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Two other much smaller charities may also receive a grant. This major village event brings villagers together – both to enjoy a breakfast, and to enjoy being part of producing the event, by volunteering for an hour or so to help cook and serve while meeting new faces. Highly recommended each year !
Packington’s own Café and Coffee Shop « Poochies of Packington » quietly closed on Sunday 28th December 2025. Bev Smith wrote to the Packington NoticeBoard WhatsApp Group in early December: ” After five wonderful years, we’re sad to share that Poochies of Packington will be closing permanently on Sunday 28 December 2025. We want to …
Bright sunshine greeted midday spectators to the annual Morris Men and Pennyroyal Garland Dancers celebration displays, in the Bull and Lion car park on Boxing Day 26th December 2025. Mild temperatures and the brilliant low sun provided an endearing spectacle – although the sharp shadows amidst the moving participants make the photography a little difficult.
A Christingle is a symbolic object used in Christian church services during Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. It typically consists of an orange, a lit candle, a red ribbon, and sweets or dried fruit, each symbolizing different aspects of faith and creation. Our village Holy Rood church held their children’s Christingle service on Sunday 7th December …
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About 50 villagers came to see the formal switch-on of the christmas decorations and lights at our Memorial Hall on Friday 5th December at 6pm. Hall Committee Chair Steve Salt gave a short welcome speech and the new lights and decorative effects were illuminated. The village Community Choir sang some rousing seasonal songs conducted by …
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Several village houses signed up to be trick-or-treat friendly, and a line drawing map of participating households was published – it’s hard to convey the spookines in photos, but here goes:
Monday 25th August 2025 was one of the NICEST late-August days EVER in our village, and a bumper day for raising funds for our village church fabric fund – desperately needed after the former under-pew heating system had to be removed. Congratulations go to long-term village heroine Lesley Birtwistle for leading this wonderful event again, …
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Friday 1st August 2025 saw a village meeting at our Bull and Lion venue for a presentation to one of our most industrious village residents – Christopher Miles. Chris has chosen recently to step back from his leadership and participation over the past 40 years in major village institutions. In particular, he has led our …
Our vibrant village store staff have posed for the camera – these photos in July 2025 show the friendly happy-to-serve faces you may meet in our wonderful village emporium! This family-run store – three generations of the SWIFT family, two of them shown (Peter and Joe) above – have a well-earned reputation for providing almost …
Once again, nice May Day 2025 evening weather was welcomed, and allowed the traditional May Queen award presentation to proceed without thick coats or umbrellas this year, as was the case last year too. The PennyRoyal Garland Dancers joined the Packington Morris Men and their music-makers in a parade round the village, progressing up High …
Saturday 1st March 2025 – Dydd Dewi Sant or Saint David’s Day – was a bright sunny crisply cold morning, and during four hours, hundreds of village residents and locals came to our charity event, the Big Breakfast, raising money for LOROS, our special local Leicestershire hospice organisation for Relief of Suffering.. Here are the …
Emily Wilsher reports: 14th October 2024 – We made it! Actually did 4 mountains, including the 3 in the challenge, Mulhacen (3482m), Veleta (3394m) and Alcazaba (3371m) over 3 days. We walked nearly 50k in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with the highest peak at 11,400 feet. We felt the altitude and the wind. After two …
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Nice May Day evening weather was welcomed, and allowed the traditional May Queen award presentation to proceed without thick coats or umbrellas this year. The PennyRoyal Garland Dancers joined the Packington Morris Men and their music-makers in a display after the award, and then in a parade round the village, progressing up High Street, left …
Village Meeting Report – Thursday 16th November 2023 Our Traffic Calming meeting at the village hall was attended by: A presentation by the Chairman of the Packington Traffic Calming Group, Jonathan Alexander, described the work and research carried out over the past year with Automatic Traffic Counters (ATCs) to show the problem our village has …
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In the early hours of 18th September 2023 an intense series of rain storms affected Ashby de la Zouch and the surrounding areas. The huge volume of water that fell quickly saturated open ground areas and began a rapid run off, through rain water gullies and drainage systems, into the Gilwiskaw Brook towards Packington. Unfortunately …
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