Category: Clubs and Societies

We welcomed Oliver and Jane Wicksteed to our May meeting to talk about ‘Wicksteed Park - Past and Present’. A Grade II English Heritage listed park and garden owned by Wicksteed Charitable Trust. More than an amusement park, having extensive gardens, a lake, a nature reserve and sports facilities. Fred Perry taught there.

May was quite a busy month for Kilby WI.

The last meeting of Illston-on-the-Hill WI included the annual resolutions. This year there was only one resolution which was, ‘Clean rivers for people and wildlife’. There was a lively discussion on this subject and of course we were all in favour of huge improvements to both rivers and seas. However it was generally felt that the water companies must take a massive amount of responsibility for polluting our waters and ultimately the decisions (and fines) must be instigated by the Government. Obviously, whatever pressure can be brought to bear by the WI is more than welcome.

There has been a men’s keep fit group in Kibworth since the 1960s. Originally based in Kibworth Grammar School Hall, then subsequently in Kibworth Village Hall and Kibworth High School Hall. 

A warmer welcome to an update from Kibworth Cricket Club. Last month, when drafting the article, we were sat looking at the ground becoming wetter and wetter. Fortunately, warmer weather has developed. We have fantastic groundsmen leading to the ground looking in excellent condition.

So, exciting news! Our next joint theatre group production is going to be ‘One Night Only’, a new musical written by our very own Ella Conway.

The Scout Association hold a close and historical relationship with the royal family, to which all members of the movement make a promise when joining to do their duty to the king. Few opportunities exist to fulfil that duty but this weekend scouts from Kibworth and across the Harborough district were able to just that.

Leicester Grammar School kindly offered one of their concerts to the Kibworth & Fleckney Rotary Club to raise funds for Rainbows Children’s Hospice. The concert took place in the school’s St Nicholas Hall in Great Glen on Friday 28 April.

Our April speaker, Dr Tim Gray MBE, gave us a very interesting and thought-provoking talk about the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme, a charity based in Oakham. Tim had a background in A&E in London. He saw a need for highly trained doctors to attend serious accidents on the roads and in workplaces. He set up the EMICS over 30 years ago, with 21 GPs and hospital doctors. They all giving their services free to provide pre-hospital emergency treatment 24/7.