R AYLEI G H ROTARY CLUB Welcome to the Rotary section of Rayleigh Around Town magazine. The Rotary Club of Rayleigh Mill started 18 years ago originally meeting in the Rayleigh Mill. Since then the 30 members of the Club have raised nearly £500,000 for their charities. Much of this money was raised at the Royal Philharmonic Concert in the Park which we organised each year at Priory Park, Southend. We normally split our donations between needy local charities and international ones. Local ones have included new equipment for the Southend Hospital heart and stroke unit, new engines for the Southend inshore lifeboat and support for drugs awareness presentations at Rayleigh secondary schools. We also annually donate pictorial dictionaries to nearly 700 Year 6 primary school pupils in Rayleigh, Hullbridge and Hockley. Internationally Rotary works with the Bill Gates Foundation to eliminate world polio and we also support Wateraid and Shelterboxes around the world. We have just funded another 2 x £500 Shelterboxes for the disaster in the Philippines (a Shelterbox provides a tent, water purification equipment and food etc. for a family). The club meets at 7.30pm every Monday evening at The Rayleigh Club, Hullbridge Road, Rayleigh and we would be pleased to welcome you there – contact Bill White (wwhite@squaron.fsnet.co.uk) for details or visit our own website www.rotary-club.org.uk.
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Welcome to the first edition of Around Town magazine - Rayleigh! Your monthly community magazine. Our primary aim is to support local, independent businesses and give you, the reader, all the information available to enjoy local life, while supporting the independent shops, trades, cafes, pubs and restaurants, which we are still so lucky to have in our town. Without your valued custom, we could see Rayleigh filled with mainstream, global shops and we’d lose the relationships with local butchers, shop keepers and tradesmen. We are also working quite closely with local organisations and councils, who play a crucial role in our town. Check out the Rayleigh Rotary Article, which is a great introduction as to who they are and what they do for the town & beyond. Other great articles include – Essex Wildlife Trustee Neil Sumner has delivered a seasonal piece on the local wildlife and greenery, which most of us probably don’t even noticed during our busy lives, but is right on our door step. Byfords Traditional Fresh Foods have written up a step-by-step recipe guide for all you budding Master Chef wannabes. Around Towns own journalist Kelly Plume is on hand to report on exciting news story concerning Rayleigh town & its residents – read her article and contact Kelly if you have something for her. All of this, along with your chance to WIN a family ticket to this years’ pantomime ‘Snow White’ at the Cliffs Pavilion (see below). We would also like to hear from you – this is the second branch to our magazine family. We already have Around Town Billericay, which has been received extremely well by the local community and we hope you’ll enjoy our Rayleigh edition just as much.
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REMEMBERING THE FALLEN Dear Constituents, Welcome to the ďŹ rst edition of the new Rayleigh Around Town Magazine which i hope you will enjoy reading in the future. We have just been through a time of Rememberance where we quite rightly paid tribute to those who have fought for our country down the years and who, in some cases, have made the ultimate sacriďŹ ce so that we can be free. On a presonal level this is always poignant for me, as my father was a D-Day Veteran. My father taught me that we
By Marc Francois MP should never take living in a free country for granted. In my new role as Minister of State for the Armed Forces at the MOD, I was mindful of this when I was privileged to attend the National Service of Commemoration at the Cenotaph on Rememberance Sunday (although I did manage to rush back to attend the services at Hockley and at Hawkwell in my constituancy later that afternoon).
Christmas is a time for people to spend with their loved ones but I hope that we can all spend a few moments to bear in mind our service personnel who will spend Christmas in Afghanistan, half way around the world, to help keep us safe from terrorism back at home. Finally I would like to take this oppertunity to wish all of my constituents a very Merry Christmas. Rt Hon Mark Francois Member of Parliament for Rayleigh and Wickford
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Around Town Rayleigh Hello all, I’ve spent the past year, exploring, rummaging around and getting to the crux of the community in Billericay, Stock and Ingatestone and now I’m very excited to get up close and personal with Rayleigh. My column is where I document the local people I’ve met, findings I have dug out and places I have visited. However, I’m not a total newbie to Rayleigh! For the majority of Friday nights for several years I have taken cover on dance floor in The Pink Toothbrush. I‘ve strolled around the famous, traditional Rayleigh Lanes Market and being just a couple of stops down from Billericay on the train (8 minutes to be precise) I regularly visit the thriving High Street. Each month I cover restaurant reviews, tradesman of the month, local news and information on exciting local happenings. Let me know what you do, let me know what your friends do, I would like to learn more about the town and its inhabitants! Please get in touch and share with me about your life. Are you part of a group or a club? Do you have an amazing job? Let me know. Wishing you all a magical Christmas, I suggest you over indulge and make the most of it! I’ll catch you ‘Around Town’ in the New Year, if not, perhaps a tad before then, frequenting the Brush. by Around Town Journalist Kelly Plume.
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“Is there much wildlife around here?”. A question I was once asked by a person walking the dog on a dull and murky autumn afternoon along an Essex bridleway. The question was understandable because it was a quiet day, a soporific time, punctuated by just the occasional call of a bird or grey squirrel. “Yes” I replied “There is wildlife around here, but it helps to know what is there and to pick your time and place”. Nature is everywhere, but how much we can see and enjoy will depend on the season, weather and the habitat around us. Around our area we can enjoy many different habitats and the sights and sounds that are within them. Although Winter at times seems quiet, you may find yourself within a noisy flock of tits in a wood or see a flock of woodpigeon or finches descending into a ploughed field. Or you can just enjoy a colourful walk amongst ancient trees and coppices in the many woodlands around Daws Heath and Hockley. Just taking the time to stop, look and listen can help us appreciate some of our own local wildlife. In Winter, wellwrapped, we can walk along the Thames or Crouch and look at great gatherings of gulls, at rafts of floating duck and geese, at long-legged wading birds pecking in the mud. We can go into farmland footpaths and look for brown hares, or flocks of starlings and thrushes on the frosted fields. Colder winters can mean hungry animals and they become more confiding in their desperate search for food, so it’s a good time to put up feeders for garden birds. So, yes, there is wildlife around us, but you have to pick your time and place. Perhaps get a local expert or join one of the Essex Wildlife Trust or RSPB or local Borough Council events to help you find what is there? And being out in the natural environment is good for us. The exercise and fresh air are invigorating and the views of landscapes are soothing and help us to detach ourselves from the demands and to return to our problems with a fresh perspective. Neil Sumner is a volunteer in nature conservation and trustee of Essex Wildlife Trust. He also conducts bird surveys and leads bird walks.
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Christmas is coming… ‘Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat, please put a penny in the old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny a ha’penny will do. If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you!’ This very old but well known rhyme helps us to put a part of Christmas into perspective. As we plan and prepare for Christmas we can be sure that there will always be someone worse off than ourselves. Our natural response should always be to look at ways in which we can help others according to what we can afford. Of course, the demand for our money, especially at Christmas time, is high as many charities try to draw our attention to their needs. In the end we have to choose the causes we can relate to, mainly because we can’t hope to pledge our allegiances to every call on our resources. It’s easy to feel guilty about this situation, especially as we read in the Bible where Jesus said, ‘Whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!’ (Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 40). But this helps us to take our dilemma to Jesus in prayer, to guide us to know what we should do… But Christmas is not only about giving. It’s also about receiving. The rhyme spoke of God’s blessing, and it’s this which focusses our minds on receiving from God at Christmas. It doesn’t matter how much we give away because we know that we can never give more than God has given to us. And it’s at Christmas that we celebrate the most precious gift that we can ever be given; God’s Son, Jesus Christ. Christina Rossetti, in her hymn, expresses this in the words, ‘Love came down at Christmas, love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas – star and angels gave the sign.’ At Christmas we can so easily be distracted from remembering this truth, as we get caught up in the glittering trimmings which Christmas also brings, but Christmas without Christ leaves very little! This can reflect the emptiness which many will experience this Christmas unaware of the gift which God has freely given and wants us to receive… All are welcome to come along to any of our Christmas services at Holy Trinity (High Street), St Michael’s (Sir Walter Raleigh Drive) or Grovewood (Grove Wood Primary School, Grove Road). Please contact the Parish Office by phone, email or our parish website. May I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and may God bless you. Yours in the love of Jesus, The Revd Canon Mike Lodge Team Rector Parish of Rayleigh
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Rayleigh Essex Community spirit is alive and well in Rayleigh which is proved by the thousands of readers who discuss local issues, business contacts and community events on the popular Rayleigh Essex facebook page. The page was established four years ago by Colin MacLean of Amos Estates in the High Street and has quickly established itself as the most active page for the Town within the various social media platforms. The page has over 8000 readers and the pages posts are viewed around 50,000 times during an average week. Colin MacLean said “There will always be a place for printed media for businesses as the excellent around town magazines prove but my page provides an active forum for charitable and volunteer groups to advertise their events at no cost to a huge audience, this can often be the difference between success and failure of a project. The page also allows Authorities like Rochford District Council to quickly advise members of the public of important news and issues.” “I am proud that we are able to play a part in projecting to the outside World what a great place to live and visit Rayleigh is.” The page can be found at www.facebook.com/RayleighEssex
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BYFORDS TRADITIONAL F R E S H
F O O D S
GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS
Byfords Traditional Fresh Foods of Rayleigh are now taking orders for Christmas
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Succulent Free Range Bronze Turkeys 3 Star Gold Great Taste Award winning Smoked Gammon Glazed, smoked or unsmoked Hams Finest quality local Beef Traditional homemade Pork Pies And lots more!!
29 High Street, Rayleigh, Essex
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Madeira and Cherry Glazed Gammon All ingredien ts available at Byfords Tr aditional
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as table. This glazed gammon makes a very attractive centrepiece to a Christm Taste Award Great gold star 3 our of one Seal 4. mark Gas C 180 to Preheat oven winning gammon joints in cooking foil. per kilo, (20 Place on baking tray and put into centre of oven and cook for 50 minutes minutes per 1lb plus 20 minutes at end.) a nice covering Allow to cool for 40 minutes before carefully removing the rind, leaving then cover the and fat the through knife a with of fat on the meat. Cut diamond shapes glaze. the meat with Madeira and Cherry Glaze ½ orange zest ½ lime zest 2 oranges 2 limes 100g (3 ½oz ) dried cherries 225ml (8 fl oz) Madeira or port 1 tbsp arrowroot 225g (8oz) light muscovado sugar 2 limes into a Put zest of ½ orange and ½ lime zest, plus the juice of 2 oranges and overnight. soak to leave then Madeira 225ml bowl with 100g of dried cherries and paste. Mix smooth a make to liquid Madeira tbsp 1 about with ot arrowro Mix 1 tbsp with 225g pan small a into cherries the tip then back into the bowl of soaking cherries, begins to simsauce the until min 7 – 5 for heat low a over Stir sugar. do light muscova mer and thicken. Pour the glaze over the gammon and return the meat to the oven. Place in a pre-heated oven at 200°C (180° C if it is a fan oven) oven down a bit. Roast for another 25- 35 mins. If the cherries start to burn, turn the
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POLICE Rayleigh Police Station HOSPITALS Brentwood Hospital Basildon Hospital Broomfield Hospital Essex Nuffield Hospital Queen’s Romford Southend Hospital St. John’s Spire Hartswood Hospital HELPLINES Alcoholics Anonymous Childline DIAL Disability Helpline Drugline Essex In Focus (family disabilities support)
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0300 333 4444
CHEMISTS Boots the Chemist, Rayleigh 01268 771883
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Audley Mills, Rayleigh
01268 776479
Lloyds Pharmacy, Rayleigh
01268 771703
Grange Pharmacy, Rayleigh 01268 784192 Hambro, Rayleigh
01268 781623
Yardley Chemist
01268 743283
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Rochford District Council
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Bus Service
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Rail Service
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