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REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Remembrance Sunday "Poppy Day" was celebrated by people coming together for church services, marches and the laying of wreaths in Ashingdon - on Sunday - 8th November 2009.
Ceremonies were held at our village hall and in our churches. At the Ashingdon and East Hawkwell Memorial Hall, a British Legion led ceremony was held with Parish Councillors, The Scouts and many ex armed forces personnel, villagers and visitors on Sunday 8th November.
An honoured guest was Colonel Jeff Hosken, the Air Attaché at The United States Embassy in London. Colonel Hosken is an airman in the United States Air Force and has been a pilot for many years flying F15E and F111 aircraft, often based in Lakenheath in England. Col. Hosken came to honour and name the USAAF airmen who died in our village on 24th September 1944.
All of those who came to our Remebrance Day service celebrated the sacrifice made by all those British, Commonwealth and Allied fallen.
Press Release
Ashingdon Parish Council recently voted to implement a grants funding policy.
Grant applications will be considered from new and existing groups or organisations which bring a benefit to the residents of the Parish. For more information and an application form, please contact the Ashingdon Parish Council via The Parish Clerk : John Dyke, Clerk to The Council, Telephone : 01702 587102 10th June 2008
Rochford District Council’s new "Maximise Recycling Scheme"
The Councils new Maximise Recycling Scheme starts on July 21st 2008 and was developed as a result of the clear need for the expansion of the range of materials that can be recycled at the kerbside.
It is clear that there are a number of environmental reasons for introducing more recycling to Rochford. Landfill sites are rapidly filling up and the decomposition of bio-degradable materials in landfill sites can leas to the production of methane - a harmful greenhouse gas.
The new scheme involves three bins – a green one with a yellow lid for compostables, a grey bin for recyclables and a grey bin with a purple lid for non-recyclables. (The grey bin which will be used for recyclables, is the bin currently used for general refuse).
The Compostables bin is used for the collection of food and garden materials, the Recyclables bin is used for the collection of paper, cardboard, tins and cans, glass and plastic and all remaining materials should be placed in the Non-recyclables bin.
Each week the compostables bin is collected along with either the recyclables bin or the non-recyclables bin on alternate weeks.
From 16th June 2008, two additional bins were delivered to each property. These are the Compostables and the Non-recyclables bins.
On the week commencing 21st July 2008, the new recycling service started with collections of compostables and non-recyclables. The following week compostables and recyclables are collected, and so on.
Code of conduct
Please follow these simple points in order for your collections to run smoothly and efficiently:
• Ensure your wheeled bins are left inside the boundary of your property at the point closest to the highway by 7am on your collection day
• The collection crews have until 5pm on your collection day to collect your wheeled bins.
Rochford Districth Council 6th June 2008
"ASHINGDON YOUTH FC SCORE WITH FOOTBALL FOUNDATION GRANT"
Ray Cracknell, Club Projects Officer at Ashingdon Youth FC, said : Ashingdon Youth Football 28th March 2008
Important Recruiting Message
Ashingdon Youth Football Club is looking for players aged 8 years old for the Under 9 "Lions Team" who will be playing in the South East Essex Mini Soccer League next season 2008 - 2009). Interested parties should contact Paul on Tel. 01702 530735. Ashingdon Youth Football 11th March 2008
Paul Thorogood, Chief Executive of the Football Foundation said :
“We warmly congratulate the club and the local FA for their hard work and dedication in securing this award. “Sport is playing a central role in helping people to stay fit, strengthen communities and promote responsibility amongst young people. I am delighted that Football Foundation investment is opening up access to sport in Ashingdon and encourage other organisations in the region to apply to us.”
“This grant will enable our Club Ground maintenance team to purchase the necessary equipment which will not only reduce significantly their present manual labour tasks, but help them with the maintenance and development of the pitches at our 13.3 acre site that can only improve conditions & facilities for the young footballers thereby helping with the development of their footballing careers in the future ”; He added : ‘’ We are much indebted and grateful to the Football Foundation for this grant award, and also would like to thank Essex County FA for their help & support ’’.
Ashingdon supports youth football 8th July 2007
In 2007, Ashingdon Parish Council made arrangements for the application and eventual supply of funds from the Football Foundation to local football with the help of Essex County Council. The Parish Council matched the funds available and in so doing, doubled the amount awarded to Ashingdon Youth Football Club who provide football for several hundred local boys and girls from 5 up to 17 years of age.
On 7th and 8th July 2007, Ashingdon Youth Football Club held a football festival weekend at their Cherry Orchard Lane grounds for several hundred young people from their own teams and from visiting teams from all over Essex. All of the children enjoyed themselves and spent a fun time of playing and watching good football during two days of excellent weather with sunshine, a little wind and blue skies. The event was well organised and featured many other youthful means of enjoyment including bouncy castles, climb and slide attractions, skill galleries, targets and side shows.
At the end of the Sunday matches, the youngest players received medals for their efforts and good football. The medals were handed out to every girl and boy who played by Councillor Peggy Shaw, the Chairman of Ashingdon parish Council accompanied by Councillor Glen Dryhurst. Photographs of the Footbal Festival are shown in our Photo Album.
Ashingdon Parish - Innovating and improving August 2007
The Ashingdon Parish Council is striving to provide more activities in Ashingdon and South Fambridge for young people, we are working in partnership with the local Police and with our neighbouring Parish Councils. In response to requests from local youth, we are negotiating with the Rochford District Council to provide BMX bike dirt ramps inside the King George’s Field. If this project is successful, we intend to provide more facilities for youth.
We recently received some publicity regarding our new “Graffiti Wall” which is a mural painted on the large east wall of The Ashingdon and East Hawkwell Memorial Hall by a well known local graffiti artist. The full colour painted mural depicts Ashingdon “then and now”. A reporter came from a local newspaper for the story and a photo shoot of our Chairman, our Parish Clerk and some Councillors in front of the work of art which depicts the Vikings in Ashingdon one thousand years ago and the young people of today.
Ashingdon Youth Football Club is a large and respected provider of football sports activities for our local young people. They approached us for assistance and we were pleased to support their application for funds from the Football Foundation as a result of promotion of this from The Essex County Council which our Parish Council passed on. The Club wish to gain funds to improve their Club, their club premises and their grounds, as well as to provide for equipment, maintenance, training, balls, goals, nets, team sportswear, toilets and a larger electricity generator.
We are working with the Ashingdon and East Hawkwell Memorial Hall to help improve the Village Hall and its car park. We wish to make both safer and more secure. These proposals will be done at no cost to the Hall which operates as a charity managed by The Hall Committee, who manage and maintain the hall which is our “war memorial” for Ashingdon Parish and for East Hawkwell, which is just over the road opposite. The Hall is our memorial to honour the memory of the men and women who died for their country in wartime. We will be improving the Hall’s security by providing security devices for the doors, windows, lighting and the car park. We will be putting a gate at the entrance to match the gate at the exit, so that they can be closed when it gets dark, or after events finish, to prevent misuse and nuisance when the Hall is not in use. Ashingdon Parish Council has secured grants to cover these costs.
St. Andrew’s Church, previously called “Ashingdon Minster”, has also received assistance from the Parish Council. A few years ago, we installed floodlight illumination so that our beautiful historic church can be seen at night from many miles away, along and across the River Crouch valley. We are now helping them with the project to replace the old Church Hall with a completely new larger brick building on the same site. We have obtained a grant to assist them in obtaining planning, permissions, design and funding for this project, which could include a permanent office for the Parish Council.
Grants were won to provide for four new notice boards to be placed throughout our large spread-out Parish. Grants have also been obtained for the installation of two new bus shelters in The Parish, all at no cost to the rate-paying Parishioners.
In addition to the special projects described above, we are the first point of query, information, complaint and reporting by The Public. We also carry out our usual tasks of protecting and improving local rights of way. We liaise with The Essex County Council on roads, pavements, footpaths, public transport, mobile libraries, hedge and verge cutting, etc. We liaise with The Rochford District Council on many matters. We monitor local planning issues before they go to the Rochford District Council, we plant and maintain roadside verges, we remove litter, we provide and maintain street lighting, bus shelters, benches and much more.
