The Games Club, mentioned on the recent Village Clarion, will start on Thursday 19th September. It will be held in the Village Hall, from 2PM – put the date on your calendar. More details to follow soon.
Come and 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 will be open this Sunday July 7th from 10am until 2pm in Great Gidding Village Hall.
Come and 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 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!
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!
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
Notice of the
2019 Annual Parish Meeting of
Great and Little Gidding Parish Council
This meeting will take place on Tuesday 21st May
Starting at 7.30PM prompt in the Village Hall
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.
AGENDA:
- Chairman’s welcome
- To review the Minutes of the Annual Parish Meeting held on 15th May 2018
- Matters arising
- The Chairman’s Annual Report from the Parish Council
- Vice Chairman’s update on the Recreation Ground Project.
- Competition for up to £250 of funding for your group or project – see Clarion and website for details
- For members of the public to present, discuss and resolve any other matters related to Great and Little Gidding Parish (or post your ideas in the Parish Council box).
Refreshments will be served.
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
Busy plant sales 
Busy plant sales 
Busy plant sales 
Busy plant sales 
Tim selling his wares and imparting his knowledge 
Information stands on bee keeping and wildlife 
Craft stall 
Bird quiz 
Beautiful garden metalwork by Ped Baker Metalcraft 
Beautiful garden metalwork by Ped Baker Metalcraft 
Garden bric-a-brac 
Top chefs at work 
Tasty!! 
Errr….. 
Gardeners’ Question Time 
Raffle winner 
Mr Hodson ‘picks up’ his raffle prize.
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.
Gidding Gobblers Café is open this Sunday 5th May from 10am until 2pm in Great Gidding Village Hall.
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. We hope you can join us this week.
We look forward to welcoming you!
June opening date
Our next opening will be on Sunday 9th June.
And another picture of some cakes!…
