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January 2018 January 2018
FAREWELL AND THANKS TO CHRISTINE other events in the Bladen Social Club in 2018

AND GORDON The main charities supported in 2017 were:
Employ My Ability, a local charity based at the walled garden in Morten that helps
students with learning disabilities and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Gordon and Christine Tucker
have been opening and develop vital skills, expertise and confidence
shutting the Church to let Purbeck Workshop, a local charity dedicated to providing creative escapes to
visitors in for the last twenty those touched by cancer within the Dorset area.
years. Sadly they have
moved away now and we Julia’s House, a charity based in Dorset and Wiltshire providing practical and
have to do it ourselves emotional support for families caring for a child with a life-limiting or life-
amongst a rota of many threatening condition, in the community or at their two hospices.
helpers – how we miss them. rd
To say thank you and Dates for your diary in 2018, 3 February Annual Village Skittles competition, mid-
goodbye we invited Gordon February (date to be advised) a Race night with a difference.
and Christine to the Please also look at this magazine, the Briantspuddle community website and the
December Children’s service social club noticeboard for the dates of future events.
and Charles our vicar
presented them with a scroll Peter Talbot, Secretary
and a picture to say thank
you for their unsung good work over many years.
BRIANTSPUDDLE SHORT MAT BOWLS

Short Mat Bowls sessions during the winter
months of 2018 will take place in
Briantspuddle village hall on the first two
Tuesday afternoons of the month
commencing at 2:30pm and on the third
and fourth Monday evenings in the month
c o m m e n c i n g a t 7 : 3 0 p m
Dates and times of short mat bowls sessions
can now be found on the Briantspuddle
Parish website at: www.briantspu ddle.info/clu bs_ societies/
briantspuddle_short_mat_bowls
If you haven’t previously tried your hand at short mat bowls why not come along
to one of our sessions on either a Tuesday afternoon or a Monday evening. We
provide all the equipment and some friendly guidance so you can decide
whether short mat bowls is a game for you.
Peter Talbot

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