Shakespeare Medley – 23rd July

all the worlds a stageTo mark the 400 anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, a selection from his works will be performed by adults and children from Horley.

Tickets priced at £5 (adults) and £3 (children) available now from Dave and Jenny Reynolds.

All proceeds will go towards the church fund.

Only one performance starting at 6.00pm on Saturday  July 23rd in St Etheldreda’s Church

Family Fundraising Cricket Day – This Sunday 10th

Family Fundraising Cricket Day

We are very excited to announce the details for our upcoming Family Fundraising Cricket Day this Sunday. The day will run as follows  (all timings are approximate):

10am  –  Juniors cricket match
Midday  –  BBQ Farm shop burgers and sausages
1-2pm  –  Promises Auction
2pm  –  Adults cricket match

All comers are welcome on the day, including non-club members.  Please contact fundraising@horleycc.co.uk to let us know if you or your children would like to play.

If you are unable to be there on Sunday, but don’t want to miss out on bidding for some of our fabulous promises (see below), you can email fundraising@horleycc.co.uk with a ‘commission bid’. For this you need to  tell us the MAXIIMUM you would bid for that Lot. As with ebay, you won’t necessarily pay that total amount if you win. Bids will go up in increments so you could win with less than your maximum bid. However, if bidding goes above your maximum bid you will not win.

If you are coming for the juniors match, please stay on to support the adults, many of whom are parents who will be needing all the support they can get! Bring a picnic and make a day of it. The bar will be open all day.

So… here are the Lots for the Auction of Promises! Thank you SO much from all at the club to everyone who has kindly donated and committed to giving up their time. We were overwhelmed by the response. Some items offered were goods rather than services and we have decided to hold these back for another auction later in the year.
Lot 1      1 hours professional relaxation massage

Lot 2      2 cars cleaned

Lot 3      16 hours (2 days of building labour)

Lot 4      A professional photographic portrait session

Lot 5      1 hours dog walking

Lot 6      A professional interior design consultation

Lot 7      3 sets of shoes polished

Lot 8      ‘Fair Dinkum True Blue Aussie Experience’ (lesson/viewing of Aussie rules football, non-Fosters beer & BBQ) for 4

Lot 9       1 hour swimming lesson with Level 2 instructor

Lot 10     Professionally record a song with backing vocals and upload to Sound Cloud (suitable for under 18’s)

Lot 11     A cricket tea

Lot 12     Personal yoga lesson

Lot 13     3pm to 6pm in the pub on a Sunday for two, all drinks paid

Lot 14     2 nights at Dorset holiday cottage in Wareham (sleeps up to 6)

Lot 15     Lift to and from the airport

Lot 16     Cooking lesson and meal by professional Head Chef (6 people)

Lot 17     1 hour 1:1 batting coaching with Level 2 Coach

Lot 18     1 hour 1:1 bowling coaching with Level 2 Coach
See you on Sunday!

The Fundraising Team

more information found on www.horleycc.co.uk

Special Parish Council Meeting – July 14th

Are you concerned about the impact on our village of the closure of the B4100?

There will be a special Parish Council meeting at 7.30 on Thursday July 14th in the Old School to consider the closure of the Warwick Road for 8 weeks starting on 10 August.

This meeting is open to the public.

Agenda Items:

  1. Apologies
  2. Declaration of Interests
  3. Recently the Council has become aware of plans to close the B4100 Warwick Road for a period of 8 weeks from 10 August to 6 October, to facilitate the building of a new sewer.  The closure will be in the vicinity of Dukes Meadow, and will mean that traffic from Horley into Banbury will be required to find an alternative route.  The Parish Council has not been consulted on these proposals, and has had no opportunity to comment.Oxfordshire County Council has been invited to provide an officer to attend the meeting to provide further details, to explain the reasons for the road closure, and the measures which will be put in place to minimise the impact on Horley.
  4. Date of next meeting: 25 August 2016

See 16 07 14 agenda

No ‘Knit and Stitch’ Now until 8th Sept

knit-and-stitch[1]Next meeting is on Thursday 8th September

As there is a referendum vote being held in the Old School this Thursday, this week’s ‘Knit and Stitch’ Group meeting is cancelled. There will then be a summer break before the next one.

Any questions, please contact Alison Carr  Tel. 01295 730102.

Summer Fete – Next Saturday 25th June

Picture2Horley’s Summer Fete  is NEXT Saturday 25th June, lots of work has gone into making this annual event special so make sure you get there from 2 to 5pm, in the Old School and Church.

Stalls include the tombola, plants, bric-a-brac, splat the rat, homemade cakes, nice or nasty jars, water or wine and many more.

Wandering minstrels, refreshments – teas, cakes, Pimms and a barbecue

Raffle Prize Draw – first prize £100 cash, second prize a BMW for a weekend.

 

 

 

Here We Go Again – Hands Off Our Horton

Dear Horley Views.

As Chairman of KTHG and a resident of Horley. I was wondering if you would be willing to post our latest update, containing details of the Hospital Trusts, early options document, which has just been made public.
The proposed change options are staggering, if implemented, will severely affect, the availability of services at our Horton Hospital. In particular, the loss of A and E, and children’s ward and services. A trek to the Oxford JR, with our sick young ones is unthinkable.
Keith Strangwood. Chairman KTHG 2 Lane Close . Horley. 07740599736
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THIS COULD BE OUR BIGGEST FIGHT EVER
Breaking news – A&E, medicine, orthopaedics, CCU also at risk!
At today’s public session of the CPN, the OUHFT presented their “emerging options” for the Horton General Hospital. The OUHFT said all options will need to be assessed for activity, workforce, finance and estates and there will be a full consultation in October 2016.
Option 1 is what we currently have at the Horton General Hospital. It was initially presented to the CPN, and to the midwives on 3 June, as the “status quo” but more recently (perhaps as a result of unwanted publicity?) it has been honoured as an Option.
Option 1, the status quo, is what the experts in the form of the IRP decreed we must have, at the end of the last campaign in 2007/8.
Andrew Stevens, OUHFT Director of Planning & Information, said “Option 1 is the status quo but if we thought that was adequate ….. we would not be doing this exercise”.
So let’s look at Options 2 and 3, which the OUHFT believe to be the only real options.
Under Option 2, Banbury’s Horton General Hospital would:
  • Lose A&E – downgraded to GP urgent care and Minor Injuries Unit
  • Lose Acute Stroke and Rehab – downgraded to Rehab and Early Supported Discharge
  • Surgery (elective day cases) – would be limited to 8am to 3pm
  • Lose Surgery – elective inpatients
  • Lose elective orthopaedic inpatients
  • Medicine – elective day cases – would be limited to 8am – 3pm
  • Lose Medicine – elective inpatients
  • Medicine – non-elective inpatients – inpatient ward would be downgraded to frail assessment unit
  • Lose Critical adult care (Critical Care Unit)
  • Lose consultant-led Maternity – downgraded to Midwife Led Unit (ie no consultants or anaesthetists allocated to maternity)
  • Lose Special Care Baby Unit
  • Paediatric inpatients downgraded to paediatric observation and assessment unit (8-10)  (We think this means open 8am to 10pm, ie no overnight patients)
Under Option 3, Banbury’s Horton General Hospital would see:
  • A&E retained as “integrated urgent care centre with ED function + out of hours + minor injury unit + walk in centre”
  • Lose Acute Stroke and Rehab – downgraded to Rehab and Early Supported Discharge
  • Adult Critical Care – retained but in the form of a High Dependency Unit on-site + “e-ICU”
  • Lose consultant-led Maternity – downgraded to Midwife Led Unit (ie no consultants or anaesthetists allocated to maternity)
  • Lose Special Care Baby Unit
  • Paediatric inpatients downgraded to “paediatric observation and assessment unit, assessment and clinical decision unit (24/7)”
Keep the Horton General campaigners, midwives, SCBU staff and members of the public mounted a spirited and angry attack on the safety aspects of the options presented, the failure to communicate properly with staff, and the OUHFT’s failure to ensure that the so-called midwife staff representatives were indeed representative of the staff, their opinions and commitment to the Horton General Hospital.
We were delighted to hear from Andrew McHugh (practice manager) that, although he had supported previous OUHFT proposals, he was very concerned about the Midwife Led Unit (MLU) proposal. He had undertaken a survey of GPs in the area and they were “overwhelmingly against the MLU on the grounds of safety”.
Andrew Stevens (OUHFT) stressed that they are still “evaluating and refining options” and that there will be a full public consultation beginning October 2016. He repeatedly attributed the options to various Clinical Groups, and said the OUHFT would consider other options if put forward by the CPN. As KTHG is aware of other smaller hospitals running Consultant Led Units with middle-grade staff (something the OUHFT Dean maintains is not possible, thereby creating the very problem that the OUHFT seek to “solve”), this offers some hope .
A special CPN maternity workshop will be set up, including actual working midwives, and attempts were made to secure similar promises for A&E, paediatrics and inpatient orthopaedics.
KTHG chairman Keith Strangwood proposed a motion to remove the worst option, Option 2, from consideration, it being totally contrary to the statement in the same paper that “almost all the patients currently being cared for at the Horton will continue to be cared for locally”. A vote was taken after KTHG forced the issue, but unfortunately the motion did not pass, with 3 votes for striking out the option, and 9 for keeping the worst option in the process. The documents presented in the meeting are publicly available athttp://www.cherwell.gov.uk/…/CPN_Agenda___Meeting_doc_14061…The slide attached to this post is on page 11.

Parish Council Tidying Up the Village Saturday July 9th

TidyUp2[1]The Parish Council has agreed to carry out some work to tidy up the area of land at Wroxton Lane, next to the Old Council Houses and opposite Horley Mill.

Oxfordshire County Council has confirmed that this land is public highway, but it is not covered by any maintenance contract.  Consequently the Parish Council has decided to act in order to tidy the land up. The work is planned to take place on Saturday 9 July.

Scout Camp Seeking Accommodation – August Bank Holiday

Can you provide B&B for Scouting Festival on August Bank Holiday?

Scout

I am writing out of the blue to ask for your help to pass on a request to fellow villagers in Horley, or to put this information on the village notice board, or if the timing works, to advertise in the Horley Views Magazine.

I am part of a team of volunteers that organises an annual family/community festival at the Horley Scout Campsite over the August Bank Holiday weekend.  We have around 300 people camping on the site.  BUT there are always a very small number of people who do not camp.  This can be for all kinds of reasons.  Until now they have not been able to participate as the hotel in Wroxton is prohibitively expensive especially as most of the time is spent at the campsite. We have found a couple of people letting rooms in Hornton  but that is just a little further away ideally we would like to find some accommodation within walking distance of the campsite.

We wondered if there would be residents in Horley who would be willing to let out a room over this bank holiday.  It would be great if that could include access to basic breakfast facilities (tea/coffee, cereal and toast for example) no elaborate or cooked breakfast would be expected. In Hornton we are being charged between £40-50 per room per night. But, if there are Horley residents interested in this we can negotiate everything to reach a mutual agreement.

If anyone is interested in this, they should contact me, Steve Miller by email steve@svmassociates.co.uk or 07941 813 619.

Many thanks

Steve Miller

+44 (0)20 8883 7453

+44 (0)7941 813 619

142 Pembroke Road, London, N10 2JD. 

steve@svmassociates.co.uk