News and Information about Ilton

4/1 Ilton Talking April 2004

Merryfield Pre-School at Ilton

St Mary & St Peter's CE VC First School

Welcome to Ilton Talking with a new look.
If you have any information you would like to share with the rest of the Parish such as events or fundraising activities, please pass it to me and I will include it in the next issue. You can send it by e-mail- david@johnamor.freeserve.co.uk, or by telephone-53382. Back to top

Ilton Youth Club

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

St Peters Church Summer Fete

Our Annual Fete will be held on Saturday 5th 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

Merryfield Pre-School at Ilton

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

Parish Council

The Parish Council meets every month. An opportunity is usually made available for Parishioners questions between 7.30pm and 8.00pm. This is to enable members of the community to raise any issues that may concern them and to see if the council can help in any way. The clerk to the council is Mrs. C.Churchill. See notice board for dates of meetings.
Councillors are- Mr. P Lonton - Chair, Mr.D.Amor, - V/Chair, Mr. R Lock, Mr. R.Miller, Mr.N Dewbury, Mrs.A.Chew, Mr C Carden,Mr.I.Sherwood,Mrs A Bulgin Back to top

Dog Mess

Complaints have been made about the amount of dog mess in and around the village, including the children's play area. The council has provided a couple of dog bins in the village, one is near the bus shelter and the other one is near Spurwells. The district council empties these regularly. We would also remind people that the playground should not be used to exercise dogs in. Please respect the area for the use it is intended for, as a recreation field, and for obvious reasons of health and cleanliness please DO NOT allow dogs into the fenced off area. Back to top

Whist Drives

Whist Drives are held in the Memorial Hall every fortnight.

If you would like to Come along and join in please contact Primrose Carter on 54006.

All proceeds are for the Village Hall. Back to top

Footpaths

There are a number of very pleasant walks around the village on public footpaths. Most of these are marked with posts. They are walked regularly to check if they are accessible and all the gates are in good order. A map showing the footpaths and rights of way around Ilton is available from Mr C.Carden on Should you find any problems with any of the footpaths, please contact Mr Carden.

The Parish Council have been asked by the owner of the property to inform people that there is no right of way across the land at the end of Merrifield lane and that it is private land. Back to top

St Mary & St Peter's CE VC First School

We were very pleased to be mentioned in the Annual Report of 2002/2003 by
HMCI, David Bell, as a very successful school, one of only two in Somerset to receive this accolade. This is due to the hard work and dedication of everyone at school. Thank you.

KS1 children visited Bristol on March 16th to take part in art workshops
KS2 children are enjoying football coaching and Shakespeare workshops.
All of the children are enjoying swimming lessons and making very good progress.

Year 4 children, who will be leaving school this year, visited Wells Cathedral on March 10th for a day of workshops and worship.

In March we held a sponsored Readathon for all of the children. They completed different reading tasks and raised money for each base to buy new books.

Barrington base PFA May Day celebration is on May 8th and there will be a fashion show soon.
Ilton PFA held an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday 3rd April. There will also be a treasure hunt, sponsored swim, and many other activities coming soon.

School closed for the Easter holidays on Friday 2nd April at 2.OOpm. and re-opens
for the summer term on Monday 19th April. Back to top

Miss Ilton 2004

Once again we're inviting our young girls-aged between 6 and 12 to hold the title of Miss Ilton. Each girl will be asked to sell squares of 20p each and whichever girl sells the most will win the title.
If you would like to enter please call either Jacqueline on 54164 or June on 55845. Miss Ilton will be announced at the fete and will launch the balloon race for us. The winner will receive a £20 cash prize, her attendant will receive £10 plus a sash each as a memento. Last date for entries will be April 17th. Back to top

Ilton Memorial Hall

Have you a few hours to spare each month? Want a little bit more of a social life? Could you help with any fundraising, be our bookings clerk, secretary or just make some cakes for our fete? If the answer is YES to any of these questions then please come along to our Village Hall AGM on Tuesday 27th April at 7:30pm whether you would like to join our committee or just be a village volunteer, we'd love to see you. Tea/Coffee will be available. Back to top

Gardening Club

A new gardening club is hopefully due to start in the village this year. Whilst we know from the results of our survey that this is what a lot of the villagers would like, we have some core people willing to make it happen, but we would still like a few more people to make it a success.

If you can help in any way (arrange trips, collect money, arrange speakers, help with refreshments or help with setting up the room each month), in fact anything, then please come along to a pre-garden club meeting in the village hall on Friday 7th May at 7:30pm. Back to top

Village Fete

The village fete is back this year on Saturday 10th July from 12 noon to 4:00pm.
We've got the usual stalls, Bri-a-brac, Raffle, Refreshments, Tombola, Cake stall. Plus the following attractions:
Giant slide for the children, Pony Rides, Children's fancy dress competition, A model Helicopter display Plants, An exhibition of old Ilton including the censuses between 1841 and 1901, old and new photographs and lots of visiting stalls.
We will be kicking it off with our great balloon race, we will be selling balloons beforehand and launching them at the fete and whoever's balloon travels the furthest will win a prize.
Look out for more details soon. Back to top