This week’s good news is that we have some sponsored swimmers again for this years Swoosh event, to raise money for the upkeep of our community pool and youth charities.. Joanna Halstead, raising money for the pool; Jess Elvidge, raising money for the pre-school; Victoria Smith, for the pool; Mark Neilson,for AG pool; Max Rayner, for the pool. You can support our swimmers on Facebook’s Just giving pages and on our community facebook page. Well done to all of our wonderful swimmers, who aim to raise £450 each for our pool,thank you all so much. The event this year will take place on Saturday July 6th at 9.20am, with about 800 swimmers taking part.
The Devon Community Action for Wildlife conference is taking place on July 6th in Chagford, and as many representatives from the parishes as possible are being asked to attend.There are only a few spaces left and it would be nice to see us represented there. The day is free and there will be walks and talks on many subjects including bats, churchyards , roadside verges, and gardening.The keynote talk will be from Sacha Dench,who flew from Russia to the UK by paramotor to promote the consevation of Bewick Swans. The aim of the conference is to enthuse action for wildlife.Please see the website naturaldevon.org.uk/2019-community-action-for wildlife ,To book a space please email jay.boyle@devon.guv.uk. This promises to be a very interetisng day with many wide ranging topics covered. We can all make a space for wildlife in our gardens, putting out food for hedgehogs, placing bird nest boxes, make a bug house, there are loads of ways in which we can help each day. As a footnote, our Avon Estuary is one of 41 newly created marine conservation areas, good news indeed for our river, we always knew it was special!
The Neighbourhood Plan is doing the rounds at A.G at the moment, there are copies at the church, shop and the pub ready to be studied. Also during this six week consultation period members of the NP group will be available to answer questions in the village shop on Saturday mornings. So if you have any queries that’s the place to find answers.
Our village shop hosted an extravaganza evening at the hall last week. The event was very well attended and enjoyed by everyone. The ukelele group was playing and there was a hog roast and a charity raffle. There were also free wine tasting opportunites and some free nibbles. Everyone enjoyed the fun, many thanks to Peta for organising this event.  Â
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Our Cricket Club are still enjoying their matches and the next one is in Kingsbridge playing the touring side, The Entertainers, on June 13th – please come and support our boys, who would also like to welcome some new players. The fixture list for this year is on the village website/facebook page.
St Andrews Church will be having a Common Worship service this week led by John and Karen Rowse, and it’s Pentecost next week, so please wear something bright! The service starts at 11am as usual and everyone is welcome to attend, there will be refreshments after the service. .