Fairford news: Sheep Hunt winner revealed

STAYCOTSWOLDS has received a huge response to the ‘Name Your Hero’ competition to nominate your favourite NHS or key worker hero with the winning hero receiving a weekend break in the beautiful Cotswolds courtesy of StayCotswolds.

There was a huge response with over 1,000 nominations, and these have now been shortlisted to the final 10.

Head over to www.staycotswold.com/name-your-hero, read the finalists’ stories and nominate your favourite NHS or key worker hero.

Voting will close at the end of Sunday January 31.

Time is short – not much time left to gather as many votes as possible, so please show your support and vote for one of these fantastic Cotswold heroes.

FAIRFORD’S Messy Church held an entertaining Sheep Hunt between Christmas and New Year.

Children had to look around the High Street, London Road and the Market Place to find 13 sheep, each of which had a letter attached.

Once all 13 letters were unscrambled, it spelled out the name of a popular Christmas carol.

The competition closed on January 3 and the winning answer was ‘Away in a Manger’ and the winner was Elizabeth Taylor with her daughter, Susie, and grandchildren, Ava and Imogen.

The sheep were made or collected together by Kathleen Hall from Fairford and were distributed around local Fairford shops.

Messy Church have no plans to meet up in church at present, but if anyone would like a list of Messy Church activities, please contact Sarah Bottomley at stmaryslmt@gmail.com.

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.

Our next meetings will be virtual on Zoom with the next one on Friday January 22.

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.

AFTER having had to previously cancel and postpone the open day for Stedy Chefs Learning Centre, it has now been confirmed that the open day will be held virtually on Monday, February 1, at 9am – not 12 noon - 4pm as previously advertised.

There will be a virtual tour of the new building at St John’s Priory in Lechlade and staff will be answering any questions that you may have about the service.

Stedy Chefs is an international cookery school that will provide cookery courses from Monday to Friday for young adults aged 18+ with disabilities and learning difficulties.

The students will be able to work in a professional kitchen helping to improve their life skills and self-confidence as well as giving them the opportunity to work with some amazing individuals.

The virtual tour will be held on Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/stedychefscookeryschool.

To find out more, contact 0151 936 1968, 07400 897397 or info@stedy-chefs.co.uk.