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Saucepan versusSoupmaker

A ‘Saucepan versus Soupmaker’ competition willbe one of the highlights of anupcoming Soup and Puddingevening in Aylsham Town Hallon 23 April at 7.30pm.

Organised by Slow Food Aylsham, the event will inviteguests to choose between soupmade in the traditional wayand soup made in a ‘new-fangled’ machine. Localchef Derrol Waller will be onhand with his saucepan while

Slow Food’s Jill Willis will tend the machine.

Enough soup will be produced for all guests to have a bowl full, together with roll and butter. A selection of dessert puddings will follow, made by Slow Food Aylsham members, and accompanied by achoice of custard or cream. This is certainly an event when the diet isbest left at home!

Chair of Slow Food Aylsham, Mo Anderson-Dungar, says she is reallylooking forward to the event, which will mirror one held seven yearsago. “Back in 2009,” she says, “Slow Food held a very similar eventwhich attracted a large audience and saw our members come up with afabulous selection of puddings. Since then, our Spring event has been afoodie quiz night but we decided to revisit the Soup and Puddings thisyear, with the added twist of the Saucepan versus Soupmaker competition. It should be a great fun evening and we hope all the family will come along.”

Tickets for the evening, which is supported by electrical retailer J BPostle, are just £7, available in Aylsham from Barnwells Newsagents,Carousel Chocolates or the Market Place fruit and veg stall. Alternatively, phone the ticket line on 07519 361 812.A selection of delicious puddings

made by Slow Food Aylsham memberswill be served

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Norfolk CommunityLearning ServicesNorfolk Community Learning Services(NCLS), formerly Norfolk Adult, is focusingon the needs and aspirations of communitiesand individual learners. Our programme ofcourses and learning opportunities will beavailable throughout Norfolk and defined bythe needs of common-interest communitieswithin.

Learners will be supported by our staff at everystep and we will work with other providers toensure that where appropriate learners are ableto progress readily and easily onto further programmes of study if they wish.

To open up the amount of opportunities available throughout Norfolk, we have a fantastic ‘taster session’ taking place on Tuesday 17 May, where anyone can comealong and have a go at learning something new.The session is completely FREE and the

opportunities available are languages, cookery,art and crafts, English and maths skills.

The ‘taster session’ will be taking place at Merchant’s Place 16 Church Street, CromerNR27 9ES from 2pm to 5pm and there will befree refreshments available. Children are alsowelcome to attend as long as they are accompanied by an adult so come along andjoin in the fun!

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Fairtrade Fortnight in WellsThe Fairtrade Fortnight theme for 2016 was ‘Sit down for Breakfast: Stand up forFarmers’.Wells Deli provided samples of products made locally and Mrs Templebrought samples of her cheeses. The Big Breakfast was a huge success with over50 people eating their way through a variety of breakfast cereals, porridge, toastand fruit compote, all washed down with delicious Fairtrade coffee and tea. Theinvited special guest was a tea farmer, Patrick, who talked about his work, pro-ducing tea in Kenya, and how, over the years, his community has been able to

build a school and hospital as a result of being a partner in the Fair-trade organi-sation. As well as the 'Big Breakfast', Wells Action for Fairtrade organised a pro-motional stall in the Wells Coop showing the vast range of Fairtrade goodsavailable in the store, from chocolate to cotton wool!Not to be outdone, Wells WIheld a wonderfully delicious tea one afternoon which was well attended.Twomembers from the Wells Action for Fairtrade group went into the Primary Schoolfor assembly and told the children about the principles of Fairtrade. After an ac-tivity session, there were slides showing the Fairtrade logo and explaining thedifference Fairtrade makes for the producers. The children were invited to talkwith their families about choices that would make such a difference to anotherchild's life.

Cromer & District Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffaloes-The RAOB is one of the largest fraternal organisations in the United King-dom. The Order was started in 1822, and is known as the Buffs to members.

On Tuesday 15 March at 7pm the Sitting Primo, Tony Wiles, of the Cromer& District RAOB presented the Dialysis Department at Cromer Hospital with a cheque for £3,500. In his speech Tony commented “when mywife Betty, found that she needed to go onto a dialysis machine in order toremove unwanted waste products from her blood, due to the kidneys beingdamaged or dysfunctional, I suddenly realised how important the DyalisisDept & the dialysis machines are. At a meeting of the Cromer & DistrictRoyal Antediluvian Order of the Buffaloes, I suggested that our charity for2015/ 2016 should be to raise money for the Cromer Hospital, Dialysis

Department. The endproduct of this meet-ing was, after muchhard work by ourmembers & friends,that we raised £3,500.It is now my greatpleasure on behalf ofthe Cromer & DistrictRAOB, to hand overto you this cheque for£3,500.

Nursing Sister Janet Dickinson, received the cheque on behalf of the DialysisDept.

G.I.F.T.s AnnualTalent Show

On Sunday 13 March there was a rap-turous and joyous sound coming froma tiny corner of Cremer Street inSheringham as Age Concern North

Norfolk and the Good Intentions Fundraising Team(G.I.F.T) celebrated local talent. The Age Concern daycentre was transformed into a mini theatre for the dayas budding performing talent that spanned the genera-tions came together to put on a show of song anddance. There was stunning vocalists, dance troupes,from the highly regarded Marlene’s School of Danceand a family of talented musical performers; they werethe MSD Dancers, Pete Phillips, Brian Brown and theVolko Trio respectively, amongst others. They all con-tributed immensely to a wonderful and memorable at-mosphere and morning of entertainment. It was all partof the annual G.I.F.T. Talent show where local per-formers have an opportunity to audition for other localshows throughout the year. Everyone at Age ConcernNorth Norfolk and G.I.F.T. would like to thank every-

one who participatedand supported the eventas there were sometruly amazing perform-ances and we were all amazed at the incrediblyhigh standard of entries. The Overall winnerswere The Volko Trio, comprising of Dad (Christo-pher) on the piano, Hector aged 10 on the vibra-phone and Calypso aged 7 on the drums and theylive in Holt. The father is originally from Paris.Their jive performance of ‘Happy’ by PharrellWilliams on piano, drums and xylophone hadeveryone foot tapping and dancing in the aislesand also local singer Melanie Brown who is wellknown to many as the face behind the Fit Togetherwalks. Organiser, Yvonne Tiffany, from G.I.F.T. said" I was very pleased with the high standard againthis year, and think we have found something spe-cial with the talent from The Volko Trio" (they areon You Tube under The Volko Trio). The event is allpart of a yearlong campaign to help raise funds forAge Concern North Norfolk, a small local charity,that was chosen by G.I.F.T. as a deserving charity tosupport throughout 2016 and all funds will go backinto the charities much needed and well used serv-ices like day care on Cremer Street and the Be-friending Scheme.

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Lifesavers at the RNLI in Sheringham were perplexed after a mystery person donated a collection of exquisite silk postcards dating back tothe early 1900s.

The treasure trove of embroidered postcards – believed to have been handmade before the FirstWorld War – were left at the town’s RNLIshop, leaving lifeboat fundraisers delighted, if somewhat bemused.

The donor left no name or contact details, onlya carrier bag containing more than 100 postcards of differing designs. They werehanded to volunteers at the shop with instructions to auction them and donate theprofits to the charity that saves lives at sea.

Embroidered silk postcards were a commonsouvenir of the First World War and were popular with British soldiers who often sentthem home. They were seldom sent throughthe post because they were too fragile, and manybear no message or postal markings because theywere usually sent with an accompanying letter.

Brian Farrow, Lifeboat Operations manager at

Sheringham RNLI, said the gesture has left thelifeboat community scratching their heads. “I wasupstairs in a meeting when our volunteer shopmanager, Anne Little, came in with a carrier bag. Itwas only when the two of us reached inside andpulled out a handful of the postcards did we realise quite what they were.

‘They are absolutely beautiful. The care and skillthat went into making them is obvious – we felt likewe were holding a real piece of British history. Butwe have no idea where they came from or who theybelonged to.’

Production of embroidered silk postcards peakedduring 1914-18 war, as the format proved especially popular with British soldiers. The hand-embroidery is thought to have been carriedout in domestic houses as ‘out-work’ by civilians inFrance and Belgium, and in the UK by Belgianrefugees.

Among the collection donated to SheringhamRNLI are postcards bearing Christmas greetings, awoman in traditional Portuguese dress, and a starmade up of different Allied nations flags, which isdated 25 December 1916.

The RNLI now plans to make enquiries with auction houses to see how much the postcardsmight be worth. A popular internet auction website shows similar items ranging from a fewpence each up to around £30 for some items.

Anne Little, Shering-ham RNLI shop man-ager, said ‘From theresearch I have done Iunderstand postcardswere often sent homeby soldiers who, tragi-cally, never returnedfrom the war. In thatsense the postcards were probably very preciousto some individuals,which makes it all themore poignant that theywere given to us. Obvi-ously the owner wanted them to do some good andhelp to save lives at sea.

‘But be they worth pennies or pounds, the iden-tity of the donor remains a mystery to us. Wewould like to express our thanks and gratitude to whoever donated them. Thank you so much forthinking of us and for giving us such a precious collection.’

Mystery supporter donates postcards from the past to Sheringham RNLI

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objectives have now been accomplished, the work tomaintain and enhance the Heritage Centre is ongoing, and it is opened to the public as often aspossible.Our patron is Sir Michael Oswald KCVO DSc MA .The Centre is manned and run entirely by volunteers, many of whom are ex-servicemen or children of military personnel.Bircham Newton is now the home of the NationalConstruction College (East), although its military origins are still clear for all to see. NCC have giventhe project the ground floor of the Station Commander's House.Our website is www.rafbnmp.org.uk. OPEN DAYS 11am – 5pm

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Travel Back in TimeOn the afternoon of 14 May between 3pm and 5pm, Sheringham and District Society will be hosting the followingactivities in the Fishermen’s Heritage Centre and Peter CokeShell Gallery as part of the North Norfolk Stories Festival. Fishermen’s Heritage Centre - the Hon. Charlotte Upcher willbe on hand to talk about her reasons for commissioning Sheringham’s first lifeboat, the Augusta, in 1838 and Mrs Caroline Upcher (Charlotte’s daughter-in-law) will talk aboutthe second lifeboat - the Henry Ramey Upcher, in service from1894 to 1935. Visitors will hear about how the lifeboats werelaunched, the brave fishermen who manned them and their rescues.See the historic Henry Ramey Upcher lifeboat, which saved over200 lives, including one particular famous rescue, which madeSheringham headline news.Peter Coke Shell Gallery - an 18th century sailor will be on hand in the ShellGallery talking about Sailor Valentines. Come along and hear about whethersailors in the 1800’s spent their idle hours aboard their ships crafting Sailor Valentines out of small seashells for their loved ones or, whilst stopping off in the

West Indies, did they purchase a Valentine and pretend to theirloved one they had made it! Members of the later Victorian Lady’sShellcraft Guild will also be on hand to help children (and adults)create a large-scale ‘Sailor Valentine’ with real shells. See the amazing and stunning realistic collection of over 100 shellartworks, as well as learning about how seashells were used to create delightful decorative objects to enhance Victorian homes.Come and join us travelling back in time on West Cliff (by theFishermen’sslope) inSheringhamon 14 May,3pm to 5pm.Entry is free.

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Africa Week at SuffieldPark Infant SchoolChildren at SuffieldPark Infant Schoolhave been findingout about Africa.

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North Norfolk Speakers ClubOn Wednesday 16 March, North Norfolk Speakers Club held their annual International Speech and Evaluation Contests.Contest Chair, Clive Willet, hosted a very enjoyable and successful evening,while Sue Eastman, Area Director, delivered a memorable Test Speech entitled‘Turn Hate to Love’for the Evaluation Contest. The standard of speeches and evaluations was exceptionally high from all contestants. Paul Rosier, who stood out above the rest with his inspirationalspeech entitled ‘Just a Minute’ and with his excellent and perceptive speech evaluation, gained first place in both

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Holt Festival Art Prize 2016 is open forentries! There is a cash prize and SainsburyCentre exhibition for winner.Holt Festival is delighted to announce thatentry is now open for this year’s Holt Festi-val Art Prize. The Holt Festival Art Prize is open to artistseverywhere. In past years artists from allover the UK have submitted work. There is acash prize of £1,500 and, in addition, thewinning artwork will be exhibited at Nor-wich’s prestigious Sainsbury Centre for Vi-sual Arts in the autumn. All types of original visual art are welcome,the only proviso is that the deadline for en-tries is midnight Sunday 26 June. Judges will select a shortlist of 20-30which will be exhibited at the Auden Theatre, Holt from 23-31 July. The winner will be announced at a private view on 24 July by Sir John Hurt,actor and Chancellor of Norwich University for the Arts. The exhibition ispart of the Holt Festival Art Trail which also takes in many other galleriesand exhibition spaces around the town.Last year’s competition attracted an extremely high standard of entries. Thewinner of the prize and its attendant cheque for £1,500 was Norfolk artistBrüer Tidman’s acrylic on canvas portrait of his partner Beth Narborough.The painting was unanimously selected from over 250 entriesEntry forms can be downloaded from http://www.holtfestival.org/whats-on/arts-prize/ The 2016 Holt Festival runs from 23 – 31 July and is acknowledged as theleading new festival in north Norfolk. The charming Norfolk Georgian coun-try town comes alive for an exuberant week of international music, drama,visual art, dance, comedy, cinema, children’s and workshops. It has just an-nounced its first 12 highlights and the full programme will be revealed inMay.

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Using the same venue as last year, along the A149from East Coast Motors to Morrisons Petrol Station, this year’s course will have a steeper startramp, higher jumps and a tighter chicane.

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The White Horse, Cromer took the prize for thefastest car in last year’s event and went on to selltheir cart at a charity auction, raising funds for theNorfolk and Norwich Neonatal IT Unit (NICU).They have already raised in excess of £17,000and are well on their way to their target of£20,000.

White Horse owner Annie Kemp said “we are delighted with the support we have received andare very confident that we will soon reach our tar-get”.

Mike Quenby, the new owner of last year’s winning cart, is planning to enter the cart in thisyear’s event and his grandson Owen is already intraining. Asked if he could win the event he said“we have the best cart from 2015 so we must bein with a very good chance”.

Peter MacMillan, last year’s winning driver, isconfident that their new design will be even fasterand is

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He continued “We are already underway with thenew design and are lucky to have the same designer as last year. Steven Harbour did a greatjob and we are very pleased with the work so far”.

Carnival Chairman Tony Shipp said “entries arealready coming in and we have had interest fromas far away as Northampton, so we are lookingforward to a bigger entry than ever - and withWoodfordes agreeing to support our ‘Pub Class’,we are sure that there will be plenty of racing andkeen competition”.

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Representing the Wingin athletics, attendingvarious camps, paradesand fund raising activities. He was oneof the cadets chosen toattend the ATC 75thAnniversary Parade atSt Clement DanesChurch in London thisFebruary.As a well respected rolemodel foryounger cadetsDaniel is a vitalasset to NorthWalsham

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On 10 March, 42 students from Paston Sixth FormCollege set off on a trip to Berlin.

The Arts and Technology Faculty organise trips toBerlin and Amsterdam on alternate years. The

students visited a number of galleries including TheHamburger Bahnhof where they saw works by AndyWarhol and Anselm Kiefer. They also visited theSammlung Boros collection of contemporary art,which is housed in a World War II bunker. Photography students visited the Tempelhof Airportand took some impressive images of a huge, abandoned complex of buildings. The studentsgained much from the trip and have sketchbooks fullof drawings, photographs and research into artists,which is being used to support their studies back atCollege.

Beth Adams, who studies Fine Art and is heading offto Lincoln University to study Illustration, said“Berlin was a great experience. You can immerseyourself in the galleries and culture. It has helped meto identify my place within contemporary art”.

Matt Phelps Faculty Leader for Art and Technologyat Paston said “The students were a real credit to the

college. Taking students to galleries and providingthem with opportunities to photograph and experience a culture different to their own is a bigpart of what we do. What I find encouraging is that anumber of students re-visit the places we take themto independently. Some have taken up university exchanges with Berlin as part of their degreecourses.”

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A GroveMiscellanyA few reminiscences of 75 years atThe Grove, by John Graveling.

Part 2 - THE GURNEYS, BARCLAYSAND BUXTONS.

Any discussion of The Grove cannot helpbut contain mention of the three importantfamilies that lived in and around Cromer formany years and which so much influencedthe whole character of the town and were influential at The Grove. These familieswere the Barclays; the Gurneys, and theBuxtons. This short section is in no way acomplete history of all they accomplishedand much more can be read about them insuch books as “The Northrepps Grandchildren” , “Thomas Fowell Buxtonand the abolition of slavery”, and “AlfredBuxton of Abysinia and Congo”.

Briefly, Joseph Gurney who built much ofThe Grove, was the uncle of Elizabeth Gurney who lived at Northrepps Hall just 2miles away. You may ask “who is ElizabethGurney?” If you look on the back of a £5note you will see her – as Elizabeth Fry. Anamazing women who married into the Fryfamily – famous for their sweets and chocolates. A woman who put her faith inChrist into action. She was appalled by theprison conditions in women’s Newgateprison and insisted in going into these awfulplaces against all advice. She was told thatwomen in there would kill her. But she wasdetermined that these places should be re-formed and would not let go until it wasdone.

She then went down to the ships which weretransporting convicts to Australia. Again shewas appalled by the conditions and

determined thatthese conditionsshould be im-proved. Awoman with areal living faithfrom the uppercrust of society.

She was followed atNorthrepps Hallby Thomas Fowell Buxton.It is well known

that the slave trade was stopped mainly bythe efforts of William Wilberforce. Howeverit was Fowell Buxton who followed on fromhim and took on the mantle of abolishingslavery. This he did after many years offighting to get a bill through parliament.Thomas Fowell Buxton is also on the backof five pound notes – he is the tall manstanding at the back. He was another personwho put his Christian faith into practice in avery real way. He was buried in Overstrand.

These two are mentioned because ElizabethFry was the cousin of the Gurney childrenwho lived at The Grove and she would almost certainly have spent time here. Probably Thomas Fowell Buxton did also.

While talking of these two may I also drawattention to Alfred Buxton who lived fromtime to time at Cliff House, just down theOverstrand Road from The Grove. Alfredwas the son of Barclay Buxton a very talented man from Easnye in Essex who became a Christian at Cambridge in the mid1800’s and wanted to take the gospel

somewhere where noone else had done so.He went to Japan andduring his life had a re-markable ministrythere. Later in his lifehe travelled worldwide in his preaching.Alfred whilst still ayoung man met upwith the elderly C TStudd ( who had been anEngland cricketer withW G Grace and played inthe match which England lost against Australia when The Ashes came into being)and went to east Africa with him as a missionary.

After a while he separated from Studd and in1939 made an incredible treck from Ugandaright up to Abbysinia (now Ethiopia). He ar-rived there just as the Italians were invadingand was able to help in rescuing the mem-bers of a mission compound from the invad-ing army. There are books written about allthese four people which make really interest-ing and inspiring reading. This short extracthas been included just to show how remarkable and courageous they were in notonly their faith but also their philanthropy.

We were visited in the late summer of 2009by Richard Barclay who was in his mideighties. He told us that one of his grandfathers, Robert Barclay had ownedThe Grove from 1897 to 1921. He hadpassed it on to his son Canon David Barclayand for a period it was let to Mrs GeoffreyBuxton. Prior to this in 1879 it was ownedby H Birkbeck. The other interesting pointabout Richard Barclay was that his other grandfather was C T Studd (mentionedabove) and a distant grandfather wasThomas Fowell Buxton.Above is a memorial to Elizabeth Fry a little

below the Cromer Country Club which says thatthis is where she walked. I believe I would be rightin saying that she used to preach the Gospel from

this position.

Elizabeth Fry – a short fac-tual booklet

Thomas FowellBuxton – well worth

reading

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Maytime Medley Exhibition atThorpe Market Church St Margaret’s Church, Thorpe Market, will once again be the venue for anexciting new exhibition of art and photographs, together with a range ofunique handmade gifts including beautiful glass and pottery items, creativefabric crafts and greeting cards from Friday 29 April to Monday 2 May.

As always, a wide selection of used books will be for sale, as well as tea,coffee and a selection of delicious cakes. Entrance is free and the artistswill be on hand throughout the exhibition. There is ample parking opposite the church. Opening hours 11am - 4pm each day.

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Recently Asked Questions and Answers from the Clapham &Collinge Business Support teamBy Philip Lumb, Consultant Solicitor in theBusiness Support Team

Q1 I created an app which did well over Christmas &made some money. Do I have to tell my employer?

This will largely depend upon what is contained in youremployment contract and the circumstances in which the app was created. Manyemployment contracts contain provisions which mean that anything created in theemployer's time (i.e. your working hours) will belong to the employer and not toyou. If you created the app during working hours, and/or on work equipment, itcould infer that the app does in fact belong to your employer, in which case youwould need to notify them and account for any money made. There may also beclauses in your employment contract which restrict you from operating in competition with your employer. Depending on the wording of the restrictions,you may be in breach of your contract if your app competes with your employer'sproducts and/or services.

Q2 I am looking at buying a Franchise in 2016. How could a Solicitor helpme choose the right opportunity?

A Solicitor will meet with you to ascertain your objectives and what you are seeking from the opportunity. They will then help by reviewing the franchiseagreement, explaining the terms of business and assessing whether it is a good fitfor your objectives. They can also help by trying to negotiate better or more suitable terms of the agreement for you if you want them to do so.

There are many aspects to consider when buying a franchise, such as intellectualproperty rights and what licences and/or ownership you have in relation them.

You will also need to give consideration to employment matters, such as havingcontracts of employment for any employees you may take on and policies andprocedures for matters such as grievances and disciplinary issues. If you require apremises for your franchise, a solicitor can also help you with negotiating theterms of a lease and advise as to the title of the building too, for example bychecking if there are any covenants which will prohibit you from carrying out thebusiness activity.

Solicitors are usually unable to give financial advice so bear in mind you are alsolikely to want to speak to an independent financial adviser to discuss aspects arising from the accounts and to advise more generally on the financial opportunities different franchises may offer.

Whenever considering buying a franchise it is worth bearing in mind the BritishFranchise Association Code of Ethics, which governs the behaviour of franchisepractitioners.

Q3 I see a lot about crowdfunding investments these days. Are they regulatedunder UK law like other investment vehicles?

Crowdfunding has become very popular recently as it helps entrepreneurs reach alarge number of people who each invest a small amount in a new business to helpit reach its funding objective. There are three forms of crowdfunding: donation(people give money to organisations whose activities they want to support), debt(money is lent to the organisation in return for interest payments and a repaymentof the capital over a period of time) and equity (direct or indirect investment bybuying products such as shares or debentures). The Financial Conduct Authority(FCA) established industry regulation last year for debt-based and investment-based crowdfunding, but it is based on the type of product offeredrather than the risk profile of the business that will benefit from the investment.As these forms of crowdfunding are activities regulated by the FCA under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA), you should make sure that only aperson or firm authorised by the FCA advises you in relation to this. Donation-based crowdfunding is not included in the regulation.

From Holland with Fun!The pupils of Millfield Primary in North Walsham enjoyed an immersive ‘DutchAfternoon’ last month.The fun packed afternoon was led by Annalise Smit, Lennart de Yong, LiseDammer, three students from Holland, who have been helping in the school sincethe beginning of the year. The students gave a short presentation on history, traditions, language and Dutch lifestyle to each class. This provided the children with a broader understanding of their country andthey discussed similarities and differences between the two. Every classroomwas filled with children making 3D windmills, art activities, creating origamitulips and learning a game called Korf Ball (a version of netball) - this was awinner with all of the children. The sentiment, which was echoed around the school by the children, was abouthow much they enjoyed the international days. One pupil commented that it gave them a greater understanding about life aroundthe world. The children have enjoyedmany international days over the yearsand collaboration with schools abroadhas given them a greater respect ofhow different and diverse some countries and cultures can be.The school’s work with other schoolsabroad has seen them gain the prestigious British Council International School Award.

Golden Celebration for NorthWalsham Market CrossWomen’s Institute There are not many societies that last half a century,

but our WI has! At our March meeting, we celebrated our GoldenAnniversary - 50 years - in style. Representativesfrom Norfolk Federation, our WI Advisor, and guestsfrom other local WIs attended, and we were all

entertained by the tal-ented Rachel Duffield,who illustrated the'Seven ages of women' inpoetry, song and wittytales. Fifty beauti-fully decorated cup cakeswith tea or coffee werethen consumed with en-thusiasm, as we all

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Battle of the ClubsA battle took place between representatives ofthree Norfolk clubs on 16 March. WymondhamPhotographic Society and Brancaster CameraClub were entertained by, and did battle with,North Norfolk Photographic Society.

The 'umpire' was a well-known East AnglianPhoto judge, Alan Sarsby, who says “I have beena keen photographer since my teenage years. Inow have grey hair — you can do the arithmeticyourself”. He is a multi-talented man - as well asteaching photography, he also runs a businessskills course, publishes books about business andis a member of two camera clubs.

The contest was in two parts. First, printed imageswere presented, eight from each club and thenprojected digital images – again eight each.

After the 24 prints had been judged (a quarter ofthem receiving 10 out of 10 marks) the Brancasterclub were leading by half a mark from both theother clubs. This all changed after the projectedimages, when Wymondham did best and ended upoverall winners by 143.5 over North Norfolk PSwith 142 and Brancaster with 68.5. Again, six ofthe 24 got top marks - very high quality photogra-phy by all three clubs.

Meetings of the North Norfolk Photographic So-ciety are held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays eachmonth from 7.30pm in Holt Community Centre.

For further details please contact the club Secre-tary, Judith Wells at [email protected] orvisit the club website athttp://www.nnphotosoc.org/.

North Norfolk Photographic SocietyCompetitions are the meat and gravy for most camera clubs, and North NorfolkPhotographic Society is no exception. On 2 March Andy Wilson travelled up from Bungay to take time away from hisday job as a Maths lecturer to judge the Society’s Third Print Competition.

As usual, there were three groups ofcompetitors. Advanced members had aspecified subject - ‘A Sporting Moment’ and those that entered a picture in this category were permittedto enter a second photograph in an’Open’ group on any topic of theirchoice. Seventeen members entered the Advanced sections. The winner in the‘A Sporting Moment’ section was PaulStearman whose shot ‘A Refreshing

Second’ showed a rather hot looking boxer being ‘refreshed’ by a spray of presumably cold water administered by his ‘second‘. The Open section was won by Liz Akers’ ‘On the River Stour’ - an atmosphericimage that almost made you believe John Constable’s easel was set up on the

opposite bank! The quality of entries in the 3rd group,the Novices, continues to show remarkable quality. Out of 14 picturessubmitted by seven competitors, the winner was Jackie Ormandy. Her photograph ’Winter Fog’ at first seemedto be monochromatic, all whites, greysand blacks, but then you noticed somegreen in the grass showing through.

Meetings of the North Norfolk Photographic Society are held onthe 1st and 3rd Wednesdays eachmonth from 7.30 pm in Holt Community Centre.

For further details please contactthe club Secretary, Judith Wells [email protected].

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Chocolate fondant desserts

By the time you read this our new Orangerywill be open and bracing itself for a deluge ofguests enjoying our rather wonderful Afternoon Teas, drinks before a lovely dinnerand Pimms on the lawns throughout the summer. The new room will be a great addition to the Grove and we look forward toshowing you around.

This chocolate fondant dessert is quickly becoming a firm favourite on the Spring à lacarte and has the benefit of being completelygluten free too. It’s nice and indulgent for allof those who deserve a rich, chocolatey pudding – go on, treat yourself! Ingredients• 50g butter, plus extra for greasing• 50g 70% cocoa chocolate, roughly chopped• 1 large egg• 1 egg yolk• 2 tbs brown sugar• 1 1/2 tbs cocoa, plus extra for dustingInstructions

1. Brush melted butter inside 2 dariole moulds.Pop in the fridge and, after a while, removeand brush with melted butter again. Dust withcocoa, turning the moulds to ensure the mouldsare well coated.

2. Melt the chocolate and butter together in aheatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmeringwater. Stir gently to combine well into a darksilky liquid and set aside to cool a little.

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Shakespeare in 400Arts North Norfolk, has launched a competition to honour Shakespeare Day on 23 April, which marks hisbirthday and day he died, 400 years on.Budding writers and thespians are invited to sum up aShakespeare play in just 400 characters. The charactercount must include all letters and punctuation.Joseph Ballard, director of Arts North Norfolk said“This is our way of being part of the international festivities that are celebrating Shakespeare’s work thisyear. Our competition is open all ages from primary school age to adults – I think it’s reallyimportant to involve young people in this project.I wanted to encourage people to sum up a playwhich in turn strips the plays back to the story.Theatre is about telling a story and Shakespearedid not write his plays just to be read in a classroom!”Joseph, who has directed, acted in and also adapted some plays of Shakespeare iskeen to welcome entries from enthusiasts and also those who may be knew to exploring Shakespeare’s work a bit further. It is thought that Shakespeare had written 38 plays in his lifetime, but without correct records or evidence, some ofthe plays may even be the work of somebody else. He is also encouraging schoolsand groups to take part, based on classroom activity.Prizes include :• Tickets to theatre shows and films at the Atrium Theatre (North Walsham) for therest of the year.• Tickets to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Nights Dream(on tour visiting Norwich).• A meal for two at the Cockerel Restaurant (themed nights) in North Walsham.• Shortlisted stories will be recorded and shared online and with the local media including radio.Age categories are Primary school age, High school age, Young people 17-25 andAdults 25+.You can enter the competition online at www.artsnorthnorfolk.org or submit yourshort story to their box office at No. 1 Market Place, North Walsham NR28 9BP. Itis free to enter and the deadline for entries is 27 April and you can submit as manyentries as you wish.More event listings can be found at www.artsnorthnorfolk.org to book tickets for upcoming shows, call 01692 218060 or pop into No. 1 Market Place, North Walsham(open Wednesday to Saturday).

North Walsham’s First Easter Fayreand Family Show a SuccessThe Easter weekend in North Walsham wasabout Easter eggs and of course - porridge!

Arts North Norfolk, the arts charity, presentedits first Easter Fayre with 20 stalls that showcased the best of local food, drink, artsand crafts.

Over 1000 people attended the fayre and thetwo shows of Goldilocks and the Three Bears(morning and afternoon) were very busy, withthe matinee performance selling out.

Anna Rumsby, who launched her new line ofwooden family trees in frames at the fayre, said There has been a lovely atmosphere all daylong and there’s also been a good variety ofquality stalls and craftsmanship on display. It’sbeen very busy and the show has brought inlots of families to the fayre.”

Joseph Ballard, who runs Arts North Norfolkand also directed and starred in the show as Father Bear said “I’m very pleased with thegreat turn out we’ve had today. Lots of happy

families have seen our fun energetic show –there’s nothing better than a house full ofyoung children really engaging with live performance. I would heartily like to thank allthe stall holders, our theatre company and vol-unteers for all their hard work.”

The show was penned by Stile and Drewe, awell-known writing duo, who also created thenew arrangements for the West End productionof Mary Poppins. The show also starred PaigeMiller, James Turner, Krissi Jae Kitson and 16year old Connor Payne as Baby Bear. The bearcostumes, which received great praise, weremade by professional dressmaker, Teresa Butler.

North Walsham Community Choir also performed some new songs at lunchtime,which was busy with families sharing a teddybears’ picnic in the café.

More stage capers follow soon at the AtriumTheatre, on Saturday 23 April with A Night ofMystery with the Victorian Conjuror and alsothe final play of Rob John’s Norfolk trilogy, asFeast Theatre present Winter ’53 on Saturday28 April.

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Theatre Suppers Stepinto the SpotlightA community theatre is serving up extra helpingsof pre-show suppers to help feed its coffers aswell as its customers. Showgoers at SheringhamLittle Theatre are savouring meals as well as stageand screen performances at the seaside venue.

Pre-show suppers have been added to the all-year-round programme at the charity-run communityarts centre.

They are proving a big hit with audiences - andare helping raise valuable income to support thetheatre’s arts activities.

Theatre director Debbie Thompson said the sup-pers were being extended to most evening per-formances this year after they were a hugesuccess during last summer’s repertory dramaseason.

“The suppers were abig hit, and by theend of the season our40 covers were soldout. “They add to thevisitor experience,are good value formoney and make itless stressful as peo-ple can get a mealbefore the show ifthey come straightfrom work,” sheadded.

Food also provided a valuable extra incomestream supporting the theatre’s coffers during atime of cutbacks in grant funding. “Catering in-

come helps usoffer eventsall year roundfor visitorsand the localcommunity.”said MrsThompson.

The addition of homemade hot lunches, made bycook Elaine Eckett, to the daytime menu had dou-bled food takings.Newcomer chef Norman Pottlewill be creating the suppers, which start at 6pm or6.30pm depending on the time of the eveningevent. He said menus would change according tothe season from hearty pies and crumbles in win-ter to quiches and salads in summer.

Mr Pottle, 64, from Bodham, has more than 40years’ experience in catering including seven inthe Royal Navy cooking on board ships includingthe aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, as well as being achef on offshore rigs and a Cromer residentialhome.

The keen theatregoer said he was looking forwardto his new challenge.

The two-course suppers cost £15.50, withafter-dinner coffee and mints. Or there is achoice of a single course from the menu,which will include minute steak, searedfillet of salmon and a vegetable lasagne.Dessert choices include banoffee pie,Eaton mess and apple pie.

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Music at the Muckleburgh CollectionSir Michael Savory, owner of the MuckleburghMilitary collection, and Jane Bussey, MusicalDirector of the Cromer and Sheringham BrassBand, discuss the music programmes for twoforthcoming concerts at the Museum. Theseoccasions are not new events. Sir Michael invited the band to appear twice last year anddue to the popularity of the occasions has suggested the local band return in 2016 to perform on 1 May and 4 September at 2pm.

On these dates visitors can make a leisurelytour of the museum, admiring the huge collection of military memorabilia, learning

something of its history, and then, in the afternoon sit and listen to the music in therestaurant. Admission charges and openingtimes can be found on the Museum web site -www.muckleburgh.co.uk but, for the price of acup of tea and a piece of cake the band can belistened to for free.

This is a special year for the Cromer and Sheringham Brass Band as it is the 60th Anniversary of its formation when the CromerBand merged with the Sheringham Brass Bandand a busy schedule of appearances can befound by visiting the Band’s web sitewww.cromerandsheringhambrassband.comalong with other information about the Band‘shistory and its musicians.

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GET INVOLVED WITHTHE BIG SPRINGBEACH CLEAN ATCROMER THIS YEARA shout is going out for helping hands to cleanCromer Beach on Sunday April 17. The litter-pick has been organised by SurfersAgainst Sewage (SAS) and is part of their nationalseries of clean-up events across the country.Cllr Angie Fitch-Tillett, Cabinet Member forCoastal Management and Environmental Servicessaid: “I would just like to encourage people to getinvolved and help keep north Norfolk’s beaches freeof litter. Plastic bottle litter on UK beaches is up43%, and animal autopsies on sperm whales beachedon the German coast earlier this year showed theirstomachs were full of plastic. Our litter is a threat tomarine life and we must do our bit to try to reducethis.“I’m delighted the district council has been able tosupport Surfers Against Sewage with litter grabbersand bags and I want to encourage as many people tocome and make a difference to their local beach.”

The Cromer Beach Clean starts at 12.30pm on Sun-day April 17, meeting outside the Lifeboat Café.Bring you and your friends and wear clothes appro-priate with the weather. All litter-picking equipmentwill be provided.

CHARLES CLARKCAR RALLYThe 22nd Charles Clark Car Rally takes place onSunday 10 July. It is open to all classic and vintage cars, as well asinteresting modern sports cars. The rally starts atThe Goat Inn in Skeyton near Coltishall and fin-ishes, after 65 scenic miles, in the grounds of Nor-wich Cathedral. This is a rally run for localcharities and this year our chosen charity is theCromer based About with Friends.Entry is £25and entry forms can be obtained from the organ-iser, Brian Monks at [email protected] orphone 01263 587118. More information about thehistory of the rally can be found on the website atwww.charlesclarkrally.co.uk

The North Norfolk Gardener

With the next Olympic Games being held in Brazilwe will be seeing and hearing a lot about this countryin the coming months. Most of us will not be luckyenough to travel to South America to enjoy the eventfirst hand or to enjoy the spectacular noise, colourand smells; however, in March, a taste of Brazilcame to London. The Princess of Wales Conserva-tory in Kew Gardens was filled with the exotic floraof the world’s undisputed capital of carnival as theannual Orchids Festival celebrated the incredi-bly rich biodiversity of the planet’s fifth largestcountry, Brazil.

This vast country is home to more than 37,000plant species that grow in six distinct ecologi-cal areas. Over 18,000 of these plants are en-demic to Brazil and grow nowhere else onearth.

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The need to review your Will in thelight of the new Inheritance Tax Residential Nil Rate Band.Written by Miranda Marshall – Director at Hayes + Storr

The new Inheritance Tax Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB) has it rootsback in 2007 when the Conservative opposition said that they were infavour of increasing the Nil Rate Band (NRB) to £1M.

Although newspaper headlines have suggested that the new RNRB hasthat effect, this is very far from correct. A few lucky people will in2020/21 have a combination of nil rate bands that add up to £1M, butthey will be very much in the minority.

Because the new RNRB is very closely targeted being tied to homesand only available to lineal descendants, it can work in an illogical andunfair fashion. The ordinary NRB is being frozen at £325,000 to payfor the RNRB, whereas otherwise it would have started to increasefrom the end of 2017/18.

The new RNRB has to be claimed by the deceased’s executors - it isnot automatic.

‘Closely inherited’ also needs careful scrutiny. ‘Closely’ means that itmust pass to a lineal descendent; or to a spouse or civil partner of a lineal descendent. ‘Children’ includes step-children, foster children andchildren who have been adopted by a third party. ‘Closely’ does not include co-habitees, dependent or vulnerable family members.

It is possible to vary a Will so as to become eligible for the RNRB.

Only certain sorts of trust will be eligible for the RNRB and this produces unfairness and inconsistency, particularly where there areminor beneficiaries. Specialist advice is particularly necessary here.

The RNRB will start at £100,000 in 2017/18 and will rise by £25,000yearly, until it reaches £175,000 in 2020/21. Thereafter it will increase

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Debts charged on the residence arededucted, so only the net equity getsthe RNRB. It might therefore beneficial to switch secured debts toother assets.

Above £2M the RNRB is withdrawnby £1 for every £2 in excess of £2Mexemptions and reliefs are ignored.Spouses may wish to leave assetsaway from the survivor to preventtheir aggregated estates exceeding£2M. Lifetime gifts are exempt inworking out the value of the estate and this gives great opportunities forclever planning, including ‘death bed’ gifts.

The ‘downsizing’ rules are complex and somewhat arbitrary. It is vitalto keep all the paperwork to provide the evidence needed by HMRC inthe event of death.

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Big Society Fund – the results North Norfolk District Council fund helps communities meet their ambitions. It’sbeen a busy month for North Norfolk District Council’s Big Society Fund, withthree separate openings of part-funded projects in the space of a few days. TheFund announced its latest round of grants last month but there has also been aflurry of final project delivery across North Norfolk with three very differentprojects officially launched. Cllr Tom FitzPatrick, Leader of North Norfolk Dis-trict Council and Cabinet Member for Big Society, was asked to officially open anew play area off Gordon Road, Melton Constable, on 19 March. In June 2015 aBig Society Fund grant of £5,000 was awarded to purchase an outdoor table ten-nis table and accessible birds nest swing as part of the wider play area project.On the same day, Cllr FitzPatrick also attended the opening of Holt Pavilion,where a new kitchen, toilets, office and storage with disabled access plus newchanging rooms for both players and officials have been created. The Big SocietyFund contributed £10,000 in 2013 towards a six-figure target. And on 10 March,Cllr Angie Fitch-Tillett, Deputy Leader at North Norfolk District Council, offi-cially launched the North Walsham Good Neighbour Scheme website at an eventin No 1 Market Place, North Walsham, home of Arts North Norfolk. In Septemberthe scheme was awarded a Big Society Fund grant which enabled the creation of

the website to act as another channel for contact from volunteers, requests for as-sistance and donations, as well as promoting the scheme to a much wider public.Cllr FitzPatrick said “It’s always very satisfying to consider and agree grant fund-ing applications for local groups doing such excellent work. “But it’s also incred-ibly rewarding on a whole other level to see those hard-working groups deliverthe end result and view the physical delivery of plans created by the community,for the community.” NNDC's Big Society Fund offers grants of up to £15,000 tovoluntary and community organisations based in North Norfolk. Since the fundstarted in 2012, over £1,171,208 has been awarded to more than 147 communityprojects. If you have an idea or a project that you wish to develop and apply forfunding, you are encouraged to speak to your local councillor and get in touchwith the Council (via Sonia Shuter tel. 01263 516173, email [email protected]) or visit www.northnorfolk.org/bigsocietyfund

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Help could be at hand with the Sustainable De-velopment Fund (SDF), which is now open forapplications. The Norfolk Coast Partnership,the managing body of the Norfolk Coast Areaof Outstanding Natural Beauty administer thefund, which is aimed at local communitygroups specifically for projects that improvelife for the coast and its people.

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The Cromer and District Foodbank is delighted to announce the openingof a new distribution centre in Aylsham Children’s Centre from 19 April.

The new distribution centre will operate every Tuesday afternoon forclients in financial crisis to access emergency food supplies.

Since it was founded in 2012, the Foodbank has built up a strong supportnetwork for local people in financial crisis, working with over 70 partneragencies to offer food and advice across 200 square miles of North Norfolk.

“We are extremely happy to be working with the Children’s Centre inAylsham to provide an essential service to clients in financial crisis”says Ella King, Project Manager “we are working closely with other organisations in Aylsham to help provide easier access for clients withina caring supportive environment”.

Clients will need a voucher to access the service, if you would like infor-mation about where to get a voucher in Aylsham or you would like more information about how to become a voucher holder, please callElla King on 07826 376343.

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High Sheriff joins CromerRNLI Crew for a day The outgoing High Sheriff of Norfolk joined CromerRNLI crew on his last day of office. Nicholas Pratt has enjoyed many experiences duringhis time in office, but rated joining the RNLI crew asbeing on ‘top of my list’ of experiences.During his tour of the station, the High Sheriff waskeen to learn about Cromer’s all weather boat ‘Lester’and how it came to be donated to the station throughlegacies.He then enjoyed the trip to the windfarms, inspectedsome of the marker buoys and was able to observe the

professionalism of the crew. Watching the crew runthrough a practice session, he was joined by his wifeand youngest son. After the return to shore and returning the safety out-fits, the High Sheriff addressed the entire crew, saying‘thank you for your hospitality. It is always said youshould leave the best to last and definitely the chance tobe on the lifeboat is the best.The RNLI is one of this country’s most supported,loved and cherished of the charities. As High Sheriff ofNorfolk I am proud to be associated with this countyand proud of the crew and your representation of thework of the RNLI’

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Hospice team take onLondon MarathonOn 24 April, nine Hospice supporters will be taking to the streets of London toparticipate in the Virgin London Marathon. Over the past few months the team have been busy training in the cold, wind andrain in preparation for the famous 26.2mile race. They have also been busy raising funds for the Hospice, which relies on the com-munity to provide 90% of its income. Lucy Price, 30, and Emma Lockwood,35, chose to organise aValentines Ball to raisefunds, whilst StevenFranklin, 38, and DavidGrimes, 47, opted toraise funds from localbusinesses who havekindly sponsored theirrunning gear. Dani Winteringham, 30,from Norwich is takingon three challenges thisyear for three charities -The London Marathon,Kilamanjaro and cyclingcross county coast tocoast. Alongside trainingfor the three challenges,she has been busy organising quiz nights to raise funds. Sam Turpin, 31, is taking on the Marathon and two other challenges in the spaceof 3 weeks to raise funds for the Hospice. The week after the London Marathon,he is running in the Grand East Anglian 10km run and the week after in the RatRun at Burghley House.Sarah Partridge, 59, who has run two marathons before, has been raising fundsfrom her customers at her dry cleaning business whilst Neil Wells, 44, has beenraising funds through Hunstanton Round Table. Lucian Evans, 46, from London was due to run the London Marathon last year onbehalf of The Norfolk Hospice but had to pull out due to injury. He has been rais-ing sponsorship through friends and family.

Mark Shea, Commercial Director at The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House said“They have all dedicated huge amounts of time to train for the marathon and alsoto raise funds for the Hospice. We are extremely grateful to them for all their ef-forts and wish them the best of luck on the day.”


London Marathon forAmyloidosisDuncan Ayers was born and bred in Sheringham (born West Run-ton), and says that when he left north Norfolk to go to the uni-versity of Surrey, he took the unusual decision for a 21 year old,of not partying the night away but instead to run a marathon andraise money for charity.‘I ran in 2001 and raised over £2000 forSheringham lifeboat - my family have had ties to the lifeboat forgenerations, both the Ayers family have had crew members andthe West’s history is entwined with the Sheringham station. At the age of 31, I ran the London marathon again, that time rais-ing money for the spinal injuries association, a charity that hadhelped my brother Simon Ayers, after he was paralysed from thewaist down in an accident at work. This year I was lucky enough to get a ballotplace so was able to pick another charity I really feel passionately about. My marathon inspiration came from my father who ran the London marathon in1988 aged 39. He supported me with advice and with cheers on the day fromvarying points on the route. This year’s race will be the first without that support.Sadly, after a long battle, my father died 28 October 2014. He had been battlingfor years against Amyloidosis, a genetic hereditary disease that had killed his kid-neys. Despite two operations and 1 kidney transplant, dad was finally beaten bythe decease. St Peters church was jammed for his funeral. He was loved in thetown and well respected. He was a great husband, father and amazing grand-father. Trying to do something to help, I threw my name into the ballot for the next race Icould get into and got the proverbial golden ticket. The charity I am running for isthe UCL Amyloidosis research fund. They are not like the big charities and can-not buy places in the London marathon so using my ballot place means I am the

sole runner for the charity. I have paid for my own running vest and set up a just giving page.All the money raised goes directly to research to develop a cure foramyloidosis. To stop this disease would be a legacy dad would beproud of and whereas I am lucky not to have the gene, both mybrothers have inherited it. I have been contacted by others who havelost loved ones to this disease and there is a real chance that it can bestopped. Im 35 now (36 by race day),I still live in Sheringham and love to runhere but I am a television cameraman so my training runs have beentaking place while filming BBC’s One show, TFI Friday, TOTP andmost recently I was running at 2000ft while working on The Jump inAustria, and seen running an odd lap at the Cheltenham Festivalwhile working on the Channel 4 Racing. Although I won’t have dad cheering me on while I run, the moneyraised may mean another family keeps there loved one and that

thought will keep me running’.If any of our readers would like to sponsor Duncan, his fundraising page iswww.justgiving.com/fundraising/Duncan-Ayers or traditional sponsorship can bemade by sending a cheque, made payable to UCL Development fund, to eitherDuncan at 22b The Avenue, Sheringham NR26 8DG, or Beth Jones at NationalAmyloidosis Centre, Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, University Col-lege London Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF referenc-ing Duncan’s name - please do a gift aid declaration if possible.

The Norfolk Hospice London Marathon Team. Back fromleft – Steven Franklin, Lucy Price, David Grimes, EmmaLockwood and Sam Turpin. Front from left - Dani Winter-ingham, Sarah Partridge and Neil Wells. Not Pictured Lu-cian Evans.

Making a marathon effortApril… the time for Easter eggs, fools and marathon runners….possibly withsome overlap!Perhaps you’ve looked at a bedraggled runner on awet and wild weekend morning and wondered whaton earth they are doing? Well many of us atColtishall Jaguars Running Club used to think thesame – before we got the running bug!This year at Coltishall Jaguars Running Club abouta fifth of our members are training for a marathon,with many more committed to half-marathons.But whether you are training for 2 miles – or 26.2miles - at Coltishall Jaguars we understand it is thesame process. Whatever your running goal, it re-quires the same amount of determination and motivation to put on your trainersand hi-vis vest when the wind and rain are driving and the temperatures are low,and that is where club running really helps.Local businesswoman Emma Jordan from Buxton will be running her firstmarathon in Manchester. She says “For me as a runner, a marathon is the ultimateachievement. I used to run on my own and often pondered the notion on running amarathon but it wasn't until joining the Jags did it give me the inspiration and con-fidence to do so. Whether your target is a full marathon, a halfmarathon, a 10k, or a 5k park run, at ColtishallJaguars we know the sense of achievement at theend is the same whatever distance you’ve cov-ered. We appreciate that challenging yourself iskey. Whatever distance or goal you are settingyourself the benefits of running with a club arehuge. Our runners support and encourage eachother. If you know other people are out theremaking the effort to turn up and train it reallyhelps you stay motivated and on track.Our five qualified volunteer coaches deviseroutes and training efforts at various locationsthis side of Norwich. We cater for all abilities and there will always be someone torun with you.Better still, the club provides more than an opportunity for just training and fitness.There is usually the chance for a cup of tea after wards and a catch up.So why not check us out? Take a look at our website at http://www.coltishall-jaguars.co.uk, like us on Facebook, or call Mel on 01603 736717 for more infor-mation.Or if you are already up for a challenge why not enter one or both of our 10k racesthis season? Taking place at the old RAF base at Badersfield they are guaranteedto be flat, fast and fun - and will provide a sense of achievement - at the finish!The Mike Groves Run 10k Sunday 5 June: The Jolly Jaguars Race 10k Sunday 25 SeptemberMore details and entry forms available at http://www.coltishalljaguars.co.ukCOMING SOON: Do you want to progress from a 5k to a 10k race? For all abili-ties, Coltishall Jaguars RC is running a five week training course throughout May,leading up to the The Mike Groves Race 10k on Sunday 5 June. Keep an eye onthe website or visit our Facebook Page for more details.

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