The Latest News & Snippets About The Village

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Magical Moths of Late Summer event in The Nymph Hay
Fi Haynes works for the charity Butterfly Conservation and will be carrying out a 'Magical Moths of Late Summer' event at The Nymph Hay Woodland Trust site on the edge of the village next week. She will be putting out some light traps in the woodland to see what species can  be attracted, and you are welcome to join in. You can go along at 8.30pm to 8.45pm on Tuesday 27th August, when the lights will be put on, and leave when you like, but Fi will probably be there until midnight or thereabouts. She will also be there from 9am to 10.30am on Wedneday 28th August to show people some of the catch. Please let her know in advance if you plan on attending, as numbers will be limited: fhaynes@butterfly-conservation.org.

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📚 Book Recyling Scheme 📚
A big "thank you" to Frank Hughes for keeping the book shelf in order in the shop foyer.
If you haven't yet used the Book Recycling Scheme then do pop down and see the selection - choose yourself some summer reading in return for a 50p donation per book.
All monies go towards village organisations once £50 is reached; if you are a village organisation that would like to be considered for a donation, please contact Linda Durno on (01249) 750514.

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FOSMAA
FOSMAA would like to thank eveyone who supported the picnic at The Old Rectory, which raised £340 for funds, bringing the fundraising total to around £75,200 of the £111,000 needed.

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School Fete
The school fete in July raised £3,480 - many thanks to all those who supported this event.

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Reporting Crime

Wiltshire Police seeks to enhance online services to the public and is pleased to introduce a new way of reporting crime through the Force website.

If you or somebody you know has been a victim of crime, or you witnessed a crime, in Wiltshire or Swindon you can now report it to Wiltshire Police online.

Go to the force website and click on the Report button and select Crime from the menu: www.wiltshire.police.uk/

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Shop News

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.

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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.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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"!

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FOSMAA

The Village Singers, based in Sutton Benger and lead by Rachel McCorry, joined 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.

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.