Please find attached the April Age UK newsletter for Rutland. Just click on the link below to access the latest news.
Please share the attached with friends, neighbours, and anyone else you think might be interested.
Penny Stimpson
Development Worker
AGE UK Leicester Shire & Rutland
Uppingham, LE15 9PY
The Village Hall has been closed since last year’s lockdown began. During that time it has been maintained and checked for its security in line with the insurers requirements. It is now open but subject to the government’s Covid-19 regulations which severely inhibit the usual activities until at least June 21st when the government’s road map will hopefully allow things to return to something like pre – Covid-19.
The first use of the Hall since re-opening will be as a polling station for the election of Leicestershire & Rutland Police Commissioner on May 6th. Followed by the Annual Parish Meeting and Parish Council Meeting both on May 19th.
If anyone should be interested in hiring the Village Hall, please visit the government website and read exactly what you are able to do inside & outside Village/Community Halls.
At present social distancing (which limits the numbers allowed in the Hall ) rule of 6, mask wearing, having to have the door and windows open for ventilation, the need to sanitise apply, amongst other things. Then if you wish to hire the Hall please contact me.
The Village Hall Committee report for 2020 and Accounts will be posted on the website, in early May together with a hard copy displayed on the notice board in the Village Hall porch. Both items will also be presented to the Parish Annual Meeting on May 19th.
Regarding the Village Hall’s finances no fundraising has been possible during lockdown but the Hall has, in line with other village halls and community centres been given grants under the government’s ‘Retail, Leisure and Hospitality’ scheme as the Hall, although exempt from payment of rates, is rated as a business and is also a registered charity.
We are extremely fortunate in that the amount of money we have received more than compensates for loss of income from fundraising events and hire fees, and more than meets our fixed costs expenditure of insurance, utilities etc which despite lockdown still have to be met.
As for any future Village Hall Committee organised events such as coffee mornings, Quiz or a suggested Pub Night this year, we will have to wait and see what is possible. We are keen to get the Hall used again but only if what we can do is enjoyable and people feel happy and safe to attend.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Dave Roome – Chairman
Ridlington Village Hall Committee
Email – davr333@btinternet.com
Telephone – 01572 821416
The Ridlington Parish Council Annual Accounts year ending March 2021 are now available to view on the website.
Should you wish any clarification, please feel free to contact the Clerk, Helen Duckering on email clerk@ridlingtonparishcouncil.org
Members of the public are welcome to attend but will be invited to speak during item 4 of the agenda only and will then be observers.
Notice and Summons to attend Parish Council meeting
Tuesday 27th April 2021 at 6.30 pm via Zoom
All welcome
AGENDA
1. Welcome
2. Apologies and approval of absences
3. To receive declarations of member’s interests and consider dispensations
4. Public participation
5. To consider planning application 2021/0330/FUL 6 East Lane, Ridlington. Proposed front and rear extension.
Helen Duckering
Parish Clerk
12th April 2021
This meeting will take place virtually via Zoom. If you would like to join the log in details are below:
Topic: Ridlington Parish Council planning meeting
Time: Apr 27, 2021 6:30 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91878547448?pwd=RTdvdGZBNXZiU2VVNkFCY2FucDcyQT09
Meeting ID: 918 7854 7448
Passcode: 790751
Alternatively, the meeting can be accessed by telephone on one of the following numbers:
0203 481 5240
0131 460 1196
0203 051 2874
Please find below the link to the Minutes of the Ridlington Parish Council Planning Meeting that was held on April 1st.
Please click on the link below in order to access the recently released update – Rutland Roundup from Rutland County Council.
https://mailchi.mp/4712b63b2ff2/covid-19-latest-news-13352735?e=85edba0215
I have registered to take part in the ‘End to End’ Land’s End to John O Groats Virtual Run (874 miles) and hope to raise money for Cancer Research and Church Funds. The event started on October 26th and ends up to 12 months later – I am pleased to say that I am making great progress and well ahead of schedule.
If you would like to sponsor me for either of the 2 causes, please email or message me. And a huge thank you for those cheques already received 😊
“I have now clocked up 600 miles (approx. 275 left to go) and my position is 559th out of 1,934 starters. I am now fast approaching Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Country Park. This is an amazing way of travelling the length of the country whilst staying local! Please give me a wave when you see me out walking…”
A real mixture this month.
First, is Sophie Heawood’s “The Hungover Games” – not the book that was made into a film. This is a more modern version of Bridget Jones’ diary, an amusing memoir about what happens when you are more at home on the dance floor than in the kitchen and have an unplanned pregnancy in your mid-thirties before you have even worked out how to look after yourself, let alone a child. Emotionally raw – finding love where you would least expect it. I enjoyed the book.
Next, is fiction – Susan Lewis’ “Forgotten”, which was billed as a romantic drama. My personal view is that the descriptions of places and clothes were OTT, that it was longwinded and quite predictable. Having said that, I was more interested in the subject matter than the characters – can’t go into detail for fear of giving away the plot, you’ll have to read it for yourself.
Keeping the best to last, the deeply moving book by Bart van Es’ “The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family Lost and Found”, which won the Costa Book Award in 2018. This is the story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during WW2 who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author’s grandparents. She was raised as one of their own and then post-war there was a falling out: what was the story? The author makes contact with Lientje and a remarkable friendship blossoms and is recorded in the book bringing together Lientje’s personal account and the author’s efforts to piece the story together. I recommend this book.
If you would like to borrow any of the books, please contact Debra Thatcher on 01572 823910 or email debrathatcher@hotmail.com.
