TRUNCH VILLAGE SOCIETY – Ordinary Meeting on Wednesday 9th September at 7.00pm in the Methodist Community Room

Trunch Village Society  ordinary Meeting Meeting is being held on Wednesday 8th July at 7.00pm in the Methodist Church Community Room. All Trunch residents are welcome to attend.

brianboughton@btinternet.com or  phone 01263 720252

Officers

Chairman – Peter Horsefield

Vice Chairman – Chris Owen

Secretary and Treasurer – Brian Boughton

Liaison Officer- John Carr

Events Co-0rdinator – Alison Mason

Finance & Signatories – Chris Owen & Brian Boughton

Project Group Leaders (Committee Members)

Michele Horsefield Bee Keeping

Malcolm Needs Litter Picking

Sandra Farmer Trunch Activity

Alison Mason Trunch Activity

John Spencer Trunch History

Bee Keeping Project Group

A sum of £1050 has been collected thus far from sales of honey during the year.  Michele Horsefield is a fully insured BBKA registered swarm collector, during the year she collected only two small swarms.

However, four hives at the Glebe Lodge apiary continue to thrive despite the constant threat of disease and adverse weather conditions. The survival of the bees is mainly due to the tender care and attention by Michele and Peter Horsefield. Peter is a Registered Food Provider and has NNDC Hygiene Dept approval for processing the honey for sale.

Litter Pick Group

There has been a collection this year in March.  Recruitment of volunteers remains low, but sufficient. The majority of litter is collected from the Gimingham and North Walsham Road.   It is also a good social event with tea and cake served afterwards in the village hall.

 Trunch Activity Group

The Group  organised  a very success  OPEN GARDENS event on 12th July raising £2440 and are staging the PARTY in the PADDOCK on 2nd August

Christmas Tea Party for Over 60’s 

The now annual Christmas Party for over 60’s in being held on Sunday 6th December 2.00pm until 5.00pm

General

Recruitment of volunteers for all events and organisations in the village is always difficult, but the Society thanks all of those hard working and enthusiastic people who do volunteer, without whom none of this would be possible.

A Bit About………

As a result of the findings in the original Parish Plan the Trunch Village Society (TVS) was founded in 2009 by a small group of Trunch residents each of whom deposited £10 with Barclays Bank such that a bank account could be opened. Since then, some of the founder members have moved home or sadly died. From the early beginnings, with the help of many volunteers the Society has, to date, raised over £61,000 of which £7000 was generously donated by the organisers of the Trunchonbury Music Festival. In total £49,000 has been distributed to the numerous organisations and groups within the village by way of Grant awards and spent on the purchase of village amenity equipment. The running costs and free events have been supported with funds totalling £7000 and a sum of £5000 is retained for emergency events. By organising events such as the Open Gardens and Scarecrows day, dog shows, yard sales, fetes, running a bee apiary at Glebe Lodge and being registered members of the Norfolk County Council community composting scheme these have enabled the Society to become the main source of social village funding.  The Community Composting scheme has recently been transferred to the Garden Society.  The Society has also staged free events such as the covid breakout Party in the Paddock, celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee and the Christmas tea party for the over 60’s which is scheduled to become an annual event.

At the recent Annual General Meeting four Officers, namely Peter Horsefield, Chris Owen, John Carr and Brian Boughton were appointed. The group leaders, Michele Horsefield Malcolm Needs and Sandra Farmer continue with their roles of responsibility. A new project group, Trunch History, was formed and will be led by John Spencer. The Project Groups now comprise Litter Picking, Trunch Activity, Bee Keeping and Trunch History.

This year the Society proposes to take stock of its fund raising activities and seek opinions of the residents as to how they see the future role of the TVS in serving the village and organising events. The outcome will be influenced by the number of volunteers the Society can count on to assist in achieving their mission.

The views of Mardle readers would be much appreciated by the Committee and you can contact us with your comments via the Secretary, Brian Boughton on 01263 720252 or brianwboughton@gmail.com

Trunch History Project Group

If any residents have details, records, maps diary dates or photographs of historical interest or information relating to their whereabouts please let the Secretary or John Spencer know.

The Group would be interested to meeting residents who may have valuable contributions regarding the history of Trunch. If you can help in this respect we should like to set up a one to one conversation with you at a time and place convenient to your good selves.  In order to get things moving could you please contact John Spencer at jrs1000@cam.ac.uk or 07539 246683. Thank you.