Santa's Coming!

Santa will be visiting East Goscote on the 12th December this year. He will be appearing at the Village Hall to meet all the children and to wish them a Merry Christmas. There will be a fair and a band playing. On the same evening there is also a Christmas Tree Festival in the Church Hall.

Well Done To East Goscote Youth!!!

A team of youths from East Goscote triumphed this summer, when police officers staged the first Charnwood Community Shield competition at the Soar Valley Leisure Centre, in Mountsorrel, to give the youths something to do over the Summer Holidays.
East Goscote’s team went on to win the tournament, beating Birstall 4-1 in the final. The winners went on to play a side made up of police officers and blew them away, beating them 4-2.
All the players were invited to take part on Saturday, July26th, after meeting officers during patrols in Birstall, Quorn, Barrow, East Goscote, Syston, Sileby, Mountsorrel, Anstey, Thurmaston and Rothley.
Birstall beat bobby PC Gordon Doudie, who organised the tournament, thanked Charnwood Borough Council’s anti-social behaviour officer Wendy Brown for providing cash to fund the competition, the leisure centre staff for hosting it and AB Wallace Trophies, of Loughborough, for providing the cups.
All fourteen of our lads that took part in the competition will enjoy a day out paintballing courtesy of Charnwood Borough Council.

Petwise Mobile Petting Zoo.
Thank you to every one for coming and what a brilliant day it was!
103 children attended in total. Sarah Green and her assistant put a fantastic programme together which the children really enjoyed. The children had a chance first to look at the animals, and were then divided into two groups each sitting on safety mats with one instructor, the animals were then shown to them, and their country of origin, habitat, and food were all explained. Most of them were then passed around for the children to stroke or hold. The children were told to remember all they had been taught as there would be a question time, after they had all given their hands a good wash. Each child then answered a question and received a sweet. The session ended with Ferret racing on the grass outside the Village Hall which caused much excitement.

Mr Potato's Circus Skills Workshop.
What a fantastic day!! 82 Children attended. Mr Eddie Nunnan as Mr Potato demonstrated Circus skills of Juggling, Diablo, Stilt Walking and Plate Spinning etc. to the children. The children then had plenty of time to try these skills for themselves assisted by their parent, Grandparent and Mr Potato. This was a very noisy and happy time with all the children, and adults trying each item in turn. The children were then able to demonstrate their new skills to everyone. Thank you to everyone for coming.

Have you seen our new and improved library? It's lovely! We have a new building and it is a great improvement, inside feels very welcoming and bright. The staff are very friendly and helpful. They now have excellent computer facilities and more room to have a sit down and a read. Please make use of this improved service by having a look and if not already a member why not become one. As well as books they have Cd's and Dvd's too. Opening times are

Mon - 9am to 12pm
Tue - 2pm to 7pm
Weds - closed
Thurs 2pm to 5pm
Fri - 9am to 12pm
Sat - 9.30am to 1pm - 2pm to 5pm
Sun - closed

Telephone Number 0116 3053500.

2007 - 2008
Assaults - 25
Thefts - 24
Burglary other - 13
Damage - 33
Drugs - 3
Burglary - 1
Damage to Cars - 7
Theft from Cars- 8
Theft of Cars - 0

Overall crime has increased in most respects, though this report includes within the Assaults, domestic assaults, which it didn't last year. The main increase seems to be within Criminal Damage. There has been an increase in detected crimes from 16 last year to 20 this year.

After consultation with the community the main concerns are Anti Social behaviour at Merchants Common and Car Cruising at The Warren. Both of these have now been raised as Beat Priorities for the coming year.

The parish council has managed to secure grant funding of £32,000 to have a multi sports court and BMX track installed on the Jubilee Playing Fields. It is hoped that the installation will take place at the end of June in time for the Childrens summer holidays.