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Eastoft

North Lincolnshire Libraries have launched BorrowBox, a new free e-book and e-audio service available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. The service can be accessed at the BorrowBox page , but also through the BorrowBox app, which is available to download from the App Store and Google Play store.

You can access BorrowBox from your mobile phone, tablet and laptop.

The BorrowBox service is accessed using your library card and pin number

New library cards can be issued via the North Lincolnshire Libraries Team who can be contacted on library.enquiries@northlincs.gov.uk

 

Local Election Results

Village

Axholme North Full Results 

Iain Booth (UKIP) – 491
John Briggs (Local Conservatives) – 1347
Justine Green (Labour Party) – 392
Robbie Pender (Labour Party) – 590
Julie Reed (Local Conservatives) – 1316
Sue Wilsea (Green Party) – 205.

Councillors John Briggs and Julie Reed will once again be representing Axholme North.

Eastoft Church Annual Meetings

Village

The following meetings will be held this evening in the Village Hall at 6.30pm.

Annual Meeting of Parishioners – druing which CHurchwardens will be appointed.

Annual Parochial Church Meeting – during which the Deanery Synod representative and PCC Members will be appointed.

Anyone who is on the Church Electoral Roll is entitled to attend.

Ian Bishop

Hon. Secretary.

Farm Club

Hall Farm, Village

After a very successful summer of Farm Club, we are excited to be holding a weekly after school Farm Club! Over the summer, more than 30 kids had lots of fun learning how a working farm runs at the busiest time in a farmer’s calendar: harvest time! They got hands on with the pigs, alpacas and chickens, tended to the kitchen garden and went on trailer rides down the farm.

There are endless benefits to children attending farm club such as increased physical activity, improved social and communication skills, it develops children’s knowledge on farm to fork process and the environment, and also improves children’s mental and physical well-being and attention span! See our farm club/visits benefits sheet on the website!

We hope to see lots of faces there every Thursday during term time, and don’t forget your Children’s University passports!

Keep an eye out for information on more full day Farm Clubs during school holidays too!

Contact us on 07715 215718 or Caitlin@hallmarkfarming.co.uk to book your childs space!

www.hallfarmeastoft.co.uk

Community Champions

Around the Village, Eastoft Garden & Craft Club
Please show your support to help continue with our commitment to our village of Eastoft with planting of bulbs etc.

By using your Coop dividend card you will be helping support the garden club and the community

S15 General Community Champions

Until the end of November, Community Champions benefits a wide range of local community groups, charities and organisations in your area.

Every time a member shops in a Lincolnshire Co-op outlet, a donation will be made through the scheme. Staff fundraising and the carrier bag levy will also go into the pot.

You’ll find a list of all the groups below – and it will also be displayed on the totem stands in your outlets. And of course, just check your receipt to see who you’ll be helping!

ECWA Volunteer Vacancy

Eastoft Community Welfare Association
?ECWA Volunteer Vacancy?
Treasurer for approx. 3-4 hours a month, times to suit you. ⏳
Come and join our team.
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Help to support your village.

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Treasurer role is to; keep records of all monies coming in and out, do banking, create petty cash float for events, organise external auditing of accounts, complete annual Charity Commission Return.

Current records are both paper based and computerised.
 For further details please contact: eastoftcwa@gmail.com.
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Arrival of our New Vicar and details of services in Eastoft

St Bartholomews Church

Many of you may already know that the Diocese of Sheffield has appointed a new Priest In Charge for the Marshlands Benefice which includes the Parish of Eastoft.

 The Rev. Justine Smith has been a curate in the Brough area following a career in medicine.

 Whilst the Diocese secure a permanent home within the Marshlands, Justine will be residing in the School House in Eastoft with her daughter.

 Before she can commence her work as Priest In Charge, Justine will need to be licensed by the Bishop Of Sheffield. There will be a licensing service at 7.30pm on Wednesday the 18th May at Whitgift church.

 You would be very welcome to attend this service and we hope to make it a very special occasion.

 Justine’s first service in the Marshlands will be at Eastoft church where we will be joined by the congregation from Whitgift. Again you are very welcome to attend and meet Justine yourselves.

 I’m sure Justine will be making herself know around the village over the next few days and weeks.

 The services in Eastoft will be as follows:

 Sunday 8th May Holy Communion with the Ven. John Hawley 9.30am

Sunday 22nd May Holy Communion with the Rev. Justine Smith 9.30am

 There will also be a united Benefice Service at Swinefleet Church on Sunday the 29th May at 11.00am

 If you would like to know more about the church within Eastoft then please do get in contact.

 Ian Bishop

Churchwarden & Hon. Sec.

01724 798756

Playground Update

Playground

 

E.C.W.A have successfully applied for a grant of £13,500 from North Lincolnshire Community Fund to undertake phase 1 of the Eastoft playground redevelopment.

To date the following have been completed:

  • Purchased and installed a Toddler Adventure Playground
  • Wood and bark have been cleared from the site
  • Baby swings have been repaired and replace
  • Junior swings have been repaired and replaced

It has also been a time of extensive liaison with Playdales (the original suppliers of the playground equipment) to replace timbers on the swings, log walk and chain rail that had rotted despite being well within the guarantee period!

The final parts of phase 1 will be to lay a concrete bed with matting at both the entrance to the playground and underneath the swings. This should improve the ground surface in wet weather and remove the need to, annually, top up the bark.

The remaining action will be to replace a porthole on the toddler adventure playground, which has been vandalised, and this will be done from E.C.W.A funds.

E.C.W.A would like to thank residents for their patience and co operation while these redevelopment activities at both the hall and playground are occurring.

In addition E.C.W.A would like to thank the following organisations and volunteers for their support over the last couple of years, behind the scenes, which has enabled us to reach this point today:

  • Eastoft Church of England Primary School
  • Eastoft Parish Council
  • Councillor Trevor Barker
  • Steve and Alan Brown
  • Sue and Mick Hartlebury
  • Mark Curry
  • Paul McCartan
  • William Castledine
  • Norman Bailey
  • Jeremy Hall