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Take the bus campaign
Don’t forget to use your bus passes The Department for Transport have a campaign aimed at increasing the number of bus journeys taken by concessionary bus passholders across the country. To achieve this aim they have produced a number of promotional materials with the aim of creating awareness of the different types of journey a…
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Road Safety Education Newsletter, Winter 2023
The Parish Council were sent this newsletter by Cambridgeshire County Council and were invited to share it with you …
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Public Meeting, Anaerobic Digestion Facility at Streetly Hall Farm
West Wickham Village Hall, Saturday 18 November, 3pm-5pm You may be interested in attending a public meeting about the proposed Anaerobic Digestion Facility at Streetly Hall Farm. This proposal is for a different facility to the one near Haverhill that West Wickam Parish Council have already objected to. https://westwickham.org/2023/10/west-wickham-parish-council-objects-to-anaerobic-digester-planning-application-near-haverhill/
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Studio Café in December
Save the date: Saturday 2nd December, 10.30 am – 1.30 pm, for our Café Christmas Studio. After the success of our café studio in July, all those who had their wonderful stalls are joining us again plus new faces. There will be refreshments includingcoffee and cakes, and soup will be served at lunchtime. Look out…
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Local road closures
Essential maintenance work is being carried out on the A11 between Babraham and Six Mile Bottom. The work includes resurfacing, barrier replacement and sign renewals. It will ensure that the A11 remains safe and serviceable for years to come. Work began on Monday 6 March and is expected to be complete by January 2024. Our next…
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Parish Council news
The December report from our District and County Councillors does contain some items that you may find concerning, so please read about them here. In particular there are some major development plans both now and on the horizon: There was a Parish Council meeting on Monday 13th November 2023, 8pm, at the Village Hall. This…
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Stay steady on your feet with new fall risk checking tool
Cambridgeshire County Council has launched an online fall risk checking tool to help you understand your risk of falling and simple steps you can take to stay active and independent. From the age of 65, the risk of having a fall increases but many are avoidable. The new tool, Steady on your Feet, is aimed…
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November edition of eChallenge
You can read it here in colour! We also have an archive of the back issues.
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Recruiting Village Agents (S Cambs) – 3 posts
Cambridgeshire ACRE – an independent rural development charity – has vacancies for Village Agents in the South Cambridgeshire area. The Village Agents team provides help, support and solutions for the health and social care needs of members of the community, by engaging with local neighbourhood volunteers, health and care sector, statutory and voluntary organisations. If…
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Churchyard Clear-up, St. Andrew’s, West Wratting
The Autumn clear-up will take place on Saturday 11th November 10.00 – 12.00. As usual, coffee, tea and doughnuts will be served. Everyone is welcome, and if you just want to have a chat, it would be great to see you. Cobby McCall
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Remembrance Day Rock
West Wratting Sports Pavilion On Sunday 12th November, from 1 pm at the pavilion: ★ Dennis Stratton, original guitarist with Iron Maiden ★ Dave Edwards, guitarist with Status Quo & Manfred Mann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO8V_4dljzI ★ with special guests. Donations welcome to support Remembrance Day and West Wratting Football Club. Food also available to purchase. All friends…
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Jam & Open Mic Nite – West Wratting Sports Pavilion
Starting on Friday 6th October, the first Friday evening of every month at West Wratting Sports Pavilion from 7.30 pm will be Open Mic Night. All musicians of every level are welcome to come, chat and enjoy. All friends of the football club are very welcome to come along and have a singsong, enjoy some…
West Wratting Village Website
We hope this website will be helpful to both parishioners and visitors to West Wratting. It aims to provide information about the village, a calendar and news of upcoming events, and minutes from Parish Council meetings. It also hosts an electronic version of the Challenge village newsletter. This website is maintained by the West Wratting Parish Council.