Defibrillator training ...

Saturday, 24th June at 10 am in the Village Hall ...

Do go along on Saturday if you can.  The training given is excellent.  

Four new servers ..

Harriet, Eli, Bea and Freddie collected their servers medals on Sunday. They have served at all the Bourton Sunday services since January. 

Congratulations!

Summer Concert ...

after a difficult and frustrating day in Bourton with the water shortage, it was so relaxing to pop along to the Village Hall and enjoy a glass of Pimm's and listen to the Summer Concert arranged by Sue Hayes and her students, guests and Forte Band.

Sue gives all her students the opportunity to play at the concert so the packed audience was entertained by a complete range of music from tiny tots playing their first pieces to older students playing more sophisticated pieces.  A fabulous guest appearance by Oscar, the flute ensemble and the fun and entertaining pieces played by the Forte Band added to a wonderful evening of music!

A big thank you to Sue and everyone involved!

PS: An amazing £126 was raised by the event for the Brighter Futures Radiotherapy Appeal!

Car Boot Sale ...

at Bourton Club

on Sunday, 25th June at 10 am

 Pitches £5 each - pay on day

  Pitch up at 9 am

  All welcome!

50/50 June 2017

Congratulations to June's winners

53     Mick King
72     Sarah French
56     Ed Benbow

Certainly not unlucky ...

for our 13th Boundary Walk yesterday!  The weather couldn't have been better for walking and the ground was surprisingly firm under foot!  Even the areas that are normally wet were not too bad this year!  We did have to negotiate the usual ditches and fences and the grass and crops were certainly tall.  However, it meant that we did encounter some great wildlife - plenty of deer, woodpeckers and we heard a cuckoo! We had fun again with the young cows and we were careful this year going around the sheep to ensure no lambs got separated from their mums.  The only really tricky bit came at the end along the canal - so a big thank you to Philip Mayes and Paul Callaghan who beat down the nettles and brambles for us 53 walkers to get safely home!

So some stats for you - 53 bounders walked 9. 5 miles, which is roughly, 22,000 steps in approx 4 hours.  Ages ranged from 22 months to 66 years!

Well done to the red team for raising funds for the British Heart Foundation in Gordon Hatherall's memory. They received a generous £65.05 in the donation bucket which has brought the total so far to £345.60!

We had our first birthday celebration - India Heptinstall Baker was 5 years old on Sunday and is a local girl from Cleyfields - Happy Birthday India!

As always a big thank you to Marion, Pat and everyone who helped in the Village Hall to provide much appreciated refreshments.  And, of course, thank you to all the farmers and land owners for letting us walk across their land.

And finally a massive "THANK YOU" to Julie and Stuart Anger for another successful Boundary Walk!

PS:  Date for your diary - all being well our 14th Bourton Parish Boundary Walk will be on Sunday, 6th May 2018!

Big thank you ...

to the small merry band of helpers at the Church on Saturday!  Especially the younger ones - Harriet, Bea and Jack!  The Church is looking good!