News and Information about Ilton

3/1 Ilton Talking February 2003

Friends of St.Mary & St.Peter's First School, Ilton Base

St Mary & St Peter's First School News

Would you like to join a club that is free, that helps to prevent crime, and only takes 2 hours each month and can save you money on your insurance?
Then Neighbourhood Watch needs you.

We are trying to involve all of Ilton, but we need your help.

How it works: firstly we need as many co-ordinators as possible. A co-ordinator can involve as many houses as they want. It may be a whole street, it does not matter, you choose. Then we ask you to be vigilant Anything you see that is suspicious, it may be a stranger walking up and down, a strange car at a strange time.

We then ask you to telephone two other co-ordinators who will in turn telephone two more and so on. This enables us to watch whatever it is and if necessary telephone the Police.

Once we have co-ordinators we will be able to hold an informative meeting with the Police to set up an official scheme.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE telephone the number below if you can spare just a little time and help to keep our village safe for all of us.

IT DOES WORK!!!

Please telephone Mandy Bulgin on 01460 55255 Back to top

St Peters Church-Summer Fete

Our Annual Fete will be held on Saturday 7th June from 2.30pm-4.30pm.
If you would like to help, please contact Ron Artingstall on 54195 or Chris Lock on 53142. Any help and new ideas will be most welcome.
There will be the usual stalls and we shall be asking later on for contributions of Good Books, Gifts, Toiletries, Cakes (on the day), Plants, Bric-a-Brac, Tins & Bottles, Toys, Hankies and Draw prizes. Back to top

Coffee Pot

Do please come along to the Memorial Hall for tea, coffee and biscuits
and a friendly chat with old and new friends on alternate Tuesdays.
For more information please contact Mrs Blasdale on 53907. Back to top

Friends of St.Mary & St.Peter's First School, Ilton Base

Easter egg hunt

The Easter egg hunt will be held on Saturday 12th April.
Between 10am and 12 noon at the school.

There will be Refreshments and a draw.

All are welcome, please come along and support your local School.

Summer Fayre

Early warning of our Summer Fayre which will be held at the School on Saturday 28th June 2003.

Please watch out for further details nearer the time. Back to top

Ilton Youth Club

We are still running every Monday night 7pm-9pm.

We would like to see more of our members as we have lots more ideas. We are continuing to fundraise towards a new pool table and hope to be holding a quiz night once a month and an indoor games night. If your child is 8yrs or over feel free to come along to one of the Monday sessions and see what we do.

If you can offer any help please contact June 55845 or Kim 55562. Back to top

50+ Club

The 50+ club meets once a month in the Memorial Hall.

Various activities are organised and guest speakers are
Invited to give talks. Please come along and enjoy some refreshments
and a chat.

For further details please contact Sheila Funnell on 57309 Back to top

New Web Site

As well as the inclusion on the South Somerset District Council Web Site, we now have our own village web site that can be updated very quickly with information about the village.

This can be found at www.iltontalking.ik.com

The site is provided free of charge to community groups.
It is still being developed and it is hoped to have information about all the village groups. If anyone can supply any photos of Ilton or have any history about the village that can be included on the site I would be most grateful. Also if you have any ideas of what you would like to see included on the site that may be useful please let me know.

You can either contact me via the web site or on 53382. Back to top

St Mary & St Peter's First School News

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and we wish you all a Happy and Peaceful New Year.

The Christmas plays went very well and congratulations to all children and staff who worked very hard to put on these productions. The fact that many children were not well made rehearsals difficult but all went well in the end.

The Carol Service was lovely and the grand total of £103.76 was sent to CLIC to help children suffering from leukaemia. Thank you to all who helped to raise this magnificent sum.

This half term promises to be quite busy with several dates to remember. On February 4th KS1 children are visiting Bristol for Science workshops about "Pushes and Pulls". KS2 will go in March.

An open day will be held on February 19th when parents can look at children?s work with the children. Refreshments will be served.

School breaks up for half term on Friday 21st February and re-opens on Tuesday 4th March. March 3rd is an INSET day for staff.

We are very keen this year to focus on children's reading and maths. We would encourage you to listen to your child/children read at home and write in the Reading Record how much was read and any comments you have. Teachers will hear children read as often as possible too. We believe that is very important for children to read to adults on a daily basis to practice new skills.
If you can spare time to hear readers in school, please talk to your child's class teacher.

Advance notice-
March 6th is World Book Day and we are planning activities in school to mark this day on March 7th. Details later.

We are considering holding a workshop/s for parents to show how we teach maths in school and how parents can help their children's maths development if they wish.
If you would be interested in attending please complete the form attached and return to school as soon as possible. Thank you.

March 4th is Shrove Tuesday and we will be holding the usual Egg Shackling, Decorated Egg Competition and cooking pancakes. The OFSTED inspector is curious to see Egg Shackling. Back to top

St Peter's Church

From the Team Vicar of the parishes of Ashill, Broadway, Donyatt, Horton, Ilton, Isle Abbots and Isle Brewers.

The Revd Dr Andrew Tatham
The Rectory, Broadway
ILMINSTER, TAl9 9RE
O146O 52559

I would like to thank everyone in Ilton for the warm welcome you have given Margaret and me since our arrival in late October. It is still early days, and I have not met everyone in the parish by a long way, but I hope that will change gradually over the coming months.

Although I live in Broadway, I am quite often in Ilton and can easily get over to see any one of you. There doesn't have to be a specific reason, but if you have just moved in, or would like a visit for any reason, please phone me (there is an answerphone if I am out). Similarly, I would be delighted to speak to anyone who is contemplating getting married, or having a member of the family baptised, or to anyone who would be interested in learning more about the Christian faith and perhaps in confirmation.

It would also be good to speak to anyone who is interested in caring for the church in any way, whether in practical matters, or in the work of the Parochial Church Council. Finally, the church is here in Ilton to serve all of those who live in Ilton, but it is not a job I can do on my own, and neither can I guess what your needs are So do make contact, either by letter or phone, or by coming along to one of the services, Sunday by Sunday.

I look forward to seeing you and hearing from you.
In the meantime, all good wishes and blessings to you from

Andrew.

St Peter's Church
Service Times Each Month

1st Sunday 9.30am Holy Communion

2nd Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion

3rd Sunday 11.00am Parish Praise

4th Sunday 11.15am Morning Praise

We look forward to seeing you at some or all of our services.
Everyone is welcome.

We were all very pleased to welcome our new team vicar, the Reverend Dr. Andrew Tatham and his wife, Margaret, at the end of October and we wish them good health and happiness in the future Back to top

Recreation Field

Skating Area
Plans for the new Skating Area are well underway. Consultations have now taken place with the young people at the School and youth club about the shape, equipment and layout of the area. Once this has been completed work can begin on constructing the surface.

BMX Track
The BMX track, which was built last year, will be having some maintenance
work done shortly. This will involve recovering the surface, which has worn
due to use and weathering. Material was left over following the construction
which will be used for this purpose. Back to top

Ilton Mothers and Toddlers

Tuesdays at 2.00pm until 3.00pm, and Thursdays at 1.30pm until 3.00pm.

We meet at Merryfield Pre-School which is situated on the school base in Copse Lane.

Come and join us for a coffee and a chat while the children enjoy playing with the numerous toys and games or arts and crafts.

For further information contact Sharon on 54723 or Anita on 54624. Back to top

Merryfield Pre-School

We are a small but friendly group registered with Ofsted which means we now accept the Government funded vouchers. We are also running Five sessions per week Monday to Friday from 9.00am until 1.00pm.

Your child will grow and learn through various stimulating activities and play with us.

Merryfield pre-school is situated on the school base at Ilton in Copse Lane.

For further information please contact the supervisor Anita Cox on 54624. Back to top

Memorial Hall News

Miss Ilton.
We are looking for Miss Ilton 2003-2004! To enter this competition, (which is being run by the village hall fundraising committee with all profits made going towards the new hall funds), you must live in the village and be aged between 5 - 12 years old. You will be given sheets of squares to sell at 20p each, all squares that you sell will go in for a small raffle and whoever sells the most squares will win the title. The competition will run from 15th March to the 31st May and please note girls that you MUST have your parents permission to enter.
As the winner of our competition you will receive a special dress and sash & £20.00 cash prize whilst the runner up will receive a dress and £10.00 cash prize.The winner will be anounced on Monday 2nd June and she will be crowned on July 5th at the Ilton village fete.
If you are interested please phone either Jacqueline (54164) or June (55845). Good luck!

HOORAY!! We all say! At last the application form for the national lottery has been sent in and as far as we are aware we believe we are now in line to be heard at their March meeting so it?s fingers crossed until then.
Whilst we are on the subject of the lottery form it should be mentioned that Ilton owes a great deal to the dedicated few who have persevered with this form. ?Fill in a form, shouldn?t take too long? we all said ....... how wrong we were! The lottery form itself is very complicated and really needs the attention of professional fund raisers, but as we are all purely volunteers it took a long time with many meetings taking place and lots of advice listened to. Not only did we have to fill out a long and complicated form but then we had to come up with a business plan, something none of us had ever had dealings with before. So these two combined just added to the headaches and, in particular, the time factor, (eventually we did seek professional advice on this). In conclusion, the finished document is almost 200 pages long which only further demonstrates the length of time needed, and whilst the committee members did their best to help we must note that it was the dedication & commitment of our chairman, treasurer and secretary that has finally got the document sent off and whether we are successful or not, the residents of Ilton do owe a great deal of thanks for all the hard work put in over the past couple of years. we really do hope we are successful so that we can continue to keep our community together ~ a strength we have been working on over the past two years and as most of you will hopefully agree is, at last, coming together.

Our Thanks...............

We would like to personally thank the following people for their help of fundraising over the recent months, we do appreciate all of your efforts and kindness;
~ Mrs Sam Watson for raising £86.00 selling hampers during 2002
~ The whist club for their continued support, last year a total of £1,100 was donated to the hall
~ Gary (landlord of the Wyndham Arms) for the donation of the prize money for the skittles evening - a total sum of £240 was made and then equally divided between the hall, church and school
~ Anita Cox for running a sign language course and donating all entrance money to the hall (currently still taking place)
~ Mrs Rachel Follett for her kind donation of a microwave for the hall.

We would also like to thank all of the groups that continue to use the hall - as we have already said we do hope to have a brand new hall for all of you soon, and we would especially like to thank the parish council for their continued support and encouragement.

AGM..............

Please keep a look out over the next couple of months for the posters of our annual AGM ...... we would love to see as many of you as possible and we always welcome people who would like to join our committee!

Look elsewhere in this newsletter for a competition with a chance to win a bottle of wine, details of our most ambitious project yet.....the Ilton village fete, results of the survey and a chance for all
the 5 - 12 year old girls to become Miss Ilton! Back to top

Ilton village Fete

Saturday 5th July 11am till late

This year the village hall fund raising committee are venturing into our most ambitious project yet! We are holding a fete running through the centre of Ilton with all sorts of attractions, details of which will be advertised over the next couple of months but for now we would like you to read the following and see if anything interests you.........

A Public Meeting

We are holding a meeting at the village hall on Friday 28th February from 8 - 9 pm to report back on progress from our initial meeting & then to ask if there are any other villagers willing to help in the organisation and running of this very busy day! If you would like to hear more and hopefully offer your help please come along to the hall - we?ll look forward to seeing you there.

An Invitation

We want this to be a village affair and hereby invite all organisations within Ilton to join in. If you feel there is a particular area you could run for us (ie; childrens area, dog show etc.) and are prepared to organise and run it on the day then all the profits from that area would go to your organisation. Please note that refreshments, floral competition, craft fayre, car boot and classic car exhibition have already been taken. Any enquiries please phone June on 57099.

Ilton Comes First

The residents of Ilton are invited to book a place at the car boot, a stall in the street or a table at the indoor craft fayre first. For any enquiries please phone the follwing numbers

Stall in the street £5.00, June on 57099

Indoor craft fayre HALF PRICE of £10.00 to Ilton residents only, Sheila on 57309

Car boot, Anne on 55208 Back to top

Village Hall Survey Results

A village survey was carried out last year in order for us to complete part of the National Lottery application form and these are the results;

No of households surveyed - 343
No of households answering survey - 203 (though not all were completed)
No of households not wanting to complete survey - 37
No of households not answering door/on holiday/empty properties - 103

How many people in your household work, pay tax and would be prepared to sign a gift aid certificate? - 47

No of people in your household; children under 14 - 100
14 to 20 year olds - 32
21 to 60 year olds - 258
over 60 - 119

On the whole how many members of your family support plans for a new hall?
YES - 482 NO - 6

What type of facilities would you like the new hall to provide?
a) main hall, kitchen, toilets, storage & meeting room - 49
b) as a) with sports facilities - 82
c) as a) with stage - 69
d) as a, b & c - 259

If it is possible would you like to see the provision made for any of the following in the new hall?
Library - 149, Post Office - 62, Shop (weekend) - 62, Info Technology Room - 227, Doctors Surgery - 199, Hairdresser - 127
Others included Sat market, cinema, job club, yoga & MP?s surgery

Are you interested in joining any of the following groups? W.I. - 17, Youth Club - 19, Guides/Brownies/ Rainbows - 29
Scouts/Cubs/Beavers - 14, Parent/Toddler Group - 8, Senior Citizens Club - 46, Education Classes - 76, Keep Fit - 70,
Art or Craft Classes - 71 & Gardening Club - 70. Other suggestions were Quiz Nights & Majorette Group. We did receive names for forming and running the above, one of which - the senior citizens (now called the Over 50?s) - has now taken off

Would you be interested in attending any of the following in the new hall? Dramas - 94, Dances - 101, Coffee Mornings - 65,
Lunch Club for the over 50?s - 40, Bridge - 13, Private Parties - 226, Flower/Craft/Art Shows - 129, Meetings - 104 &
Fundraising Events - 156. Other suggestions were Karoke, Bingo, School Events & Line Dancing. Again we received names of those willing to run the above.

Would you be interested in any of the following sports activities? Table Tennis - 68, Short Mat Bowls - 59, Pool/Snooker - 101 or Martial Arts - 50. Other suggestions included Badminton & Squash. Once again we did receive names willing to help organise and run the above.

Is there any particular help you could contribute towards the project? Join the committee - 5, Help with fundraising - 24 & Help with publicity (leaflets etc) - 23. We did receive names for the above, some of which we contacted recently regarding help with the village fete.

Is there any particular expertise you could contribute towards the project? We received the following for contacts of help - building knowledge, typing, plumbing, auto cad, photography, book keeping, secretarial & administration.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank every one who took the time to complete the questionnaires and also those who helped to collect them in. We have taken all your comments on board and over time we hope to respond to all of you that offered help in any way - we haven?t forgotten!! Back to top