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Thank you to Swimbridge Parish Council for funding the website for another year and a big thank you to Julie Whitton without whom there would be little news to post on this website, the majority of which is taken from the village newsletter she regularly produces, thanks Jools!
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Another “PAINT & BBQ” - FREE BBQ! - on SATURDAY 6 JUNE 10am - 3pm
We are painting the outside of the Jubilee Hall. If 12 people turn up on Saturday we could finish it. We all use the…
A big thank you to all those who were involved in Swimbridge Pre- School’s 25th Anniversary party and to all those who came to support us on the day. We hoped you enjoyed it and agree with us that…
Don’t forget Veg day - Let’s get growing
Great opportunity for growers to get together &sell, swap or barter surplus plants or seeds, as well as share knowledge on growing vegetables in the…
Swimbridge Twinning Association
Early in May Swimbridge Twinning Assoc entertained 27 friends from Sainte Honorine Twinning Assoc in Normandy.
They arrived on the 8th May and were entertained…
Swimbridge Twinning Association invite you to a
Safari Supper
Start 7.00pm on Saturday 13th June
There will be a Starter, Main Course, Sweet, Cheese & Biscuits with Tea/Coffee
Due to…
St James
Flower Festival
“Glorious Devon”
The Festival, on the theme “Glorious Devon”, begins on Friday 19th June to Sunday 21st June at St James Church.
There are lots of other events…
If you have purchased tickets, please contact the seller you purchased them from
for a refund. Thank you.
Accott Manor, near Gunn, Barnstaple
Sunday July 5th, 12.00 - 5.30pm
Recital by North Devon Music Centre’s Double Reed Trio, The Quirkië Trio
Izzy Brookes, Zoe Cartlidge and Jack Wensley
3.00pm
…
Swimbridge Parklands Committee (also known as SNAP) has 16 members (including 3 young people) representing various village community groups. SNAP began life as a sub committee of the Parish Council…
Many thanks to everyone who ran in Swimbridge Run or volunteered. We had an amazing 97 volunteers involved in making the event happen through stewarding, registration, cooking 85 breakfasts, etc. …
Good Friday 17th April 2009, a very wet early morning at first. Fifty pilgrims set off from St James Church for Hooda Hill to take part in the tradition of erecting a wooden cross on the hill for…
Very early each Good Friday morning for the past 44 years Swimbridge people have carried a Cross from their Parish Church of St James up to the top of the hill which overlooks the village.
The…
Paula Swanson is the new Jubilee Hall caretaker and booking clerk. Phone Paula from the 14th April on 830514 for bookings etc.
Swimbridge Vegetable & Produce Show and Green Market - 19th September 2009
Its time to start growing as local business Garden By Design is organising a Vegetable & Produce Show to be held in the…
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Jackie Carlton is knitting jumpers for Africa but has run out of wool. If you have any wool that you don’t want – scraps or balls (anything), can you please leave on Jackie’s outside bench at 2…
Matt Bluge has recently been elected as the new Church Warden at St James Church. He can be contacted on 830764. He will be joining Vera Knight, who is also Church Warden. Vera can be contacted on…
At the Planning Meeting to discuss the Glebe Field on Wednesday 18 March the planning officer recommended that the application should be refused for reasons relating to the number of affordable…
SWIMBRIDGE primary school will soon have a new building which can be used for club meetings by pupils and community groups.
A planning application for a new "multi use building" submitted by the…
Swimbridge Lunch Club needs more cooks and helpers. Vera Knight announced at the last Lunch Club that she will be stepping down as organiser in May to concentrate on Church activities. If you can…
FRIDAY APRIL 24TH JUBILEE HALL 8pm. BAR @ 7.30 pm
“A genial Mancunian now residing in Devon. His abilities on the guitar, fingerpicking and slide, whether up tempo or slow gospel, and his humorous…
Swimbridge Jubilee Hall has just been awarded £11,000 for improvements. £9,249 has been granted from The National Lottery Award for All programme for 150 new chairs, 8 chair stacking trolleys and a…
by PC Glyn Clark & PCSO Hannah Denton
Crime in Swimbridge:
Hannah has issued an Anti-social Section 59 Notice to a 4x4 being used in an anti-social manner in Swimbridge. This means if the driver…
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (11-18 yrs)
Monday 6 April, 11am—3pm, Jubilee Hall
Graffiti art, Rapping, Gaming, Drama and more.
Log onto www.seize-the-moment.net
Contact Andy Comerford for registration form…
The Jubilee Hall are advertising for a caretaker/booking clerk. This is a PAID
position.
Annie Urry Clark is the current Caretaker/ Booking Clerk and she is happy to speak to anyone…
Saskia has started an amateur dramatics club in Swimbridge - she has got a hilarious comedy play (Saskia has described it to me and it is v funny). She would like a few more extra people to join the…
The village, as always, enjoyed Rev’d Prebendary Peter Bowers Christmas Church Services. The wonderful Christmas Eve Christingle nativity play was performed by the children in the village, and…
Robert Dalling & Jinny Hedges, Richard Ackland & Marie Courtney and Peter Huxtable & his girlfriend on their engagements over the Christmas & New Year period.
NOTICE - We are in danger of losing our church bell-ringers as we do not have any in training. We are anxious to have a new group of ringers to ring at weddings and other important occasions. No…
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