The Wymeswold Church Appeal Fund was established in 1991 to raise funds for the restoration, refurbishment and major repairs to the fabric and buildings of the Parish Church of St Mary’s, Wymeswold .

The Committee known as the WCAF has continued to raise funds since that date with the support of the residents of Wymeswold.

Contact: Janet Beaumont 07770 968320 janet.wymeswold@gmail.com.

WCAF Calendar

• Monday 27 January 2025
  Wymeswold Church Fund Appeal – Gala Dinner
  

Keeping the Wolds tidy by litter picking, reporting fly tipping and generally looking after our villages. Enjoy some fresh air and exercise with like-minded people.

Litter Co-ordinator: Sarah Garvey, 01509 889612

Email: woldstidyteam@gmail.com

Facebook: Wolds Tidy Team

The Wolds Choir is a group of singers from Wymeswold and the surrounding villages of Burton on the Wolds, Hoton, Prestwold, Widmerpool, Wysall and Willoughby. The choir is around 30 strong, and performs two or three concerts per year.

The choir has built up a good reputation in the local area for the quality of its singing. There is no pre-requisite knowledge of music required, apart from a basic understanding of notation and the ability to sing in tune and blend with the Choir. All pieces are taught to the choir at practice nights, which are on Wednesdays from 7:30pm to 9pm at the Methodist Church in Wymeswold. Some pre-learning of rehearsal pieces is expected and music files are provided. New members are welcome if they can commit to regular attendance. Fees are £20 per term.

Christmas Concert 2024:  Wed 11th December 7:30pm at Wymeswold Methodist Church, also on Wednesday 4th December 7:30pm at St. Peter’s Church, Widmerpool

• Sans Day Carol – Rutter
• Myn Lyking – Terry
• Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind – Rutter
• Sleep Holy Babe – Dykes
• Sure on that Shining Night – Lauridsen
• Jesus Christ the Apple Tree – Poston
• Christmas Night – Rutter
• Personent Hodie – Holst
• Huron Carol – Hunter
• Candlelight Carol – Rutter
• Curly hark – trad

Musical Director: Richard Thomas 07710 046101 / 01509 881750

Wolds Choir and Willoughby Choir Combined Concert – Vivaldi Gloria at Prestwold Church, May 2010

Archive:

For reference, this is a list of pieces that we have sung over the past years.

Easter “Gloria”  Concert 2024 (with the Carillon Quartet and friends) :

• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Bach
• Rejoice in the Lord Alway (The Bell Anthem) – Purcell
• Sheep May Safely Graze – Bach
• Gloria – Vivaldi

This concert raised over £1000 towards the Church Roof Repair Fund

Christmas Concert 2023:

• • Come All You Worthy Gentlemen – Willcocks
  • Little One Sweet – J.S. Bach
  • When Christ was Born – Jacques
  • Infant Holy – Willcocks
  • I Sing of a Maiden – Berkeley
  • I Saw a Maiden – Pettman
  • Angels from the Realms of Glory – Thomas
  • A Tender Shoot – Goldschmidt
  • Shcho to za Predivo – Trad. Ukranian
  • Hail, Chime On – Trad.
  • Curly Hark – Trad.

Easter “Armed Man” Concert 2023 (with the Carillon Quartet and friends):

• The Armed Man – Karl Jenkins

This concert raised over £1000 towards the Church Roof Repair Fund

Christmas Concert 2022:  Folk Carol theme

• Torches – Joubert
• Sleep, Holy Babe – Dykes
• All Hail To The Days – Trad.
• Diadem – Trad.
• Myn Lyking – Terry
• Jacob’s Well – Trad.
• I Saw Three Ships – Willcocks
• Bethlehem Down – Warlock
• Hail, Chime On – Trad.
• Cradle Song – Rutter
• Curly Hark – Trad.

Easter Concert 2022:  Folk songs alongside the Carillon Quartet

Christmas Concert 2021:

• All My Heart This Night Rejoices – Ebeling
• Adam lay Ybounden – Ord
• Coventry Carol – Trad. arr. Shaw
• King Jesus Hath A Garden – Wood
• Once As I Remember – Wood
• I Wonder as I Wander – Rutter
• Gabriel’s Message – Willcocks
• Quem Pastores Laudavere – Rutter
• Ring Christmas Bells – Lentovich
• The Infant King – Willcocks
• Quelle Est Cette odeur Agreable – Willcocks
• The Shepherds Farewell – Berlioz

Spring Concert 2020 (Deferred to 2022/3):  Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man.  Sat 2nd May (provis.), St. Mary’s Church, Wymeswold

• A Mass for Peace
• Other accompanying works

Christmas Concert 2019:  1st December (Widmerpool) and 4th December (Wymeswold)

• Make We Joy Now – Walton
• Still, Still, Still – Ledger
• People Look East – Ferguson
• There is No Rose – Skempton
• A Virgin Most Pure – Wood
• Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance – Wells
• The Holly and The Ivy – Thomas
• Come To Bethlehem – Warlock
• Lo, How a Rose e-er Blooming – Praetorius
• U, Good Christen Folk – Woodward

Spring Concert 2019: Gilbert & Sullivan.  Wed 1st May, Methodist Chapel, Wymeswold

• Gilbert & Sullivan Selection of four part songs from 7 different Operettas
• Some solo, duet and trio numbers
• A Partsong by Arthur Sullivan
• Other songs in the genre

Also performed on Sat 27th April in Willoughby Church

Christmas Concert 2018 with Charnwood Concert Band :  8th December, United Reformed Church, Loughborough

• Past 3 O’Clock – Wood
• O Magnum Mysterium – Victoria
• Shepherd’s Pipe Carol – Rutter
• Lute Book Lullaby – Ballet
• Northern Lights – Gjeilo
• The Saviour’s Work – Thomas
• Nativity Carol – Rutter
• Out of your Sleep – Rodney Bennett
• Myn Lyking – Terry
• Sure on the Shining Night – Lauridsen

Spring Concert 2018 – Choral Favourites :  13th May (East Leake) and 16th May (Widmerpool)

• Gloria (from Gloria) – Vivaldi
• He That Shall Endure (from Elijah) – Mendelssohn
• Cantique de Jean Racine – Faure
• God So Loved the World (from The Crucifixion) – Stainer
• And the Glory of the Lord (from The Messiah) – Handel
• Locus Iste – Bruckner
• Kyrie (from The Armed Man) – Jenkins
• How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair (from A German Requiem) – Brahms
• Three Chorales plus Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Bach
• In Paradisum (from Requiem) – Faure
• Zadok The Priest – Handel

Christmas 2017: Advent Carol Concert performances Wysall Wed 6th December, Wymeswold  Sun 3rd December.

• Night of Miracles – A Christmas Cantata by John W Peterson

Carol selection with Carols for Choirs page numbers:

• Poston: Jesus Christ The Apple Tree – CfC White p330 *
• Terry: Myn Lyking – CfC White p152, Orange p84
• Wood: Past 3 o’clock – CfC White p269, Green p101
• Rutter: Sans Day Carol – CfC White p219, Orange p107
• Stopford: Lully, Lulla, Lullay – Score *
• Leontovich: Ring Christmas Bells – Score *

Spring Concert May 2017 and Open Gardens June 2017

• Now is the Month of Maying – Morley
• Since first I saw your face – Ford
• April is in My Mistress Face – Morley
• Fine Knacks for Ladies – Dowland
• Never Weather-beaten sail – Campion
• Fair Phyllis – Farmer
• Afton Water – Willcocks
• Adieu Sweet Amaryllis
• My Sweetheart’s Like Venus – Holst
• Quick! We have but a Second – Stanford

Advent Concert 2016

• That Glorious Night – A Christmas Cantata by John W Peterson

• Adam Lay Ybounden – Ord (Orange p10)
• The Truth From Above – Vaughan Williams p342
• Gabriel’s Message – Willcocks  p315
• Quem Pastores Laudavere – Rutter p274
• Come All You Worthy Gentlemen – Willcocks (Blue, p62)
• The King’s Birthday – Terry
• The Infant King – Willcocks p302

Spring Concert 2016

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (with Willoughby Choir)

Advent Concert 2015

• Rutter – Cradle Song p178
• Walford Davies – O Little Town p382
• Pettman – I saw a Maiden p137
• Rutter – Star Carol p293
• Vaughan Williams – Gloucestershire Wassail – Green CfC p160
• Jacques – A Gallery Carol – Green CfC p102
• Trad Yorkshire Tune – While Shepherds Watched
• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind – Score
• Stopford – Lully, Lulla, Lullay – Score
• Thomas – Angels from the Realms of Glory – Score

Concert for Ollie Williams – 22nd November 2015

• Rutter – Gaelic Blessing
• Dingle – The Ash Grove
• Rutter – Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
• Foster – Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
• Sullivan – The Long Day Closes

Spring Concert 2015

We prepared a lighter programme and sang a Concert in May 2015 to a full  Willoughby Chuch with the Willoughby Choir.

• Dream a Little Dream -Schwandt/Andre
• Autumn Leaves – Arr Simmonds
• Anything Goes – Porter
• I Dream of Jeannie – Foster
• I Say a Little Prayer – David / Bacharach
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Trad.

• Andrew Lloyd Webber Selection

Advent Concert 2014

Our Annual Christmas Concert was in the Chapel this year.

• People Look East – Ferguson
• King Jesus Hath a Garden – Wood
• Christmas Night – Rutter
• Good King Wenceslas
• Bogoroditsye Dyevo – Part
• Bethlehem Down – Warlock
  
• Snow in the Street – Vaughn Williams
• God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
• A Tender Shoot – Goldschmidt
• In Dulci Jubilo – de Pearsall

Easter Concert 2014

We sung two performances of Stainer’s Crucifixion along with the Willoughby Choir, along with the Cantique de Jean Racine and a piece from The Armed Man.

• Stainer – The Crucifixion
• Faure – Cantique doe Jean Racine
• Jackson – The Armed Man – Praise the Lord

Advent Concert 2013

We shared the platform with Charnwood Concert Band on Saturday 7th December, 7pm to perform our Annual Christmas Concert.

• The Linden Tree Carol – Jacques
• Child in the Manger – Rutter
• All My Hear This Night Rejoices – Ebeling
• Coventry Carol – Shaw
• Shepherds’ Farewell – Berlioz
• Gaudete – Trad
• Sleep, Holy Babe – Dykes
• Candlelight Carol – Rutter
• Here we come a-Wassailing – Rutter

The Armed Man – Karl Jenkins – Easter 2013

We shared a platform with The Willoughby Choir for two concerts on 22nd and 24th March 2013. Also included were

• Love Divine – Howard Goodall
• With Drooping Wings – Purcell
• Sally Gardens – Trad. arr. Gerlitz
• The Crown of Roses – Tchaikovsky
• The Long Day Closes – Sullivan

Christmas Carol Concert 2012

We shared the platform with Charnwood Concert Band on Saturday 15th December, 7:30pm to perform our Annual Christmas Concert, including the  following pieces:

• Make We Joy Now – Walton
• In The Bleak Mid-Winter – Darke
• The First Nowell
• A Virgin Most Pure – Wood
• Shepherds Pipe Carol – Rutter (p86)
• Torches! – Joubert
• Zither Carol – Sargent
• Silent Night
• Nativity Carol – Rutter
• There is a Flower – Rutter p333

Carol Service Dates were: Sun 16th Dec 6pm (Prestwold), Thursday 20th Dec 7pm (Wymeswold)

 Spring Concert in Aid of Tongabeze

We shared a platform with Charnwood Concert Band on Friday 27th April to perform a Concert to raise money for an African School, and sang a selection of the following:

• Novello Choral Anthology
• Rogers and Hammerstein on Broadway
• Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert
• Other songs in our repertoire

We also supported a Concert for Save The Children in Rempstone on Saturday 19th May with a selection from the above.

Advent Concert – European Carols – 2011

• Sans Day Carol Rutter (Cornwall) p219
• Still, Still, Still Ledger (Austria) p306
• Once as I remember Wood (Italy) p262
• Quelle est cette Odeur agreable Willcocks (France) p270
• Cradle Song Rutter (Flanders) p178
• Infant Holy, Infant Lowly Willcocks (Poland) p192
• Myn Lyking Terry (England) p152
• Shcho to za Predivo (Ukraine) – sheet
• Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Praetorius (Germany) – p20 tune
• Christmas Lullaby – Rutter (England) – Library
• Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day – Gardner (England) – Library

Summer Singing 2011: Garden Walkabout and Washstock

• The Ash Grove – Trad arr. Dingle
• Autumn Leaves – Mercer / Kosma
• Anything Goes – Cole Porter
• Nowhere Man – Lennon & McCartney arr. Thomas
• You are the New Day – Peter Knight
• Seasons of Love – from “Rent” by Jonathan Larson

Spring Concert – April 2011

• Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo – with the Choir and Class 3 of Wymeswold C of E Primary School

Christmas Concert Pieces – December 2010

• Jesus Child p110
• I saw a maiden p137*
• Past 3 o’clock p269*
• Quem Pastores p274*
• Jesus Christ the Apple Tree p330*
• Out of Your Sleep p263*
• There is a Flower p333*
• Up, Good Christen Folk p360*
• God Rest you Merry p83
• Of the Father’s Heart Begotten p236

Spring Concert Pieces – May 2010

• Gloria – Vivaldi
• Zadok the Priest – Handel
• Locus Iste – Bruckner *
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Bach
• Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day – Gilbert & Sullivan
• Rejoice in the Lord Alway – Purcell
• The Ash Grove – Dingle *
• In Silent Night – Brahms *

Advent Carol Concert Pieces – December 2009

• Christmas Night (p310) (we have sung before)
• Shepherds Pipe Carol (p86)
• The Infant King (p302) (we have sung before)
• Joys Seven (p316)
• A Maiden Most Gentle (p21)
• Sir Christémas (p213)
• Riu Riu Chiu – (on Sheet) – as it was so well received last time
• Star Carol (p293)
• Good King Wenceslas (p102)
• Unto Us is Born a Son (p357)

Summer Garden Walkabout Singing 2009:

• Now is the Month of Maying – Morley
• The Ash Grove – Trad arr. Dingle
• Sally Gardens – Trad arr. Gerlitz – new
• Love walked Right In – Gershwin – new
• Afton Water – Trad. Arr Willcocks
• The Lass with the Delicate Air – Trad. Arr Dingle – new

Easter Concert 2009

We performed the following programme with the Willoughby Choir and the Pierrepont Singers on Tue 7th and Wed 8th April 2009.

• Cantique de Jean Racine – Fauré
• All in the April Evening – Roberton
• Ave Verum – Mozart
• The Lark in the Clear Air – Cashmore
• Gaelic Blessing – Rutter
• (Laudate Dominum – Mozart)
• The Long Day Closes – Sullivan
• God so loved the world – Stainer
• (Blessed be the God and Father – Wesley)
• Requiem – Fauré

Advent Carol Concert Pieces – December 2008

• The Cherry Tree Carol (p200, Orange p92) – Willcocks
• The Truth from above (p342, Orange p202) – Vaughan-Williams
• Mary’s Lullaby (p289) – Rutter
• O Little One Sweet (p233, Green p87) – Bach
• Rui Rui Chui – (on Sheet) trad Spanish
• O Holy Night – (Sheet, SSAB arrangement) – Adam
• Lute-book Lullaby (p308) – Shaw
• In Dulci Jubilo (p182, Green p42) – Pearsall
• I wonder as I wander (p169) – Rutter
• Sussex Carol (p242, Green p96) – Rutter

Spring Concert 2008

• Now is the Month of Maying – Morley
• Since first I saw your face – Ford
• The Ash Grove – Trad arr. Dingle
• Fair Phyllis – Farmer
• Afton Water – Willcocks
• Linden Lea – Vaughan-Williams
• My Spirit sang all Day – Finzi
• The Lark in the Clear Air – Cashmore
• The Blue Bird – Stanford
• Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day – Sullivan
• O Peaceful England – German
• Autumn Leaves – arr. Simmonds
• Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair – arr. Simmonds
• The Long Day Closes – Sullivan
• Goodnight – Schumann .

Advent Carol Concert Pieces – December 2007

• Myn Lyking * – R R Terry
• Adam Lay Ybounden * – Boris Ord
• Bethlehem Down * – Peter Warlock
• The Shepherds Farewell * – Hector Berlioz
• Out of Your Sleep * – Richard Rodney Bennett
• Christmas Lullaby – John Rutter
• The Lamb * – John Taverner
• Sans Day Carol * – John Rutter

Musical Director: Richard Thomas 01509 881750

• Community Grant Awards 2016
• Community Grant Award 2015

The Wymeswold Village Project Fund (the organising committee behind the annual Duck Races) again made grants available to local clubs, associations, societies, community projects and charities. The grants fund is generated by the profits from the betting races, BBQ and games at the Wymeswold Duck Races on 10th May.

Applications from four village-based organisations were received by the closing date of 30th September and the Awards Panel was able to distribute a total of £950 in grants as follows:

The Awards Panel felt that all the above projects met the conditions of the award scheme and were pleased to help out these village organisations with their respective projects.

Further details can be obtained from Wilma O’Leary (Secretary of the Wymeswold Village Project Fund / Duck Races) at wilma.oleary@googlemail.com

The Wymeswold Village Project Fund (the organising committee behind the annual Duck Races) again made grants available to local clubs, associations, societies, community projects and charities. The grants fund is generated by the profits from the betting races, BBQ and games at the Wymeswold Duck Races in May 2016.

Applications from village-based organisations were received by the closing date of 30th September and the Awards Panel was able to distribute grants as follows:

In addition the Awards Panel granted £300 to the Wymeswold Community First Responders for their attendance and service on the day of the Duck Races.

The Awards Panel felt that all the above projects met the conditions of the award scheme and were pleased to help out these village organisations with their respective projects.

Next year’s Duck Races will be held on Sunday 14th May 2017 and as usual village groups are invited to get involved.

Further details can be obtained from Wilma O’Leary (Secretary of the Wymeswold Village Project Fund / Duck Races) at wilma.oleary@googlemail.com

Wymeswold Cricket Club is a friendly, sociable and inclusive village cricket club. We run two adult sides in the South Notts Cricket League on Saturdays, junior age-group cricket in the Leicestershire Youth League and All Stars on Friday evenings.

We have a fantastic ground while the clubhouse was renovated and extended in recent years to bring it up to the highest modern standards.

We are always on the lookout for new members to join us, so even if you haven’t played for years or don’t think you are any good, enthusiasm and a willingness to turn out is more important than any ability for our second team.

Off the pitch we are always looking for people to help with scoring, umpiring, manning the bar, helping on the ground with a bit of mowing and strimming, or helping with the juniors.

For more information contact Nick Shaw, WCC Secretary, email nickshawmail@gmail.com.

Club website: http://wymeswold.play-cricket.com

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/20079712

Cricket Club News

The Wymeswold Village Project Fund (the organising committee behind the annual Duck Races) makes grants available to local clubs, associations, societies, community projects and charities. These grants are as a result of the Wymeswold Village Duck Races held in May every year and the profits realised on the betting races, BBQ and games.

• Village Project Fund News

Wymeswold Playgroup provides pre-school childcare for children aged 2 to school age. Wymeswold Playgroup is a non-profit making charity and aims to provide affordable care to families in Wymeswold and the surrounding villages. The playgroup is fully registered with Ofsted and can therefore offer free sessions to children once they come into their government funding. This comes into effect the term after a child’s third birthday or from the age of two if the child meets the required criteria. There are no administration or join up fees and we also accept employer childcare vouchers.

Wymeswold Playgroup has a long serving and dedicated staff who offer an exceptional level of holistic care to the children and their families. Wymeswold Playgroup follows the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage for pre-school children to help them develop the key skills that they will need to start school.

Wymeswold Playgroup was established over thirty years ago and has always maintained close links with Wymeswold School.  We have a fantastic relationship with the school and enjoy regular visits from the reception class teachers and children. In the Summer term, Playgroup will take those children moving onto Wymeswold School for a morning visit to the reception class. We aim to facilitate the transition from Playgroup onto school making sure that all children are fully prepared and ready for the move.

Wymeswold Playgroup offers a safe, stimulating, happy and caring environment where each individual child can learn through play and socialising; developing their physical, cognitive, language and emotional skills. We are fortunate to have access to both an indoor and outdoor play area allowing free flow play throughout the session.

Parents and carers who would like to find out more about the Playgroup should contact Nichola Hather (Playgroup Leader) on 07599 059061.

Ofsted Report 2015