A few tables are still available at the village hall table-top sale on Saturday, February 2nd from 2 to 4pm
Sellers – Book a table for £20, bring along and sell all your unwanted items and keep the profit!
Buyers – Come and browse the stalls and pick up a bargain! 50p entrance charge.
Tea and cake will available to buy
To book a table and for all enquiries please ring Anthea on 01428 684 369
At the end of this month (January) Gill will be stepping down as Shop Manager.
The reason is simply that Gill feels it’s time for a change of pace in her life but would like to convey that her commitment to the Shop and village life remains as strong as ever.
Although we will be sorry to lose Gill in her current position, we are very pleased that she will continue to be seen working in the shop at the Post Office counter and as one of our highly valued volunteers without whom our Village shop would not survive let alone thrive!
We are extremely grateful for the continued and incredible support given to the shop by its volunteers, shareholders, paid staff and customers, thank you!!
We are fortunate to have an expanding core of experienced volunteers and a strong professional team which together will provide continuity through this change.
Both Martin, in his continuing role as Assistant Manager, and Gill have made it clear that they are keen to support whoever maybe appointed to the Manager role and make the handover as smooth as possible.
We would like to thank Gill for her contribution over the past three years and for her continuing commitment and professionalism in supporting the Village and Shop Management Committee through this change.
We will be seeking to fill the Manager role and will be advertising the opportunity locally.
If you are a community minded person interested in applying for the vacancy, please write or email in the first instance:
for the personal attention of
Nick Massey
C/o Hambledon Village Shop,
The Cricket Green
Hambledon,
Surrey GU8 4HF.
Or
by email to nicholasmassey@hotmail.com
Hambledon Village Shop Management Committee
I’d like to say a few words following the announcement from the Management Committee today.
As you will have read, I’m hanging up my pinny at the end of this month.
Managing our wonderful big-little Shop has been a fantastic experience; hugely challenging and fulfilling in equal measure.
Although Hambledon doesn’t have a centre as such, the Shop is most definitely its heart. It is a magnet for villagers and visitors alike who may come for bread, newspapers, coffee and lunch but they receive much more than that. I feel very privileged to have been the guardian of the Hambledon warm welcome that awaits anyone who treads a path to our village door.
I’m stepping down simply because I’d like a change of pace and to have time to do other things. I’m going to continue working on the Post Office counter and as a volunteer so I’m afraid you haven’t seen the last of me.
I think this is really good timing for the Shop, too. Things are going well, we have a dedicated and well-trained team of volunteers and professionals, lots of well-oiled systems and processes, a strong Management Committee and a highly capable and kind Assistant Manager in Martin. This firm foundation will give the next Manager the breathing space they need to establish themselves.
Martin and I are committed to supporting the new Manager and providing as much continuity as possible. So, with such a lot of goodwill and positivity behind them, I hope that the next person will enjoy the role as much as I have.
Goodwill is something I have received in abundance and I am so grateful for that. It’s been fantastic to work in the heart of our community and get to know you. Thank you a thousand times for all the support, kindness and appreciation you have shown me over the past three years.
Change can be uncomfortable but when you’ve been in business as long as the Shop, it is inevitable. I was fortunate enough to meet the originators last year, Denis and Brenda Jones. It was Denis who galvanised the village into action and re-opened the Shop as a community-run venture in 1992. On their visit they were delighted that the Shop was not only still going, but thriving. I am certain that this will continue and 26 years from now I fully expect to see the little Hambledonians who are currently spending their pocket money on five penny chews, swapping their weekday career hats for the barista’s apron for a few hours each month.
The Shop is more than the sum of its parts and the thing that makes it so is the warmth, dedication and sheer hard work of so many villagers.
Long may it continue!
With very best wishes and immense gratitude,
Gill.
Julie Flenley, the newly-appointed clerk to Hambledon Parish Council, has attended her first meeting, having taken up her appointment on January 1.
She replaces Caroline White, who resigned after serving as clerk for a year following the retirement of her long-standing predecessor, Jane Woolley.
Julie brings a wealth of experience in the public sector to the job and said she was looking forward to working with the seven elected Hambledon parish councillors and for the benefit of the village.
Julie was born and raised in County Londonderry, in the north west of Northern Ireland. After school and college at Limavady she left Derry to study business at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, where she obtained a degree in travel and tourism management.
She then moved to Manchester where she worked for what was then the Countryside Agency (now Natural England), the statutory body with responsibility for the rural environment.
She went on to join English Heritage, a non-departmental government body responsible for the protection and management of more than 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.
Julie’s work included assessing grant applications and she had a particular involvement in managing funding in relation to secular historic buildings and places of worship. Her duties required her to make financial needs assessments and also brought her into regular contact with local authority planning departments. This experience should stand her in good stead as she takes up her role as clerk to Hambledon Parish Council.
Julie said: “I think my background makes me suited to the job of clerk and I am looking forward to it very much”.
During her time in Manchester she met and married her husband Richard, who works in the legal profession. A move in his job resulted in them relocating to the south of England, with Julie taking a career break. They have lived on the outskirts of Chiddingfold for seven years. They have three sons, Joshua, William and Oliver, aged 12, eight and six who are, or were, educated at St Mary’s Primary School in Chiddingfold.
Julie and Richard are regular distance runners and frequently compete in local and national events. Julie said: “It would be wrong to call me an avid runner as I think I am a reluctant runner. But I am competitive and determined.
Last year she was part of a team of “mums from St Mary’s” who competed in the Three Peaks Challenge, which involved climbing the three highest peaks in England Wales and Scotland. Between them they raised funds for the school and a mental health charity.
“This year I will be taking part in eight half marathons and my husband will be undertaking two back-to-back full marathons.”
Her passion over many years has been horses and horse-riding. “My horse died last year so I am currently between horses, but it is something I love and will return to.”
Julie was welcomed to her first meeting as clerk on Wednesday (Jan 9th) at Hambledon Village Hall by chairman John Anderson and his councillor colleagues. Already very active in village and church life in Chiddingfold, Julie will now be closely associated with life an Hambledon as well.
Hambledon residents who use Chiddingfold Surgery, which was destroyed by fire in the early hours of Monday morning (January 7th), should read the following advice.
It has been issued by the Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group, and states: “Patients are advised that routine appointments will be re-arranged as soon as possible and they will be contacted directly by the Surgery. Anyone who needs to see a GP urgently should call NHS 111 and they will be offered appropriate medical treatment and advice. Those wishing to make a routine appointment can call NHS 111 to seek advice or use Chiddingfold Surgery’s usual telephone number.”
Further details can be found by following this link: http://www.guildfordandwaverleyccg.nhs.uk/info.aspx?p=3
The surgery, in Ridgley Road, Chiddingfold, serves approximately 4,700 patients across a wide area, many of them in Hambledon. Neighbouring surgeries are helping out. Further information will be provided on the above website and at
http://www.chiddsurg.co.uk/Home.aspx
In the meantime, The Friends of Chiddingfold Surgery, a registered charity, has set up an appeal for funds to help the surgery practice establish a full stand-in service as soon as possible. If you would like to donate please look for a collection box in Hambledon Village Shop or follow this link
https://friendsofchiddsurgery.org/donate/
Picture: Surrey Advertiser. For full story visit
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The date of the next Hambledon Ladies Breakfast at West Surrey Golf Club was incorrectly printed in the January Parish Magazine as being Saturday 2nd February. The correct date is Saturday 9th February.
The talk by Annie Sneller will start at 8:30am. Tickets at £9 each will be available at the Village Shop from Monday 21st January.
A small village on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District has turned to Hambledon for help in keeping its traditional red telephone kiosk.
Villagers in Simmondley, near Glossop, contacted Hambledon Parish Council after reading about how it had succeeded in getting the red K6-type phone box outside the village shop and post office listed as Grade II by Historic England.
The council also objected to proposals by BT, back in 2008, to disconnect the box, arguing that it was the only one in the village and should be retained for emergency use.
The kiosk in Simmondley is on the village green and BT has proposed disconnecting it. In the day of mobile phones, few people use public call boxes anymore. Various attempts to secure its future met with no success, and so residents turned to Hambledon.
One wrote: “Our community group applied to Historic England for permission to list the kiosk as it is under threat of being decommissioned. However, we have been turned down. Would you be kind enough to share your application arguments for listing as clearly we have not put a very good case forward.”
You will be aware of Surrey CC’s consultation- they are considering closing Cranleigh and Farnham refuse / recycling tips. If they do close Cranleigh Tip then residents will be driving to Witley to use the amenity tip there. The risk of fly tipping will increase too. This extra traffic will have impact on the road infrastructure between Cranleigh and Witley – and the rural roads are already under severe pressure from the extra traffic from new developments, and proposed new developments at Cranleigh, Dunsfold, and Milford Golf course. Surrey CC are keen to hear your views on this so do post feedback here as soon as possible:
https://www.surreysays.co.uk/environment-and-infrastructure/crcs/
Surrey Advertiser article
This years President’s Cup will take place at Badger Park this Sunday, 30th December with a 1pm KO
Hambledon Vets vs Hambledon A
It has also just been our President Mick Coleman’s 90th Birthday. We would be delighted if you would join us to celebrate with a special cake at Badger Park. As Mick would say ”Come On You Dons”
Hambledon residents turned out in large numbers at noon on Christmas Eve to join in the community singing of carols and seasonal songs outside the village shop.
A big thank-you goes to the organisers, the shop choir and to David Kirby and his musician friends for a wonderful and harmonious festive gathering.
The day before, Mic Coleman, who for so many years has been a stalwart of village activities, celebrated his 90th birthday. He and Sylvia had a busy day as friends dropped by to pass on their best wishes before a large family gathering later in the day. Mic has worked tirelessly for the village football and cricket teams, becoming president of both. He has been involved in the running of the village hall, the village fete and the produce show. He is also a former chairman of Hambledon Parish Council.
In 2012 he was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honors “for services to sport and the community in Hambledon”. Mic has done so much for the good of the village and its residents and we all wish him the very best for the future.
And the Web Team sign off by sending its best wishes to all.
Waverley Borough Council offices will close for Christmas at 4pm on Monday 24 December 2018 and will reopen at 8.45am on Wednesday 2 January 2018.
For information on all essential services, such as emergency housing repairs and bin collections, you can visit: http://www.waverley.gov.uk/xmasservices
Hambledon Village Hall 7 pm tonight.
The Pantaloons are here to perform their irreverent version of this classic tale.
The stage is set, the new curtains are up, the fabulous new seats are all out, the wine is mulling, the mince pies are warming….
There are a few seats left: tickets at the village shop until 5pm and any left will be on the door.
See you there!
( Just in case you wondered these aren’t the Pantaloons. This photo posed by models!)
Please refer to the chart below for the bin collection service for rubbish, recycling and food waste over Christmas and New Year.
Please put your bins out by 7am on your collection day, as normal.
There are no garden waste collections in the weeks beginning 24 December 2018 and 31 December 2018.
Please note that the Village Shop will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day and will close at 2pm on Christmas Eve and at 12:30pm on New Year’s Eve.
Also, please join us for Carols and other Christmas songs at the shop at noon on Christmas Eve. Complementary mulled wine and mince pies will be served and the Hambledon Village Shop Choir will be there to lead the singing. They’ve been hard at practise as you can see in the videos below.
Tickets are selling fast for this lively comic adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens story of Scrooge and his Christmas Eve experiences. It is on at Hambledon Village Hall this Thursday 20th December at 7pm.
The Pantaloons are on a nationwide tour and are coming to Hambledon for the first time. Expect music, puppets a few ghosts and a jolly good time! Reaction to the show from other Villages:
” A brilliant evening with the awesomely gifted Pantaloons I ache from laughing so much.” Sue Bennet
“Definitely the funniest thing I’ve seen this year” Paul R Green
If that isn’t enough to tempt you out, there will be Mulled Wine and Mince Pies for sale in the interval.Tickets on sale at the Village Shop or at www.thepantaloons.co.uk £12.00 Adults £8.00 Children
Recommended for children around 8 and over as there are spooky bits.
Once again this year, the Hambledon Village Shop Choir will be leading a carol singalong at the Shop at noon on Christmas Eve. Everyone’s invited to come along, join in with the singing and enjoy mulled wine and mince pies.
The choir will have a bigger band to accompany them this year under David Kirby’s fine leadership, so we’d love to add some new choir members. The first choir practice will be at Hambledon Village Hall this evening (Thursday 13th December) at 8:30pm, a second practice will take place on Monday 17th December at 7:30pm. If you would like to join in please come along to one or both of the practices.
Come along and enjoy dance music from Toxic Sausage, a buffet and a Gin bar, in addition to the usual festive drink offerings.
Saturday 8th Dec 8pm at Hambledon Village Hall.
Tickets at £15 are available at the Village Shop and the Merry Harriers or on-line at hambledonfestival.co.uk.
December 1st is the start of the meteorological winter, so this is a timely reminder that this website has a section containing advice and emergency contacts and this has been updated for the 2018/19 season.
This information can be found on the right hand side of the opening page headed Winter Weather Advice and Emergency Numbers or by clicking on this link http://www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk/?p=7991
Here you will find practical precautionary measures and details of how to contact service providers such as electricity and water companies.
The village has a team of volunteers who will do their best to assist residents if in need, and their contact details can be found on the above link.
To celebrate our new chairs, curtains and the painting of the hall, the management committee would like to invite all residents of Hambledon for tea and cake. It will be our opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has generously donated funds which have enabled all these improvements to be made. It will also be a chance for everyone in the village (not just donors) to come and see how lovely the hall is looking and to find out about the exciting events which will be happening at the hall over the coming year. We hope to see you there!