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A fun and interactive half day training workshop will take place at East Farndon Village Hall on Sunday 7th April 2024 from 10am to 2pm. Designed with input from vets to give dog owners and professionals the confidence to act in an emergency to ensure your dog has the best chance of recovery. 

The course includes topics such as, the role of a first aider, legal compliance, the primary survey, how to check vitals, CPR including practical, Choking, Seizures. Canine shock, GDV, Burns & scalds, Poisoning, Heat stroke, Bleeds and bandaging, Road traffic collisions & Fractures. 

An Accredited CPD certificate valid for 3 years for just £59.50 per person. 

To Book Your Place: https://portal.dog-first-aid.franscape.io/class-overview/1570

Dog First Aid South Midlands 
southmidlands@dog-first-aid.com 
07464739440
www.dog-first-aid.com

East Farndon and Marston Trussell teamed up to run an autumn / winter series of movie nights at their Village Halls. The organisers of the East Farndon and Marston Trussell movie nights would like to hear your views on the following questions. Please can you email your views, using these links, to Jo Shaw and / or Amanda Allen.

Q1 – If you have seen any of the films this year, please rate them out of ten:

• What’s love got to do with it
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Bank of Dave
• Dream Horse
• A Man called Otto
• The Great Escaper

Q2 – What movie genre do you prefer? (please indicate all that apply)

• Romance
• Period drama
• Book adaptions
• Thriller / adventure
• Horror
• Documentary
• Foreign language films
• “Art house” films
• Classic old films

Q3 – How far have you travelled to attend our Movie Nights?

Q4 – How did you find out about us?

Q5 – Is there anything you feel we could improve for next year?

Thank you!

Many will be remember that back in October 2023, Alan Langley gave an illustrated history talk entitled ‘Grand Dukes, Diamonds and a Farndon Polo Ground’. Alan has recently published another article for our Village History section, describing the history of the East Farndon Polo Ground. You can read this interesting article by clicking the link below.

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A few people have asked about the location of the polo field. Alan says, “I was told by John Hart (who built Greenfields and was living there at the time), that the polo field was in Oak Tree Close, which is the field between the vineyard and the bridleway, looking to the left of the vineyard from Marston Lane. To me, it doesn’t look flat enough, but maybe the part away from the road has just about enough levelish ground for a pitch. People used to get to it along the ‘road’ i.e. the bridleway, according to the reports in the paper. It doesn’t look like the best field for a polo ground, but evidence points that way, to my knowledge.”

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Use this Quick Link to read more on our home pages for Village History.

Many thanks to everyone who attended our Chinese New Year Celebration at the Village Hall on Sat Feb 10th 2024. It was a great event and please click the link below to view a few photos from the evening.

https://eastfarndon.org/2024-event-chinese-new-year-10th-feb

As many will know, in December 2023, Harborough District Council (HDC) voted to adopt a big increase in the council’s housebuilding target and to develop a new local plan. The consultation process related to the new local plan is now underway. It is early in the process, but you can view the details and contribute to the various consultations by clicking the link below.

https://www.harborough.gov.uk/info/20004/planning_strategy/528/new_local_plan

East Farndon Parish Council (EFPC) will be keeping a close eye on the new HDC local plan development and commenting where appropriate, especially in relation to any proposals that relate to housing development between East Farndon and Market Harborough. EFPC will also stay close to any local plan developments related to West Northants Council and will keep everyone updated via this website and the village Facebook page.

If you have any questions, please click this link to email our Parish Clerk, Caroline Burton.

Childrens Dance Classes for ages 3+ are held at the East Farndon Village Hall on Saturday mornings. Please email michelleanndance@gmail.com for more infomation or to book your childs space.

The church gates are part of the village’s World War II memorial and were installed in 1948. Unfortunately, over the years they had fallen into a poor state of repair and were in need of a full restoration. Thanks to the generosity of the village, sufficient funds were raised from the war memorial renovation project to allow this work to be carried out as well. The gates were removed in October 2023 and put back into place in December. Huge thanks to everyone involved in the restoration of this very important village memorial.

Christmas Eve brought the sad news of the death of Marlene Hook, at the age of 85. She had lived her entire life in East Farndon. It is 20 years since her husband John died, but she is survived by her daughter Stephanie and son Andrew.

Marlene lived with her parents George and Frances in a cottage near ‘Sunnybays’ which has since been demolished. It was after she and John were married that they moved to a house in The Lealand. Her parents moved nearby, just round the corner. Throughout her life she supported village activities and there is ample photographic proof of her involvement in the W.I., the fete, Age Concern and generally helping out at village events. No event seemed complete unless Marlene was there, doing her bit. The photos show some of her many contributions to village life.

Marlene had the sort of laughter that set other people off laughing as well. She was the kind of person a community needs, to keep village life going strong. Marlene will be much missed, her funeral will take place at East Farndon church on 17th January 2024 at 12.30.

The photo above shows Marlene at the village fete, around 2000, Marlene is wearing sunglasses as she helps at one of the stalls. The photo below shows Marlene (on the right) at the village May Day celebration in 1949.

The photo below shows Marlene (second from right) helping with the washing-up after an event in the village hall in the 1970s.

Below (extreme right) Marlene is part of the W.I. group clearing the spring in 2000.

In 2013 weather forced some stalls at the fete to move into the church and Marlene (left) was helping, as ever.

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Written by Alan Langley, Jan 2024

Following on from last years 12 Days of Christmas, for this years event, we would love villagers to decorate their house, windows, door, gate, wheelie bins etc with a snowflake and / or star theme. If you can, please join in to help create a festive atmosphere within our village …..and beyond. Launch date, Friday 1st December 2023. If you have any questions, please call Sam using the number on the poster below. Also, please send photos.

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