of our choir sang beautifully. They also helped me with the sermon slot and just like our world leaders, had a discussion about sharing the world wealth (bags of grapes). They did this successfully having debated over size of country, population and wealth. In the end, everyone got the same!! The school came in for their Harvest too and each class did something to represent the Multi Cultural theme of their offering. Their donations went to help children in poor countries. Did you know that 11p... yes 11p.. can feed a child for a day in Africa? Coming up soon we have All Souls service on November 4th at 4.00pm at St Mary’s and we will be remembering those who have died in the last year. Please let me know if you wish to have someone’s name included. We then have Remembrance Day on 11th. It's actually a Sunday this year and our service begins at the memorial at 10.45, before we go into church. Do come along and recognise the efforts of all our service personnel who die for our freedom.  If you need any information or help, please contact me. Thanks, Viv Kerner (Parish priest) 01454 261751

Services for November

  4th       11.00 am           Parish Eucharist                                      4.00 pm          All Souls Service

11th       10.45 am           Wreath Laying at the War Memorial         11.00 am           Service of Remembrance

18th       11.00 am           Sung Matins

25th       11.00 am           Parish Eucharist                                      3.00 pm          Evensong

Our popular Christmas Craft Fair will take place in the Village Hall on Saturday 1st December from 2 pm to 5 pm. As usual it will be a family orientated affair with Father Christmas in attendance. Anyone wishing to have a stall please contact David Hatton (842483).
KINGSWOOD TODDLERS AND PLAYGROUP

We are holding a Christmas Shopping Evening on Friday 23rd November 7 - 9 pm, in Kingswood Village Hall.

This event has been very popular in previous years with people enjoying a social evening as well as being able to do some great Christmas shopping. There will be a variety of stall's inc. The Book People, Clarence’s gifts, The Jumblies Toy Shop, Coco Chocolates and many more. There will also be a great raffle with prizes donated by the stallholders. Tickets £2.50, which includes welcome drink. Refreshments available. Contact Sarah Deadman 01453 521817/ 07805 217125 Shelley Bateman 01453 844339/07971 682093.    Tickets also available in Kingswood Spar.

We are also holding a Christmas Craft Morning. This will be on Saturday 8th December in Kingswood Village Hall from 10am - 12noon. This will be a great morning for all, with tea, coffee and homemade cakes in the smaller hall, and craft activities for children of all ages in the main hall. Children will be able to make cards gifts and decorations amongst other things. Please contact Sarah Deadman for more details 01453 521817/ 07805 217125 Sarahselect@aol.com Donations of cakes for this event gratefully received.  Bring along on the day or phone to arrange collection.

Thank you

The King family would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who sent food, gifts, cards and best wishes to us, over the very difficult weeks following baby Edith’s illness. We live in a fantastic village and we are convinced that all the thoughts and prayers helped her make such a speedy recovery. Thank you – Victoria, Alastair, Angus, Flora and Edith.

 

The Village Diary can be viewed on the Grapevine website. For an entry please email Grapevine or telephone Gill on 842734.