Category: Charity

As you’re reading this, I’m sure that many of you will be in full-on countdown to Christmas mode!

When John Beatty first offered to visit Kibworth to give a talk to help raise funds for Kibworth Community Library very few of us knew what to expect.

Many of you will have seen that the Children in Need campaign this year raised millions for national charities. Your Rotary Club is appealing to you to think about donating locally.

As part of our 40th birthday celebrations, Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital are running a Kibworth ‘Local Scene’ Calendar Photo competition.

The twenty second Burton Overy Christmas Tree Festival since the year 2000, took place at St Andrew’s Church, during the weekend of the 1st- 3rd December.

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital will be holding a Coffee Morning and Table Top Sale on Saturday 13 January in Kibworth Village Hall LE8 0LN from 10am until 12.45pm.

South Leicestershire has a woodland coverage of 3-4% (Surrey’s coverage is 25%) and it is decreasing with Ash dieback. Harborough Woodland is a not for profit community group set up in February 2020. Its aim is to increase woodland cover by planting trees and hedgerows and to reduce the risk of flooding through natural flood management (NFM). NFM schemes use vast numbers of trees and hedges. The roots, soil and fungi of one metre of mature hedge is a live sponge that can hold and slowly release 3 to 5m3 or tonnes of potential flood water (hedgelink.org.uk)

Everyone at GEMS Charity would like to thank the family of Jack Harling for donations after Jack’s recent passing. Jack was a great supporter and fundraiser for GEMS. This included numerous head and beard shaves, being open gardens car park attendant and donating his small change. Jack was always there if we needed him and will be greatly missed. 

After our usual service in St. Wilfrid’s Church in Kibworth, members of the Mothers Union gathered for their October meeting in the Church Hall to hear a talk by Liz Scott on her recent experience of hosting a guest from the Ukraine.

There's a bumper hawthorn berry crop this autumn. It's the biggest since records began 20 years ago, it's bringing a big boost for wildlife.