Monthly Archives: January 2020

Rescuing our churches

Articles in The Guardian and Country Life support the Friends of Friendless Churches while highlighting the plight of rural churches

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By Peter Mann It’s been a good week for spotting mentions of the Friends of Friendless Churches – and the plight of rural churches...
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Matthew Parris is an FoFC convert

He let the world know via The Times on 5th February

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Matthew Parris, The Times columnist, donates to The Friends of Friendless Churches - diary note, 4th February 2020.

Matthew Parris, former MP, host of Radio 4’s Brief Lives and Times columnist, discovered a disused, part-Norman church belonging to The Friends of Friendless...
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Have you read this?

Mentions of Hatley we've spotted

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South Cambs magazine, winter 2019 – panel on great places featuring a photo of St Denis' church, East Hatley, Cambridgeshire.

By Peter Mann Depending on where you live, there can be any number of mentions of your locality in books on the countryside, buildings,...
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St Denis’ in the news

Press cuttings from our open days and evenings

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St Denis' church East Hatley – media coverage in 2017 and 2018.

Local press coverage of handing over St Denis’ church keys to the Friends of Friendless Churches by South Cambridgeshire District Council in July 2017...
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Fly-tippers – does you mum still clean up after you?

SCDC's new innovative sign asks embarrassing questions

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South Cambs District Council is erecting these eye-catching signs which question why people are fly-tipping – including whether their mum still cleans up after them....
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Someone put a grenade in their blue bin!

Would you believe the things people put in their blue bins?

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Found in a blue wheelie bin [4] – a-metal tape measure. Only things which can be recycled easily should be put into your blue bin. SCDC has a list on its website.

A grenade, a toilet seat and disco lights are on a list of items people in south Cambs have wrongly put into their blue...
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The parish newsletter

November 2019

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Everyone in Hatley will have received a copy of the latest (November 2019) newsletter… but if you’ve not seen it or have lost your...
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Good support for the Hatley Macmillan Coffee Morning

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Well supported: the Macmillan Coffee Morning at Hatley Village Hall on 1st October 2019.

Lots of yummy cakes, tea and coffee were happily consumed at the special Hatley Coffee Morning on 1st October. it was given over to...
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Harvest Service – thanks for the flowers, fruit and veg

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Harvest Service in Hatley St George Church, 2019 – fruit and flowers: 13th October 2019.

The Revd Norman Young stood in for his wife, the Revd Hilary Young (our parish priest), to take the Harvest Service in Hatley St...
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Hatley Village Fête 2019 – the photos

A fine time was had by all on Sunday, 21st July

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Hatley Village Fete, 21st July 2019 – an ice cream van, police car, craft stalls, children's games, bouncy castle and an interesting display of classic cars kept everyone amused.

The weather was kind and lots of people came along on Sunday, 21st July to enjoy the tea tent, bouncy castle, children’s games and...
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Heroes and heroines from the 2019 Hatley litter pick

A big thank-you to them all

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Typical result of a Hatley litter pick – many filled bin bags, which South Cambs District Council takes away.

Neal Barton, Sarah Brennan, Margot Eagle, Jeremy Hooper, Mervyn Lack, John O’Sullivan and Martin Ward all did wonders on 24th March. And not forgetting Harold...
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HOD raised over £250!

Every little helps the Friends of Friendless Churches to complete its St Denis’ project

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St Denis' church, East-Hatley was open over the weekend on 13th to 15th September 2019 for the Heritage Open Days festival. Over 100 people came to look round and generously donated £252.45 to the Friends of Friendless Churches, which owns the building to help in its endeavours to complete the restoration of the church.

Actually, it was £267.45 – over three gloriously sunny days in mid-September as 103 people (some on bikes, some with children and two with...
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St Denis’ churchyard tidy-up, 2019

17 volunteers cut and cleared it on 4th August 2019

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Happy volunteers at the St Denis' church East Hatley, Cambridgeshire, churchyard tidy-up on 4th August 2019.

By Nicola Jenkins Many hands made lighter work! A fantastic turnout of 17 volunteers at St Denis’ churchyard worked hard on Sunday morning, 4...
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We’re in the news!

The Hatley website hits the headlines (almost)

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The Friends of Friendless Churches owns St Denis’ in East Hatley – along with 51 other redundant churches in England and Wales. Here’s a...
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A little less of St Denis

Lost in the great fire at Notre Dame Cathedral

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St Denis' statue in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. He was beheaded around 250 AD - Notre-Dame was built on the site of his church 900 years later. A relic of St Denis, placed in the weather vane atop the cathedral's spire in the 1830s was lost in the devastating fire of 15th April 2019. [Photo by Thesupermat-CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21763309]

Saint Denis was a 3rd-century Christian martyr and saint – martyred for his faith by decapitation, thus now portrayed carrying his head in his...
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Hatley Parish Council’s finances, 2018 / 2019

All the facts and figures

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Hatley Parish Council’s financial results and audit documents for 2018 / 2019 are now available for you to scrutinise. All the files are downloadable...
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New Parish Council chairman

Plus 2019 reports

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Hatley Parish Council, 21st May 2019 - L/R: Nicola Jenkins, Harold Nickerson, Micky Astor (Deputy Chairman), Alan Pinney (Chairman), Margot Eagle and Kim Wilde (Clerk).

Alan Pinney is Hatley Parish Council’s new Chairman – he took over the role from Margot Eagle at the Annual Meetings on 21st May,...
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Retired after 15 years

Goodbye to the original Hatley website

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Well, that was the website that was. After 15 years of faithful service, time for a long rest for the old design now we’ve...
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Someone nicked our children sign

Do you know what happened?

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One of the 'Children' signs in Hatley St George, Cambridgeshire – it was stolen on 6th January 2019 and we'd like it back please.

You will have noticed the two original (and a bit worn looking) ‘children’ signs in Hatley St George have gone. The one above was...
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What’s on

Things going on in and near Hatley

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WHAT’S ON? NOT A LOT, Including our regular listings (Coffee Morning, Parish Council meetings etc) – all postponed or cancelled ‘due to COVID-19’. What else? ...
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General election result

Conservatives hold the seat – with a much reduced majority

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Hatley Village Hall is our polling station.

The result of the election in our South Cambridgeshire parliamentary seat on Thursday, 12th December was: Conservative majority – 2,904 (15,952 in 2017) Number...
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