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Chilcompton Parish Council is working hard to set up some memorable events to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III. Many details are still to be sorted out however the general plans are as noted below. Please keep watching for posters, our website and Facebook for more details as they become available. Please also see our separate appeal for volunteers to help make this a wonderful weekend that will make the residents of Chilcompton proud!

• We expect that there will two Parish Council organised events in Chilcompton to celebrate the Coronation. On Saturday 6/5 we will hold a family picnic on the Old Rec and on Monday 8/5 we will hold a Coronation Cream Tea event at the Village Hall.
• Saturday, 6 May – Coronation Teddy Bear’s Picnic – Old Rec starting at 1pm – this will be a bring your own lunch and join in the following festivities – a bouncy castle, skittles, face painting, games and competitions. Hopefully there will also be stalls from local groups as well as a craft stall where families can create their own crown or other masterpieces. We hope to hire some toilet facilities and an Ice Cream van too.
• Monday, 8 May – Coronation Cream Tea at the Village Hall starting at 2pm – A cream tea and cake plus music, hopefully a sing song, some activities for pre school children, craft workshop for older ones and if it is available a climbing wall or caving attraction.

There will be an online Parish Council traffic subcommittee meeting on 18/1/23 at 7.00 through Teams. If you would like to join contact Jonathan.Pike@somersetfa.com

The Parish Council is currently considering the following proposal, which will be funded by the Forest of Avon Trust. Please note that the views expressed here are those of the village residents who have come up with the idea, and are not those of the Parish Council. Please share your thoughts, positive or negative. Comments can be made here 

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Many people in Chilcompton enjoy our periodic parish magazine Chilcompton Matters. It requires many hours of sterling work by Malcolm Rigby and Mike Hughes to produce. We owe both of them an enormous debt of gratitude for all their hard work on this over the years. This also applies to the large group of regular and intermittent contributors who provide articles, poetry, photographs and advertising revenue. Then there are of course the distributors who make sure all the houses in the village receive a copy – thank you one and all.

Malcolm and Mike have given so much to this project, however it is now time for both of them to take a well earned break from it and turn production of the magazine over to others. So, the next edition of the magazine will be the last one unless other people come forward to take up the task.

Production of the magazine involves several tasks and skills such as coordination of advertisers, sourcing, preparing and editing content and also the IT side of arranging content and preparing the draft for printing and also coordinating distributers. Assistance would of course be given during a migration period to help people taking on production to get up to speed. It is not a requirement to be a Parish Councillor to take on this role and there would be no need to attend Parish Council meetings.

Anyone accepting this role would be free to bring forward new ideas as to format or content of the magazine, however final ownership will remain with the Parish Council and thus they have final say over what is included.

If you feel you could lead, or be part of a small team to take over production of Chilcompton Matters please get in touch with the Parish Clerk here

The skateboard park at the sports ground does not appear to be heavily used and the volunteer who has kindly been looking after it is no longer available to do so, so many thanks to them for their work over the years. The Parish Council do not have sufficient resources to manage it so if no new volunteer(s) step forward to run it we will have no other option but to close and remove it. If you’d like to see this facility retained for the village and can spare a few occasional hours to take care of what is necessary please contact the Parish Clerk here.