Saints Alive: Stanhoe and Barwick Newsletter

May 2024

Parish Council meeting:–

Joint Meeting:–

A further meeting was held on the 11th April between the Parish Council & the MEHM Trust. Progress is being made on a number of projects including new village notice boards, broadband for the village hall and the training of website experts who will be responsible for the input of items for our village website, stanhoe.org.

Annual Parish Meeting:–

The Annual Parish meeting will be held on Wednesday 8th May at 6:30 pm, following the Parish Council meeting at 5:30pm. The Annual Parish meeting is the opportunity for all village groups and residents to get involved. The Chair of the Parish Council will present the annual report for 2023/24 on Parish Council activities. Village groups are also invited to present their annual reports, either in person or in writing. Residents can also contribute to the agenda. If you have a report or an agenda item, please email to the Clerk at stanhoe.council@gmail.com by 24th April. There will be information available from Borough Council Beat Your Bills to take away.

We hope you can join us.

Stanhoe Methodist Church:–

All are welcome at our Sunday morning services, which are at 11am, on the following dates:

• 12th May (includes Holy Communion)
• 28th May

On Good Friday morning, we look forward to welcoming pilgrims from the Student Cross organisation, who will have left Leicester on 23rd March on a walk of witness, carrying a heavy wooden cross, and who will call into our church for rest and refreshments, before finally finishing their pilgrimage at Walsingham that same evening.

For more information, contact the Minister, Rev. Dr. Richman Ncube on 01485 570232; or Church Stewards: Valerie Shackcloth on 518395, Judith Chaloner on 578630 or Elizabeth MacLeod on 578392.

STANHOE VILLAGE SCREEN:–

are pleased to announce our first film for this summer season.

THE COLOR PURPLE (12A) (musical) on Monday 13th May at 7:30 pm.

Billing itself as “a bold new take on the beloved classic”, this is Alice Walker’s novel reinterpreted as a musical. In 1909 Celie, a young black American girl, is given away in marriage by her abusive father to a local farmer, Albert, who treats her cruelly. Deliverance comes in the unexpected form of Albert’s mistress Shug Avery, a jazz singer who takes her away from her misery. The rough edges of Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation have been softened but the evocative energy of this movie-musical’s three female leads is magical.

Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPwzBUui1GA

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY:–

FILM: Wicked Little Letters (15) (Crime/Comedy) on Monday 17th June at 7:30pm.

VENUE: Stanhoe Reading Room and Village Hall, Cross Lane, PE31 8P

TICKETS: £5 (CASH ONLY) on the door to include a complimentary drink. Doors open 7:00pm

For further information visit the website: Stanhoe.org (or ring 01485 518191)

MEHM Trust (Stanhoe Village & Playing Field) NEWS:

If you have been out for a wander round the village in the last two weeks, you will have seen the lovely new gates at the entrance to the Playing Field. Work to install gate keeps and make the bolt easier needs to be carried out, but I’m sure you’ll agree it makes access to our valuable village amenity much easier for all our users. Along with the new chairs in the Hall, which have been well received, the gates were paid for with a grant from the Norfolk Community Trust Foundation so a big thank you to them. As part of the conditions of the Grant is that we have to report how many people currently use the Playing Field on a Monthly basis and you’ll be interested to know that I have worked out that is about 550 people who use it once if not twice a day each month! We anticipate that will increase now accessibility is better.

YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS YOU!

Volunteers needed to bake cakes, cupcakes, biscuits, buns, scones etc. to donate for the Cake Stall on 8th of June. Please contact Laura on laurajpocock@yahoo.co.uk if you can help, thank you.

STANHOE OPEN GARDENS ~ Saturday 13th July

Green Fingers? If you are growing seedlings, please consider growing some for the PLANT STALL - we rely on donations to make it the successful, much loved attraction to the day that it is.

laurajpocock@yahoo.co.uk

Stanhoe and Barwick WI news:–

Our May meeting is a Members only Social, but you are most welcome to join us in June for:

Date:– Thursday 6th June:– Lizzie Scott, “Life as a 1930s scullery maid at Blickling Hall”.

Venue:– The Reading Room, Stanhoe.

Time:– 2:00pm.

Visitors are always welcome. Our charge is £5, which includes refreshments.

Please contact Valerie (01485 576261) for further details.

Our Public Records website:–

I’m Sarah from Our Public Records. We’ve just launched a massive free database of last names of people in the US that I wanted to let you know about.

We collected records of over 162000 names and created a database using AI and our own programming to help users find information such as origins, genealogy, etc.

I hope you have a moment to take a look. As I said, it’s completely free, so if you think you would find it useful, the link is :– https://ourpublicrecords.org/

Sarah Moore,
Marketing Specialist, OurPublicRecords