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Hanging Basket Competition

24/6/2022

Stalbridge Garden Society invites all Stalbridge residents to enter their Hanging Basket Competition for the William Dike Memorial Cup, kindly sponsored by Dike & Son Ltd, presenting vouchers for the winners at the Annual Produce, Craft and Flower Show on August 20th at Stalbridge Hall. The closing date for entries is 5.30pm on Thursday 28th July 2022. Competition forms will be available in Local shops from Monday 27th June. Entries are FREE! The prizes, in the form of Dikes Vouchers are: 1st Prize £20, 2nd prize £15, 3rd prize £10. Judging will take place during the week commencing Monday 1st August. Your exhibit must be visible from the road. Winners will be announced at the end of The Annual Produce, Craft and Flower Show on August 20th at Stalbridge Hall. The Garden Society will contact the winners by telephone if they are not present at the prizegiving. Please deliver your completed entry forms to Grace Haine's Opticians in Stalbridge.

Hardy Annual

20/6/2022

Stalbridge Garden Society presents their Annual Produce, Craft & Flower Show on Saturday 20th August 2022 in Stalbridge Hall. The show will be opened by Simon Elledge. Doors open at 2.30pm. Prize Giving at 4.00pm, followed by the Raffle. Admission: Adults 50p, children under 16 free . Download the programme or the entry form by visiting the Garden Society webpage

Stalbridge Garden Society

Pews News June/July

15/6/2022

OUR NEW RECTOR
The Revd Canon Richard Hancock, TSSF
Richard is married to Kate who is a teacher at Semley CofE School, near Shaftsbury. They have two boys, Alex 23, who recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and is beginning his career in Musical Theatre, and Ben 20, having changed his career as a chef, he is now studying for a BA in Drama at UWE Bristol.
Prior to his ordination in 1997 Richard studied Photography at Berkshire College of Art and Design and then worked as a Freelance Professional Photographer. He lived in the Taizé Community in France while testing his vocation, then spent two years as a Full-Time Youth and Children’s Officer in the Riverside Team Ministry in the Oxford Diocese. He trained for ministry at both Lincoln Theological College, then after its closure at Westcott House, Cambridge. He served his curacy in the urban parish of St Peter’s Didcot, but rural ministry has always been his passion. After his curacy he become Vicar of the Shrivenham & Ashbury Benefice in Southwest Oxfordshire, consisting of seven rural parishes where he served for eighteen years. He also served as an Officiating Chaplain to the Military [OCM] at the Defence Academy Shrivenham.
In the past three years Richard has been Priest in Charge of the Handley Benefice and Rural Field Officer for Dorset working as part of the Rural Hope Team a four-year Salisbury Diocesan project sponsored by the national church.
His hobbies include photography, attending eccentric vintage events, cooking, and he is a fan of real Ale. Recently Richard has qualified as a Scout Leader and has been part of 1st Woodcutts, based in Handley. He’s a self-confessed petrol head attending track days in his Caterham 7 and has achieved a 9 min 46 second lap time around the Nürburgring, though recently he has swapped his Caterham for a more sedate MX5, which Kate enjoys.
Richard has a passion for life, people and God’s Mission and is looking forward to taking up this new challenge and working alongside people as the new Rector of Spire Hill Benefice and Rural Mission Enabler, helping to build the rural church and community life.

SERVICES
June 19 – First Sunday after Trinity Stalbridge 10am Morning Worship
June 23 – Thursday Stalbridge 10am Holy Communion
June 26 – Second Sunday after Trinity Stock Gaylard 8am Holy Communion. Stourton Caundle 11am Mattins
June 29 – Licensing of The Rector of our Benefice Stalbridge 7pm Followed by refreshments
July 3 – Third Sunday after Trinity Stalbridge 10am Holy Communion
July 10 – Fourth Sunday after Trinity Stourton Caundle 11am Holy Communion. Stalbridge 4pm Evensong
July 17 – Fifth Sunday after Trinity Stalbridge 10am Morning Worship
July 24 – Sixth Sunday after Trinity Stock Gaylard 8am Holy Communion. Stourton Caundle 11am Mattins
July 28 – Thursday Stalbridge 10am Holy Communion
July 31 – Seventh Sunday after Trinity Purse Caundle 11am Benefice Service

STALBRIDGE TEAM
Rector Canon Richard Hancock 01 963 363 367 - Day off Mondays canonrick@icloud.com
LLM Judy Waite 01 963 362 945
Churchwarden Stuart Waite 01 963 362 945
Churchwarden Derek Bollen 01 963 362 771

The Big Platinum Picnic- Take 2

13/6/2022

The Big Platinum Jubilee Picnic (postponed from 5th June) will be held at Stalbridge Hall (outside if dry, inside if wet) on Saturday 25th June from 12 noon until 3 pm. Bring a picnic, folding chairs, rugs. There will be a BBQ. Free ice creams. Fun Races. Wear your Jubilee t shirts, crowns and masks! Come and celebrate. Disabled parking only.

U3A presents...

12/6/2022

Blackmore Vale U3A presents "Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum"- Come with us as Historian and Arts Society lecturer Dr James Taylor leads us through one of the last Victorian Houses to be built in England. In 1901 Merton Russell-Cotes gave his wife Annie a dream house on a cliff-top, overlooking the sea in Bournemouth as an extraordinary, extravagant birthday present. They filled this exotic seaside villa with beautiful objects from their travels across the world and lined the walls with a remarkable collection of British art, creating a unique atmosphere in a most dramatic setting. A home, an art gallery, and a museum sealed in time. Henstridge Village Hall BA8 0QD. Tuesday 5th July.
Details 01963 362107. Doors open 2.15pm for refreshments Speaker 3pm Visitors £2.50

Cycling Holiday

5/6/2022

Stalbridge cycle shop Dorset Cycles is closing for a 1 day holiday on Saturday 11th June and will reopen on Tuesday 14th June. As well as selling and repairing bikes the shop also hires bikes out on an hourly, daily and weekly basis. To find out more visit their page on the Stalbridge Info site.

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Well Done Stalbridge !

1/6/2022

Katie Garland from Stalbridge Town Council wishes everyone a fantastic Platinum Jubilee Weekend and thanks all the residents, businesses, groups and organisations who have helped make Stalbridge a special place in which to celebrate. Join in the fun from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th.

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