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Chenderit School Association

 

CURRY &

QUIZ NIGHT

Chenderit School, Archery Road Middleton Cheney, Banbury, OX17 2QRd

FRIDAY 3rd FEBRUARY

7 for 7.30pm

Bar * Raffle

Vegetarian / non-spicy options available

Quiz teams of 4-6 people

(Don’t worry if you don’t have a full team; we’ll be able to make up numbers on the night)

 

Adults: £8 (including food)

Students (ages 11-18):      £5 (including food)

Quiz only: £5 / £3 (no food included)

 

Please book in advance (essential for catering purposes):

Phone: Carol on 01295 660542

Email: csacontact@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

OPEN DAY - KUMON CENTRE BRACKLEY

Maths & English Study Programme to unlock a childs potential

Saturday 4th February

From 1pm - 4pm

Brackley Methodist Church

More info call Jayne Kelly 01869 816006 or email Brackley@kumoncentre.co.uk

Saturday February 18th

Brackley Library 7:30 - 9:00

TWIST- a one man production of a Dickens' classic.

Tickets £5 available from Brackley Library. More details available on brackleylibrary.blogspot.com or contact us on 01280 703455.

 

WHATS ON AT THE STRATTON ARMS, TURWESTON

 

Sunday the 5th, Live Music at 8.30pm Open Mic night, Everyone welcome.
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Game or Not Night, Wednesday the 8th, Yes its game or not night with Pheasant Casserole
or Rabbit Pie in short crust pastry, Both served with creamy mashed potatoes and vegetables,
Chicken Breast in a wild mushroom sauce or Salmon Steak in Hollanaise sauce
Both served with new potatoes , peas and salad,
£8.50 each, Wednesday 8th of February From 6.00pm,
Booking Advisable 01280 704956.
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Sunday the 12th Music Night at the Stratton, 8.30pm. Come and enjoy
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Tuesday the 14th Valentines Night, Book now for you for a Dinner for 2 or more at The Stratton Arms, Special Menu. 6pm onwards, to book please phone 01280 704956,

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Sunday the 19th LIVE MUSIC Open Mic night 8.30pm.
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Stew & Dumplings, Wednesday the 22nd from 6pm Homemade stew with crusty bread
£6.50, To Book please phone the pub on 01280 704956.
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QUIZ NIGHT Sunday the 26th at 8.30pm.

 

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THE BRACKLEY MORRIS MEN

The current men are the custodians of the unique Brackley style of Cotswold Morris dance which has historical records dating back through almost four centuries.  Come and join us to help ensure that this wonderful part of our local heritage can continue to flourish for our children and grandchildren to enjoy.  We practice on Thursday evenings at 8pm at Brackley Junior School, Manor Road, Brackley, NN13 6EE (term times only).

It’s great fun.  Do get in touch.  

Contact:  Colin Reid

Tel:  01604 832830

e-mail:  brackleymorris@gmail.com

website:  www.thebrackleymorrismen@gmail.com

 

ARCHAEO-SCHOOLS JOINS WITH MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL TO CREATE A NEW

COMMUNITY HERITAGE ACTIVITY CENTRE

FOR BRACKLEY

 

 

Following the success of a recent heritage and archaeology volunteer project involving students at the school, permission has been granted for Archaeo-schools to develop a much-needed facility to celebrate the heritage of the school and Brackley town. A focus group representing five areas of the community will work with Archaeo-schools to ensure that we offer something for everybody.  Activities will include community courses with a heritage and archaeological focus; outreach packages for schools, colleges and community groups, and enhancement activities to extend an existing school’s curriculum.

 

Within five years, this project aims to provide Brackley with a centre for heritage that can be used and enjoyed by all. Plans include securing funds to develop a permanent heritage display, an archive store and study facility and an exhibition space for local artists and much more.  Magdalen College School has been at the heart of Brackley since 1548 and is the obvious location for this exciting new community venture. We believe that each person is a stakeholder in our local heritage and aim to ensure that we offer something for everyone. 

 

If you would like to donate your time, energy, expertise, experience, skills and/or funds to support your local Community Heritage Activity Centre (CHAC) or would like further information about courses and activities, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Tiffany Brownell:

Email: archaeoschools@gmail.com Tel: (Mob) 07834630505.

 

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BIG BRACKLEY GARAGE SALE

SATURDAY 28TH APRIL 2012

10am - 4pm

 

The Churches in Brackley are arranging a 'Big Brackley Garage Sale' for Christian Aid (the proceeds will be going to a project bringing clean water and agriculture training to some villages in Sierra Leone).  The idea is that you set up a market stall / table outside your garage, or inside if its cold or wet.  You can sell all the things you meant to 'car boot' but never got round to, and any home made things, plants etc.  You can use this to raise money for you or for your own good cause, or charity.  The sale will work best if you can get your neighbours to join in too; the more stalls there are in an area, the more people will come and buy.  You register your sale with us for £5 and we produce a map with all the sales around Brackley.  We will be selling maps for  £1 on the morning of Saturday 28th April.  We also undertake to promote the event all around the area, in the papers, on radio and online.

 

More information and details of how to register will be coming in the next couple of weeks.  Watch this site, and the local Facebook pages.

 

Nordic Walking

This spring, Brackley Library and the Sports Development team at South Northamptonshire Council are working together to put on two Nordic walking courses in the town.

 

On Saturday 3rd March there is a Taster course for those who wish to have a go at Nordic walking and this costs just £5, which is redeemable if you enrol on a 'Learn to' course. A 'Learn to Nordic Walk' course, specifically aimed at the complete beginner to the Nordic walking technique, starts on Saturday 10th March. This consists of four one-hour sessions and costs £25 per person.

 

Both courses are taught by qualified NWUK instructors and the poles are supplied. There is tea & coffee available in the Library afterwards and people can join one of our free community Nordic walking groups.

 

Details are:

 

Brackley - Taster

Location: Brackley Library

Date: Saturday 3rd March 2012

Time: 10:00am - 10:45am

Cost: £5.00 pp (redeemable if person enrols on a course)

 

Brackley - ‘Learn to’ course

Location: Brackley Library

Day: Saturdays

Dates: 10 March - 31 March 2012

Times: 10:00am -11:00am

Cost: £25.00 pp

 

People can book their places by contacting Colin Hull, Sports Development Officer, on 01327 322337 or colin.hull@southnorthants.gov.uk

 

South Northants Voluntary Sector Forum The next meeting of the South Northamptonshire voluntary and community sector Forum will be held at SNC Council Offices (Committee Room), Springfields, Towcester NN12 6AE on Thursday 19th January 2012 from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.    The main speaker on this occasion will be Ian Davies, Director Community and Environment, SNC and the theme will be ‘change’ both in relation to the new management structure at the district council and the potential changes arising out of the Localism Bill; in particular its implications for both SNC and the voluntary sector. More....

 

Brackley Male Voice Choir Rehearsals Start for a Jubilee Year

The Choir will start rehearsing a new repertoire for 2012 on Monday 9th January

at Magdalen School Chapel, High St. Brackley commencing at 7:30p.m

New members welcome. No Auditions, just a desire to sing required

Just turn up or ring John Cooney on 01280 704149

 

Climbing in Africa – for Africa

A Brackley Rotarian is undertaking a daunting climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro

Having bicycled from London to Paris for charity last year, Irene Childerley has now set her fundraising target much higher – 5,895 metres high...

Sponsorship of Brackley Rotarian Irene’s tough six-night trek is for the Brackley based ‘Friends of Mithulini Village’ charitable project, raising funds to provide clean drinking water for the village located in the Eastern Province of Kenya.

Towering over the sandy plains of Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest free-standing mountain in the world and Irene is scheduled to be at its 5,895m snow-capped peak on 2 February.

Irene said: “Brackley Rotary Club supports the Mithulini project and we have a target of £6,000 to fund the boring of a well and provide related equipment.”

 

“The endeavour of the Nyali family in Brackley who founded ‘Friends of Mithulini Village’ has motivated me to make this trek.  Villagers in Mithulini have a one and a half hour walk to and from a river, with water being transported in containers carried by donkeys or people.”

”My Kilimanjaro route is less used than other routes, covering many terrains – rich forest, moorland, a volcanic crater, snow, glaciers and a lunar landscape with an ash cone. This camping-based trek has the danger of altitude sickness so the route has been carefully planned to maximize my chance of reaching the summit.”

“Sponsorship would be most welcome and can easily be given on-line at www.justgiving.com/Irene-Kilimanjaro or www.justgiving.com/Mithuluni with the added benefit of Gift Aid.  All sponsorship will go to Mithulini – the cost of the trek being paid personally.”

Darren Longs 4444 Challenge

4 Marathons in 4 weeks each in an average of 4 hours & raising (hopefully) £4,444..........

www.virginlondonmarathon.com    www.miltonkeynesmarathon.co.uk

www.brightonmarathon.co.uk    www.connemarathon.com  

Whilst I am a veteran of 9 marathons & 2 Ultra Marathons this will, without doubt, be my toughest challenge to date. The chosen charity, CHILDREN WITH CANCER, is a massively worthwhile cause & the UK’s most significant charity focusing exclusively on the fight against cancer in infants & children. the charity funds life-saving research into the causes, prevention and treatment of childhood leukemia and other childhood cancers, and work to protect young lives through essential welfare and campaigning programs.

With any luck my efforts will capture the imagination of the local populace and together we will reach our fundraising target of £4,444.

As a member of the Brackley & District Running Club (you must have seen us out and about in numbers all clad in hi viz treading the streets of Brackley & beyond on a Tuesday & a Thursday night) I will have no shortage of buddies to help me train towards my goal.

Many of these guys are marathon runners themselves and will also be running Spring marathons such as London & the inaugural Milton Keynes 26.2 mile event…so there should be no shortage of company as I grind out up to 60 training miles per week

The simplest way for people to donate is via my Just Giving page - https://www.justgiving.com/dazzaspowerof4challenge/new  any & all donations are welcome, be it £0.40, £4, £40 or £400 :-)

BRACKLEY WALKING AND CYCLING GUIDE

     

Residents living in Brackley and have contributed to a new walking guide being published by local map company Global Mapping.  Earlier this year they were asked to submit their favourite walking route and from the responses 12 walks have been collated and appear in a new Walking Guide. Included are walks to and from Brackley to neighbouring villages Turweston, Whitfield, Radstone and Hinton in the Hedges as well as walks starting outside Brackley taking in Syresham, Farthinghoe, Tusmore and Stowe Parkland.  Cyclists have not been forgotten and 6 suggested routes radiating out from Brackley are included.

The Guide is available from the Brackley Information Bureau in the Courtyard Mews, Library, Old Hall Bookshop and Courtyard Coffeehouse and although it’s free donations for the Brackley & District Wildlife Society would be appreciated.  The paintings used in the guide are also on display and are available to buy with all profits again going to the Wildlife Trust.

Over £400 has been raised so far-thank you

There is an accompanying website http://www.globalmapping.uk.com/brackley/brackley_walks.htm where all the walks can be downloaded.

 

 

FREECYCLE

Katie Walsh is the lead moderator for a new Freecycle group for Brackley
Freecycle is a place to give what you have and don't need, or receive what you need and don't have - a completely free cycle of giving which keeps stuff out of landfills. It is a non-profit organisation made of local groups, run by volunteers.

The Brackley group can be found at http://groups.freecycle.org/brackleyuk

You can contact Katie at BrackleyUK@mods.freecycle.org

 

 

 

 

BRACKLEY FOODBANK

 

Feeding local people in crisis

 

All it takes is low income and an unexpected event - bereavement, relationship breakdown, illness, redundancy - to throw people into a genuine crisis.

 

BRACKLEY FOODBANK aims to provide three days supply of food to individuals or families who have to face a sudden crisis in their lives.

 

If everyone in Brackley bought just one item from this list, we would have enough food to feed everyone in need for a whole year. Please buy an extra item when you next go shopping.

 

Carton of fruit juice

Carton of UHT milk (long life)

Tin of spaghetti

Tin of tomatoes

Tin of vegetables

Tin of baked beans

Tin of fish

Tin of cooked meat

Packet of cup-a-soup

Tin of soup

Jar of pasta sauce

Packet of biscuits

Tea bags

Jar of instant coffee

Packet of sugar

Tin of rice pudding

Box of breakfast cereal

Jar of jam

Tin of fruit

Packet of dried pasta

 

It can be dropped into us at the Town Hall; we are there every Tuesday and Thursday morning between 10.00 and 12.00

 

We provide vouchers to front-line care agencies who will distribute them to those in crisis, and these are exchanged for food at our distribution point, again at the Town Hall.

 

The BRACKLEY FOODBANK is now run by Churches in Brackley and can be contacted on brackleyfoodbank@gmail.com or 07842514216

 

 

DETAILED INTERACTIVE MAP OF BRACKLEY

Global Mapping recently completed this website for Northamptonshire County Council for their waste and minerals.  Boring maybe, but you can use the map to zoom in and pick out individual houses across Northants including of course Brackley and surrounding villages!  It's fairly intuitive but if you have problems call Alan Smith on 01280 840771 and he can talk you through it.  http://northamptonshire.devplan.org.uk/map.aspx?map=55&layers=all

 

NOTICE TO ALL WALKERS

Not sure if you have come across these before, but the following link takes you to a number of local sites around Brackley which provide opportunities for various forms of countryside exploration. There should be information boards on the sites.

http://cwr.naturalengland.org.uk/Default.aspx?Module=CountryWalkDetails&Site=3582

Happy exploring.

 

 

ARE YOU ALONE DURING THE DAY?

DO YOU NEVER GET TO SEE ANYONE?

ARE YOU FREE ON MONDAYS ( EXCEPT BANK HOLIDAYS ) ANYTIME BETWEEN 11.00AM & 2.30PM?

If you would you like to meet new people,  have a hot or cold meal with refreshments & if you wish, take part in  our raffle & bingo, then the Robinson Lunch club held at Godwin Court in Halls Lane is right up your street! We are a fun group, and anyone joining us is promised a warm welcome.

 

When you join us, you can take part in as little or as much as you want nothing is compulsory, you can just have a meal if you wish. However to get all the free benefits provided by our club you would pay an all inclusive price of £7.00 Free transport is provided if needed (via The Brackley Area Volunteer Car Service which you will need to join & pay the relevant annual fee).

If you are interested and want to find out more or talk to one of the current members, then please phone:

MRS LISA MEAZZINI ON 01280-840908

 

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