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BERE REGIS NEWS to Weymouth. A shared interest in
flowers embraces keen competitors,
members who just like to do church
flowers or flowers for their own pleasure,
and also members who just like to sit
BERE REGIS PARISH COUNCIL
and simply watch an entertaining
demonstration each month.
Chairman: Ian Ventham 471480 ianrventham@gmail.com
Our usual demonstrators come from
Dorset, Devon, Hampshire and Somerset
Vice Chairman: Bryan Benjafield 07969 bryan@cheapprintingdorset.co.uk and Wiltshire, but quite often we give
770890 ourselves a treat with a national

demonstrator from further afield. The
Parish Clerk: Amanda 472327 bereregispc@gmail.com demonstrators focus on providing an
Crocker
entertainment, but it is surprising what you
absorb and learn from their talented work. There
Websites: www.bereregisparishcouncil.co.uk
are also occasional workshops with various
www.bereregis.org tutors.
Fun, friendship and flowers is an alliteration that
The Parish Council met remotely via Zoom on Thursday 14th May 2020. 2 members just about sums it all up, I think. I have been a
th
of the public joined the meeting. The next meeting will be on Thursday 11 June, member of Bere Regis Floral Group for forty
again remotely. If you wish to join the meeting, or wish to send a question in to be years. Like so many people, I always thought I’d
read out, please contact the clerk beforehand. love to learn how to arrange flowers but with
young children, I had not got around to it. Then

our younger daughter, Miranda started Bere
Rowlands Wait Regis School. She had to write about her family

The Parish Council discussed the work being for the newsbook. Colourful wax crayon drawings of us were accompanied by
carried out at Rowlands Wait Caravan Park to descriptions of our interests. Dad’s were swimming, water polo, badminton,
convert it to a Park Home under a Certificate of squash…..Mum had two pastimes listed – booze and going out! So you see, I
Lawfulness issued by Dorset Council. We had had to get a respectable hobby fast for the newsbook! I joined the flower club.
some weeks previously expressed our concerns to Seriously though, those forty years have brought me immeasurable joy and fun
Dorset Council about the legality of the work, the and friendships that I treasure enormously. Like Joan, I never tire of competition
damage to trees and shrubs and the proximity of
work and this has taken me all over the country to the national competitions and
this work to the Black Hill SSSI. A tripartite meeting
to Chelsea and Malvern RHS shows for many years.
had taken place about a month ago between
the Planners, Natural England and the Dorset Tree If you love flowers, gardening and art and design, the club will appeal to you.
Officer, Graham Cox, after which we were Our demonstrators always say that they love coming to Bere Regis because
informed that the laying of concrete slabs as everyone is so friendly.
bases for park homes was not subject to a
There is a plan afoot for the club to arrange some classes for beginners. We have
Planning Consent and that the work being
not had time to discuss this as a committee before the lockdown overtook us, but
carried out was lawful. Concerning the damage
some finance is to be made available from the Dorset and Guernsey Area for this.
to hedges and felling of trees, just today (14
th
May), we had finally heard back from Jenny Key on behalf of Graham Cox, If you think you might be interested in these classes, or simply joining the club,
explaining that action had not so far been possible as officers, on safety grounds, contact our secretary Sheila Cox on smcox1@btinternet.com.
were not permitted to undertake a site visit, but that they might be able to do so Diana Holman, President, Bere Regis Floral Group

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