Cricket Club of the Year Award

Horley Cricket Club

At the end of the Cricket season both teams won promotion with the First Team being promoted to Division 3 as Champions – the Second team will play in Division 6 next season.

Both the First and Second team have sponsorship for next season, the First team are sponsored by Plus One Personnel and the Second team by Leeds Building Society.

The Club attended the Cherwell League Dinner at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford to receive the trophy for the First Team and were also presented with the Club of the Year award for the second time in three years. Another triumph for the Club and of which we are very proud.

xmas candle

Our fabulous candle lit Christmas Market is being held in St. Etheldreda’s Church on Saturday November 29th between 5 and 7pm.

Christmas MarketThanks to the Ladies Guild there are some lovely stalls already booked, as well as home made produce, Christmas decorations,  mulled wine and mince pies and of course, Father Christmas will be popping in loaded down with presents.

Latest news…… we have Horley’s very own wandering minstrels to accompany us throughout the evening and some fabulous new stalls booked to help you prepare for Christmas and get into the festival spirit

Remembrance Service

poppyHorley and Hanwell are holding a combined remembrance service at St.Etheldredra Church this Sunday 9th.

Start at 10.55am with bells at 11:00

Representative groups from both villages will lay wreathes to remember the fallen in the two world wars and conflicts since.

Open Parish Council Meeting

The next meeting of the Horley Parish Council is open to the public and will be held this coming Thursday 13th November at 7.30 pm at the Old School. The meeting agenda is:

  1. Apologies
  2. Appointment of a new Member
  3. Declaration of Interests
  4. Minutes of the meeting held on 7 August 2014
  5. Matters arising
  6. Updated Constitution
    To adopt the updated Standing Orders (copy attached)
  7. Finance
    a. 2014/15 Budget monitoring (report attached)
    b. 2015/16 Precept
  8. Housing waiting list
    Request from Hornton Parish Council (copy attached)
  9. Fireworks
  10. Reports from other organisations
  11. Date of next meeting
    To consider changing the date set for the next meeting
  12. Any other urgent business

The full reports can be found on the Horley Village Website, or by contacting me -David Marriott – Clerk to Horley Parish Council –  07872 930030

Horley Halloween 2014

‘Beware the wind that whistles shrill, Beware the souls that haunt us still, Watch you with care the perils of night, Pull near your children; hold them tight.’  ( or not, if you were the parents of some of the horrors below.)

Horley Halloween shrieked into gloriously gory life at the Cricket last Friday. It was a night of children spattering blood and glitter, hooting with joy, marauding near the wickets as if Kenny would never know.

We feasted on fingers and drank deep of the bar, and then we spilt out across the village, rattling doors, jumping for bells. Our cries were shrill in the pleading face of every pumpkin; we were merciless in our demands.

It was brilliant.

Thank you to Horley CC, the horribly gruesome guests, and the biggest thanks to the patience and generosity of the Horley villagers. Your pumpkin-carving skills are awesome.

Our children are still sweet-stuffed, glaze-eyed by bounty beyond their greedy-fingered dreams.

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Fabulous photos by Macer G and Will P.

 

Horley lad plays at NEC

BG 23.10.14 Will HomewoodWell done Will !

Just in case you missed it Will Homewood was in this week’s Banbury Guardian for playing at the NEC. Will was in the regional heats for Open Mic UK and went through to perform in London.