Carols by Candlelight

 

All our Christmas Services

 

For Families this Christmas at St Nicholas

 

This Weekend

 

Star Lighting

 

Christmas Wreath Workshop

By popular demand, Virginie Bonvalet will again be holding a Christmas Wreath Workshop at St Nicholas Church, Nether Winchendon on Saturday 16th November 2pm to 4.30pm.

 Proceeds will go to help fund some of the essential restoration work in the Church. 

 The afternoon will consist of: 

• Virginie demonstrating how to create a festive wreath for your front door

• Virginie will give help and suggestions
• The Church will be candlelit and there will be festive music and refreshments
• There are enough places for 16 people so please book by replying to Jenny at jennysclarke@gmail.com to reserve your place. 

Cost of the workshop will be £55.00 allowing for purchase of greenery and flowers.  

 All material will be provided but please bring your own secateurs and do wrap up well. 

 If you would like to bring your own additional greenery and decorations please do.

 Best wishes

 Virginie Bonvalet and Jenny Clarke

Helen Sampson - Family Search

“We’ve recently been contacted by Paul Miles, the son of John & Pat Miles, who lived at Fairview Cottage (Bernards Close) until a few years ago. His mother, Pat, was a very close friend of Helen Sampson, who lived at Byeways Cottage on The Green, until her death in 1976.

Helen was a well-known artist and Paul recently became aware of some of Helen’s artworks among his mother’s possessions and is keen to trace any of her relations to whom he can pass them over.

If you are able to help in tracking down any of Helen Sampson’s family or relations, please contact John Howard (jnh@dbmc.co.uk) who’ll put you in contact with Paul Miles.”

 

 

 

 

October Services

 

Family Remembrance Service

 

Remembrance Sunday 10th November

 

The plans for Remembrance Sunday will include the traditional service at the

 War Memorial, followed by a reception at the Village Hall. More details are available on the poster.

 

The reception will include the first screening of a ‘Chearsley Voices’ film (“And In The Morning”) which will include interviews with a number of our residents, who will share a number of their own experiences from the war years and the service given by members of their families”

 All donations collected on the day itself will go to the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

 All homes in the village will also  receive a visit from a member of our Poppy Appeal team for this year, offering poppies and other memorabilia in exchange for a donation. These visits will take place from Thursday 24^th October until Saturday 9^th November

 

CYD Presents Annie

 

Historic Chearsley - presents...

 

Date for your diary

 

Healing Service this Sunday

 

St Nicholas Church, Chearsley

9.30am Sunday 29^th September

A communion service with the opportunity to receive prayers for yourself or a loved one.

THANK YOU

A big THANK YOU to all those who donated to Workaid this Harvest.  I took a whole car load over to them in Chesham yesterday.  They will be refurbished and sent out to Africa to help people set up small businesses.  For more information, click on the Workaid logo above.

Harvest this Sunday

 This Sunday, we will be celebrating the abundance of food and good things that God has given us at our Harvest Festival at 9.30. As well as collecting food, we are also collecting your old tools for a fantastic local charity, that helps young people in Africa by giving them your refurbished tools and training them in how use them. Have you got old tape measures, drills, saws, spades, shears, watering cans, wool, scissors, dress fabric, buttons, thread, ribbon, ironmongery? If so, please put it to one side and bring to our Harvest Service or give me a ring and I can collect it. A full list of what is needed, can be found by going to www.workaid/donate-tools.

Contact Sharon on 07767 310465 for more info.

Harvest Celebrations

 

Please leave any donations of flowers, fruit and veg for decorating the church in the porch Friday or Saturday morning.

Don't forget donations for Workaid would also be very welcome, at any point until Harvest.

St Nicholas

 

Classic Car Show

 

Chearsley Village Classic & Vintage Show

The final plans are being put in place for this year’s Classic & Vintage Show up at the club. It’ll take place on Sunday 8^th September and the event will be formally opened by Greg Smith MP at 11.00 am

Our latest estimates suggest that we’ll have somewhere between 450 and 500 vehicles exhibiting and, as usual, an excellent attendance from the general public.

In addition to the usual programme, we’ll be introducing a few changes this year, including a wider range of specialist food trucks, offering a great range of ‘street food’ and refreshments. Larry Warr and his Déja Vu band will be back to provide our live musical entertainment.

Many have already volunteered again to help ‘on the day’ and this support is much appreciated. However, we’re still looking out for more volunteers – particularly to help with the parking, BBQ and collection of donations. 

So if you are available to help or know of others who can, please get in touch with Adam Lazaruk (Adam@rglsurveys.co.uk) or John Howard (jnh@dbmc.co.uk).

We’re also on the lookout for prizes for our Bottle Tombola – so if you’ve any bottles to spare, please drop them off at my house (Great Barn, School Lane) or with Terry Gadsby (Little Orchard, Church Lane) or Adam Lazaruk (The Old Grainstore, Crendon Road) or up at the club – any donations you’re able to make would be sincerely appreciated.

Finally, a reminder that all funds raised on the day will go to supporting our cricket club, a great community asset, with particular focus on the development of Junior Cricket, and once again we’ll also be making a series of donations to local charities, including the Chearsley Village Trust.

RIP Ann McKay

Dear Friends and Family of Ann McKay,

It's with a heavy heart that I write this post at the loss of my mother.

Ann sadly died peacefully today at Fewcott House, Ardley.

Ann fought a long battle over many years and finally took her last breaths in my arms; surrounded by family.

Ann is now at peace and in the arms of God, my father Daniel 💜and my brother Peter 💜… RIP & God Bless 🙏

With love always….

Julie-Ann, Benjamin,
Elizabeth & all the family xxx

Ann McKay was the former landlady of The Bell for many years and I’m sure there are many in Chearsley that may like to attend her funeral and wake 19th August:

Funeral Requiem Mass on Monday 19th August at 12:00pm St Joseph’s Church Thame, Oxfordshire.

***Small crematory blessing and committal ceremony at Aylesbury Vale Crematorium, Buckinghamshire for immediate family & close friends at 14:00- 14:30 pm

Wake at The Bell Chearsley, Buckinghamshire HP18 0DJ
from 13:00pm until 6pm

August Services

 

Rose Dale's Organic Farm Shop

 

For this Saturday we have an exclusive offer on our chuck beef. To find out more including a Mexican-style pulled beef recipe, sign up to our newsletter or pop in and see us from 10am-12pm. To visit the shop follow the farm drive or the side gate on church lane - HP18 0DL Sign up to our newsletter here - https://www.rosedalesorganicfarm.com/contact-us/

 

WORKAID

 

This Harvest, we will celebrate the abundance of food and good things that God has given us.  We always collect food for Foodbanks and Homeless shelters. 

This year, we would also like to collect your old tools for a fantastic local charity, that helps young people in Africa by giving them your refurbished tools and training them in how use them.  Have you got old tape measures, drills, saws, spades, shears, watering cans, wool, scissors, dress fabric, buttons, thread, ribbon, ironmongery?  If so, please put it to one side and bring to our Harvest Service on 22^nd September.   A full list of what is needed, can be found by following this link: www.workaid.org/donate-tools

Contact Sharon on 07767 310465 for more info.

 

 

Rose Dale's Farm Shop - This Saturday

We will have fresh beef available this Saturday 10am-12pm at the farm shop, including burgers and steaks—perfect for a BBQ!

If you can’t visit us on Saturday, you are welcome to order a beef or lamb box for collection or local delivery. We have a list of different cuts available on our website, and you can mix and match lamb and beef to stock up on your favourites. To visit the shop use the postcode HP18 0DL and follow the farm drive or the side gate on Church lane.

https://www.rosedalesorganicfarm.com/how-to-order/

Pet Service

 

Church Services

 

Summer Concert

 

Ready Teddy Go

 

A message from Sally Poulson

I wanted to let you know of a little challenge myself and my daughter have set up this month all in aid of the amazing charity Spinal Research UK.

We have decided to undertake a combined wheel/run of 400k in May.  Emily, my daughter, will be running - I will obviously be wheeling.    We would like to raise money for the Spinal Research charity which is something very close to my heart.   It was 14 years ago when I suffered a spinal stroke and overnight my life moved into the twilight zone of a wheelchair user.   It was a life changing scenario and one that I still rail against daily.   The world is not really designed for wheelchair users - so many everyday menial tasks take so much longer and even just one step into a building can mean the difference between engaging with life or just going home.

Now, I'm a bloody-minded character as I'm sure a lot of you will know and I have been given way more opportunities to continue with life and work than a lot of people in my situation enjoy.   My injury in my spine was reasonably low down and I still have full mobility in my arms (and mouth - as my family frequently comment 😂).   I remember during my stay in hospital someone dropped a bottle of water accidentally on the floor - I was the only person out of the 8 there who had enough arm mobility to bend down and pick it up!  14 years later and I think about that one thing nearly every day.   Can you imagine your life not even being able to pick up something you dropped on the floor.

We would love to raise money to create a little more hope for my fellow comrades diagnosed with spinal injuries and pushing on with research can open up opportunities for improvements in their lives.

Pre wheelchair I really enjoyed running - the exercise both physically and mentally is liberating.    It weirdly took until our enforced stay at home during Covid to realise the potential of wheeling - that and the fact that you have to wheel up the hill to get to the Bell (the journey back is exhilarating!).  

So far I have clocked up 84.25km (just over 11 hours of wheeling) - so I'm getting towards the halfway mark!  

If you would like to support this please do go to our Just Giving page - any donations would be absolutely wonderful  - just click Here

Spinal Research is the UK’s leading charity funding medical research around the world to develop effective treatments for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury. Every year 1,000 people in the UK and Ireland are paralysed following an injury to their spinal cord. They receive no government funding and rely entirely on the support of the public to raise funds for research. Because of the efforts of our supporters, we have funded innovative medical research that has achieved a number of groundbreaking changes in the field.

 Thank you

Sally

 

 

Summer Concert

 

This Sunday

No spring cleaning to do this time, just relax and enjoy each other's company.

There will also be an opportunity to check out our Soul Spark Reflective Stations that will be laid out around the church.

Pub Revival

 A final reminder that the next event organised by our historical society is the Chearsley Village Pub Revival Day, which takes place on Sunday 19^th May.

 We hope it’ll be a great afternoon with an opportunity for us all to ‘reconnect’ with some our traditional village heritage.

 It has already attracted a lot of interest, so don’t miss it.

 Details below …..book in yourself, family and friends without delay by contacting John Howard at jnh@dbmc.co.uk or 07970 651326

Rose's Farm Shop

Rose Dale Organic Farm shop, Chearsley, HP18 0DH, will be open tomorrow 10am-12pm. We will have a range of steaks, burgers, roasts, mince, and exciting cuts like tomahawk steaks, picanha, and bavette stir fry available for purchase. We will also have some beautiful sustainable and locally grown flowers available from Pied beauty flowers. Come support local! https://www.rosedalesorganicfarm.com/why-organic-farming/

 

Keith Wright

A Message from Beryl Wright

After 61 years living in Chearsley, I always know how special a village it was but even I didn’t

know just how special until St David’s Day 1st March. Keith, my best friend and the love of my life died peacefully at home free from pain and happy.

Jungle drums were sent around the village and soon I felt a blanket of warmth was wrapped around me. On that evening Chearsley Church became alive with bells music and candles it was amazing. I thank you all, I can’t tell you how much it has helped me come to terms with my loss and be positive. The cards that have been dropped through my door have been beautiful with such well chosen words.

All I can say in answer is that whatever Keith has invested in the village, he has reaped tenfold from the village. He wouldn’t have wanted to live anywhere else and I certainly wouldn’t ! From last October when Keith first became ill I have been overwhelmed with kindness and thoughtfulness and nothing seemed to much trouble, I didn’t need to ask, things just happened to help.

The climax came with Keith’s Thanksgiving Service. Once again a most beautifully decorated  St Nicholas church came alive with music, beautiful readings and well chosen words followed by a happy gathering in our village hall. Keith would have loved it all. The day culminated in the most glorious peal of bells ringing out over the whole village. They were amazing and to add icing on the cake the sun came out so we could stand outside to listen to them.

So many people helped so much to make the day so very special.

To all those wonderful people who have helped me in so many ways to make everything flow happily along may I say a very big  “THANK YOU “

 

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