Village Weekend
Our Village Weekend is to be on 27th, 28th and 29th June.
The organisers are keen to hear from anyone who would like to be involved.
Part of the weekend’s plans is to have a fair on the Old Playing Field, starting at 12.30pm on Saturday 28th. There will be lots of games, music and other attractions, including stalls and displays.
There is no charge for village organisations but commercial ventures will be required to pay £10 for a pitch and of course donations are very welcome, as the idea is to raise cash for the Village Fund (which supports various village groups and activities), much needed church improvements and to help establish the proposed new Youth Club. If you would like to have a stall or provide a display please contact Simon Hall on 01206 213399 before 23rd May.
It is important, for the success of the weekend to get as many people to the fair as possible and as well as advertising in the local newspapers a specific programme will be distributed to all villagers closer to the time.
Many people put a lot of time and effort into the organisation of an event such as this, for the benefit of our village as a whole, so it is vitally important that their hard work is rewarded by you making it a success.
Take a stall, put on a display or just turn up on the day and enjoy the fun.. Help make this year’s village weekend the best yet.
Photograph Competition
As part of our Village Weekend’s many attractions on offer this coming June, we have decided to have a photographic competition. This, we hope, will give villagers and visitors some interesting photos to look at, as well as the chance for you to share your special pictures with us. It is not meant to be a professional competition, so all entries will be welcomed and displayed and more than one entry can be submitted if you can’t choose your favourite, including black and white photos as well as coloured.
The theme is ‘Round and about Great and Little Tey’ which can incorporate a wide choice of subjects such as: scenes, people, buildings, and nature. In fact if it is in Great or LittleTey, it can be in the photo!!
The rules are simple: You just need to take your photo (postcard size 6×4), enter it with an explanation of who, what and where it is, together with your name, age category, phone number and address, and give it to Mike and Irene Holliday, The Hollies Chappel Rd. by 15th June. 01206 210709
Photographs will be judged in two categories, Group One will be for anyone up to and including 13 years and Group Two will be for 14 years and over. A prize will be awarded for the winning entry in each group. There is no charge for entry but we suggest that the photos you submit are copies in case of accidental loss or damage.
Great Tey C of E (Controlled) Primary School
Do you have any skills in a particular art or craft? During the week of 7 – 11th July we are having a design technology week. If you have any skills (for example weaving, wood turning) that you would like to share with us, please contact the school office on 01206 210415.
We are now collecting Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers. If any villagers would like to donate their vouchers to our school please feel free to call in; we have a collection box in the school entrance hall. These vouchers all add up and will enable us to purchase new sports equipment, sports coaching sessions and cooking equipment. The children will be extremely grateful for all donations of vouchers.
DELIVERY OF PAPERS TO THE VILLAGE OF GREAT TEY AND SURROUNDING AREA.
I have spoken to the Manager at the Marks Tey Shop/Post Office and he has agreed to DELIVER the papers to the village, but to one house/point only, the children will then do their paper rounds as normal. He will charge £1.50 per week/per house for deliveries within the village and 75p per week/per house for those people in the surrounding area that have a weekend delivery only. If you only have a delivery once a week then the charge will be 20p per day/ per house and 30p per day/per house on a Sunday. There will be no charge for when you are on holiday. The children’s and adult’s money will be a set wage each week, and weekend, similar to the amounts they are getting at the moment.
If you have not already got one, there is a form in the village shop which, if you are interested, you can fill in and return to my house THE OLD VICARAGE, CHAPPEL ROAD, (next door to the village hall) by no later than 12th April, 2008. This will enable the manager of the Marks Tey Shop to organise the papers and paper work for delivery to commence on Sunday 27th April, 2008.
Suggestions for how people living out of the village collect their papers, or any other queries regarding the delivery of papers can be discussed at the next Parish Council Meeting, where Pat and Mick will attend to answer your questions about the shop ceasing to trade.
Also, if there are any children, 13 years and older, who wish to be added to a list being drawn up for delivering or would do a relief during holidays or illness, would they put their names on the form.
If anyone has any queries regarding deliveries, charges, payments, holidays or any other problems would they take it up with the Manager at the Marks Tey Post Office/Shop 01206 210314
If anyone WAS willing to collect from Marks Tey Shop each morning, the Manager would pay £30 per week, for a seven day week and they must be there at 5.30am.
Norma Tregoning.
Great Tey Womens Institute
During the month of April Great Tey W.I. hosted this years Manderville Spring group meeting. The event proved to be a huge success and extremely busy; the village hall was packed. Our celebrity speaker, Christine Walkden, provided a particularly interesting talk which gave us all a real insight into the world of television and the trials and tribulations of getting to the top. Many of you may have seen ‘Christine’s garden’ with ‘Reg’ who is the co-star of the show. Christine is also a regular on the ‘one show’ which is shown each weekday evening. Christine joined us for refreshments and chatted to WI members, she also signed copies of her book. Gt Tey W.I is lucky to have a talented professional operatic singer within the group; Maria Richards finished the evening on a high note by singing some beautiful popular classics which everyone enjoyed. There was also an opportunity for all to join in with a fun quiz and sing along.
•The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 6th May at 7.30pm in the village hall. The meeting will focus on the annual WI ‘Resolutions – A Voice for Modern Women’. The W.I. has always provided a strong voice regarding the development of social policy. Come along and have your say on the issues affecting our society today.
•June promises to be a particularly interesting meeting – Jane Mallyon will be visiting to talk about ‘Adopting an attitude’. Jane will be sharing her experiences of being adopted in the 1950’s compared to adoption today. Previous talks by Jane have been amusing and entertaining; this promises to be a light hearted talk involving happy and funny stories – not to be missed. The meeting will take place on Tuesday 3rd June at 7.30pm in the village hall.
If you are interested in coming along to the WI please feel free to pop into any of our meetings, we would be delighted to see you. If you would like more information or would prefer to come along with one of our members please telephone Sue Cox (01206 211743) or Jane Richardson (01206 211481)
Great Tey Pre School
Great Tey Pre-School welcomes all children aged from two and a half to school age with free government-funded places for children aged three and over. Operational for over 30 years, we were accredited with the Investor in People standard in 2006. Our sessions run from 9.15am to 12.15pm, Monday to Friday during term time and we also offer an optional “Lunch Club” hour on Mondays and Fridays. We currently have places available. Please speak to Marian Hamer, Supervisor, on 07712 967081 or see our website www.greatteypreschool.co.uk for further details.
Thank you to all who supported our Race Night. We had a fantastic evening AND raised an amazing £660 which we will be spending on role play toys for the children.
New date – Open Morning
We have changed the date of our Open Morning. It is now 9.15am-12.15pm on Thursday 15th May. Any prospective and current parents are welcome to come, have a look round and talk to the staff.
Parish of Great Tey and Little Tey - Events
Dates for your diary for future events:
Coffee Morning in aid of Church funds at Jesmond, Church Lane, Little Tey by kind invitation of Pauline and Alan Mattin on Saturday 10th May from 10.00am – 12.00 noon.
Annual Variety Concert at Great Tey Church on Saturday 17th May at 7.00pm – please contact Valerie if you would like to take part.
Great Tey Annual Litter Pick
We experienced our best ever attendance this year for the Litter Pick, on Saturday 15th March.
This meant that we were able to cover a major part of the village and all the main routes where we tend to find the most rubbish.
We were also visited by an army of mechanical road sweepers who swept around the estate, organised by Colchester Council
55 bags of litter were collected and it was nice to see so many families attending. The Playing field and Brook Road to the A120 both yielded a great deal of rubbish.
Thanks to all who attended, to Mary and Robert for the bag collection and storage outside their house. Thank you to Andrew and Roger who cooked the lovely BBQ with excellent meat. Finally, a thank you to Jolene Rogers, Street Care Development Officer, Colchester Borough Council for organising the kit, the road sweepers’ visit and for calling in personally to give us her support.
Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society
We arrange frequent walks both around Great Tey and around local places of interest.
For the latest walk please see the notice board outside the shop.
All enquiries to Peter Wakeling (01206 211887)
Parcel Delivery Scam
You may receive a card through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel delivery Service) saying that they have a parcel awaiting delivery instructions and can you contact them on 09066 611 911.
DO NOT call the number as this is a mail scam originating from Belize.
If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed a large amount of money for the phone call.
If you receive a card with these details, then please contact:
Royal Mail Fraud on 0207 239 6655
Or ICTIS at www.ictis.org.uk
Or your local trading standards office