Parish

JULY / AUG 2008

Dads and Lads Day at Goblin Combe

Specially for all the men who love to be outdoors - we invite you to come with us to Goblin Combe near Cleeve on Saturday 12th July from 10a.m. Learn bushcraft skills. Build and use natural materials for shelter and cooking in a team. Give the ladies a day off and spend some time with the lads. Please either ring Richard on 823556

Feast Week 12th July to 20th July.

Sat/Sun 12/1311 July - Open Gardens
Mon/Tues 14/15th July - a Speaker (Confirmation awaited)
Thurs 17th July Quiz in the Church Centre with a Cornish Pasty Supper - everyone welcome.
Sat 19th July - Village Fete and fun evening in the Village Hall
Sun 20th - Open Air Service in the Park

If any organization in the village would like to take ownership of Friday night - say an event in the pub to raise funds for their group please contact Dave Wallace as soon as possible.

Village Fete - Locking School and Friends will be running a bar and BBQ with various stalls. They will also be providing entertainment and bouncy castles (run privately). There is an opportunity to run a car boot sale, cost of £5 a plot. Please call 824313 to reserve a space.

Any village group or business are welcome and encouraged to have a stall.
Anyone wanting to contribute in any way please contact Claire or Dave Wallace

Locking School and Friends will be supporting the
VILLAGE FETE
Saturday 19th July from 2p.m.
Providing entertainment, barbecue and licensed bar
Please support these fantastic community events.

Steep Holm Shirkers
Our present project for fund raising is to raise £3,000 towards cabinets to house the Island's military history - we have enough for the first cabinet! We have arranged a pub night out, summer evening on Bleadon Hill, stalls, bookshelves at Manor Stores and Shands in Weston - all helping to swell the funds.

Friends of Heli Museum
We are seeking three more committee members to help raise funds for projects at the museum. We recently donated £500 towards a new catering stove in the caf6, and £1000 towards the new educational centre recently built and now being fitted out. Further details from Dave Wallace 823312. The Friends are an independent group at the museum albeit the Chairman is a museum trustee.

Annual Over 60's luncheon - Wednesday 30th July
£3 per head - 2 course cold meat meal, sweet and drinks in the Village Hall. Transport can be arranged. Bookings now being taken by Dave Wallace.

Scarecrow Festival
This will be back during the weekend of 20/21st September. The theme is "Characters from History". All entries should be given to Locking Village Arts. Locking School will be hosting the festival on the 21st where there will also be a Car Boot Sale from 11.00a.m. with refreshments and bacon butties! The event was a great success last year with lots of interest and people wanting to join in, so please consider your scarecrow entry and we look forward to yet another great weekend in Locking Village. Contact Claire Nolan 824313 for further details.

The date for the Firework display at the School is 8th November.

RE-DEVELOPMENT OF FORMER RAF LOCKING (Locking Parklands)

Redisent's update meeting

The presentation slideshow, as shown at Locking Village Hall on 8th March 07, is now available to download through the following link:

http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/area-teams/west-of-england/weston vision/locking/documents.shtm

LOCKING EVENTS GROUP

The group are still meeting and planning events for this year. We have recently had an Annual General Meeting in which we re-elected the committee members who are as follows:

Chair Person — Claire Nolan,
Treasurer — Sharon Baxter,
Secretary — Janet Croad,
Publicity — Anna O’Leary and Anne-Marie Fields.
General Committee Members also include Lorna and Andrew Dredge, Sean and Julie Washington. We also welcome a new member Hazel. Please contact Claire Nolan on if you can offer help or want to join the group.

LOCKING VILLAGE PARISH PLAN

On behalf of the Parish Plan Committee we’d like to offer a big ‘THANK YOU’ to the parish community for the wonderful response to our questionnaire!

The results are now available here together with a summary of the issues raised, the proposed Action Plan and the chance to have your say using the feedback form

Locking Parish Action Plan now available
- Click on the Link below

Results of the Parish Questionaire, Issues raised and Action Plan

As you may already know a Parish Plan is

a document that should address the needs of the entire community and everyone should have an opportunity to take part in its preparation.

It should cover everything of relevance to the people who live and work within the Parish.

A Parish Plan is given to the Parish Council to adopt. The Parish Plan will also be lodged with North Somerset Council

The Parish Plan Committee is then required to monitor the Action Plan contained within the Parish Plan.

Parish Plans are an opportunity for local people to have a say in what is important to them and help to express local circumstances and needs against which decisions are made by the local planning authority’ and other organisations.

‘Parish Plans offer local planning authorities ready made parish specific details that they might not otherwise have the resources to gather.’