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WOLFORDS' VILLAGE NEWS COFFEE MORNING IN AID OF SHIPSTON HOME NURSING
A Coffee Morning in aid of Shipston Home Nursing will be held at Lower Farm Barn, Great Wolford on Saturday, 17th January from 10 am to 12 noon. Entrance £5, but you will be going home with a beautiful SHN china mug that would normally cost £5. Please do come along and support your local charity which provides hospice care at home for the terminally ill, free of charge. "FIRST RESPONDING" IN THE WOLFORDS Martin Hornby announced in the October Link that we now have a community first responder in Great Wolford with more volunteers training in the near future. Thanks to the Wolford Village Fund, the team is fully equipped to offer essential first aid before an ambulance can arrive. For the time being the Wolford team will be working alongside the Long Compton team. The way the First Responder Team works is that volunteers are trained and assessed by the ambulance service. In the event of an emergency you simply dial 999 and then it is up to the ambulance control to alert any first responders, who have volunteered for duty, they then make their way to the patient as quickly as possible. Hopefully they arrive long before the ambulance, which in this area could take more than half an hour. Responders are equipped with oxygen and a defibrillator, which they are trained to use if necessary. Unfortunately we do not have enough responders to give 24 hour coverage, far from it. But some is better than none at all! Responders sign on when they can to fit around their own lives although with the Long Compton team covering the Wolfords coverage is quite good and they should still get to an address in the Wolfords before the ambulance, as has already been proved. Volunteers are anonymous and are not on call direct by the village. We should all thank Martin for his efforts in initiating this commendable scheme Should you feel that you could help by offering your service as a responder or by helping with fund raising, please contact Martin on 01608 674152 THE WIND UP OF THE WOLFORD CHARITIES
"The Wolford Charities" are, in fact, a combination of the Badger and Ingram Charities both of which were designed to help the needy of the two villages. Recently there have been no grants. Accordingly, the Trustees met on Thursday 3rd July and agreed to wind up the Charity and to share it's assets, some £500, between the Wolford Church and the Little Wolford Village Hall, both of whom are deserving and contribute much to the community of the two villages. ROYAL BRITISH LEGION POPPY APPEAL
Les Cass would like to the everyone for their generous support of this appeal in the Little Wolford area in 2007. £161.26 was raised, the most ever collected in the 60 years in which Les & his late wife have been selling poppies.
DAVID HENDERSON HAS NOW WALKED THE MERIDIAN LINE TO LOURDES
We announced last year David's intention to walk the length of the Greenwich Meridian to Lourdes in France. His intention was to raise money for the Orbis International Flyng Eye Hospital which carries out operations in the Third World. He was aiming to walk 20 miles a day and sleep under the stars. He would also walk up and down Brighton Pier to substitute for the channel crossing.
David completed the walk satisfactorily abd returned, non the worse for his endeavours, to Great Wolford on 18th August having walked in excess of 860 miles.
Congratulations on this achievement David!
 DAVID ASTRIDE THE PRIME MERIDIAN AT GREENWICH
MATT DUNSBY WALKING FOR SHAKESPEARE HOSPICE
From July 10th 2007, Matthew Dunsby & Dick Goodman (both from Great Wolford), Andy Walker, Mike Anslow & Mark Dunsby, (all from Aston Cantlow), undertook the task of walking the "Shakespeare Way" footpath, which runs from the Shakespeare Birthplace at Stratford to the Globe Theatre in London, to raise funds for the Shakespeare Hospice in Stratford upon Avon
There are significant links between the hospice and all of the walkers, and Matthew and Mark dedicated the achievement to their father Tony (from Aston Clinton) who sadly lost his battle with a longstanding illness in February. The Shakespeare Hospice not only provided dedicated care for Tony but continues to offer care and support for his widow Margaret.
About £7400 was raised for the cause.
Well done Matt.
WARWICKSHIRE VILLAGE VENTURES COMPETITION 2006
The Wolfords Community Web Site was HIGHLY COMMENDED for active involvement in the enhancement of communty life in rural Warwickshire" in the Warwickshire Village Ventures Competition for 2006
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