For Your Diary

European parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place on Thursday 23 May 2019. 

If you live in Sparsholt or Westcot, your polling station is at Griffin Hall, Sparsholt and it will be open for voting between 7am and 10pm.

• www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/services-and-advice/local-democracy/elections/current-and-upcoming-elections/european-parliamentary-

For details on what the European Parliament does and how the elections work please see the Electoral Commission's Your Vote Matters website:-

• www.yourvotematters.co.uk/how-am-i-represented/european-parliament

Wantage Farmers Market is in the Market Square, usually on the last Saturday of every month from 9am.

Smaller markets can be found in the same place in Wantage on Wednesdays and other Saturdays.

Telephone: 01235 763459

The beautiful downland Oxfordshire village of Letcombe Bassett open its private gardens for an afternoon. The perfect opportunity for a special look behind the scenes of a picturesque historic village, with a number of unique waterside gardens and chalk stream gardens, offering something different for ecologists, children and gardeners alike. 

Refreshments served in the village hall and around the route. Assistance dogs only please.

The event is raising funds for the St. Michael's Church and our Village Hall.

Cost

• £5.00 per adult, accompanied under 16s free.

How to get event passports

• Buy admission stickers on the day in the car parks.

Contact the organisers

• Phone: 07990 573 477
• Email: [email protected]
• Web: http://www.fb.me/bassettopengarden

For further information, please click the following link to to VoWHDC website:-

• www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/your-recycling-and-waste-collections/collection-da-0

SPARSHOLT PARISH COUNCIL

The next meeting of Sparsholt Parish Council 
will be a Finance meeting to be held in 
Griffin Memorial Hall at 7.00pm on Wednesday 29th May 2019

AGENDA

1. Apologies for Absence.

2. Declaration of Interests/Update of Gifts and Hospitality Register.

3. Finance:

a) AGAR forms.
b) Review the effectiveness of the Internal Audit.
c) Risk Assessment.

4. Date of next meeting: TBC

​Mrs D Lewis-Pryde, Parish Clerk

Tel: 751923

National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Thursday 30 May | 7pm | £15
Please note this a filmed recording not a live performance.
Box Office: 01235 763 456

By Arthur Miller & directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Filmed recording from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.  

• The Beacon, Wantage
• Available online (www.beaconwantage.co.uk) or via the Box Office (01235 763 456)

Weekend mornings at The Beacon in Wantage are often reserved for the children with Movies 4 Kids.

Relax and enjoy snacks and a coffee whilst the whole family is entertained with an on-screen adventure.

• The Lego Movie 2 - Saturday 1 June | 11am | Single Ticket £4 | Family Ticket (4 Tickets) £14 | Certificate: PG
• How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Sunday 23 June | 1pm | Single Ticket £4 | Family Ticket (4 Tickets) £14 | Certificate: PG

Childrey & District Tuesday Club is a club for the over 60s, meeting on the first Tuesday of each month in Childrey Village Hall.

The club is very popular due to the friendliness of its members who live not only in Childrey, but in all the local villages, the Challows, the Letcombes, Kingston Lisle, Sparsholt, Wantage, Charlton and Grove and a warm welcome awaits all prospective members.

• May 7th - Summer Social
• June 4th - Coach trip to Weston Super Mare
• July 2nd - Coach trip tba
• Aug 6th - No meeting
• Sept 3rd - Coach trip tba
• Oct 1st - Hazel Townesend Travels in Gambia
• Nov 5th - Roger Humphries Tales of Old Wantage (tba)
• Dec 10th (nb 2nd Tuesday) Christmas lunch at The Bear Hotel, Wantage (members only)
• Jan 7th 2020 (nb 2nd Tuesday)  New year quiz

For further information, please click <here>.

Meetings in the Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RA

Meetings held on the 1st Thursday of the month at 7.30pm, unless otherwise stated.

Membership £10 per year. Visitors £2.50 per meeting.

Find out more:-

• www.uffington.net/clubs-associations/garden-club (click)

WHITE HORSE GARDEN CLUB PROGRAMME 2019