It’s lovely to be asked to write something for Littleport Life so I can introduce myself. My name is Madeleine, the interim Priest in Charge for St George’s. I’m here for two years to support and guide the Church. I’ve been living in Littleport for just over a year and it’s great to get more involved. Two major events are looming on the horizon for all of us, both of which we’ve experienced before. The…
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There has been so much activity going on at Littleport’s The Port youth group in the lead-up to this winter that it would take up this entire magazine to tell you all about it! Not to mention the fact that accompanied by the responsible adults many of ThePort’s youngsters deliver over a thousand magazines around Littleport every quarter – including this one that you are looking at now! The driving force behind ThePort is Joanne…
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Hairdressers, cafes, takeaways, motor mechanics, boarding kennels for cats and dogs, pet groomers, electricals, building services – the list of experts is endless. One local business, Lee Decorators, namely Chris Lee, gave up his time free of charge to paint the inside of the ladies and gents toilets at one of Littleport’s popular establishments, the Ex-Servicemen’s Club in Ponts Hill. Chair of their Committee Adi Keating thanked Chris and his helper Daz Swindell, one of…
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President Ian Burrows — “We are supporting East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices”. Four members of our club carried out a sponsored — 48 mile Fen Rivers Walk, Cambridge to Kings Lynn over 3 days starting on 25th Sept. The walk started into high cold, northern winds. It was a struggle after 14 miles near the confluent of the Cam and the Great Ouse—Tony Winchester, fell, was injured and retired. The efforts of our walkers and club…
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I don’t know if any of you remember the Sure Start programme? It was a government funded initiative targeted at children under the age of four, living in the most disadvantaged areas. The aim of the programme was to provide a host of joined up services to support families, as well as to provide a high-quality educational setting which children under the age of four could attend. These settings were aimed at being cognitively enabling…
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As I write this piece, the school year has finished and staff are on the last of their two professional days before their summer break begins. I have just taken a moment to read back through the last edition of the Littleport Life and I see Rev’d Howard opened his article with the hope that by the time we are reading it, the lockdown will have ended…well ‘ended’ it hasn’t, but things are different now….
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1st Littleport Scout Group leaders and members of the executive committee have been busy preparing for the return of face-to-face Scouting in the autumn. This has involved following the guidance issued by the Scout Association, which is based on the National Youth Agency Guidelines; ensuring risk assessments are completed and approved; and that plans are in place to reintroduce Scouting activities. “We are keeping everything crossed for returning in September, we have all been missing…
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Lianne Stephenson is not only a busy full time Mum, but she also runs her own handmade craft business, and is an independent Usborne Books at Home Organiser for children and young people’s publisher Usborne Books. And two days of the week she is in Ely helping at her mum’s very popular Lemon Tree Deli Cafe. And when the lockdown began Lianne also started fundraising for the NHS from sales of crocheted rainbows and hand…
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With the easing of some recent lockdown restrictions, a few Littleport parkrunning buddies like the Parkrun run organisers James Lee and Amanda Murfitt have managed to get out and enjoy a few social distancing runs which included a coming together to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of their popular local parkrun on June 27th writes Cathy Gibb-de Swarte. And on that day they also came across their running buddies Jo White, Lizzie Hyslop and Cathy Gibb-de…
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As we approached the end of summer, we looked forward to the arrivals this next season would bring. But over recent decades numbers of some of these species have been declining. The species that Welney are most famous for each winter are the two swans – whoopers from Iceland and Bewick’s from Arctic Russia, but the two populations tell very different tales. Whilst the Icelandic whooper swan population is doing well, seeing a 17% increase…
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