Help to knit poppies for installation

A SURPRISE installation is planned in Goring to mark both Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

While the installation in the Rectory Garden in November is unknown, it will require many handmade poppies.

The project is a collaboration between the Local History Society, the Arts Society and Cleeve by Goring and Goring Parish Councils, which will be putting “Tommy” plaques up in various places.

The project needs hands to make red acrylic wool poppies, which can either be knitted or crocheted.

Donations of yarn are also welcome.

Two workshops will take place this month to help people make the poppies.

The first will take place tomorrow (Saturday) from 9.30am to 11.30am at St Thomas’s Church and the second, on Saturday, September 27, from 10am to noon in the village hall.

Participants are asked to bring a size five crochet hook or a 4mm, old size eight, knitting needles, plus wool, a needle and a pair of scissors.

For more information, email Janet Hurst at goring
gaphistory@gmail.com or Sally Wicks at sally.wicks
@btinternet.com