Calor Village of the Year

September 4th, 2008

Mansel Lacy has won the Herefordshire County ‘Calor Village of the Year competition’, or as the ‘Hereford Times’ put it- has been named as the best in the county. The contest run by Community First judges a village on the balance of its community and whether it has made the best of the opportunities to improve the quality of life for its residents.
Mansel Lacy will now go forward to represent Herefordshire in the National Calor Village of the Year Competition 2008/2009.
Mansel Lacy really got together to put on a series of diplays as shown in the photographs below.

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‘New Foxley News’

February 23rd, 2008

The Autumn edition is out for your entertainment.

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Mansel Garden Club

November 24th, 2007

The Mansel Garden Club meets on a monthly basis, on the first Monday in the month. In the winter these meetings take place in the Community Hall in Mansel Lacy. In the summer the meetings comprise of visits to gardens or garden centres of interest

The programme for 2007 to 2008 is now availabel as a PDF below:gardenclub0708.pdf

Soap Box Derby 2008

October 31st, 2007

The new rules for 2008 Soap Box Derby are now available as a portable document file:Soap Box Derby Rules for 2008

The programme for the 2008 Soap box derby is attached in PDF form2008 Programme

Results for the 2008 event are now in see attached pdf: Results

Community Access Point Launches

November 2nd, 2006

Mansel Lacy Community Access Point (CAP) is almost fully equipped and ready to launch. The steering group have been familiarising themselves with the equipment so that they can demonstrate the facilities on the proposed Launch day of Wednesday 29 November 2006.

Find out more about the CAPs project.

Community Association

May 31st, 2006

The St. Michael’s Mansel Lacy Community Association, to give it’s full name, was set up on 21 February 1996. The Charity’s objects are the provision and maintenance of community facilities for the use of the inhabitants of the Parish of Mansel Lacy without distinction of political, religeous or other opinions including the use for meetings, lectures and classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life of the said occupants.

Since 1996 a number of sections have been been formed under the umbrella of the ‘Association’.

The Garden Club, the Lacy Ladies, The Get Together Club, the Soap Box Derby, and most recently a Community Access Point. Each of these section will have it’s own category.

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