Category: Clubs and Societies

On 29 November, MSTC performed its Christmas Production, Rhyme and Treason for the final time.

After a fantastic spring and summer term, spending nearly every week meeting outdoors on our land, our Squirrel Scouts have led our group in an exciting project to create an allotment space, within our outdoor education area.

As we do every year, we entered a tree for the Burton Overy Christmas Tree Festival.

In early November, 12 of Kibworth Town Football Club’s U9 group travelled to Merseyside, to face a group from Liverpool’s Academy.

The newly formed Kibworth & District Heritage Society, held their latest meeting in the newly opened Kibworth Community Library. Just under 40 people attended a talk by retired solicitor John Tillotson called, ‘Kibworth’s National School: Educational and Legal Background and Kibworth C of E Old Controlled Voluntary School Trust.’ A very long title for a talk, however, it was an interesting and quite complex area. 

The AGM of Illston-on-the-Hill WI took place in November.  The meeting was conducted efficiently and all business was dealt with in a timely manner.

The annual Pro Shop Christmas Golf Competition delivered a fantastic day of festive spirit, friendly rivalry, and impressive golf at the club last week. With a strong field of members, the event once again proved to be a great success.

Our November meeting began with Wendy Johnson from the Heart Trust charity giving us a talk and demonstration on how to use a defibrillator to save a life. She brought along five out of 15 different defibrillators, which can cost from £650 up to £25,000. Wendy told us that when nurses call out for one it’s “Bring me the defib” because the full word is too long! All defibs have a battery, but now one has been developed to run on solar power. The machine will indicate if the battery is running low.

Those Kibworth and District Chronicle readers who watched the Remembrance Day Parade and service in Kibworth will have noted a somewhat larger Kibworth Band leading the parade. Those extra bandsmen were members of our Youth Band. We were delighted with their participation, which will hopefully guarantee the continuation of the parade for years to come.

To an artist, the benefits of sketching are invaluable according to professional artist and teacher, Helen Neave. In the November meeting of Kibworth Art Lovers, she demonstrated & spoke about the way she uses her own sketches when completing an artwork. Not only is sketching useful for training the brain, improving observation skills and hand-eye co-ordination. It also transports the artist back to the atmosphere of the moment. Notes taken whilst sketching remind the artist of subtle details to be included in a finished piece of work.