COVID-19 information These are the main rules that will be in place in Buckinghamshire from Wednesday 2 December:
It’s vital that if you develop symptoms, no matter how mild, that you book a test and isolate immediately. Anyone else you live with must isolate too. Village Those on the village email list have been circulated with contact details of villagers offering help to their neighbours. If you are a resident who has not received this then please email wardenws@gmail.com for guidance. Sites that may be helpful:
Home deliveries, etc.
St Giles Church There are such stringent regulations attached church opening that, sadly, St Giles will, for the most part, have to remain locked. The only services have been funerals on 10th and 13th August, Holy Communion on 12th September, Harvest on 18th October and a largely carol-less Carol Service on 18th December. The lockdown from 5th November prevented the Remembrance Service on 8th November from taking place, though the central Act of Remembrance was said by a single person within the locked church. Christmas services were severely curtailed. On each Sunday in January and February 2021 Revd Paula is holding a single benefice service via Zoom, starting at 10.30am. If you would like to join her, please email westbucksrevd@gmail.com and she will send you the link, or you can attend via a telephone link if you prefer, again email Paula and she will provide you with the information. The following system may allow a tiny amount of individual access for private prayer. Email wardenws@gmail.com suggesting a day and time that you would like to go in. If the church has been locked for 72 hours previously and can be locked for 72 hours subsequently, then the church will be unlocked for two hours at the time requested. Fill in a track and trace form at the back of the church and be ready to put on a face mask if anyone else appears. Links to online services past and present appear HERE. The Link, the magazine of the West Buckingham Benefice, was not distributed in paper form during the worst of the pandemic but reappeared in that form with the September 2020 issue. It returned to online-only form from the February 2021 issue. A page for The Link has been created on this site where entries most relevant to Water Stratford have been accumulated. The Annual Vestry Meeting and the Annual Parochial Church Meeting were scheduled to take place on 27th April 2020 but face-to-face meetings were then banned due to the pandemic. Ours eventually took place at 2pm on Monday 12th October 2020 in the churchyard. The annual reports for 2019 were adopted and are shown HERE. The PCC remains unchanged. Useful links Member of Parliament Local government Buckinghamshire Council (unitary authority replaced District and County Councils on 1/4/20) Neighbouring
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