Our journey
2025
Very Wet start to 2025
2025
Very Wet start to 2025
We have found it ! - Memorial Stone for David Hitchcock
After a trip across a very muddy field - Ali & Jacqui have located a stone which they think will be ideal for David’s Memorial Stone
The next challenge will be to get the stone to Marshwood !
Many thanks to the Framptons for their kind donation
February 2025
2024
Winter 2024
Christmas Get Together at The Bottle
Thursday 19th December, a hardy group of us, braved the wind, rain and bitter cold to share some Christmas cheer, mulled wine & the odd mince pie or two!.
It was wonderful to see and catch up with members, their families & friends.
Tessa, Julian & Sarah looked after us and it was super to hold the event in the Bottle and to admire the restoration work completed so far
Thank you to Sonia, Ali & Jacqui for organising the nibbles, wine & festive Christmas tree !
Our deepest thanks to Julian & Tessa Blundy
Charles Somers, Sam Martin, Ali Edwards, Sonia Yorke and Jacqui Sewell
Christmas Food Bank Donation
The excess mince pies & Christmas nibbles were donated to Bridport Food Bank, which were greatly received & appreciated.
2024
Autumn Grants
Community Land Trust Supports Marshwood School & Churchyard
Marshwood At Marys Churchyard - Grass Cutting
The board agreed to grant £250 to the Church to go towards summer grass cutting and tidying of the churchyard.
Marshwood School grant award £1,000​
Picnic Benches
Being in such a beautiful part of England, we do encourage the children to be outside as much as possible. Our current picnic benches are extremely worn, with some displaying serious signs of weathering and wear and tear. We would really like to be able to replace these so that the children can enjoy eating their lunch and completing tasks outside as much a possible.
Science Equipment
Our science equipment is in need of updating. Within the Trust a new science teaching plan has been written and our current resources do not allow us to teach this to the best it could be. We are lacking new equipment such as electricity components and petri dishes allowing the children to be more hands on with their learning
Reading Books
Reading books for Reception, years 1 and 2 and Non Fiction Books for all
Having now revamped our library, we feel that we have a gap for younger children's books supporting their foundation learning on reading.
We would like to be able to purchase new books for the children to read enabling them to really grow in confidence.
With times changing so fast, we also require our non fiction section to be updated to reflect history, geography and science as topic work taught by teachers can reflect on more recent events within these studies and we do not have the books to support the children in these areas.
Opening of School Library - March 2024
Charles Somers CLT Chairman, Jacqui Sewell Director
2024
April 30
First Aid Course
In 2019 we organised our 2nd First Aid training course for people within the community but due to COVID we had to postponed the event like so many other things during this difficult time.
Ali Edwards took the lead to re-organise the event by contacting the trainers and people.
On April 30 2024 we held our 2nd First Aid at work certificated training course for the local community. The certificate is valid for 3 years and is a UK recognised qualification.
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Samantha Martin Secretary​
2024
April 29th
Open Afternoon & Annual General Meeting
Welcome
Thanks to our board members who distributed flyers around the community and met & chatted to some delightful people and discovered new places & lanes which they hadnt been before.
The sun was shinning and we tucked into delicious afternoon cakes and cups of tea to view photos and displays of the work that the CLT had achieved to date.
A big thank you to all who supported the event and it was wonderful to see & welcome some new members
Annual General Meeting
April 30th 2024
We had planned and hoped to hold this AGM late last year but, as you will know,
Rob England our chairman of several years died un-expectedly in late November 2023.
We attended a memorial service for him in February at his local church in Marshwood and had a good get-together with his many relatives & friends at Thorncombe sports & social club.
We all miss Rob and remember his good sense of humour and how much we enjoyed working with him: we plan to carry on his good work.
It took us two board meetings to recover files and to prepare for this AGM and I would like to thank all those who contributed to this effort.
Ali Edwards stood down as our treasurer of many years and Emma Davies also stood down as our secretary having also served in that role for many years. A big thank-you to them both: the good news is that they are interested to continue as Directors and Ali is running a First Aid course here in a few days’ time..
We were very lucky to find John Piper, a practicing accountant, willing to take over as our Treasurer and equally lucky to find that Samantha Martin, the daughter of our founding chairman David Hitchcock, was willing to take over as our secretary.
A big thank-you to them for their efforts over the last few months
Charles Sommers Chairman
2024
February
Marshwood Land Trust under new chairmanship
February 2024 saw the relaunch of Marshwood Land Trust, with Charles Somers voted into the Chair. Charles has been an active board member of the Trust since 2012. During the 1st Board meeting held on February 6th, we welcomed John Piper as Treasurer and Samantha Martin as Secretary. Time to refresh everyone memories on the last set of minutes and sort through the paperwork!
Samantha Martin Secretary​