GUTTERS CLEANED AND REPAIRED • FASCIAS • SOFFITS • GUTTERING • ROOF CLEANING • CONSERVATORIES • ROOFS • GUTTER REPAIRS 30th January 2025 • The HERALD • Page 27 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v Waterside Carpet Cleaning PROFESSIONAL CARPET CLEANING! Using Prochem Equipment and Materials • SPOT/STAIN TREATMENT • Fully Insured 023 8066 0878 or 07770 337917 www.watersidecarpetcleaning.com MM INSTALLATIONS Double Glazing Repairs • Locks • Handles • Hinges • Glass • Fascias • Soffits • Guttering • Velux Glass Replacement Over 25 years experience Tel: 07787 878228 Email: mminstallations515@gmail.com Put Your Repairs in Safe Hands Free Estimates • Fully Insured • Quality Service Tel: 023 8194 0878 • Mobile: 07710 464093 Email: mark@markparsonsdecorating.co.uk Web: www.markparsonsdecorating.co.uk Interior & Exterior Painting & Decorating Services All aspects of Plastering undertaken Fully Qualified, Reliable, Quality Service 20% OFF until end of April 2025 Free Quotations Call Joe: 07713 724610 LOCAL CHARITY SUPPORTS NEW FOREST ROTARY by Lesley Brooks, Minstead Trust O en at times, I am writing about how community groups in the local area are doing things to support Minstead Trust, local New Forest learning disability charity, however this time, I am very pleased to be writing about how Minstead Trust has helped local New Forest Rotary. Every year, New Forest Rotary organises collections at the superstores in the area, raising money so that it can be the charitable organisation that it is and support charities with their worthwhile causes and projects. At this time of year, whilst the weather may be pretty horrible, and the wind whistling through the store entrances are not for the faint hearted, the generosity of the store shoppers does not go unnoticed, and people nd coins and notes to put in the tins. And in December 2024, Minstead Trust were given the opportunity to support New Forest Rotary in their collections, by attending one at Asda and one at Morrison’s in Totton. So, with a bit of planning and organisation, a small team were put together by the day opportunities team at Minstead Trust, which gave the opportunity to both instructors and people supported at the Trust to have a go being collectors on behalf of New Forest Rotary for the morning. Chris, day instructor, “It is nice to be able to give support to another organisation, which has been so supportive of us.” The New Forest Rotary and Minstead Trust team, who collected on the 23rd December 2024 on behalf of New Forest Rotary Chris, instructor, along with Kevin and Luke of Minstead Trust, with Clive and George of New Forest Rotary came together for the morning to be a great team, interacting with customers at Morrisons who wanted to stop and chat, whilst making a donation into the collection bucket. “We were thoroughly delighted to have been asked to help out” – said The Swanage Railway’s Project Wareham e Railway Club of the New Forest’s next meeting is on Friday 31st January in the Exhibition Room, Brockenhurst Village Hall, Highwood Road, Brockenhurst, SO42 7RY. For ‘ e Swanage Railway’s Project Wareham’, in 1885 the London & South Western Railway opened a branch from Wareham at the top of Poole Harbour to Swanage. British Railways closed the line in 1972 and the track was quickly dismantled. Undaunted, the enthusiasts of the Swanage Railway Society rebuilt the line, yard-by-yard, from Swanage to Norden just beyond Corfe Castle. In 2008 an opportunity arose to re-connect the line to the National Network. A slide-show by the Swanage Railway’s Project Engineer for the Wareham Scheme, Dr Mike Walshaw, will explain how this was achieved and the use that has since been made of the connection. Visitors welcome. £5 on the door. Arrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. For more information visit: www. railwayclubofthenewforest. org.uk or follow the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ groups/2987633234865918 The very first train to use the Swanage Railway’s novel Signalled Link to the National Network arrived at Corfe Castle Station on 5th February 2015 (Photo: Andrew PM Wright)
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