Ground Maintenance Contracts

Whittlesford Parish Council is obliged to re-tender all Ground Maintenance Contracts every four years for land owned/managed.

Whittlesford Parish Council strives to support local and small businesses and welcomes keen, reliable and flexible contenders for the following contracts:

Footpath & Verge Maintenance, Allotments & Community Orchard, Newton Road Open Space, Maynards Open Space and the Parish Cemetery.

If you are interested in any of the above contracts, then please get in touch for more information. Closing date for all enquiries will be Friday 14^th March 2025 and new contracts will begin on Tuesday 1^st April 2025. All applicants must be registered Self-Employed and carry their own Public Liability Insurance.

All enquiries should be made to:

Camms Meals on Wheels leaflet

 

 

Our purpose is to deliver nutritious meals to those in our community who may struggle to prepare or access food due to age, illness or disability.

Our compassionate and dedicated DBS checked volunteer drivers often are the only contact that our customers will have daily, therefore, in case of emergency, they will call our main office to contact emergency services or/and their contact (relative) to inform them of the concerns.

We deliver to Cambridge City, Fenland, East Cambridgeshire, Sout Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Monday to Friday between 11:00 and 2pm, and Monday to Sunday 11:00 to 2pm (Cambridge City Only).

We offer a choice of 2 course lunch (a hot meal and a desert, or a soup and a main meal) out of 4 mains and 4 desserts (or a soup) choice every day that repeats every 4 weeks with a flexibility of menus for differing dietary needs.

 

Or main Communication is through our drivers who will give menus to customers or the persons responsible for ordering every fortnight, informing and confirming the meal choice. However, the first order must be completed over the phone or email, so we can register ‘New Client’ on our system.

 

Our two- course set meals are priced at £8.50, payable by bank transfer, card payments over the phone, or a check. We do not take direct debit or cash payments.

 

Customers can order as many or as less meals per week as they wish. We do not offer free trial; however, cancelations are accepted any time they decide to do so.

 

Please see attached digital version of our leaflet, a copy of a current menu choices as well as an enquiry form.

Camms Meals on Wheels leaflet

For the direct communications regarding registration and cancelations please contact our main office.

Our telephone number is 01223 314288

or via email at

We kindly ask for your support in sharing our 2024 Big Commuter Survey with the residents in Whittlesford. Smart Journeys, a project co-led by Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC), is conducting the 2024 Big Commuter Survey from Monday 14 October to Sunday 27 October.

The Big Commuter Survey aims to help Smart Journeys and CCC better understand how residents and employees across Cambridgeshire currently commute and their future travel needs. The data collected will guide improvements to the transport network, ensuring that we focus on the most effective areas for both residents and businesses. It will also provide valuable insights to support sustainable travel initiatives and influence future public transport decisions across the county.

Our goal is to make Cambridgeshire a greener, more sustainable place to live by offering safer, healthier travel options. Commuting habits have shifted in recent years, and we want to learn more about how people are now getting to and from work. This will help us plan for enhancements, such as additional walking and cycling routes.

We’re committed to achieving carbon net-zero, something we know is important to Cambridgeshire residents, as highlighted in the recent Quality of Life survey. We want to ensure every resident has a chance to contribute. Please encourage your community to take part by completing the survey, which takes about 5 minutes: https://bit.ly/bigcommuter2024.

The deadline to complete the survey is 23:59 on Sunday 27 October 2024. Your help in sharing this link with your residents would be greatly appreciated, ensuring that their voices are heard in shaping the future of transport in Cambridgeshire.

Thank you for your support.

On behalf of Smart Journeys and Cambridgeshire County Council

 

Active Travel in Cambridgeshire

Newsletter

 

Families, students and older people are all being encouraged to have their say on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s bus franchising consultation.
Running until 20 November 2024, it will inform a decision by the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough on how to reform buses across the area.

 

A series of drop-in events will be taking place in September and October. The events will give people the opportunity to meet members of the consultation team in person, share their views about local bus services face-to-face and give feedback in the consultation.

 

Dates and times, as well as detailed location and travel information, can be found on the consultation website: https://cpca-yourvoice.co.uk/bus-franchising-consultation/key-events/

 

Please help us spread the word about the bus franchising consultation within your community.

For anyone who can’t attend a drop-in event, there are lots of other ways to take part in the consultation:

• You can take part online: https://cpca-yourvoice.co.uk/bus-franchising-consultation/
• Paper copies or large print versions of the consultation documents are available too, and you can request a copy in the following languages: Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Urdu.
• If you would like to print out the consultation documents and post your response to us, please call 01480 277180 and we will arrange to send you a FREEPOST envelope. All survey returns should be sent to the following address: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Bus Franchising Consultation, 2nd Floor, Pathfinder House, St Mary’s Street, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 3TN.

If you would like to get in touch with the consultation team directly, please use the following contact details:

Email:
Telephone: 01480 277180

ROBERT HENRY CHAPMAN of Whittlesford

killed D Day    6^th June 1944

Robert Henry Chapman was a Marine aged 19 years and 1 month when he died on D-Day, 6^th June 1944.  His name is on the new British Normandy Memorial in France and this year, the 80^th anniversary of the landings, a new plaque will be added which will tell his story and can be seen on the following link:                https://www.britishnormandymemorial.org/normandy-story/robert-henry-chapman/

The plaque at the British Normandy Memorial, France, with the QR code which tells his story.

The British Normandy Memorial is the only memorial in Normandy listing all the names of the 22,442 British military personnel who died on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy.

This year from 21st April to 31st August 2024, the British Normandy Memorial in France together with “Standing with Giants” are displaying 1,475 silhouettes of soldiers to reflect the number of British servicemen who lost their lives on D-Day itself.

 

Robert was born on 2^nd May 1925, the son of Reuben Arthur and Louisa Emma Chapman nee Day.  Louisa was born in Hildersham.  Robert was the youngest of 4 children having 2 sisters, Millicent Louisa and Olive May who both later married and left the village. Sadly, his older brother William Arthur George died in 1948 aged 28. His parents and brother are buried in the village cemetery.  His father’s sister was Alice who married Percy Overhill, who was killed in WW1.  Alice and Percy’s son Geoffrey joined the RAF and was killed in 1943 so of the 8 village residents who died in WW2 these 2 came from the same family.

Robert’s family had moved from Radwinter, Essex between 1861/71 and initially lived in Orchard Terrace in Whittlesford.  In 1890 Robert’s grandfather Reuben purchased “Sheads” in the High Street where the family were still living at the outbreak of WW2.  In the book “Whittlesford Recalled” originally published in 1977, there is a photograph of the house, and it states that this is “where the first Co-op was started by Reuben Chapman”.  The earliest Chapmans were blacksmiths but according to the 1939 Register, Robert’s father Arthur Reuben was a farmer and carrier in addition to being a Special Constable and Robert was a 14-year-old newspaper boy.   He attended the village primary school, now William Westley School, from 16 September 1929 leaving on 29 July 1936 to move to Sawston Village College where he is commemorated on a memorial plaque outside the college offices.  At the time of his death, he was too young to vote as the age for voting was 21 years.

 

Robert had his 18^th birthday on 2^nd May 1943 and joined the marines soon after.  He had previously worked at Pearce Mill in Kings Mill Lane, Great Shelford, a small water mill producing flour, grinding corn from local farmers and supplying shops etc.  Robert’s job there is unknown.

 

THE WAR

At first Robert was posted to HMS Copra, a shore-based frigate used for admin purposes for men who had not yet been assigned to a ship. As planning for D-Day increased he was posted to HMS Turtle, another shore-based frigate, but one that was used for training personnel who would be part of Operation Neptune, the seaborne assault phase of Operation Overlord. Once his training was complete, he was posted to 698 LCM Flotilla.  The LCM (Landing Craft Mechanised) could carry a tank, up to 100 men or a large quantity of cargo. Due to its size the LCM would have made its own way across the Channel rather than being carried on one of the larger landing ships. The flotilla was part of Force G which landed troops on Gold Beach.

The landing time for the British troops on D-Day was set at 7.30am, one hour after the Americans at Omaha Beach.

According to the eye-witness report of 2 survivors Robert was on LCM 193, part of the 698 Flotilla. At approximately 9am on 6^th June 1944, they were approaching King Red Beach, part of Gold Beach, and whilst trying to run onto the beach to unload beach roadway the craft hit a mine and sank. The crew were taken off the LCM by an LCA (Landing Craft Assault) and whilst trying to get clear the LCA blew up and Robert was injured. He died of his wounds later in the day. Initially he was buried in Ver-sur-Mer but was reburied in Bayeux Cemetery on 3 February 1945. Grave XIV.L.13.    British Normandy Memorial Location – Column 1.

The last line on the new plaque reads, “His memory is a keepsake”.  This is the first line of the inscription on his gravestone which would have been chosen by his family.

 

 

You can find out more about the British Normandy Memorial Trust, which has recently announced that the King has become its Patron, by logging onto:   www.britishnormandymemorial.org  where it also gives details of how to become a Guardian.

 

Written by Karen Wright

My thanks to all those people, both local and national, who have helped me find the story of Robert Henry Chapman

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