Category: Community

With the festive season on the horizon, the crew at Kibworth Fire Station wanted to share an update with our community about the work we’ve been carrying out and the incidents we’ve recently attended. Our focus is, as always, on protecting the public. Both through our emergency response and by offering fire safety guidance and support whenever it’s needed.

On Wednesday 26 November, the Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill volunteers assisted SPAB employee, Chi Wei Clifford-Frith to install lights on the Mill in preparation for the Christmas season. The lights were installed last year in the customary + formation and could be seen from as far away as Gumley. The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) are the legal owners of the Mill.

A well researched bias in thinking, that to a greater or lesser extent many people hold, is known as the just world hypothesis. It links to ideas like karma and sayings like “what goes around comes around.” Essentially, it is the belief that people get what they deserve. Such thinking can help to give life meaning, it can help us to cope with hardship, it can promote prosocial behaviour, and we might feel a bit better if we believe those who wrong us will get theirs one day. It can encourage the belief that those (including ourselves) who are doing nicely must deserve to. It can encourage the glorification of leaders or those perceived as successful, and it can promote trust where none is due.

“I love my book club. We don't always agree on the book, but we always agree that the snacks are good” ― Unknown

As fairy lights are starting to adorn houses, Christmas trees are being decorated and wreathes appearing on front doors, we welcome Christmas to our village and send you all the very best of the season’s greetings. Having held our Christmas Fayre and The Oddfellows Brass Band Christmas Concert, our next two celebrations will also be held in Christ Church.

As a result of this summer's drought, the locks closed to traffic on 29 July and remained closed until 27 October. Canal & River Trust (CRT) made a considerable fanfare of the reopening. This included a substantial piece on BBC East Midlands TV.

Ludger’s final service at St Wilfrid’s Church took place on Advent Sunday, 30 November, when a full church had the opportunity to say farewell to him and Ruth. A shared lunch followed in the Church Hall, attended by about 100 people. 

At our October meeting Karen Atherton talked about her career as ‘One of the First Female Airline Pilots’.

A group of businesses/shops formed the Kibworth Business Forum last year calling ourselves ‘We Are Kibworth’.  The group is made up of businesses with a ‘shop front’ either on the High Street or elsewhere in either of the Kibworths. e.g. Fleckney Road, Station Street, Harborough Road.

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital will be holding a Christmas table top sale on Saturday 13 December in Kibworth Village Hall, LE8 0LN. 10am to 12.45.