The Latest News & Snippets About The Village

~*~*~*~

Shop News
The winner of the shop's May raffle, for a Sunday lunch for two at The Jolly Huntsman, was new village resident, Bob Graham.  June's raffle is for a voucher to hire the large barbecue on the QE2 Field, together with a pack of 6 sausages and 6 chicken drumsticks.  July's raffle is for a meal at Folly Row Cafe.  Tickets only £1 each from the shop.

~*~*~*~

Shop's Plant Sale
Thanks go to shop committee member, Louise Williams, for all her hard work in organising the plant sale on June 1st.  Assisted by shop volunteers Jenny Hayne, Jehanne Le Quesne, and Anneliese Hillier-Thake, £209.60 was raised.

~*~*~*~

Neighbourhood Plan

Pre-vision Engagment Survey - If you haven't yet done so,
please complete and return the Engagement Survey.

~*~*~*~

Book and DVD recycling scheme
Acorns Pre-school is the 65th recipient of £50 from this scheme,
which is run from the shop foyer. If any village club or organisation would like to be considered for a donation, please contact Linda Durno via kingtonstmichael@btinternet.com.

~*~*~*~

Swarm Of Bees
Wanted – a swarm of bees. A swarm has been spotted twice in the village and Malcolm Jago would dearly like to have it. If you spot one, please contact him promptly on (01249) 758377 or 07989 351003. Thank you.

~*~*~*~



~*~*~*~



~*~*~*~

School Open Morning
Kington St Michael CE School's popular annual Open Morning will be on Wednesday 5th June from 9.15am to 11.30am. Classes will run as normal and activities will continue as normal. Visitors are invited to come in to school to see the school in action and to work alongside the children. This is available for existing parents, prospective parents and members of the community. Visitors are encouraged to visit all classes, rather than just where their own child may be. Older pupils will be giving guided tours.

~*~*~*~

Festival on the Farm
Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd June
Manor Farm, Easton Piercy
(please click here to view a PDF of the poster, with full details)
Find us on Facebook


~*~*~*~

Autumn Club


Members of Kington St Michael Autumn Club entered an Easter bonnet competition at their last meeting before Easter.   The judges, the only two male members, decided between them that Betty Brotherwood, a lady over 90, with the bright yellow hat on the left of the picture, was the person to win the lovely big Easter egg.

For those who don't know about the club's meetings, they are once a fortnight, bank holidays excluded, on a Monday from 2 - 4pm in the village hall.   There is a speaker at alternate meetings and membrers play cards, bingo and occasionally a type of skittles.  The afternoon ends with the tea and biscuits.  There are outings at least twice a year, generally by coach and tailored to those who cannot walk very far; the next outing is on June 3.   Do join the club to benefit from socialising and trips.

~*~*~*~

 Inkjet cartridge recycling
FOSMAA is recycling empty inkjet cartridges to raise funds for the organisation; these can be left at Arch House in Manor Close.  Please check on www.recycly4charity.co.uk to see if yours are recyclable, as not all are.

~*~*~*~

Neighbourhood Watch Scheme
Volunteers are needed to regenerate the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme; if you are interested, please contact Viv Vines, Clerk to Kington St Michael Parish Council, via ksmparishclerk@gmail.com.

~*~*~*~

Neighbourhood Plan
There was an incredible 51% response rate to the survey
- many thanks to all those who took part.

~*~*~*~

Great British Spring Clean

On March 30th, members of Kington St Michael WI, husbands and villagers set out on their annual litter pick. It was, as expected, a very successful two hours work and one member of the team returned again to collect more the following day; approximately 64 bags of rubbish were collected in all. Much needed refreshment was kindly provided by Barbara Fenner, and thanks go to all who helped.

~*~*~*~

~*~*~*~

Village Posters
If you pop up a poster in the village to advertise an event or similar, please
would you be kind enough to remove the poster once the event has happened?
"Keep Kington Tidy"!

~*~*~*~

 Are you a positive, proactive individual? Do you have some time on your hands?
Would you like to contribute to the running of the shop?
We currently have a vacancy on our shop committee
and YOU could be our ideal member
If you are interested in joining us please contact any
member of the committee to find out what's involved.
You need to be aged 18 years old and own a share (available to purchase at only £5).
We generally hold our meetings on a Wednesday evening
and meet, on average, 10 times a year.

~*~*~*~

FOSMAA

The Village Singers, based in Sutton Benger and lead by Rachel McCorry, will join around 200 other choristers from around the world to sing in the Carnegie Hall in New York on January 21st. About 60 members of our local choir and the choir from Frome came to Kington St Michael for their final rehearsal before travelling to New York. Every pew, chair and bench in the church was filled by over 250 visitors. Their generosity provided a further £900 towards the facilities planned for our church.

Wanted

Coins, medals and hallmarked silver items.

Two Bears Antiques and Collectables is a local business run by village residents who have lived in Kington St Michael for over 20 years.  They are more than happy to visit you at home and look at any items you are thinking of selling even if you think the item has little value. The antiques and collectables market is always changing so you may be surprised. They normally make an offer that is valid for 14 days to give you time to decide if you want to sell.

They also buy gold and silver jewellery, even if it is broken or has bits missing.

Thanks go to those who supported the recent progressive supper to raise funds to send the Village Singers to Carnegie Hall; £2,422 was made.

Folly Row Café in Kington St Michael now has its own ChatTable. Café owner Kirsty Clark said “We are really pleased to have a ChatTable in the café, and hope that people will make good use of it; we’re a friendly café anyway, but we hope that this will encourage those on their own to pop in.”

Family friend and village teenager, Iona Durno, 17, approached Mrs Clark with the idea of instigating a ChatTable. She explained “I had heard of the idea beforehand and thought it would be great to have one in our village café, so that anyone on their own could sit down and be joined by others, and have a cup of coffee and a nice conversation”.

The concept of the ChatTable is that anyone can sit and talk at the designated table, whether for five minutes over a cuppa, or longer for some great conversation. It’s open to anyone, whether they’re on their own, new to the village and wanting to meet people, a new mum looking for someone to chat to, or someone just having “one of those days” and needing a distraction – making friends is optional.

Folly Row Café’s ChatTable is currently available from 10am to 11am on Mondays and Tuesdays, and from 2.30pm - 3.30pm on Monday afternoons

KSM QE2 Field Group is a community group comprising local volunteers whose aim is to enhance the recreation field for the benefit of the whole community. We are proud of what we have achieved in the past couple of years but are a small group and now need more HELP to make further improvements!

If you can help to coordinate or support future community events and/or help with the planning of longer term projects at the QE2 Field, then we would love to hear from you.

If you would like to get involved, please get in touch and send us a private message via Facebook www.facebook.com/KSMQE2Field Thank you for your support.