Fundraisers from Hornton and Horley are teaming up on Friday, October 3rd - to organise a cheese and wine party in aid of
MacMillan Cancer Relief. The event, organised by Hornton’s Sarah Walther and Horley’s Joe Gamage, takes place between 7
and 9pm at 4 Gulliver’s Close, Horley. All contributions for the bring-and-buy stall will be gratefully received. There
will also be a raffle.
And the MacMillan charity, which raises money for nurses to help cancer sufferers, is already £415 better off after the
success of last Friday’s coffee morning staged in Hornton’s Methodist Chapel. It was as part of a bid to break the world
record for the world’s biggest coffee morning and organiser Ronnie Emblen said the village certainly played its part.
“We had so many people promising to come that we had to move it from our house to the Methodist Chapel,” he said. “But
many more still turned up on the day - a total of 64 in all, which was fantastic.”
September 26th '03 - Thirteenth Time Lucky
It’s a good job the organisers of the annual Gift Day for the Parish Church of St John the Baptist in Hornton weren’t
superstitious. They held the event on September 13 but it raised a total of £484 to help look after the Church over
the next year.
September 26th '03 - Gold Blend
Sales of delicious home-made cake, bric-a-brac and the traditional Hornton raffle helped a coffee morning held last
Saturday at Hornton Methodist Chapel raise £153.20 in aid of refurbishment.
September 26th '03 - In for a Penny
The activities of the best and busiest village in Banburyshire have raised £131.06 in just three months - through the
Hornton column of the Banbury Guardian! The paper pays six
pence a line and though that might not sound like a lot, when you live in a village as active as Hornton, it soon mounts
up. Since there wouldn’t be anything to write about if no one did anything, it seemed only right that the loot should
be lobbed in the direction of a couple of village activities. This time, half of it’s going towards the fund to extend the
pavilion kitchen and the other half to JUMPA, Hornton and Horley’s fund for a Jubilee
multi-purpose play area. Next time it will go to other village causes, so remember - the more that’s reported in the
column, the more money we’ll raise.
Roger would like to thank everyone who has supported the column over the past few months by sending in
information about village comings and goings. Please keep it coming!
September 26th '03 - Church Services
There will be a service in Hornton Methodist Church at 11am this Sunday, September 28. Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in the Parish Church at the same time.
25th September '03 - Cribbing not Cheating
Hornton’s crack crib team is limbering up for a new season in the Harbury and District Crib League.
The first match will be a home tie against the Green Man on October 7.
25th September '03 - Vintage Postponed
A planned wine tasting in aid of JUMPA which was due to go ahead on October 24th has
now been put back till next year because the village pavilion is busy on that date. But keep your diaries free for a
Saturday in March because it should be a great evening! Banbury’s oldest wine merchants, S&H Jones will be on
hand to help people sample a range of exciting wines and you’ll also be able to buy some at special prices. The exact
date will be fixed nearer the time.
24th September '03 - Yoga Class looks set for a Flying Start
Tomorrow is the first night of the exciting new yoga class in Hornton - and judging by the buzz in the village it should be a great success.
“I’ve had at least half a dozen calls from people who haven’t been before, so I’m expecting a good turnout,” said class organiser Chris Woodcock. “If we have a very popular response, then we may run two classes rather than one. We’ll see how it is on the first evening.”
The 90-minute class - at 7.30pm tomorrow in the Methodist Chapel - will be run by yoga teacher Sigi Castle. Sigi who is a former aerobics teacher from Banbury will initially run five weekly classes but if this proves popular the class will progress to eight or ten week terms.
Chris stressed that’s it’s most important that you turn up tonight if you possibly can, even if you can’t necessarily make every class over the coming weeks.
“It will be difficult to join in at a later date once the class is up and running,” she said. “If you can’t make all five sessions, however, you can always miss one or two of the later ones. Just sort this out with Sigi.
“The class will be suitable for all levels of fitness and can be tailored to individual needs. This style of yoga focuses on breathing and the development of your own daily routine - trying to get us into the habit of doing 15 minutes’ yoga a day.”
The classes will cost the same as last term’s classes -£4 per person per session and 50p each week as a donation to the Chapel to help cover their costs. Please also bring a yoga mat and a yoga head block, if you have one. Sigi can order a block for you, if not.
“The chapel space can cope with up to 15 participants, so don’t be shy!” said Chris.
Further details can be obtained from Chris on 01295 670795.
23rd September '03 - Break a record not a cup
Hornton is doing its bit on September 26th, to attempt to break a world record - for the biggest coffee morning ever!
The bid will see hundreds of coffee mornings all round the country kicking off at the same time. The money raised will
go to the MacMillan Fund for cancer research and Hornton organiser Ronnie Emblen says that so many people are
coming in the village that the event has already outgrown its original venue.
“It’s all snowballed,” said Ronnie. “We were going to hold it at our house but we’ve got so many people that we’re
now moving it to the Methodist Church in Miller’s Lane.
“But that doesn’t mean we don’t want any more people! Quite the contrary - the more the merrier. Everyone is
invited and will be really welcome.
“The idea behind it came from Classic FM. Simon Bates said they were going to try to break the Guinness Book of
Records attempt at the world record for a coffee morning and I thought why don’t I get up and do something? Then
it started to get bigger and bigger and I thought, ‘we can’t get everybody in here at home’ and that’s when we
decided to move to the chapel.
“There will be coffee, biscuits and cake plus a prize draw.”
Play your part in the Hornton’s bid to break a world record! It all starts Friday morning at 10.30am.
20th September '03 - Mobile Visit
The mobile library from Oxfordshire County Council will visit Hornton next Wednesday, September 24th. It will be
parked on the village green from 10.55am to 11.30am.
20th September '03 - Church Services
Matins will be celebrated this Sunday, September 21st, at 10.30am in the Parish Church of St John the Baptist and the
will be a service in the Methodist Church at 11am.
19th September '03 - Last Chance for First Course
You can still be part of the next JUMPA Progressive Dinner Party but you’ll have to be quick!
All participants need to put their names in the village post box next to the notice board by midnight next Wednesday,
September 24th, and the event itself is taking place on Saturday October 11th.
The idea is simple and such great fun that JUMPA, Hornton and Horley’s fund for a Jubilee
multi-purpose play area, had to organise another one by public demand. You either opt to be a host or a guest for
the evening. If you’re a guest, you go on a magical mystery tour round Hornton, eating a different course at each
house and only finding out where you’re going next when you open a sealed envelope when you‘ve finished eating.
At the end of the evening you pay £20 per head to your final host - pretty good value for a three-course meal with
wine! If you’re a host, you have three sets of dinner guests throughout the evening and your contribution to the
event is the food and wine. All the proceeds go to JUMPA, so everybody’s happy!
LIBRARY
18th September '03 - Toddle Down on Wednesday
Calling all parents with young children! Hornton Toddlers Group meets every Wednesday morning in Hornton Pavilion
from 10.15 to12.15. Children aged up to five years old are welcome, along with their parents. Contact Ruth Griffiths
on 01295 678100 for more details or just drop in any Wednesday.
18th September '03 - Thin Blue Line on Village Green
Thames Valley Constabulary’s mobile police station will be parked on Hornton village green this Monday, September 22nd,
from 10.30 to 11.15am.
17th September '03 - Top Talk
Members of the 3Hs Gardening Club were treated to an fascinating talk on Batsford
Arboretum at their latest meeting on September 9th. Sue Burn, who works at the arboretum near Moreton-in-Marsh,
showed slides of some of the hundreds of trees there. She also gave members an account of the history, both of the
arboretum and the house, which was once owned by the Mitford family.
“Due to holidays and illness only 15 members were able to make it,“ said club secretary Lady Tweedsmuir. “That was
sad because those people who couldn’t make it missed a really excellent talk.”
Lady Tweedsmuir hoped that more members will be able to come to the club’s next meeting, in Hornton Pavilion on
October 14th, when a talk on Country Customs will be given by the colourfully-named Dusty Roades.
16th September '03 - Saturday Morning's a Coffee Morning
Fancy a nice cup of coffee this Saturday? Then pop along to Hornton Methodist Church from 10.30am to 12 noon
where there will be a coffee morning in aid of the church’s refurbishment. You can eat a delicious home-made cake
as well and there will be a bric-a-brac and the traditional Hornton raffle. See you there!
15th September '03 - Yoga Class fuind Queen of the Castle
Hornton Yoga Class’s anxious search for a new teacher has hit the jackpot. Yoga teacher
Sigi Castle has stepped forward and she will run a 90-minute class - with an exciting new format - which starts at 7.30
pm next Thursday, 25 September 2003.
Sigi is a former aerobics teacher from Banbury who will run for us a beginners’ course in Viniyoga for five weeks.
Class organiser Chris Woodcock says the intention is that the class will progress to some eight or ten week terms
if this first course proves popular.
“But it’s very important that you turn up for the first class on September 25 if you intend to sign up for the full course,”
said Chris. “It will be difficult to join in at a later date once the class is up and running. If you can’t make all five
sessions, however, you can always miss one or two of the later ones. Just sort this out with Sigi.
“The class will be suitable for all levels of fitness and can be tailored to individual needs. This style of yoga focuses on
breathing and the development of your own daily routine - trying to get us into the habit of doing 15 minutes’ yoga a
day.”
The classes are being held, once again, at the Methodist Chapel in Miller’s Lane. It will cost the same as last term’s
classes - £4 per person per session and 50p each week as a donation to the Chapel to help cover their costs. If you
would like to do all five classes, please bring £20 with you next Thursday. Please also bring a yoga mat and a yoga
head block, if you have one. Sigi can order a block for you, if not.
“The chapel space can cope with up to 15 participants, so don’t be shy!” said Chris. Further details can be obtained
from Chris on 01295 670795.
12th September '03 - Council Pooh-Poohs Dog Bins Plan
Hornton Parish Council have decided not to install dog bins in the village at the moment after residents’ objections.
Two villagers, in a letter to the council which was read out at its August 18 meeting in the Church Room, said that they
opposed the bins because they were unsightly in a rural area and would become smelly. Cllr Bill Jeffs said that this
could reflect the general view of the village and proposed that no further action to install dog bins should be taken
unless this became an issue again in the future. Other members of the Council made no objection to this.
At the meeting, Hornton resident Ken Hartlett received a pat on the back from Parish Clerk John Peace for “the
excellent and very thorough task” which he has carried out in his second year as internal auditor of the council’s
finances. Parish council chairman Cllr David Miles asked his colleagues to consider Mr.Hartlett’s nomination as internal
auditor for the financial year beginning April 1, 2003. This was proposed by Cllr Jeffs, seconded by Cllr Eric Turner and
agreed unanimously. The annual return has since been sent off to the External Auditors.
The council has spent a total £182-25 on felling several dead cherry trees on the village green and removing the
stumps. It’s also giving £116-33 to Paul Barrett for hosting Hornton’s official village website - www.Hornton.org.uk.
And the village’s newspaper, The Gossip, should be in the money soon. The meeting - in a move proposed by Cllr
Malcolm Cross and seconded by Cllr Paul Burden - agreed unanimously that as soon as the council’s second tranche
of council tax income is received, it should issue a cheque to The Gossip for £150 to help with costs of publication.
The meeting was told that now the Small Playing Field is officially no longer operated by a charity, it’s the sole
responsibility of the council. Cllr Miles emphasized the need for the annual and weekly inspection reports to be
presented to the Clerk at each meeting in future. Also, the annual report had to be passed on to the insurers and the
report for this year was still awaited. The chairman and clerk had attended a Countryside Forum meeting at Steeple
Aston and Cllr Miles said that grant funds should still be available to help finance the new access for disabled. Ken
Whitehead hoped to produce two options for the access and would supply drawings shortly for consideration.
The council had received a letter from its insurers which set out the requirements for continued third party liability
cover for the Small Playing Field. These included the requirement for council to assume sole responsibility for its
upkeep and maintenance. It would also be necessary to transfer the balance of the present bank account into a
new account in the council’s name but, in the meantime, it was agreed that the account would continue as it is and it
would be audited independently up to May 15. The Clerk agreed to complete the banking arrangements to facilitate
the eventual transfer of the balance to an account in the name of the Parish Council.
Cllr Eric Turner was nominated unanimously to stand for a further four-year term as a committee member for the
John Fox Educational charity.
The council also heard that the chairman, Cllr Miles, had attended a recent meeting of the Ironstone Liaison
Committee, where quarry operators and local representatives meet to discuss quarrying operations in the area. At
the meeting, it was confirmed that the present quarry in Hornton would soon be levelled out and reinstated.
The next parish council meeting is scheduled for November 24, 2003.
12th September '03 - Church Services
There will be a village service at the Parish Church at 11am this Sunday, September 14, at 11am, followed by
refreshments.
12th September '03 - It's a Gift
The event also coincides with the Parish Church’s annual Gift Day, this Saturday from 10am to 12noon. Pop along to
St John the Baptist for a cup of tea and a chat - and if you can also manage a donation for much-needed Parish funds,
that will be most welcome!
12th September '03 - Coffee cups to clink in Church
There will be a coffee morning in the Methodist Church a week on Saturday, September 20, from 10.30am to 12noon.
With home-made cakes, bric-a-brac and - of course - a raffle, it’s the only place to be!
11th September '03 - Jump to it for Dinner
There’s only two weeks to go to make sure you get your must-have invitation for the next progressive dinner party in
aid of JUMPA. It’s a really simple idea but great fun. Either you host a dinner party, with
different guests for each course, or you go on a gastronomic tour of Hornton for the evening and go to a new venue
for starters, main course and pudding. Whether you’re a guest or a host is entirely up to you. Either way,
JUMPA - Hornton and Horley’s fund for a Jubilee multi-purpose play area - is the winner.
The guests pay just £20 for a delicious three-course meal with all drinks included, whilst the hosts’ donation comes in
kind - they supply all the food and wine. Chris and Steve Woodcock on 01295 670795 have more details or you can
just put your name and address on a piece of paper and post it in the village post box next to the notice board by
midnight on September 24.
11th September '03 - Spokes and Spires
There’s only two days to go until the annual Ride and Stride round Banburyshire’s beautiful parish churches but if you
haven‘t got a sponsorship form yet, there’s still time. You can either walk or cycle between 10am and 6pm on
September 13 to as many churches as you want - it’s not a race! - and any money you raise through sponsorship will
be split Hornton’s St John the Baptist Parish Church and the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust. Right now the
weather’s looking perfect for bike riding, with a high of 73 degrees F/23 degrees C and no rain forecast, so get those
bicycle clips and walking boots on! Julie Stanley on 01295 670507 is ready and waiting to give you a sponsorship
form, so see you there!
10th September '03 - New Yoga Class Starts in Hornton
A new yoga class - with a new teacher and different format - starts in Hornton on Thursday, 25 September 2003.
Responding to our search for a teacher to replace Pam Monk, Sigi Castle has stepped forward. Sigi is a former
aerobics teacher, from Banbury, who will run for us a beginners' course in Viniyoga.
The class will be suitable for all levels of fitness and will be tailorable to individual needs. This style of yoga focuses on
breathing and the development of your own daily routine - trying to get us into the habit of doing 15 minutes' yoga a
day.
The first course of five weekly classes starts on Thursday 25 September at 7-8.30pm.
The Mobile Police Station will next be in Hornton on the Green on Monday 22nd September from 10.30 - 11.45 am.
8th September '03 - Civic Trust Heritage Open Days
Would you like to visit some interesting buildings which are not usually open to the public? The Civic Trust has an
annual event which will be running from 12 to 15 September which allows all sorts of buildings to be visited - some
are churches but there are all sorts of buildings with all sorts of contents. The details are on
www.heritageopendays.org and you can click on an events directory
which has listings near Hornton under South East (for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) and West Midlands
(for Warwickshire and Birmingham). Happy visiting!
5th September '03 - Church Services
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist will celebrate Holy Eucharist this Sunday, September 7, at 8.30am. Hornton
Methodist Church will celebrate Holy Communion in a United Service later in the morning at 11am.
4th September '03 - Lucky for Some
September 13 is the day when the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Hornton, is holding a Gift Day to raise money.
The church will be open from 10am to 12 noon for coffee, a chat and to receive your gifts for church funds. Everyone is
most welcome.
3rd September '03 - Gardening Club Branches Out
This month’s talk at the 3Hs Gardening Club will be about trees - the 50 acres of trees at the magnificent
Batsford Arboretum, near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. The talk will be held in Hornton village pavilion,
Bell Street, next Tuesday, September 9, at 7.30pm.
2nd September '03 - Out to Lunch
Hornton School needs a new lunchtime supervisor. Could you fit the
bill - or do you know someone who can? It’s the perfect job for someone who lives in or near the village, likes children
and can spare just a couple of hours each week to look after the children.
They need to be supervised every day over the lunch break but headteacher Wendy Clifford says that the job could
be shared if a commitment every day was impossible for one person. If you are interested, please ring Wendy or
school secretary Sally Phelan on 01295 670335.
