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Spanish Art and Architecture
60 villagers and friends attended the Spanish Art and Architecture evening on 20th October. A great night with delicious tapas organised by the social committee. An interesting talk was led by Stephen Treasure and Janie Jones with accompanying slides and pictures. Many thanks to all who helped make the evening such an enjoyable event.
Halloween Party
Lots of ghosts and ghouls came and enjoyed playing games organised by Wendy Griffiths and Sally Swann. One of these involved being blindfolded and pinning the spider on its web, wizardly tricky to do. Putting an After Eight on your forehead and then, without touching it, wriggle it down your face to your mouth was …
Poppy Collection
Thank you to everyone who helped with the village door to door collection and every-one who donated. The village collection raised £555.87 for the British Legion. Many Thanks Tony Freer
Remembrance Sunday
This year marked 100 years since the Armistice which ended the First World War, and the occasion was marked by a service in the church followed by prayers, the reading of the names of the dead and a hymn at the War Memorial outside the Village Hall, before the two minutes silence at 11.00. The …
Autumn Coffee Morning
The Festive season got off to a lovely gentle start on Saturday November 10th with the Autumn Coffee Morning, in aid of St Mary Magdalene church. A cup of coffee plus a selection of delicious cakes were available to be ooh’d and ahh’d over whilst sitting chatting with friends. There was a chance to win …
Living Nativity – 14th Dec @ 6pm
You are all invited to a Street Art Performance of the Nativity which will be held on the Playing Field in Ashford Carbonel on Friday 14th December at 6.00pm. There is no cost. We will finish in the Village Hall with free hot chocolate and mince pies. Come and join us, in the unfolding of …
Notes from The Beach
Our riverside beach is a wonderful village asset, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) be-cause of its special eco system. As such, the Environment Agency takes a keen interest in what goes on down there, and can enforce changes if they find us wanting in terms of caring for it. So it was …
Caynham Christmas Tree Festival
The preparations for the seventh annual Christmas Tree Festival, at St Marys Church, Caynham are well under way. This year the theme of the Festival is “A Christmas Poem”. On Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of December, the Church will be open from 10 am till 4 pm. Entry is Free. There will be Hot …
Ashford Carbonell Village Hall is awarded £60,000
‘Ashford Carbonell Village Hall is awarded £60,000 after their innovative services impress major UK funder’ ‘The Garfield Weston Foundation more than doubles its £5m anniversary fund to over £11m to support over 150 charities across UK after overwhelming demand.’ The Village Hall Committee is delighted to be able to announce we have secured a Grant …
3 Students and a Nissan Micra
Well, it was certainly not as gentle as 3 Men In A boat by Jerome K Jerome! What an interesting and exciting time they had? So many adventures, so many highs and lows but all very entertainingly imparted by Robert to a packed audience in the Village Hall. Maybe there was much more to tell …
Harvest Festival – October 4th 2018
At the end of a gloriously warm Autumn day we met to celebrate Harvest by coming together as a parish at a harvest service followed by supper. Lynn Money took the service to a packed church where praise and thanks were given and harvest hymns were sung with gusto. Delicious soup, lasagne and apple puddings …
Talent Exhibition July 2019
Talent Exhibition July 2019 Aren’t we lucky to live here amongst such interesting and talented people, and wouldn’t it be good to have the chance to enjoy all these talents? We are inviting you to prepare something to exhibit and be sold with the profits going to St Mary’s. We will be holding an opening …
Ashford Carbonell’s Car Boot Sale 2nd September 2018
The best Car Boot to date! A wonderful day! People came to buy and sell from miles around and there was a great atmosphere – what’s more we made around £1850 for Village Hall funds – a record!! All the money raised from the Car boot Sale came from selling the villagers’ bric-a-brac, books, local …
Trevors do Aberdovery
A ‘Thank-you’ from the Trevors A huge THANK-YOU to those who sponsored us on our cycle ride from the village to Aberdovey. To date we have raised £1,205 for The Severn Hospice. Thank you also to Sue Phipers who drove our support vehicle – fortunately we didn’t require the support! Thank you also to Mike …
Armistice Day November 11th 2018
Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11th November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of …
Shropshire Historic Ride and Stride 2018
This event seems rather along time ago …I am very thankful that the weather was not as it has been for the past couple of days …I did however get very wet twice ! All is nearly gathered in and I am SO grateful of all those who supported me for this annual event and …
Shopping in Tesco? Then you can help
Grant funding scheme. Caynham Village Hall is in the customer vote for a “Bags of Help” grant from Tesco. It’s a scheme which awards three community projects like ours grants of up to £4,000 – all raised from the sale of carrier bags in Tesco stores. The public will vote in store during September and …
Christian Aid
Following from my heartfelt thanks in last month’s magazine, I can now report that we raised £636.23 from the village. WOW!! I did go to the service in Ludlow with the presentation where the theme was the devastating Hurricane Matthew that tore the island of Haiti apart in 2016. BUT thanks to the thousands of …
Concert on a Summer’s evening
It was a beautiful Summer’s evening and Lee Jones and Geoff Ockenden came and treated us to another guitar concert in the church. A lovely time was had by all. The refreshing music was well accompanied by a glass of wine and nibbles during the interval. Lee and Geoff are hugely talented young musicians and …
Ride and Stride
On Sunday April 22nd Mr Steven Winwood Chairman of the Shropshire Historic Churches Trust, presented St Mary Magdalene Church with a certificate for having raised over £1000 for the Trust during the 2017 Ride and Stride event. He also presented Susannah Hall with a certificate for having taken part in the Ride and Stride event …