From Rutland County Council:
Rutland County Council are consulting on the Preferred Options (Regulation 18) stage for the new Local Plan from Monday 13th November until it closes at 4pm Monday 8th January 2024. This is the second stage of public consultation for the preparation of the new Rutland Local Plan.
The Local Plan covers the period 2021-2041 and will, when adopted, set out policies and proposals for future development in Rutland.
The easiest way to comment is via the online consultation portal. By using the portal, you will be able to save draft responses and come back to them later. It also enables easy access for future consultations. In addition, comments made by other people can now be viewed on the system once they’ve been made live rather than wait until after consultation has closed and the Consultation Statement has been published.
The new Local Plan web page includes more detailed information on how to submit comments in the Preferred Options consultation http://www.rutland.gov.uk/localplan.
For any further enquiries please email localplan@rutland.gov.uk or call the Council’s customer services team on 01572 722 577 who will arrange for a member of the Local Plan team to contact you to provide you with a response.

Wing Remembrance Service 9.30am Sunday 12th November
The Remembrance Service will be held this Sunday outside in the churchyard (if wet in the church)
We will be holding a short commemoration in the Churchyard, including the Act of Remembrance, the Last Post, two-minute silence and the Act of Commitment as we lay the wreath on the war grave.
The Service will be at 9.30am and will last about 30 minutes.

Wing Church Coffee Morning – Saturday 25th November
There will be a Christmas Coffee Morning at the home of Gerald and Rosemary Clifton, at 12, Middle Street, Wing, on Saturday 25th November from 10.30am until 12.00pm, in aid of Wing Church. Tea, coffee, and mince pies. There will be a raffle, bring and buy stall, and Christmas card stall in aid of Dove Cottage.
All very welcome – please do come.

Rutland Foodbank has launched it’s reverse advent calendar for 2023.

Wing residents have generously supported the Rutland Foodbank for several years.  Attached is a calendar setting out the items they need.  If you can give one item that would be great – if you are able to give more, or even donate a whole advent calendar then that would be amazing.

The collection point in Wing are the boxes in the Church porch.

Please ensure you donate prior to 1 December to ensure we can get all the items to the foodbank by their deadline to enable distribution before Christmas. Many thanks.

‘Can’t draw, can’t paint, haven’t done art since school’

These were things a group of novice artists said on their first evening at Wing draws Wing in October 2022.  

They had answered an invitation from Ian Newsham, a long standing resident of Wing and recently retired Associate Professor of Drawing at De Montfort University.  He was inspired to do a community project where the people of Wing were both the artists and models.

He was confident he could get the group to draw and paint and in doing so tell the story of the people in Wing. So every week they gathered and tried to learn how to really look, draw in proportion and perspective and along the way they had fun and learnt something as a group.

This Wing draws Wing exhibition is the result of their labours both behind and in front of the easel.