Category: Community

Here in Smeeton, we love this time of year as we begin to look forward to Christmas and what better way to start than to come to our very own Christmas Fayre on Saturday 18 November, 2 - 4pm in the village Hall. Santa and his elfin helper will be in their Grotto to give out pre-Christmas cheer and presents; there will be great stalls to look at and fun activities to try your hands at and, of course, delicious cakes and mince pies that can all be washed down with mulled wine or tea and coffee. We try to keep the prices as low as possible to make the afternoon accessible to all. So please come and join us!

The new timetable introduced in October 2023 has been altered so the time of the 9.30am Kibworth Beauchamp Square to Leicester X7 is now set to depart at 9.25am. Please note Concessionary Travel Passes (aka Senior Bus Passes) are only valid from 9.30am. The 8.30am and 10.30am buses have not been altered. See the timetable here

“I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack, bright and early next morning he brought my letter back.” Written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell for the inimitable Elvis Presley (Return to Sender).

We are here for eight weeks every Monday at twelve

The French mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) famously said that ”Man is but a reed, the feeblest one in nature, but he is a thinking reed”.

We are delighted to announce that the Welcome Kitchen is back! It's starting up again for eight weeks from: Monday 30 October, 12 – 2 pm.

It’s been a very busy time out in the fields as farmers work all hours to bring in the harvest, for which we give thanks. Apparently, it’s a very good year for pumpkins due to the wet summer. Every cloud...? 

The short warm snap we are enjoying could be good news for wildlife as they stock up on food for hibernation - with balmy weather set to boost the berry season.

Station Road, Kibworth bridge was demolished over the weekend of 21 and 22 September 2013. Ten years ago.

Railways have always held a fascination for me right from an early age when, along with my parents and brother, I lived close to the Great Northern Railway line that ran at the bottom of our garden in Wintersdale Road near Thurnby, Leicester.

The trustees of Kibworth Community Hub, Kibworth Community Library and both Beauchamp & Harcourt Parish Councils are pleased to announce they have secured almost £264,000 towards developing the new Community Hub. To be exact, we've secured from Harborough District Council a section 106 grant of £263,953.99p towards the building of the library extension at the Hall.

We have had a very good 2023 so far with lots of classes and activities taking place at the hall.

Next month’s issue of the Kibworth & District Chronicle will be assembled (we call it lay up) on Sunday 12 November, Remembrance Sunday. One of our 200 plus strong team will be joining the Kibworth Band along with the Police, Fire and Rescue Service, Scouting and Guiding groups of all ages in the procession to St Wilfrid’s church - as has happened each year for the last 15 years - where they will lay a wreath on behalf of everyone who reads this publication, and say a prayer of thanks.

I do wonder at times, whether everything I read in the newspapers is true. Some time ago it was announced that 80,000 retired Gurkha soldiers were to settle in the United Kingdom in preference to their mountainous home of Nepal. In fact the number turned out to be nearer 10,000.

Jeff Wayne wrote the melody for Forever Autumn in 1969 as a jingle for a Lego commercial. Whether or not that particular advert was a success Lego is still as popular as ever (with all age groups). The name is derived from two Danish words, leg and godt, which mean play well, something Lego does perfectly. Tiny plastic bricks that can literally build worlds!