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February 2024 February 2024
BERE HEATH METHODIST
CHAPEL BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE
NEWS
What’s on in February here at Bere Heath
Well hello readers. We hope that you all had a good start AFFPUDDLE & TURNERSPUDDLE PARISH
to the New Year and that despite the weather you where
able to get out and about especially when the Sun was shinning. So a New COUNCIL
Month and here’s what’s happening.
Due to an IT problem the December Parish Council article for the Parish Magazine
Our Monthly Service will be on Sunday 4 February at 2pm led by Mr Tony was not included in last month’s edition. As a result, this has been reproduced
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Boyden who is a Local Preacher in our Circuit , Dorset South and West . below in addition to an update following The Parish Councils January 2024
Tea and Coffee & biscuits after the service. All are welcome. meeting.

Craft and Kids will be on Saturday 17 February – 2.30 – 3.45pm ish . We do
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various things and have something to eat . Parents can join in or just sit and chat Battle Farm Appeal
with other Parents and have a hot drink.
At the November 2023 Parish Council Meeting it was resolved that the Parish
During March we will be hopefully be having a Lent Lunch. Look out for details . Council would make a submission to the Inspectorate setting out the reasons why
the Parish Council believes the Inspector should dismiss the Appeal.
All are welcome at Bere Heath Chapel I hope that you all have a good
February. The Parish Council submission, along with others, can be found on the Appeal tab
of the original Application on the Dorset for you Planning Portal. The Application
Peter Jenner - Lay worker number is P/FUL/2022/03050. Alternatively, if you contact the Parish Clerk, he will
send you an emailed or posted copy. His email address is
LOCAL CHOIR NEWS affpuddleandturnerspuddleclerk@outlook.com
The timescale for the Appeal discussion is not yet known.
Choral Services and Musical Events at St Peter’s Church,
Dorchester during February Parish Council Grants
On Sunday 11 February at 10.30am, our monthly service of Choral Eucharist In accordance with the Local Government Act 1972
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features Michael Haydn’s ‘Missa brevis in C’ (MH52), Tallis’s ‘If ye love me’ and section 137 and section 133, the Parish Council sets
Duruflé’s ‘Ubi caritas’. All are welcome to this free service and for refreshments aside a small sum of money each year which can be
afterwards. applied for by local organisations for projects which will

Our monthly service of Choral Evensong takes place on Saturday 24 February at be of benefit to residents within the Parish.
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4.30pm. The music includes Purcell’s ‘Thou knowest, Lord’, Buxtehude’s The Policy on Grants and the application form to make
‘Magnificat’ and the ‘Nunc Dimittis’ by Amy Beach, Richard Seal’s ‘Preces & an application can be found on the Parish Council
Responses’ and the anthem ‘Like as the hart’ by Herbert Howells. All are very p a g e s o n t h e C o m m u n i t y W e b s i t e
welcome to this free event and we hope you will join us for a glass of wine www.briantspuddle.info. The timetable for the current financial year 2023/24 is as
afterwards. follows:
You can keep up with events via our website: www.dorchesteranglican.org.uk/ Applications to be submitted by 31st January 2024.
musicatstpeters or by following us on social media: Facebook: https:// Applications will be considered at the February Parish Council Meeting.
www.facebook.com/musicatstpetersdorch - Twitter: @musicatstpeter - Instagram Payments will be made at the March Parish Council Meeting.
@musicatstpetersdorch

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