VILLAGE Christmas tree: Switch on is at 5pm on Sunday, outside the Calleva Arms, where a couple of carols will be sung and there will be a bucket collection for the Air Ambulance.

BARNADO’S Toy Run: Leaves from the Calleva Arms at 12.45pm on Sunday.

If you would like to support this charity, please leave a new unwrapped toy at the Calleva before Sunday.

Our biker team will join more than 2,000 others in the run from Reading to Wokingham.

Come and wave them goodbye from 12.15pm.

CHRISTINGLE service in church: On Advent Sunday, December 6. Note the change of time to 3.15pm and not in school this year. No 10am service. All children will be given a Christingle orange.

Collection for the Children’s Society.

ACTION For Children: The annual coffee morning and bring-and-buy sale is on Saturday, from 10am to noon in Silchester Methodist Church Hall.

PHOENIX Club: Were entertained by Silchester school choir last Wednesday, followed with a special Christmas tea.

ADVENT and Christmas gifts from Rex and Louise at Impstone Lodge, Soke Road.

Proceeds for charity.

Open most days, just come along, browse and buy.

CHRISTMAS market: Tomorrow, from 4pm to 7pm in the hall.

SCHOOL drawings: Three of the judges went to the Monday assembly and presented gift vouchers to the winners and runners-up of the magazine cover competition.