Our April 2016 Newsletter

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Our latest Newsletter is here:  Newsletter 04 (Apr 2016)

APRIL 2016 UPDATE

We have confirmed the details of our revised restoration quotes, so now have a like-for-like comparison.

We have heard that our March application for the EDP Community Chest campaign was successful. We are being awarded £200 which will be put towards the Barnham Broom Village Fete in aid of the Bells Appeal. The second Barnham Broom application via the Parish Council was unsuccessful. We are still collecting tokens in Barnham Broom for local causes. So please continue to cut out the tokens printed daily in your EDP and drop them into the collection box at Barnham Broom Post Office & Stores.

A big thank you to everyone involved with the Quiz Night on Saturday 16^th April. This hugely enjoyable evening raised just over £575 towards the Barnham Broom Church Bells Restoration Appeal. Our next event is the Mardling evening with Keith Skipper and Ian Prettyman at Barnham Broom Church and tickets for this are available from Barnham Broom Post Office & Stores. Please do come and join us. See our posters for further information. 

Our thanks once again for your continued support and donations. Our total fund plus pledges has now reached over £19,000.  

Quiz Night for the Bells Appeal - thank you

Thank you to all who joined us for our sell-out Bangers & Mash Quiz Night in aid of the Barnham Broom Church Bells Restoration Appeal.  

Thanks also to the organisers, helpers, those who provided prizes and especially the cooks and our quiz master Tony Baker.

The competition was very close.

The results of the quiz were:

1 Morecambe & Not So Wise 105 points & tie-breaker

2 IQs 105 points

3 Oddbins 104 points

Thanks to all your support for this well attended and hugely enjoyable evening which raised just over £575 towards the Barnham Broom Church Bells Restoration Appeal.

Keith Skipper and Ian Prettyman in Barnham Broom

We are proud to present two of the area’s best-known performers as part of their fundraising tour of local churches.

Writer, broadcaster and entertainer Keith Skipper is again teaming up with Methodist preacher Ian Prettyman for a Mardling and Music Evening in aid of our Church Bells Restoration Appeal at St Peter and St Paul Church Barnham Broom NR9 4DB on Saturday, May 21st. 

Keith, based in Cromer, and Ian, from Lowestoft, have appeared together on many occasions as part of productions of All Preacher Great and Small in churches and as members of the much-loved Press Gang entertainment troupe in theatres and village halls over a period of 25 years.

“We make regular use of our inter-county rivalry on these outings but always find complete harmony when it comes to the target in mind – encouraging local communities to support a vital drive for extra finances “ says Keith. “We are delighted to include Barnham Broom on the last lap of our great adventure in so many wonderful local buildings.”

While Keith shares favourite church and chapel yarns and verses as well as a Bible reading in his beloved Norfolk dialect, his colleague provides musical items, including traditional East Anglian farming and fishing songs and a rousing medley on his melodeon.

Doors open 7pm for a 7.30pm start and the show runs without a break until about 9pm. Then it’s time for mardling, a raffle in aid of the Bells Appeal and refreshments.

Tickets are £10 per person and go on sale at our Quiz evening on Saturday, April 16th. Following this they can be purchased from Barnham Broom Post Office & Stores.

Refreshments are included in the ticket price and Parking is available.

"Middle age is when, if you have a choice between two temptations, you select the one that will get you home earlier."  Keith Skipper Nov 2015

EDP Community Chest March Applications

Thanks to more tokens being dropped in to the village shop on Monday 4th, we had enough to post both Barnham Broom March applications ready for Friday's deadline.

Thanks also to those who volunteered extra tokens via Private Messages.

Spare EDP Community Chest March tokens please?

Thank you to everyone for the March EDP Community Chest tokens from the collection box at Barnham Broom Post Office & Store and via Barnham Broom & District WI.

We have sufficient March EDP tokens to apply again this month as we were not successful in February.

We are just under 70 tokens short for an application on behalf of a second Barnham Broom project and one has been nominated by the Parish Council.

If you still have any March EDP tokens, please drop them into the collection box at Barnham Broom Post Office & Store or let us know where they can be collected from so that we can make the second application before the deadline of Friday, April 8.

If our applications are not successful, we will be able to try again. So please do carry on cutting out the tokens printed daily in your EDP and dropping them into the collection box at Barnham Broom Post Office & Store.

Thank you