Category: Community

Despite the inclement weather, a joyful community celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee was held on Sunday 5 June in the Robert Monk Hall and grounds.

Never before has a British monarch reigned for 70 years, and to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the award-winning Wistow Maze’s design for 2022 is the shape of the Coronation Crown.

The weather was excellent over both the Easter and May Day holidays, and visitors flocked out to the locks. A steady stream of boats passed through, and the trip boat ‘Vagabond’ was up and running again. After two years, it feels as if we are hopefully getting back to how things were before the pandemic. 

The sound of fun and laughter emanated from our village hall on the evening of Saturday 23 April as quiz masters Chris and Monica Gibbins delivered our annual quiz. To begin the evening, and to feed ‘those little grey cells,’ a delicious supper was served before the fun began. It certainly was a fun evening! At the end of the night, the results were really close. In the end the team ‘It’s my round’ just managed to gain the victory and win the prize. To the great delight of the organising committee, we made another £500 for the British Red Cross Ukrainian Appeal. This, along with £370 raised at our Henry V111 evening and another £1,121 in donations collected by the Church Council means that, to date, we have now raised a total of £1,991 for this most urgent appeal. Thank you to everyone for your generosity.

Our recently extended opening hours have allowed us to welcome more people through our doors.  Monday, we open 10 until 1, and Tuesday to Friday, we’re open from 10 until 4. Come and browse the items in our keenly priced pre-loved clothes shop. Stocking women’s, men’s and kids’ clothes as well as shoes and accessories.  The stock is always being replenished as we sort through the generous donations we receive. So be sure to pop along soon.

The 2022 Festival of Archaeology programme has been revealed by organisers and is being hailed as the best yet.

Derek and I would like to thank everybody who contributed to make our Easter Egg Appeal so successful. We are overwhelmed by the generosity of people within the Kibworth community. In particular the children who attend Kibworth Mead Academy, numerous local business owners, and our very kind customers from The Railway Arms and O Hair hairdressers.

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St Wilfrid’s Church is to live-screen the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving.

The children of The Hunny Hive Day Nursery have been learning about people who help us. The Kibworth Fire Crew kindly came to the setting to visit and the children were delighted to be able to learn about the equipment and sit in the fire engine!

Weddings! Summer is the most popular season for marriage ceremonies. Usually expense is on the generous side and fascinators add colour to the occasion. However, I do recall one wedding, not so long ago, when the bride was almost left standing at the altar when the bridegroom failed to appear - cold feet!Unsurprisingly, they were never married!

People are being invited to join together for an extraordinary ‘pilgrimage’ between two communities in honour of a Leicestershire saint.

‘Mma Ramotswe sighed. “We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.”  “That is true,” said Mma Potokwane sadly. “There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.” ‘ Alexander McCall Smith - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies.

Illston- on- the- Hill WI are holding an Open Meeting on Thursday 9 June. More and more people are being subjected to crime in all its various forms. We therefore feel it is very important to address the problems. We will be welcoming a representative from the Leicestershire Police to give us some guidelines to follow. Subjects will include internet scams, emails, phone, doorstep scammers, as well as safety in our own homes – security, door locks, alarms, to name but a few topics.

Some Chronicle readers may remember a series of 10 articles on ‘The Challenge of Dementia’ that I submitted in 2018/19.