Dates for your Diary
March
2 Mar
6 Mar
Parish Council Meeting, 7.30pm at Barby Village Hall
Barby Cricket Club General Knowledge Quiz, 7.30pm at The Clubhouse
Barby & Onley
7 Mar
10 Mar
11 Mar
Nearly New Children’s Clothes and Toys Sale, 10.30am to 12.30pm at Barby Village Hall
Barby WI, 7.30pm at Barby Village Hall
Barby Local History Group AGM, 7.45pm at Barby Village Hall
Village News
14 Mar Quiz, 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start at The George, Kilsby March 2009
15 Mar Junior cricket practice starts, 2.00-3.00pm at the Griffin Centre, Lawrence Sheriff School
17 Mar Barby Gardening Club, 7.45pm at Barby Village Hall
19 Mar Barby Cricket Club AGM, 7.30pm at the Sports Pavilion
24 Mar Village Hall AGM, 7.30pm at Barby Village Hall
29 Mar Craft and Pamper Day at Barby Village Hall
Apr
3 Apr Springtime Concert, 7.30pm at St Mary’s Church
18 Apr Village Hall Open Day, 11.00am – 3.00pm at Barby Village Hall
24 Apr Race Night, 7.30pm at Barby Village Hall
May
21-24 May Visitors from Vulaines sur Seine, Barby Twinning Association
Your Parish Councillors
Mr B Lomax 24 Castle Mound, Barby 01788 890939
(District Councillor) blomax@daventrydc.gov.uk
Mrs C Lomax 24 Castle Mound, Barby 01788 890939
(District Councillor) clomax@daventrydc.gov.uk
Mr R Davies 15 Castle Mound, Barby 01788 890454
Vice-Chairman Hopthorne Cottage, 01788 891184
Mr R Camp 16 Kilsby Road, Barby
Mr P Owen The Laurels, 01788 890301
Daventry Road, Barby
Ms L Tait 7 Mitchison Close, Barby 01788 890100
Chairman 4 Onley Park, Onley 01788 817118
Mr F Brannigan
Mrs S Brannigan 4 Onley Park, Onley 01788 817118
Mr D Cooper 17 Onley Park, Onley 01788 814911
Mr N Morton 68 Kilsby Road, Barby 01788 890124
Mr C Gibbs 29 Kilsby Road, Barby 01788 890638
chrisgibbs@aol.com
Mrs C Camp Hopthorne Cottage, 01788 891184
Clerk 16 Kilsby Road, Barby parishcouncil.barby@virgin.net
Barby Cricket Club
Deadline for the April Newsletter is Friday 20 March at 6.00 pm Indoor Nets at Lawrence Sheriff School
Send to: Mandy Green, 70 Kilsby Road, Barby, or e-mail: mmnl70@tiscali.co.uk
Juniors start Sunday 15 March!
Parish Council News Short Mat Bowls - held in the Village Hall on Thursday mornings at 9.15am, cost
£1.50, which includes coffee/tea and cake/biscuits. Bowls are provided – come along
Website and have a “roll up”.
Have you taken a look at the new Parish website, which can be found at: We are a very social group and, apart from bowls, we have regular meals out and
various day trips, and this year short mid-week breaks are planned for the Isle of Wight
www.barbyandonleyparishcouncil.co.uk and the Edinburgh Tattoo.
Have you any comments or would you like to add anything to it? If so, please contact the Table Tennis
Clerk on 891184. Juniors – Monday nights from 6.30-7.30pm. We hope to put a team in the league after
The next meeting of Barby Parish Council will be held on Monday 2 March at Barby Christmas.
Village Hall at 7.30pm. All members of the parish are welcome to attend. The first 20 Seniors – on a Monday night. We have 7 teams in the league but new members are
minutes will be open for public participation. always welcome.
Barby Townlands Charity Contact Sandy Tocher on 890789 or Merv Osborne on 890354 for further information.
Allotments - renewal forms will be sent out shortly. If you do not wish to renew your Barby Pre-School
tenancy, or are keen to take on an allotment, please contact Sally Robbins, tel 890202. Barby Pre School runs in the village hall on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
Barby Townlands Charity will meet to distribute grants to village organisations on mornings and now on a Thursday afternoon from 12.30 until 3.00pm. Contact Katie
22 April. Any organisation wishing to apply for a grant should write to the Secretary, Harris on 890261 for details or to put your child’s name down.
Catherine Camp, Hopthorne Cottage, 16 Kilsby Road, Barby before 8 April. Please
state what you require a grant for, and how much it will cost, and whether you have been Barby’s Mums and Tots Group
able to raise any other money towards it. Thanks. We meet in Barby Village Hall on a Wednesday morning from 9.30-11.30am. The cost
is £1.50 and includes a drink and biscuit!
Overhanging Branches
Please can residents have a look at their shrubs and trees that overhang the pavement,
and make sure that they are trimmed back so that passers by do not get wet or prickled Miscellaneous
as they pass. Thanks.
“Hello” to all Readers
Gritting As you may have heard, Barby Village Stores on 5 Rugby Road is now under new
Please feel free to spread grit from bins on any slippery corner. management. We would like to say hello to everyone from and around Barby, and thank
you for welcoming us to your friendly village. Also, please note that we are now open
until 8.00pm from Monday to Saturday and 7.00pm on a Sunday.
Village News Thank you from Babs and Jay
Village Hall AGM – Tuesday 24 March at 7.30pm – Old Doctor’s Room Braunston and District British Legion Branch Meetings
All are welcome. We are looking for a new secretary urgently; you don't have to be on
the Committee to help us out. Please contact Gill on 891091 for details. Tues 10 Mar - George Hotel Kilsby Tues 11 Aug - Old Plough Braunston
Tues 14 Apr - Old Plough Braunston Tues 8 Sep - White Horse Welton
Craft and Pamper Day – Sunday 29 March 2009 Tues 12 May - White Horse Welton Tues 13 Oct - Sporting Club Barby
For details and reserving of tables, please call Jan Middleton on 891968. Tues 9 Jun - Sporting Club Barby Tues 10 Nov AGM George Hotel Kilsby
Tues 14 Jul - George Hotel Kilsby Tues 8 Dec - Old Plough, Braunston
Race Night
A Race Night will be held on Friday 24 April in Barby Village Hall. November meeting at 7.30pm. All other meetings at 8pm.
The Race Night will start at 7.30pm with the first race at 8.00pm. There will be eight
President: Ted Worster 01788 823489
races with £1 stakes. A curry will be served. The cost will be £7.50 per head and a bar
Chairman: Alan Kirton 01788 890271
will be available.
Secretary: Bill Musgrove 01327 703671
For tickets contact Catherine Camp on 891184.
Village Contacts:
News from our Councillors BARBY: Stan Fortnum 01788 891414 KILSBY: Ted Worster 01788 823489
BRAUNSTON: Colin White 01788 890390 WELTON: Bill Musgrove 01327 703671
News from Councillor Brian Lomax
Recent Central Government circulars about Local Government have included phrases WARNING!
like “No change is not an option”. This could mean one of two things:- either change for A car was recently stolen off a drive in Barby when the owner went back into their house
change’s sake, or that everything we do at present is wrong. I view both these with great to collect something, whilst leaving their keys in the ignition. This is part of a spate of
caution. However, we now have the Credit Crunch, which has caused us all to look again thefts in Barby and the surrounding villages. Please do not leave your car unattended,
at costs, and at the way we do things. As individuals and as communities, we all face a especially on these frosty mornings.
Barby Women’s Institute difficult period, with difficult decisions to make. In my view it is not a time for point-
At the meeting in February we took a journey through Beijing with Petra Meeson who has scoring or for blaming each other, but for standing together and finding common ground
visited the city twice; the second time was during the Olympic games. between the political parties. This is what we are doing in Daventry District.
The next meeting is Tuesday 10 March when Mr Steve Frost will talk about “Flutes”. The first priority is to make sure that we preserve our services to the public, without an
If you would like to know more about WI, call Margaret on 890110 or Chris on 890963. excessive increase in Council Tax. This can be achieved by using our substantial
Reserves to tide us over the crisis; and on this we have reached all-party agreement.
Barby Local History Group At the same time, we need to look at the way we provide these services, to see if we can
Calling all members of Barby Local History Group to the Annual General Meeting on reduce the cost without reducing the service.
Wednesday 11 March 2009 starting at 7.45pm. We shall review the past year’s events To this end we have brought together two Members’ Task Panels, on Financial Planning
and seek suggestions for forthcoming speakers, events, visits etc. Do make the effort to and Business Change, into one in order to plan the next and future annual budgets.
come along. Again, all parties are involved in this exercise. This is in marked contrast to the abuse
and cat-calling that we hear at Question Time in the House of Commons. In my view, we
Barby Cricket Club in Daventry District are dealing with the crisis as mature adults, and we hope we have
Barby Cricket Club General Knowledge Quiz will be held on Friday 6 March at The your support for this.
Clubhouse from 7.30pm. Teams of 4 at a cost of £10 per team. Prizes will be awarded. In the next three months, Catherine and I will be holding surgeries in each of the five
If you wish to enter a team, please contact Tom Gleghorn on 07968 257735. villages we represent. These will be advertised in the next issue of Daventry Calling,
Please note that the Barby Cricket Club AGM will be held on Thursday 19 March 2009 which is delivered to every home in the District. Look out for them, and we will be
at the Sports Pavilion at 7.30pm. pleased to see any of you who wish to discuss matters relating to Council services.
Meanwhile, please do not hesitate to ring us on 01788 890939.
NB: “NO DOGS” are allowed in the Sports Field; there is evidence of them being there! Brian Lomax – District Councillor
100 Club Winners as follows:- News from Councillor Catherine Lomax
Daventry District Council is considering its budget for 2009-2010. It faces large scale
January budget deficits, caused mainly by its severe drop in income from its investments. Brian
£120.00 R Clewes has written about this before. A factor in the Council’s determination of its spending
£100.00 Y Hibbert priorities is, of course, Government expectations and legislation. When the Government
£80.00 J Gleghorn decides it will pass legislation that will actually be carried out by local government, it has
Remember there are still spaces available if you know of anyone who would like to join. an unfortunate habit of leaving local authorities to pay, but without giving the necessary
funding, or enough funding. Examples of this are free bus travel through the
Indoor Nets concessionary fares scheme, the proposed free swimming for older people, and new
Indoor Net Sessions for senior players have commenced at the Griffin Centre, Lawrence licensing regimes. All of these cost money to the Council, but aren’t covered by
Sheriff School, and will continue until Sunday 29 March, from 3.00-5.00pm. adequate Government grants. So, the costs fall on the Council Tax, which means you
pay, and, because local Councils have strict limits on raising Council Tax, that means
Junior nets at Lawrence Sheriff, which were to begin on Sunday 8 March, have had to be
that other services may have to be reduced. The Government argues that local
put back to Sunday 15 March for five weeks (not inclusive of Easter) so they will finish
government must be more efficient and make savings to pay for services. But what
on Sunday 19 April. This is due to the School double booking on 8 March. The
happens when all possible savings are made, and there still isn’t enough money to pay
sessions will run from 2.00-3.00pm.
for all the services the Council should or would like to provide?
For further information, call Janet on 890553. The Council decided at its last meeting to accept the Government’s initial two-year
funding of free swimming for over 60s, to encourage healthy activity. This will be
Barby Gardening Club monitored over the next two years to assess the benefits, so that a decision can be
The next Meeting will be held on Tuesday 17 March at 7.45pm at Barby Village Hall. made whether to continue the scheme, if Government funding is not continued.
We will be having a talk on seasonal DOs and DON’Ts by Mr Ken Whittaker. The Council has announced a scheme to offer advice and assistance to small
Visitors are most welcome. businesses in the district. For further advice and information, contact one of us, or look
for contact details in the press and on DDC’s website.
Tennis Court Do you enjoy quizzes? If so, join us on 14 March, in the George at Kilsby; tables of 4,
The court is still available for use through the winter, subject to weather conditions. £10.00, including supper, 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start. Contact one of us to book a table.
Councillor Catherine Lomax
Shuttle Cock Bashing - Every Wednesday we meet in Barby Village Hall from 8.00-
10.00pm. If you would like a game come along and join us.
Clubs & Societies Events & News
New Age Curling - Held in the Village Hall on Tuesdays at 2.00pm, cost £1.50, which
includes tea and biscuits. All equipment provided. Barby Twinning Association
This new sport is open to persons of all ages and is a sport in which disabled persons Visitors from Vulaines sur Seine are planning to come to Barby this year on Thursday
can take part. All are welcome. 21 May and staying until Sunday 24 May 2009. Details of the programme will follow.
Details of our fund raising events will be in the next issue of the Village Newsletter.
Barby Primary School
&
Barby Pre-School
FOR SALE!
Daventry District Council are looking at setting up an inter youth club competition to
NRHA have a 3 bed shared ownership be held at Daventry Leisure Centre. The competition will be completely free and
property for sale on the development Children’s Clothes games played will be indoor football, basketball and dodgeball.
of School Close, Barby
And Toy Sale It doesn’t matter how small your attendance, everybody is welcome.
It is being sold at £160,000 and we are
Venue: Barby Village Hall If you think this may be of interest to your Club, please return the questionnaire
looking for a 65% sale (£104,000)
Date: Saturday 7 March below. If you have any questions, please call me on 01327 302596 or email:
Applicants with a strong local connection Time: 10.30am to 12.30pm ckeenan@daventrydc.gov.uk .
to Barby have priority Many thanks - Chris Keenan, Play Ranger
Refreshments available --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you are interested, please contact:
Mark Boon at Northamptonshire Rural Why not have a spring clear out! If you have any
Housing Association, children’s clothes (ALL AGES) or good toys
you would like to donate, please contact: Name: _______________________________________________________
Tel: 01530 278080 or Cath James, Pippa Reeve or Katie Harris
email: mark.boon@midlandsrh.org.uk.' or bring your items to school w/c 2 March
Youth Club Village: _____________________________________________
Telephone Number: _____________________________________________
Email Address: ________________________________________________
Saturday 18 April 1. How many children regularly attend and what is the average age?
from 11.00am to 3.00pm
Come and view the improvements to the
Springtime Concert 2. What night and time does your club run on?
Village Hall that have brought it (in Aid of Barby Church Trust)
into the 21st century
Friday 3 April 3. Which nights would be best for your club to play in the competition?
Have a look at what goes on at 7.30pm
in the Hall and elsewhere in the Church
in the village 4. Are there any preferred sports or games you would like in the competition?
By:
Tea and Coffee will be available The Friday Singers
Church Choir 5. Can you arrange your own travel to get to the leisure centre?
Admission is free! and instrumentalists
Anyone with an interesting hobby, or non-hall Any Other Comments:
users, who would like to have a table to
Cost: £2.50
display their talents, contact: payable on the door
Jan on 891968 or Gill on 891091 to include light refreshments