Damage to Chearsley Cricket Club
The Chairman of the club, Ian Houseman, has written that over the winter months when the ground has not been in continual use, considerable damage has been caused to the fencing and hedging around the edge of the field by pedestrians gaining entrance to the ground through them because the gates have been locked. This damage will now have to be repaired at a cost to the club using funds it had been hoped to spend on improving the facilities in general.
Everyone is reminded that Chearsley Cricket ground is private land, leased by the Cricket Club from the landowner. One condition of the lease and of the insurance policy is that all access gates to the ground are kept locked when the ground is not in use. A second condition of the lease is that no dogs are allowed on the ground at any time. This reinforces a general rule held on most sports grounds today. The Club is always pleased to welcome visitors to their Club on match days and when it is open whether they are members or not, but would ask that they would bear the above in mind.
Sky Sports at Chearsley Cricket Club
Sky Sports News visited Chearsley Cricket Club on Saturday morning of July 2 to hear about the success of girls’ cricket at the club. The crew filmed two coaching sessions and interviewed Angela Gray, Adam Lazaruk and four of the club’s young stars., Emily Parsons, Olivia Sawrey-Cookson, Emily Seed and Poppy Winnicott, who told the interviewer some of the secrets behind the club’s success in building the biggest girls’ cricket group in Bucks, which now has over 40 girls registered in a Juniors Section of around 100 youngsters. The visit took place as part of Sky Sports “Women’s Cricket Week” to promote the development of and to encourage girls of all ages and abilities to start playing cricket. Details as to when the programme will be broadcast should be made available soon.
Theatre in the Villages
Two years ago the village hall was packed with children and families for a show by Morgan & West as part of the Theatre in the Villages scheme which enables rural touring professional performances to be seen locally. The magic show was a great success and the Village Hall Committee is delighted to have been able to book Morgan & West to visit again with their new Show “Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show”. This will be held in the evening of Friday October 6 in the village hall. Since May 2015, Morgan & West have been performing this brand new family friendly children’s show, touring across the UK, including schools and spending a week on London’s South Bank in May this year. Rest assured that adults will not be bored by this piece of kids’ theatre which, has been written by Morgan & West to baffle all ages , from 5 to 105. It is described as a fast paced silly magic extravaganza. There will be more details nearer the time, but make a note to keep this date free.
James Wight in Close Calls with Nick Knowles
Two years ago James, whose parents, Gill and Andy live in Church Lane, set off in a team of four rowers to cross the Pacific Ocean in a canoe, as part of The Great Pacific Race from Monteray to Hawaii. Their journey which very quickly turned to near disaster and tragedy when the weather changed dramatically causing their small boat to begin to sink was recently shown on BBC1 as part of the Close Calls series with Nick Knowles. The programme shows a lot of film footage taken at the time on the boat and by the rescue helicopter as well as interviews with James and other members of his team. Episode 10 of Series 4 was shown on June 24 and is still available to watch on BBC I Player. Scary stuff, which fortunately has a happy ending.
Planning Permission for the New Village Hall
The good news has just been received that Planning permission has now been granted. This means that applications for funding can now be submitted with the hope that work can start next year. More details of this are available on the village hall web.
Thame 10k run
A team of 18 parents, committee members and staff of Chuf, which included 4 Chearsley residents ran as a team in the Thame 10k run on Sunday June 26 when all Chearsley Chuf runners completed the race in under 1 hour. Their target is to achieve donations of £2000 which will be split between funds for Chuf, the Chearsley Under 5s pre-school and Helen and Douglas House Hospice at Oxford. All donations would be very gratefully received by anyone who would like to support them. Please go to https://mydonate.bt.com/events/chuf/308438 to help them reach their target.
Birthdays
There have been some “special” birthdays celebrated in the village recently. Congratulations to Ann Hytten of Church Lane and Aly Wright also of Church Lane, who is welcomed to Chearsley as a fairly recent newcomer.
Mobile Library - This will next be in the village, near The Bell, on Monday July 11 from 10 to 10.25am.
Church Services at St Nicholas:
- Sunday July 10 Evensong at 6pm
- Monday July 18 Parish Council meeting at 7.30pm in the village hall
- Saturday September 3 Chearsley village show
- Sunday September 11 Chearsley Classic and Vintage Fun Day 12 – 6pm at the Cricket Club
- Saturday September 17 Fundraising for the village hall with a Fun Run in and around the village
- Friday October 7 early evening Theatre in the Villages with Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show in the village hall
- Saturday November 26 (new date) Murder Mystery Night with local drama group, The Thame Players at the village hall. Fund raising for the new village hall
