14 January 2020 - Poll Cards for referendum
13 January 2020 - Referendum on SP Neighbourhood Plan
Dear all,
A referendum on the Sutton Poyntz Neighbourhood Plan will be held on Thursday 13 February 2020. Basically those within the neighbourhood area and on the electoral register are eligible to vote yes or no on the question :-
“Do you want Dorset Council to use the neighbourhood plan for Sutton Poyntz to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?”
You should already have received your poll cards if you are eligible (if in doubt you can ring 01305 838299 during normal office hours to find out) and voting will take place at the Mission Hall between 7am and 10pm on Thursday 13 February 2020
Full details are available on the SP Website at http://suttonpoyntz.org.uk/neighbourhood/referendum, on the Council website https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/sutton-poyntz-neighbourhood-plan or at South Walks House, Dorchester and Littlemoor Library.
Regards
Chris
8 January 2020 - Charity Coffee Morning
Dear all,
Some advance notice of a Charity Coffee Morning being held in the Mission Hall for a very good cause, Cancer Research UK. Their tag line is “A coffee morning to beat Cancer sooner”, which I’m sure is a sentiment with which we would all agree. The date for you to scribe in your diaries or electronic devices is Friday 24 January between 10 am and noon. It costs £3 a person for your coffee and cake, and there will be a chance to enter a raffle to further swell the funds. We all know people who have been affected by cancer, so please drop in, enjoy the company and refreshments and give generously to help bring forward new treatments for this modern scourge. Hilary Davidson is the person to contact (830846) if you have any queries.
Best regards
Chris
28 December 2019 - Next year's Coffee Morning
Dear all,
Just time to wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year before reminding you of the Coffee Morning in the Mission Hall this coming Friday, 3 January, between 10.30am and 12 noon. This will be an oasis of calm and reflection after the hectic events of the festive season. A chance to casually mention the gifts you received – that Cartier watch or the hamper from Harrods food hall that needed three men to carry it into your kitchen – or to discuss the unseasonably dry weather we have been experiencing, or to debate the exciting events documented in the recent SP Newsletter. For just £3 you will receive tea/coffee, a piece of delicious homemade cake and all the conversation you could desire, some of it even your own. So see you next year, if not before.
Best regards
Chris
10 December 2019 - Carol Service
Dear all,
The Mission Hall Trust Festival of Lessons and Carols for the festive season will be on Monday, 16 December outside the Mission Hall at 6.30pm, accompanied by the Salvation Army Band. Afterwards seasonable refreshments - which certainly means a mince pie or two - will be available in the Hall itself. The combination of the Salvation Army Brass Band, lessons and carols in the open air is always a lovely start to the festive season. Make sure you don't miss it.
Regards
Chris
3 December 2019 - Christmas
Dear all,
Don’t forget the special Coffee Morning in the Mission Hall this coming Friday 6 December between 10.30am and 12 noon. Special because it will be Christmas themed, because your coffee (or in my case, very weak tea) plus piece of delicious homemade cake will be free and because you will be served by the gentlemen, not the ladies on this occasion – a chance perhaps to compare the quality of service? I will be wearing one of my three Christmas jumpers – haven’t decided which yet – and you can do the same if you like. I hear that the hall will be decorated, and that there might also be some discrete Christmas music in the background. A free start to Christmas this Friday morning at the Mission hall. Don’t miss it.
Oh yes, after my mention of Peter Hyde and family with their Christmas tree plantation in Dorset, a number of you pointed out that a picture of Peter and his trees appeared in no less a publication than the Times newspaper. Unfortunately there was no mention of Sutton Poyntz!
And if you have a feeling of déjà vu regarding the subjects of this Newsbite, you are right. They are the same as the last one. It is because three of you out there – you know who you are – have the same memory problems as I do and need a reminder.
Best regards
Chris
27 November 2019 - Christmas is coming
Dear all,
We always seem to be surrounded by reminders of how fast time is passing, and another cropped up just recently This was an announcement that Trinity Street Christmas Trees is celebrating thirty years of trading with a number of carbon-reducing initiatives. Owners Peter Hyde, wife Tamzin and their two daughters are local residents. In the years when Sutton Poyntz had a Christmas Tree on the village green, it was Peter and his business who supported the event. So many congratulations on thirty years, thanks for helping out the village in the past and well done with the environmental measures, which have included planting their own Christmas tree farm in Dorset!
And while on the subject of the approaching festivities, the next Coffee Morning in the Mission Hall on Friday 6 December between 10.30am and 12 noon will be Christmas themed, and what’s more the refreshments will be free! Yes, that’s right, your favourite beverage and a piece of delicious cake – including some specially baked for the occasion (rumours of a unique Stollen are rife) – will cost you absolutely nothing. This event is the one where the gentlemen take over service from the ladies, and will be marked with the wearing of festive hats and jumpers. If you want to join in the fun – though it is not obligatory – dig out that Christmas Reindeer Roll-neck or Snow Scene Sweater and wear it on the day.
Best regards
Chris
20 November 2019 - BBC Children in Need
Dear All,
The BBC Children in Need appeal is well underway, and Sutton Poyntz will be joining in to raise money for the many good causes that it supports. At the Mission Hall this coming Saturday, 23 November, between 11.30am and 4pm tea, coffee and yummy cakes will be available, and over lunch time homemade soup and a ploughmans lunch will set you back just £6 per person. As the soup is being made Dave Burge, whose culinary skills are legendary, and it is being organised by Maureen (the Move, 835533), it's well worth postponing what you had intended to do and make a special visit the Mission Hall. So drop in just for coffee and cake or something more substantial on Saturday; the conversation is an added bonus, and all the proceeds will go to Children in Need.
Regards
Chris