Great Gidding Gala Week

By on July 1, 2013   /   Community, Forthcoming events, Great Gidding, Home page upcoming events, St Michael's Church, Village Hall   /   2 Comments
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Great Gidding Gala Week

A new July event for Great Gidding

A new event for The Giddings! Following the weekend of the Eliot Festival at Little Gidding there will be a series of cultural and fun events held in and around the village. From Monday 8th July through to Sunday 14th July there will be poetry, arts, crafts, lunches, cultural visits and a couple of fun events to cater for all tastes.

Events list

Saturday 6th July and Sunday 7th July

T S Eliot
T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding
Monday 8th July
History walk around Great Gidding
A guided walk around Great Gidding, looking at a number of historical sites, starting at Chapel End and then along Main Street. Start time 5pm Mill Farm, Chapel End
Tuesday 9th July
Fox and Hounds Great Gidding
Poetry Please, your choice of poem. Tell Paul Burgess 293354 by Friday 5th July.
Start time 11am at 85 Main Street.

Fox & Hounds Lunch, start time 12.30pm.
Booking and menu choice phone 293657 before 1st July.

Menu 1, Ham , salad and hot new potatoes £6.00.
Menu 2, Scampi, chips & peas £7.00

Wednesday 10th July
Wif Waf Evening in Great Gidding Village Hall
Wif Waf evening – fun and games in the Village Hall.
Start time 3.15 through till 10pm, includes an adult bouncy castle.
Thursday 11th July
Spiceland, Peterborough
Visit the Lincoln Road Temple, PE1 3BU from 9.30am

Curry Club lunch at Spiceland 12.30pm . Booking meal phone  293354 or 293591

In the evening there will be a talk about the Civil War and it’s effects on the local area.
Start time 7.30pm, Village Hall.

 Friday 12th July 
Peterborough Museum
A visit to the recently refurbished Peterborough Museum  from 10am and then in the evening “Eliot for Dummies” – a not too serious chat about T S Eliot and his work, meeting at 85 Main Street from 7.30pm
Saturday 13th July
Art Exhibition in Great Gidding
Arts, crafts, photographs and sculpture by residents of Gidding and the surrounding villages  to be held in St Michael’s Church between 2pm _ 5pm followed by an evening concert. Music by Bach & Handel featuring Fergus Black (organ) and Leslie Crowson (tenor) Tickets £4 pay at door.
Start 7.30pm.
Sunday 14th July
St Michael's Church Great Gidding
“Desert Island Hymns”  11.30am – choose your favourite hymn to be sung during the service this, followed by a Garden Party Lunch 12.30pm. Food provided but bring your own drinks.

Choice of Hymn to Lois Jordan 293178 or johndeval@hotmail.com

Further updates and announcements will appear here on the run up to the event

If you would like to help with any of the events or submit an item for the display in the church please let one of the organisers know.

Paul Burgess, Mary Read, Roland Bostock, Julie Morrison and Julie Trolove

Alternatively use the contact form below.

 

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Long Distance Walking

By on June 5, 2013   /   Community, Home page latest news, News stories and reports, The Environment   /   Leave a comment
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Long Distance Walking

Long Distance Walkers Association

If you like walking you may be interested to know about a national organisation that exists to promote walking longer distance as a recreational or challenge activity.

The Long Distance Walkers Association  (LDWA) promotes distance walking through its regional groups. For example the nearest LDWA group to Great Gidding is the Beds, Bucks and Northamptonshire  group who meet regularly on Thursdays for 15 mile walks and Sundays for 20 mile walks in the counties mentioned.

As  stated previously the distances walked  range from 15 miles and 20 miles. There are other organised events where greater distances are covered  and these are regarded as challenge events. The ultimate being 100 miles in 48 hours !

All walks have a leader who is competent in map reading and social skills to ensure you enjoy the walk . They must count you out and count you back in and deal with any on route issue. Start points usually have decent car parking for the rural based groups.

As usual the web site is the best source of information.  To find the group walks start from the LDWA Home Page and drill down the pages thus – Events  – View Events List  –  Group Walks  –  Beds, Bucks & Northants (example)

 

 

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Sun shines on The Big Lunch & Have a Field Day

By on June 3, 2013   /   Home page latest news, News stories and reports   /   Leave a comment
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The sun shone for the annual ‘Big Lunch’ and ‘Have a Field Day’ on the recreation field in Great Gidding on Sunday 2nd June. Picnics and drinks were followed by a well fought rounders match (which ended in a very fair draw)! Free kites and footballs supplied by the ‘Fields in Trust’ scheme kept the children (of all ages) amused.

Thanks to Michael and Julie Trolove, Paul Hodson and many others for organising the event.

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The Big Lunch & Have A Field day

By on May 22, 2013   /   Community, Forthcoming events, Great Gidding, Home page upcoming events, The Environment   /   2 Comments
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The Big Lunch & Have A Field day

Picnic time on the Recreation Field

Sunday, June 2nd  on Great Gidding Recreation Field and if even just the weather repeats itself as last year then it will be a grand day out.

The Big Lunch is all about community coming together to share a meal which in our case is more of a picnic but the aims are still the same. Meeting neighbour’s and villagers who you don’t often see, catching up with all the latest news or just taking up the challenge of the mass rounders game.

Have a Field Day is the formal recognition that our Recreation Field is now in trust and will never be built on

Details of the Big Lunch nationally can be found with this link

Date – Sunday 2nd June

Time –  12:00 until 4:00pm

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An Evening in the Garden

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An Evening in the Garden

Title: An Evening in the Garden
Location: Crown Cottage, Main Street, Great Gidding
Description: Come along to a Garden Party at Crown Cottage, Great Gidding on Saturday 22nd June 7.30pm featuring the Peter Shepherd Jazz Trio and King’s School Swing Band. (In support of Emily Read’s expedition to the Arctic).

Tickets £10.00 per person. Catered bar and buffet.
Dress code ~ smart as you please.

Call 01832 293 479 or email shepnsue@btinternet.com
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2013-06-22

An Evening in the Garden, Great Gidding

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Rogationtide walk and picnic, Sunday 5th May

By on April 29, 2013   /   Great Gidding, Home page upcoming events, St Michael's Church   /   Leave a comment
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Rogationtide walk and picnic, Sunday 5th May

Rogation Sunday is traditionally the Sunday when the rural community walk around their village to places where crops grow and animals are kept, to seek God’s blessing on their work, and especially to pray for a good harvest.

Rogation Sunday falls on 5th May this year, and we are marking  it with a Rogationtide Walk, followed by a picnic.

We meet in St Michael’s Church at 11am, and then walk around the village stopping at a number of points for readings and prayers. Please come dressed for all weathers! Some rain won’t put us off.

Afterwards, we go to Churchside House (John De Val’s home next to the church) where we will enjoy our picnic – outdoors if fine, indoors if wet!

Please come and join us and bring your own picnic – drinks (of all sorts) will be provided.

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Vestry meeting and Annual General Meeting

By on April 9, 2013   /   Community, Great Gidding, St Michael's Church   /   Leave a comment
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On Tuesday 23rd April, the Vestry Meeting and Annual General Meeting of St Michael’s takes place in the church.At the short Vestry Meeting, the churchwardens are elected. The AGM, which follows, is like any other such meeting of an organization, offering reports of the church’s activities during the previous year, as well as presenting the annual accounts and electing the Parochial Church Council .This year we have to produce a new Church Electoral Roll. If you would like to be included on the roll then please contact Lois Jordan for a form (tel: 01832 293178).

Please do come along and find out the acheivements and challenges faced by your local church.

The meeting starts at 7pm – please note the time – it’s 7pm and not a typing error!
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Thanksgiving service

By on April 8, 2013   /   Community, Forthcoming events, Great Gidding, St Michael's Church, Uncategorized   /   Leave a comment
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Over the last few years, many things have happened in St Michael’s Church which have enhanced the beauty of this place of worship as well as improving the facilities.

On Sunday 21st April we are holding a Service of Thanksgiving to reflect our thanks to God for his goodness as well as recognising the generosity of so many people, both in terms of giving and creating. After the service there will be refreshments.

May we extend a warm welcome to you to join as at this service. St Michael’s Church is an important part of the infastructure of the village, and this is obviously recognised by the number of people who give so generously of their time, money and talents.

The service starts at 3pm.

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Painting exhibition by Krystyna Wojcik and Paul Joseph-Crank

By on March 30, 2013   /   Forthcoming events, Home page upcoming events   /   1 Comment
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Painting exhibition by Krystyna Wojcik and Paul Joseph-Crank

An exhibition of landscape and cityscape paintings by Great Gidding residents Krystyna Wojcik and Paul Joseph-Crank will be on display at The Dolby Gallery, Oundle from the 13th to 27th April 2013.

Paul and Krystyna both work in acrylics and watercolours and as husband and wife they occasionally find themselves sketching and painting from the same subject. Some of the results of their land and city interpretations will be displayed alongside each other at their joint exhibition ‘LandscapeCityscape’.

Paul studied fine art at Manchester Polytechnic before taking up a career in graphic design and illustration, and Krystyna trained as an art teacher before joining forces with Paul to set up their own design business.

Travel is a strong influence for both but whilst Paul is drawn to light and dark and patterning elements within a city environment, Krystyna’s paintings are darkly atmospheric across land and skyline.

Paul Josph-Crank and Krystyna Wojcik: LandscapeCityscape exhibition catalogueDownload the catalogue for the exhibition (PDF 2.2MB)

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