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Page last updated: Jun 2010

A new cafe opened at the Bearwood recreation Ground on 1st May. The cafe will cater for the needs of all those using the  Winnersh Community Centre and the leisure facilities at the recreation ground.

The brainchild of Claire Pulleyn and Lisa Lainsbury, the cafe will be run as a commercial venture with the full support of the Parish Council.

The cafe will serve speciality coffees and other drinks, cakes, savouries, sweets and ice cream.

The cafe was opened by Cllr Jill Plant, Chairman of the Recreation & Amenities Committee, who welcomed this valuable new addition to the facilities provided at the Bearwood Recreation Ground.

The cafe will initially open:
10am - 6pm on Mon, Tue, Wed and Fri; 12noon - 6pm on Thu;
8:30am - 4pm on Sat;
10am - 2pm on Sun
but may stay open longer if there is sufficient customer demand in the summer.

The longer opening times on Saturdays will mean that players and spectators of the Winnersh Rangers Football Club will be well catered for!

Claire and Lisa with Cllr Jill Plant

News in Brief                                                          February 2010

Battle of the Bands off to great start  The third Battle of the Bands supported by the Winnersh Neighbourhood Action Group got off to a great start on 29th January at the Wokingham Youth Centre. Seven bands performed in front of an enthusiastic audience of over 300.  The other heats take place on Fridays 26 February and 26 March with the final on 30 April. For details see the NAG website under Battle of the Bands.

Litter Pick to show that littering is unacceptable   Join fellow parishioners on Sunday 21 March to remove some of the litter from our streets and promote awareness that littering is just not acceptable. Part of the national BIG tidy up campaign.

Wokingham Information Network (WIN) launched   An online and telephone based guide to services, support, organisations and activities for families and adults in the Wokingham Borough has just been launched. The guide aims to ensure that everyone has the chance to make the most of their talents and fulfil their potential. This is a recently launched service and is being updated and added to all the time. See WIN.

Winnersh Fete 2010 - Help Wanted!   The third Winnersh Fete of recent years will be held on Saturday 19th June. Why not join in? We’d like to encourage as many local charities and voluntary groups as possible to have a stall or perform in the arena (and keep any profits to further their work) and also very much welcome local businesses to participate (for a small fee). Any individuals who would like to help would also be very welcome as the overall organisation falls to only a very small core of volunteers. If you or your group would like to participate please get in touch!

New Councillor for the New Year                           January 2010

The Parish Council is delighted to welcome Frank Breedlove as a new councillor. Frank was co-opted to the Council at the December meeting of the full council.

Frank is married with two grown daughters and has lived with his wife, Maggie, in Sindlesham for the past ten years. They moved from Finchampstead in 1999, having lived their for over thirteen years, when the second of their two daughters married and left a rather large house with just the two of them rattling around in.

He has over twenty years experience as a finance director working in both large international and small commercial organisations. For the past fifteen years, Frank has run his own successful consultancy, helping diverse organisations manage change as it impacts upon people, processes and systems.

Frank is a governor at The Emmbrook School and at Loddon Primary School and is a member of the Winnersh Neighbourhood Action Group.

See the Councillors page for a complete listing of Winnersh Parish Councillors

For more local news see News 2009

Winnersh Litter Pick                                               March 2010

Winnersh residents turned out on Sunday 21st March to help clean up the streets of Winnersh. As part of the national Big Tidy Up, volunteers from Winnersh collected rubbish from around Winnersh and Sindlesham to help improve our local environment and to raise awareness that most of us do not find discarding litter on our streets acceptable behaviour.

Organised by Winnersh Parish Council, the litter pick volunteers included Bearwood Junior Community Wardens, 2nd Winnersh Brownies, NAG members, Councillors and other Winnersh residents.

At its meeting in March the Parish Council discussed the draft infrastructure proposals for the Wokingham Core Strategy and has formally commented to Wokingham Borough Council as follows:

-   it is a major omission that there is little consideration of the impact of the developments on transport infrastructure outside the major development areas

-   the Winnersh Relief Road will be needed to accommodate increased traffic volumes from the Wokingham and especially the Arborfield Strategic Development Locations (SDLs) –  it seems to be assumed that the relief road will be completed, yet this is dependent upon completion of the Hatch Farm development, which itself is outside the scope of the SDLs; a partial development of the Hatch Farm site would mean that the relief road is unlikely to be completed

-   traffic modelling information has still not been made available (despite it having been requested) – this is needed in order to fully comment on the proposals

-   the Council supports the proposal for a new Ashridge interchange, even if access is only to be in an eastwards direction, but considers that this will only have a small impact on traffic flows to the west of Wokingham and that a full interchange is needed

Even Greater Need for Relief Road                        March 2010

Volunteers gather before setting out to clean up the streets of Winnersh

Sad Loss of Popular Councillor                                May 2010

Family, friends and colleagues gathered on Friday 7th May to commemorate the sad loss of Cllr Judith Wilkins. She died on Saturday 24th April at the age of 56.

Judith had lived in Winnersh since 1986, had been a Parish Councillor for 19 years and Chairman of the Council for four years. She was also well known locally as a former Chairman of Governors of Bearwood Primary School.

The funeral service was held at Easthampstead Park Crematorium and her eulogy spoke of the many people who had reacted to the news by saying that she was “a very special lady”. Always caring about other people both inside and outside work, Judith was known for being scrupulously fair, determined, pragmatic and very well organised. Judith was a vibrant personality who will be sorely missed by many people in our community.

Pavilion Cafe Opens                                                  May 2010