BADMINTON
The club meets at the Village Hall every Tuesday - from 7.30pm
Anyone wishing to join, should contact: Mr T. Elliot on 01305 267897
BELL RINGING
St Martin’s Church has a ring of 6 bells which were cast and set in an iron frame by John Taylor, Bellfounders of Loughborough, and incorporated the metal of the one remaining bell from an earlier ring of 4 bells. The new bells, costing £877, were paid for by funds raised through public subscription and were hung in 1947. They are Martinstown’s war memorial to the 5 men of this village who were killed on active service during the Second World War and whose names are commemorated on a tablet at the west end of the nave. The bells are tuned in the pitch of A, the tenor weighing 8 cwt.
We ring for the 11.00 service on the 4th Sunday of the month and practice nights are Wednesdays at 7.30pm. We are particularly short of ringers at the moment so everybody, ringers and novices alike, is very welcome.
Contact is Mr Howard Bowering - 01305 889951
Blanchard is the name of the confidential trust managed by a group of people for Winterborne St. Martin. It was set up under the will of Joseph Blanchard in 1804 to specifically help the villagers. Today, the Trust can help in a much wider sense.
The Trustees have obtained permission to alter the terms of the Trust. To this effect, new capital is being raised so that anyone - adult, child or organisation - in the Parish of Winterborne St. Martin who has sudden misfortune or need which cannot be met quickly by the statutory services, can apply for financial help.
For more information, contact Mrs Fran Taylor on 889963 or one of the other Trustees.
BROWNIES
CONTACT:
Lisa Upward - Tel: 01305 265574
Email: lisa.upward@btinternet.com
CUBS, BEAVERS & SCOUTS
Indoor and outdoor activities for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. We meet every monday from 5.45pm till 7.15pm at Martinstown Village Hall.
Adult helpers are sought (no previous experience necessary).
For more information call - Jenny
Tel: 01305 889023
ECHO CORRESPONDENT
CONTACT:Mrs M.Marchant - Tel: 01305 889225
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GIRL GUIDES
CONTACT:Mrs A.Hallett - Tel: 01305 813804
KEEP FIT
Keep Fit group for the over 40's
'DO AS MUCH AS YOU FEEL LIKE'
Do you want to liven up your life? Why not come and join us on Friday mornings from 10 - 11am in the Village Hall.
It's fun, we have a qualified instructor and we all feel better afterwards.
Further details from Elaine on 880120 or Angela 889628 - £3.50 per session or just turn up!
MARTINSTOWN CRICKET CLUB (MCC)
CONTACT:
Mr J.O'Brien - Tel: 01305 889345
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MILEATERS (WALKERS)
Martinstown Mileaters are a group who walk together, usually once a fortnight, to enjoy all that the Dorset countryside has to offer.
We began as a group in the early 1990s, walking the entire Dorset Coastal Path in linear sections, with the co-operation of a few car drivers! Since then we have repeated this worthwhile experience. The mileaters take in turn a responsibility to organise a walk of approximately four to eight miles, the leader preferably pre-rambling in advance of the walk. Each of us is allocated two fortnights in the course of the year; they select their own choice of walk and the day within this time, and publicise it to members by e-mail and notices posted in the village bus shelter and outside the shop.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays have proved most popular. Walkers meet on the Village Green at 10am with a picnic lunch in the summer months and hopes of a pub lunch in the winter.
We are very informally structured having just one business/social evening meeting a year, at the beginning of December, when we plan the next year's programme; the printing of this is covered by a token (one pound) annual subscription.
If you like walking and are likely to be free most weekdays, why not join us? Contact Margaret Hearing Tel: 01305 889346 or Bruce Robertson Tel: 01305 880008
MWMC (CYCLING GROUP)
Meets Every Tuesday 7.30 pm for offroad (Muddy rides) from various locations throughout Dorset especially the Brewers Arms our spiritual home, followed by a few pints.
Contact: best.ridex2@homecall.co.uk for details or look up MWMC on Facebook.
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ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
Mr Des Baker - Tel: 01305 267617– CLICK HERE for NEWS
SHORT MAT BOWLS
Every Wednesday evening - 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Cost is £1.50 each plus 20p for a cup of tea. We have the bowls - you bring your own warm socks for a very pleasant social evening.
TABLE TENNIS
We meet for table tennis every Monday in the village hall 2.30 to 3.30
We are a friendly group who have fun. Anyone interested would be most welcome to come and see what we are about.
Margaret Ashworth - Tel: 01305 889268
TAICHI
CONTACT:Lesley Collington- Tel: 01305 889387
THE VALLEY CLUB
CONTACT:Pat Willetts - Tel: 01305 889597
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THE VILLAGE HALL
100 CLUB
A 100 Club which raises funds in support of the Village Hall in Martinstown was begun ten years ago in July 1998. Members contribute one pound a month, or £12 yearly, and the Club pays out monthly prizes of £25, £10 and £5. So, the loyal support of the hundred has resulted in the Hall Committee receiving over £7000 towards the many costs they have to meet, and the village benefits by having a Village Hall of which we can all be proud!
If you would like to join in when a vacancy arises, please let Margaret Hearing know on 01305 889346.
WASTEWATCH (RECYCLING)
The Martinstown Waste Watch Group began their independent collection of used newspapers and magazines in the village nearly twenty years ago in 1989.
Since then we have raised almost £1000 a year - £19,728 to be exact. This money can be used by any established group, such as Cub Scouts, Cricket Club, and Toddlers’ Group. It has provided the village with many amenities – for example, seats on the Green and Information Stand, cricket nets and tents for Guides. Currently there is over £1000 in the bank and applications for grants are welcomed by the Group’s Treasurer, Dave Clark.
Offers of help to join the regular paper-collectors are invited. This involves one week’s transport of papers from the two deep freezers outside the Village Hall and Parish Office to a depot at Church Farm, and your turn comes round every nine or ten weeks. Additional help would be appreciated by the hard-working regulars!
The Group Organiser is Mike Parkin Tel: 889624.
WOMEN'S INSTITUTE (WI)
CONTACT:
Jill Pearce - Tel: 01305 889295
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CLUBS NEWS
BROWNIES NEWS
IT’S 2010 – and we are planning many activities for our centenary year.
The first meeting back in January was a horrible sleety night so we began the term by baking cakes and designing badges for the district centenary picnic. Every Brownie took home 6 cakes fresh from the oven and we are looking forward to more cooking as it was such a success.
This half term Domino, Sophie, Kate, Rebecca and Jasmine will be making their promise and we will be showing their parents the puppet show that had to be postponed from before Christmas.
For Thinking Day we will celebrating with the rest of the division with a fun afternoon in Charlton Down and we will be sending Guiding flowers to Canada to say thank you for the lovely photo frames that they posted to us for Christmas.
There is plenty of room for new recruits. So if your daughter is aged between 7 and 9 ½ and would like to join please send me an email or give me a call in the evenings.
Lisa
This has been a fairly quiet year for the Trust, with only four requests for financial assistance. These were met by grants totalling £825.
No fund raising events were held during the year, as the plans to hold an arts festival were cancelled through lack of support. However, the Trust is indebted to the generosity of Friends who made contributions of £450. The Trust also benefited from Gift Aid on Friends’ gifts from the previous year of nearly £120.
A sad event during the year was the death of Harry Bowering who had been a Trustee for over 50 years – kind donations at his funeral swelled the Trust’s funds by over £300. Interest from the Trust’s accounts was just over £48 which at 12% of the previous year reflects the current financial climate.
During the second half of the year the Trustees have been giving consideration to the Trust’s constitution and are currently pursuing revisions to its wording with the Charity Commission, in order to take into account changes in social and community structure.
There have been two resignations of Trustees, both Gillian McCourtie and Geraldine Canniford stepping down, both after giving several years of service. Their contributions have been much appreciated by their fellow Trustees, who have expressed admiration for Geraldine’s leadership in particular.
The current Chairman, Mrs Fran Taylor, would be interested in hearing from anyone who feels that they could make a contribution to the Trust, either as a Trustee or as a Friend. Anyone interested should contact Fran on 889963 or the Clerk, Nigel Power (889910).