Cumberland Lodge shares 50th online chapel service for Great Park neighbours

Throughout the pandemic, Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park has been producing a weekly live-streamed service from its green-screen studio, to support the congregation of the Royal Chapel of All Saints in the Park, and its surrounding community. Earlier this month, the charity shared its 50th online service.

While the Royal Chapel has been closed, services from Cumberland Lodge have been led by Canon Martin Poll (Chaplain to Windsor Great Park, Canon of St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle and Domestic Chaplain to the Queen), or Canon Dr Ed Newell (Chief Executive of Cumberland Lodge).

Bible readings are filmed each week by members of the Royal Chapel congregation, from their homes, and the hymns and anthems are painstakingly recorded, track by track, by members of the Chapel choir, and produced by another member of the congregation, Peter Harris. The piano and organ music is recorded by Richard Furstenheim MVO, Director of Music for the Royal Chapel, or Sean Bui, the Assistant Director.

email RAOWindsor@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

Thames Valley Police is seeking your views ahead of a Restricted Air Space Order application in Windsor.

We are working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service to apply to restrict use of the air space up to 2,500ft within a 1.5 nautical mile radius around Windsor Castle. The Civil Aviation Authority will then review this.    While there are already many security measures in place at this site, if the application is successful, it will result in restrictions for those using the air space in this area.

Unless someone has an exemption or prior permission, anyone who breaches the restrictions faces prosecution.  This is a further method to keep the community living near this iconic location safe.

Our officers also carry out regular patrols in the area and there are a range of visible security measures in place, along with those which are not visible, to ensure everyone remains safe.
This is an application for a permanent restricted air space order, which will be regularly reviewed.

To express your views about the application, or if you have any questions, please email RAOWindsor@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk by 30th April.

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An ambitious walker with a 6000-mile target called at Bracknell on Monday, 19^th April, for a welcome refreshment break.

David Matthews, from the Knoydart Peninsula on the west coast of Scotland, called in

at the local branch of Samaritans on his 6000-mile walk to all 201 branches of the listening charity.

He was welcomed at Bracknell, Wokingham, Ascot & Districts’ branch, based off Larges Lane, Bracknell, by branch director Barbara Denyer, branch trustee Nick Tuggey and other volunteers. They provided a welcome cup of tea and home-made gingerbread and a rest outside the branch centre.

David took breaks during lockdowns but is now on another leg of The Listening Walk, and had come east from Plymouth and was on his way from the Reading branch to the Guildford branch of Samaritans.

To contact the Borough’s community wardens either telephone (01628) 685636 or email wardens@rbwm.gov.uk

The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s team of community wardens are changing their focus so they can be more effective responding to those issues blighting residents and communities the most.

This change, which comes into force on 1 June, follows a redesign of the service giving the team greater scope to concentrate on preventing anti-social behaviour and crime, monitor enforcement, support community initiatives, and foster meaningful relationships with residents.

They will continue to patrol weekdays from 8am and 9pm so will still be on hand during evenings to provide reassurance in parks and open spaces to disrupt potential anti-social behaviour. They will also be available weekends for special or critical events.

You can now stop for gourmet coffee on Ascot Racecourse heath, while out walking. The new van, pictured above, is near the north end of the tunnel to the High Street.

The unit is open from 08.30-16.00 Mon-Fri & 09.00-15.30 Sat-Sunday and will remain open throughout the spring/summer, excluding racedays.  Card transactions only.”

1. the Unit will be closed on Saturday in respect of HRH Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

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On Friday 26th March, Mrs Boorman, who is Head of English at Charters School in Sunningdale arranged an inspiring lesson for Year 10 English students who are currently studying the work of the poet Simon Armitage. One of the poems that students examine during Key Stage 4 is ‘Remains’ which Simon wrote in 2007 and is based on the experiences of a soldier who served in Iraq. The soldier suffered severe PTSD as a result of his experiences and the poem recalls one particular event and the resulting flashbacks he experiences.

To help the students understand the effects of PTSD, Mrs Boorman arranged for a Captain in the British Army to talk to the students about his career and the effects that active service can have on serving personnel. The lesson took place on Teams and students were able to ask a number of probing questions, including whether the Captain was able to empathise with the enemy, what support there is for people with PTSD and whether attitudes have changed towards people who experience this condition.

Simon Armitage was a Probation Officer with the Ministry of Justice before he became a poet and Mrs Boorman invited her father to join the lesson as he has worked in this profession for the past 30 years. It became clear that Parole Officers are an integral part of an offender’s rehabilitation and that there is a need for people in this career to decompress after hearing harrowing accounts of crimes to ensure that their mental health is protected.