HALSTEAD IN BLOOM
Minutes of a meeting 25th October 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing
Chairman, welcomed all present and accepted apologies from those who could not attend.
MINUTES of 27th September 2018 had been circulated and were adopted
NEWS: *Letters/Messages of congratulations have been received; Halstead TC gave an ovation to HiB at recent Council Meeting; Cllr David Finch, Leader of Essex CC sent a letter; Cllr Graham Butland, Leader of Braintree DC sent a letter. *Facebook stats and messages from 30.08.18-26.09.18 had been printed and were shown; posts reached 2.3K people in 28 days and there were many, many messages of congratulations. *Quiz Update. This was an enjoyable evening (although questions were hard!) Entry raised £209.00, raffle gave £54.90 and Heads and Tails Game raised £13.50 at total of £277.40 for funds. David T was thanked for his hard work in organising the Quiz and his assistants Annie and Mike were also thanked. *Townswomen’s Guild. Team members gave a talk to about 30 of the Guild and goods sold at the event raised £36.25 and there was a donation of £30.00 for HiB. *Priory Hall Coffee Morning. Jean kindly arranged the morning and whipped up support among residents. Goods sold at the event raised £133.00, a raffle raised £84.00 and donations for refreshments totalled £13.45 – a total sum of £230.45. Jean was thanked for all her efforts and was asked to thank the Priory Hall residents for their support. *Team news: Chairman offered condolences to Fiona and her family on the death of her father. Alan is to be admitted to Basildon Hospital next Wednesday with a view to surgeon operating on Thursday. We wish Alan all the best and hope he will be fit enough to get back to working parties after Christmas!!
EVENTS: *Rivercare. Next event is Sunday 4th November. Meet 10am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Next Community Litter Pick. Sunday 25th November, ALL WELCOME. Meet 10.30am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Local Awards evening. United Reformed Church, Friday 26th October. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. There will be a raffle – prizes welcomed and refreshments will be available. Please come and bring family and friends. *Halstead Horticultural Late Show will be held at Queen’s Hall on Saturday 3rd November from 2pm. Schedules can be got from Halstead Icing and there are classes for all sorts of entries – not just flowers and vegetables! Get creating and enter!! You need to fill in a form on the schedule, and get to Margaret Tyler (or hand in to Halstead Icing) by Wednesday 31st October. Entries need to be at the hall by 10am on Saturday 3rd November (hall will be open from 7.30am on that day) and public entry will be from 2pm (50p. entry to the show). There will be a raffle and Halstead calendars and Christmas (sorry!!!) cards will be on sale. *Guys in the Park. This annual event will take place in Halstead Public Gardens on Sunday 4th November. Guys to be taken to the Public Gardens before 10am and can be collected at 3.00pm. Affix a card with entrant’s name so that a certificate can be produced. Go and have a look from 10am – 3pm – there will be some wonderful creations! Halstead in Bloom’s St. John Swert (increased!) family will be there. *Poppy Cascade. Ladies from Halstead will make a cascade of crafted poppies at The Library from 8th November. There will also be poppies in Holy Trinity Churchyard all to commemorate the end of WWI 100 years ago. *Armistice Day commemoration will begin in Halstead Public Gardens at 2pm on Sunday 11th November and there will be a procession from the Gardens to St. Andrew’s Church for a commemorative service. *Co-op Presentation. The National Co-op Society will be presenting their final payments for 2017/18 to charity recipients on 24thNovember at the store in Colchester Road. No details of times have been given but will be circulated as soon as they are known. *Halstead Christmas Fayre and Switch on of the Christmas Lights will take place on Saturday 1st December from 9am. HiB Stall will be outside Solar Store on the day. *Annual Torchlight Procession will be on Wednesday 5th December. HiB will be helping to marshall and collect. *HiB has been asked to speak to Tiptree Garden Club on Thursday 6th December. *HiB Christmas Meal will be on Friday 18th January 2019 at St. Andrew’s Hall. Cost is £20 per person and must be paid when booking. Payment is non-refundable. Menus will be available shortly and must be returned, with payment, to Margaret T by 1st December. Event is open to all, please ask Margaret or a team member for a menu.
ANGLIA IN BLOOM’18. *Anglia in Bloom Seminar will be held in Filby, Norfolk on 7th November. Cost is £15.00 per person. Transport is now sorted, 12 will be attending from Halstead. Event will start at 10.15am and should finish about 3pm. Coffee and homemade shortbread will be available and lunch will be a ploughman’s with home cooked food. Bar with soft drinks for sale will be open. *Anglia in Bloom region’s results in RHS Britain in Bloom – Village – Woburn. SILVER. Coastal – Hunstanton – GOLD. Large Town – Bury St. Edmunds – GOLD. City – Norwich. SILVER-GILT. BIDs,Town & City Centres – Wisbech. GOLD & CATEGORY WINNER. Brian Massingham from Wisbech was also given a Community Champions Award.
The Champion of Champions this year was Truro. Full results on RHS Website. *Route for AiB judges’ tour 2019. Now is the time to start thinking about Halstead’s entry for next year. We need to show all the elements required: Biodiversity, Community Project, Conservation Project, Sustainable Garden, Floral Display by an Individual or Community, Garden for Special Needs, Sheltered Housing/Care Home Garden. Grown Your Own, Industrial/Commercial Area, Local Authority Floral Display, Public Open Space, Young People’s Project (aged under 12 years), Young People’s Project (aged 12-18 years) and we need to consider how we can manoeuvre the judges around the town without looking at any grott spots! Ideas, please!!!
WORKING PARTIES : For all working parties meet at 2pm. on Town Bridge/Halstead Icing car park unless advised otherwise: Plants are being collected on Saturday 27th; please be at Gate House (next to Fire Station) at 10.30am to sort them into areas. Planting will begin on Sunday 28th. Those setting out please be at The Town Bridge at 9am; those planting please meet at Town Bridge at 10.30am – bring hand tools and steps or boxes to stand on for Bridge planting. For each Tuesday/Thursday thereafter it will be planting and then maintenance.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS: *Calendar selling To date 169 calendars have been sold on stalls – we need to sell 486 calendars to break even. 59 envelopes and 87 packs of Christmas cards have been sold and donations to date amount to £199.07. Selling Schedules: 2nd November: 9-10 Linda and Margaret T. 10-11 Iola and Wendy. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 3rd November. 9-10 Linda and Christine. 10-11 Joan and Oliver. 11-12 Margaret T and Ian. 12-1 Carol and Julia. 9th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Iola and Sheila. 11-12 Ian and Joyce. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 10th November 9-10 Carol and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Joan. 11-12 Margaret C and Ian. 12-1 Annie and Mick. 16th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Linda and Christine. 11-12 Wendy and Iola. 12-1 Margaret T and Margaret E. 17th November. l9-10 Annie and Sue. 10-11 Linda and Joan. 11-12 Carol and Margaret T. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 23rd November. 9-10 Sue and Joan. 10-11 Margaret E and Margaret T. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 24th November 9-10 Carol and Joan. 10-11 Annie and Mick. 11-12 Christine and Margaret C. 12-1 Margaret T and Ian. 30th November 9-10 Jenny and Sue. 10-11 Wendy and Iola. 11-12 Linda and Margaret E. 12-1 Julia and Ian. 1st December 9-10 Joan and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Fiona. 11-12 Linda and Iola. 12-1 Ian and Margaret E. 1-end Julia and Graham. *To Do List. Tubs outside British Legion Club need to be painted – Annie volunteered for this and also to re-fix the gold bands where necessary. Tubs at the Bus Stop in Trinity Street need to be cleaned up. *It was noted that the grotty, disused phone box in Trinity Street has been removed and the post box painted – looks great! Well done Sarah (Town Clerk) for chasing up this work. *David suggested that perhaps the garden at the Elizabeth Courtauld Dr’s Surgery could be visited by AiB judges next year. *Sue suggested that perhaps an identified ‘lonely or isolated’ person could be contacted and HiB could give their garden a makeover as a ‘special needs’ garden. *Joan volunteered to remove the begonias from Bryan’s Bed at Weavers’ Court – Sue asked for the corms. * Joan showed a mock up of a bag suggested by Annette from the Chamber of Trade which it was suggested might be donated to HiB to sell. After much discussion, and drawing on past experience, it was thought that bags don’t really sell for more than £1 each and it would be difficult for HiB to sell them although the idea was excellent. * Joan said that owner of ESO Print Shop at 13 Head Street Halstead would like to have some flowers outside his premises. It isn’t sure if this is private or Council property but will be viewed. *Joan noted that Halstead Beavers are to hold a Dance on 3rd November to raise money for plants at Holy Trinity School. There will be a raffle at the event so please buy some tickets even if you can’t attend the dance. * Joan said that there will be some Halstead tea-towels for us to sell at the Christmas Fayre and at other events. 20 will be taken at cost price. *Annie gave a mention to the Hedingham Singers’ Choral Event to be held at St. Peter’s Church, Sible Hedingham on 10th November starting at 7.30pm. It will be a commemoration of the end of WWI and cost is £10 per person inclusive of tea and biscuits. *Carol offered to bring some walnuts and some strawberry plants and echivera to sell at calendar selling events. These sold well at first outing! *Carol also asked about the car parked awkwardly on Market Hill and it was said that Police/Parking Partnership are aware; it is believed that the owner was taken ill.
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There being no other business the meeting closed at 8.45 p.m.
Next team meeting on Thursday 29th November 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing.
All welcome
Contacts: Margaret Eskins Chairman. 01787 269443
Julia Smith, Secretary. 0776 2587141 / 01787461806. e-mail jaygrey@btinternet.com
Joan Gibson, plants and working parties. 01787 473070
www.halsteadinbloom.org.uk Facebook: halsteadinbloom. giveasyoulive.com/join/halstead-in-bloom
join membership of National Co-op
HALSTEAD IN BLOOM
Minutes of a meeting 25th October 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing
Chairman, welcomed all present and accepted apologies from those who could not attend.
MINUTES of 27th September 2018 had been circulated and were adopted
NEWS: *Letters/Messages of congratulations have been received; Halstead TC gave an ovation to HiB at recent Council Meeting; Cllr David Finch, Leader of Essex CC sent a letter; Cllr Graham Butland, Leader of Braintree DC sent a letter. *Facebook stats and messages from 30.08.18-26.09.18 had been printed and were shown; posts reached 2.3K people in 28 days and there were many, many messages of congratulations. *Quiz Update. This was an enjoyable evening (although questions were hard!) Entry raised £209.00, raffle gave £54.90 and Heads and Tails Game raised £13.50 at total of £277.40 for funds. David T was thanked for his hard work in organising the Quiz and his assistants Annie and Mike were also thanked. *Townswomen’s Guild. Team members gave a talk to about 30 of the Guild and goods sold at the event raised £36.25 and there was a donation of £30.00 for HiB. *Priory Hall Coffee Morning. Jean kindly arranged the morning and whipped up support among residents. Goods sold at the event raised £133.00, a raffle raised £84.00 and donations for refreshments totalled £13.45 – a total sum of £230.45. Jean was thanked for all her efforts and was asked to thank the Priory Hall residents for their support. *Team news: Chairman offered condolences to Fiona and her family on the death of her father. Alan is to be admitted to Basildon Hospital next Wednesday with a view to surgeon operating on Thursday. We wish Alan all the best and hope he will be fit enough to get back to working parties after Christmas!!
EVENTS: *Rivercare. Next event is Sunday 4th November. Meet 10am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Next Community Litter Pick. Sunday 25th November, ALL WELCOME. Meet 10.30am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Local Awards evening. United Reformed Church, Friday 26th October. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. There will be a raffle – prizes welcomed and refreshments will be available. Please come and bring family and friends. *Halstead Horticultural Late Show will be held at Queen’s Hall on Saturday 3rd November from 2pm. Schedules can be got from Halstead Icing and there are classes for all sorts of entries – not just flowers and vegetables! Get creating and enter!! You need to fill in a form on the schedule, and get to Margaret Tyler (or hand in to Halstead Icing) by Wednesday 31st October. Entries need to be at the hall by 10am on Saturday 3rd November (hall will be open from 7.30am on that day) and public entry will be from 2pm (50p. entry to the show). There will be a raffle and Halstead calendars and Christmas (sorry!!!) cards will be on sale. *Guys in the Park. This annual event will take place in Halstead Public Gardens on Sunday 4th November. Guys to be taken to the Public Gardens before 10am and can be collected at 3.00pm. Affix a card with entrant’s name so that a certificate can be produced. Go and have a look from 10am – 3pm – there will be some wonderful creations! Halstead in Bloom’s St. John Swert (increased!) family will be there. *Poppy Cascade. Ladies from Halstead will make a cascade of crafted poppies at The Library from 8th November. There will also be poppies in Holy Trinity Churchyard all to commemorate the end of WWI 100 years ago. *Armistice Day commemoration will begin in Halstead Public Gardens at 2pm on Sunday 11th November and there will be a procession from the Gardens to St. Andrew’s Church for a commemorative service. *Co-op Presentation. The National Co-op Society will be presenting their final payments for 2017/18 to charity recipients on 24thNovember at the store in Colchester Road. No details of times have been given but will be circulated as soon as they are known. *Halstead Christmas Fayre and Switch on of the Christmas Lights will take place on Saturday 1st December from 9am. HiB Stall will be outside Solar Store on the day. *Annual Torchlight Procession will be on Wednesday 5th December. HiB will be helping to marshall and collect. *HiB has been asked to speak to Tiptree Garden Club on Thursday 6th December. *HiB Christmas Meal will be on Friday 18th January 2019 at St. Andrew’s Hall. Cost is £20 per person and must be paid when booking. Payment is non-refundable. Menus will be available shortly and must be returned, with payment, to Margaret T by 1st December. Event is open to all, please ask Margaret or a team member for a menu.
ANGLIA IN BLOOM’18. *Anglia in Bloom Seminar will be held in Filby, Norfolk on 7th November. Cost is £15.00 per person. Transport is now sorted, 12 will be attending from Halstead. Event will start at 10.15am and should finish about 3pm. Coffee and homemade shortbread will be available and lunch will be a ploughman’s with home cooked food. Bar with soft drinks for sale will be open. *Anglia in Bloom region’s results in RHS Britain in Bloom – Village – Woburn. SILVER. Coastal – Hunstanton – GOLD. Large Town – Bury St. Edmunds – GOLD. City – Norwich. SILVER-GILT. BIDs,Town & City Centres – Wisbech. GOLD & CATEGORY WINNER. Brian Massingham from Wisbech was also given a Community Champions Award.
The Champion of Champions this year was Truro. Full results on RHS Website. *Route for AiB judges’ tour 2019. Now is the time to start thinking about Halstead’s entry for next year. We need to show all the elements required: Biodiversity, Community Project, Conservation Project, Sustainable Garden, Floral Display by an Individual or Community, Garden for Special Needs, Sheltered Housing/Care Home Garden. Grown Your Own, Industrial/Commercial Area, Local Authority Floral Display, Public Open Space, Young People’s Project (aged under 12 years), Young People’s Project (aged 12-18 years) and we need to consider how we can manoeuvre the judges around the town without looking at any grott spots! Ideas, please!!!
WORKING PARTIES : For all working parties meet at 2pm. on Town Bridge/Halstead Icing car park unless advised otherwise: Plants are being collected on Saturday 27th; please be at Gate House (next to Fire Station) at 10.30am to sort them into areas. Planting will begin on Sunday 28th. Those setting out please be at The Town Bridge at 9am; those planting please meet at Town Bridge at 10.30am – bring hand tools and steps or boxes to stand on for Bridge planting. For each Tuesday/Thursday thereafter it will be planting and then maintenance.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS: *Calendar selling To date 169 calendars have been sold on stalls – we need to sell 486 calendars to break even. 59 envelopes and 87 packs of Christmas cards have been sold and donations to date amount to £199.07. Selling Schedules: 2nd November: 9-10 Linda and Margaret T. 10-11 Iola and Wendy. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 3rd November. 9-10 Linda and Christine. 10-11 Joan and Oliver. 11-12 Margaret T and Ian. 12-1 Carol and Julia. 9th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Iola and Sheila. 11-12 Ian and Joyce. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 10th November 9-10 Carol and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Joan. 11-12 Margaret C and Ian. 12-1 Annie and Mick. 16th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Linda and Christine. 11-12 Wendy and Iola. 12-1 Margaret T and Margaret E. 17th November. l9-10 Annie and Sue. 10-11 Linda and Joan. 11-12 Carol and Margaret T. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 23rd November. 9-10 Sue and Joan. 10-11 Margaret E and Margaret T. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 24th November 9-10 Carol and Joan. 10-11 Annie and Mick. 11-12 Christine and Margaret C. 12-1 Margaret T and Ian. 30th November 9-10 Jenny and Sue. 10-11 Wendy and Iola. 11-12 Linda and Margaret E. 12-1 Julia and Ian. 1st December 9-10 Joan and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Fiona. 11-12 Linda and Iola. 12-1 Ian and Margaret E. 1-end Julia and Graham. *To Do List. Tubs outside British Legion Club need to be painted – Annie volunteered for this and also to re-fix the gold bands where necessary. Tubs at the Bus Stop in Trinity Street need to be cleaned up. *It was noted that the grotty, disused phone box in Trinity Street has been removed and the post box painted – looks great! Well done Sarah (Town Clerk) for chasing up this work. *David suggested that perhaps the garden at the Elizabeth Courtauld Dr’s Surgery could be visited by AiB judges next year. *Sue suggested that perhaps an identified ‘lonely or isolated’ person could be contacted and HiB could give their garden a makeover as a ‘special needs’ garden. *Joan volunteered to remove the begonias from Bryan’s Bed at Weavers’ Court – Sue asked for the corms. * Joan showed a mock up of a bag suggested by Annette from the Chamber of Trade which it was suggested might be donated to HiB to sell. After much discussion, and drawing on past experience, it was thought that bags don’t really sell for more than £1 each and it would be difficult for HiB to sell them although the idea was excellent. * Joan said that owner of ESO Print Shop at 13 Head Street Halstead would like to have some flowers outside his premises. It isn’t sure if this is private or Council property but will be viewed. *Joan noted that Halstead Beavers are to hold a Dance on 3rd November to raise money for plants at Holy Trinity School. There will be a raffle at the event so please buy some tickets even if you can’t attend the dance. * Joan said that there will be some Halstead tea-towels for us to sell at the Christmas Fayre and at other events. 20 will be taken at cost price. *Annie gave a mention to the Hedingham Singers’ Choral Event to be held at St. Peter’s Church, Sible Hedingham on 10th November starting at 7.30pm. It will be a commemoration of the end of WWI and cost is £10 per person inclusive of tea and biscuits. *Carol offered to bring some walnuts and some strawberry plants and echivera to sell at calendar selling events. These sold well at first outing! *Carol also asked about the car parked awkwardly on Market Hill and it was said that Police/Parking Partnership are aware; it is believed that the owner was taken ill.
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There being no other business the meeting closed at 8.45 p.m.
Next team meeting on Thursday 29th November 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing.
All welcome
Contacts: Margaret Eskins Chairman. 01787 269443
Julia Smith, Secretary. 0776 2587141 / 01787461806. e-mail jaygrey@btinternet.com
Joan Gibson, plants and working parties. 01787 473070
www.halsteadinbloom.org.uk Facebook: halsteadinbloom. giveasyoulive.com/join/halstead-in-bloom
join membership of National Co-op
HALSTEAD IN BLOOM
Minutes of a meeting 25th October 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing
Chairman, welcomed all present and accepted apologies from those who could not attend.
MINUTES of 27th September 2018 had been circulated and were adopted
NEWS: *Letters/Messages of congratulations have been received; Halstead TC gave an ovation to HiB at recent Council Meeting; Cllr David Finch, Leader of Essex CC sent a letter; Cllr Graham Butland, Leader of Braintree DC sent a letter. *Facebook stats and messages from 30.08.18-26.09.18 had been printed and were shown; posts reached 2.3K people in 28 days and there were many, many messages of congratulations. *Quiz Update. This was an enjoyable evening (although questions were hard!) Entry raised £209.00, raffle gave £54.90 and Heads and Tails Game raised £13.50 at total of £277.40 for funds. David T was thanked for his hard work in organising the Quiz and his assistants Annie and Mike were also thanked. *Townswomen’s Guild. Team members gave a talk to about 30 of the Guild and goods sold at the event raised £36.25 and there was a donation of £30.00 for HiB. *Priory Hall Coffee Morning. Jean kindly arranged the morning and whipped up support among residents. Goods sold at the event raised £133.00, a raffle raised £84.00 and donations for refreshments totalled £13.45 – a total sum of £230.45. Jean was thanked for all her efforts and was asked to thank the Priory Hall residents for their support. *Team news: Chairman offered condolences to Fiona and her family on the death of her father. Alan is to be admitted to Basildon Hospital next Wednesday with a view to surgeon operating on Thursday. We wish Alan all the best and hope he will be fit enough to get back to working parties after Christmas!!
EVENTS: *Rivercare. Next event is Sunday 4th November. Meet 10am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Next Community Litter Pick. Sunday 25th November, ALL WELCOME. Meet 10.30am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Local Awards evening. United Reformed Church, Friday 26th October. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. There will be a raffle – prizes welcomed and refreshments will be available. Please come and bring family and friends. *Halstead Horticultural Late Show will be held at Queen’s Hall on Saturday 3rd November from 2pm. Schedules can be got from Halstead Icing and there are classes for all sorts of entries – not just flowers and vegetables! Get creating and enter!! You need to fill in a form on the schedule, and get to Margaret Tyler (or hand in to Halstead Icing) by Wednesday 31st October. Entries need to be at the hall by 10am on Saturday 3rd November (hall will be open from 7.30am on that day) and public entry will be from 2pm (50p. entry to the show). There will be a raffle and Halstead calendars and Christmas (sorry!!!) cards will be on sale. *Guys in the Park. This annual event will take place in Halstead Public Gardens on Sunday 4th November. Guys to be taken to the Public Gardens before 10am and can be collected at 3.00pm. Affix a card with entrant’s name so that a certificate can be produced. Go and have a look from 10am – 3pm – there will be some wonderful creations! Halstead in Bloom’s St. John Swert (increased!) family will be there. *Poppy Cascade. Ladies from Halstead will make a cascade of crafted poppies at The Library from 8th November. There will also be poppies in Holy Trinity Churchyard all to commemorate the end of WWI 100 years ago. *Armistice Day commemoration will begin in Halstead Public Gardens at 2pm on Sunday 11th November and there will be a procession from the Gardens to St. Andrew’s Church for a commemorative service. *Co-op Presentation. The National Co-op Society will be presenting their final payments for 2017/18 to charity recipients on 24thNovember at the store in Colchester Road. No details of times have been given but will be circulated as soon as they are known. *Halstead Christmas Fayre and Switch on of the Christmas Lights will take place on Saturday 1st December from 9am. HiB Stall will be outside Solar Store on the day. *Annual Torchlight Procession will be on Wednesday 5th December. HiB will be helping to marshall and collect. *HiB has been asked to speak to Tiptree Garden Club on Thursday 6th December. *HiB Christmas Meal will be on Friday 18th January 2019 at St. Andrew’s Hall. Cost is £20 per person and must be paid when booking. Payment is non-refundable. Menus will be available shortly and must be returned, with payment, to Margaret T by 1st December. Event is open to all, please ask Margaret or a team member for a menu.
ANGLIA IN BLOOM’18. *Anglia in Bloom Seminar will be held in Filby, Norfolk on 7th November. Cost is £15.00 per person. Transport is now sorted, 12 will be attending from Halstead. Event will start at 10.15am and should finish about 3pm. Coffee and homemade shortbread will be available and lunch will be a ploughman’s with home cooked food. Bar with soft drinks for sale will be open. *Anglia in Bloom region’s results in RHS Britain in Bloom – Village – Woburn. SILVER. Coastal – Hunstanton – GOLD. Large Town – Bury St. Edmunds – GOLD. City – Norwich. SILVER-GILT. BIDs,Town & City Centres – Wisbech. GOLD & CATEGORY WINNER. Brian Massingham from Wisbech was also given a Community Champions Award.
The Champion of Champions this year was Truro. Full results on RHS Website. *Route for AiB judges’ tour 2019. Now is the time to start thinking about Halstead’s entry for next year. We need to show all the elements required: Biodiversity, Community Project, Conservation Project, Sustainable Garden, Floral Display by an Individual or Community, Garden for Special Needs, Sheltered Housing/Care Home Garden. Grown Your Own, Industrial/Commercial Area, Local Authority Floral Display, Public Open Space, Young People’s Project (aged under 12 years), Young People’s Project (aged 12-18 years) and we need to consider how we can manoeuvre the judges around the town without looking at any grott spots! Ideas, please!!!
WORKING PARTIES : For all working parties meet at 2pm. on Town Bridge/Halstead Icing car park unless advised otherwise: Plants are being collected on Saturday 27th; please be at Gate House (next to Fire Station) at 10.30am to sort them into areas. Planting will begin on Sunday 28th. Those setting out please be at The Town Bridge at 9am; those planting please meet at Town Bridge at 10.30am – bring hand tools and steps or boxes to stand on for Bridge planting. For each Tuesday/Thursday thereafter it will be planting and then maintenance.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS: *Calendar selling To date 169 calendars have been sold on stalls – we need to sell 486 calendars to break even. 59 envelopes and 87 packs of Christmas cards have been sold and donations to date amount to £199.07. Selling Schedules: 2nd November: 9-10 Linda and Margaret T. 10-11 Iola and Wendy. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 3rd November. 9-10 Linda and Christine. 10-11 Joan and Oliver. 11-12 Margaret T and Ian. 12-1 Carol and Julia. 9th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Iola and Sheila. 11-12 Ian and Joyce. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 10th November 9-10 Carol and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Joan. 11-12 Margaret C and Ian. 12-1 Annie and Mick. 16th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Linda and Christine. 11-12 Wendy and Iola. 12-1 Margaret T and Margaret E. 17th November. l9-10 Annie and Sue. 10-11 Linda and Joan. 11-12 Carol and Margaret T. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 23rd November. 9-10 Sue and Joan. 10-11 Margaret E and Margaret T. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 24th November 9-10 Carol and Joan. 10-11 Annie and Mick. 11-12 Christine and Margaret C. 12-1 Margaret T and Ian. 30th November 9-10 Jenny and Sue. 10-11 Wendy and Iola. 11-12 Linda and Margaret E. 12-1 Julia and Ian. 1st December 9-10 Joan and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Fiona. 11-12 Linda and Iola. 12-1 Ian and Margaret E. 1-end Julia and Graham. *To Do List. Tubs outside British Legion Club need to be painted – Annie volunteered for this and also to re-fix the gold bands where necessary. Tubs at the Bus Stop in Trinity Street need to be cleaned up. *It was noted that the grotty, disused phone box in Trinity Street has been removed and the post box painted – looks great! Well done Sarah (Town Clerk) for chasing up this work. *David suggested that perhaps the garden at the Elizabeth Courtauld Dr’s Surgery could be visited by AiB judges next year. *Sue suggested that perhaps an identified ‘lonely or isolated’ person could be contacted and HiB could give their garden a makeover as a ‘special needs’ garden. *Joan volunteered to remove the begonias from Bryan’s Bed at Weavers’ Court – Sue asked for the corms. * Joan showed a mock up of a bag suggested by Annette from the Chamber of Trade which it was suggested might be donated to HiB to sell. After much discussion, and drawing on past experience, it was thought that bags don’t really sell for more than £1 each and it would be difficult for HiB to sell them although the idea was excellent. * Joan said that owner of ESO Print Shop at 13 Head Street Halstead would like to have some flowers outside his premises. It isn’t sure if this is private or Council property but will be viewed. *Joan noted that Halstead Beavers are to hold a Dance on 3rd November to raise money for plants at Holy Trinity School. There will be a raffle at the event so please buy some tickets even if you can’t attend the dance. * Joan said that there will be some Halstead tea-towels for us to sell at the Christmas Fayre and at other events. 20 will be taken at cost price. *Annie gave a mention to the Hedingham Singers’ Choral Event to be held at St. Peter’s Church, Sible Hedingham on 10th November starting at 7.30pm. It will be a commemoration of the end of WWI and cost is £10 per person inclusive of tea and biscuits. *Carol offered to bring some walnuts and some strawberry plants and echivera to sell at calendar selling events. These sold well at first outing! *Carol also asked about the car parked awkwardly on Market Hill and it was said that Police/Parking Partnership are aware; it is believed that the owner was taken ill.
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There being no other business the meeting closed at 8.45 p.m.
Next team meeting on Thursday 29th November 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing.
All welcome
Contacts: Margaret Eskins Chairman. 01787 269443
Julia Smith, Secretary. 0776 2587141 / 01787461806. e-mail jaygrey@btinternet.com
Joan Gibson, plants and working parties. 01787 473070
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HALSTEAD IN BLOOM
Minutes of a meeting 25th October 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing
Chairman, welcomed all present and accepted apologies from those who could not attend.
MINUTES of 27th September 2018 had been circulated and were adopted
NEWS: *Letters/Messages of congratulations have been received; Halstead TC gave an ovation to HiB at recent Council Meeting; Cllr David Finch, Leader of Essex CC sent a letter; Cllr Graham Butland, Leader of Braintree DC sent a letter. *Facebook stats and messages from 30.08.18-26.09.18 had been printed and were shown; posts reached 2.3K people in 28 days and there were many, many messages of congratulations. *Quiz Update. This was an enjoyable evening (although questions were hard!) Entry raised £209.00, raffle gave £54.90 and Heads and Tails Game raised £13.50 at total of £277.40 for funds. David T was thanked for his hard work in organising the Quiz and his assistants Annie and Mike were also thanked. *Townswomen’s Guild. Team members gave a talk to about 30 of the Guild and goods sold at the event raised £36.25 and there was a donation of £30.00 for HiB. *Priory Hall Coffee Morning. Jean kindly arranged the morning and whipped up support among residents. Goods sold at the event raised £133.00, a raffle raised £84.00 and donations for refreshments totalled £13.45 – a total sum of £230.45. Jean was thanked for all her efforts and was asked to thank the Priory Hall residents for their support. *Team news: Chairman offered condolences to Fiona and her family on the death of her father. Alan is to be admitted to Basildon Hospital next Wednesday with a view to surgeon operating on Thursday. We wish Alan all the best and hope he will be fit enough to get back to working parties after Christmas!!
EVENTS: *Rivercare. Next event is Sunday 4th November. Meet 10am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Next Community Litter Pick. Sunday 25th November, ALL WELCOME. Meet 10.30am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Local Awards evening. United Reformed Church, Friday 26th October. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. There will be a raffle – prizes welcomed and refreshments will be available. Please come and bring family and friends. *Halstead Horticultural Late Show will be held at Queen’s Hall on Saturday 3rd November from 2pm. Schedules can be got from Halstead Icing and there are classes for all sorts of entries – not just flowers and vegetables! Get creating and enter!! You need to fill in a form on the schedule, and get to Margaret Tyler (or hand in to Halstead Icing) by Wednesday 31st October. Entries need to be at the hall by 10am on Saturday 3rd November (hall will be open from 7.30am on that day) and public entry will be from 2pm (50p. entry to the show). There will be a raffle and Halstead calendars and Christmas (sorry!!!) cards will be on sale. *Guys in the Park. This annual event will take place in Halstead Public Gardens on Sunday 4th November. Guys to be taken to the Public Gardens before 10am and can be collected at 3.00pm. Affix a card with entrant’s name so that a certificate can be produced. Go and have a look from 10am – 3pm – there will be some wonderful creations! Halstead in Bloom’s St. John Swert (increased!) family will be there. *Poppy Cascade. Ladies from Halstead will make a cascade of crafted poppies at The Library from 8th November. There will also be poppies in Holy Trinity Churchyard all to commemorate the end of WWI 100 years ago. *Armistice Day commemoration will begin in Halstead Public Gardens at 2pm on Sunday 11th November and there will be a procession from the Gardens to St. Andrew’s Church for a commemorative service. *Co-op Presentation. The National Co-op Society will be presenting their final payments for 2017/18 to charity recipients on 24thNovember at the store in Colchester Road. No details of times have been given but will be circulated as soon as they are known. *Halstead Christmas Fayre and Switch on of the Christmas Lights will take place on Saturday 1st December from 9am. HiB Stall will be outside Solar Store on the day. *Annual Torchlight Procession will be on Wednesday 5th December. HiB will be helping to marshall and collect. *HiB has been asked to speak to Tiptree Garden Club on Thursday 6th December. *HiB Christmas Meal will be on Friday 18th January 2019 at St. Andrew’s Hall. Cost is £20 per person and must be paid when booking. Payment is non-refundable. Menus will be available shortly and must be returned, with payment, to Margaret T by 1st December. Event is open to all, please ask Margaret or a team member for a menu.
ANGLIA IN BLOOM’18. *Anglia in Bloom Seminar will be held in Filby, Norfolk on 7th November. Cost is £15.00 per person. Transport is now sorted, 12 will be attending from Halstead. Event will start at 10.15am and should finish about 3pm. Coffee and homemade shortbread will be available and lunch will be a ploughman’s with home cooked food. Bar with soft drinks for sale will be open. *Anglia in Bloom region’s results in RHS Britain in Bloom – Village – Woburn. SILVER. Coastal – Hunstanton – GOLD. Large Town – Bury St. Edmunds – GOLD. City – Norwich. SILVER-GILT. BIDs,Town & City Centres – Wisbech. GOLD & CATEGORY WINNER. Brian Massingham from Wisbech was also given a Community Champions Award.
The Champion of Champions this year was Truro. Full results on RHS Website. *Route for AiB judges’ tour 2019. Now is the time to start thinking about Halstead’s entry for next year. We need to show all the elements required: Biodiversity, Community Project, Conservation Project, Sustainable Garden, Floral Display by an Individual or Community, Garden for Special Needs, Sheltered Housing/Care Home Garden. Grown Your Own, Industrial/Commercial Area, Local Authority Floral Display, Public Open Space, Young People’s Project (aged under 12 years), Young People’s Project (aged 12-18 years) and we need to consider how we can manoeuvre the judges around the town without looking at any grott spots! Ideas, please!!!
WORKING PARTIES : For all working parties meet at 2pm. on Town Bridge/Halstead Icing car park unless advised otherwise: Plants are being collected on Saturday 27th; please be at Gate House (next to Fire Station) at 10.30am to sort them into areas. Planting will begin on Sunday 28th. Those setting out please be at The Town Bridge at 9am; those planting please meet at Town Bridge at 10.30am – bring hand tools and steps or boxes to stand on for Bridge planting. For each Tuesday/Thursday thereafter it will be planting and then maintenance.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS: *Calendar selling To date 169 calendars have been sold on stalls – we need to sell 486 calendars to break even. 59 envelopes and 87 packs of Christmas cards have been sold and donations to date amount to £199.07. Selling Schedules: 2nd November: 9-10 Linda and Margaret T. 10-11 Iola and Wendy. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 3rd November. 9-10 Linda and Christine. 10-11 Joan and Oliver. 11-12 Margaret T and Ian. 12-1 Carol and Julia. 9th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Iola and Sheila. 11-12 Ian and Joyce. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 10th November 9-10 Carol and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Joan. 11-12 Margaret C and Ian. 12-1 Annie and Mick. 16th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Linda and Christine. 11-12 Wendy and Iola. 12-1 Margaret T and Margaret E. 17th November. l9-10 Annie and Sue. 10-11 Linda and Joan. 11-12 Carol and Margaret T. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 23rd November. 9-10 Sue and Joan. 10-11 Margaret E and Margaret T. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 24th November 9-10 Carol and Joan. 10-11 Annie and Mick. 11-12 Christine and Margaret C. 12-1 Margaret T and Ian. 30th November 9-10 Jenny and Sue. 10-11 Wendy and Iola. 11-12 Linda and Margaret E. 12-1 Julia and Ian. 1st December 9-10 Joan and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Fiona. 11-12 Linda and Iola. 12-1 Ian and Margaret E. 1-end Julia and Graham. *To Do List. Tubs outside British Legion Club need to be painted – Annie volunteered for this and also to re-fix the gold bands where necessary. Tubs at the Bus Stop in Trinity Street need to be cleaned up. *It was noted that the grotty, disused phone box in Trinity Street has been removed and the post box painted – looks great! Well done Sarah (Town Clerk) for chasing up this work. *David suggested that perhaps the garden at the Elizabeth Courtauld Dr’s Surgery could be visited by AiB judges next year. *Sue suggested that perhaps an identified ‘lonely or isolated’ person could be contacted and HiB could give their garden a makeover as a ‘special needs’ garden. *Joan volunteered to remove the begonias from Bryan’s Bed at Weavers’ Court – Sue asked for the corms. * Joan showed a mock up of a bag suggested by Annette from the Chamber of Trade which it was suggested might be donated to HiB to sell. After much discussion, and drawing on past experience, it was thought that bags don’t really sell for more than £1 each and it would be difficult for HiB to sell them although the idea was excellent. * Joan said that owner of ESO Print Shop at 13 Head Street Halstead would like to have some flowers outside his premises. It isn’t sure if this is private or Council property but will be viewed. *Joan noted that Halstead Beavers are to hold a Dance on 3rd November to raise money for plants at Holy Trinity School. There will be a raffle at the event so please buy some tickets even if you can’t attend the dance. * Joan said that there will be some Halstead tea-towels for us to sell at the Christmas Fayre and at other events. 20 will be taken at cost price. *Annie gave a mention to the Hedingham Singers’ Choral Event to be held at St. Peter’s Church, Sible Hedingham on 10th November starting at 7.30pm. It will be a commemoration of the end of WWI and cost is £10 per person inclusive of tea and biscuits. *Carol offered to bring some walnuts and some strawberry plants and echivera to sell at calendar selling events. These sold well at first outing! *Carol also asked about the car parked awkwardly on Market Hill and it was said that Police/Parking Partnership are aware; it is believed that the owner was taken ill.
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There being no other business the meeting closed at 8.45 p.m.
Next team meeting on Thursday 29th November 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing.
All welcome
Contacts: Margaret Eskins Chairman. 01787 269443
Julia Smith, Secretary. 0776 2587141 / 01787461806. e-mail jaygrey@btinternet.com
Joan Gibson, plants and working parties. 01787 473070
www.halsteadinbloom.org.uk Facebook: halsteadinbloom. giveasyoulive.com/join/halstead-in-bloom
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HALSTEAD IN BLOOM
Minutes of a meeting 25th October 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing
Chairman, welcomed all present and accepted apologies from those who could not attend.
MINUTES of 27th September 2018 had been circulated and were adopted
NEWS: *Letters/Messages of congratulations have been received; Halstead TC gave an ovation to HiB at recent Council Meeting; Cllr David Finch, Leader of Essex CC sent a letter; Cllr Graham Butland, Leader of Braintree DC sent a letter. *Facebook stats and messages from 30.08.18-26.09.18 had been printed and were shown; posts reached 2.3K people in 28 days and there were many, many messages of congratulations. *Quiz Update. This was an enjoyable evening (although questions were hard!) Entry raised £209.00, raffle gave £54.90 and Heads and Tails Game raised £13.50 at total of £277.40 for funds. David T was thanked for his hard work in organising the Quiz and his assistants Annie and Mike were also thanked. *Townswomen’s Guild. Team members gave a talk to about 30 of the Guild and goods sold at the event raised £36.25 and there was a donation of £30.00 for HiB. *Priory Hall Coffee Morning. Jean kindly arranged the morning and whipped up support among residents. Goods sold at the event raised £133.00, a raffle raised £84.00 and donations for refreshments totalled £13.45 – a total sum of £230.45. Jean was thanked for all her efforts and was asked to thank the Priory Hall residents for their support. *Team news: Chairman offered condolences to Fiona and her family on the death of her father. Alan is to be admitted to Basildon Hospital next Wednesday with a view to surgeon operating on Thursday. We wish Alan all the best and hope he will be fit enough to get back to working parties after Christmas!!
EVENTS: *Rivercare. Next event is Sunday 4th November. Meet 10am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Next Community Litter Pick. Sunday 25th November, ALL WELCOME. Meet 10.30am at Sainsbury’s Car Park. *Local Awards evening. United Reformed Church, Friday 26th October. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. There will be a raffle – prizes welcomed and refreshments will be available. Please come and bring family and friends. *Halstead Horticultural Late Show will be held at Queen’s Hall on Saturday 3rd November from 2pm. Schedules can be got from Halstead Icing and there are classes for all sorts of entries – not just flowers and vegetables! Get creating and enter!! You need to fill in a form on the schedule, and get to Margaret Tyler (or hand in to Halstead Icing) by Wednesday 31st October. Entries need to be at the hall by 10am on Saturday 3rd November (hall will be open from 7.30am on that day) and public entry will be from 2pm (50p. entry to the show). There will be a raffle and Halstead calendars and Christmas (sorry!!!) cards will be on sale. *Guys in the Park. This annual event will take place in Halstead Public Gardens on Sunday 4th November. Guys to be taken to the Public Gardens before 10am and can be collected at 3.00pm. Affix a card with entrant’s name so that a certificate can be produced. Go and have a look from 10am – 3pm – there will be some wonderful creations! Halstead in Bloom’s St. John Swert (increased!) family will be there. *Poppy Cascade. Ladies from Halstead will make a cascade of crafted poppies at The Library from 8th November. There will also be poppies in Holy Trinity Churchyard all to commemorate the end of WWI 100 years ago. *Armistice Day commemoration will begin in Halstead Public Gardens at 2pm on Sunday 11th November and there will be a procession from the Gardens to St. Andrew’s Church for a commemorative service. *Co-op Presentation. The National Co-op Society will be presenting their final payments for 2017/18 to charity recipients on 24thNovember at the store in Colchester Road. No details of times have been given but will be circulated as soon as they are known. *Halstead Christmas Fayre and Switch on of the Christmas Lights will take place on Saturday 1st December from 9am. HiB Stall will be outside Solar Store on the day. *Annual Torchlight Procession will be on Wednesday 5th December. HiB will be helping to marshall and collect. *HiB has been asked to speak to Tiptree Garden Club on Thursday 6th December. *HiB Christmas Meal will be on Friday 18th January 2019 at St. Andrew’s Hall. Cost is £20 per person and must be paid when booking. Payment is non-refundable. Menus will be available shortly and must be returned, with payment, to Margaret T by 1st December. Event is open to all, please ask Margaret or a team member for a menu.
ANGLIA IN BLOOM’18. *Anglia in Bloom Seminar will be held in Filby, Norfolk on 7th November. Cost is £15.00 per person. Transport is now sorted, 12 will be attending from Halstead. Event will start at 10.15am and should finish about 3pm. Coffee and homemade shortbread will be available and lunch will be a ploughman’s with home cooked food. Bar with soft drinks for sale will be open. *Anglia in Bloom region’s results in RHS Britain in Bloom – Village – Woburn. SILVER. Coastal – Hunstanton – GOLD. Large Town – Bury St. Edmunds – GOLD. City – Norwich. SILVER-GILT. BIDs,Town & City Centres – Wisbech. GOLD & CATEGORY WINNER. Brian Massingham from Wisbech was also given a Community Champions Award.
The Champion of Champions this year was Truro. Full results on RHS Website. *Route for AiB judges’ tour 2019. Now is the time to start thinking about Halstead’s entry for next year. We need to show all the elements required: Biodiversity, Community Project, Conservation Project, Sustainable Garden, Floral Display by an Individual or Community, Garden for Special Needs, Sheltered Housing/Care Home Garden. Grown Your Own, Industrial/Commercial Area, Local Authority Floral Display, Public Open Space, Young People’s Project (aged under 12 years), Young People’s Project (aged 12-18 years) and we need to consider how we can manoeuvre the judges around the town without looking at any grott spots! Ideas, please!!!
WORKING PARTIES : For all working parties meet at 2pm. on Town Bridge/Halstead Icing car park unless advised otherwise: Plants are being collected on Saturday 27th; please be at Gate House (next to Fire Station) at 10.30am to sort them into areas. Planting will begin on Sunday 28th. Those setting out please be at The Town Bridge at 9am; those planting please meet at Town Bridge at 10.30am – bring hand tools and steps or boxes to stand on for Bridge planting. For each Tuesday/Thursday thereafter it will be planting and then maintenance.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS: *Calendar selling To date 169 calendars have been sold on stalls – we need to sell 486 calendars to break even. 59 envelopes and 87 packs of Christmas cards have been sold and donations to date amount to £199.07. Selling Schedules: 2nd November: 9-10 Linda and Margaret T. 10-11 Iola and Wendy. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 3rd November. 9-10 Linda and Christine. 10-11 Joan and Oliver. 11-12 Margaret T and Ian. 12-1 Carol and Julia. 9th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Iola and Sheila. 11-12 Ian and Joyce. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 10th November 9-10 Carol and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Joan. 11-12 Margaret C and Ian. 12-1 Annie and Mick. 16th November. 9-10 Jenny and Joan. 10-11 Linda and Christine. 11-12 Wendy and Iola. 12-1 Margaret T and Margaret E. 17th November. l9-10 Annie and Sue. 10-11 Linda and Joan. 11-12 Carol and Margaret T. 12-1 Margaret E and Ian. 23rd November. 9-10 Sue and Joan. 10-11 Margaret E and Margaret T. 11-12 David and Ian. 12-1 Julia and Graham. 24th November 9-10 Carol and Joan. 10-11 Annie and Mick. 11-12 Christine and Margaret C. 12-1 Margaret T and Ian. 30th November 9-10 Jenny and Sue. 10-11 Wendy and Iola. 11-12 Linda and Margaret E. 12-1 Julia and Ian. 1st December 9-10 Joan and Sue. 10-11 Jean and Fiona. 11-12 Linda and Iola. 12-1 Ian and Margaret E. 1-end Julia and Graham. *To Do List. Tubs outside British Legion Club need to be painted – Annie volunteered for this and also to re-fix the gold bands where necessary. Tubs at the Bus Stop in Trinity Street need to be cleaned up. *It was noted that the grotty, disused phone box in Trinity Street has been removed and the post box painted – looks great! Well done Sarah (Town Clerk) for chasing up this work. *David suggested that perhaps the garden at the Elizabeth Courtauld Dr’s Surgery could be visited by AiB judges next year. *Sue suggested that perhaps an identified ‘lonely or isolated’ person could be contacted and HiB could give their garden a makeover as a ‘special needs’ garden. *Joan volunteered to remove the begonias from Bryan’s Bed at Weavers’ Court – Sue asked for the corms. * Joan showed a mock up of a bag suggested by Annette from the Chamber of Trade which it was suggested might be donated to HiB to sell. After much discussion, and drawing on past experience, it was thought that bags don’t really sell for more than £1 each and it would be difficult for HiB to sell them although the idea was excellent. * Joan said that owner of ESO Print Shop at 13 Head Street Halstead would like to have some flowers outside his premises. It isn’t sure if this is private or Council property but will be viewed. *Joan noted that Halstead Beavers are to hold a Dance on 3rd November to raise money for plants at Holy Trinity School. There will be a raffle at the event so please buy some tickets even if you can’t attend the dance. * Joan said that there will be some Halstead tea-towels for us to sell at the Christmas Fayre and at other events. 20 will be taken at cost price. *Annie gave a mention to the Hedingham Singers’ Choral Event to be held at St. Peter’s Church, Sible Hedingham on 10th November starting at 7.30pm. It will be a commemoration of the end of WWI and cost is £10 per person inclusive of tea and biscuits. *Carol offered to bring some walnuts and some strawberry plants and echivera to sell at calendar selling events. These sold well at first outing! *Carol also asked about the car parked awkwardly on Market Hill and it was said that Police/Parking Partnership are aware; it is believed that the owner was taken ill.
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There being no other business the meeting closed at 8.45 p.m.
Next team meeting on Thursday 29th November 2018 7.30p.m. at Halstead Icing.
All welcome
Contacts: Margaret Eskins Chairman. 01787 269443
Julia Smith, Secretary. 0776 2587141 / 01787461806. e-mail jaygrey@btinternet.com
Joan Gibson, plants and working parties. 01787 473070
www.halsteadinbloom.org.uk Facebook: halsteadinbloom. giveasyoulive.com/join/halstead-in-bloom
join membership of National Co-op
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