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BRIANTSPUDDLE COMMUNITY GROUP

Coffee Shop
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The coffee shop will be closed on Saturday 28 July as the Bladen Social Club is
holding one of its coffee mornings for a local charity. It will also be closed on
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Saturday 29 September as there is a wedding in the village hall.
However on the remaining Saturdays we will open as usual for coffee, cake and
bacon rolls. Plus there will be a plant and local produce stall, all monies raised
going to the village hall.
Look forward to seeing you.

AFFPUDDLE & TURNERSPUDDLE PARISH
COUNCIL

A thank you to Morning Data
Over the last few years Morning Data have rented a small number of parking
spaces in the village hall from the Parish Council. This was a mutually beneficial
arrangement which started when their business had expanded at their Engine
Shed site leaving insufficient car parking for them. Morning Data have now
expanded further and as a result moved out of the village to accommodate their
increasing numbers of staff. The Parish Council would like to thank Morning Data
for the income it has received over these years. As a sum over and above the
precept this additional income has meant that projects such as the repair and
replacement of fingerposts and the conversion of the telephone kiosks could be
accelerated. At the time the sum was also very helpful allowing additional
funding as a S137 grant to the Village Hall Committee. This was needed as it
undertook the hall’s redevelopment, and for a short period afterwards, as it re-
established its events calendar and fundraising activities.

Millennium Stone

In 1987 the Parish celebrated 1,000 years of recorded history of Affpuddle as a
settlement. This event was marked with a season of celebrations including a
beautiful flower festival, a concert with Bournemouth Sinfonietta held in St
Laurence’s Church and an exhibition in the Village Hall. A Millennium logo was
designed by Alex Russell and this was reproduced on t-shirts, mugs and other
memorabilia sold for fundraising.
A more permanent marker of this historic event was the commissioning of the

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