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Merchistoun Hall Events

Halloween ‘MONSTER’S BALL’ on Friday October 25th – interactive rooms / disco / arts & crafts / Take a selfie and Franks’ Lab! Storytelling in the haunted library / supper £10 per child …. BOOK NOW!

Christmas Quiz Night November 29th – MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Festive Family Party Monday December 23rd – A great early Christmas present £10 per child – Hot chocolate on arrival / arts & crafts/ Festive cookie decorating / A visit from Santa / Disco and games with prizes – each child take an early Christmas gift home -BOOK NOW

Community Christmas lunches will be served on: Tuesday December 3rd / Tuesday December 10th & Friday December 13th …MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Family New Year’s Eve Party 6pm – 8.30pm BOOK NOW! Children £10 and Adults £5 – a great night for parents of little ones where we do our own special ‘Happy New Year’

Watch this space for details on up and coming: Book Sale … Record Sale … more Quiz evenings & more Table Top Sales!

Skittles Evenings also available at £8.50 per person (Fish & Chip supper optional extra) – the evening comes complete with a scorer / pin persons / a bottle of wine prize for the overall highest individual score of the evening

For up-to-date details on these and more at Merchistoun Hall visit our website and social media pages on Facebook / Twitter & Nextdoor. We are also on Instagram.

Email bcharles106hca@gmail.com or telephone 023 9400 1394

Horndean Community Association Reg Charity No 301854

Park Yoga - Horndean: Sunday 5th May - Sunday 13th September 2024

Winton House - Gardening Volunteers Required

Youth Sessions at Taro Leisure Centre - July 25th, August 1st, August 8th

Havant Thicket Reservoir

Southern Water are holding a public consultation on their proposed Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project. You’ve got until 23 July 2024 to get involved and give your views.

The scheme would involve adding purified recycled water to the new Havant Thicket Reservoir in Havant, so it could provide even more water during droughts, helping further protect water supplies and precious chalk streams in Hampshire.

We’re already working to build Havant Thicket Reservoir, so we can store surplus water from our local springs, enabling us to provide up to 21 million litres of water a day to Southern Water when needed.

To find out more and have your say during the consultation, please visit: Home - Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project (https://hampshirewtwrp.co.uk/)

With best regards,

Bob Taylor,
Chief Executive Officer,
Portsmouth Water.

You can view the Havant Thicket Reservoir Project, New Pipeline Scheme Consultation Report here

Home-Start Butser

Home Start Butser - Volunteer Leaflet

Homestart Butser Poster

Being a parent has never been easy. It can be lonely, frustrating, heartbreaking and overwhelming. Life changing events can happen to anyone. All parents struggle at one time or another. That is why Home-Start is ready to support families through their toughest times.

Volunteers are trained to provide practical and emotional support to families with young children through one-to-one home visiting and in Home-Start Butser’s Family Groups.

All our services are based around the principal that volunteers offer no judgement, just compassionate, confidential help and support.

If you would like to find out how to get help or if you are interested in becoming a volunteer visit:

www.homestart-butser.org.uk 01730 233755

Report cyber-offences, scam/phishing emails, texts & websites

Advice on reporting cyber-offences – https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/guide-to-reporting

Received a phishing email? – Report it now to report@phishing.gov.uk

Received a suspicious text message? – Forward it now to 7726

Report a scam website? – https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-this-website/report-scam-website

WALKING IN HAMPSHIRE

Are you fed-up with doing the same old walks?

Walking in Hampshire www.walkinginengland.co.uk/hants is the website for you!

With hundreds of walks to download and print, free, it also has books of walks, contact details for all the walking groups in the county and much more. Whether you want to walk on your own or with a group all the information is there in one place.

John said ‘There is so much walking information on the web but it is difficult to find. Walking in Hampshire (part of the Walking in England suite of websites (www.walkinginengland.co.uk) – one for each county in England) has brought it together in one place so whether you are walking from home, or away on holiday, you will be able to find a walk suitable for you’.

With walks from half a mile to twelve miles plus long, and a note of suitability for pushchairs and wheelchairs, everyone can find a walk to enjoy.

So home or away, check out the websites and get walking!

John Harris

www.walkinginengland.co.uk

email: john@walkinginengland.co.uk

Footpath Closures

Potential closure of footpaths: Information for residents can be found via the following link below. If any footpaths, including urban paths are not shown, an application needs to be made to Hampshire County Council to hopefully ensure its continuance. The application process can be found by following the link.

https://www.hants.gov.uk/landplanningandenvironment/rightsofway/definitivemap

What is a Definitive Map?

Each highway authority keeps a Definitive Map and Statement of all public rights of way - the formal legal record of the existence of footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and byways open to all traffic. In total it offers more than 137,000 miles of public footpath, bridleway and byway providing a level of access admired throughout the world.