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​​Now's your chance for a lovely day out, getting healthy and being sponsored for money for the church
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​Urgent need for Volunteer Visitors for Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
 
An SOS has gone out to find volunteers to be part of the Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Visiting Scheme; which offers support to people who are lonely and isolated in later life.
Age UK has a waiting list of clients in Hunts and it is keen to hear from anyone who would like to support us.
Volunteers play an important part in helping to support and enhance people’s lives in many ways and they in turn receive satisfaction from the role. Each volunteer can really make a difference by visiting someone once a week for an hour. It could be for a chat, cup of tea, game of cards or perhaps an occasional trip out.
Mrs Dee Potter, Volunteer Organiser, wants to hear from anyone who would like to know more about this opportunity. If you have some free time and are interested then please call Dee on 01354 691898 or email dee.potter@ageukcap.org.uk

               Photos by Kay Coope

Summer Lunch July 2018 at Illings Farm                                                    Photos by Kay Coope
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Flower Festival & Open Gardens  June 2018

Some of the gardens on display . . . . . 

and the church flower arrangements . . . . .  
and classic cars . . . . . 
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On Saturday 30th March 2018 Broughton’s refurbished play park was officially opened by Russell Payne, Chairman of the Red Tile Wind Farm Trust.
Welcoming everyone to the opening John Ray, Chairman of Broughton Parish Council said,
“First off all we express our thanks to Luminus for donating this area of land to the Parish Council when they did their redevelopment of this site. Without this the project would not have got started.
Secondly we are immensely grateful for the generous grants we have received from the Lottery Fund and The Red Tile Wind Farm Trust. Without these our vision would have remained just that – an unfulfilled dream.
Thirdly we owe an enormous “thank you” to Simon Beeley for his tenacity and dogged determination and the many hours he spent pursuing and procuring these grants, for meeting representatives of playpark equipment firms, for choosing the equipment, for supervising its installation and for all the maintenance work he has carried out on the site – Simon you are a star!!!”
He then introduced Russell Payne who responded by saying he was delighted to be asked to open the play park and how good it was to see where their grant had been so well spent. It was not very often that they got this opportunity.
After this he cut the ribbon and the children went off on an Easter Egg Hunt around the play park and the adults participated in celebratory refreshments of sparkly drink and a specially made cake decorated to represent the play park.

Pictures courtesy of Hunts Post

Archaeology

​Michael Saxby, once of No 2, School Road, has written in to tell us of his experience at Broughton moat in 1974 when, after a storm had blown down an oak tree, he found a tunnel. He entered and after about 50 yards there was a wooden door with a hole and an iron cross in it. Looking through, he could see some things stacked by the wall but he got scared and left. The next day he filled the hole in.
I wonder whether anyone else has information about this intriguing story. I plan to try to contact Michael in better weather times and see if we can find anything at the moat site.
Please feel free to use the CONTACT form on this website if you have anything to add.

Sybil Tabbit has written in, saying she is interested in the above. She used to live at No 1 The Causeway (house now gone) and played in the moat field with her sister Christine.  

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Well done, Broughton, for Macmillan!

Winners at the 2017 Produce Show