Christmas Cornucopia ’21 is set to be another fabulous event in which to buy wonderful Christmas presents made by our talented local community. Taking place in Great Gidding Village Hall from 2pm until 5pm and complete with cafe serving coffee, tea and yummy cakes.
Save the date
Make sure to put the date November 27th in your calendar now and watch this space for more details!
Sunday 5th September 2021
Service of hymns and readings from 11.30am
St Michael’s Church, Great Gidding
Everyone welcome!
Come and join our Gidding Community to enjoy a buffet lunch and drinks.
All are welcome at Crown Cottage Gt Gidding on 5th September at 12.45 pm. There will be market stalls selling locally grown plants, produce and homemade cakes.
Donations welcome
We really need your help. Donations of plants, produce or cakes will all be gratefully received.
If you can help please contact:
Sue on shepnsue@btinternet.com
Mary only fmaryread@gmail.com
We will use the proceeds to enable us to put on a really special lunch. Any surplus funds will be donated to The Green Backyard, a community allotment project in Peterborough.
Harvest Service
For those who wish to attend, there will be a Harvest Festival service at St Michael’s Church at 11.30am.
You are warmly invited by the PCC of St Michael’s Church: Fiona, John, Michael, Mary and Sue.
Open Studios, garden teas and coffees at No. 4 Luddington in the Brook.
Plus an exhibition of Dragons in the Church.
11.00am – 5.00pm Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July
Draw, paint or make a dragon of your own invention to add to our Big Dragon Exhibition in St Margaret’s Church in Luddington in the Brook.
Dragons should get to Luddington by Saturday 19th June 2021.
Which is quite soon. So get working on your dragon, and send to Carry at Number 4 Luddington, or give it to someone in Luddingon to pass it on.
This is free to enter for anyone of any age, and all dragons will be exhibited in the church over the Summer, starting on Saturday 26th June 2021.
SEND CARRY YOUR DRAGONS!
As restrictions ease, we are delighted to be able to re-instate our Tuesday weekday service of Morning Prayer. This is an informal service, lasting around 25 minutes, taken by our churchwarden John De Val.
The first service is on Tuesday 8th June at 8am in St Michael’s Church, and everyone is very welcome. If you would like any more information, please contact John (293417).
This coming Saturday, 22nd May, Great Gidding Parochial Church Council will hold its Annual Parochial Church Meeting. The meeting will take place at 10am via a ZOOM link. This meeting will hear reports on church activities during the difficulties of 2020, as well as a financial review and fabric report on the two churches within the PCC’s care. Members of the PCC are also elected.
Your local church faces many challenges in the coming months, and we would welcome your support by joining us at that meeting. Besides providing a spiritual focus for our community, the PCC look after our beautiful parish church of St Michael, a place where members of this community have been christened, married and buried over the years. Likewise, the church of St John’s, Little Gidding is within the care of the PCC.
Our Parish Mission Statement is “to show and nurture the love of God by caring for those within our community and worldwide”. If you can help and support us on this journey, then please do join us at that meeting.
To obtain the ZOOM link, please contact John De Val (tel: 293417) or email him: johnedeval@hotmail.com
You will be very welcome.
Notice of the
2021 Annual Parish Meeting of
Great and Little Gidding Parish Council
This meeting will take place on Tuesday 20th April 2021
Starting at 7.30PM via ZOOM
This is not a formal Parish Council meeting. It is an opportunity for residents of Great and Little Gidding to find out more about the work that the Parish Council are doing, to raise any issues they wish regarding the village and comment on plans for the coming year.
All are welcome to join us using this ZOOM link:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79521672985?pwd=NWJhOXdpc1RPa3V4WGVhMlkwL2J0Zz09
Meeting ID: 795 2167 2985
Passcode: aj6GP2
AGENDA:
From the Parish Clerk – an email has been received this afternoon (26th March 2021) from Highways Dept. of Cambridgeshire County Council regarding the proposed road closure:
I am writing to advise you of a Road Closure that will be happening very shortly, in order to facilitate essential carriageway maintenance.
At the time of this letter, currently scheduled Friday 9th April 2021 for approximately two days (Dependent on Weather) – Carriageway Surface Dressing Treatment.
Whilst the work is in progress, during operational hours, the road will be closed from approximately 7.30am to 6pm, and vehicular access will be restricted. A signed diversion route will be in place for through traffic.
In order for the contractor to complete the work with minimum disruption, it is essential that no vehicles are parked on the road. If you have particular access requirements, please speak to a member of the crew onsite who will be able to assist.
Access to properties within the closure area will be possible, but are subject to working conditions, and delays are to be expected. Crews will be working in accordance with Covid 19 guidelines.
These works are weather dependent and changes are possible at short notice. As there will be no further letters regarding these works, please look out for the advanced notices on site, as these will give the most up to date information; or contact our call centre or email as above.
Robin’s funeral service will be held on Monday, 15 March, 2021 at 2.00p.m. at St. Michael’s Church, Great Gidding.
Sadly, Covid regulations restrict numbers attending the service to 30.
However, if you would like to show your appreciation for one of Gidding’s great characters, you will be able to do so on the day as Robin’s journey to the church will be preceded by a final circuit of the village he so loved and where he spent his entire life.
Starting at approximately 1.40p.m., first passing Flittermere Gate, the hearse will travel from the Glatton end of the village, down Main Street, then up Chapel End, Mill Road and back to Main Street before arriving at St. Michael’s.
Gill wants to thank everyone for their very kind words, emails and notes of support. She is extremely grateful for your kindness and hopes that as many people as possible will take a moment to pause and pay their respects, either standing by your gate or at the roadside, as the hearse passes by.
If you would like to make a donation in Robin’s memory you can do so through Crowson’s Funeral Directors or direct to the charity.
All donations received will go to support the work of The Air Ambulance Service