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Last year, many of you helped us back the Christchurch Chamber of Trade’s campaign for a “£1 for 2 hours” parking regime. We are pleased to say that our efforts finally came to fruition and this comes into force from the 1st April. It will apply in the four central Christchurch car parks - Waitrose, Bank, Regent Centre and Saxon Square. Christchurch Council have however, referred to it now as a trial so do please continue to help the businesses in town and make full use of the scheme whilst in place so that we can prove to the Council that this will be worth continuing for the prosperity of our town. Thank you to all those that signed the petition, as you can see, they really can make a difference. For this month’s recipe we have some scrummy Easter Biscuits for you to try. My daughter and I have tried and tested them and although they didn’t look quite as nice as the ones in the photograph, they certainly tasted delicious! Enjoy the Easter Bank holiday!
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What’s On Entries are listed FREE of charge for local groups and events. Submit your listing online at www.localeyemagazines.co.uk Tuesday 1st April and Wednesday 30th April Stan’s Blues Jam at The Thomas Tripp, Christchurch BH23 1HX on Tuesday 1st April (and the First Tuesday Every Month) and at The Avon Causeway, Hurn BH23 6AS on Wednesday 30th April (and Last Wednesday Every Month). Details at www.stansbluesjam.co.uk
Thursday 3rd April Christchurch Priory Lunchtime Organ Concert at 12.30pm Jonathan Allsopp (Hereford Cathedral).
Wednesday 9th April Coffee morning at Twynham School, Sopers Lane, Christchurch. Coffee, cakes and crafts. A fundraising event in aid of Pancreatic Cancer. 9.30am-12.30pm. Contact Brenda Weeks 01202 428004 if you require further information. Saturday 12th April RNLI coffee morning in Highcliffe Methodist Church Hall from 10.00-12.30. Cakes, bric-a-brac, jewellery, souvenirs, books, jigsaws. Admission free, donations welcome.
Friday 4th April Craft and Cake Sale 9.30-11.30, Highcliffe Community Association, Greystones House, Waterford Road.
Saturday 12th April Bransgore Horticultural Society Spring Show - 2pm at the Village Hall, Burley Road, Bransgore. Something for everyone - Flowers, Floral art, Art, Photography, Cooking, preserving. Open to non members. Entry forms from Tony - 01425 673436 or Jim 01425 673202.
Saturday 5th April Craft and Vintage Fayre, 10am-1pm, Bransgore Village Hall, Burley Road, Bransgore. 30 stalls of local Crafts and Vintage finds. With an Easter theme and vintage style refreshments, the perfect mornings browse! FREE ENTRY, supporting Julias House.
Saturday 12th April The Christchurch Royal British Legion Women’s Section are holding a Coffee Morning in the Mayors Parlour Christchurch, at 10am till mid-day, Coffee and Cake, or buttered bun, £1.50. Tombola and cake stall. Your support will be welcome.
Saturday 5th April St George’s Church Jumpers Road Christchurch have an Easter themed Table sale on 10am til 1pm. There will be an Easter egg hunt for children and plenty of bargains to buy.
Saturday 12th April Grange Choral Society Concert at Christchurch Priory 7.30pm.A performance of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater conducted by Marcio da Silva.Tickets from Bookends 67 High Street ,Hilary Scott 01202 399139 or at door.£16 reserved, £9 unreserved, £5 students.
Saturday 5th April Highcliffe Horticultural Society will be holding our Open Spring Show at St. Mark’s church hall, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe from 2-4pm. Entrance Fee 50p. Refreshments available, Raffle & Plant Stall. Contact Show Secretary on 01425 274845 for details. Sunday 6th April The Bean Car Club’s Daffodil Run (The Club for all makes of Veteran & Vintage Vehicles). The rally will arrive at Christchurch Quay from 2.30pm after a run from Maidenhead, Berks. where the Mayor of Christchurch will present the prizes after the final judging. Tuesday 8th April Red House Museum. 10.30am-12.30pm. Easter Bunny Hunt. Prizes & refreshments. Children £3, Adults £1. Children must be accompanied. Booking essential. Phone 01202 482860 or call in. Open Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-4. Wednesday 9th April Red House Museum Main Gallery - Battle Lines Performances on the 2 short plays inspired by real local stories about the First and Second World Wars. 2pm and 6pm. Tickets now on sale at the Red House suitable for 8 and upwards. Wheel chair access. £5 each. 01202 482860 or redhouse.museum@hants.gov.uk
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Friday 18th April Christchurch Priory - Good Friday, Bach’s Passion according to St. John @7.30pm with BSO and BBC singers. Tickets from £15 available at Regent Centre. Organ concerts every Thursday at 12.30pm. Retiring Collection. Refreshments and light lunches from 10.30-1.30pm. Friday 18th April – 21st April 2014 Easter Trail - In the grounds of Highcliffe Castle. Find the Easter chicks hidden in the Castle grounds, answer the questions and win an Easter egg prize. £1.00 per trail. 11.00am-4.00pm daily. Saturday 26th April Barn Dance at Twynham School 7.30 p.m - in aid of Cancer Research UK. Tickets £11 to include fish and chips, Tea and Coffee. Raffle. Bring own drinks and glasses. Telephone no. for tickets 07962889905. Saturday 26th April Car Boot Sale at Highcliffe St Mark Primary School, Greenways, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 5AZ. Times: 10am-12pm. £5 per car, entry 50p adults & children free. Proceeds go to FRIENDS of Highcliffe St Mark Primary School, registered charity: 900343
Saturday 26th April The Royal British Legion Highcliffe Branch are holding a Coffee Morning with a raffle on 10am till 12noon at The Methodist Church Hall, Lymington Road, Highcliffe everyone is welcome come along and make some new friends. Sunday 27th April Portfield Community Hall Craft Fair, Portfield Road BH23 2AQ. Raising money for Macmillan Caring Locally at 1-4pm. Entry is 50p for adults children are free. Tea/coffee and homemade cakes available. Tables cost £15 + raffle prize. To book a table email JakeArt1@virginmedia.com. Tuesday 29th April Christchurch Priory Tours Tuesday 29 April, Thursday 15 May 6.15 for 6.30pm, approx 2ž hours Tickets in advance £10.00 from the Verger Tel: 01202 485804 Includes tower (176 steps!) museum, crypts, belfry and roof space. Children over 8 welcome. Table-Top-Sale at the REGENT CENTRE every Monday & Saturday from 10am to 3pm. Selling a variety of goods incl, Costume/Vintage Jewellery, Books, Homemade Cakes, DVD’s, Bric-a-Brac, etc..
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Regular Markets Every Monday - Christchurch Market (all year) Up to 100 traders selling a variety of food, clothes, household goods, plants and bric-a-brac in the mainly traffic-free High Street and Saxon Square. Christchurch Country Market. Everything homebaked, homemade and home-grown locally. Every Monday 9.30-11.30. Druitt Hall (behind library). Refreshments available.
Community Notices BIG BREKKIE! World Autism Awareness Day. Be a good egg! Invite your friends, family and colleagues to a Big Brekkie on World Autism Awareness Day. Wednesday 2nd April 2014, to show your support and raise awareness of autism and regional charity Autism Wessex. The most important meal of today! Download your event pack now: www. autismwessex.org.uk/bigbrekkie Contact the elderly Christchurch group requires reserve car drivers required for twice a year on a Sunday afternoon when the regulars can’t come. Also volunteer host and hostesses required any area to provide afternoon tea for six elderly people and two car drivers one Sunday afternoon year. a downstairs cloakroom is a must. Call Carolyn 01202 424482.
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Clubs, Classes, Groups & Societies Fitness, Sport and Wellbeing Gentle Yoga & Relaxation - Tuesdays 12:30-13:45 at The Wessex Health Network, Christchurch. Ideal for busy mums and over 50s. British Wheel of Yoga Teacher. Please call (07966) 199875 or email becca@yogabee.co.uk for more information. £6.50 per week (£7 drop in if space available). Fancy playing cricket? Mudeford Cricket Club’s four Saturday teams cover all abilities from teenagers to 60+. Join us at Christchurch Sports Club, Hurn Bridge any Thursday in April for nets at 7pm. www. mudefordcricketclub.co.uk for more info and contacts including junior teams. Yoga for adults & children - CHAIR Yoga - use of a chair for gentle stretches. All are welcome on Wednesdays at Portfield Hall, Portfield Road, Christchurch - 1pm-2pm. TEENS Yoga - a small group to practise yoga, release tensions & relax.. Tuesdays 3:45pm - 4:45pm @ Wessex Health, Stour Road. To book. yoga.silvaperez@gmail.com Thai Yoga Massage Therapist. Chi Kung Exercise Classes - Come and join us on Friday mornings 10.45am - 12.15 in the upstairs studio at Wessex Health, 17 Stour Road, Christchurch BH23 1PL Car park at rear. www.wessexhealthnetwork. co.uk Please call tutor Poppy. 01202 735560 Pregnancy yoga based exercise, breathing & relaxation classes. Stretch & strengthen your body, relieve aches & pains and prepare for birth. Suitable for all abilities including complete beginners, from 14 weeks of pregnancy. Tuesdays in Christchurch. Contact Rosa 07837 218374 www.labouroflove. me.uk Vinyasa Flow Yoga Classes - A 60 minute flowing yoga class for all levels, 7-8pm at Priory House, Christchurch. Contact Caroline on 07798 941832 or visit http://www.perfectfitforlife.com/yoga-for-life/ to book. First session FREE! YOGA CLASSES - Every Monday 0915-1015 and Wednesday 0930-1030 at the Bay Tree, Saxon Square, Christchurch. Ideal for beginners, busy mums and those who prefer a gentler pace! Kindly email Elaine Rees on elainerees@europe.com or text/call 07504 823517 to book a class.
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Art and Craft SUSAN KNIGHTS Watercolour Classes ‘Jump in and Get Wet’ in small, friendly, informative classes overlooking beautiful Christchurch Harbour. Contact Sue on 01202 481099 or email susanknights@ hotmail.co.uk www.susanknights.co.uk Highcliffe Flower Club. Come and watch a professional flower arranger demonstrate in the Methodist Church Hall, Lymington Road, on the second Wednesday of each month at 2pm, doors open 1.30pm. We are a friendly group and visitors are welcome. HIGHCLIFFE ART FELLOWSHIP, Wed 2 April - 2.30pm Methodist Hall, Highcliffe. Demonstration of Still Life in style of Old Masters by Sonia Bacchus. Enhanced by 51” TV for close up of work. Visitors welcome. Fee £2. Friday 4th April Christchurch Floral Society meeting at Priory Hall, Princess Avenue 2pm. Demonstrator Emily Broomhead “Shabby Chic” Competition “Easter Parade” Plant stall Doors open 1-30pm All Welcome. Carbery Machine Knitting Club meet on the first Tuesday of each month from 7-9pm in the Annex of St George’s Church, Jumpers Rd, Christchurch. BH23 2JR We are a small friendly group, always welcoming to new members. For further information, please call Joy on 01202 489614 Children Highcliffe Hawks Girls football training, every Friday 6-7pm at Mudeford Wood Community Centre. For girls in school years 4, 5 & 6. For more information and to register please contact Annie 07780 933393 or email anniehancock10@gmail.com Musical Steps - Award-winning, inspirational and educational music classes for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Monday mornings at the Regent Centre. Come and join the wonderful world of music, learning and fun! heather.smith@musicalsteps. co.uk 0845 643 5025 www.musicalsteps.co.uk Creative Ballet Classes for children 3+ at Portfield Hall, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2AQ Thursdayfrom 3.30pm. The classes are fun and creative with an emphasis on building confidence and
coordination as well as teaching poise, movement quality, musicality, spatial awareness, strength and flexibility. Call Sally on 07950459119 or email sally. burbage@gmail.com Mudeford Wood Active Kids - Established Holiday Club for children aged 4-11 years during Easter (Monday 7th to Friday 11th April) packed full of sports and fun activities. Open 9am to 4pm at Mudeford Wood Community Centre, Pipers Drive, BH23 4TR. Call 01425 272084. www. mudefordwoodcommunitycentre.co.uk. Sessions Music and Heritage Club for young people aged 11+ who love music. Every Tuesday from 6pm in The Back Room, Old School House, Lymington Rd, Highcliffe BH23 5ET See you there! e:Sessionsbh23@ gmail.com tel/text: 07971472768 or follow us on fb Clubs and Societies
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ÂŁ1 for 2 hours Parking The new â€œÂŁ1 for 2 hoursâ€? parking regime comes into force from the 1st April. You will recall the Eye magazines (and many readers) helped the Christchurch Chamber of Trade’s campaign to achieve this change.
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It will apply in the four central Christchurch car parks - Waitrose, Bank, Regent Centre and Saxon Square. However Christchurch Council has referred to it as a trial. So please do come to Christchurch and take full advantage of the scheme. And when you come, use those two hours to look at our shops, have a coffee – or even lunch. The Council will monitor the parking numbers and we in the Chamber will monitor the effect it is going to have on trade. If we can show that trade and visitors increase, we can argue the change should be permanent. Whilst we may think it is obvious that lower parking charges help town centres thrive, with deep Councils cut-backs, we are going to need to produce hard evidence to justify it.
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My plan involves treasure, and you may be surprised to learn that there is actual treasure hidden right here in Christchurch! Absolutely anyone can find it. Well, anyone with the ‘Geocaching’ app downloaded to a smart phone (or a GPS device, if you’re serious!). For the uninitiated, ‘Geocaching’ is a global game of hide and seek. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. You get to poke around in the undergrowth, making sure no one sees what you’re doing(!), and once found, you surreptitiously record your name on a log in the cache before replacing it without anyone seeing — any treasure items can be taken as long as you replace them with something else. Finds can also be logged on the website to keep track. There are hundreds of caches right here on our doorstep — there maybe one right outside your house, you never know! Back to my cunning plan; I get to dress up like a spy (not compulsory, but any excuse...) and take excited child on a treasure hunt and dog gets a walk at the same time — everybody wins! Oh, and the best bit? It doesn’t cost anything! If ‘app’s’ aren’t really your thing, you could always head up to Highcliffe Castle and join in the annual Easter Egg hunt instead — just as much fun and with chocolate at the end of it! Have a very Happy Easter, An English Mum :) PS. Go to geocaching.com for more info if you’d like to join in!
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his new Christchurch Eye watersports column gives local knowledge about the rivers, harbour and bay. I have used many different boats around the world but it all started in local waters. Sailing, John powerboating and kayaking in Christchurch Bay definitely gives ‘the motion of the ocean’ and this is always a great place to get afloat. As Easter approaches Christchurch Harbour is recovering from the effects of winter floods. Iford Bridge and local caravan parks made the national news over Christmas plus the floods left a lot of debris in the water. So how does a shallow harbour affect local boaters? Kayakers change their routes and paddle harder. Dinghy sailors are used to touching the bottom, then lifting their centre boards fast! Larger sailing cruisers simply go aground and rest on their keels if the water is not deep enough. But shallow water is really bad news for RIBs and powerboats! These boats need to avoid touching the bottom as it can wreck propellers. This year a depth sounder will be useful for getting in and out of Christchurch Entrance – the bar is shifting and very shallow. The Run needs to form a new channel and we all hope that the buoyage will be back in for Easter. Before the first trip out all boaters should check their lifejackets and safety kit. Power boaters need to make sure that their engines are running well, adding new fuel improves the mix, and always use ‘kill cords’ Mudeford RNLI do a great job all year round so remember to give generously. See you on the water!!
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So, it was with some surprise, when after reading last month’s ‘Christchurch Property News’, a landlord who I had never had the pleasure of meeting before, took me up on my offer of popping his head round our door on Fountain Way (near Waitrose) for a chat about the local property market. He lived in the Friar’s Cliff area and wanted to know my thoughts on what to buy in the coming 12 months for a possible rental investment. Buying property to let is about the balance of the annual yield or return from the property verses the potential of its growth in value. In the Friar’s Cliff area, those larger houses let out for between £1,800 and £2,500 per month, giving an annual yield of around 3%. However, yields are over 80% more on the Somerford Housing estate, where the annual yields currently being achieved would be around 5.8% per year (as they can bought for under £200,000 and rent day in day out at around £850 per month. So surely the Somerford Housing estate is the place to buy, as it has much higher yields? However, we must remember that yield is not the sole consideration when investing in buy to let. The value of the larger properties in Friars Cliff, over the last 10 or 11 years, has risen on average by 73%, whilst property on The Somerford Estate has, in the same time period, only risen by an average of 19%. So you either buy for yield or you buy for capital growth! Ultimately, we found there’s a general rule that the better the area you buy in, the lower the return you’ll get. This is because you’ll have to pay more to buy property in a nice area, and the amount of rent you’ll get doesn’t rise at the same level, but properties tend to go up in value better, over the long term. However, it is easier to judge yields today than deciding what will go up in value in the future. Buying in a less plush area, such as The Somerford Estate doesn’t mean a property won’t rent, but it does have a bearing on the type of tenant you are likely to attract. Again, every property and every landlord is different. I don’t charge for my advice because if I offer you the best opinion and we build a relationship, then you might (and there is no obligation or expectation to this) just use me to manage those properties and so there will be time to earn money from you by looking after your buy to let property for years to come, a property that we jointly decided met your requirements for the investment because that is what it is, an investment. So, feel free to pop into our offices near Waitrose for a chat about the property market in Christchurch. Jeremy Clarke, Belvoir 01202 588920
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ell it may have just had one of the wettest months on record but it did not dampen spirits at Christchurch Rotary Club. The club inducted three new Business Partners : B.Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd; Avon Reach Care Home (Colten Care) and Zipyard (Clothing alterations).
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