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The Lexicon BRACKNELL  is delighted to announce a new community art project in Princess Square to recognise that while the last year has been difficult for us all… there will be brighter days ahead!

As spring approaches, the days get brighter and the leaves return to the trees, The Lexicon is encouraging the community to come together to help to grow it’s own special Handprint Tree.

Over the next ten weeks, children, adults and budding artists are being asked to visit http://bit.ly/TheLexiconBrighterDays to download a template for The Lexicon Handprint Tree.  Designs should be created using the colours of the rainbow, helping the tree to grow with gorgeous leaves, as the brighter days approach.

The handprints can be filled with drawings of everything we love, whether that’s a smiley face, a hello, pretty nail art, a favourite food, hobby, message, bright, pretty colours or anything that brings a smile. 

Need an Alternative to Homeworking? 

Rooms in the Mews at Cumberland Lodge are available as solo work hubs for people wanting to escape the homeworking office for some peace-and-quiet and a productivity boost over the winter.

They cost £30 a day (8.30am till 6pm), and all proceeds help to support the Cumberland Lodge charity.  The package includes free parking, complimentary WiFi and snacks (biscuits and fresh fruit), bottles of mineral water, unlimited tea and coffee

The en-suite bathroom allows  you to  run or cycle to work or enjoy work-breaks out in Windsor Great Park, cycling/running/walking.

Full details here:

https://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/venue-hire/solo-work-hubs-and-co-working-spaces

Papplewick School, Windsor Road, Ascot. www.papplewick.org.uk  Registrar, Mrs Rebecca Lindley , on 01344-621488 or   registrar@papplewick.org.uk

Papplewick boys in the middle and lower school took part in a Santa Run around the school grounds on Wednesday 9th December.  Year group bubbles were of course staggered and the boys donned their 'Santa' hats whilst running in aid of Sebastian Action Trust - Sebastian Gates was a local boy who sadly died of cancer aged 9 on Christmas Eve 2003.  Families donated £5 each in support.

Headmaster Tom Bunbury said "The boys ran with vigour in support of this poignant local charity which was formed to fulfill the wish of Sebastian made only two weeks before he died in order to create the UK's only purpose built facility offering respite holidays to very sick children and their families."

WEBSITE  The LVS Ascot - Independent, Day & Boarding, Infant, Junior & Senior Schools & Sixth Form, London Road Ascot.

Pupils at independent day and boarding school LVS Ascot, on London Road, Ascot, are celebrating after two of the school’s budding young artists won awards in the Independent Schools Association’s London West Art Competition.

Year 13 student, Evelyn Chen, won the Key Stage 5 drawing competition, with her pencil study, and Abhishek Gurung, scooped first place for his evening dress, in the Key Stage 5 textiles category. Abhishek has since graduated and is now studying at the London College of Fashion.

London West is one of seven Independent Schools Association (ISA) regions across the UK, and Evelyn and Abhishek’s work will now be submitted to the National Finals, which are usually held in conjunction with the ISA’s Annual Autumn Study Conference, but this year will take place online in February 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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A wooded site in Coombe Lane, with a Right of Way across the rear of the site is up for auction on December 15th  - CLICK HERE for Auction details

WILDLIFE CORRIDOR

Ascot Wildlife have identified a Wildlife Corridor (See lines on map above)  which runs along the stream, just to the west of this land. CLICK HERE for more information. The map also shows important trees.

A new Government backed scheme aimed at supporting the most vulnerable families with children and individuals will begin operating in the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead in December.

The scheme, which will run from 1st December 2020 to the 31st March 2021 and includes the Easter school holidays, provides more than £200,000 in new funding for the council to build upon the support already provided during the pandemic.

Most of the money will be used to provide vouchers for food to cover the Christmas, half-term and Easter school holidays for those children in the borough who qualify for free school meals. 

In addition, the council is making a proportion of this fund available to local foodbanks and other voluntary and community groups to help their efforts to get more support to vulnerable families and individuals in the Royal Borough.

Councillor Stuart Carroll, cabinet member for adult social care, children’s services, health and mental health, said: “This new funding is a welcome boost to support those who need our help the most, and help has never been more needed than it is now.

“The council is the organisation that’s best placed to coordinate local efforts to ensure the appropriate winter support is provided. We will be working with schools, colleges and nurseries, along with charities, voluntary groups and local health and social care practitioners to identify those most in need this winter.