Category: Community

I had a lovely walk at Foxton Locks on a sunny afternoon recently, and it made me realise how beautiful our area is and how important it is to take care of it.

Here at Kibworth Community Hub, we are gearing up for Christmas; at the end of this month, Main Street Theatre Company will be performing their Christmas Show, Rhyme and Treason, a family show that pitches Griselda, Queen of the Night against Glenda, Queen of the Day. 

No-one living in Kibworth is unaware that the A6 is a very busy road. This is proved time and again when there is any sort of hold up, by the length of the queues which form rapidly.

On Sunday 12 October Stop the New Town (STNT), hosted a community walk in Great Glen leading local residents across some of the countryside threatened by development. At this fun, family event, supporters of the campaign joined by Ace, miniature Shetland pony, and Lemmi, miniature donkey, convened at the village recreation ground in a show of protest at the extensive housing development proposed in the Harborough District Council local plan, and the tsunami of speculative developments currently in the planning pipeline, two proposed for the village periphery.

Kibworth has been struggling to cope with increasing traffic volumes over many years. Even seemingly trivial requests for improvements have been turned down by the Highways authorities whilst the perceived dangers to pedestrians and cyclists through motor traffic have steadily increased, as expressed by many residents in the surveys carried out as part of the Neighbourhood Plan.

I recently attended the funeral and burial of a former neighbour. The service was held at Great Glen crematorium. The interment was in the natural burial area at Kibworth Cemetery on the A6, Harborough Road.

“Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world” ― Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A history of the world through the eye of a needle

Mast is a collective noun for fruits, nuts, seeds and berries. You have probably noticed or heard people commenting about a super-abundance this autumn including apples, brambles, sloes and acorns.

It’s been five years since Kibworth Community Library was first approached by the Parish Councils to consider moving location to the Old Grammar School and become part of a new Kibworth Community Hub.