Part time Clerk to the Trustees required

The Earl of Southampton Trust is a charity which covers the areas of Titchfield, Sarisbury Green, Locks Heath, Hook, Warsash, Stubbington, Lee on Solent and Whitley.

The Trust owns 19 almshouses in Titchfield, runs a Day Centre and provides relief in need grants for qualifying residents in the area.

The Trustees are looking for a Clerk to assist with the daily running of the charity.

This role could be for you if you possess:

The Earl of Southampton’s Day Rooms in The Square

• good organisational and communication skills

• some financial know how

• strong IT skills

• a high standard of numeracy and literacy

• some knowledge of almshouses/property management

• a willingness to learn (training will be provided)

Hours: 12 hours per week – working pattern to be agreed

Salary: £27,000-30,000 per annum pro rata depending on experience

Location: Earl of Southampton Trust, 24 The Square, Titchfield, PO14 4RU

Apply to the Chairman, Frances Knight, for further details and CV to earlstrust@yahoo.co.uk

Before 31 December 2019

Take a tour of St Peter's Church

Tours of St Peter’s church are conducted every third Tuesday of the month except December.  The tours start at 2 o’clock and last about an hour, there is no charge but a donation could be made toward the church maintenance fund.

Tour dates for 2020 are: Jan 21, Feb 18, Mar 17, Apr 21, May 19, Jun 16,

Jul 21, Aug 18, Sep 15, Oct 20 and Nov 17.

Tours outside these dates can be arranged through the Church Office on 01329 847003.

Order your outside Christmas Tree NOW

October 25th will be the last day you can order an outside tree.

The village of Titchfield shines and sparkles at Christmas time with a blaze of light as local residents display a Christmas tree in a bracket fixed to the outside of their houses.

Each year a group of village volunteers get together to co-ordinate the tree display by ordering a bulk delivery of trees which are then delivered to a central collection point in the village The volunteers then prepare the trees to fit the brackets.

The group also organise trees for village community buildings like the Parish Rooms and a tree for the ‘Green'.

The company who supply the trees have an early deadline this year so the order-by date is earlier this year.

The Christmas Tree team are concerned that they have around half the normal orders and they will not be carrying spares this year, only paid orders will be supplied.

Trees are available for Titchfield Village residents only.  

Make sure you get your order in and tell your neighbours!

Order forms are available at Daisy B’s and at Hadlows.

Members of the team preparing the trees last year.

'Elton John' in Titchfield

Friday first of November sees Moviola’s screening of Rocketman at Thtchfield Festival Theatre.

Rocketman (15) is an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation from shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight into international superstar Elton John.

This inspirational story set to Elton John's most beloved songs and performed by star Taron Egerton, tells the universally relatable story of how a small-town boy became one of the most iconic figures in pop culture.

Rocketman also stars Jamie Bell as Elton's longtime lyricist and writing partner Bernie Taupin, Richard Madden as Elton's first manager, John Reid, and Bryce Dallas Howard as Elton's mother Sheila Farebrother.

Films will be detailed on the Titchfield Moviola web site http://www.titchfieldmoviola.com

Tickets (£6 each) on sale at Daisy B’s Kitchen in The Square and on the Door (subject to availability)

Fundraising Fashion Show,

Friday night was all about Fashion and was all in a good cause.

‘Travelling Trends’ returned to the Titchfield Community Centre for an evening of fun, fundraising and Fashion.

Over 60 ladies (and a few men) were treated to a fashion show of some famous brands all modelled by local ladies.

‘Travelling Trends’ has hosted thousands of successful fundraising fashion shows, which in turn, have helped to raise thousands of pounds for many charitable organisations.

After the catwalk and raffle the ladies were invited to browse the many racks of clothes and purchase their selection.,

This was the third visit of the very popular show and was in aid of the Community Centre.

LINKS

Titchfield Community Centre

Travelling Trends

Charity Preview Evening Launches Christmas

The Preview evening at the Stewarts Abbey Garden Centre Titchfield allowed customers holding privilege cards the opportunity to enjoy a full Christmas Roast dinner and view the extensive new Christmas department and display.

Santa is to arrive on Saturday 30th November at 10.15am accompanied by his elves and the Fareham Scout Band. Santa will then be ready to meet the hundreds of children who will visit his special winter wonderland until Christmas Eve.

Terry Head, Retail and Marketing Director at Stewarts Garden Centres, said that November will also see the Dine & Demo Evenings on the 13th November at both centres when suppliers with provide sampling and demonstrations, and the full Christmas roast dinner will be available.

“Again the team at both centres have planned and worked hard to ensure that we provide a very festive and traditional run up to Christmas day which delights both children and adults,” said Terry Head, “We wish to thank everyone who supports us and Age Concern Hampshire throughout this popular time of year.”

For additional information visit www.stewarts.co.uk

A Passion for Fashion

The next meeting of The Arts Society Solent will feature a talk by Sally Hoban entitled ‘A Passion for Fashion’.

A Passion for Fashion tells the story of 20th century fashion design, tracing how clothes, textiles and accessories were influenced by contemporary history.


It includes the elegant fashions of the Edwardian era, the glamour of the 1920s and 1930s, the austerity of the 1940s, the futuristic fashions of the 1950s, the liberating styles of the 1960s and the avant-garde fashions of the 1970s to the present day.

The meeting takes place on Tuesday 15 October 2019 at 10.30 In the Titchfield Community Centre .

Avenue Q at Titchfield Fesival Theatre

Cheeky and hilarious award-winning musical Avenue Q hits the Titchfield stage

Avenue Q is an award-winning, irresistible musical telling the story of several loveable characters from downtown New York – with the help of various bawdy, not very politically correct puppets….

Described as an adult Sesame Street or The Muppets on Acid, Avenue Q is sure to keep everyone entertained following the fortunes of Princeton, a bright-eyed college graduate who moves to New York City with big dreams – and a tiny bank account. The only apartment he can afford is way out on Avenue Q, where everyone is looking for the same things he is: a decent job, a stable relationship, and a “purpose.”

Director of Avenue Q is experienced puppeteer Elliott Fendle who said: “Avenue Q is a great musical and hugely entertaining, packed with bad behaviour, rude songs and political incorrectness.

“The show is incredibly funny and when I first saw the musical performed 5 or 6 years ago, I knew that it was perfect for the Titchfield Festival Theatre stage.

“Avenue Q is full of jokes, raunchy humour and has plenty of catchy tunes – and the audience will love the puppets! It has been huge fun rehearsing the play and the superb cast and production team are really enjoying it. Most of the show is tongue in cheek and we are certain that everyone coming along to watch will have a fabulous time.”

This is the first time that Titchfield Festival Theatre has featured puppetry in a main production, hiring in a bespoke set of the iconic puppets especially for the show.

Avenue Q opens on Wednesday 9th October until Saturday 19th October 2019 at 7.30pm in the Oak Theatre, Titchfield Festival Theatre, St Margarets Lane, Titchfield PO14 4BG. Matinee performances: Saturday 12th, Sunday 13th and Saturday 19th October all at 2.30pm.

Note: This show is not “fur” the little ones! Recommended 14+

For more information, please go to http://titchfieldfestivaltheatre.com/or contact our Box Office on 01329 556156.

Stubbington Bypass - a step closer

Hampshire County Council have confirmed that work is expected to start in November this year on the Stubbington bypass.

The long awaited road will enable drivers to bypass Subbington centre, hopefully reducing travel time and congestion in the village.

Bridge Street, Titchfield

The scheme, which is expected to cost £34m, will involve building a single carriageway from the Gosport Road, near to Crofton Secondary School to Titchfield Road, (B3334) near Hollam.”

Councillor Rob Humby, Executive Member for Environment and Transport at Hampshire County Council, said: “We made a commitment to the people of Gosport and Stubbington to improve traffic and travel in South Hampshire.”

However, Titchfield residents have voiced concerns that the new road will result in more traffic using the village as a short cut.

The plans include changes to Titchfield Gyratory, but fears have been expressed that any queues backing up along the Titchfield Bypass will result in motorists using Bridge Street, Coach Hill and St Margaret’s Lane to rejoin the A27 to the west of the village.

TITCHFIELD IN BLOOM IN BRIGHTON

On Friday 13 September 4 members of the Titchfield in Bloom Committee travelled to the Amex Stadium Brighton for the South & South East ‘In Bloom’ Awards sponsored by Gatwick Airport.

The presentations in was front of 400 people began at 10am and cities, towns, parks and villages were amongst the many categories judged. Large villages were featured half way through the afternoon. After the silver and silver gilt awards it was announced Gold awarded to Titchfield for the second year running.

The judges visiting a Titchfield garden.

Later it was announced that the County Awards were to be awarded, each County in the South & South East was read out Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset and Hampshire, and the winners for the County of Hampshire are Titchfield.

Not only Gold but the County Winners as well. Thank you to all those residents and businesses who supported the Titchfield in Bloom Team.

LINKS

Titchfield in Bloom

Posbrook Lane triple whammy

Residents in Titchfield’s Posbrook Lane have, overnight, been suffering with three separate incidents.

Driving through the sewerage.

Workmen were already dealing with a burst sewerage pipe near Great Posbrook House when later in the evening a car crashed into a hedge on the left hand bend further down the country lane where the road changes from Triangle Lane to Meon Road.

Later on two large stacks of straw were set alight just yards from the accident and 300 tonnes of straw have been ruined.

The fire service spent the night dampening down the blaze.

This morning, whilst the car has been removed, the road is still inches deep in running raw sewerage and the fire is still burning.

Residents have called for the road to be closed while the broken pipe is being repaired.

Posbrook Lane flowing with sewerage

The hay stack still ablaze.

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Looking to send your child to Titchfield Primary School?

If your child is four by August 31st 2020 then they will be eligible to join the school in September next year.

Parents of year R 2020 pupils who would like to visit the school are asked to contact the office team on 01329 843322.

The ofsted report of February 2017 reported that ‘This school continues to be good… Children in the early foundation stage are happy, settled and well cared for. They enjoy participating in valuable activities available for them during the day. Leaders at all levels work effectively together to make teaching even better.

Parents describe the school as having a ‘sense of family.’

LINK

Titchfield Primary School

PPG Open Meeting

The Patient Participation Group for Jubilee Surgery invite you to their open meeting on 25th September at 3:45pm.

You will be able to hear what has been achieved since the Patient Survey in May.

Dr Tom Bertram and his management team will also be present to provide you with updates.

If you have suggestions for the Agenda, please contact the PPG Group so they can be included on the agenda.

You are asked to let them know if you are likely to be able to attend so that they can set out the room with sufficient chairs.

If you can’t come but want something raised, do please email or phone me.

LINKS

• The Jubilee Surgery Jubilee Surgery

• The PPG Facebook Page PPG.Jubilee

• Email: ppgchair.jubilee@gmail.com

• Or phone Suzy Jackson 07532 168454

Meet for lunch at The Day Rooms

If you are over 60 and looking for something good and wholesome to eat at lunchtime, why not drop into The Day Rooms in The Square.

The Earl of Southampton’s Day Rooms

You get a home cooked lunch with a pudding for just £4.00.

Please call 01329 847923 the day before to pre-book a lunch.

Or, pop in for a chat and a cup of tea with friends, a cuppa is just 50p.

The Day Rooms are open every weekday from 9.30am to 3pm.

The Earl of Southampton Trust runs Day Rooms

The aim of the Trust is to promote and improve the welfare of anyone in need in Titchfield, Locks Heath, Sarisbury Green, Stubbington, Park Gate, Warsash, Whiteley and Lee on the Solent. The charity seeks to make a real difference and make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Vandalism and Criminal Behaviour in Titchfield

Following a meeting of various village organisations and individuals who have been targeted by a group of youngsters it was decided to list and collate all incidents of anti-social and criminal behaviour to present to the authorities.

The smashed windows at St Peter’s Church

At the meeting representatives of the Abbey, Surgery, Shops, businesses, TVT, the Community Centre, the Church, our councillor and private residents heard of the widespread disruptive behaviour.



Over the last few year the village has suffered from a number of incidents culminating last week in damage to the roof of St Peter’s Chapter Rooms and the smashing of one of the stained glass windows.



The group of young people have been abusive to members of the public, climbed on the walls of the Abbey, climbed on the roof of the Jubilee Surgery and have been rude and threatening in some of the village shops.

At the Community Centre, they have climbed on the roof, vandalised parts of the building and abused and threatened staff and visitors to the centre.



They have also been seen standing on window sills peering into residents homes.



It was understood that the Council has given an Acceptable Behaviour Contract to one boy, with a Parenting programme due to start next month for the parents. 



Legal action is promised if the boy does not cease his current behaviour. 



The youth outreach team will visit the village regularly to try and engage with the youths hanging about.  


The meeting was mindful of the anxieties caused by the recent County Lines drugs problems reported in the press.

There is also a need to protect elderly and vulnerable villagers from harm of any sort, criminal or of a public order nature.



It was confirmed that currently Fareham, (from Portchester to Park Gate) has only 7 police officers on night duty with more officers available in the day. People were asked to report any type of nuisance or annoyance by ringing 101 (or reporting the same on line https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/ ) or 999 if it is an emergency.



The Community Protection Officer at Fareham Borough Council is more than supportive of the village and the current spate of damage and public order nuisance is a worry and of great importance to her.

Last week’s meeting was attended by police, education providers, children’s services, FBC, youth workers and village organisations to try and find ways to engage children to reduce the chances of this sort of thing happening in the future.

Moviola returns to Festival Theatre

Titchfield Moviola is moving back their original venue, Titchfield Festival Theatre, and to the first Thursday in the month apart from November where it will be 1st Friday due to a prior booking at the theatre we hope you will continue to support us. 

The next showing, ‘Red Joan’ will be on Thursday 5th September

Synopsis

Red Joan (12A) Joan Stanley (Dame Judy Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs, then suddenly her tranquil existence is shattered as she is shockingly arrested by MI5.

For Joan has been hiding an incredible past; she is one of the most influential spies in living history. Cambridge University in the 1930s and the young Joan (Sophie Cookson), a demure physics student, falls intensely in love with a seductive attractive Russian saboteur named Leo.

Through him she begins to see that the world is on a knife edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy. Post-war and now working at a top secret nuclear research facility, Joan is confronted with the impossible: Would you betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them?

What price would you pay for peace? Inspired by an extraordinary true story Red Joan is the taut and emotional discovery of one women’s sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances. A women to whom we perhaps all owe our freedom.    

Autumn Season



Thursday 3rd October - Collette - (15)

Friday 1st November – Rocketman (15)

Thursday 5th December - Fisherman’s Friends (12A)

Titchfield Co-op goes a bit batty

Southern Co-op is helping protected bat species by installing a bat boxes on their convenience stores in the village. 

The store had the boxes fitted to house local bat populations. A bat tile – with a hole just big enough for a long-eared bat to access – was also fitted to the roof of the Titchfield store to help bats use the building’s loft area.

Southern Co-op carried out the conservation work after commissioning a number of surveys last year.

The rear wall of the store

Here in Titchfield, the survey found three species of bat foraging and commuting within the local area: the common pipistrelle, the noctule and the (brown or grey) long-eared bat, all of which are European protected species.

Bats play several important roles in the environment, including helping to pollinate flowers, spread seeds and control pests by eating insects.

Emma McVie, Southern Co-op’s project manager, said: “When we were looking at replacing the roof in Titchfield, the age of the building meant there was a high likelihood of bats being present and this was confirmed during one of the surveys, when a single common pipistrelle was recorded emerging from beneath a lifted roof tile to the rear of the building.

“We made sure we protected them and their access to the loft when we finally replaced the roof in March. We also placed an extra bat box on the side of the building to give other bats a new home should they need one.

“Despite not finding roosting bats, we wanted to make sure we protected the bat population and gave them a home for the future, so we have installed two bat boxes on the side of the building.”

It’s Referendum Day

Please vote - Your vote is important

Titchfield residents go to the polls today to vote in a referendum about the Titchfield Neighbourhood Plan.

Residents will be asked to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the question: ‘Do you want Fareham Borough Council to use the Neighbourhood Plan for Titchfield to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?’

If more than 50 per cent vote ‘yes’, then Fareham Borough Council will ‘make’ the TNP. Once made, the planning aspects from the TNP will be used to help determine planning applications in Titchfield. If more people vote ‘no’ than ‘yes’ then the Neighbourhood Plan will not be made part of the statutory Local Plan for the Fareham Borough.

You can vote at the polling station in Titchfield Community Centre for the referendum today.

Residents are entitled to vote in the Referendum if they are eligible to vote in a local government election and if they live in the referendum area – which is identical to the area which has been designated as the Titchfield Neighbourhood Area.

Cllr Keith Evans, Executive Member for Planning and Development, said: “This is the first time we have had a Referendum in the Fareham Borough and it is essential we hear the views of the people of Titchfield.”

The results, which are expected to be announced tomorrow (Friday) around noon, will be published here as soon as we are informed by Fareham.

READ MORE HERE

All set for Strawberry Fayre

Titchfield Primary School’s ever popular Strawberry Fayre is taking place on Saturday 13th July.

The event runs 12 noon till 3.30pm

There will be a whole range of stalls and games to enjoy as well as the popular BBQ and raffle - and, of course, Strawberries and Cream.

Please feel free to come along to support your local school.

It's the time of the signs

Have you spotted the new signs on the approaches to the village?

It was suggested by a few locals in 2017 that they wanted new entry signs to replace the old ones that existed at certain road entrances in the village.

One local suggested a coat of arms could summarise all the history of Titchfield on the signs, but a coat of arms would have incurred a large registration fee, so it was decided an emblem was the way ahead.

This would symbolise the key historic places in Titchfield. What you now see is the finished product on the crest of the entry signs in Saint Margaret’s Lane, East Street and Posbrook Lane.

New signs for old St Margaret’s Lane

Many thanks must go to those locals who helped to organise the purchase and fitting of the new entry signs: Mark Rowe, Kevin Fraser, Phil Burner and Joe Folland (from the Traffic Department in Hampshire Highways).

Flags and bunting are also being produced for anyone living in Titchfield and the surrounding areas especially now Village in Bloom starts on 13th July. It would be lovely to see the village emblem flying over houses and businesses for this and many other events. You can still purchase flags and bunting by contacting titchemblem@hotmail.com if you want some colours flying!

The emblem was designed and crafted by three Titchfield enthusiastic locals who got together in the autumn of 2017 and convened the first of many informal meetings in the Queen’s Head pub! The mission, other than enjoying a good drink, was to try and develop more of a “symbolic identity reflecting the ancient history of Titchfield”.

Sketches developed from beer mats and scraps of paper and an emblem was finally established as the best way to symbolise the rich history of Titchfield.

Later, a fourth local and well-respected historian (President of the Titchfield History Society) sagely advised on more subtle detail regarding the historic past of the village and surrounding area.

The Titchfield History Society is the custodian of the emblem and they own the copyright. All profits relating to sales of the emblem will go towards preserving the history of Titchfield village.

Read more about the Emblem by clicking HERE