Following hard on the heels of the cancelled Charity Auction, Chilcote has a new premier event: - A Barn Dance with Hog Roast and a Licenced Bar.
Friday 25th September is the date to put in your diary and the details are as follows: - Manor Farm will be open from 7pm until 11pm. Tickets are £10 per adult and £5 per child up to 14 years. The Dancing and the Hog Roast with strawberries afterwards is included in the ticket price.
Tickets are available from Nicky, reserve yours now by email to nicky@jwbusby.co.uk.
Click on the link below to see a copy of the Updated Events Calendar.

Please come and join us on Saturday 23rd May at Chilcote Village Hall between 10:30 and 12:30 for Cake, Coffee and Tea. The cost is only £1.50 per person and all monies raised will go towards repairs to the Chilcote Village Hall. There will be a raffle too so contact Mavis if you need more information.

Chilcote Village Clean-up 25th April 2009.

I would like to thank the villagers of Chilcote who turned out, in dodgy weather, to give up two hours of their time to tidy up the village. We had a large turnout, some even before the event, enabling us to complete most of the jobs on the to-do list, I’m sure that this reflects the pride all the villagers of Chilcote have in their village – Well Done!

Rick Hockney, Secretary Chilcote Parish Meeting.

I have taken on the Chilcote website and will be working on it from the beginning of 2009 with the intention to make it a valuable information resource for villagers.
If any villager would like to contribute a news item of interest to others please contact me by 'phone or email to discuss.

A parish meeting consists of the local government electors registered for the area for which it is held. In a parish in England where no parish council exists, the district or unitary authority must establish a parish council if the population includes 200 or more local government electors.
If the population includes more than 150 but less than 200 electors, the district or unitary council must establish a parish council if the parish meeting resolves that one should be established. This power is discretionary if the parish is already grouped under a common parish council.
Where the population includes not more than 150 local government electors, the district or unitary council may create a parish council if the parish meeting so resolves.
A parish meeting is not a corporate body and is therefore unable to own property or sue or be sued.
Generally speaking it is not a local authority, though for certain limited purposes it may be regarded as one. Its lack of legal personality has not prevented Parliament from enabling it to exercise functions.
Its powers are not as extensive as those of a parish council, although on application the district authority may by order confer on the meeting any or all functions of a parish council.
The parish meeting should assemble annually between 1 March and 1 June and on at least one other occasion during the year.