Gidding Gobblers Café is open this Sunday September 1st from 10am until 2pm

Gidding Gobblers Café is open this Sunday September 1st from 10am until 2pm

Gidding Gobblers Café will be open this Sunday, September 1st, from 10am until 2pm in Great Gidding Village Hall.

We look forward to welcoming you to meet up with friends, neighbours and visitors and have a chat over coffee, cake and the Sunday papers.

We hope you’ll be able to join us. 

Don’t forget to follow (and ‘like’) the Gidding Gobblers Facebook page!

Gidding Gobblers Café this Sunday June 9th

Gidding Gobblers Café this Sunday June 9th

Gidding Gobblers Café will be open this Sunday June 9th from 10am until 2pm in Great Gidding Village Hall.

Meet up with friends, neighbours and visitors and have a chat over coffee, cake and the Sunday papers! We hope you’ll be able to join us. 

Don’t forget to follow (and ‘like’) the Gidding Gobblers Facebook page

We look forward to welcoming you!

June 9th… Gidding Gobblers Café

June 9th... Gidding Gobblers Café

Gidding Gobblers Café will be open on the second Sunday in June (on the 9th) from 10am until 2pm in Great Gidding Village Hall, due to the Tour of Cambridgeshire cycle event the weekend before.

It’s a great opportunity for villagers to meet up with friends, neighbours and visitors and have a chat over coffee, cake and Sunday papers and you don’t even have to be able to ride a bike! We hope you’ll be able to join us then. 

You can keep up with us on the Gidding Gobblers Facebook page

We look forward to welcoming you!

Yoga dates May/June 2019

Yoga dates May/June 2019

There will be Yoga classes at the Village Hall on the following dates in May and June 2019:

May

Wednesday 15th

Saturday 18th NO SESSION

Wednesday 22nd

Saturday 25th

Wednesday 29th

June

Saturday 1st NO SESSION

Wednesday 5th NO SESSION

Saturday 8th NO SESSION

Wednesday 12th

Saturday 15th NO SESSION

Wednesday 19th

Saturday 22nd

Wednesday 26th

Saturday 29th

What a fantastic success ‘More Than Just a Plant Sale’ turned out to be!

What a fantastic success ‘More Than Just a Plant Sale’ turned out to be!

Visitors thronged in from 5.30pm on the dot and a combination of events held during the evening raised funds for Jubilee Wood Projects – a beautiful area for everyone to enjoy.

Alongside the plant sale there were information stalls on bee keeping and local wildlife, a children’s craft stall, a bird quiz and stalls selling garden bric-a-brac and garden metalwork by Ped Baker Metalcraft.

Food and drink

Tasty barbecue wraps were provided by Andrew Underwood and Dick Downer and Michael Trolove stoically manned the ‘Percy Thrower’ bar.

Gardeners’ questions and raffle

The Gardeners’ Question Time was well attended and a whole selection of topics were covered by two very experienced and knowledgeable professional gardeners, George Thorpe and Tony Arnold (often to be heard on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire) helped by our own village expert Margi Comeau. The evening finished with the obligatory raffle with a wonderful selection of garden-themed hampers as prizes, kindly organised by Jan Downer.

Bird quiz winners

The winner of the Under 12’s Bird Quiz was Meredith from Great Gidding. Her prize was a beautifully illustrated RSPB book of wildlife poetry signed and donated by local artist and illustrator Carry Akroyd, along with a soft toy owl.

The winner of the Over 12’s Bird Quiz was Vi McCarthey also from Great Gidding. Her prize was a hand crafted blue tit nest box kindly built and donated by Dick Downer.

A big BIG ‘thank you’

A big thank you to everyone who came and supported the evening and a really BIG thank you to all those behind-the-scenes organisers who helped to make the event run so smoothly and so successfully.

Remaining plants

There are still some plants for sale outside the Village Hall until Tuesday morning (14.5.19) – please pop your money into the Honesty Box.

Gallery

Plants, plants plants!!!!

Plants, plants plants!!!!

The village gardeners have been busy bringing their plants to the Village Hall ready for the Gidding ‘MORE THAN JUST A PLANT SALE’ tomorrow.

The plant sale starts at 5.30pm and then there’s plenty of activity throughout the evening including Gardeners’ Question Time, stalls with garden bric-a-brac, hot food, a well stocked bar and a fun quiz to test your bird knowledge.

Help us celebrate the end of WW1

Help us celebrate the end of WW1

Great Gidding Commemoration – All are welcome to help us remember, 100 years on, those who died and to celebrate when the guns fell silent at the end of World War 1.

On Sunday 11th November Starting at 6.00pm at Great Gidding Village Hall

To honour those who fought and lost their lives and to mark the day 100 years ago when the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War.

Lighting of our beacon 6.00pm

With poems, readings and songs from WW1 we remember those from the Parish who lost their lives at that terrible time.

‘Battles Over’ Celebration (approx) 6.45pm

There will be a bar serving wine, beer and soft drinks (at almost WW1 prices) and free hotdogs (including vegetarian option).

Battle’s Over – Commemorating 100 years after the end of World War One

Great & Little Gidding Parish Council

Battle’s Over

A Village Event to mark the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War 1

on Sunday 11 November 2018

We would like to propose an event be held to mark the 100th anniversary of World War 1.
This would tie in with the nationwide commemoration, where beacons will be lit at 7PM on Sunday 11th November (see https://www.local.gov.uk/battles
over-nations-tribute-11-november-2018).
As there are currently only 4 Parish Councillors, we do need your help and support to  organize and facilitate this commemorative event. We plan to use the
Great Gidding Village Hall and have been able to provide some funding to support this community event.
If you would like to “enlist” and offer help with food/drink/entertainment/activities/decorating the venue, please e-mail ggparishcouncil@outlook.com
or phone 01832 293068 and leave a message with your name and any details of how you would like to be involved.
Alternatively, if you prefer, please put a note detailing how you would like to be involved/ideas you have to offer and post in the letterbox at the Village Hall.
PLEASE respond before Tuesday 9th October, to enable discussion at the Parish Council meeting on Tuesday 16th October and to decide if the event is to go ahead.