In case you missed it, Issue 4 of The Three Villages Magazine published on 1st December and is available to purchase for just £1 at various locations including:
St John the Baptist, Great Amwell St Mary the Virgin, St Margarets St Andrew, Stanstead Abbots The Village Pharmacy The Maltings Coffee House Stanstead Abbotts & St Margarets Village Club
Pick up your copy while it is still available. If you are having trouble getting a copy, please do let us know and we will do what we can to help.
Issue 5 of The Three Villages Magazine is currently in production and will publish at the start of March!
We have had an update from The 3 Churches Foodbank Hub. They are in need of the following:
Tinned rice
Tinned fruit
Toiletries
Donations can be made to Sue at 8 Millers Lane, Stanstead Abbotts or contact The 3 Churches Foodbank Hub (07487 350918). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The 3 Churches Foodbank Hub A local Hub of the Hertford & Ware Foodbank based at St Margarets’ Parish Church
ALFS, Animal Larder Food and Shelter, is a free food bank based in Hertfordshire providing food parcels and accessories for families with pets. They can also help with fostering or rehoming.
In the next issue of The Three Villages Magazine, there will be a feature on ALFS, but in the meantime do contact them if you need support or can donate:
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Congratulations to The Herts Domestic Abuse Helpline who celebrated their 20th year in operation and also for receiving the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
Herts Domestic Abuse Helpline is a confidential, free, support and signposting service for anyone affected by domestic abuse. We are here to listen Call 08 088 088 088 9am–9pm Monday to Friday and 9am–4pm weekends Confidential email Kim@mailpurple.org
We recently ran a survey to get a sense of how The Three Villages is going and to help plan for 2023.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete the survey. It has been really helpful and given us some ideas to work on next year.
As can be seen from the infographic below, we have achieved some of our main goals, but also have a few things to work on improving in forthcoming issues.
The December issue of The Three Villages Magazine has published and is available to purchase for £1 across the three villages. Be sure to pick up your copy!
You can find it at a number of locations including, but not limited to: St John the Baptist, Great Amwell St Mary the Virgin, St Margarets St Andrew’s, Stanstead Abbots The Village Pharmacy The Red Lion The Maltings Coffee House Stanstead Abbotts & St Margarets Village Club
We hope that you enjoy this latest issue. There are some great articles including the latest instalment of Our Historic Churches series, updates from local youth organisations and the schools, a business spotlight on More Than B’loons and a charity focus on HELPING, and you can also find out the winners of our Christmas Schools Art Competition!
If you are struggling to get a hold of a copy, please do be in touch and we will see how we can help.
Thank you for your continued support. The Three Villages Team
The mission of Warm Welcome Spaces is to support organisations to open their doors and provide a warm welcome for those struggling to heat their homes this winter. If you’d like to know more, please visit https://www.warmwelcome.uk/.
Jenny has lived in the villages for 29 years and regularly walks down the rivers and around the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust (HMWT) reserve. This photograph was taken when up on the viewing point at the reserve.
Huge thanks go to Jenny for letting us use her photograph on the cover!
The robin has long been associated with Christmas. As Molly Murray from The Scottish Wildlife Trust explains: ‘the first legend takes us back to Victorian times, where the tradition of sending Christmas cards started. Royal Mail postmen, who wore bright red uniforms, delivered these cards. This earned them the nickname of “robin” or “redbreast”. Artists usually illustrated Christmas cards with pictures relating to the delivery of letters, such as post-boxes or the postmen known as “robins”, and eventually started drawing the familiar little brown and red bird delivering letters instead of the postmen. This trend caught on and became very popular, and continues to this day, with many robin-themed items being seen on supermarket shelves during the festive period.’
Issue 4 of The Three Villages Magazine will be published at the start of December at all the usual places. It will include the latest Our Historic Churches installment, updates from the local schools and youth groups, and interesting stories from around the villages.
If you haven’t done so already, get your copy of Issue 3 before it disappears!
Thank you for your continued support, The Three Villages Team
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