News and Information about Ilton

5/1 Ilton Talking February 2005

St Mary & St Peter's First School

Welcome to the first issue of Ilton Talking for 2005.
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 meet every Monday evening during term time from 7:00pm to 9:00pm in the village hall. We have just been given a grant for £326.00 which we will put towards some new games equipment, possibly a Play station or X Box!!!
So come along and help us spend your money. We already have Poll, Table Football, Table Tennis and are waiting for Air Hockey. There are plenty of boxed games and craft activities so there is always plenty to do.
If you are 8years and over feel free to join us. It costs just £1.50 a night at present. There is also a tuck shop. Your first night is free.
We are always looking for any parents who would like to help. If you have a couple of hours free on a Monday night and fancy a game of pool or be creative then ring me, June on 01460 55845. It doesn?t have to be every week. Back to top

St Peter's Church

Our Annual Fete will be held on Saturday 4th June from 2.30pm-4.30pm.
If you would like to help, please contact any PCC member. 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 have a friendly chat with old and new friends on alternate Tuesdays.
For more information please contact Mrs Blasdale on 53907. 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.
We look forward to seeing you there. Back to top

Village Hall Fundraising

CAR BOOT SALE
In aid of the Village Hall
A monthly car boot sale will commence on February 27th inside and outside of the hall. If you or friends would like a pitch on the first of these monthly sales please telephone Anita Chew on 54471?Pitches are £5 in the hall car park and £6 inside the hall.

We are holding an Easter raffle this year to be drawn at the Easter Coffee morning, with the main part of the draw being done door to door. If you can help with donations of Easter Eggs, Simnel cake, bottle of or some fresh fruit to make up a couple of fresh fruit baskets, please contact Anita Chew?54471, Jacqueline Bennett?54164 or June Harris?55845.
Thank you. Back to top

Ilton 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. The council now has a new clerk Mr Micheal King who can be contacted on 01460-281909. The Parish council would also like to thank Mrs.Churchill for all her work as clerk and wish her well for the future.
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

Memories

Do you have a memory of Ilton
you can share with all of us?
It can be funny, sad or factual.
We would like to collect
information for the Parish Plan.

Anyone with memories of how Ilton used to be, the people who used to live here, the fields you used to walk across, the American Invasion!
Who were the Pub characters? Perhaps you used to work in the village. What entertainment used to be in the village and was it well attended.

All your memories are the real history of Ilton. We have lost so much in previous years.
We would really like to produce a document for future generations to read and to see how our village has changed.

No matter how small the memory, please write it down or telephone me so I can document it for you.

Tel Mandy 01460 55255 or drop your memories into 13 Cottage Corner. 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 Mary & St Peter's First School

We have five Swimming sessions
booked at Chard Pool on Wednesdays
February 23rd, March 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd. Children will need to be at school by 8.45am on swimming days as our slot is 9.30 to 10.30am. Letter to follow.

Ten children have begun a ten week course with Mrs Cable and Mrs Ferguson. At the end of the course children are assessed and may receive a certificate of achievement.

Year 4 children, who will be leaving school this year, will be visiting Wells Cathedral on March 9th for a day of workshops and worship.

The Mothers' Day Service will be held on Thursday 3rd March at 2.00pm at Ilton Church and the Easter Service will be on Thursday 24th March at 9.00am at Barrington Church. Please keep these dates free and join us for the services which will be taken by the children.

The Ofsted website now has an "honours" list of successful schools across the country. Our school is one of 2,330 who have had a mention. Well done everyone!

We break up for half-term on Thursday 10th February at 3.15pm, February 11th is an INSET day for staff, and we return on Monday 21st February.

School closes for the Easter holidays on Thursday 24th March at 2.00pm, and re-opens for the summer term on Monday 11th April Back to top

Miss Ilton 2005

Once again we are running the Miss Ilton competition. Open to all parish residents who are aged between 7 and 12 yrs. The competition is to sell as many 20p squares as possible with the winner being the person to sell the most. The squares will be sold between 1st March?31st May and the winner will be announced on the 1st June. The winner will receive a £20 cash prize and a sash and the runner up will receive £10 cash prize.
If you would like to enter please call either Jacqueline on 54164 or June on 55845. Back to top

Photographic Competition

What do you like
about Ilton?

What do you dislike?

Why not take a photograph of it and maybe win a prize along the way.

It could be a building, landmark, feature, street or view. In fact anything you like that is to do with Ilton.

Pictures could be included in the final Village Plan report.

There will be prizes for the worst of Ilton and the best of Ilton in three age groups.
9 Yrs and under.
10?15 Yrs.
16 Yrs and over.

Please submit your 6? x 4? Photos with your Name, Address and age to Kim Board at 2 Bradleys Ilton.

Closing date for entries is 12th June 2005

There is plenty of time, so start snapping and get your entries in. Back to top

Parish Plan

Hopefully you will have seen our logo around the village and are probably wondering what it is all about.
Well this is YOUR opportunity to have YOUR say about how the future of Ilton should be shaped.
You will shortly be receiving a questionnaire, which we hope you will find time to complete and return. We need your views on many different aspects of our community from Local amenities to transport.
The results of this survey will enable us to produce a plan of how the village should evolve in the future and will help many village groups to seek assistance to make some of these ideas become a reality.
So please find time to complete the survey and there is also a chance to win a prize as every questionnaire returned will be entered into a prize draw. Back to top

Easter Coffee morning

In aid of The Village Hall
An Easter Coffee morning will be held in the village hall on Saturday 19th March, 10am?12 noon. Lots of attractions this year including Portrait Photography, would you like a photograph of you, your child or your family? Then come along to the hall and you can even get your make-up done at the Body Shop Stand (for a £1.50 minimum donation) to get you ready for the camera!
There will also be all the usual stands--Refreshments, Home made cakes, Books, Bric-a-Brac etc.
LOOK OUT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION NEARER THE TIME. Back to top

Neighbourhood Watch

I have been approached by the Area Neighbourhood Watch Committee to ask the views of the residents of Ilton regarding a Police Surgery.
This would provide an opportunity for people to raise any concerns regarding crime incidence or crime prevention.
There could be one designated venue within striking distance of the immediate villages or, alternatively, each Village Hall by rotation over a six month cycle. This means that you may visit any of these surgeries in any village in any month.
It is proposed that we use our Village Hall and hold the surgery one evening rather than during the day.
Please let me know your thoughts on the principle and the time of the meeting.

Reported Crime
There have been a number of Trailers, Horse or otherwise stolen in this area and car crime in general is slightly up. Please be extra careful with your belongings and do not leave them in your car. Most car crime has been for goods inside the vehicles.
Empty the compartments in your car and leave them open to prove that nothing has been hidden in them, do not give the thieves a reason to break into your car.

Whistles
It is proposed that the residents
within the Scheme in Ilton are
issued with whistles.
These are to be used if you see
anything suspicious in the Village at night and wish to attract attention or scare the ?intruders away?. This is not to replace the 999 system.
However if anyone hears a whistle especially at night then they are asked to look out of their window and use their whistle to alert others.
Hopefully this will deter any criminal from remaining in the village.
Any comments please tel. Mandy on 55255 Back to top

Ilton Village Fete

The date has been set this year for Saturday 25th June.
We are at the moment in the preliminary stages of the planning but one thing we are pleased to announce is that the fete will also include a flower festival. More details will follow. Can we just ask that between now and then, if you are doing any spring cleaning and want to donate your unwanted items to charity, please remember that the village hall is a charity and we will gladly collect anything that you think would be suitable for the fete. Back to top

Ilton Village Hall Update

We would like to begin by thanking everyone who turned up to the meeting that we held for the villagers to come and vote on the possibility of selling the land are currently on.

We were very pleased with the turn out and for those that do not know, the outcome was 63 in favour and 23 against selling the land to raise the necessary capital to build a new hall should that turn out to be the best option for the villagers of the Ilton Parish.

As you are all probably aware by now, we lost our second bid to the national lottery, our building regulations and planning will all expire this year and we have found ourselves virtually back to square one. The current hall continues to deteriorate and after keeping it open for at least one more year than we had hoped, realised that we were running at an ever-increasing loss. We announced that we would have to close at the beginning of 2005 because of this and, as ever the good people of Ilton together with our supporters at South Somerset District Council have rallied around and we are now going to keep the hall open for the next year, the compromise that we have had to make is that the hire of the hall has gone up to £4 per hour in order to met the increasing costs of running the hall.

Mr John Matravers and his family have stepped in at the eleventh hour and offered a site behind the riding school at Drakes farm. Whilst it is outside of the building line, District Councils will now look favourably on community projects being built on agricultural land. If we do go ahead with the hall on Drakes farm the advantages are that we hope to raise a substantial amount of from the sale of our existing land and it would be possible to further expand when finances and circumstances allow in the future.

That is basically where we are now, looking into every avenue possible to get the village of Ilton the new hall that they deserve! We will keep you fully informed of any further progress.

When the hall was set up in 1958 (as a temporary hall!!) the village was half its present size and because of life back then there was a tighter community at that time. The constitution which is currently under review, was set up quite tightly for life in the late fifties/early sixties and for the good of the villagers and whilst the hall has continuously been run for the good of the villagers some of the restrictions of the constitution now makes the running of the hall a longer process than ever and that combined with the slow to sometimes stop running of the professional services we are obliged to engage makes this project seem an never ending one to those outside the committee, but please be assured that we do not stop working on behalf of all the parishioners of our Parish. (Ilton, Ilford & Ashford) for our brand new hall.

Thank you for your continued support. Back to top

RNAS Yeovilton

Merryfield Open Evening - 22 June 2005. (6 - 9pm) Same format as 2004, the airfield open to all to look around static helicopters and equipment, meet personnel, watch some flying demonstrations, and learn more about what we do. Back to top

Village Hall bookings

The Village Hall has a new bookings clerk.
If you need to hire the hall please contact Primrose Carter at Frost Farm Frost Lane or telephone 54006. Back to top