Thanks to everyone that took part in the village clean up in September. Over 9.5 dustbin bags of litter was collected which was an improvement over previous years. The village is slowly getting cleaner.
Sue Boutle
Category: Tidy Village
Great British September Clean – Saturday 19th September 2020
Great British September Clean Up – Nether Heyford
The clean up of our village which was cancelled earlier this year will now take place on Saturday 19th September.
Litter Pickers can be loaned from Sunrise Cottage, 15 The Green. Disposable gloves are also available.
If people can let me know which location they are cleaning, we can ensure that the whole village is cleared. Also if you can let me know the number of sacks / bags you have picked up, I can notify the Keep Britain Tidy Group.
Sue Boutle – Editor – The Prattler – heyford_prattler@yahoo.co.uk
Please ensure that you follow the 2020 Coronavirus guidelines to make sure that everyone stays safe while doing their bit for the environment and being part of the pick.
For more information on this national campaign from Keep Britain Tidy visit the Great British September Clean website
Heyford Spring Clean – April 2020
Heyford Spring Clean
Because of the Coronavirus, the Great British Spring Clean has been postponed until September therefore the village clean-up has been cancelled. In the meantime, could we pick up as much litter as possible to try and keep the village looking at its best.
Sue Boutle
Heyford Spring Clean – Saturday 4th April 2020
Heyford Spring Clean
The annual village spring clean will take part on Saturday 4th April, Heyford Preschool and the Bliss Charity School will be taking part in the week leading up to this.
Once again, we are hoping to clean up the whole village.
If you would like to take part, or would like further information, please either email
heyford_prattler@yahoo.co.uk stating where you would like to clean or call in at Sunrise Cottage, 15 The Green.
Many thanks to all the volunteers.
There are over 135,000 volunteers nationwide signed up to help in the 2020 Great British Spring Clean.
Everyone is welcome to volunteer and join the growing numbers of individuals and organisations who are already signed up to help this year, including regular contributors Nether Heyford Pre-School and new for 2020 a class from our Bliss Charity Primary School taking on the playing fields and the school “Eco Team” who taking on the village green.
On average the village spring clean collects between 30-50 bags of rubbish and helps our village look great ahead of the warmer months and the start of our annual village events.
If you would like to join us, please sign up and we can co-ordinate together the streets & areas with volunteers. Simply send us a message with your name and the street/area you would like to volunteer to clean up on Saturday 4th April between 9am and 5pm.
3 options to sign up:
EMAIL: Send an email to Heyford_Prattler@yahoo.co.uk
or
FACEBOOK: Send a message to us via our Facebook community page The Prattler or join the private Facebook group Nether Heyford Tidy Villagers
or
ONLINE: Sign up on the Great British Spring Clean website
#GBSpringClean
The Great British Spring Clean – Saturday 4th April 2020
The Great British Spring Clean returns to Nether Heyford on Saturday 4th April 2020.
Following 2 successful annual spring clean-ups, the village is again gathering volunteers for a quick tidy up as part of the national Keep Britain Tidy “Great British Spring Clean” campaign which runs from 20th March to 13th April 2020.
There are over 135,000 volunteers nationwide signed up to help in the 2020 Great British Spring Clean.
Everyone is welcome to volunteer and join the growing numbers of individuals and organisations who are already signed up to help this year, including regular contributors Nether Heyford Pre-School and new for 2020 a class from our Bliss Charity Primary School taking on the playing fields and the school “Eco Team” who taking on the village green.
On average the village spring clean collects between 30-50 bags of rubbish and helps our village look great ahead of the warmer months and the start of our annual village events.
If you would like to join us, please sign up and we can co-ordinate together the streets & areas with volunteers. Simply send us a message with your name and the street/area you would like to volunteer to clean up on Saturday 4th April between 9am and 5pm.
3 options to sign up:
EMAIL: Send an email to Heyford_Prattler@yahoo.co.uk
or
FACEBOOK: Send a message to us via our Facebook community page The Prattler or join the private Facebook group Nether Heyford Tidy Villagers
or
ONLINE: Sign up on the Great British Spring Clean website
#GBSpringClean
Letters: Heyford Entry-preneurs – July 2019
Message from the Entry-preneurs
Just thought it would be nice to say a massive thank you to Knights Engineering Services on Furnace Lane for mowing around the entry sign flower plot. They have done this off their own backs because they like looking at the flowers every morning when they arrive to work. How nice are they? Thank you guys. It’s really nice to know that people are keeping an eye on them and looking after them when they can.
Jill Cullen and Chris Cullen have been our ‘waterers’ during the warmer days which gave the flowers a really good start. Not to mention dead heading. So thank you too guys.
Thank you to anyone else who looks after them because without you all, and our lovely volunteers it would be super hard. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
Jill & Sue
If you are interested in joining us, please either speak to Jill Garratt or check in at our Facebook page: Heyford Entry-preneurs
Village Signs – June 2019
Village Signs
The planting is now finished and the signs are complete in Nether Heyford. We just need to now make sure that they are watered regularly. If you are passing, please give them a drink.
The Upper Heyford one will be done once the sign is replaced by the Council.
Thanks to Steve Corcoran, Anita Taylor, Rona & Ron Wade, The Foresters Arms and the Parish Council and also everyone that has donated bulbs and other items.
If you are interested in joining us, please either speak to Jill Garratt or check in at our Facebook page: Heyford Entry-preneurs
Jill & Sue
Village Signs – May 2019
Village Signs
This project has got off to a good start with volunteers and ideas coming forward. We have made a Facebook page where we are discussing ideas and the plants we think would be good to use.
The next stage will be putting these ideas into action.
If you are interested in joining us, please either speak to Jill Garratt or check in at our Facebook page: Heyford Entry-preneurs
Spring Clean – May 2019
Spring Clean 2019
Many thanks to everyone who took part in this years Spring Clean. Due to their efforts, an amazing total of 59 black sacks of litter were collected plus 2 sacks of cans for recycling.
Added to this were tyres, number plates, car parts, oil cans and even a carpet
which had been dumped into the ditches along the road to Upper Heyford.
The village is looking a lot cleaner and hopefully it will stay that way for the
foreseeable future.
Village Signs – April 2019 Update
Village Signs – April 2019
Sue and I have put ourselves forward to help get Heyford looking pretty. We are starting with planting bulbs and flowers on all the Nether Heyford signs on the entrances into our village. The first thing we need to do is find volunteers who would like to help set this up. We could possibly have volunteers to look after the entrance nearest to where they live within the village.
You can contact me on 07912 971799 or by email at jillgarrett@hotmail.co.uk if you have any interest, We can get together to discuss the way forward and work out costs etc.
We really hope to get a reasonable response in helping to make this a reality going forward. People have tried in the past and failed for various reasons, so let’s try to make this work for all of us.
Thank you
Jill and Sue
Village Signs – February 2019
The signs into the village seem a bit drab and we would like to decorate them with containers and plants to make them more welcoming. If you have any ideas, suitable containers for the plant boxes, or any other items i.e. compost and plants, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Please contact either Jill Garratt, Sue Boutle or The Prattler
The Nether Heyford Prattler 