Page 50 • The HERALD • 28th March 2024 v FOR GOOD ADVICE, ASK YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v Yours Faithfully... REVELATION REVEALED! From Cornerstone URC Here’s your opportunity to explore and better understand the book of Revelation with renowned Bible teacher Doug Barnett. An 8-session course on Revelation will take place at Cornerstone Hythe United Reformed Church on the first and third Wednesday evenings of the month from 3rd April to 17th July. Each session will be from 7pm to 8.30 pm. e 8 sessions will cover: 1. Introduction; Supremacy of Jesus; Jesus and the 7 churches - chapters 1-3 2. Feeling down, look up; Seven sealed book; e Rapture - chapters 4-5 3. e Tribulation – overview chapters 6-19 4. Witnesses testify, tribulation saints; Seventh seal, trumpets, thunders – chapters 7-10 5. A Woman, child and dragon; Beasts terrify, angels verify – chapters 11-14 6. Bowls of wrath, scarlet woman; Judgement and fall of Babylon – chapters 15-19 7. e Millennium, Satan’s last stand, nal judgement – chapters 20 8. Home at last, bright new world; New heaven & new earth – chapters 21-22 e course will be recorded so you’ll be able to catch up online, should you miss a session. Light refreshments will be available. e course is free of charge, but donations towards costs will be welcome. Do come and join us in this exciting exploration. For more information and to book a place on the course please email: course@cornerstonehytheurc.org.uk or text: 07874 751812. Soup & Sweet Soup & Sweet at Trinity Church, Hazel Farm Road, Totton, SO40 8WU takes place on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 12.30pm to 2pm. For £4 per person you can have soup with a bread roll followed by a sweet and a tea or co ee. Very good value in congenial company – they hope to see you there! Spring and Summer are great times of year to visit Testwood Lakes in Totton as the animals and plants are waking up or returning a er a very long journey in the Spring and raising young in the Summer. Hampshire IOW Wildlife Trust sta and volunteers will be giving families a warm welcome and there is plenty of fun to be had for children of all ages. For children aged 1.5-5 years there are weekly Forest School sessions on Monday mornings 9.30am-11.30am. Families can book ahead for a 6 week term (£39) and children can cook on a camp re, use tools to make things from wood and play in nature. Every last Saturday of the month 10am-12pm families are invited for a Wildlife Tots session themed around a story with some exploring and cra ing outside. Wildlife Tots is aimed at 2-5 years and cost £5 a session. Also, for this age group there is a weekly Natural Tots and Babies session every Tuesday morning 10.30am-12pm. is session involves buggy walks, cra s, sensory play and songs for babies. Cost £4 a session. For older ones on the last Saturday of the month there is Wildlife Watch which runs activities for 5-15 years (Wildlife Watch, 2-4pm). Young people can learn more about wildlife and take part in activities to help wildlife such as making a bird box or taking part in a conservation task with tools. ere are opportunities to see wildlife through bird watching and pond dipping activities. Adult accompaniment is essential, and the cost is £5 per session. Wildlife Rangers is a monthly club for 12-18 year olds to do practical conservation, bushcra and wildlife identi cation. In these sessions young people can take part in nationally recognised John Muir Award. Parental accompaniment is not necessary, but all young people must have completed a parental consent form. Wildlife Rangers run every last Saturday of each month 2-4pm and cost £5. Parking is available at the Education Centre on the hill overlooking Testwood Lake. Please follow the green signs and go past the rst car park on the right. To nd out more and book please visit: www.hiwwt. org.uk/events, visit Facebook: Testwood Lakes Nature Reserve and Education Centre or email: testwoodlakes@hiwwt.org.uk Enjoy Spring and Summer at Testwood Lakes Nature Reserve, Totton Having fun at Testwood Lakes Nature Reserve Apologies for the cancellation of our March session with Ben Webster. is was due to a technical issue involving publication dates. Please check our website for up-to- date information. Our next open session, “Ocean Impact” is on 29th April at Hythe Library. 7pm till 9pm. All welcome. Lee Attrill, a south coast representative for the campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) will be talking about what started as a hobby with his son and nephews, and their online shop “Sea Ranger”, and has developed into a personal mission to combat sewage dumping in the UK’s rivers and seas. Lee will highlight the vital work of SAS and their growing in uence on the protection of our inland and coastal waters. is will be of particular interest to all open water swimmers and anyone interested in the protection of our coasts and rivers. e move to the library is in recognition of Hythe Library’s growth towards a community climate centre, being a base for the Waterside Food Project and its hosting of a range of activities in its Green and ri y fortnight around half term. Activities included an Energy Saving workshop and children’s activities including wormeries and bird feeders. WaterCAN is continuing its work with Community Energy South in identifying suitable local sites for community energy schemes. As mentioned in previous updates we are also working with Power for the People and like-minded local organisations to remove the barriers to community owned sustainable energy developments. Interestingly, the City of Munich has a larger investment in UK windfarms than the UK government. Planning for the community meeting for “Holbury Greening” continues, and it is hoped to hold the rst meeting by the end of April. e aim will be to provide help to residents to reduce their energy use through simple, informed and achievable actions. Fawley has been successful in bidding for funding to provide “Drying Pods” for families who are unable A reminder that you have just a couple of days to respond to the County Council’s consultation on future services, which includes household Recycling Centres (closes 31st March). And nally, a thought for the day: In 2000, Sir Bob May, formerly President of the Royal Society and Chief Scienti c Advisor to the UK government, observed in an interview with Sir David Attenborough when discussing whether we could do anything about the extinction crisis, that: “…we have the potential to apply our understanding for good stewardship and husbandry of this marvellous world that we are heir to. Or we can just thoughtlessly go on creating more bits of garbage to amuse ourselves with…”. And 24 years on… For further information, please visit: e-voice. org/WaterCAN or our Facebook page, or email: watercan2024@gmail.com UPDATE FROM WATERSIDE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK (WATERCAN) to dry their washing outside or to a ord the costs associated with tumble dryers. Any Fawley household who would like to request a Drying Pod should contact Amy, the youth worker, via email: youthworker@fawleypc.gov.uk Lyburn Cheese Ashurst WI is an active and growing institute, where members can look forward to an interesting programme of talks and events throughout the year. e next meeting takes place on Wednesday 10th April for a talk about Lyburn Cheese. Meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm at St Joseph’s, 16 Lyndhurst Road, Ashurst SO40 7DU. New members and visitors are always welcome. For more details telephone Kathryn on 023 8029 3638.
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