nationwide 14th april

Nationwide Building Society – Petition

Nationwide Building Society in the village put up notices on Saturday to say that they will closing this office at the beginning of May. Nationwide provides a valuable service to many in the village and it’s loss would be sorely felt.  Bagshot Society is collecting a petition for Nationwide to stay open in Bagshot and you can sign the petition electronically by emailling your name and address to nationwideBSpetition@bagshotvillageplan.org.uk.

Bagshot Village Day 13th Dec

Bagshot Village Day 13th December 2008 10.00 am till 3.00 pm

Santa’s Grotto, Carrousel, Face Painting, Christmas Market, Live music, and lots more including an exhibition at Brook Church and an art competition so please mark this day in your diary and support Bagshot Village.

The High Street will be closed from 9.00am till 3.30pm between The Fighting Cocks public House and the Kings Arms Public House.

We’ll have market stall holders all selling wonderful gifts and produce for Christmas including: St Anne’s Church, Hot Spot Youth Café, Virgin Vie Make Up, Kiss & Co Jewelry, Lorena Scott homemade fudge, cards and bags, Pawtesbery Pets, Sew Gorgeous, Photographer Rolf Evans, Mogul Indian food, Camra House Gift shop, Brookes Hair Products, Riverford organic fruit & vegetables, Bagshot Travel, St John Ambulance, Zoe Ross home made cookies and sweets, Capoeria Custom Clothing.

• We have an exhibition in Brook Church of all the voluntary organizations that work in and for the village of Bagshot. This will include an art exhibition from the children of Bagshot.
• There will also be the results of the last village day with some further news on the progress of the Village Plan.
• Hardy’s Tex Mex Restaurant has very kindly offered to have a Santa’s Grotto with Father Christmas and all that entails plus face painting and a children’s craft table.
• The Archeological Heritage Trust, will be conducting tours of the 16th century wall paintings at 44 High Street.  Please book your tour with Phil Stevens on 01276 506182 or philstevens@ntlworld.com.  Choose your tour times of 12.noon 2.00pm or 3.00pm and you meet at Brook Church.  Please book early as these tours are very popular and limited to 10 people at a time .
• Hallgrove School is starting the day with their band in front of the Kings Arms Pub just as they did at the last village day.  This was so enjoyable and we are looking forward to a repeat performance
• There will be a wonderful magician’s show at 12 noon with a walk about display afterwards.
• Our tall man is back by great demand.
• The carrousel is pure history the family who are running it have been doing so for over half a century and they are bringing other stalls including hot roasted Chestnuts.

This Christmas we thought we would raise money for the more advanced in years of our community and to this end we have linked up with Windlesham United Charities and Mead Court.

And finally we hope that you all participate and enjoy this event, which so many peoplehave worked hard to organize. You will make this a success.

The future of Bagshot – our future

The Bagshot Village Plan is all about the people of Bagshot and our hopes and concerns for our community.  If you’ve got a burning vision for Bagshot or something that you’d really like to fix, why not get in contact with the Steering Team or post a comment (click on this article and then enter your comment in the “reply” box).  You might find that it’s something other people also feel passionate about and together we can build the community we want for the future.

Village Day Stalls

The plans for the Christmas Village Day Saturday on 13th December are picking up pace. We need volunteers on the day to help put up the stalls and we need people to rent a stall at £20.00 per stall, it would be an ideal opportunity for all you people with crafty hands and artistic talents to sell your wares so please book a stand with Glyn at the Village Café or email Glyn on glynmarie.carpenter@virgin.net  If any one has any bright ideas they would like to see on the day please email Glyn; it would be much appreciated.

You can download booking forms for stalls below:
booking form for stall holders (MS Word doc)
booking form for stall holders (pdf)

The Big Tidy Up – 1st Nov

The Bagshot Big Tidy Up is on Sat 1st November.  Please meet outside the Village Cafe at 10.00am and please wear proper clothing and welly boots.

PLEASE REGISTER with Gret Woodason (gret@woodason.me.uk) or Glyn Carpenter (Village Cafe Bagshot, glynmarie.carpenter@virgin.net, 01276 850445)

 “This clean up will show others that we care about the future of our local environment and that we are not prepared to live, work and play in an area that is blighted by rubbish. What is good about working together like this is it creates a sense of community and for some of our younger volunteers it is their first taste of active citizenship.”

If you are able, please help advertise this event with the downloadable poster: the big tidy up.pdf

Bagshot Village day -13th Dec

On Saturday December 13th there will be another Village Day, which  is to be a joint venture between the businesses in the village, The Village Plan Committee, other organisations and of course the Bagshot Society. They have already applied to have part of the High Street closed for some of the day and have some entertainment planned. If you wish to  have a stall for the day, please contact Glyn Carpenter in The Village Cafe, or email info@bagshotvillageplan.org.uk and it’ll get passed on to Glyn. If you have any ideas, please also contact Glyn. On that day, you will have the opportunity to see the results of the last Village Day, held back in May and hopefully see how some of the issues are going to be actioned.

Bagshot Village Plan on the Web

Welcome to the new Bagshot Village Plan web-site.  This site is being added to all the time so please bookmark www.bagshotvillageplan.org.uk and keep checking back.