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St Nicholas Church Update
It has been a very bleak year for
St Nicholas with all our services and
activities cancelled and the church
building closed, due to the necessary
restrictions imposed during Covid-19
lockdowns.
Looking ahead, our next church
festival will be Easter, on 4 April.
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We are planning to celebrate this in a
similar way to last year, so do please
watch for the posters and view
the Ickford community website for
information. We will do our best to
enable public worship to take place,
following Government Guidelines.
We hope it won’t be long before our
normal pattern of monthly services
is resumed.
We are looking forward to
Rendezvous and Little Stars being
held again as so many people have Exploration at Turnfields
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missed these weekly events and
the opportunities to meet up with
friends. A C H IE V IN G A
Puppet Club has been on hold for
a year and this is expected to start
COMMITMENT
again in September.
Garden Fete C OM M IT M E N T
As things stand with the Government
road map, it seems extremely
unlikely that the Garden Fete will be
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held on 31 May. However, we are IS A PAINFULLY SLOW PROCESS
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exploring the possibility of holding
it when all restrictions are lifted,
probably the end of August or the AM SURE THAT YOU WILL ALL BE ACUTELY AWARE THAT THE VILLAGE
beginning of September, for what I will have an extra 96 homes in the very near future. 66 homes will be
is our major social and traditional
village event. built on the site to the left of the Rising Sun Pub (Deansfield Homes) and
30 at the other end of the village at the end of Turnfields.
Thank you all for your patience with
closures during the past twelve
months, and we hope to see you at Adding this number of homes to a village of only The Ickford Residents Group (IRG) was
St Nicholas again very soon. v 279 may appear excessive but as long as the formed to ensure that these deficiencies in
village infrastructure can support these additions the local infrastructure are highlighted and
IN THIS ISSUE then there are positives. to lobby heavily for improvement until a
satisfactory state is achieved or the housing
• A message from John Ronane 3 Affordable housing, which there will be on both developments revised.
• Book Reviews 4 sites, should both retain and add to the number of
• Community Boards 5 younger people living in the village. Also, I’m sure The IRG works alongside the Parish Council in
• Ickford Pre-School 5 the village shop and Rising Sun will welcome the
• Ickford Parish Council 6 the pursuit of improvements to our village but
• Nature Notes 8 increase in population. whereas the Parish Council is empowered it is
• Time for Ickford to Vote 9 also constrained in ways that the IRG is not.
• Friends of St Nicholas Church 9 However, the local infrastructure falls well short in
• Ickford Village Show 10 four key areas which are surface water drainage, It is a slow and painful process to obtain
• Village Hall Update 10 foul sewer capacity, school places and safe commitment to these essential improvements
highway access. as we are dealing with both local and central
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