Category: Community

“She stands in tattered gold, tossing bits of amber and jade, jewels of a year grown old - November.” — Zephyr Ware Tarver

With the festive season fast approaching, we are delighted to share with you the first of our Christmas events here in Smeeton Westerby.

On Thursday 27th October the Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital in Kibworth featured in an episode of the BBC TV programme ‘Autumnwatch’.

For those of you regularly using the Village Hall, you may have noticed a number of improvements.

Stoughton Grange in Oadby has recently been taken over by The Steamin’ Billy group who have undertaken some major development works over the past few months:

If you skim your informative Kibworth Chronicle, you will see that Sustainable Harborough Community has organised a gathering on Saturday 12 November. 1–3 pm near the Old Grammar School in Harborough, to join the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. The Global Day of Action is being held at the midpoint of the COP 27 UN climate talks. These run from 6- 18 November in Sharm el-Sheikh, hosted by the Egyptian government.

“I am delighted to have taken on the role of Principal of Kibworth Mead Academy this autumn. I am very keen to get to know our wider Kibworth community, as well as parents and carers. 

The Kibworth & Fleckney Rotary Club are staging another Bonfire and Firework Spectacular. Those who have been before witnessed an amazing firework display, put on by the very professional Hi-5 Fireworks company.

Did you know that Unblocktober is a national campaign and awareness month to improve the health of the UK’s drains, sewers and rivers and how we can all help prevent blockages? Sadly last year, Anglian Water had to remove over 3,000 tonnes of wipes, sanitary products and cooking oils from sewers at a cost that is paid for through our bills. Not pleasant for the people removing this mess either.

At just the right time, premises became available right next door to our café (the former Gems charity shop), and the trustees agreed to take on the lease and move the food bank in, so that it could keep operating, after our café was allowed to re-open.