The Flower Festival held back in September 2025, raised a fantastic final total of £2,982.30. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this event such a success. Since the festival, we have had a visit from our now retired church architect who advised us not to proceed with repairing the plaster work in the church before attending appropriately to the external guttering and downpipes. This will include the fabrication of a projecting hopper made from lead in the corner where the vestry meets the church. Our builder is in the process of sending us a revised quotation for this work. Once this is received, we should be able to proceed fairly quickly since we have the necessary faculty (the Church equivalent of planning permission) to carry out this work.
Thank you again and may I take this opportunity to wish you Merry Christmas and all the very best for 2026. Also, please remember that on December 25th 2025, there will be a Christmas Family Communion Service at East Farndon Church, starting at 9.30am.
Our next Coffee Morning get together at the East Farndon Village Hall will be on Friday 30th January 2026, from 10.30am to 12.00 midday. You are very welcome to join us to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea, plus toasted tea cakes, a selection of books and a raffle. All money raised is donated to village charities / causes or other local charities. Everyone is welcome and entry is free. Many thanks for your ongoing support.
With the festive season fast approaching, WNC is advising residents of the arrangements for waste and recycling collections over the Christmas and New Year period. The public holidays will affect households on a Thursday or Friday bin collection this year, as follows for the Daventry area:
Collections due Thursday 25 December will take place on Saturday 27 December
Collections due Friday 26 December will take place on Sunday 28 December
Collections due Thursday 1 January will take place on Saturday 3 January.
Garden waste – subscribers are advised there will be a short break in the garden waste collection service, which will be suspended from Monday 22 December through to Sunday 4 January. It will resume its usual schedule from the week beginning Monday 5 January.
Household Waste Recycling Centres – will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day, and will close early on Christmas Eve, at 2pm. With those exceptions they will be open from 10am to 4pm as usual. Please remember if you are visiting any of our sites on or after 3 November 2025, you must book a slot in advance. Find out more information about the booking system
Additional recycling – if you have more recycling than your bin can handle, you can put it in clear plastic bags or boxes and present it alongside your recycling bins or boxes. You can also take this to your nearest Household Waste Recycling Centre
Real tree collections – crews will collect real Christmas trees from Monday 5 January through to Friday 16 January. You do not need a garden waste subscription to take advantage of this. Residents in the Daventry area should put real Christmas trees out on the day garden waste is due to be collected in their area. Please ensure trees over 6ft tall are cut in half so they fit in the lorries safely.
Food waste – food waste bins will continue to be collected on their usual weekly schedule. Please remember you can recycle leftover raw and cooked foods, including veg peelings, egg shells, out-of-date food, plate scrapings, solid fats, meat and fish bones. Do not put in any liquids and don’t forget that when it comes to lining your caddy – any bag will do! Find out how to make the most of your food waste collection service
Many thanks for attending our village Christmas Pantomime ‘Sinbad the Sailor’ on Sat 13th Dec 2025. Everyone had a great time and the travelling Northants Theatre Company LOL, gave a superb performance, oh yes they did!! Please see a few photos below.
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Dec 1st 2025– Give your views on Police & Fire Service funding
Northamptonshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Danielle Stone wants your views before setting next year’s council tax precept – the part that funds policing. Policing is funded by government grants and council tax. Together Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service make up around 18 per cent of your council tax bill. The Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner are consulting on an expected increase of £14 a year for policing (Band D property) and £5 for fire services. You can read more about the work of Northamptonshire Police in our Policing Plan 2025 – 2028.
Nov 10th 2025– The Forcer Protocol – Safeguarding for Military Veterans
The Forcer Protocol
Northamptonshire Police is encouraging military veterans and their families to sign up to a potentially life-saving safeguarding scheme called the Forcer Protocol. The Forcer Protocol was founded by Claire Lilly and is named after her former husband Lance Corporal Alan Forcer, a veteran who suffered with depression and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following service in Kosovo and Northern Ireland. Tragically he died by suicide in 2020 after going missing. The Forcer Protocol enables police to ensure key information is available to them when searching for military veterans who are lost or reported missing. The service is free and run independently from police with the provider Safe and Found Online. Veterans, their families and carers can complete an online form and provide a variety of information which is held digitally on a secure platform, including photographs, a physical description, any medical conditions, mobile phone numbers of the veteran and friends, vehicle details, whether they have gone missing before, and whether they pose a risk to themselves. The information entered into the personal profile is completely confidential. Police can only access the profile, if the person featured is reported missing. Register now on the Forcer Protocol pages of the Safe and Found website: safeandfoundonline.co.uk/register.php .
Sept 8th 2025 – Protect Your Pension From Fraud
Warning to #Protect Your Pension from fraud.
Savers and those reaching retirement age are being warned to protect their pensions and look out for criminals trying to catch people out of their life savings, with Action Fraud revealing a total annual loss of £17,567,249. This equates to roughly £48,129 lost to this type of fraud per day in 2024.
Data reveals there were 519 reports of pension fraud in total and £17,567,249 lost in 2024, with an average loss of £33,848 per person.Action Fraud, with support from the Pension Scams Action Group (PSAG), launched a pension fraud awareness campaign, warning people to take extra measures to protect their pension scheme accounts and to be cautious of investment opportunity offers from criminals that could be targeting them
How can you protect yourself against Pension fraud?
Secure your online pension account: the account you use to manage your pension should have a different password to all of your other accounts. Use three random words to create a strong and memorable password, and enable 2-step verification (2SV).
Ignore unsolicited calls about your pension: cold calling about pensions is illegal and likely a sign of a scam. If you’re thinking about changing your pension arrangements, you should get financial guidance or advice beforehand.
Investment opportunities: don’t be rushed into making an investment. Remember, legitimate organisations will never pressure you into investing on the spot. You should treat investment opportunities with extreme caution if there’s: Pressure to invest (for example: time-limited offers), Downplayed risk of losing your money, Promised returns that sound too good to be true, Remember to Stop! Think Fraud and find more information on how to protect yourself from fraud here: Stop! Think Fraud – How to stay safe from scams
What can you do if you have been a victim of pension fraud?
Report pension scams: if you’re worried about a potential pension scam or you think you may have been contacted by a criminal, report it to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk or by calling 0300 123 2040.
If you have made a payment: inform your bank or pension provider as soon as possible, they can help you prevent any further losses. Monitor your bank and pension statements regularly for any unusual activity.
A huge thank you to all who came to the Bingo evening on Friday 7th November 2025 at the Village Hall and to everyone who helped run the event. A special mention to Tom and Jess for the entertaining bingo calling and to Merv for organising the evening and the delicious fish n chips. Great fun was had by us all!! £522 was raised for Marriott Green which is run entirely by volunteers (including Richard West who has mown the grass all year 🤩 🤩)- an amazing result…….thank you, Melanie Duke on behalf of the Marriott Green Committee.
Many thanks for attending the short wreath-laying service at the East Farndon War Memorial on Sunday 9th November 2025 and for joining us afterwards for tea, coffee and cakes, with donations going to the Royal British Legion. See below some photos from the event.
Huge thanks to Krystle and Bernie Fallon for organising the village Halloween Party at the East Farndon Village Hall on Friday 31st October 2025, followed by trick or treating around the village. A big thank you to all of the residents who decorated their houses and the village footpath, giving everyone such a safe and enjoyable evening.
East Farndon Church held a Flower Festival over the weekend of 13th & 14th September 2025. It was great to see the church open for two days with many visitors from the village and beyond. The event raised a fantastic total of just over £2,000 and the organising team, lead by Julia Prew, would like to say thank you to everyone who attended and helped us to make this event so successful.
As always with such events, there were many people involved in the organising team, and a huge thank you to them for giving up their time and working so hard! Special thanks to Jo Shaw and Philippa Mo who played so beautifully on Saturday, Philomena of Daisy and Fox florist and all the floral workshop attendees, whose floral arrangements decorated the church so wonderfully, and Judy Hodgetts for her brilliant work writing the updated information leaflet about the church. Please click this link to see photos from this event.
