Category: Community

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand, and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” – Edith Sitwell.

Sue Wyburn leads the group. You can contact her for more information by email at suewyburn@hotmail.com

It has been noted that Joseph Davies Barbering, Ltd formerly of Harcourt Estate has relocated to the ‘waiting room and ticket office’, of Kibworth’s The Old Railway Station, 15 Isabel Lane.

St Wilfrid’s Church Hall is now registered as a Warm Welcome Space. It will be open every Thursday from 1-3pm for free drinks, biscuits and some company. 

Time is running out to get free Woodland Trust trees for your school or community group in the East Midlands!

Following the abandoned attempt by the Community Speedwatch Team (CSW) to run a training session with limited warning back in September, it is proposed that a two week slot for this project to measure passing traffic speeds at several locations for Kibworth, is run between: Saturday 22 April to Friday 5 May.

An 18th-century watermill, two iconic London cab shelters, a 1920s sunken garden in Brighton, First World War training trenches in Norfolk and two shipwrecks off the Isle of Wight are among the many historic sites listed by Heritage England this year. In total, 240 historic places were added to the National Heritage List for England over the past 12 months. This includes the Kibworth lych-gate which was given special  mention during a recent BBC Radio 4 Today programme as being of particular merit.

Harvey Gardiner has recently painted a watercolour to send a message of support to Ukraine and raise funds for the Children of Ukraine’s Unicef Appeal. The just giving page launched this morning.

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library” -   Albert Einstein

We managed to get through the very dry season without any further restrictions on movement through the locks, unlike canals in other parts of the country (most of them have re-opened now) although it was a close thing. Water was regularly run down at night to top up the lower Leics. Line, through to Leicester, which has suffered from leakage forever.