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East Farndon Church will be holding a Flower Festival over the weekend of 13^th & 14^th September 2025, to raise funds for much needed repairs to the church building. The church will be open from 11am to 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday. Please come along and enjoy the large range of activities that we have planned.

• Flower and produce displays
• Tea coffee and cake on Saturday with cream teas on Sunday
• Music on Saturday at 11.30am and 3pm
• Tombola. Jolly Jars and Plant Stall (Saturday only)
• Ice Creams 
• Activities for children
• A new information booklet about the church, written by Judy Hodgetts, which will be available to visitors for a donation.
• Harvest thanksgiving service on Sunday at 11am
• A prize draw with the winners being announced on Sunday afternoon

Please come along and visit our beautiful village church to enjoy the surroundings, meet other residents, have a chat, enjoy some refreshments and help us raise some money for much needed church repairs, thank you!

If you have any questions, have something to donate, or can help in some way, please use this link to email Julia Prew.

Please click the link below to view the agenda for the next meeting of the East Farndon Parish Council. This will be held on Wednesday 17th September 2025 at 7.15pm in the East Farndon Village Hall. All are very welcome and encouaged to attend.

Agenda – 17 September 2025

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

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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.

July 25th 2025 – Speaking up about domestic abuse

July 25th 2025 – CCTV Guidance with survey of where systems are

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Our next Coffee Morning get together at the East Farndon Village Hall will be on Friday 26th September 2025, 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.

Greta died on 21^st August 2025. Those who knew her and worked alongside her at village events must wonder if we shall ever see anyone as devoted to the village again.

Greta was born in Cottingham and on leaving school worked as a tailor in Kettering and later at Symington’s in Market Harborough. She married Keith Hill in 1953, the Hills being a numerous village family. Greta and Keith were able to move straight into their house on Harborough Road and Greta still lived there till she died 71 years later. She had three sons, who survive her, Adrian, Clive and Graham. Keith died in 2014.

It is hard to do justice to Greta’s many services to the village. She was a member of the Parochial Church Council for many years and then did sterling work for the Age Concern group, which arranged meals in the village hall for elderly residents and coach trips to places of interest, as well as visiting older residents living alone. She was a key member of many fund-raising groups – for church repairs, for the restoration of the church bells and to set up the bus shelter on the Harborough Road. The church fund-raising at one time involved Greta and Daisy Haynes going round the village in a van collecting old papers and cardboard to sell at a scrapyard. She helped organise jumble sales and discos in the village hall. She was on the church cleaning rota and embroidered kneelers in the church and the two boards of signatures of people who donated to the funds (one is now in the church and one in the village hall). She visited newcomers to the village and helped to make them feel welcome. She helped to raise money for new crockery and a cooker in the village hall.

In later years, after retiring from work at BT and then at Ward’s Electrical, she played bowls with Keith for Market Harborough Bowls Club. 

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Greta symbolised the spirit of community in the village, working tirelessly to improve people’s lives here and keep village institutions going.  Her passing marks the end of an era in village life.

Tribute written by Alan Langley with Adrian, Clive and Graham Hill, September 2025