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WELCOME
TO THE OVER VILLAGE NOTICE BOARD
This page has been set up for
the community to advertise events, missing, lost and found, items to sell and
items wanted and a whole lot more.
( If
you would like to place an advert on the Web Village Notice Board then contact
us with the details - use this Notice Board as you currently do with the Post
Office and other Notice Boards throughout the village )
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Details |
Contact |
| Clubs and Societies
in the Village can advertise FREE on this Website, for more details
e-mail or call. |
contact@overvillage.co.uk
Tel: 01954 232789 |
| Attention
Local Businesses don't just have your business listed under the Contact
page, get noticed by having a full page Ad. A one page Ad on
the Web is an inexpensive alternative to a Website and it will also enable your Business to have
a presence on the World Wide Web! |
contact@overvillage.co.uk
Tel: 01954 232789 |
Over
Parish Plan
Over Parish Plan
Steering Group – Final Report - see link. Bill Wilson
Chair
Steering Group
Bill
Wilson ( Chairman ) - Brian
Chapman ( Secretary ) |
For
further details on the Over Parish Plan Steering Group click the link below:
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Over Parish Council
Over Parish Council now have a
page on the village website, here you will find Parish Council
member details and minutes from council meetings. |
If you
would like further information, please click below.
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Over Parish Plan - Transport
The Parish Council are now
responsible for taking forward the proposed action, one of the
area's to be looked at under TRANSPORT is to set up a register of
those people prepared to share transport to reduce the number of
single occupant journeys.
If you are an Over resident and would like to register, please click
on the link and enter your details/register on the Over Village
discussion board.
(After registering as an OVER RESIDENT you will need to wait
24 hour before you are able to post a message to the board) |
To
register your interest in car sharing, please click below.
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Sports Development Plan For Over
One of the recommendations of the Parish Plan was for a Sports
Development Plan to be produced for Over. The purpose of a
Development Plan is to provide an overview of sports provision in
the village, identify gaps in provision, help and support clubs to
overcome the challenges they face in achieving their objectives, to
identify priorities for action including co-ordinating bids for
grant aid where there is a benefit for more than one club, and
bring potential members and sponsors attention to what is available.
The consultation documents are now
available for review.
Full details, covering meetings and
progress reports, will be available on the Village website.
Helen Hyde
Chairman Sports and Recreation Group. |
For
further details on Sports Development for Over, click the link below:
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PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2012
Open Competition
for the Swavesey Camera Club
Exhibition to
be held on 24th March 2012.
2 classes:
1. JUNIOR
CLASS (16 and under)
2. ADULT CLASS (17 and over)
(excludes
present members of Swavesey Camera Club or professional
photographers).
Competition is
for prints only. All prints should be a maximum size A4 and may be
monochrome or colour. On the reverse they should have the
photographer’s name, address and phone number, age (over 17s may
state “adult”!). A title is preferred but not compulsory. All
entries and winners will be shown at the Camera Club Exhibition on
SAT 24th March in the Memorial Hall. Maximum of 2 prints per
entrant in each category. There are 3 categories in each class;
(1)
Within a mile of home
(2) A great big close-up.
(3) Yellow.
Closing date for entries is Friday 16th
March.
Judging will be
done by a committee of Swavesey Camera Club members. Certificates
will be given for the winner and runner up in each category; from
these an overall winner and runner up will be selected from each
class for whom there will be a cash prize and free membership for 1
year for Swavesey Camera Club. |
Prints for
competition can be sent or delivered to
Peter
Looper, 23 Moat Way, Swavesey CB24 4TR
no later than Friday 16th March 2011
Prints can be collected from the
exhibition on the afternoon of the show. Prints can only be returned
by post if supplied with s.a.e |
The Alzheimer's
Society
"The Alzheimer's Society works with anyone who is confused and
forgetful, their carers and families, not just people with
Alzheimer's disease. We are here to provide information, to help
people to understand confusion, help people to find strategies to
cope, to provide someone to talk to who understands and to provide
friendship and opportunities to meet other people in a similar
situation.
On Tuesday
6th December we will be at St Mary Church in Willingham in
the Octagon room. We are pleased to invite you to our Drop-in
between 10 -12pm. Staff will be present to help you. We can help
with financial issues, carers assessments as well as provide you
with information and support. We will have a confidential area where
we can chat if needed. Carers and people with dementia can also meet
up and chat over coffee. |
If we can
help in any way or you would like to find out more about our
groups
please call our office on
01223 884031
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Cambridgeshire
Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS)
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) is launching a pilot
scheme in South Cambridgeshire to encourage residents to carry out
safety checks on their homes. The scheme is innovative in that it
will rely on local volunteers to liaise with the community on its
behalf.
CFRS is now
looking for people who live in the South Cambridgeshire area to
volunteer to become ‘Community Champions’.
Community
Champions will be trained to speak to local community groups about
home fire safety and escape plans, and to refer those people who are
unable to carry out a check of their own home to CFRS for additional
support. Champions will also attend community events and take part
in CFRS’s public consultation activity.
Cambridgeshire
ACRE is running this pilot scheme on behalf of CFRS. We believe that
our strong links with South Cambridgeshire parishes means we are
well placed to generate a good level of support for the scheme and
we would encourage anyone looking for an opportunity to take on a
more active role in their community to consider becoming a Community
Champion. |
For more
information on the scheme
click here or contact
Lynda Bubb
CFRS Community Champion Scheme Co-ordinator
Cambridgeshire ACRE
Direct Line: 01353 865037
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Learn to Sing
A cappella Close Harmony
Encouraging Men to Sing
Supported by a national music
educational charity, this course is being run to encourage more men
to take up singing. They are aimed at both newcomers and those who
have not sung for a while. You will learn within a group, which
makes it less daunting. Come along -
It’s Free!
You do not have to be able to read music
No experience necessary
Men of all ages welcome
There are many
men, who would love to sing. Most of them never get around to it,
don’t have the opportunity or maybe are too self-conscious to give
it a go.
The simple fact is that just about everyone can sing. This free
course will help you to discover your voice. Also, there’s no need
to worry about reading music, the simple teaching methods will help
you to learn a song quickly
Maybe it’s a few years
since you have sung. If so, this course is the perfect way to ease
your vocal chords back into action. If you are a regular singer then
come and try four part a cappella close harmony in a relaxed and
friendly environment.
The course will cover
vocal production, Support, anchoring, resonance, sound matching and
performance. All taught with top quality music educators in a simple
way through singing songs.
The six week course
starts on the 19 January 2012 at the Institute Abington. |
For further details
and registration phone Stephen Brown Cambridge 833725
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Over Village Blog
Jane Lovett has started a blog on Over Village, featuring people,
activities, groups, etc. You can visit the blog at
http://overvillageblog.blogspot.com |
For more
information on the 'blog' or if you have a comment, please
e-mail Jane at
JaneASLovett@aol.com
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COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
My
name is Heidi Weight and I am the new Community Engagement and
Communications Officer at South Cambridgeshire District
Council. I work around the Major Growth sites to engage local
people, and hopefully get their views on issues which effect
them. I am in the process of organising a series of community
events in and around the local area as part of the Northstowe
Consultation process.
If anyone is interested in attending
such events or would like more information then please contact
me
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LOCAL
POLICE INFORMATION
The police are aware
that some crimes and incidents occur and that these are NOT being
reported because the victims believe that these crimes will not be investigated
and/or detected.
The police STRONGLY urge you to report ALL incidents of crime and
anti-social behaviour - this information is essential to the police
who need to be aware of problems within the village. |
Call
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE
LINK
The new Cambridgeshire LINk (Local
Involvement Network) which was established on 25 September 2008
as part of a new Government initiative to help communities have a
stronger voice in their Health and Social Care services is now
up and running.
The
LINK will:
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Ask local people what they think
about local care services and provide
a chance to suggest ideas to help improve services
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Investigate specific issues of
concern to the communities
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Use its powers to hold services to
account and get results
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Ask for information and get an
answer within a specified amount of time
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Carry our spot checks to see if
services are working well
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Make reports and recommendations and
receive a response
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE TRADING STANDARDS
Trading
Standards web pages provide information about how to get advice on a
consumer issue and how to report concerns; it provides advice on the
most common problems, including scams and rogue traders, and tells
residents about issues we are currently tackling, linking to our
most recent articles to help them avoid the problems that other
people in the County are encountering. The link is
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/consumer.
We also have
business pages which provide information on how to seek business
advice on trading law issues which might be relevant to small
businesses operating locally. the web address is
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/trading
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VILLAGE EVENT
1) Every Saturday evening whist drive at
Elm Court, 7.30 pm start. Everyone welcome. £2.00
including raffle and refreshments. (This is open to anyone who
would like to come along - Elm Court kindly provide the venue).
2) Singles dining group - second
Sunday in each month, Sunday lunch at various local pubs, at
village pub if shortage of drivers. Lunch usually booked
for 1pm. This is open to anyone who is on their own, and
aged over 55. Our current 'membership' stands at about 20.
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If anyone is interested in either of
these events, please contact Jane Lovett on 01954 232375 for
more information.
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Walking in
Cambridgeshire
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RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes, for
February 2012
Readers who walk at Fen Drayton
Lakes may well be used to seeing barn owls hunting areas of
rough grass and reeds. I was lucky enough to see one in early
January as it hunted between Moore Lake and the Busway – a
lovely end to my day as I cycled home after work.
A different
kind of owl has been the highlight of a visit for a number of
people this winter. Up to three short-eared owls have regularly
been seen in the late afternoons, hunting farmland to the south
of Far Fen Lake.
Short-eared
owls breed on our heather moors, and they typically spend the
winter on coastal marshes, where hunting for rodents is easier
than on the moors. These owls also breed in Scandinavia, and
large numbers migrated to eastern England in the autumn (2011),
and many of them have settled in The Fens.
So long as
there are enough voles and mice in our grasslands, these large
owls may stay with us until spring. If you walk down to Ouse
Fen late in the afternoon, you might even see one there, hunting
the rough grass areas, as there have been some sightings.
Many of our
garden birds will be establishing their breeding territories
during February. You’ll probably hear robins and blackbirds
singing in the mornings, perhaps even throughout the day if the
weather is fine. Keep an eye on nest boxes too – blue tits and
great tits will be claiming “ownership”. I have a starling nest
box, and it was being defended in early January. The birds
probably won’t lay eggs for many weeks yet, but if they don’t
make an early claim on their “des res”, they could lose it to
another pair.
We’ll be
launching our own children’s wildlife explorer club in April,
meeting on the third Saturday of each month. If you know
interested children who are between 8 and 12 years old, please
get in touch with me. We’ll be running a tester event in
half-term, on Friday 17th February, when there will
be a number of different activities to try. All accompanied
children will be welcome (please book their places on 01954
233260), and they can decide afterwards if they’d like to join
the club.
If you’d
like to join us on a guided walk, you’ll be very welcome. All
walks start from the guided bus stop and at Holywell Lake car
park – with a leader at each place. Adults £4, RSPB members £2,
children £1.
Short
walks (about 1.5 hours):
Longer walks (about 3 hours)
Sunday 26
February, start 2pm Wednesday 8 February, 10am
Wednesday 29
February, 1.30pm
Neil Renwick,
Community Projects Officer,
T: 01954 233267
or E:
neil.renwick@rspb.org.uk
Our address
is RSPB, The Grange, 20 Market Street, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
CB24 4QG.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a
registered charity: England and Wales no. 207076, Scotland no.
SCO37654
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Contact: Neil Renwick
Community Projects Officer
RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserve,
T:
01954 233267
M: 07739
921459
e-mail: neil.renwick@rspb.org.uk
www.rspb.org.uk |
East Anglia's Children's Hospices
East Anglia's Children's Hospices
(EACH) offers a range of services to support children and young
people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their
families.
Care and support is provided within the hospices, the family home
and in other settings.
EACH have hospices at Quidenham (Norfolk), Ipswich and Milton
(Cambs)
For further information, please contact the EACH
fundraising office on 01223 205180 or funding@each.org.uk |
For
further details please visit the Website.
Click
here
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PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICE
Artwork on Canvas & Wedding Photography Service
Wedding Photography Service available in Cambridgeshire.
Artwork available to purchase online or look on the website for
upcoming market dates.
www.thecambridgephotographycompany.co.uk |
For more
information please call,
Sarah
Jones
01954 201266
or e-mail
info@thecambridgephotograpycompany.co.uk |
UNEARTHING
THE PAST
Stepping back through
TIME |
The Over
Monuments Group at Hanson's Needingworth Quarry. Visit the website.
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It’s 'yours' !!!
Over has it’s own
Skate Park located on the New Recreation ground near the all
weathers surface.
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If you
are interested in finding out about this project, click below
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It's
play time............ for the under 12's
Over's
super-duper play
area for the under 12's on the
Recreation Ground is ready for you to play on. |
If you
are interested in finding out about this project, click below
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THE
CENTRE AT OVER
Your Community Centre
 Centre
12.00am till 11.00pm - Mon to Sat + 12noon till 10.30pm Sunday.
Office
9.30am to 5.00pm - Mon to Fri
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To find
out more on what the Centre has to offer please call the Centre on
01954 206600 or
Click below to visit the website.
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ALL
OVER PARISHIONERS
Please make every effort to keep all trees,
bushes, hedges etc., trimmed so that they do not make paths narrower
or obstruct the view of motorists.
Dog owners carry on using the dog bins - it has made a difference to
the paths, thank you. Those who do not use the dog
bins - please do so, it's your village too, help to keep it clean. |
Chairman
Over Parish Council |
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BOOK TRACES LOCAL FAMILY HISTORY OVER FOUR AND A HALF CENTURIES
Bicheno, a family from Over,
Cambridgeshire, is a new work that traces the history of a family
back to 1558 – a family centred on Over, Cambridgeshire, but which
had strong links with many nearby villages and towns such as
Elsworth, Cottenham, St Ives and Cambridge and as far afield as the
USA and Tasmania, where there is a town and a bird named after it.
The authors are Jean Nelson and Eileen Webster, who are both
connected to the extended Bicheno family.
They have taken the combined contents of two documents they created
about a decade ago and have brought the information up to date by
adding newly-found data and have also corrected some of the
references found by delving into the Public Records offices in
Cambridge and London, wills, manorial and church records and rarer
ones such as the old hearth tax.
“The curious thing is that today there isn’t anyone named
Bicheno living in Over or Elsworth, though there is at least one
family in Cottenham, one in Cambridge and one in Melbourn, near
Royston,” said Eileen Webster.
The furthest back that Jean Nelson and Eileen Webster have been able
to trace the family is to William Bychenor, who died in 1558 and
left a will that showed he was a husbandman (that is, a farmer) who
had three daughters and a son. William’s brother John died in 1587
and his cousin William in 1601.
The name had many variants over the years including Beecheno,
Bichener, Bickeno, Brecheno, Brichener, Bricheno, Brichenoe,
Britchener, Brichenor, Brichiner, Britchenor and Bychener.
The name Bicheno seems to stem from the lost place name Byccenho or
Birchenhoe, meaning land with beech trees on it by a river, on the
borders of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. The river there is
a tributary of the River Great Ouse, which today forms the northern
boundary of Over parish. So it seems that the name Bicheno came
‘down the river’ to Over.
Today, whilst there is no-one named Bicheno living in or near Over
there are people living in the village who are descended from the
family. Eileen Webster is the granddaughter of Hephzibah Kirby,
whose mother Lucy Bicheno married William Kirby in 1854, and John
Doggett.
Jean Nelson is the three-times great granddaughter of Hemington
Bicheno, one of Lucy’s nine brothers.
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The
book is available from Eileen Webster at 1 Longstanton Road, Over,
telephone (01954) 230839 for £16 plus £1.50 post and packing |
Manart
Landscaping and Property Services
We are a
small, honest and reliable Over based company.
Constructionline registered, we are your ideal contact for
all types of work inside and out; including: fencing, patios,
driveways, garden clearances and alterations, hedge trimming,
tiling and any number of other services.
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If you would like a free quotation
for any work please call
Andy Smart
01954 202242
Mobile
07813
071192
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Church and
Town Lands Charity, Over
A Registered Charity
Town Hall Bookings
Local Groups & Societies only £2
Local Family Parties £7.50 (3 hours)
Commercial or Business Use £5 per hour. |
For details
on charges & availability contact
Miss Natalie Hawketts Tel: 01954 230412
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Natural
Health
Orthopaedic pillows as recommended by physiotherapists
You will find me under Trade
and Services - Natural Health |
For
advice and price please contact:
julie@jryder.co.uk.
www.jryder.co.uk |
OVER
NETBALL CLUB
Like to play Netball - Come and join Over Netball Club - All standards
welcome.
Weekly on Wednesday Evenings from 7.30pm
AT
SWAVESEY VILLAGE COLLEGE |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Sheila on
01954 202313 |
TOUCH
RUGBY
Come and join us
for a sociable hour of Touch Rugby on Wednesday Evenings
9-10pm at the Community Centre
Absolutely no talent required
All shapes and sizes welcome |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Andy Jones on 01954 201788 or Tom Ashworth on 07974 449431
or visit the website
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CYCLING CLUB
New Cycling Club for
people in local villagers
Come and join us |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Tom Ashworth on 07974 449431 or visit the website
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BADMINTON
We will be running two weekly
sections on Tuesdays 8-11pm and Thursday 9-11pm at the Community Centre |
If you would
like to know more please call.
Jacky Miller on 01954 202361 |
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Over Gardening Club
If you
would like an information sheet about the club and details of our Annual
Competitions please contact us.
Anyone interested in gardening is
welcome - no need to be an expert! |
If you would like further
information please call
Pam Allars
01954 202024 |
OVER YOUTH CLUB
Over Community Centre
All
young people aged 11-17 welcome from 7.00 till
9.00pm.
(THURSDAYS Only)
New Members always welcome.
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For more
information please contact
Lisa McManus
07917 040502
Lisa.McManus@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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