General
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Over Gardening Club – March Meeting This Week
Our next meeting is on Wednesday 19th March from 7.15pm in the Main Hall at the Community Centre. The speaker will be Angela Potter talking about “Gardens I Have Visited”. We will have our usual Raffle and the Flower of the Month Competition. Free tea, coffee and biscuits will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Visitors are welcome for a £3 fee. Our speaker for the April meeting is Fiona Rose giving a talk entitled “In the Garden with William Morris: Flora as Art”. More famous for his work inside the home, William Morris (1834-1896) made a significant impact on the evolution of the English garden. He considered the…
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Pregnancy and Baby Loss Support Group
This group meets twice a month at Brampton. For further details see attached poster.
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The Over Players are pleased to announce that our Spring Show is CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL!
Show Dates: Wednesday 28th May – Saturday 31st May 2025 at Over Community Centre. Tickets are now on sale and are £12. Parental Guidance is advised for children under the age of 14. For more information and to book your tickets, please visit our website: https://overplayers.uk/ The Over Players will also be raising money for Blood Cancer UK at each performance. Calendar Girls The Musical A Musical by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth Originally Produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and The Shubert Organisation. Based on the play CALENDAR GIRLS written by Tim Firth and on the motion picture CALENDAR GIRLS written by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi. This…
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South Cambs District Councillor (SCDC) Bill Handley’s Report to Over and Willingham residents – March 2025
Four-day week consultation I’d like to remind everyone that a consultation on the council’s four-day week trial is open until 23rd March 2025. It can be accessed here: www.scambs.gov.uk/4DW and anyone who prefers a paper copy can request one here: communications@scambs.gov.uk or call 01954 713000. This is a consultation on the services that the council provided throughout the four-day week trial rather than on the idea of a local authority operating a four-day week. Improved Grant Funding Opportunity: Electric Vehicle chargers A reminder that the funding available from the SCDC’s Electric Vehicle charging grant has increased from £5,000 to up to £12,000 per project and is open to community groups.…
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Join Easter Celebrations at St Mary’s Church
Join us on Saturday 19th April at 2pm for an Easter celebration at St Mary’s Church, Over. Starting in the Church Hall with craft and refreshments, moving to the Church for a short reflection about Easter which will be followed by egg hunt in the Churchyard. Children need to be accompanied by an adult. Booking required – please email Clairemfisher@hotmail.com with the name and ages of children attending.
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Lifesaving Information and Training
As many people know, Darryl Bass is our Community Lifesaver. We contacted him to find out more about life saving training here in the village: A cardiac arrest can happen anywhere, to anyone and the survival rate from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is approximately 8%. Survival is only possible if someone recognises what has happened and starts CPR immediately and, if available, a defibrillator is used to restart the heart. In my experience as a Paramedic, there is a critical delay in bystanders starting CPR and unfortunately a defibrillator is almost never used prior to the ambulance service arriving. Response times for an ambulance to our rural community is also a…
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Over Gardening Club
Over Gardening Club meet on the third Wednesday of each month, usually at the Community Centre at 7.30pm. Membership is currently £15pa and current members receive 10% discount on most items sold at Oakington Garden Centre. Angela Potter, a local garden designer, will be giving the talk this month – “Gardens I Have Visited – Plants & Design
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Over Day Centre 5 Pub Challenge – Sunday 11th May 2025
The ever popular 5 Pub Challenge Walk will take place on Sunday 11th May 2025. Put the date in your diaries! See poster for details.
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Memory Cafe and Lunch Club
Our next Memory Café features entertainment from Stuart Green, a regular and popular singer, and a music quiz, in the Day Centre to start at 10:00am on Saturday, March 22. All are welcome, please do come along. For more information please visit our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OverMemoryCafe Following our Memory Café, please do book your place for lunch at our Saturday Lunch Club. Bookings can be made online, by phone or in person at the Day Centre – please see our website for more information: https://www.overdaycentre.co.uk/what…/saturday-lunch-club/
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Over Allotments
The village allotments, off Mustills Lane, are owned by the Church & Town Lands Charity of Over (reg no 202613). This Charity manages assets bequeathed by former residents of the parish of Over; income from these assets, after expenses, being divided annually between St Mary’s Church and other charitable purposes within the village for the general benefit of Over residents. If you are interested in renting an allotment for growing your own vegetables and flowers, please email ctlcharity@gmail.com for further information.
