Category: Community

Kibworth Tennis Club has taken steps to ensure their defibrillator is accessible to the local community.

Apart from the odd spell, this summer’s weather has not been very kind to us. Resulting in a lower number of visitors, and not a great many boats. This impacts on many local businesses and services, as ‘the tourists’ have an effect beyond just the Locks.

This year Hallaton Museum is opening its doors to a new exhibition ‘Where there’s a Will, there’s a Way’, an incredible insight to a story which has never been told before.

During the summer months, The Well will continue to offer support to residents of Kibworth and surrounding villages through our free advice drop-ins and food bank.  And of course, our café and pre-loved clothes shop will be open as usual.

We have come to the end of another season of your Kibworth & District Chronicle.  We are taking a two month break now but will return in September. Before we go however we thank the legions of volunteers who write, assemble, read through, take photos, and deliver your Chronicle. Be they old or young, they all deserve a big thank you from the Chairman, Editor and Management Team. So THANK YOU. You are a great team!

Once again cream teas will be available between 3pm and 5pm in St Peter’s at Church Langton commencing Saturday 1 July and then Sunday 2 July and every Sunday until early September.

Kibworth Village Hall committee were pleased to put on afternoon tea for some of our senior residents over the Coronation weekend. We thoroughly enjoyed hosting them, and do hope they enjoyed the event too.

There is, at the time of writing, an advertisement which does not require maths GCSE, witchcraft for young women.

Every time you visit a website, send or receive a message or email, buy or book anything online, comment on a post, upload a photo, or find directions on your phone, you’re adding to your digital footprint. 

The popular Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology returns with over 100 heritage events across the two counties.

Robert Monk Hall, in the picturesque village of Foxton, is available to hire for one-off bookings and regular groups.

With the warm weather arriving, finally, it is important to highlight the dangers especially around open water. Each year we have reports of children and young adults entering the water at Saddington and Eyebrook reservoirs. 

If hero plants, the new name for weeds, plus insects, birds and hedgehogs could speak, how many marks out of ten would they give us for the way we care for their homes – our gardens?

The boating season is well under way now. Numbers are still down on past years, when 40 through the locks on a high-season day was not unusual. New boats are still flooding into the system, many of them wide-beam (over 7ft). Although spacious for living on, they can cause problems on our rapidly narrowing canal, vegetation is encroaching on all sides. Meeting one with passenger boat Vagabond (10ft 6”) can be quite interesting.