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September 2021 September 2021

AFFPUDDLE AND TURNERSPUDDLE PARISH FROM THE DEAN:
COUNCIL
“We shall not cease from exploration

Community Speed And the end of all our exploring
Watch Will be to arrive where we started

The Parish Council has received And know the place for the first time”.
a very positive response to the TS Eliot’s words have particular
suggestion of establishing a resonance every September. Back to
Community Speed Watch Group school; back to work; back to church; back to the whole range of familiar
jointly with Puddletown Parish. routines, habits, and disciplines that the summer has disrupted. Since you last read
This collaboration will mean that Grapevine you may have taken a holiday, whether a Covid-induced staycation
both costs and resources will be or an adventure further afield. Or you may have been made aware of others
shared. Sufficient volunteers taking a holiday. Perhaps you have welcomed them into your home or your
have now come forward to church (or perhaps you have found that your workload has increased as you
establish a group in Affpuddle. have covered for colleagues). Whatever shape it’s taken, the summer has meant
Anyone interested in volunteering for a Community Speed Watch Group exploration, whether of new places or of our own reserves of patience!
anywhere within the parish should contact the Parish Council Clerk. If there is
enough interest the group could be expanded. But the end of all our exploration is to arrive, and to arrive here. In September.
Where we started. At the familiar juncture where schools return, congregations
The Parish Council will continue to work with the Highways Authority to seek to regroup, and office life resumes. Where normality reasserts itself.
improve road safety, particularly on the B3390 through Affpuddle. Data gathered
by the Community Speedwatch Group may assist with this wider safety issue. Will it, though? Eliot’s point is that when we arrive at it, the juncture is no longer
familiar. We know it as though “…for the first time”. That’s because the exploration

has changed us. Our expectations and assumptions are not what they were
Grant Funding when we started out.
Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle Parish Council sets aside a sum of money each year Working in the Cathedral, particularly in August, I am reminded of this pattern of
which can be applied for by local organisations for projects that will be of benefit change every single day. Our earnest hope is that when our visitors leave the
to residents with the Parish. For the year 2021/22 the total budget for grant Close they are not quite who they were when they arrived. Perhaps they will have
funding is £500. watched one of the masons at work, and have been encouraged to think about
the gifts they might want to develop; perhaps they will have learned that the
The Parish Council’s policy and application form can be found on the
Briantspuddle Community Website via following the link www.briantspuddle.in/ building was raised by one generation, and have been inspired to consider what
their own generation might achieve. Perhaps in a moment of deep stillness in the
procedures.
shade of the Trinity Chapel, or in a prayer offered by a duty chaplain, or in an
In terms of timeframe the following dates apply: Eastwards-looking vista of captivating beauty they will have turned their gaze to
the God who longs for them.
th
 Applications should be submitted by 30 September – email the Parish
Clerk. If any of those is true then when they return home they will not be who they were
when they set out. Nor are any of us as we head into this autumn. We may like to
 Grant applications will be considered at the Parish Council’s October think of ourselves as human beings: in reality we are human becomings.
meeting. September is here. The month when everything begins again. But we look at

 Payments will be made at the Parish Council’s November meeting. every new year with new eyes. We are on a journey. We start afresh. Thanks be to
God!

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