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Parish Council Village Precept for 2020/21

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The Timsbury Parish Council Precept for the village that will be included in Council Tax bills for the year from April 2020/21 will amount to £69,000. This total will be divided between the households in the village (approximately 1,200) according to Council Tax band and the number of adults in residence.

The charge for a Band D house is expected to be about £74 for the year, an increase of just over £1 per month compared with 2019/20.

In the current year to the end of March 2020 Timsbury Parish Council is expected to spend a total of £78,000. In the year to end of March 2021 the forecast spend is £88,800.

The increase in spending is necessary to replace services previously provided by B&NES Council. In the past few years B&NES Council has lost Government funding, increased its spend on social care and faced restrictions on Council Tax increases.

As a result, the B&NES has substantially reduced the amount it spends on other things and over the next three years it plans to cut another £15 million from its budget. As services disappear parish councils are left to provide such replacement services as they see fit.

For the coming year Timsbury Parish Council has decided to fund the Hub library to replace the discontinued mobile library service; to maintain provision of a youth service that would otherwise have vanished and retain the street sweeper, all previously paid for by B&NES Council.

The expected costs for these three elements in 2020/21 are hub library £12,800; youth service £13,300, sweeper £5,600. These are costs that will need to be met in future years and the increased Precept recognises this on-going commitment.

In addition, we also lost an annual grant from B&NES and the Parish Council is protecting its reserves in preparation for expected high spending in future years on street lighting and road safety improvements.

Full details of the Precept budget can be found on the village website www.timsbury.org.uk/parish council/finances

War Memorial Rededication & DDay Landing Commemorations Sat 8th June 3pm 🗓 🗺

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by Chris Fiddes of the Timsbury Royal British Legion:

Many residents may have noticed the village War Memorial has been remodelled and looks fantastic.

As a result, everyone is invited to a Rededication Service at the Memorial to be conducted by the Rev Martin Blewett. Attending will be representatives from the Royal British Legion County, Branch, Club, Standard Bearers, Parish Council and William Bertram the Architect, also the Brownies and Guides TBC.

We will have a very special guest/VIP: Mr Bert Matthews, who was one of the original architects and builder of the memorial back in 1967-68 when the Legion Club first opened at its present location. Bert will be 100 years old in November this year, making him one of the oldest surviving heroes from the DDay landings in the area. Bert was called up for National Service in 1940 aged 21 and served in the Royal Engineers for 5yrs. He also survived active service in El -Alamein during WW2. Bert has said it will be a great honour to be our VIP for this event on this the 75th Anniversary Year of D-Day!!

We do hope to see as many residents from the village as possible attend the service and also after for refreshments in the RBL Club following the Rededication of our Memorial to the 29 men from Timsbury who gave their lives in WW1 – WW2.

It has taken a few years to get this beautiful remodelled Memorial and special event for our village! Thanks to the Royal British Legion, Parish Council who funded it, William Bertram (architect) and Gary Peggrum the builder.

Invitation to Village Meeting

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All Timsbury villagers are welcome to come to the Annual Parish Meeting on Thursday April 25th at 7.30 in the Conygre Hall, North Road.

In addition to the Parish Council reporting on what it has done in the last year, anyone can ask for any items of interest and concern to be raised.

Also, there will be a discussion about issues such as, the Hub Library, youth projects, buses/transport, planning developments etc.

See the formal agenda here and a summary of the Parish Council’s finances for the year to end of March 2019.

Also there will be an election of two Trustees to the Conygre Trust who are having their annual meeting on Monday 29th April at 7.30 in the Conygre Hall.