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Community invited to events to help shape Ascot’s future development and High Street improvements

The Ascot community is invited to attend workshops and drop-in events to help shape the town’s rejuvenation, including sharing their views on options for improving the High Street.

The Royal Borough is working with residents, community groups, businesses and other partners to produce a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) that will guide future development in the area, complementing the vision set in the Borough Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan.

The Borough Local Plan includes a high-level vision to rejuvenate Ascot as a vibrant place for the community, with an improved High Street and high-quality new development that is well integrated into Ascot and protects its green and leafy character. New development in Ascot will be focused on the High Street.

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Local Windsor & Ascot professional dog photographer launches a once in a lifetime opportunity to celebrate the lives of dogs. ASCOT, BERKSHIRE (January 22nd, 2024) – Millers Image Limited, the Ascot and Windsor based professional dog photographers, announced today the launch of “60 at 60: Celebrating the Lives of Dogs”, a fundraising project for a national charity dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children and adults with various challenging medical conditions. Tails of the World is an international group of professional pet photographers, each celebrating the dogs of their region with their own “Tails of . . .” fundraising coffee table book.

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PAPPLEWICK CHARITY CLUB ENJOYS TOUR OF PRIORY ON THEIR CARE HOME VISIT | Papplewick boys are continuing their regular visits to local care homes to chat with and learn about some of the residents' fascinating stories and histories.

On Thursday afternoon they visited St. David's and St. Christopher's Residential Care homes in Ascot and the Manager also very kindly gave the boys a tour of the Priory. She told them all about the nuns and discussed Florence Nightingale's big role in training the nuns in preparation for the Crimea war.  During the course of this term the boys will also work with the Alexander Devine Childrens' Hospice.

Headmaster, Tom Bunbury said "Not only do the boys get a lot out of chatting to the residents, but they benefit so much from learning interesting historial facts, not only from their tour of the home, but also from the residents themselves, these really are mutually beneficial visits.

www.papplewick.org.uk   For further information, please do contact the Registrar, on 01344-621488 or registrar@papplewick.org.uk

PAPPLEWICK BOYS TO ENJOY ADVENTURE BASED TRIP TO AFRICA '- THE STAG CHALLENGE' - TO RAISE MONEY FOR UBUNYE FOUNDATION | This exciting trip for 14 Year 8 boys who have a passion for adventure and helping others. It will provide an opportunity to help impoverished communities in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and allow the boys to push their own personal boundaries through adventure-based learning activities. The trip will be 11 days in-country during the Easter Holiday 2024 They will be partnering with the Ubunye Foundation to raise money to build an ablution block for one of their Early Learning Centres. The boys will be involved in the fundraising leading up to the trip. The Stag Challenge boys will also have the opportunity to come up with their own fundraising initiatives.  An integral part of the Stag Challenge is a site visit to the early learning centre that we have partnered with. This will allow the boys to see for themselves how their efforts have made a difference. They will spend time at the centre helping out with lessons and interacting with the children.  The “Challenge” culminates in climbing the Great Winterberg, at 2371 m, the highest mountain in the Cape Province.

Headmaster Tom Bunbury sad "This an incredible opportunity for the boys to be able to contribute , spending quality time at the centre with the children will be such a rewarding experience, and also a brilliant chance to push their own boundaries with mountain climbing, white water rafting etc.. They take great pride in thinking up their own schemes to fundraise also .  We much look forward to hearing about their endeavours after Easter.  Watch this space!'

Once again, Rotary Club of Ascot (RCA) has brought new Young Chefs to the eye of the local populace. On 16th January, the Rotary Club of Ascot held another successful Young Chef competition at LVS Ascot.  The support of LVS and judges chef Adam Fisher and sous chef Goncalo Canto (both from Pennyhill Park) set the scene for a great competition.  As usual, the young chefs were very impressive and the winner was Esther Hine from Easthampstead Park and runner up Francesca Attard from LVS.  Esther now goes forward to the Rotary District (about the size of the Thames valley) final in Newbury next month.

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The sporting prowess at Charters School has always been evident, so the Sunningdale-based school were delighted to hear that in a recent survey by School Sports magazine, they featured in the top 5% of schools for the first time. The survey reviewed school sports in all secondary schools across the country, both state and private, and Charters School ranked 196.

The results showed that:  "Reaching the top 30 puts you in the top 1% of the country's state or independent sporting schools, the top 100 puts you in the top 3% while the top 200 puts you in the top 5%. Schools usually have to reach the later stages of at least two, three or four national competitions to make the list.”

Both the impressive range of sport and talented students at Charters School places it in the top 5% of all schools for sport.