The road between the bottom of Cherington Hill and Sutton Under Brailes will be closed to vehicular traffic from 12 – 16 June to repair a significant leak.
An alternative route will be signed and vehicular access and egress will be maintained where possible.
See map below and WCC Temporary Traffic Order.
A Date for the Diary
Been looking at the weather and wondering about dusting off your tennis racquet and getting onto a court? Or enjoying playing regularly?
Why not play in the Village Tennis Tournament on Saturday 16th August? All standards are welcome. As long as you live, or have lived, in Cherington, Stourton or Sutton you are qualified to play.
We play tennis in the morning at various courts around the villages. Then watch (or play in) the finals and enjoy a potluck lunch.
If you want more information, please contact Sally Clubley on sallyclubley@gmail.com or 07989 330729.
Great news – Safari Supper is returning! It’s a great way to connect with neighbours and fellow villagers.
We would especially love to welcome those in the village who have never taken part before. Once you’ve joined us the first time you’ll never look back!
Volunteers will host a starter or main course for between 4 to 6 guests, or donate a pudding. The evening starts with everyone meeting for a drink, where you will be told where you are going for your starter.
Starter hosts are given the list of where their guests are going for their main course. You will be with entirely different people.
And finally we all meet up again for pudding and more chat.
More details will follow in due course. Please contact Sally (sallyclubley@gmail.com) or Sue (sueeileenmaaz@gmail.com) if you would like more details or to offer to host or donate.
Cost is £20 per head.
All proceeds will go towards towards funding The Hall and Playing Field.
Cherington Road will be closed to vehicular traffic between Cherington and Burmington on Monday 24th February to enable remedial carriageway works for one day.
An alternative route will be signed and vehicular access and egress will be maintained where possible.
See map below and WCC Temporary Traffic Order.
Artists will be showcasing handcrafted gifts including pottery, painting, jewellery, ironwork, knitwear, photography and wood at Jaques Barn, Stourton.
A great chance to buy some early Christmas gifts!
See below.
Posada is an advent celebration whereby locally crafted nativity figures are passed between families for a night over the Christmas period.
Kim Petty is organising a Posada in the villages of Stourton and Cherington. If you are interested in partaking in this event please contact her on 07949 949215 or email kimpetty@btinternet.com
See below for more information from Kim:
‘In the busyness of this Advent as we look forward to celebrating Christmas with friends and families, perhaps you’d like to set aside one night to stop and reflect on the true gift of Christmas.
The Christmas story is a love story filled with hope, and it started over 2000 years ago with the gift of God’s son.
It is a precious, beautiful gift to share with loved ones and families today.
Posada comes from a Mexican word meaning stay over for the night. Would you like the Nativity story to come and shelter with you for one night.
You choose a date you are free with your family to enjoy opening a gift box together it contains locally hand-crafted nativity dolls, to help you recreate the nativity scene, then you can read the Christmas Promise story book and open a door of the Christmas promise Calendar together.
The next day you wrap it all carefully back up and pass it on to the next family on the list.’
For more details, please contact Kim Petty 07949 94921 / kimpetty@btinternet.com
Kim Petty
A message from Sarah Scotter:
‘Our Harvest Festival celebration in the church will be held at the end of the month.
As I write, the harvest was in full swing and hopefully those with vegetable patches are picking the fruits of their labours.
The Flower Team will be decorating the church ahead of the service. However, I would be grateful for donations of produce or store cupboard items to add to the display. Everything donated will be taken to a local food bank afterwards.
It is especially lovely if the children of our villages (parents please help) are able to bring something for the service. A basket of apples/pears perhaps, or a posy of flowers. These can be brought on the day, or between 10am and 12pm on Saturday 28th, when I will be at the church to receive them.
Thank you.’
Sarah Scotter
For more information contact Sarah on sarah.scotter@hotmail.com
See message below:
‘Due to the the great British summer, we are having to make some changes to CherryFest!
Saturday at 2pm we have Shipston first response coming down to do a CPR & use of a defibrillator session, so feel free to pop down and gain some valuable knowledge!
From 5pm the Tug of War will take place so come down and cheer on your village!
Sunday we will now host:
Don’t miss out!’
See poster below for details.
3 days of music and family fun in the lovely garden of our fantastic local pub, The Cherington.
There will be live music, a quiz, a raffle, loads of games (including a tug of war) and much more.
Proceeds will be going towards a second village defibrillator located at the pub.
See poster below for details.
It was the perfect evening with warm sunshine and fragrant summer air for the return of the popular Safari Supper.
46 villagers came to together to enjoy a sociable evening sharing starter and main course meals at various hosts’ houses. The pudding course at our lovely local pub, The Cherington, capped off a really excellent evening.
Thanks so much to everyone who came along to make this such a successful event. Particular thanks go to the hosts and the pudding providers. We couldn’t have done it without you.
We learnt recently that this is the 25th anniversary of the first safari supper which was held in May 1999. We’d like to take credit for this being the silver anniversary but it’s just good luck!
The best news is that we made £754 for the Hall which is a great effort.
Thanks again …. And hopefully see you all again next year!
Sally, Sue and Di
