Fairford

Chris Roberts

0744 350 0744

chris@cotswoldwireless.co.uk

FRIENDS of Farmor’s School are holding a Quiz Night on Thursday, June 21 at 7pm for a 7.30pm start at Farmor’s School. Cost is £5 per person. Maximum of six per team. Tickets available on the door and through ParentPay. All proceeds raised this term go towards the Drama, Music and Geography departments.

FAIRFORD History Society’s next meeting is the AGM on Thursday June 21 at 7.30pm in the Farmor Room of Fairford Community Centre. The business of the meeting will be followed by a presentation on Farmor’s School. New members £5 and visitors £3. Contact Alison Hobson on 01285 711768 or Geoff Hawkes on 01285 712053 or email enquiry@fairfordhistory.org.uk.

THE next Library Club is on Thursday, June 21 between 11am-12 noon. If you would like to borrow some books and have a cuppa and a chat, but can’t get to Fairford Library, transport with disabled facilities is provided. There will also be a representative from People For You attending regularly. Details from 01285 712599 or gloucestershire.gov.uk/libraries.

PEOPLE for you is a free Volunteer Befriending Service co-ordinated by Sue Black for the older people of Fairford, Lechlade and surrounding villages at the Library Club on the 3rd Thursday of each month between 11am-12 noon. Please come along to the next one on Thursday, June 21 or call 01285 712599 for more details. gloucestershire.gov.uk/libraries.

TODDLER Time is in Fairford Library every Monday from 10.30am-11am. For more information, just turn up or phone 01285 712599.

THERE is now free NHS Public WiFi available in Hilary Cottage Surgery for patients’ use. When you search on your device, choose the network: ‘NHS WiFi’ and you will be prompted to register and notified that it is an unsecure network.

FAIRFORD Firecrackers WI had a great day at Fairford Primary School’s May Fair raising awareness of the WI as a campaigning organisation and even started the Keep Britain Tidy campaign in the 1950s. They are currently campaigning to get everyone to reduce plastic use and explained that you can now take your own container to Andrew Butler Butchers in Fairford to save on packaging.

It seemed obvious therefore that the Fairford WI should be dressed up as Suffragettes when they took part in the Fairford Festival at the beginning of June. To find out more about the Fairford WI, contact Jean Moulden on 01285 713308.

SOUTH West Ambulance is planning to hold Defibrillator Awareness sessions on Saturday, June 23 from 10am for a couple of hours in the morning. Learn how to use this essential equipment to help save a life. If you are interested in attending, please contact the Town Council offices on 01285 712344 or email clerks@fairford-tc.co.uk.

FAIRFORD & Lechlade Youth Football Club is organising its first Football Festival on Saturday, June 23 at Horcott Road, Fairford.

The day will kick off at 12 noon and will include the Club’s End of Season Awards; live World Cup Football; a licensed bar; The Cotswold Chippy, and the Club’s own ‘Match Snacks’ kitchen will be open to offer teas, coffees, soft drinks, crisps, sweets and other snacks. Rides, inflatables, a coconut shy and the opportunity to have a kick-about on the pitch plus all the fun of the fair.

The Festival will also feature a World Cup sticker swap shop, giving kids (and big kids) the chance to complete their all-important sticker albums, while the team from Swindon Town in the Community will also come along to organise some football-themed fun and games. The World Cup matches between South Korea and Mexico and Germany and Sweden will also be screened. All under cover of a Flint & Lambourn marquee. More information from fairfordlechladeyfc.co.uk/index.php/2018/05/08/join-flyfc-at-fairford-football-festival/.

THE League of Friends of Fairford Hospital is organising an Open Gardens event at The Bull Pens, Fairford on Tuesday, June 26 from 2-4.30pm by kind permission of Mrs Andy Wilkinson. For information about the League, please contact Christine Barker on 07767 408409, fairford.lof@hotmail.co.uk or visit friendsoffairford.org.uk.

THE Martin Clare Music Fund Concert will be on Wednesday, June 27 at 7.30pm in Farmor’s School Arts Studio. Help past and present musicians including Henry Bateman, Seth Bye, Frankie Dodwell, The Farmors Singers raise funds for musicians of the future. Refreshments available. Donations welcome.

EMBRACE is a group of people who have experienced a big range of family planning difficulties including infertility, miscarriage, traumatic birth, stillbirth and neo-natal death, among others. We meet to offer each other friendship and support as we discuss our experiences and seek to live well in the light of them.

We can also offer practical support to those experiencing these difficulties now. We

meet in the evening on the 4th Wednesday of each month usually at a home in Fairford. It’s a really welcoming and informal group. If anyone has any interest in coming along or getting involved, we’d love to hear from them and give them any more information they need: embracefairford@gmail.com. The next meeting is on Wednesday, June 27.  

THE next meeting of Fairford & Lechlade Business Club will be a breakfast meeting on Thursday June 28 at 8am at the Riverside pub, Lechlade (upstairs). Guest speaker will be Allison Murray of Allison Murray Design talking about how the correct branding is important for your business. A full English breakfast costs £10, but the meeting is free. Booking is essential on flbc.org.uk/Events. If you would like more information about the Club or would like to join, please contact Chris Roberts on 01285 712150 or email admin@flbc.org.uk.

TWO 5 year old students from Farmor’s School are organising A Night At The Dogs fundraising night at Blunsdon Dogs on Friday, July 6 in aid of their voluntary trip to Kenya with Camps International in 2019. The students need to raise £4000 each in order to go!

The trip will involve building schools and other projects, all designed to help the local community in Kenya. Tickets are £15 per person. This includes entrance, race card and return coach travel from Fairford. There are 53 tickets available, these will be on a first come, first served basis, so do book as soon as possible.