PROUD of our PAST
Why sit at home on a cold Winters day?
Fovant Village Hall is open Tuesday and Thursday 10.00-2.00pm.
The Village Hall is extending Open Door to Thursdays now. Use your computer, choose a book, do a puzzle, draw, knit or sew all in the company of others. You will have a warm welcome.
FOVANT
Neighbourhood Warmth
The Fovant neighbourhood Warmth
Initiative is now LIVE!
Leaflets have been delivered to every house in the village.
If you did not get one or simply want to refer to it online please click below for a COPY.
FOVANT SATELLITE FOOD BANK
Fovant Free Church,
The Chapel, High Street, Fovant, SP3 5JL
Every Thursday 1:30 to 3:30 from 1st December 2022.
Open for tea/coffee, a listening ear and a warm discreet space as well as accepting food bank vouchers
STARS APPEAL XMAS RAFFLE
A cash prize of £1,000 is the star prize in this year’s Stars Appeal online Christmas Raffle. The second prize is £500, third prize £250, and there are more cash prizes too. Tickets cost just £1 each and are only available ONLINE
Money raised by the raffle will help towards the £1million that the Stars Appeal aims to raise this year to fund projects at Salisbury District Hospital helping thousands of patients and the NHS staff who care for them.
Christmas Market
@ Fovant Village Hall
&
Father Christmas and Crafting
for children at the Waterside
Fovant Youth Club
Sat 3 December
1pm to 4pm
Lots of stalls !
Wreaths, Aromatherapy,
Wax melts, Baby clothes
Resin gifts,
Christmas gifts &
Decorations
Tea, & cake & mince pies
Guided Meditation
Mon 19 Dec
12.30 - 4.00
Village Hall
A well established and wonderful opportunity to give yourself some time and space to rebalance your life.
Free LUNCH
Booking essential
Contact Simon 07554624445
or email
St George’s 50/50 Lottery Club
Raises £1011.96
Members of the Church Council in Fovant would like to say a huge “thank you” to Liz Daw and Sharon Knight for leading the 50/50 club in 2021/22.
We have just been given the wonderful sum of £1011.96 to help us with all the endless repairs needed to keep the Church building going.
MOBILE LIBRARY
Clay's Orchard 1.55 PROMPT on
Tue 15 Nov
Tue 13 Dec
Use this valuable resource. Even order particular books you would like to read. It only stops for 10 mins, so be quick!!!
ARMISTICE DAY
11.11.2022
On Fovant Down
The locally based nationwide charity Alabaré held a commemorative ceremony to honour the memory of the fallen this year at The Fovant Badges, appropriately laying wreaths on the escarpment’s Centenary Poppy emblem in the heart of Cranbourne Chase AONB.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH
SUN 11 DEC
12.00
Come along to the Village Hall to chat with friends and neighbours over a lunch of bread, cheese and a festive mince pie.
Tickets £6
A NEW MAGAZINE FOR FOVANT?
Now that the Three Towers magazine has ceased publication, a few of us in Fovant have been talking to the editors of the monthly Village Buzz magazine, a free publication which now includes news from eleven villages. If you aren’t familiar with it, copies can sometimes be found in the newspaper section of the Fovant Stores. Unfortunately, the VB will no longer be published as hard copy from January 2023 onwards, due to sky rocketing printing costs – it will transform to a digital format.
The editors of the VB are keen to include news of interest to Fovant residents. Derryn Hinks, webmaster of the Fovant Village Website, has started to send some Fovant items to the VB, to go in the two last printed editions.
One possibility now is to see if there enough people in Fovant who’d like to buy a specially printed copy of the new digital VB magazine. The cost of a print run of say 50 copies could be covered by subscriptions committed six months in advance, if there are enough people prepared to pay £2 per month. You would still, of course, be able to view the online edition for free.
Fovant Parish Council will post a questionnaire to each Fovant household to ask for interest in such a subscription scheme. We’ll wait to do that until the New Year when we’ve all had a chance to see the new digital version of the VB expanded with Fovant news. If you don’t have a computer, perhaps a friend could show you or print out the few Fovant pages to help in your decision.
Poetry Group
Wed 7 Dec
2pm
1 Sling Orchard
We plan to read our FAVOURITE POEMS
which we will all enjoy with you.
Venue: Beryl's House,
Hope to see you all there,
Very best wishes,
Dr Kinlin's Drop In
THURSDAYS
4 - 5pm
NEW!!! Time slot
Dr Kinlin is continuing her Drop In sessions at the YOUTH CLUB - providing time and space to talk through your concerns.
FREE LOGS
& KINDLING for LOCALS
LOGS4LOCALS helps provide free logs and kindling to families who need fuel to heat their homes this winter.
CONTACT
WINTER COATS
Brought a new winter coat for yourself or the children this year and want to donate last year’s clean coats?
Need a new coat this winter for yourself or the children?
Then take a visit to the
Winter Coat Rail
And see what fits
Open every Wednesday 09:30 - 11:30, or
15:30 - 17:00
“The Waterside” Fovant Youth Club, The High Street, Fovant or Contact
Julie on 07816511340
WARM PACKS
NOW AVAILABLE
from MOBILE LIBRARY
Get your Warm Pack when the Mobile Library next visits Fovant on
13 Dec
Clay's Orchard
The tote bag contains a hot water bottle with cover, thermal mug and a blanket. There’s no criteria for people to meet
FILGROUP OUTINGS & ACTIVITIES
FILGroup have been out about recently touring behind the scene at Waitrose and also enjoying the very popular session on Make Up in the Village Hall.
Read more about FILGROUP. Click below.
OPEN DOOR XMAS DINNER
12.30
Tue 20 DEC
Village Hall
12.30 sit down for Dinner
FOVANT VILLAGE FETE
SAT 19 AUG
2023
SAVE THE DATE
East Farm Fovant will be the venue for next year’s Fete on Saturday 19th August.
Anyone wishing to help with the organisation, and at the venue on the day, should initially contact William HOLMES for more information.
XMAS LUNCH
with ENTERTAINMENT
Sun 11 Dec
11 - 4pm
£6
Booking Essential
This is a Local Community event arranged for the villages of Fovant, Dinton & surrounding villages.
Taking place at Dinton Village Hall.
Contact
Simon 0755462445
Vicky 07909841393
Parents & Toddler Group Wednesdays TERM TIME ONLY
9.30 - 11.30am 'Waterside'
Art Club
Alternate Mondays
2 - 4pm
@ 'Waterside'
Do you like painting & drawing with like minded people?
Contact c.brantingham@icloud.com
Cost £2 each session.
Friday Club for
11-16 yr olds
Fridays
6 -8pm
@Waterside
Games, music & Tuck shop.
Come along to chill out with friends after a hard week at school £1 per young person
WEDNESDAY CLUB
3.30 - 5pm
'Has been making slime!'
Every Wed during term time.
Come and join us at the Waterside Youth Club for fun, craft activities, games and refreshments.
50p per child per session
All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult
Every
Saturday Morning Breakfast in
Village Hall
Our ever popular Village breakfasts! Eat in or Takeaway. From 9am - 11am in the Village Hall
Tap Class
Mondays
7.45 - 8.45
Village Hall
Come along and join in with our very friendly and inclusive class which meets weekly.
Seated Exercise Class
Fridays 10-11am
Village Hall
This sociable class is excellent for stretching muscles and keeping mobile for those who have some challenges with their mobility. It's a super way of keeping fit.
Fovant ORGAN APPEAL
Now nearly 100 years old our church organ needs cleaning and repair. Can you help with a donation? Contact Felicity Pinder 01722714767 THANK YOU
POLICE BEAT OFFICER for FOVANT
PC 2320 Victoria Howick
Community Policing Team
Warminster
warminsterAreaCPT@wiltshire.police.uk
OR
victoria.howick@wiltshire.police.uk
Warminster Police Station, The Avenue, Warminster
101 Ext 32320
Mobile : 07471029097
DD 01225 256636
