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LOCAL CHOIR NEWS Briantspuddle Village Shop and Post Office Annual Report

April 2023 and we have just finished what was my first “business as usual” year with
Choral Services and Musical Events at St Peter’s Church, Covid mostly out of the way.
Dorchester during May
We continue to be supported by over 40 volunteers who give their time.
Music at St Peter’s will be presenting three events in May. Firstly, on Sunday 14
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May, we have our monthly service of Choral Eucharist at 10.30am. The music Seven days a week we have people collecting stock, be it papers, fruit and veg,
includes William Harris’s ‘Holy is the true light’, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in G major K140 meat and bread or bird food. Leonora faithfully places the Sainsbury’s order each
and the ‘Laudate Dominum’ from Mozart’s Vespers K339. Directly after the service week and organises the team who turn up to take it in and put it on the shelves.
at 11.45am, we launch our summer series of coffee concerts. The first is a recital of Lesley co ordinates the daily shop counter team making sure there is always
organ music given by William Bishop, the current organ scholar of Tewkesbury someone there to welcome customers in and working alongside Chips and the
Abbey and Dean Close School. William’s programme includes music by Bach, post office team keep the shop open 7 days a week.
Bruhns and Mendelssohn. Admission is free and you can enjoy coffee and cake
along with this musical feast! As always, we’ve seen volunteers step down and some new ones start. It’s always
sad when someone gives up, for whatever reason but it is really good to see new
Later in the month on Saturday 27 May, Choral Evensong for Pentecost will take people, some for whom circumstances have changed or who are new to the
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place at 4.30pm. The music includes: Tallis ‘O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit’, Neary parish, getting involved.
‘Preces & Responses’, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange ‘Kings College Service’ and Elgar
‘The spirit of the Lord’. Do join us for a glass of wine after the service. In the background members of the committee make sure we maintain the
building and manage the utilities and we were especially pleased to welcome Jo
You can keep up with events via our website: www.dorchesteranglican.org.uk/ on to the committee as Treasurer this year.
musicatstpeters or by following us on social media: Facebook: https://
www.facebook.com/musicatstpetersdorch Twitter: @musicatstpeter Towards the end of 2022, Stuart who had been managing the shop on a day-to-
day basis stepped down. We recognise the contribution he made as Shop
Manager since 2020, particularly through covid, his can-do attitude ensured we
all were well catered for.

We have seen some changes in the shop. We have a new freezer, the old one
was old and was requiring defrosting weekly and often leaving a puddle on the
floor. Many thanks to Lesley who kept it going so long. We had to have the fridge
repaired as it broke down but it now back up and working. We also purchased
and additional fridge to keep the fresh fruit and veg in, ensuring it stays as fresh as
possible particularly during the summer months when the shop gets very hot. This
was funded by a grant we received during COVID from the council.
We have recently had the electrical wiring test carried out, all is safe and in good
REMINDER condition and we are covered for the next 5 years.

To all secretaries and organisers of village clubs and events I’m also thrilled that the Village Hall and the Social Club have contributed to the
cost of the WIFI this year, meaning the facility can be available to all users.
The Dates for your Diary section at the back of the magazine is looking a bit ‘thin’.
If you have forthcoming meetings or events, do please let me have the relevant It is I am afraid, time for me to step down from the committee. My work is hugely
information so that this can be updated. It is particularly useful so that others know demanding, and I need to find a bit of space. Being chair of Briantspuddle Village
shop will aways be one of my achievements I’m most proud of. Becoming friends
to avoid dates which are already booked up.
with so many whom I possibly might never have met and being a part of this
community is so important to me.

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