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DIARY DATES

MONTHLY

COFFEE

MORNING

On Tuesday 21st January 10.30am-

12.00 noon at the home of Barbara and Richard Preece 2 Comberton Road. Everyone welcome.

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TOFT FRIENDSHIP CLUB

[Over 50s Club].

The January meeting will

be on Friday the 3rd

12.30pm for 1.00pm. It is

the Post-Christmas Lunch

at Toft People’s Hall. It will

be £10.00 for Club

Members and £12.00 for

Non-Members and money

will be collected on the day.

Any enquiries please

contact Arpi Johnson on

262708.

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Sewing, Knit and Natter

meets on the 29 January at

the Chapel.

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The Parish Council - Will

meet on Mon 6th Jan. at

7.00 pm

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The Internet Club will

meet on 20th Jan. in Toft

People’s Hall from 2pm – 4

pm

Greater Cambridge Local Plan: The First

Conversation

Ever walked past a building and wondered how it got planning permission? Worried about climate change and how we are going to adapt? Trying to buy a house and finding it really difficult?

The Council’s Local Plan is the document that shapes our area’s future and answers these big questions. It covers the key themes of climate change, biodiversity and green spaces, wellbeing and social inclusion, and great places. It will affect what kind of new homes get built and where, where businesses can grow and how buildings, streets and spaces should be designed. As a result, the Local Plan affects all of us – yet most people have never even heard of it.

But things are changing and we want you to be a part of it.

For the first time ever, Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council are preparing a joint Local Plan for the Greater Cambridge area: and this time we want to do better than ever before at working with you all to make it happen.

We will be starting a big conversation with the community, with many different ways to get involved, online and offline, on Monday 13 January. Please look out for more information nearer the time, and get in touch at www.greatercambridgeplanning.org

Help shape our future together!

EDITORIAL

As anyone will tell you, it is very unlucky to take your Christmas decorations down after 6th January. What is not so well-known is how unlucky it is to take them down before then, too. Let us take the sad case of a man who, to spare his blushes, we will call by the pseudonym 'me'. Seeking to fill in one of those focus-free days that follows the Christmas blow-out whilst at the same time earning a few Brownie points from the C.O. of Editor Towers, I found that the Devil had come across a pair of idle hands - mine - and had made some work for them. 'What you could do,' squeaked a small, excitable voice in my head, 'is to get all these decorations down right now, so's the place looks nicely spick and span. What a lovely surprise it'll be!' Pausing but briefly to wonder what a spick actually was, I seized the moment and before you knew it, the room quickly filled with all the things I was going to need. A step-ladder. An old butter knife for prising out sulky drawing pins. Some scissors, in case something needed cutting into smaller bits to make it fit back in its box. A screw-driver, for if I saw something that needed fiddling about with while I was up the ladder.

Thus equipped, I set keenly about my tasks, the largest of which would be to divest the tree of its trappings. Thinking to warm up with some entry-level stuff, I started by levering some tacks from the coving. Apart from one which spun off into thin air and disappeared from mortal ken, all went well. The gay, glittery stuff they had been holding up drifted harmlessly to the carpet, where the dogs regarded it with hostile curiosity. Next, I began taking all the sparkly glass coloured-ball thingies off the tree and putting them in a neat pile on the floor. I figured they couldn't fall off the floor. Then, I began to unwind the fairy lights from the branches. They seemed to get stuck, somewhere round the back where I couldn't quite see. I tugged gently. Nothing happened. I tugged a bit harder. With a sudden 'Pyoiing!", they came away in my hand and fathoms of illuminated flex began spiralling around the room like some giant electrical spaghetti simoom.

Aghast, I took a hurried step backwards. In case you're wondering, this turned out not to be a good idea whilst up a ladder. Helplessly, I grabbed at the nearest object for support. It was the tree. In order of descent, I hit the floor, closely followed by the spiralling lights, the ladder and, lastly, the tree. Delicately, I tried to move. A succession of splintering pops and ominous crackling sounds showed where the pile of coloured-ball things used to be, before I landed on them. As I was trying to clear my eyes, nose and airway from the drifts of dislodged pine-needles which threatened imminent asphyxia, the door opened and in came, in short order, the Custodian of Fixtures and Fittings followed by an immediate drop in air temperature of around ten degrees. She surveyed the war zone for a long moment. "What're you doing?" she said, with quiet menace. "It's a lovely surprise." I explained, coughing up some foliage. "Indeed it is." she said, icily. "And here's another: Get up and get out." On which note, she spun on her heel, discovering the drawing pin I'd lost earlier in the process. "I wondered where that went." I said weakly, to a now-closed door.

Thus it is, dear reader, that I type these words from my new home in the shed. It's cold and lets in the rain, but there's a lovely view of the house and I've found a few old night-lights to cheer things up as the long nights descend. And it's why I really, really mean it when I say that I hope we all have a Very Happy New Year.

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MINISTRY TEAM

THE CHURCH IN TOFT

St. Andrew’s Parish Church

Team Vicar:

Rev David Newton 01223 665654

Lay Minister: Barbara Preece Tel: 263466

Churchwardens:

Ann Mitchell 262516

John Quenby 263949

Methodist Church Minister: Rev Alison Walker

01223 872862

alison.walker@methodist.org.uk

Stewards:

Diana Tebbit 01223 263557

Stephen Acklam 264055

Mrs Pat Morton 264010

Everyone is welcome to come and share in

any of our services

SERVICES OF WORSHIP

5th January 8.30 am Holy Communion - Rev Prof Michael Reiss

EPIPHANY 11.00 am Covenant Service with Holy Communion, Methodist Church –

Rev Alison Walker

12th January 8.00 am Holy Communion, St Mary’s

11.00 am Holy Communion, St. Andrew’s, Rev David Newton

19th January 8.30 am Holy Communion – Rev Prof Michael Reiss

11.00 am Service for Christian Unity, Methodist Church,

Mrs Cathy Michell and Mrs Barbara Preece

27th January 8.00 am Holy Communion – St. Mary’s

11.00 am Morning Prayer, St. Andrew’s – Rev Tricia Troughton

Shorter morning prayer every Wednesday at 9.30 am at St. Andrew’s – service lasts about 30 minutes and everyone, whatever your denomination, is welcome. Whilst the building works were in progress morning prayer on Wednesdays’ moved to 9.30am; it will return to 9.15am start time on 8th January when we hold the first service of 2020.

D ear Friends,

Please don’t take down your Christmas lights too soon! I

know that traditionally Christmas decorations are supposed

to be taken down on the night of 6th January, the celebration

of Epiphany, also known as Twelfth Night. If you leave your

decorations up longer, then apparently undefined terrible

things befall you. I am not superstitious – but just in case

you are, then you can safely leave them up until Candlemas

(2nd February) which marks the dedication of the infant

Jesus in the Temple – but after that apparently you will get

an infestation of goblins, which is best avoided.

I like the lights brightening up the dark afternoons. Post-

Christmas blues (and perhaps post-elections ones too,

depending on your viewpoint) might just be banished by a

few more twinkling lights left around our houses, and candles

on our dinner tables. I like the Scandinavian habit of lighting

candles everywhere, even in daytime, so we enjoy their

warm dancing glow.

Just one candle in a dark space transforms our physical

ability to see, as the light travels further than you expect.

Light is a symbol of the fragile but limitless ability of

goodness to overcome evil. “It is better to light a candle than

to curse the darkness” is a phrase associated with Amnesty

International. Light is a universal image for resistance to

oppression, the ending of misery, the illumination of new

insight.

Whatever the political direction of 2020 we will all need the

inspiration of light to see with clarity and act with

compassion. Light enables us to extend the Christmas

season of “goodwill to all” into a commitment to our

neighbours close at hand and far away, to the poor and all

who suffer from injustice and oppression.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu encouraged us to believe in the

power of light when he said “light is stronger than darkness”

and as a Christian he believes, as do I, that Jesus is the

Light of the World, the source of that indefatigable light.

Jesus is the light that “shines on those who dwell in darkness

and the shadow of death, and guides our feet into the way of

peace.”

May God’s light and peace illuminate your way in this New

Year.

- Alison

Sewing, Knit and Natter:

Will resume in the new year at the Chapel on the 29th January at 10

45 to 1pm. Ideas for this coming year include supporting those in

the group who in addition to making things for our own charity sale

also make items for charities which in some cases have helped them

over the years i.e. the breast cancer surgery department, the

Hospice and the Rosie.

All welcome whether to chat, sip coffee or perhaps to iron our scraps

of fabric while some of us sew.

We thank everyone for your continuing support for the group and

wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Peaceful New

Year.

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TOFT YOU remain AMAZING

THANK YOU SO MUCH for your generosity throughout 2019

As ever you have given of your time, your money and your thoughtful gifts for the Women’s Refuge, for the food bank, for Children’s charities, for the restoration of the south aisle roof and porch, for the Cambridge Churches Homeless Project, for CBMUK

The Church in Toft Diary

Toft 2020

Dear Residents of Toft

We are going to try something and we want you to be part of it.

Toft 2020 is a project to record lots of information about Toft during 2020. As you know information and pictures very quickly become interesting historical documents and in 5 years we can revisit the documents and consider the changes.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. During 2020 we want to gather lots of information about life in Toft.

Things we can record can include-

Events - Sports Day, Fireworks, May Festival etc

Clubs and Societies - Knit and Natter, Friendship Club, Bell Ringers, Historical Society, Computer Club etc

Church - Weddings, Wardens and Vicar.

Businesses - Who they are and what they do etc

Committees - PC, Social Club, Hall etc

Social Club - What goes on, etc

Shop - Prices etc.

Music

Personal - any London Marathon Runners? Kids going to university etc.

Facts and Data - The weather, traffic numbers, numbers of residents etc, etc.

Every time I consider this list I think of other topics to include, it is not limited, if you want to add topics, that can happen.

Martin S has, kindly, set up a web site to record all this data as well as photos and it will work by posting a piece and attaching keywords to it so that items on the Social Club; for example, can easily be recovered. You can register now by going to https://toft.org.uk/toft_2020/. It's a straightforward process. You can see the current key words on the site, Martin S can add additional keywords if needed.

So we are looking for reporters. Some to report on specific clubs and activities. Others may be new opportunities such as interviewing businesses. (I also think a section recording different peoples views on what might be different in five years time may be interesting.)

If you would like to be involved, if you have an area of interest that I've not included or if you have any comments please come back to me at martin.yeadon@gmail.com.

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TOFT SOCIAL CLUB NEWS

www.toftsocialclub.org.uk

The Social Club Committee would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.

We have many events already planned for 2020 and invite you to follow us on

Facebook: ttps://www.facebook.com/ToftSocial or via www.toftsocialclub.org.uk

FRIDAY 10TH JANUARY: FOOD ON FRIDAY

The New Year brings the return of our very popular Friday evening single course meal which will be available 7.00 pm onwards. This month’s menu is Cottage Pie or Cottage Garden Pie with cheesy mash topping and beans. As food is on a ‘first-come-first-served’ basis, please arrive early to avoid hunger and disappointment. Come along for a sociable evening out!

SATURDAY 11th JANUARY: LIVE MUSIC NIGHT

Join us from 8.00pm at our regular “Live Music Night” where local musicians gather to play a wide variety of music and songs. These popular sessions are very informal and we invite you to come along to listen to the music, meet new people and chat with friends. The Social Club bar will be open with an extensive range of real ales, lagers, wines, spirits and soft drinks all at value for money prices.

SATURDAY 18th JANUARY: FILM NIGHT

“KURSK”

An explosion on a nuclear-powered Russian submarine kills most of the men aboard and causes the few survivors to huddle in waterlogged and oxygen deficient rear compartments where they anxiously await rescue. It is a race against time with oxygen levels running low as the Russian government plans the best course of action before finally accepting help from the British and Norwegian governments.

Film Club members free. Non-members pay a £2.50 membership fee at the door. Doors open at 8.00 p.m. the film starting at 8.15 p.m. promptly.

FRIDAY 31ST JANUARY AND SATURDAY 1ST FERUARY

RICMAR REVIEW “SEASIDE SPECIAL”

Do not let the winter weather make you feel blue. Spend a warm sunny evening with us at the seaside for the return of the RicMar review “Seaside Special.” Set in and around the Toftlins Holiday Camp our favourite characters will be up to a variety of antics and entertainment.

Doors open 7.30 p.m. for an 8 .00 p.m. start. Tickets £8.00 available from the Social Club or Toft Shop.

OTHER DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

(Doors open at 8.00 pm, 7.30 pm on Sundays)

Your Committee is: Richard Fletcher (Chairman), Martin Sebborn (Vice Chairman), Gill Collett (Treasurer), Paul Hercus (Secretary), Koran Collett, Sonia Cox, Ron Gouldstone, Katrina Holmes, Brian

Roberts, Roger Thorogood and Angela Unsworth,

www.toftsocialclub.org.uk

FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ToftSocial

Sunday Quiz 5

th and 19

th January

Sunday Carpet Bowls 12th

and 26th

January

Thursday Bingo 2nd

16th

and 30

th January

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‘Tis the Season to be hungry….happy diners at the Village Christmas Dinner.

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A Big Breakfast needs a big appetite. No problem...

Toft Parish Council

Clerk: Mrs Gail Stoehr (clerk@tpc.toft.org.uk)

30 West Drive

Highfields Caldecote

Cambridge, CB23 7NY Tel: 01954 210241

The Council is your locally elected Council at the first tier of local

government. Meetings are open to the public and are usually held on

the first Monday of each month (excepting August) at the Toft People’s

Hall in School Lane starting at 7.00pm.

Notices of meetings and agendas are published on the Parish Council

Noticeboard near the bus shelter together with minutes, which can also

be viewed at www.toft.org.uk. Among other things, the Council

considers local planning applications for the planning authority, the

South Cambridgeshire District Council; provides the local recreation

area, the People’s Hall, litter bins, dog waste bins and the bus shelter;

arranges for local verge cutting on behalf of the Cambridgeshire County

Council and works with that authority to ensure the maintenance of

local footpaths.

The next meeting of the Council is Monday

6th Jan. All Welcome.

The PC met on 2nd Dec.

Cllr Miles sent her apologies as she was out of the parish.

Cllr Popat gave an update on progress relating to how Toft can

respond to Climate Change issues. He is to liaise with other

PC's and other organisations to decide on how best to proceed.

Most likely he will be establishing a working party with residents

to take this forward. If you are keen to be involved he would be

pleased to hear from you. The PC agreed to move its bank

account to an ethical account that can be managed online. This

will make life easier and make it unnecessary to use cheques

for all payments.

The phone booth is now owned by the PC. The next stage is to

check out the electrics, get the light working on a sensor and to

fit a socket. It is still to be decided how best to use the space

and the PC continues to look for imaginative ideas.

It has long been recognised that the lack of water on the

allotments meant it was very difficult to maintain an allotment

during dry spells. At the meeting the PC agreed to fund the

purchase of a borehole water pump. The PC is grateful to Jim

Tebbitt who has offered to carry out the installation work without

charge.

The PC had received a request from Beechwood Estates (who

manage the Bennell Farm Office complex) to ask the CC to

extend the 30mph section of the B1046 further out from

Comberton so that traffic would not be travelling as fast by the

junction from their site. The PC responded that it couldn't

support this idea as to move the 30mph section would have the

effect of extending the village boundary which could, potentially

allow more development on the edge of Comberton. The PC

did suggest that if they relocated their access to join the new

access through the new development that would overcome the

problem and also make it safer for residents of Toft walking or

cycling to Comberton. Of course this is for Beechwood Estates

to consider. The PC did point out that it had previously applied

for a reduction in the speed limit on the B1046 between Toft

and Comberton to 40mph but this had been rejected by the CC

The compromise solution achieved was the current 50mph limit

to be in place

Operation London Bridge is the code name for the protocol that

will be followed to mark the death of the sovereign. The PC are

being asked what arrangements they have in place if any. The

CC are to issue some guidelines on what should happen and

the PC agreed to wait until these guidelines were issued before

making any decisions.

The gate post into Lot Meadow has rotted and has collapsed.

The CC footpath person is to view the post and consider

whether the CC will replace it. If not it was agreed that this is

serious enough that the PC will get it repaired ASAP.

Cllr Tall confirmed that the work on the drains on the High

Street and Canners Close are scheduled for January.

Cllr Miles prepared an update of the Action Plan that was part

of the Village Plan that was issued a few years ago. The

updated Action Plan will be available soon. Some time ago the

PC requested that Stagecoach should have electronic bus

timetables and next bus information boards in the village. We

are pleased to report that two very fine boards are now in place.

Please refer to the official minutes for definitive outcomes from

the meeting.

Councillors Phone E-mail

Chairman:

Martin

Yeadon

263663 cllr.yeadon@tpc.toft.org.uk

James

Wrycroft

Elaine Miles 262255 cllr.miles@tpc.toft.org.uk

Tricia Ellis-

Evans

263477 cllr.ellis-evans@tpc.toft.org.uk

Andy Tall 07984796273 cllr.tall@tpc.toft.org.uk

Lluis Borrell 01223264611 cllr.borrell@toft.org.uk

Kaushik

Popat

Toft Internet Club 20th Ianuary

2pm - 4pm in Toft People’s Hall Supported by a grant from the High Sheriff Fund and Dulverton Trust Fund which are charitable funds managed by Cambridge Community Foundation

Do you know everything there is to know about using your tablet, phone or laptop? Can I...? How do I...? Why is this/that/the other happening? Help...! We can't guarantee to solve every problem - but by sharing what we do know, we'll give it a very good try. As it is, everyone in the group is learning just a little bit more each week. Come along and join us - you can practise on our iPads or print out photos or documents from your phone or device. Everyone, beginner or expert, is very welcome.

For more information contact: katherine@jameskj.plus. com

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Comberton Library

Opening Hours:

Monday: 10am – 1pm, Wednesday: 10am – 1pm, 2pm -5pm, Friday: 2pm – 5pm, Saturday: 10am

– 1pm

The staff at Comberton Library wish you all a happy and healthy new year, and hope that we will see

many of you in the library during the coming year.

We are planning another busy and exciting year in Cambridgeshire Libraries and hope that there will

be something for everyone during the course of the year. When you are next in Comberton Library,

do look out for the new ‘What’s on in Cambridgeshire Libraries’ covering the period January to

March, together with the new Library Presents brochure, to see some of the events happening in our

libraries in the first part of the year.

Our upcoming Rhymetime sessions are on 13th& 27th January and 10th & 24th February (10.30 -

11.00 am). Although these sessions are aimed at very young children, we welcome older siblings

and pre-schoolers who enjoy singing too! It is lots of fun for both children and adults, so do come

along and give it a try. It is a good opportunity to meet other young families, and our Rhymetime

volunteer, Barbara, is lovely too!

[Comberton Library is situated in the Village College campus

with car parking available and is Wheelchair-friendly and fully accessible for all.]

Cambridgeshire care homes welcome new manager

Home Meadow care home in Toft near Cambridge is proudly announcing its

new manager; experienced care specialist, Laura Adams.

Laura, who lives in Bedfordshire, joined the home in November and brings years of experience in

home management to the role. Laura began her career as a care assistant 15 years ago, before

progressing to more senior ranks and eventually specialising in home management – a role she

has held for the last five years.

Having worked as a senior carer, team leader and deputy manager, Laura was promoted to

management roles and soon specialised in turning homes round that were in need of

improvement. In her most recent role, she worked across Hertfordshire, providing support and

best practice advice for homes that were looking to make positive changes to areas of their

service.

Speaking about her appointment, Laura said: “Having read about Home Meadow, and the wider

Healthcare Homes Group, I felt that the values of the organisation mirrored my own and that with

a clear a focus on residents, this was somewhere I could make a real contribution.

“The home is already performing well, rated as ‘good’ in all areas by the CQC. I don’t just want to

maintain this, I want to build on it so we can enhance the services we already offer and ensure

that we continue to provide a home that is based entirely on resident wellbeing.

“We have a number of opportunities for new team members to join us and I would encourage

anyone who is passionate about care and looking to make a difference to those we support, to get

in touch and find out more.”

Home Meadow is part of the Healthcare Homes Group and is based in Toft

near Cambridge. For more information on the range care services provided,

call 01223 263282 or visit www.healthcarehomes.co.uk.

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A t Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, we are

encouraging people to make four New Year’s

Resolutions for 2020 to keep your families and homes

safe from fire.

• Make sure you have a correctly fitted working smoke

alarm on every floor of your house and test it weekly –

involve the children in this to ensure they are aware of what the smoke alarm does, what the alarm sounds

like and what it means if it goes off;

• Check older relatives and friends have a working smoke alarm and test theirs regularly – you may support

older relatives and friends with transport and shopping but may overlook the crucial role of a smoke alarm. We

can provide testing sticks to help older less mobile people to test their alarms without overreaching or hurting

themselves;

• We also offer Safe and Well visits to those that are eligible which covers a far wider range of areas than just

fire safety. Find out if you are eligible for a Safe and Well visit by contacting us on: 0800 917 9994.

• Escape Plan: Make a fire escape plan so you and all of those in your home know what to do in case a fire

breaks out in the home.

Do you live within five minutes of your local fire station?

If so why not make your resolution this year to join us as an on-call firefighter. If you are over 18 and have a good

all round level of fitness you can apply to join your local station and respond to emergencies in your spare time.

Visit www.cambsfire.gov.uk/oncall.

Like us on Facebook for regular updates www.facebook.com/cambsfrs or follow us on Twitter @cambsfrs. For

more information or to get in touch contact us at firefire@cambsfire.gov.uk or on 0800 9179994.

Home-Start Royston Buntingford & South Cambridgeshire (HSRBSC) provide practical and

emotional support to families in Royston, Buntingford and South Cambridgeshire. Referrals are on the

rise, in fact in the first three quarters of 2019/20 there has been a 52% increase compared with the same

time period in 2018/19

HSRBSC support families with at least one child aged 9 and under. They do this through delivery of their

Home-Visiting Service and two Family Support Groups that take place on a weekly basis. Volunteers from the local area

are recruited and trained, learning about aspects such as confidentiality, safeguarding in the context of Home-Start, as well

as taking time to reflect back on their own experiences of being a parent and consider the pressures that people with young

children are facing today.

Parenting is tough. There is no guide book, no right way to do it, every child is an individual and every family's needs vary.

We live in an information rich society with easy access to material that might not always be helpful or accurate. Social

media has improved the ability for people to be connected virtually, we can face time, we can link together on Instagram or

Facebook, but this presents its stresses for todays parents. You can present on there what you want people to see, the

perfect holidays and days out, the perfect children - all well behaved and achieving, perfect family relationships. If that's

what you see day in day out, with little else to compare yourself to, it's no wonder parents lose confidence in themselves.

Scheme Manager, Sarah Mascall said: "The support works because we don't judge or have our own agenda for a family.

Parents remain in control, they guide the direction of the support and can call a halt whenever they like. Over time we find

that families really open up to volunteers. Volunteers often experience the challenges a family is facing first-hand, because

the support takes place in the family home. A volunteer can support a parent to encounter the natural consequences of

things not going quite to plan, in a safe, comfortable environment and then work together with the parent to identify how

they want things to be different and the changes they need to make to enable that to happen. It's very subtle support but

often produces powerful positive change for a family."

For further information and details of how you can support HSRBSC visit www.hsrsc.org.uk or contact the office at

admin@hsrsc.org.uk or tel: 01763 262262.

Our next training course for new volunteers will be starting on Monday 27th January, 2020 - if you would like to join us as a

volunteer - please get in touch - can you give 2 hours a week to support a parent and their children and really make a

difference in your local community ?

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Wheelie Bin Collections For January

(N.B. These dates may be subject to change)

Black Bin:

Thurs 9th Jan

Weds 22nd Jan

Blue/Green Bin:

Fri 3rd Jan (Blue Only)

Weds 15th Jan (Both)

Weds 29th Jan (Blue Only)

Advertisements are published quarterly. Copy for inclusion in the

next available edition of the Calendar must reach us by 17th January

20120 at the very latest. Advertisements will NOT be published un-

less full payment has been received in advance. Please note: We are

currently unable to accept PDF file types. Quarter-page adverts

MUST be Portrait-style, half-page adverts MUST be Landscape-

style. In the first instance, advertisers should contact Pat Gouldstone

at: calendaradstoft@gmail.com to discuss their requirements.

Notice to Advertisers

USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS

Alcoholics Anonymous: 0845 769 7555

Anglian Water (for sewage): 08457 145 145

Ashcroft Veterinary Surgery: 01954 210250

Bourn GPs’ Surgery: 01954 719313

Cambridge AIDS help-line: (01223) 508805

Cambs County Council: 0345 045 5200

Cambridge Dial a Ride 01223 506335

Cambridge Water: 01223 706050

Care Network Cambridgeshire 01954 211919.

Citizens Advice Bureau: 0844 848 7979

Comberton GPs’ Surgery: 01223 262500

Comberton Village College: 01223 262503

County Councillor: 07402351821

CVC Community Education: 01223 264721

District Councillor: 01954 210040

Household Waste/Pest Control: 0345 045 0063

Lifespan Health Care, Family and Child Team: 01223 264460

Member of Parliament: Phone 01223 830037

Meridian Primary School: 01223 262423

Police: 101 (Emergencies: 999)

(Local Beat Officer is PCSO Sam Kennedy)

Road/Pothole Reporting: 0345 045 5212

Street Lighting: 0800 7838 247

Street Cleaning: 03450 450 063

South Cambs District Council: 03450 450 500

South Cambs Fire and Rescue: 01480 444 500

Toft Car Scheme: 262814. If no reply 262708

Trading Standards: 0345 0455206

UK Power Networks (Emergencies): 0800 31 63 105

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readers, advertisers and fund raisers. We reserve the right to

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New Year’s Day Walk at Coton Countryside Reserve

Wednesday 1 January: 11am to 1pm

As a perfect antidote to the festivities, why not welcome in the new year and blow off the cobwebs by joining us for a free, sociable ramble through Coton Reserve and the surrounding countryside. You’ll enjoy the stunning winter landscapes at the same time as kick-starting that resolution to get more exercise in 2020!

NB: The walk is free but donations towards the upkeep of the reserve are always welcome. Meet outside the Coton village pub, The Plough, at 11am.

Directions: The Plough is a short walk north up Grantchester Road from the Reserve. If driving directly to the Reserve please park in Martin car park located just to the west of Cambridge on Grantchester Road, CB23 7PZ. OS grid reference TL414 577GB.

For more information: email bookings@cambridgeppf.org, call 01223 243830 extension 207 or visit www.cambridgeppf.org/whats-on

Winter Tree Walk at Wandelbury Country Park

Wednesday 16 January: 10am to 12 noon

Join one of our Wardens for a gentle guided walk to around

Wandlebury to learn how to identify winter trees.

Meet at the noticeboard in the car park.

Free but donations welcome.

Healthy Walks – Thursdays every week

Details at https://www.cambridgeppf.org/walking

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