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The Kempshott Festival is currently being organised by Steve Court.  This is one of many events he is organising to help him achieve his target of raising £40,000 for his two chosen charities – St Michael’s Hospice and Marwell Wildlife.  The Kempshott Festival is booked for Saturday 2nd June 2012 at Kempshott Village Hall.  If [...]

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Borough Council  consultation on the Core Strategy – The Planning Blueprint to 2027 started on 10th February and runs until Friday 23 March 2012.  Documents and more detailed information are available on the Council’s website at www.basingstoke.gov.uk/go/LDF 

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Kempshott Conservation Group Our new web and blog site can be found at www.kempshottconservationgroup.org.uk.  Have a look round and tell us what you think.  The blogs are a key part of the site and we look forward to your contributions.  We have had reports of foxes seen along Pack Lane so please blog us your [...]

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Hello again everyone,   I hope that 6 weeks into 2012 (Olympic year) you are still managing to stick to your New Year resolutions.   Keep up the fitness training, I know it’s hard, but coupled with less smoking and drinking you’ll be feeling much better soon! Honest!   Left-over turkey and Christmas pud have just disappeared off [...]

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A group of committed volunteers met at the Civic Offices in Basingstoke in October to discuss the future of Basingstoke in Bloom. Basingstoke in Bloom celebrates the parklands and open spaces of Basingstoke and Deane, and a competition awards prizes to the best residential gardens in and around the Borough. Basingstoke In Bloom is set [...]

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Bumblebees and Cuckoos  It may sound a sound strange combination but a recent excellent talk by one of our own members, Chris Rose, was highly illuminating and left me struggling to take in all the information she had gathered about Bumblebees during her first season studying them on Old Down. One interesting thing I learned [...]

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Seed collection……….. Tis the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…… and seed collecting, which is now in full swing and a very important part of the conservation process.  By taking wild flower seed from key sites with, of course, the owners’ permission, we can build up a store of seed of known provenance.  It is [...]

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Unwanted black cats in Basingstoke are being left on the shelf Cats Protection’s Basingstoke & District Branch is urging people to adopt a black cat as it struggles to care for growing numbers of them.

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Kempshott Coffee Club will be participating in the World’s biggest coffee morning  next Friday at 10 am at St Mark’s Church, Homesteads Road.  All contributions taken on that day will be donated to MacMillan Cancer Support.  Homemade cakes will also be available to buy.  Why not come along and join in? Kempshott Coffee Club runs every Friday from 10am [...]

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A Kempshott resident is looking to car share with someone who goes to or very near to Basingstoke Train Station on a weekday morning ( approximately 3 days a week).

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