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If you live in Littlebury and would like to offer your services to baby-sit in the village or parish, please let us know. |
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The Littlebury book club meets every other month, on a Sunday evening, to talk about a wide range of books. New members very welcome, please contact Adrian Williamson on 528199 or at ajghwilliamson @ btinternet.com |
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The local branch of the British Legion meets regularly in the Village Hall. For further information contact Denis Wright. Tel 522725. |
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Starting at age 7, the Brownies meet on Mondays during term time from 6pm until 7.30pm in Littlebury Village Hall. There is a waiting list to join, so please contact their Brown Owl, Clare Green on 531023 for further details. |
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Jane Bradbury’s Educational Foundation is a charitable trust set up many years ago to help young people under the age of 25, living in the ancient parish of Littlebury, with financial grants towards their vocational and/or educational needs. The parish includes Littlebury Green and Catmere End, so all residents of Littlebury, Littlebury Green and Catmere End who have not reached their 25th birthday are eligible to apply for a grant.
Over the years the foundation has made a variety of awards to help many young people, and examples include financial help with the cost of the following: Music Lessons, Musical Instruments, Text Books. Overseas Travel in Gap years for good causes, Uniforms and Overalls, Computer Equipment for Educational Purposes, Attendance at Field and other Courses, Tools and Equipment. This is a guideline and we shall welcome all applications
Application forms are available from the Clerk to the Trustees, Fulfen House, Abbey Farm, Audley End. Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4JE. The forms when completed, will need to be accompanied by a letter from the applicant. |
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Social gathering on the second Friday on the month, usually at a local hostelry, curry house or similar! Contact Keith Winter on 07980 210463 or email keith @ keithwinter.co.uk |
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Littlebury Ladies has been running for over 25 years. It was first established by the then Vicar’s wife to offer a friendly welcome to ladies new to the village of Littlebury. In its present form it is open to the ladies of Littlebury, and their friends, and ladies from surrounding villages. It is especially pleasing when people move on and still return for the meetings. Once a year, usually the last meeting of the summer, the gentlemen of the village are invited too for a social evening together. We meet once a month, usually on the second Wednesday, and we have a range of events planned, usually with guest speakers demonstrating their skills and telling us about subjects such as hypnotherapy, stress management, painting techniques, card making, talks from social historians and wild life experts, walks in local wild meadows, Blue Badge tours of the town, floral displays, recipe nights and strawberry suppers, jewellery making and cartoon drawing – to name but a few! We are always looking for new ideas and contacts and of course people willing to host an evening in their home. Our events are always published in the Parish News - please come and join us. Littlebury Ladies Programme 2010 to 2011 | Date | Speaker | Topic | Host/Venue | | 13th January | Yearly Ideas | Meeting | Medlars | | 10th February | LL Meal | LL Meal | Queens Head | | 10th March | Mr Dennis Wright | Memories of Littlebury | East View, Peggy’s Walk | | 14th April | Crafts Evening | Crafts and jewellery | South House, High Street | | 12th May | Helen Leonard | A childhood in the Tower of London | Stowe House, Clays Meadow | | 9th June | Dr David Melford | Strethall Church A Millennium Celebration | Strethall Church | | 14th July | Jo Hancock | A Cookery Demonstration and bring along a dish and recipe | Northfield House, Roman Way | | August | Holiday | Holiday | Holiday | | 8th September | Autumn Supper Ladies and Gentleman welcome! | A light supper and refreshments to help raise funds for the coming year | East View, Peggy’s Walk | | 13th October | Brian Sanders | Brian will talk about his new book and his experience of being an evacuee during the war years | The Haven Peggy’s Walk | | 10th November | Alison | Wine Tasting Evening | Wheelwrights Cottage, Cambridge Rd | | 8th December | Christmas Drinks | Celebration and Quiz | The Old Telegraph House | |
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‘Lassies’ meet on the 4th Friday of the month at 8pm, inevitably in the Queen’s Head. Please contact Jo Hancock on 520469, joannacl.hancock @ virgin.net |
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Calling all singers! The Littlebury Village Singers are a fledgling music group who meet up to perform at village functions and occasions. We warmly welcome any newcomers, and from all over the parish. Ability to read music is not compulsory. Ability to sing one's heart and soul out, is. Please email Katie on katiegeiser @ hotmail.com for more details. We also have a children's choir. For more information about either of these, please contact Katie Fraser on 513357 or katiegeiser @ hotmail.com |
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The Parish of Littlebury Millennium Album 2001 ed. Lizzie Sanders for Littlebury Parish Council. pub. Parish of Littlebury Millennium Society 
| This is a photographic and written record for the parish of Littlebury collated during the Millennium year. The original leather bound album is held in the Reading Room at Saffron Walden Town Library. With 262 pages, and in full colour, the book is a snapshot of life in an English parish. Eighty-eight households participated as well as the parish groups and societies of the time. Although mainly of local interest it has a broad appeal as a social history record of rural life in North West Essex at the time of the Millennium. Publication was funded by grants, donations and local fund raising events. Every household in the parish was entitled to receive a free copy of the book when it was published. |
Littlebury, a Parish History 2005 Parish of Littlebury Millennium Society/History Group ed. Lizzie Sanders and Gillian Williamson. pub. Parish of Littlebury Millennium Society After nearly three years of research 'Littlebury, a Parish History' was published. The authors, those who offered assistance, archive material and advice together with residents of the parish came to a launch at Littlebury Village Hall to celebrate the results of a community project funded by the LHI, a partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund, Nationwide Building Society and the Countryside Agency. Local schools, the Library, Museum, Archive Access Point and every household in the parish was invited to receive a free copy of the 288 page book. Fully illustrated in colour, the history was written and researched by 44 authors, nearly all of whom were residing in the parish at the time. Spanning earliest archaeology to the twentieth century it covers many subjects including transport, health, education, poverty, gentrification and religion, bringing the history of Littlebury, Littlebury Green and Catmere End as well as that of Audley End into sharp and fascinating focus.
'Littlebury, a Parish History' is available from the Tourist Information Centre in Saffron Walden, Audley End House, Heffers in Cambridge and Lizzie Sanders 528201, Gillian Williamson 528199 or Vince Taylor 526437 at £15.00. ISBN 0-9543910-1-2 | 
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The Life and Times of a Country Gardener 2007 Sarah Casbolt ed. & pub. Lizzie Sanders 
| Stan Casbolt was born in 1919 and lived in Littlebury Green where he worked as a gardener at Howe Hall Farm. Sarah his daughter took down his memoirs and with Stan’s enormous collection of photographs wrote and illustrated a book that illuminates the way of life at Littlebury Green throughout the 20th century, showing the transition of this hamlet from a rural farming community to the village we know today. The development of farm machinery and its impact on farming practices together with those of the car, two world wars and increasing modernity are vividly described. The depiction of the villagers’ hard working way of life and their humour and tolerance will intrigue and delight the reader.
The Life and Times of a Country Gardener was launched in December 2007 at St Peter’s Church and Community Centre, Littlebury Green. The 144 page book, with colour illustrations and photographs is available from the Tourist Information Centre in Saffron Walden at £15.
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The Society was initially set up in 2001 to raise funds to publish the 'Parish of Littlebury Millennium Album', a recording of people and their activities in the parish (a few copies of which are still available from Lizzie Sanders at £15). Subsequently, a community project that ran between 2003-5 to publish 'Littlebury, a Parish History' was organized under its aegis. The Society meets once a year at the AGM early in the year, and as and when necessary. The society supports community based projects and is always open to new ideas. Last year, together with the Parish Council it it supported the recently published Parish Plan in conjunction with the Parish Plan Steering Group. If you have any local projects for the society to consider please contact Lizzie Sanders at sanders-art @ talk21.com, Jean Cowell at Jean.Cowell @ wcbmarketing.co.uk , Lizzie Sanders at sanders-art @ talk21.com, or Joanna Hancock at joannacl.hancock @ virgin.net Programme for 2010 Tuesday 23rd March at 8pm Annual General Meeting - held at North House. Sunday 9th May All day. Beating the Bounds This is a wonderful walk of approximately eleven miles around the parish. Walkers join and leave at various points. For details Contact Us At some stage in the year, when the legalities are completed, Carolyn Wingfield has kindly offered to talk to us about the bronze age finds from 2009. |
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