2024 WHEELBARROW RACE ANNOUNCEMENT -Rotary Club of Ascot Sponsored Wheelbarrow Race in Sunninghill

For at least the last 25 years, the Rotary Club of Ascot has organised the fancy dress Wheelbarrow Race through Sunninghill.  To stage this event takes many months of preparation by a group of people working together arranging such things as road closure, race teams, sponsorship, advertising etc.  Sadly, this year, our club membership is not able to carry out all of these many and varied tasks for this year’s race.  Hence, the Wheelbarrow Race will not be run on Monday 6^th May the Bank Holiday.

We are keeping our options open for next year’s race, but it remains a considerable challenge for the membership and we cannot be sure we can run the race again.

Howard Smith, President, Rotary Club of Ascot

Pictured: 'A Day at The Races' by Spotlights Musical Theatre Group 

The Dedworth Stage - A Day at the Races - Photo Courtesy of Chapmans Ironmongers

The  2023 Sunninghill  Wheelbarrow was held on  May 1st 2023, setting off from the School Road/Upper Village Road Car Park at noon.   A hugely enjoyed community event, raising vital funds for the Ascot Day Centre, it is organised by the Rotary Club of Ascot. 18 teams took part

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Free numeracy programme to improve lives | Residents could improve their numeracy skills and gain confidence to tackle everyday budgeting or get a new job, with a new free maths programme launched in the Royal Borough this week.

The sessions have been created by the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and partner training providers for people aged 19 years and over who do not have GSCE maths at grade C or the equivalent.

Designed to help with everyday activities like shopping and cost of living issues, the plans are to provide one-off sessions at various locations around the borough, and online.

A series of sessions of up to 12 weeks in length, are also planned during the three years the assistance which will be available. These sessions will be designed to improve specific skills, like budgeting, helping children with homework or a particular aspect of a job role.

Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following a burglary in Ascot. Between 11am on Friday (24/2) and 11am on Saturday (25/2), an offender broke into a property on Burleigh Road.

Items including jewellery and antique dining sets were stolen in the incident. PC Charlie Berry, based at Maidenhead police station, said: “I am appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this incident to please get in touch.

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LVS Ascot Pupils achieve 100% pass rate in English, Maths and Triple Science | Pupils at Independent day and boarding school LVS Ascot, where pupils are given the support and opportunity to exceed expectations, are celebrating a fantastic set of GCSE exam results. An incredible 100% pass rate was achieved in English, Maths and Triple Science with an overall pass rate of 92%.

LVS Ascot, an award winning, independent day and boarding school on London Road, are celebrating a fantastic set of IGCSE maths exam results taken in January by all 84 year 11 students.

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

PAPPLEWICK CHOIR VISITS ROME AND SINGS MASSES AT ST PETER'S AMONGST OTHER HISTORIC CHURCHES.

Twenty choirboys from Papplewick School, Ascot had the tour of a lifetime to Rome at half-term. Under the direction of Chris Goodwin, Director of Chapel Music, they sang Masses at St Peter’s, Santa Maria Maggiore and the Pantheon and hugely enjoyed the experience of singing in these vast, beautiful churches with impressively resonant acoustics. They had worked hard to prepare their varied repertoire ranging from plainsong, through Baroque and nineteenth-century music, to contemporary sacred anthems. Visits to Rome’s top attractions such as the Colosseum and the Trevi fountain were fitted in and they needed no encouragement tucking in to the local pizza, pasta and gelato. As the boys entered St Peter’s for the first time said, it was “awesome!"

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Thames Valley Police is appealing for the public’s help to find a man wanted in connection with a theft in Windsor.

Claudiu Marcu, aged 49, is wanted in connection with a theft from a vehicle in Windsor Yard’s car park in King Edward Court at around midday on 7 January.

An iPhone and a wallet were taken from the victim’s car, which were then used to purchase £12,506.90-worth of gift cards from Sainsbury’s in Slough. The victim was a woman in her sixties.

Marcu is known to frequent supermarkets, most recently: Waitrose in Windsor, Sainsbury’s and The Curve in Slough, and Waitrose in Ascot.