150 Club Renewals Hi everyone.  It is time to renew your number(s) for Thriplow Shop's lottery, the 150 Club.  You can do this with cash, a card or from your prepay account.  The new year for the draw starts in November so don't miss out on the chance of winning by not renewing in time!  We will hold your number for you until the end of this month.  Just pop into the shop to renew, or let me know we can use your prepay account to do so. For those of you who don't know about the draw, every mo ...Continue Reading

Please see the attached poster about our next meeting on October 18,  *A Brief History of Enclosures with references to Cambridgeshire* ...Continue Reading

Please see the notice of the appeal for a development south of Hinxton and Whittlesford. ...Continue Reading

Fowlmere & Thriplow Gardening Club Meeting - 7.45pm Thurs 4 Oct in Fowlmere VH *Unusual Plants – Colin Ward* Recommended by the Cambridge U3A Garden Group, Colin brings a wealth of experience as owner of Swines Meadow Farm Nursery, Market Deeping. With over ten years in business, the nursery has grown into one of the UK’s most specialised growers of exotic and rare plants. There is an individuality and local knowledge you get from visiting an independent nursery. Colin has created a microclimate on the edge of t ...Continue Reading

Please see the attached poster for details of the There but Not There appeal. Both Thriplow and Fowlmere need to raise enough money, £588 each, to purchase 14 silhouettes to represent the 14 men of each village who did not return at the end of the two World Wars ...Continue Reading

Please see attached poster from Whittlesford and Duxford Scouts Group ...Continue Reading

Home-Start Royston and South Cambridgeshire is a local charity, affiliated to the national charity Home-Start UK, which recruits and trains volunteers to support families with young children which are experiencing some form of stress or crisis. Since cuts to statutory funding we now need to raise all our own funds (currently £146k per annum) to maintain this highly successful service which reaches some 80 families and 150 children a year in our local area, and significantly reduces descent into family breakdown o ...Continue Reading

The Green Man have lost two of their beer barrel stills that we would like to borrow for the School Ball next weekend. Rebecca says she lent them to someone in the village and they haven’t been returned. Was it you? Do you have them? If so, please could you return them to The Green Man ASAP! Thank you. Melissa ...Continue Reading

Dear Villagers *The annual Village Christmas Supper in The Green Man is on **Friday 14th December 2018* *From 7pm for drinks and sit down at 8pm* Rebecca and Chris have put together a sumptuous three course meal for £28.00 per person or £23.00 per person for two courses – just double click on the attachment to see the menu *Please note there are supplements if you would like to order:* *•  The fillet of **Buccleuch beef - a £6 supplement* *•  Selection of British Cheeses - a £ ...Continue Reading

Dear Villagers *The annual Village Christmas Supper in The Green Man is on:* *Friday 14th December 2018* *From 7pm for drinks and sit down at 8pm* Rebecca and Chris have put together a sumptuous three course meal for £28.00 per person or £23.00 per person for two courses – just double click on the attachment to see the menu *Please note there are supplements if you would like to order:* *•  The fillet of **Buccleuch beef - a £6 supplement* *•  Selection of British Cheeses - a £4* ...Continue Reading