It’s not all cakes, teas, eats and tipples at the Community Picnic on Saturday 4th June, though there’s plenty of all that good stuff of course.
Next Saturday there’s also loads of stuff for kids to enjoy too.
Alongside face-painting and crown decorating, one of the village Fire Engines and Police cars will be on-site for children to clamber on; they can enjoy a bouncy castle and a steam-driven traction engine.
And the Pop-Up Play Village will be making an appearance at the Rec too.
The Village is free to explore and offers a host of role play settings for youngsters aged 0-8yrs old. They can don a hard hat and act out life on a construction site, or play running a cafe, hospital or veterinary centre; or try life as an outdoor explorer or artist.
At the community picnic being held to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee you are invited to – drum roll, please! – a picnic. But if you’d prefer, there are tea and cakes from the W.I, and eats served up by Bear & Eden and the award-winning Brohmon. There are ice-creams to cool sun-parched palates (if the Met office forecast are to be believed we are predicted a scorcher!), and a bar run by the folk of the Cork House will be on site.
The Queen may have Brian May and Diana Ross to help celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, but we have bagged an array of local talent for our Community Picnic. We have a live jazz band, Jay Williams, Shakila K and Delusions of Grandeur all set to take to the stage to entertain you.
Community Picnic: June 4 – 2-7pm. Recreation Ground (Chapel Hill). Kids’ activities and entertainment, live Music, eats, cakes, ice-creams & beverages (or bring your own picnic)
There’s a chance to help us keep the village looking its best by joining us for next month’s Annual Parish Litter Pick.
Councillors will be setting off from the Day Centre on Saturday, April 2 across the village for a two-hour tidy up of places in need of a bit of litter picking TLC.
The event is a great way to meet other people, do something for the village, and bolster the efforts of the kind, committed regulars that do this thing year-round — like the MountPickers.
It is easy to get involved in our pick. Just turn up on the day in question at 10am at 72 Chapel Hill. You will be met by event organisers who will issue you with a bag and a picker as well as a patch to beautify.
For more info contact:
loisprior@stansted.net
georgebraeckman@stansted.net
The team behind Discover Uttlesford are eager to hear from Stansted businesses that wish to be involved in their campaign to boost customer visits to Uttlesford’s high streets.
A film crew will be in the village this week putting a video together to show off Stansted’s best independent shops, places to eat and drink, tourist spots and heritage sites.
Owners of businesses that would like to participate should email sarah@sarahbeemarketing.com. Organisers stress there are no fees for participants and add they will do their best to feature firms that miss out on spots in the film in other bits of campaign publicity.
Other than Stansted, the spot light will also be shone on businesses in Thaxted, Saffron Walden, Great Dunmow.
You can find out more about the district council-backed campaign by signing up for a virtual launch event on Zoom this Wednesday at 10am.
Zoom Meeting Details:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82228652147?pwd=bURndlV5R05mWlUzYjZyRlBXY0ZWQT09
Meeting ID: 822 2865 2147
Passcode: 187570
This year will be the first opportunity in two years to hold our Annual Parish Meeting – this event being just one of the things the pandemic has managed to disrupt of the usual routine of parish council life.
Meetings such as this offer a fantastic opportunity for the community and Councillors to come together in a public setting.
You are free to discuss the issues that matter most to you, unencumbered by the trappings of modem technology that everyone has had to embrace during the Covid Crisis to overcome the constraints on In-person get-togethers.
The Day Centre at 72 Chapel Hill will be the venue for this year’s meeting, which will be held on March 16 at 7 .30pm. The venue affords plenty of space for residents to attend.
You will be able to meet our Councillors and ask questions directly to the chamber. You can read the agenda opposite but are free to raise any matters that you feel need to be aired. We look forward to seeing you there.
You can learn more about the annual parish meeting by downloading the Parish Council Chairman’s report along with the update on the Parish Council’s finances by the chair of Financial & General Purposes committee:
Pop to Newsman’s Plantation on Saturday and pick yourself a free tree or shrub to do your bit to fight the climate crisis.
There up to 200 saplings and shrubs — all native species — being given away on a first-come, first-served basis. Parish Council volunteers will be at the plantation between 10am-1pm to oversee the giveaway.
You can pick from either four native species of tree:
There are also six kinds of shrub to choose from:
You can select trees, or shrubs, or a combination of both. But each individual or household will be limited to a maximum of three plants/trees in total. Please note the exact choice may vary, as stock will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
You are requested to plant your green gifts on property you either own or have permission to plant on. Any unauthorised planting on Council grounds or private land will be removed.
The total number of trees offered to residents is dependent on the quantity of saplings left over from efforts to repopulate Newman’s Planation. Several trees have been felled at the site after being affected by Ash dieback.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/advice/where/
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/advice/how-to-plant/
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/advice/care/
This tree giveaway event is part of the Essex Forest Initiative that aims to plant more than 375,000 trees across the county over the next 5 years as part of efforts to address climate change.
Read more about the Essex Forest Initiative at www.essex.gov.uk/the-essex-forest-initiative
Saplings and shrubs are being given way on Saturday at Newman’s Plantation between 10am-1pm
There’s no better way to spend this Saturday night than by signing up for the Twinning Committee’s Christmas Quiz.
There a prize for the winning team (up to 8 per team). Tickets cost £10 and come with mulled wine, a mince pie and jacket potato with chilli.
The Day Centre at Crafton Green plays host to the quiz, and tickets can be bought either on the door or in advance from twinning@stansted.net.
There’s a licensed bar, or you can bring your own bottle of festive joy to imbibe.
Doors open at 6.30pm. Quiz starts at 7pm.
Images courtesy of Dreamstime.com
Brilliant turn out at the Day Centre on Saturday.
Well over 50 attended with eight teams entering the quiz. Teams from Rungis and Stansted tackled questions on each other’s towns as well as their own.
A lively, fun-filled night saw more than £400 raised for the Stansted & Rungis Twinning Association.
We would like thank all those who attended, and especially Richard Hayword and Geraldine Allars, who hosted the quiz so fabulously.
Honourable mentions also to the twinning committee members for running the bar, and our chairman qui a donnée un bref discours en Français, bien joué!
Saffron Waldon is hosting a festival of events to promote the cause of preserving our natural world ahead of next month’s UN Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Local events as part of The Great Green Week, which runs from September 18-24, include eco-markets, climate Sunday services, pub-meet-ups, eco chats and even a hedgehog hospital.
The goals is not just to educate about the perils of climate change, but also promote ways the public can play their part to tackle the problem.
All of the events of are FREE to attend.
Further details of a timetable for local events is provided in the leaflet below:
Visit www.greatbiggreenweek.com for other events to be held nationally.