Category: Community

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.

At 5pm on Saturday night, 1 November, everything was ready for our annual bonfire and fireworks. The bonfire had been built with wood from the golf course and numerous pallets collected over the previous weeks. Crowd barriers had been put in place. The Guides, from Kibworth & Fleckney, were organised with their glow sticks, hot dogs and drinks for sale. An array of other hot food and wine & beer were available. Kids fairground rides had also been erected. Bright Spark Firework company had been setting up since late morning. The weather was clear, almost not a cloud in the sky, you could see the stars and the moon was rising, perfect, all we needed was a crowd!

Working in partnership with the South Leicestershire Medical Group, a new employment drop-in is being launched for residents living with a disability or health condition. 

We did it! After being runners up last year, we received the award for 'Voluntary and Community Group of the Year' at the second annual Harborough District Council community awards, in a ceremony held at Lutterworth College on October 9^th 2025.

Harborough District Council has taken the Climate Emergency Pledge to reduce emissions and tackle climate change across the district. You can do your bit to fight climate change by reducing waste and encouraging recycling as much as possible.

People can complete a questionnaire, which asks for their views and experiences of appointments they might have had when they needed help quickly, such as at their GP practice or a local pharmacy. All residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland can take part, with a specific questionnaire for each of the three areas.

Temporary Traffic Lights

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. 

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.

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.