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The Trustee Report for 2023/24 can be found here.


Inkpen Playing Field - Have Your Say

There is lots more happening at the Inkpen Playing Field and Pavilion. In addition to the update given at the recent Annual Parish Meeting, the Trustees would like to hear from you. Please access the short questionnaire below, asking for your feedback on Activities /Clubs that you want at the pavilion. This Questionnaire is also hosted at www.inkpenvillage.co.uk and detailed below. Just click this link: https://forms.office.com/r/U2zGepzWiM?origin=lprLink Let us know your views. This is your pavilion and playing field. Please provide your contact details so that we can follow up for further details. We look forward to hearing from you.


Our New Pavilion - Refurbished during Covid




The pavilion consists of a main room with Wi-Fi and large television. Kitchen with two cookers, 4 hobs, dishwasher, fridge freezer, microwave, water heater. Glasses, crockery and cutlery also available. There are two toilets and a disabled wet room which includes a disabled shower, toilet and baby changing unit. We are still fund raising for further improvements to the facilities, so if you wish to donate please get in touch.

Hiring the pavilion and facilities enable us to maintain them whilst remaining a ‘not for profit’ charity. If you would like to hire the pavilion or any of the facilities email bookings@inkpenvillage.co.uk. Hire Charges are on the booking page, here, and on the notice board. We are also preparing an Facebook page and Instagram account so please do follow us when it's up and running.






News

Eyes and Ears

If you think that there is any suspicious activity taking place on the playing field, please take whatever details you can and go here to notify the police. Please do not put yourself at risk, let the police handle it.

Inkpen Cricket Club

It might be hard to imagine sunny summer days right now—the crack of the bat, the clatter of stumps, or even the occasional wide ball—but the 2025 Inkpen Cricket Club season will be here before we know it. Our winter nets sessions are about to start, and we’ve got our club awards night coming up in February.

If you’re new to Inkpen and fancy joining a local team for some relaxed, social cricket, we’d love to hear from you. Whether you’ve never played before, haven’t picked up a bat in years, or just like the idea of spending a Sunday afternoon with good company and a bit of sunshine, you’re very welcome. Check out inkpencricketclub.org for all the details.

Inkpen History Society

We are expecting to hold our next meeting on either the 21st or 28th of February. Please check the website www.inkpenhistory.uk for confirmation of the date.

The meeting is not only there for you to come and chat with others about what we are up to, but also to listen to one and a half short talks about our progress with projects. The main talk, which is expected to last for about half an hour, focuses on what the newspapers have reported about Inkpen during the last nearly three hundred years. Stephen Smallbone has kindly agreed to give the talk. The half talk is just a very short update on how we’ve got on with dowsing, is it a useful tool for archaeology or just nonsense.

We still have several projects on the go and are looking for people to help with them. We are also looking for a small group to do some exploratory excavation work. Please get in touch if you are interested.

Stargazers

We are now in that part of the year when we have the naturally darkest skies. You would be surprised what can be seen even with binoculars or a cheap telescope, the amazing colours and structures.


Late in November, but just in time for ‘Black Friday’, we received funds from the North Wessex Downs National Landscape Trust, and were able to buy a computerised camera, a Seestar S50. This enables us to photograph galaxies and nebula, the moon and the sun. To get good results we still need outside lights to be turned off and that means we need your help. If you don’t need a light, please turn it off.

If you want to see what a difference it makes having the outside lights turned off, come and join us, you would be very welcome. Of course, we don’t get our telescopes and cameras out if it’s raining but otherwise, we’re keen to see and show what can be seen in the night sky. We’ll try and keep you up to date about meetings, events and what there is to see in the sky.

Go to our website either via www.inkpenvillage.co.uk or directly using stargazers.inkpenvillage.co.uk These are a few of our early 2025 photos: Want to join the Inkpen Stargazers? Then email us at inkpen.climate@outlook.com.

Inkpen Pop-In Cafe

We’re now into the new year; days are getting noticeably longer and possibly warmer. Time to get out, meet and make new friends. Well, the Pop-In cafe is there for you to do just that, to meet and make new friends. If you are on your own and feel the need to take that step into meeting local people and just having a chat, then the Pop-In cafe is a very soft and gentle way to do just that. Give it a go, you’ve nothing to lose.

At the January Pop-In, it was good to see more new faces. The Pop-In cafe is for all those in the area to come, have a drink and a piece of cake, to sit and chat.

It’s next open on the 6th and 20th February, and the 6th and 20th March, 10am till 12:30 at the Inkpen playing field pavilion. Make a note in your diary. You are always welcome.






Book

Book to play and entertain.

From now and for the next 6 months, a new charges structure is in place. The new IMPFT charges can be found here.

If you would like to book the playing-field or the pavilion early application is suggested to avoid disappointment. To book, email bookings@inkpenvillage.co.uk using the booking form provided here. The pavilion is available for anyone over 18 to book and we very much hope that it will be used by many of you for our various activities.

A list of current bookings is shown below.






Bookings

IMPFT Bookings
Saturday	02/11/2024	Scouts - Kintbury Scouts	Main Room	All day
Sunday	03/11/2024	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm	**
Monday	04/11/2024	Private Meeting	Main Room	From 4pm
Tuesday	05/11/2024	Private Meeting	Main Room	All day
Thursday	07/11/2024	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Saturday	09/11/2024	Private Meeting	Main Room	1-5pm
Sunday	10/11/2024	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Sunday	10/11/2024	Private Party	Main Room	2:30-6pm
Sunday	17/11/2024	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm	**
Thursday	21/11/2024	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	24/11/2024	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Sunday	01/12/2024	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Tuesday	03/12/2024	Private Meeting	Main Room	From 4pm
Wednesday	04/12/2024	Private Meeting	Main Room	All day
Thursday	05/12/2024	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	08/12/2024	Junior Football	Main Room	12:30-6:30pm
Monday	09/12/2024		Playing Field	9-1pm	**
Sunday	15/12/2024	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Thursday	19/12/2024	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	22/12/2024	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm	**
Thursday	26/12/2024	Private Meeting	Main Room	From 4pm
Friday	27/12/2024	Private Meeting	Main Room	All day
Thursday	02/01/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Saturday	04/01/2025	Private Party	Main Room	12-3pm
Sunday	05/01/2025	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Wednesday	08/01/2025	Private Meeting	Main Room	From 4pm
Thursday	09/01/2025	Private Meeting	Main Room	All day
Thursday	16/01/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	26/01/2025	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Tuesday	28/01/2025	Private Meeting	Main Room	From 4pm
Wednesday	29/01/2025	Private Meeting	Main Room	All day
Sunday	02/02/2025	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Thursday	06/02/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	09/02/2025	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Thursday	20/02/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	23/02/2025	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Friday	28/02/2025	History Group	Main Room	7:30-9pm
Sunday	02/03/2025	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Thursday	06/03/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Saturday	08/03/2025	Private bookin	Main Room	13.30 - 16.00	TBC
Friday	14/03/2025	Scouts - Kintbury Scouts	Main Room	All day	TBC
Saturday	15/03/2025	Scouts - Kintbury Scouts	Main Room	Until 10am	TBC
Thursday	20/03/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	23/03/2025	Junior Football	Playing Field	9-1pm
Friday	28/03/2025	Scouts - Kintbury Scouts	Main Room	All day	TBC
Saturday	29/03/2025	Scouts - Kintbury Scouts	Main Room	Until 10am	TBC
Thursday	03/04/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	06/04/2025	Cricket	Playing Field	12.30pm-6pm	??
Sunday	13/04/2025	Private booking	Main Room	Pm	TBC
Thursday	17/04/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	27/04/2025	Private booking	Main Room	Pm	TBC
Sunday	04/05/2025	Cricket	Playing Field	12.30pm-6pm
Thursday	08/05/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Thursday	22/05/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	01/06/2025	Cricket	Playing Field	12.30pm-6pm
Thursday	05/06/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	08/06/2025	Private booking	Main Room	11am - 5pm
Thursday	19/06/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Saturday	21/06/2025	Private Party	Main Room	All day	TBC
Sunday	29/06/2025	Cricket (Gibbet Challenger)	Playing Field	10.30 - 1pm
Thursday	03/07/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Saturday	05/07/2025	Kintbury Fete	Main Room	All day	TBC
Thursday	17/07/2025	Pop-in Café	Main Room	10-12:30pm
Sunday	27/07/2025	Cricket	Playing Field	12.30pm-6pm