Bergholt Heath YFC - 22nd February

Under 10
Bergholt Heath 7 - 1 Boxford
A Sabini 2, A Marley 2, L Bloomfield, M James, OG

Under 13
Bergholt Heath 0 - 19 Colchester Athletic

Under 14
Stanway Villa 7 - 0 Bergholt Heath

Under 15
Bergholt Heath 1 - 5 Woodbridge Town
D Bennell

Women's Institute - February Report

Vice - president Barbara Buckley welcomed everyone.The committee still needs volunteers to run Members Meeting in March. Speaker John Morgan has been booked to talk about Town Watch in Colchester.

Members are reminded to bring the requested toiletries to the March meeting. They will be taken to the County Annual Meeting at Towerlands Equestrian Centre for George Mills to transport to the orphanage at Chernigov. The county resolution to abolish hospital car park charges was carried and the delegate will vote on our behalf at Towerlands.

The treasurer reported 38 paid up members so far but poor weather had lowered attendance for the first two months. The committee decided to organise a coffee morning later in the year instead of the usual afternoon tea party.

Blue Peter's Mission Nutrition Appeal

A Bring and Buy is being held on Friday 13 February in St Mary's Church Hall from 3pm to 5pm  in support of Blue Peter's Mission Nutrition which aims to be the world's biggest bring and buy sale by coordinating sales country-wide with one at Lakeside.

Mission Nutrition wants to help children both within the UK and around the world to eat well and grow their own food by getting two million meals to hungry children, and helping them to grow healthy food for themselves!  

Toys, games, CDs ,DvDs and videos can be brought to the hall between 8.15am and 9.30am.  Tea and cakes will be available throughout the sale.

Gardeners Association Update

The Gardeners' Association resume their meetings on Monday 16 February in the Orpen Memorial Hall Lexden Road at 7.30pm. Speaker Andrew Tokeley's talk is entitled What to Grow - new for 2009.

(Pictured right is Rose - Star of Britain, a stunning bold, crimson floribunda in honour of Skandia Team GBR’s sailors Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson, who compete in the Star Class.) 

Bergholt Heath YFC - 8th February

All matches this weekend were cancelled due to weather.  A full programme is in place for next weekend weather permitting.

Community Policing

Recent months have seen change in the way the police interact with the community. The changes are described in full on our website here but, in summary, we now have 3 groups interacting to ensure policing is delivered in response to local needs:

• the Neighbourhood Support Team (NST) comprise 3 officers dedicated to the area around West Bergholt and other nearby villages,
• the Neighbourhood Action Panel (NAP) is a local volunteer-lead group who are fulfiling the objectives of a government-initiated plan to set policing priorities locally, and
• the Neighbourhood Watch (NW) who are crucial to ensuring local eyes and ears are deployed in seeking out local problems and issues.

These bodies work together and complement each other well but although the NST, NAP and NW already in place we are still looking for somebody to act as a local NW Area Co-ordinator.  If you feel you could help the NW please contact them on 241716.

Bergholt Youth Group now ready for action

The Bergholt Youth Group (BYG) is now formally established and looking forward to running Club evenings every two weeks on a Friday from 6.30 to 8.30 at the John Lampon Hall starting on Friday 13th February.  The Club is open to all village residents between 11 and 16 (Years 6 to 11) and a variety of events and activities will be available with the aim of trying to provide something new for each session (at least initially).  

The Club will be staffed by volunteers and more are needed.  If you are able to help please contact Eddie Cote on 242258 or Harry Stone on 241026.

Read more on the village website here.