Surlingham

Please come and support your local choir, Surlingham Broadnotes and local music students, and join us for a concert of Chrismas and winter-themed songs and music. Concert is suitable for all ages and will be guaranteed to raise a smile at the start of the festive season.

Free entry, with a retiring collection to help with the appeal to provide much needed facilities at the church.

Hope to see you all there!

Information received from Julie Foreman

Having recently moved into the village we would like to say thank you to those Surlinghammers who have already started to make us feel so welcome.  We have found this site and ‘The Ferry’ great starting points!  

We also wondered if anyone could perhaps help us with a feathery problem that has come with our new home?  We appear to have inherited a large number of white doves that are overstraining our gutters (to put it mildly and politely) and whose main pleasure in life seems to be the decoration of our roof, conservatory and windows with natural materials.

We dont wish them any harm as such – but they have gotta go!  At choir on Wednesday I nearly broke down in crazed laughter when we started singing ‘The 12 days of Christmas’- ‘2 Turtle doves…’ if only!  If you would care to rehome some doves or have any practical solutions to offer to dislodge our non-paying guests please get in touch.

Karen,  The Knoll, Walnut Hill.

Lets remember from 1 pm. Please bring along any memorabilia about The Ferry and local area.

Kick the festive season off at the Surlingham Christmas Fayre:

   Arts & Crafts

   White Elephant

   Books

   Refreshments

Proceeds to the Church Extension Fund

Stalls available – contact Sue 538379

Thank you to everybody who attended.  This was an active and energetic meeting with a great many concerns, ideas and potential solutions suggested.

Primary concerns raised were around parking in the village and road safety.
There was strong village support for a village wide 20 mile an hour speed limit.
The outcome of the meeting was that a road safety committee would be formed to carry forward and to look into the  detail of the concerns and ideas raised at the meeting.
Thank you to the following villagers who have put their names down for the road safety committee: Dave Webb, Yvonne Johnston, Natasha Dunlop, John Stokoe, Pat Scowen.

We are also collecting the names of villagers who would be happy to volunteer for a community speedwatch.  We have only one volunteer so far therefore further names are needed if this is to go ahead.

If anyone else would like to be involved in the committee or community speedwatch please contact one of the committee or parish council members.

The committee will report to the Parish Council.

Please click here for more information.

Information supplied by Natasha Dunlop

As you may know the village has been raising money to put a kitchen and toilet extension in the church for some time. We have recently submitted an application for a ‘big’ grant which could make this a real possibility in the near future.  BUT the funders have just asked us to supply ‘evidence’ of how the church would be used if it had these facilities, especially during the day when the village hall is being used by the school.

So PLEASE, could you suggest activities (exhibitions, WI, teas, coffees, yoga, , book club…) which you would like to take place in the church if there was a toilet and refreshments.  DO PLEASE email via the CONTACT US on the web site, your suggestions could make all the difference.

There will be a Bingo night, organised by Surlingham WI, taking place on Friday 30th November at the village hall. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7 o’clock start. There will be lots of nice Christmas Fayre prizes to be won!

Everyone is welcome! Please come along.

Proceeds will be split between a local charity and the W.I.