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If possible please let us know if you would like to come
(for catering purposes), but if you just want to turn up on
This event is organised by Christians Together in Willingham
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WILLINGHAM NEWS June 2012
CONTENTS
JUNE NEWS
Allotments 5
BigJubilee Lunch 1
Cap Course 11
Charity Lunch 5
Cricketers wanted
Cricket club fixtures 7
Crossword 1 1
Crossword Solution 18
Daphne's Garden Party 9
Ethiopia Bulletin 15
Help celebrate the Olympics 7
Jottings from your County Councillor .............................................. 17
Kilimanjaro talk 10
Letter to Editor 18
Let them eat cake 17
Library Book Chiiz 11
Library Book Quiz Answers 18
Lost 1 1
Mothers' Union 12
Mothers' Union Jubilee coffee morning ........................................... 18
Neighbourhood Watch 8
Old Willingham 5
Olympic Mathematician 6
Quiz Night 15
Tiggers 14
Willingham Action GroupWillingham Bowls Club 7
Willingham Gardening Club
Willingham Walkers 18
Willingham WI 6
Willingham StageCraft 5
Yak 8c Yarn 10
Youth Centre
Your Village Needs You 8
MONTHLY ITEMS
Bin collections 3
Christians Together 13
Baptist Church
Church of the Sacred Heart, St Ives
St Mary 8: All Saints
Salvation Army
Editorial 3
Events at the Churches 12
Baptist Church
St Mary & All Saints
Salvation ArmyParish Council 16
Pastoral Letter 9
Village Diary 18
Village Directory 19
Willingham Library 10
Willingham Medical Practice ................................................................. 14
EDITORIALWe shall soon be enjoying another long weekend as we
celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a special Bank
Holiday on Tuesday 5 June. Watch out for various events
happening around the village and let us know how you will
have marked this occasion. Perhaps there will be some
photos for the July Willingham News?
Meanwhile we also have the first day of summer to look
forward to on 20 June. Hopefully the weather will soon
begin to feel more like summer!
Help Willingham to
CELEBRATE THE OLYMPICS
We are putting on a
FUN-FILLED FAMILY WEEKEND
on The Jubilee Field and in the
Ploughman Hall on 3 and 4 AUGUST
WE NEED YOUR HELP
if you or your friends '3'
° can run a 30—60 minute game/race/event
° are in a band or music group° can provide entertainment (magic, juggling, street
Cecil Gleaves has commented on the May Old Willinghamarticle. He believes the picture (showing girls in a parade)dates from the 19203 rather than the 1930s. He makes the
point that the girls are shown walking south down LongLane. He also points out that the greenhouses extended to
Newington.
Allotments
Willingham Combined Charities has a vacant
allotment at West Meadow Close. Rent is £20 perannum and a refundable deposit of £30 is required.If interested, please contact 01954 260284
Willingham StageCraft'sSummer Play
Rehearsals for BBQ R Murder are ongoing. Scripts are down
and the action of this brilliant play is really coming to life.
The cast are working as hard as ever so make sure youreward their efforts by buying a ticket! Please drop in to the
Public Hall after 8 pm on a Tuesday or Thursday if you are
interested in participating in future productions both on or
offstage! Otherwise, find out who 'dunnit' between
13June — 16June at the Ploughman Hall.
For more information about Willingham StageCraft,please go to our website wwwwillinghamstagecraftcouk or
Disease Association will be held on 23 June at 1 pm byDiane and Cliff Hopkins at 13 Rockmill End.
The meal consists of soup, bread and cheese and costs
£3.
All are welcome.
WAG Environmental GroupGrant applicationsWe had hoped to be able to announce the result of our BigTree Plant application in this issue but to date (10 May) no
word, so check on the willinghamlife website for breakingnews!
The good news is that our application to the South Cambs
Community Chest fund was successful and we have a grantof £800 to provide picnic area seating and a table to add to
OLYMPIC MATHEMATICIANLuke Ramsden, a Year 11 student at Cottenham Academy,received a gold certificate in this year's Senior Maths
Challenge which is run by the UK Mathematics Trust and
aimed at those aged 16 — 19. Over 65,000 pupils from across
the UK sat the Challenge, with roughly the top 6%
receiving a gold certificate.
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Head, Steve Elliroa prereatiag La/ee witb lair certificate
The British Mathematical Olympiad (BMO) is the follow
on round for the Senior Challenge. Around 1000 invitations
to the BMO Round 1 are sent to pupils who score highly in
the Senior Challenge each November, and are then
qualified to represent the UK at the International
Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).BMO Round 1 lasts three and a half hours and contains
six complex and involved mathematical problems for which
full written solutions are required. Around 100 highachievers in Round One, who are qualified to represent the
UK at the IMO are invited to try Round Two. Luke
received a certificate of distinction in the first round and
was invited to take part in Round Two. This places him
amongst the top 100 or so 16 — 18 year old pupils in the
country and is a spectacular achievement.
Luke will be moving on to Hills Road Sixth Form Collegein September, where the subjects he has chosen to study at
A level include Mathematics and Further Mathematics.
Nicky Woodroffe
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WILLINGHAM NEWS June 2012
Willingham Cricket Club
Fixtureslst Team
2 June — Longstanton 2nds (Home)9 June — Cottenham 2nds (Away)
16 June — Wilburton (Away)23 June — Longstanton 2nds (Away)30 June —— Cottenham 2nds (Home)
2nd Team
2 June — No Game
9 June — Chatteris 3rds (Home)16 June —- No Game
23 June — Sutton 2nds (Home)30 June — Bar Hill 2nds (Away)
Willingham Bowls ClubHome fixtures for June.
lljune V Fordham 2 00 pm.
13June V Eternet 6 00 pm.
18june V Sutton 2 00 pm.
ZOJune V Alex/B 6 30 pm.
Weather allowing and assuming the green has drained bythen.
Tea and biscuits served during afternoon fixtures
so come on down and support the team or even
join us. We are always looking for new members and youwill be made very welcome.
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looking for new players of all levels and
ages to join the team aheadof this
season.
So if you think you are the next
Kevin Pietersen or just looking to
have a bit of fun on a Saturdayafternoon we want to hear from
you...
Call Steve Dyer on
07834 378482
for more information
HELP WILLINGHAM
CELEBRATE THE OLYMPICS
A number of the local groups in the Village are hoping to
take part in an Olympic—themed fun day and party on
Saturday 4 August on the Jubilee Field (by the children's
playgrounds).The plan is to have a large TV in the Ploughman Hall
showing the Olympics through the afternoon and evening.Meanwhile, during the day, we will run our own Villagegames on the fields. There will be a bar available and
supporting events such as a barbecue and live music but the
details are still being finalised.
We are looking for local groups to organise a fun/sillygame lasting 30 minutes to an hour. This could be an event
which relates to the club (like a slow bike ride, bowls usingmelons or judo in inflatable sumo suits) or somethingcompletely different (like a 3 legged stilt race or an egg and
spoon race with spade and a rugby ball). Finals could be
held later in the afternoon and we would have medal
ceremonies for the first 3 places.We would like to encourage as many Villagers as possible
to come and take part. We are aiming to make this a free
event so the more people who can give us half an hour of
their time for an all—day fun day, the better!
We will be holding a Grand Summer Draw on the day of
the event with some very good prizes. We hope to get a
holiday, a dinner for two and some other big prizes. Moneyfrom this draw will be used to fund the day and we hopethat lots of you will buy (and sell) tickets.
Our aim is to create our own fun Village event, where we
can all get together and chat, have a drink and have fun. If
you would like to help make this a special day, especially if
you or your friends° can run a 30-60 minute game/race/event
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WILLINGHAM NEWS June 2012
New Youth Centre for WillinghamIt's coming soon! A brand new youth centre, purpose built
for the youth of our village. It may have taken a while but
after the survey of the village in 2008 when 128'teenagersreturned the questionnaire, the overwhelming request was
for a youth centre. Following that, Willingham Action
Group was set up to begin the response to the questionnaireand then Willingham Youth Trust grew out of that,becoming a charity in 2010. Since then a youth club has
been running in the Baptist church hall on George Street on
Wednesday evenings with two trained youth workers. Over
the last eighteen months a wide range of activities has been
on offer. There is an X-box 360 and a 40 inch TV, table
tennis, snooker, table football, computers with a range of
games, crafts and cookery. The club runs during term time
and it is hoped that soon a second evening session can begin.
HELP NEEDED The dream is that the new youth centre,
on the West Fen End of the Ploughman Hall, will be
finished by the end of the year. It will be on two floors with
a kitchen downstairs. If this is to happen help is needed.
£28,000 is held by the Parish Council for the purpose of
building a youth centre which has to be match funded. The
plans for the work have been passed by the County Council
and are now going out for tenders from local builders but
we need to raise about £35,000 for the building work to be
done. Can you or your business help with a donation? We
also need to strengthen our team of trustees. We need
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could help with fundraising. We could run more youth club
sessions with a bank of volunteers. Our village has no
public transport to enable teenagers to access clubs
anywhere else and the nearest club at Bar Hill has recentlyclosed. If you can help to fulfil the requests and dreams of
10 am Waiting in Prayer, followed by the BigJubileeLunch (see details on front page)
6 pm Good News AboutJudgement10 June
10 am Celebration with Visiting preacher Steve
Holland
6 pm The Bible and the Future
17 June
9 am Praying in the Spirit11 am TGI Sunday — Father's Heart
6 pm Living Hope24 June
10 am Prayer Ministry6 pm Be Holy!
Communion is celebrated on the first and third Sundayevenings and second and fourth Sunday mornings
WILLINGHAM NEWS June 2012 13
Bank Holidays (Spring and Diamond Jubilee) Just a
reminder that our surgeries and pharmacy will be closed on
Monday 4June and Tuesday 5 June.Cover will be provided by our local Out of Hours
Service UCC on 0330 123 9131
You will be offered telephone advice and an appointment to
see a doctor at the Chesterton Medical Centre or a visit if
appropriate. There is free parking at the Medical Centre
and all the doctors are local GPs. Our surgery receives an
electronic medical report for your records so that our
doctors are up to date with any medical problems you have
whilst the surgery is closed. This locally organised out of
hours service is used by all the Cambridgeshire GP
surgeries and is the correct and best way to access medical
care outside surgery hours.
NHS Direct on 0845 4647 is also useful if you just want
some telephone advice.
Use of NHS Services outside surgery hours Please can
we ask you not to attend the A & E Departments of our
local hospitals unless you have a life threatening condition
or you think you may need an X—ray. Our emergencyservices are over-stretched and there will undoubtedly be a
long wait to see a doctor. Inappropriate use of A & E can
adversely affect the ability of the service to deal with
genuine emergency cases.
Pharmacy news Patients on repeat medication can benefit
from a Medicines Use Review in the Pharmacy. This is a
free NHS service which helps you to get the best results
from your medication. If you would like more information
on how and when to take your medicines for maximum
therapeutic effect, please ask for an appointment at the
Pharmacy, or ring 01954 261787 to arrange a time. If the
pharmacy is not too busy, Neil, our pharmacist, may be able
to offer this service without a pre—arranged appointment,but he may ask you to pop back at another time.
Acknowledgements We would like to extend our thanks to
the families and friends who kindly made donations to the
Surgery Equipment Fund in memory of both Joyce Smith
and Donald Peacock.
Equipment We intend to purchase a new sigmoidoscope.We will then be able to offer a sigmoidoscopy service at
both Willingham and Longstanton surgeries which means
that our patients do not have to travel to hospital.We would also like to thank Arnold and Patricia Cooperwho have donated a new wheelchair to the surgery to
replace the rather ageing one we currently have at
Willingham Surgery to transport patients to and from the
Out of hours cover: Urgent Care Cambridgeshire 0330 123 9131
When the surgery is closed please ring Urgent Care Cambridgeshire 0330 123 9131
or NHS Direct 0845 4647 for advice only
WILLINGHAM SURGERY
NORMAL OPENING HOURS
Monday 8 30 — 1 OO 2 30 - 6 00
Appomtments 8 30 — 11 OO 3 00 — 6 00
Tuesday 8 30 — 1 00 2 00 — 6 00
Appointments 8 3O -— 11 00 3 00 — 5 30
Ante Natal/Baby Clinic 2 00 — 4 00
Wednesday 8 3O — 1 00 2 00 — 7 00
Appointments 8 30 — 11 00 4 30 — 7 00
Thursday 8 30 —- 1 00 Closed from 1 00 pm
Appomtments 8 30 — 11 00 Half day
Friday 830—100 200~600
Appointments 8 30 — 11 00 3 00 — 5 30
Emergencies 4 00 — 6 00
WILLINGHAM PHARMACY Tel: 01954 261787
NORMAL OPENING HOURS
Monday 8 30 — 1 00 2 30 — 6 30
Tuesday 8 3O — 1 00 2 00 — 6 00
Wednesday 8 30 - 1 00 2 00 — 7 30
Thursday 8 30 — 1 00 CLOSED
Friday 8 30 — 1 00 2 00 -— 6 30
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@ Variety of toys
@ Baby area with baby chairs, soft toys and
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@ Inside and Outside play (weather permitting)@ Craft Table
@ Singing Time
@ Healthy Snack Time
@ Adult Drinks
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ETHIOPIA BULLETIN number 4
When I return I definitely will expect you all to hand shake
as they do in Ethiopia! I heard that there were worries about
shaking hands at the Olympics and catching germs or
something; how silly! There may be nasty diseases around
the world but I have not known such rules as here for hand-
washing and care over contact with hands. We have had to
learn the protocol for meeting and greeting. When meetingfor the first time, a firm —
very firm — right hand shake is
good, but hold your elbow with the left hand if showingrespect while doing so. If you have just washed your hands
and they are wet, or you know your hands are not clean, youoffer the back of your right wrist to touch instead. If you
are meeting a good friend then you touch right shoulders
while shaking hands...I just love this one, it is so friendlyand happy, and really good mates touch shoulders twice.
Ethiopians wouldn't dream of having a drink or eatinganything without washing their hands properly first - so justremember that next time you reach for the biscuit at yourcoffee break!
Two volunteers in the area are VSO and the others are
from US Peace Corps while some pass through Visiting each
other so that adds to the people I see here in general. All are
good company and it is relaxing being able to talk freelywithout being careful how I say things, or having to speakslowly. Somehow we gather once a week for an earlyevening meal and I meet my other Education VSO personhere mid—week just to talk about schools and office
grumbles and frustrations.
I tend to visit schools in the mornings and avoid leavingat the same time as they walk home for their lunch; I getfollowed by crowds like the Pied Piper. When one fierce
Principal didn't get the full obedient response to go home
without me, he saw them off with a few rocks then went to
wash his hands! A typical school has a large walled, gatedcompound with some trees for shade and a football pitchmarked out with stones and rough goal posts. Don't worry,where there are newly planted areas they are secured with
lots of barbed wire. Outside the school walls are the ladies
selling nuts, carrots or berries by the handful. Inside there
are long huts for classrooms that can house 50 or so children—
oops, all are called students here. Near the main buildingwill be the special flag pole area. The huts have really wide
roofs for shade and protection in the rainy season and on the
outside walls there will be huge accurate diagrams for
geography, all imaginable biology and the periodic table,
painted in bright colours. Where there are younger students
the words may be in English but otherwise it is all in
Tigrinya. Teachers can be recognised by their white lab—
coats, and they carry their chalk, board duster, text books
and often their rubber tube (whip) with them — which theyhide as soon as they see me. Classrooms have very narrow
wooden benches that seat 2 — 3 students, a blackboard and
in the younger classes hand—made posters of numbers,
vocabulary and the like. In most schools about a third will
be orphans from HIV/Aids families and it is where the
proportion is higher there is more bad behaviour. School
Principals are up against poor funding and supporting these
students when they do not have much themselves. Freshlypainted classrooms, exercise books, uniforms for orphans,new equipment and pens
— they all use biros all the time —
are usually funded by parents in their community. The
Ethiopian government pays schools a tiny annual amount
per student; equal to the price of a small packet of crisps in
England. So when I go into schools I watch lessons and am
looking to see how I can help the teachers be more creative
in their lessons with what they have got and what they have
to teach. I then work with Principals and area Supervisorsand the teachers to encourage and help them with their
lessons and teaching resources so the students learn better,which in turn hopefully will help their results and
behaviour improve as well. Only I had trouble in one lesson
concentrating; a noisy pigeon was feeding its young chicks
in a nest in the blackboard!
The most impressive thing I see and I try to attend
regularly, are the flag ceremonies. It is a sort of assemblywhich lasts about 20 minutes and is held half an hour before
daily lessons begin at 8 00 am. All students must be in the
compound lined up ready in their year groups for
discussions, student readings, HIV/Aids talks and so on. I
have been handed the loud hailer without warning a coupleof times to address the 1,650 students eyes fixed on me, the
forenji. I can't remember what I said, but once I had to
repeat it all — apparently my speech was too short! Then at
the end the Ethiopian flag is raised with precision timingwhile everyone stands to attention, properly spaced in
straight lines, hand on heart, singing with great respect their
national anthem. It is just tremendous and starts the day so
well.
Quiz NightFriday 29th June
Willingham Social Club
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WILLINGHAM NEWS June 20 1 2 15
From the Parish Council
www.willingham-pc.org.uk
CemeteryThe long running quest for a new site to serve Willinghamcontinues. Many sites have been identified and tested but all
found unsuitable due mainly to high levels of ground water.
If anyone feels that they own a suitable site and are willingto consider selling the land then please do contact the
Parish Council office. We will run out of space in the
existing cemetery quite soon and desperately want to be
able to find a location in the village or very close to it that
has easy access.
There has been a good deal of maintenance work in the
cemetery with trees being trimmed and ivy removed from
headstones. The excess soil will be removed shortly and re-
used at the Jubilee Field. Problems with the entrances are
being looked at and hopefiilly we can find ways to make
access easier. The age and design of the current gates and
pillars makes the problems not easy or cheap to solve. We
are aware of a problem with a nest of bees — local expertsare being consulted.
Ploughman Hall and the Pavilion
Improvements to the car parking area in front of the
Ploughman Hall are imminent. Tenders have gone out for
the work to provide more parking and a better surface. The
conversion of part of the Ploughman Hall to house a
permanent youth facility has also gone out to tender but
Willingham Youth Trust are finding it hard to obtain grant
support and at the moment it is not clear when this work
will take place. We will keep you updated.The kitchen in the sports pavilion has been refurbished to
comply fully with food preparation regulations and to
provide a better facility for users and Visitors.
Tourist Centre
By the time this newsletter hits your doormat or certainlyshortly after there will be a new map on the Green. It is
primarily there for visitors to our Village of whom we get a
surprisingly large number. You do not tend to think of
Willingham as a tourist centre but it has some very
interesting old buildings including the parish church, some
beautiful walks and some great towns and cities very close.
It is possible to get to St Ives, Cambridge or Ely keeping to
paths and byways with some stunning walks along the rivers.
If you have not tried it then a trip on the guided bus from
Longstanton Park and Ride is well worth taking. Transit
time to St Ives is about ten minutes through lovelycountryside.
Village Facilities
The council is committed to continually improving villageamenities and, working together with Willingham Action
Group, is looking to increase trees on the Jubilee Field and
install additional seating and picnic areas. Other ideas
include a skate/scooter park, an outdoor gym, an outdoor
table tennis table, an overhaul of the under-fives play area
and more adventurous equipment for the older children. It
will take time and money to achieve any of these objectives.The council is working with Willingham Primary School on
the ideas and would welcome input from the wider
community on what they would like to see.
After the closure of the bank, building society and petrolsales a number of parishioners asked if there is more that
the Parish Council can do to help retain facilities like these
in the Village. Sadly the answer is no. Whilst we can and do
work hard with our District and County colleagues on
issues like the library there is very little we can do to
influence commercial business decisions. The answer is in
the hands of all of us who live here. Use them or lose them.
If the business is viable it will stay but if not it will go. So
please do support local firms. They are a vital part of our
community.
Contact Details
Agendas, minutes and much more are on the website or for
the latest news and updates you can twitter Willingham pc.
Your current Parish Councillors are:—
Mr H Awal 01954—204526
Mr I Barratt 01954—261609
Mr D Clarke 01954—260600
01954-260325
01954-261293
01954—261036
01954-261353
Mr Cjones (Planning Chairman) 01954-261036
Mr P King (Vice Chairman) 01954—260780
Mr B Kirkman (Green and Boundaries Lead Councillor)01954—260393
Mr A Cook (Chairman of the Council)Mr R Foster (Halls Lead Councillor)Ms W Hardman
Mr DJacques
Mr R Manning 01954—261235
Mr S Mellows 01954-270063
Mr G Pake (Cemetery Lead Councillor) 01954—2605 34
Mr R Purnell 01954—205257
Mr} Watson 01954—200245
Meeting dates are published on the website, the notice
board outside the public hall in the High Street and at the
library. The next full Parish Council Meeting will be on
Wednesday 13June at the Octagon, St Mary and All Saints
Church, Church Street at 7 30 pm. Parishioners are
welcome to attend and speak or ask questions.
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In keeping with Caroline Hay's letter last month, I wonder
if it is a matter of arrogance, ignorance or whatever — When
people addressed snub the other person? But has it alwaysbeen so?
I recall a friend who had just moved to Hemingford Greyin the 1990s. On her way to the Post Office, she murmured
a 'Good Morning' to those she passed until an elderly well—
dressed woman confronted her with 'Do I know you?' To
which my friend replied, 'No, but where I come from we
were taught to greet one another!'
Moving on — into the past— the book group I belong to is
currently reading Sirlerr of Sinai by Janet Soskice. In the
18803 the two Scottish sisters were in Cairo, lately placedunder British Rule and staying in the prestigiousShepheard's Hotel. Agnes noticed that the British were
often disliked or even hated by the natives. She put it down,in part, to bad manners. She cited the instance of two
English families who sat opposite them at the table d'hote of
Shepheard's . Over seven weeks, for three hours a day, 'these
people faced us, and never once said good—morning, nor
acknowledged our presence by a civil bow'. Of course, theyhad had no formal introduction, but a nod would not have
been out of place, since all were in a foreign land. Instead
they 'gaze on the unintroduced world with a simple stony,British stare'
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