THE PARISH PLAN MEETINGS

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IT'S NEARLY HERE !!! (Update JULY 2007)
At the Village Fete on 21st July the first copies of the Parish Plan were available for viewing. The launch was celebrated with a balloon race, the furthest of which will receive the prize of a free glider flight. The document Charlton and Newbottle: the Future for Two Villages, is now being collated ready for delivery to every home in the parish in September 2007. The Parish Plan Steering Group and helpers will deliver the plans and ask each household to sign to acknowledge receipt. The last task of the Parish Plan Steering Group will then be to organise a "Village Activities Day" in the autumn. It is hoped to encourage more participation in current village clubs, activities and committees and also present an opportunity for new clubs and activities to gain support. The Parish Plan has already identified new areas for participation, including a Conservation Group and a Village Business Representative.

Do you want to use this opportunity to start up a new activity, club or committee? If so could you ring Della on 01869 811504 and register your interest in the Village Activities Day, and a space will be duly allocated. All current organisers will be contacted once a date has been set.

This will be the last insert prepared by the Steering Group. The Parish Council is now eagerly waiting to implement the Parish Plan and communication will come through the Council, via the Link and Village Website. If you have any questions, suggestions or want to offer support in any aspect of the Parish Plan please either speak to a member of the Parish Council or alternatively put your suggestion in the Parish Council box in the shop. Lastly thank you to everyone in the Steering Group who has given up much time and energy over the last 2 years to prepare the Parish Plan.

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THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS... (Update JUNE 2007)
The Parish Plan is set for its official launch at The Fete on Saturday 21st July 2007. The event will be celebrated with a balloon race, with a prize for the balloon that travels the furthest distance. The balloons will be in the colour we have adopted throughout the preparation of the plan - yellow.

Copies of the plan will be available on the stand so please come over and have a first look through. The final editing is now taking place. It is anticipated that the plans will be delivered to every house in the Parish during September.
Discussions are ongoing with the Parish Council as they now officially adopt the plan, The Parish Plan Steering group will be disbanded in its current capacity once the plans have been delivered. The Parish Council will then determine how they manage the process going forward.

What has become clear in the compilation of the plan is that the delivery of a successful plan will only be possible with the commitment of the whole village. Please get involved, opportunities to do so will be clear throughout the document.
So keep watching this space and checking progress in the Charlton Link.

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CREATING A DEFINITIVE STRATEGIC PLAN (Update MAY 2007)
The steering group are now meeting weekly in an effort to get the Parish Plan for Charlton and Newbottle complete by a self imposed deadline of 21st July. All work is now focused on creating a definitive strategic plan for the village, this has involved going through each section of the questionnaire and analysing the results. The next step has been to create meaningful action points around the issues raised. We have been challenging each of these action points to make sure that each action is clear and defined, has a timescale, a priority rating and an owner. Some examples of where the action points have been allocated to for ownership have included: The Parish Council, The Memorial Hall, Parochial Parish Council, additionally there will be a need once the plan is launched to bring some groups together to deliver specific action points.

The Group have also been working on how to launch the plan and what the action plan is actually going to look like, front cover, introduction etc.

The steering group will meet with the newly elected Parish Council in June to ask them to formally adopt the plan. We will also ask for their support in maintaining a Parish Plan Steering Group as we feel that a successful implementation of the plan will need much support, both from the Parish Council and all villagers. So keep watching this space and checking progress on the village website at www.charlton-cum-newbottle.co.uk .

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THE PLAN -WORK IN PROGRESS (Update APRIL 2007)
Work continues on the Parish Plan, with the Steering Group meeting fortnightly to discuss the progress members are making on their drafts of the different sections. There were a few suggestions for improvement in the services paid for by our Council Tax, although most of us declared ourselves "fairly satisfied" with the three tiers of local government and the police. From the County Council, the main improvement we want to see is in road and pavement maintenance; we'd like the District Council to make some changes and extensions to waste recycling arrangements, and we want to be better informed about Parish Council activities - only one in six of us (16.9%) knows who the councillors are and what they do!

Although only one in three residents has been the victim of a crime while living in the village, almost half of us are calling for greater police presence in the village and 51 people specifically mentioned this in individual comments. Better communication between police and village is requested by one in three respondents. Preserving the character of the village was often mentioned. Only two people wanted the village to become much larger: two-thirds of us want it to stay the same size, and the others want it to expand gradually. 88% of us are opposed to new builds and modernizations and, among several suggestions for visual improvement, tree-planting was a popular proposal.

The young people's questionnaire revealed that, for most of them, living in the countryside is one of the most important aspects of life in Charlton. The play equipment at all three village sites is well used and children would like more equipment, particularly at the Playing Field. Fewer than half of them thought the play areas were well looked after. There were many suggestions for new activities, a junior football club receiving six mentions, a
youth club five and tennis thirteen - to add all the adult requests for tennis facilities! And the Parish Plan is still on target for a launch at the Church Fete in July. So keep watching this space and checking progress on the village website

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PUTTING THE PLAN TOGETHER (Update MARCH 2007)
The Parish Plan Steering Group members are reaching for the headache pills again! The task now is to analyse all your comments and turn your views into a plan of action. The group are working in pairs on different sections of the plan and will meet fortnightly to discuss their drafts.

With the present proposals for reducing the number of rural Post Offices, it's interesting to see that we value our Post Office more highly than any other facility in the village - 79% of us put it in the "most important" category and another 15% rated it "important". Not surprisingly, the village shop almost matched it in importance (78% and 16%). Also high on our list of valued amenities are the school (55% and 13%) and the pub (44% and 28%)
- but access to medical services is more vital to us than either of those (55% and 21%).

Playing Field Crisis.... An urgent issue is the Playing Field crisis: we expected this to feature prominently in the plan and with 70% of us rating it "most important" or "important" we'll need to find some way of preserving it. 56% of children and young people use the Playing Field and 58% of them would like to see more equipment there. Yet only ten people told us they were willing to serve on the Playing Field committee and only one of those gave contact details on the Participation Sheet. If the other nine of you would like to get involved, then please contact Pat Hotson on 812539 or leave your name with Keith Wilks at the ("most important") village shop. One area of progress can be reported already. Our efforts have resulted in Northamptonshire County Council agreeing to begin restoration of the Church Path in the next week or two. This is being mainly funded by them, with contributions from the Parish Council and the landowner, Mrs Perry of Astrop Estates, and an application to South Northamptonshire Council for an environmental improvement grant. ON TARGET....The Parish Plan is still on target for a launch at the Church Fete in July. So keep watching this space and checking progress in the village "Charlton Link".

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WE'VE ALL HAD OUR SAY - AND NOW IT'S ON RECORD (Update FEBRUARY 2007)
The questionnaire results have all now been fed into our computer program. Thanks are due to the school staff who gave up their Tuesday evenings to help the steering group complete the job in good time. Adrian Drewry has begun analysing your comments and we will be discussing the results at a Steering Group meeting at the end of this month. We're seeing a fascinating picture of the life of our village.

Did you know that two out of three people in the village don't use the playing field at all? Or that only one in ten of us attends a place of worship either weekly or monthly - although nearly half of us go to the church for weddings or funerals? And more than nine out of ten of us have never used the bus service.

When it comes to the things that people want to see in the village, the new activity that attracted the most interest was a Hallowe'en/Bonfire Night celebration (48.1% of villagers), with Car Boot Sales attracting the vote of 41.1%. Third in popularity was a tennis club (32.5% of us want this)
- so maybe that's an indication of how we could make more use of the Playing Field!

There's bound to be some controversy and two areas are street lighting and the location of the Memorial Hall. A 51.4% vote for more street lights was opposed by the 39.6% who think there are enough and a small minority who think there are too many! Satisfaction with the present
location of the Memorial Hall is at 44%, the rest of the village being equally divided between those who would like it relocated to the Playing Field and those who have no strong opinion either way.

Some issues had very strong support. There was a 76.1% view that currently parking outside the school is dangerous. Three-quarters of us rate the Church Path important or most important to us. And many of the comments supported not changing too much, and maintaining the peace
and tranquillity of the village.

Some of these views were anticipated, including the need for improving the Church Path. We have therefore taken this up as a trial run for implementing the Parish Plan without leaving all the responsibility to the seven Parish Council members. On behalf of the Parish Council, one member of the Steering Group, Pat Hotson, has been following up the options for getting the path resurfaced. She has recruited the help of Alice Townsend, one of those who completed the Participation Sheet at the back of the questionnaire, offering help to implement the Parish Plan by liaising with local landowners. Their initial progress is very promising.

Another burning issue, that of traffic problems, is already being tackled, although not directly as a result of the Parish Plan initiative. At last year's Parish Meeting, Deborah Hayter took on the task of co-ordinating a Community Speedwatch. Adrian Drewry later took over her role and a group of ten volunteers recently attended a training session with Northamptonshire Police. They will soon begin monitoring traffic through the village and the results of their recordings will serve, not only to tackle speeding traffic, but also to consider what other interventions may be necessary to control volume of traffic and hazards - both areas of concern raised in the questionnaire.

And the Parish Plan is still on target for a launch at the Church Fete in July. So keep watching this space and checking progress in The Charlton Link

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PHEW! (Update NOVEMBER 2006)
More than nine out of ten of the village's 499 residents have now completed the Parish Plan questionnaire, with some others having asked for an extension to the deadline. If you are one of the few people whose copy is still sitting on a pile of Things To Do When I Get Round To It, then now's the time to get round to it and drop your copy in to the Post Office or phone your distributor to have it collected before the end of November.
That's when the Steering Group will begin collating and analysing all your views.

With 86 questions in the main adult document, eight in the one for the under-16s and five in the household survey, that's nearly forty thousand separate pieces of information to be processed. Phew! Thank goodness we live in the computer age! An initial scan of the completed questionnaires shows that more people have expressed willingness to join in activities (such as a litter-pick or a Sunday school or application for a water-butt) than have completed the participation sheet. This was the tear-off page at the back of the questionnaire where you could give your name and contact details to be informed of events in which you'd indicated an interest. Because the questionnaires are anonymous and confidential, we can't tell who you are from them alone.

ONE IN FIFTEEN - More than one in fifteen of you did fill in the participation sheet - but if you're one of those who didn't, and would like to be kept informed of events; then please contact Pat Hotson on 812539, or leave your name with Keith Wilks at the shop and we'll make sure you don't miss anything. And keep watching this space and in the Link for progress

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APPROACHING D-DAY (Update OCTOBER 2006)
- The D is for Distribution - of the Parish Plan questionnaire. The operation will be carried out by a small task force of volunteer villagers during the weekend of November 4th- 6th. You can expect one of your neighbours to call on you that weekend with an invitation to influence the future of your village for the next five, ten or fifteen years - or even longer. The views of every man, woman and child in the village will be taken into account and every suggestion made, if it is practicable and has some support, will be included in the Plan.

There will be help available for anyone who finds the questionnaire difficult to complete for any reason. Parents and carers will be asked to help young children fill in their own questionnaire - we are serious about needing everyone's views!

So, once the fireworks have burnt out and the gingerbread's been eaten, it will be time to think about your village and what really matters to you about this little patch of England - and get it down on paper for others to share.

Do you want more street lights, not so many street lights, differently sited street lights, a different design of street light, a different colour of light, better maintenance of street lights, have you got any other thoughts about our street lights or are you happy with our street lights just the way they are? Well, you've just considered one of the questions already! The questionnaires are strictly confidential; so you can say what you really feel and phrase it any way you like, within the bounds of civility!

There will also be a separate sheet to complete if you want to get involved in any existing or new projects, or want more information about any aspects of life in our village. The volunteer army will return to collect the questionnaires by November 13th. If you're going to be away from home during that period, it is possible to arrange a short extension. If you need this, please contact Pat Hotson on 812539.
Keep watching this space and in the Charlton Link to check the progress.

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QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS...... (Update SEPTEMBER 2006)
Members of the Parish Plan Steering Group are easily recognisable this month: they're the ones with staring eyes and a ready supply of headache tablets after several weeks of work putting all the views expressed at the Have Your Say Day into a coherent questionnaire – and finding a
suitable computer software to analyse the answers without bankrupting the budget. It looks as though it's been achieved. This month thirty adult and child volunteers have been asked to complete a copy each of the draft form.

Steering Group members are now using the answers to test the proposed software. If it all works well, then the questionnaire will be ready in another few weeks for delivery to every household in the village.

THREE QUESTIONNAIRES.....There will in fact be three questionnaires, one for each adult to complete and one for each young person under the age of 16, as well as a short one for general questions on the household. The main one is in nine sections and asks for opinions on matters from footpaths to funding, from worship to wildlife, from litter to leisure, from housing to history and much more – everything, in fact, which you all identified on March 25th as worth preserving or in need of improvement.

All the questionnaires will be delivered on the same day and collected two weeks later by a team of volunteers and they will be able to answer any queries and offer help with filling in the forms if needed.

WATCH THIS SPACE.....The Steering Group are now confident that the Plan will be ready for adoption by the Parish Council and launch at next year's Garden Fete in July.

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And the work goes on... (Update JUNE 2006)
As reported in last month's Parish Plan Newsheet, the Steering Group is hard at work formulating together the questionnaire to be delivered to every house within the Parish. These will include many queries and issues that were raised at the "Have Your Say Day" held in March.

The questionnaire will possibly take many weeks or hard work to formulate into a batch of easy to answer questions which will help the Parish Council adapt a plan that will help the local community for the next 5, 10 or even 15 years (subject to a regular review).

individual set of questions for each person...... The questions apart from a general household range is to be designed to also include an individual
set of questions for each person to answer in order to ascertain exactly what will be required in our community for the benefit of all villagers in the future years to come.

With the questionnaire each person will be encouraged to add any individual comments they feel relevant, as the more information received the better long term planning can be made. enthusiasm as for the "Have Your Say Day"

We ask you all to be patient, whilst the questionnaire is being created and the Steering Group hope that all villagers will make an effort to answer all the questions to the best of their ability and the reply with the same enthusiasm as was the turnout for the Parish Plan "Have Your Say Day".

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And Now That We've Had Our Say... (Update MAY 2006)
the next stage in developing our Parish Plan is to include everyone's ideas in a questionnaire to be delivered to every household in the village. Even with twenty people working on it, it's going to take a few months! There was such a good turnout on March 25th and so many issues were raised (more than 80 separate items) that it will be September before the questionnaire is ready.

some revolutionary suggestions....... There were some revolutionary suggestions, such as giving the Memorial Hall to the school and building a new one on the Playing Field, but there was also plenty of support for not changing things too much. The biggest complaint was about traffic speeding through the village – 44 people objected to that, and there were also several suggestions of ways to stop it, and complaints about car parking too. 39 people registered their annoyance about dog fouling – but only 11 people thought dog bins were a good idea.

Recycling featured in third place, too, on the list of what we'd like – more recycling facilities in the village. Ahead of it on the wish list were an enlarged Post Office and, the top feature, more to do at the Playing Field – suggestions for activities there included swings, see-saw, climbing frame,
climbing wall, tennis court (later amended to two tennis courts!) and there was a separate suggestion, strongly supported by the young people in the village, that we should have a swimming pool.

We're a tidy-minded lot. In addition to the dog fouling, there were complaints about litter, the state of the Church Path and the "untidy cemetery" and much support for the provision of a village skip twice a year. We also seem to be a very active lot – many suggestions were for more organised activities and groups, especially for young people and families, and in support of countryside activities and local heritage. Not surprisingly, we didn't all agree: for example some people wanted more street lighting and others wanted less.

It remains to be seen how many of these suggestions get the support of a large enough majority of people in the village – and if they are practical possibilities that we can work towards. But we've certainly made a good start! There'll be more news of our progress in next month's Link –or you can keep in touch with developments on this village website.

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Charlton and Newbottle villagers have had their say day! (Update APRIL 2006)
155 villagers responded to the call of the Village Crier, Keith Wilks, with his handbell and sandwichboards and went to the Memorial Hall in the village to register their views. The Have Your Say Day was the first event in the preparation of a Parish Plan, which will define what most people want to happen in their village during the next twenty years.

Mark Aldhous, who co-ordinated the day, expressed his pleasure at the result. "We were particularly pleased that the turn-out included all ages, from pre-school to pensioners; so we had a really good range of views. And people had obviously put a lot of thought into what they want to preserve and
where improvements could be made. It was a good reward for all the hard work the steering group and helpers had done – a really good team effort" Having arrived at the Hall, many people were reluctant to leave until they had seen everything on display. A village time-line stretched the length of the main room, recording village events from prehistory to the present day. Many older people recognised their young selves, or past generations of their family, in the photographs and records of the separate memorabilia exhibition. The children of the school and playgroup had expressed themselves in a gallery of paintings of the village and local groups had contributed their own displays. A number of younger visitors were inspired to cries of "Nee-nar, nee-nar" by their inspection of a police car from Northamptonshire Police.

A "Village Issues" list, made up of suggestions from village organisations, was a popular way to register support by adding a coloured sticker and the list almost doubled as the day went on and visitors added their own ideas. Coloured stickers also identified "hotspots and grotspots" on a large map of the parish and in Chat's Corner more detailed comments were recorded by members of the steering group.

The Free Expression Corner enabled younger children to make their creative mark and there were also suggestion boxes for anonymous contributions. Charlton Brownies earned their Hostess Badges by serving visitors with free tea, coffee and home-made cakes at tables they had decorated with posies of spring flowers.

There were a number of prizes to be won: the £50 draw was won by Mark Pearce; the teenagers' draw for a £25 music voucher went to Chris French; Dawn Hall won the quiz prize of a meal for two at the Rose and Crown; Emily Berr and Ellen Masey won the art and craft sets for the children's treasure hunt on a map of the villages, and Linda Hulls the bottle of wine for her personal time-line.

The steering group are now busy collating the day's information into a questionnaire to be delivered later this year to every household in the village. The results of that questionnaire will form the basis of the Plan, which they hope to launch at the local village garden fete in July 2007.

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Saturday March 25th started as a bright sunny morning for the village "Have Your Say Day"...
but despite the weather changing to a dull miserable and continious drizzle, it did not put off local residents to visit the Memorial Hall and take advantage of the day on putting forward many points that can only help in the creation of our new Parish Plan.
There were a steady stream of participants who offered many relevant questions and issues to be included in the questionaire for the parish plan.

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February 2006 - Brainstorming activities ready for the village Parish Plan 'Have Your Say Day' by the Gardening Club and Charlton Women's Institute. The History Club prepared the "Time Line" for Newbottle and Charlton for the big day.

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MAKE A NOTE IN YOUR DIARY.....NOW! (Update JANUARY 2006)
THE PARISH PLAN 'HAVE YOUR SAY DAY' SATURDAY MARCH 25
10.00am until 7.00pm In the Charlton Memorial Hall ......Come along and have your 'say'....
· Interactive displays · Memorabilia Exhibition · Quiz and Competitions · Activities for all ages · Demonstrations and Displays
· Plus many other attractions Watch this space for further announcements! - REMEMBER....... if you ticked the box at the initial Parish Plan open meeting on 27 September ast year to help on this "Future needs day" .....you may be hearing from us soon to help!

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2 DECEMBER 2005 - There was a Preliminary Steering Group meeting on 10th November 2005 in the Memorial Hall, and those present were: Rachael Abbott (from ACRE) ; Mark Aldhous; Sid Baker; Joanna Barrons; Karen Boyles; Adrian Drewry; Deborah Hayter; Barry Hotson; Pat Hotson; Mary Kibble; Cynthia Lenton; Angela Milsom; Jill Montagu-Leon; Keith Wilks; Pamela Wilson and Della Wolfe, with apologies from: David Barnard; Andrea Gladden.

The purpose of meeting was intended to remind people of the process, develop a timeline for the activities, and identify people's talents and place them accordingly. It was also an opportunity to hear Rachael's wide experience of parish planning elsewhere in the county.

An Overview from Rachael Abbott (Northamptonshire ACRE) outlined the steering group format (either formal or informal), the need to identify roles, and the need to be realistic with targets as considerable work was involved. She mentioned the grant money available and the requirement for the PC to apply. There was discussion on how to make this sufficient for the plan. (Avoid lavishness; flexible formats; electronic version).

She discussed the two stages of consultation – the future needs day and the questionnaire – and gave some ideas. With the first she emphasised fun and school and youth involvement and visuals. With the second she stressed the contact with all households. Although the questionnaire was a long haul there were formats available at ACRE, which could be adapted. She then described the stages in developing the action plan including review by the PC and publicising to the community. Monitoring of progress was essential including annual review by the PC and quarterly updates via newsletters and website. There was considerable discussion on the calendar timing of the key stages.

The following roles were decided upon and the following people agreed to fill them: Chair: Della : Vice chair: Keith : Treasurer: Barry : Secretaries: Mary; Deborah; Pat : Publicity: Sid : PC representative: Andrea or deputy : Catering: Angela; Jill : Future needs day event manager: Mark
This list would be augmented with extra roles and/or more assistance as needed possibly from those who have pledged support is the previous meeting. A suggestion to co-opt an elderly resident to the group was agreed and the involvement of someone with teenage children was also mooted.

Future 'Steering Group' meetings were agreed for January and February. The Quiz results from the village meeting were announced
Anyone still willing to help in the planning of the Village Plan would be welcomed and should make contact with any of the elected officers listed above to discuss how you can get involved, especially if you are an elderly resident, or have a family with teenage children.

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CHARLTON-CUM-NEWBOTTLE TO HAVE A PARISH PLAN ! (Update OCTOBER 2005)
Considerable enthusiasm was generated among those who attended the village meeting on September 27th and already 38 people have pledged their active support to develop the parish plan. Every single member of our village community will be consulted, in the process which will take about two years to complete.

The village meeting was not just an informative one: as Della Wolfe, who chaired it, said "Our objectives are to inform you, but also to enthuse you" with a village quiz and a village exhibition.

THE QUIZ consisted of thirty questions covering all aspects of life in our village and showed up somesurprising gaps in our knowledge. Dave the postman knew we'd had our meeting because so many people asked him next day for his surname (one of the quiz answers).

THE EXHIBITION proved absorbing, with village organisations contributing records of all kinds, some of them more than a hundred years old. It was fascinating to note what has not changed (the village pantomime was "Cinderella" in 1950 and again in 2005; the village cricket team were
South Northants champions three years running in the 1930s and again in the 1990s; the school building is still recognisable as the one in the 1920s photographs) and to remind ourselves of what has gone (the Billiards Club, the Flower Show) and what is relatively new (the History Society, the Gardening Club). There were reminiscences of people and events, and of fund-raising past and present, surprise at the extent of the activities of some village societies and warm responses to the photographic reminders of how attractive our two villages are. It is hoped to repeat this type of exhibition again very soon.

EVEN THE CHILDREN DID WELL The view of those villages in words and pictures by the school and Playgroup children was a delight. Favourite subjects were the church, school, play area and Post Office and but the forge was also lovingly depicted and fireworks and the sky-divers had their place among many other features of the villages that we often take for granted.

THANKS for the success of this meeting, are due to all those individuals and organisations who contributed quiz questions and display material, but particularly to Hazel Haskin, Anne Buckingham, David and Diane Morgan, who trawled their archives, and of course to the school and Playgroup
staff and children.

We are also grateful to Sid Baker for publicity; to Keith and Stephanie Wilks, of the shop and Post Office, for donating the quiz prize, and for providing the wine at cost and dispensing it; to Eileen Graver and Ann Hawkins of the Women's Institute, who prepared and served other refreshments, and to Wendy Cone of the Gardening Club, who provided the flower arrangement for the speaker's table.

QUIZ SHEETS to be returned to the Post Office by 31st October (Keith and Stephanie have already submitted theirs so there's no opportunity to cheat!) Any of you who feel you submitted yours prematurely (before asking Dave his surname!) is welcome to contact Pat Hotson on 812539 and take your sheet back for amendment.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP DEVELOP THE PARISH PLAN, PLEASE COMPLETE A PLEDGE FORM,OBTAINABLE FROM THE VILLAGE POST OFFICE,

MISSED THE MEETING? for those in the village that could not attend on the night mentioned in this update: The Parish Plan is an appraisal in a way in which the community evaluates its own needs currently and for the future and plans to meet them as it is now and what maybe needed for the community over the next 5, 10 or even 15 years! However much you may cherish the idea of the unchanging face of the countryside
and the village life, the reality is that change is its only unchanging feature. You cannot prevent change but what you can do is to influence it!. The meeting was not just for village residents, but for anyone who has an interest in the future of Charlton and Newbottle. – for example for those:
· whose children attend or attended the school. · who work or have a business in the village.
· who are members of the village organisations. · who have family graves in the cemetery & churchyard.
· who have interest in the enviornment .· with concerns over village development or infastructure.
What you require as a schoolchild is different from what you need as a young adult, a mature adult or as a pensioner. The Parish Plan is a way to appraise those needs and formulate action to improve where needed and to protect the community's assets where identified. Further regular updates and News Sheets circulated in The Charlton Link will follow to keep you informed of the progress and advise where and when you should participate.

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