village news Melbourn Library
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Melbourn & Meldreth Women’s Group
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British Legion, Women’s Section
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Melbourn History Group
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Home-Start fundraising
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Meldreth & Shepreth Station Accessibility
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Wood Green re-homing charity
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Melbourn Fete 2014
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Melbourn Library Melbourn Library is now well established in its new home in The Hub. Initially volunteer librarians sat at the same desk as the Hub receptionist but have now moved to the other side of the entrance. We are awaiting our new desk, which will co-ordinate with the reception desk, replacing the temporary table we now use. Our new home has brought us into the centre of the village and made residents more aware of the library’s existence. As a result in the four months we have been at the Hub we have had 153 new registrations and our lending’s are up at least 70%. This is very heartening as it shows how much the library, which is staffed entirely by volunteers, is valued by the community. Our stock of fiction is wide and varied but we can also order any book from the Cambridgeshire library stock. Ordered books usually arrive within 7–10 days. Audio books and music CDs are available as well. Once you have a library card you can order books on line and renew borrowed books on line. The library opening times remain the same: Monday to Friday 2.30 – 4.30 pm Thursday the library remains open until 6.30 pm Saturday 10 am – 12 pm Jane Stevens
Melbourn & Meldreth Women’s Group
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The Group is for all women of any age. Meetings are held at 7.45 p.m. on the 4th Tuesday of each month, except in December and we vary our venues between Melbourn and Meldreth. We charge £1 on the night to cover expenses and there is an opportunity to make a donation to the chosen charity of the year, which is The National Autistic Society. We usually have a guest speaker or some in-house entertainment followed by a chance to have a chat over tea/coffee and biscuits. Our next meeting is 23rd September in the meeting room of Holy Trinity Church Meldreth where the Rev. Andrew O’Brien will talk to us about some of his experiences as a Police Chaplain. October 3rd is the Joint Parishes Harvest Supper held in Meldreth Village Hall and we will be helping to organise this with other members of the parishes. This will be a ticket only function which must be purchased in advance to assist us with planning for the catering. Tickets will be available from members of the committee. Our October meeting is on the 28th in All Saints Church, Community Hall when we plan to make decorations for our Christmas Tree for the Meldreth Tree Festival. Come prepared to help with ideas or materials and we hope this will be an evening of melbournmagazine
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