Celebrate Christmas with us at our Annual Christmas Party on Saturday, 14th December, from 3pm to 6pm at Charvil Village Hall!
🤝 A chance to meet and mingle with your neighbours & Parish Councillors
🎵 Carol Singing, led by local choir director Suzanne
🎨 Games and crafts for children
🥂 Free refreshments, including mulled wine and mince pies
❓️ Christmas Quiz
🎁 We’ll also be collecting donations for Woodley Foodbank
Just a few days left to apply!
Every year, Charvil Parish Council awards grants to local community groups and charities that benefit Village residents.
If you are involved in a local group or charity that would benefit from a Parish Council Grant, you can download an application form at:
Completed forms should be returned to the Parish Clerk no later than 1st December.
Applications will be considered by the Parish Council at the monthly meeting of the Full Council on Monday 16th December.
For more information, or to submit your application, email
clerk@charvilparishcouncil.gov.uk
Last week, new fencing was installed at our two tennis courts at East Park Farm.
The old fencing had been damaged by people climbing over to access the courts.
The tennis courts are available for anyone who has one of our Annual Tennis Passes. Details of how to obtain one of these can be found at:
If, for any reason, you need to access the courts while they are not in use, please use the contact details posted on the tennis court gates.
🚣♀️ Are you Prepared? 🚣
As we head into winter, are you prepared for any potential flooding?
The “flood season” in Charvil generally occurs between late December to late February. While February is the riskiest month historically, there have been isolated localised floods at other times of the year.
Our Flood Wardens have prepared our Community Flood Plan, which includes a personal flood plan checklist. These can be found on our website at:
Any Flood Alerts will be posted on our social media and website, or you can join the Flood Wardens’ WhatsApp group at:
🌳 Planned Tree Works 🌳
Throughout the rest of November, works will be taking place to cut back tress around the village.
Some of these works are to trees covered by Tree Preservation Orders, for which an independent survey and the necessary permissions have been sought.
The works will be taking place at:
🏫 Village Hall: tidy up and crown lifting of the trees around the village hall and the large oak at the bottom.
🛝 St. Patrick’s: tidy up and crown lifting of the trees in the recreation ground and felling of a dead standing cherry to a 2m stump because it is within falling distance of the road.
⚽️ East Park Farm: crown lifting, cutting back of intruding branches on trees located in the boundary woodland areas. Crown lifting, dead wooding and tidy up of those in Lime Tree Avenue (footpath) and the felling of the lone lime that is on the corner of the service road in front of the Pavilion. The tree to be felled has a fungus that is causing decay and increases the risk of tree collapse – Fungus: Kretzschmaria deusta (Brittle Cinder).
Areas will be cordoned off as the works are completed, but please take care if walking in any of these areas
Tree Planting
As part of National Tree Week this year, we will be replacing some of the trees planted in previous years, which have failed to thrive.
We will be meeting at 10am on Sunday 24th November at Charvil Village Hall, to take care of some of the lime trees, then moving on to The Mound at East Park Farm, and some of the hedgerows lining the East Park Farm car park.
If you would like to join us, then please bring any gardening tools you may have, and dress appropriately for the weather.
If you would like to suggest sites for future tree planting, or would like to sponsor a future fruit tree for our Community Orchard, then please contact: