For information
and all SOFOS queries, please contact Jackie Dyer on 01747
840087.
QUIZ NIGHT
– Saturday 18th March 7.00 for 7.30
p.m. start in the Village Hall. Only £10 per head
including excellent supper.
PLANT SALE –
Saturday 13th May from 10 a.m. to 12 noon
at the Village Hall.
The plant sale will comprise plants, cakes, jams and
other produce, and a raffle.
A TRIBUTE TO RONALD HARRIS
In 1988 the Society of Friends of
Silton was formed to raise funds for the
preservation, repair and maintenance of both St
Nicholas Church, a Grade 1 Listed building, and the
Village Hall. Clearly, to look after these two
buildings properly was going to cost a great deal of
money and involve much fund raising. The Friends
had been set up thanks to a legacy bequeathed to the
Village which had already been instrumental in
paying for the costly repair and maintenance of the
church bells and the organ but more funds were
urgently needed. In 1996 the quarry at Manor Farm
had been exhausted and the resulting hole had been
registered as a landfill site for which Landfill Tax
was payable by those who used it. Ronald
immediately realised that as a charity SOFOS could
be eligible to claim some of this tax, up to 19%,
from the company using the site. As a result, St
Nicholas Church, the Village Hall and surrounding
land were registered as an environmental body and
over the next 4-5 years SOFOS was given £19,000 by
Ronald from Dorset Stone Ltd. This sum contributed
hugely towards the repair and maintenance of heating
and lighting in the church, re-roofing the Village
Hall and re-plastering part of the church ceiling.
Ronald was a major contributor towards both SOFOS
and the Village Hall funds for many years which was,
of course, greatly appreciated.
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