October 2025
HARVEST SUPPER
Harvest Supper, Slide Show (by Chris Jakes) and Raffle
Friday October 24 7.00pm at Prickwillow Village Hall
£8.00 per person.
Self-service supper of Jacket Potato with a choice of four fillings and Apple Crumble with cream. Hot and cold soft drinks available.
Bring your own drinks, glasses and cutlery.
Slide Show ‘Prickwillow Celebrates: Jubilees and Coronations from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth’
Please make payment in advance by BACS transfer to CO-OP Bank, Prickwillow Village CIC, (sort) 08-92-99, (a/c) 67324253. Please use Your Surname as reference.
You can also pay by cash to 5A Main Street, leaving your name.
DEADLINE FOR PAYMENT IS OCTOBER 19.
PRICKWILLOW BOOK/WINE CLUB
Tuesday November 04, 8.00pm at Pat’s House
All ladies welcome (even if you’ve not read the books).
‘Small Things Like These’ by Clare Keegan and
‘Hamnet’ by Maggie O’Farrell.
Both the recommended books are SHORT, so no excuses for not reading at least one!
ELY’S APPLE AND HARVEST FAYRE 2025
October 11 & 12 on Palace Green and Cross Green
10.00am – 4.00pm
This year’s event is the 25th Silver anniversary, with over 80 traders and food vendors, a celebration of produce marquee and amazing entertainment.
CHANGES TO BIN COLLECTIONS
From June 01 2026, East Cambs DC is changing their bin collection service as part of a national government initiative to help everyone reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and to recycle more.
- weekly food waste collections, you will get a 5 litre kitchen caddy for food waste and a 23 litre outdoor caddy to transfer it into for collection
- a years supply of caddy liners, for free
- a new 180 litre black wheeled bin for any rubbish that cannot be recycled, this replaces black bin bags and will be collected every 2 weeks
- soft plastics like carrier bags, film lids, salad and vegetable packaging can be added to your existing blue bins
- continued collection of green lidded garden waste bins for free but from 1 June, please put all food waste into your new food waste caddy
Further details will be provided when the new bins are delivered and also at https://eastcambs.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/new-bin-changes-1-june-2026.
ANNOUNCED ROADWORKS
The following proposed roadworks have been announced:
Lark Bank: Oct – Dec, road closures
Putney Hill Road: Oct – Dec, road closures
Fore Hill, Ely: Oct 17 – Oct 29, road closures
Stuntney Causeway: Oct 15 – Oct 17, road closures
Kings Avenue: Nov 07 – Nov 21, road closures
SHORT REMEMBRANCE EVENT
Sunday 09 November at 10.30am at the War Memorial
We will share the background of 3 named soldiers, share your stories and poems and lay a wreath. Everybody is welcome.
If you would like to make a contribution, please let Pat del Grazia know on pdelgrazia60@gmail.com.
PV CIC MEETING DATES 2025
All meetings are held in the Village Hall and start at 8.00pm.
AGM Tuesday November 11 2025 (7.30pm) followed by Committee meeting
Meeting dates for 2026 to be advised.