The coffee morning, planned for this Monday, 13th December, 10.30 at the Village Hall is still going ahead so please come along and enjoy a tea, coffee, mince pies and other Christmassy treats with your friends and neighbours. Please bring a book or magazine to swap and let us know if you’d like this to become a regular event .…
Green Bin Collection Suspended
Our green bin collection has been suspended from Monday 13th December. Our next Green Bin collection will be on Tuesday 18th January 2022, along with our Blue Bin collection. During the green bin suspension, the advice for garden waste is to store this in the green bin or in a pile in the garden, or home compost, until collections resume.…
Greater Cambridge Partnership Transport Consultation
Regretfully this information arrived too late to be included in the Village Voice. The Greater Cambridge Partnership are currently consulting on proposals for greener travel in and around the city of Cambridge. The proposals can be seen and commented upon here – https://consultcambs.uk.engagementhq.com/making-connections-2021 – interestingly, for those villages off the A1307, there is a proposal for a new, more regular,…
Christmas Hub News
Thanks for all your continued support, due to recent Covid developments we feel it is in everyone’s best interests to cancel Decembers Hub Night. As a festive thank you for your support we have donated this month to Crisis at Christmas. The last two months we have made donations to The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal 2021 and BBC Children…
Hub Night
It was fantastic to see you all on Saturday. Thank you to Chippy’s for some great food and Chestnut Tree, West Wratting for the Wherry, a Hub favorite. Special thanks to Michelle for all her help. Thanks for all your continued support, due to recent Covid developments we feel it is in everyone’s best interests to cancel Decembers Hub Night.…
Hub Night 27 November 2021
Hub Night Fish and Chip Night (27 November) Menu. Please order by 19th November, text, email or message Nicci 07527879135, nicci@innerlather.co.uk, 01223 290886. As in previous years please pay on the night.
West Wickham & District Gardening Club talk – Monday 18 October
FLAMES & FEATHERS A talk on tulip appreciation and obsession. By Andrew Morris 7.30pm Village Hall The extensively illustrated talk will cover the history of how the tulip was brought from its homeland in central Asia to become the national symbol of the Ottoman Empire, before being exported to Western Europe in the 17th century. Here people went wild…
West Wickham & District Local History Club talk – Monday 11 October
We’re back! We will be starting our programme of talks in October and all are welcome. We are grateful to the Village Hall Committee for allowing us to use the whole Hall so there will be plenty of room to space out. The Covid protocols require much extra work, so we will not be serving our usual refreshments after the…
West Wickham & District Gardening Club Annual Show 2022 Photography Classes
Although it seems no time at all since the Annual Show we are already preparing for the next one. The rules for the photography classes state that entries must have been taken in the year between one show and the next. Consequently, we are releasing the titles for the 2022 classes to give you as much time as possible to…
West Wickham & District Gardening Club – photographs
Here are all the entries to the three photographic classes of this year’s Annual Show together with comments on the winning entries from judge Ronnie Temple. The classes for next year’s Show will shortly be announced. Winners 2021 photography competition Through my Window Seeing Red Reflections