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New life for Toothill Farm barn FOR QUALITY

Swindon Council's community and leisure committee has accepted a proposal by Toothill Scouts to take
over the barn at Toothill Farm community centre and turn it into a base for their activities. PAINTING
After twenty years as a youth lease the building to the scouts, we have a chance to bring our DECOPA JL.N
centre run from time to time by providing they clean up the exte- groups together."
various groups of volunteers, the rior and maintain the site in good The scouts cater for over one
council wants to find another use order. hundred boys in a beaver group, Contact
for the building and the land. Chris Rawlings, group scout two cub and one scout pack. Each
Recently the barn has been used leader for 1st Toothill Scouts, said has a waiting Andrew Goddard
as an outdoor gallery by graffiti he had been looking for a base for list. For sev- A member of the
artists. But residents living close the successful and much needed eral years they Dulux Decorators Networl
by have had enough of the spray group for many years. "We were have had to
paint cans and other rubbish left one of the very first community meet in three
behind. Their campaign has been groups to start in West Swindon, venues. Tel: 01793 702764
successful in forcing the council to after people arrived in 1976. We The barn, now
take action. have made enquiries about having covered in Mobile: 0467 421798
The community and leisure com- our own building over many years, graffiti
mittee on 16 September decided to but without success. I'm pleased
Dr Peter Swinyard

Dr Robert Forrester

PHOENIX SURGERY

The building work on our new permanent surgery at
Toothill Village Centre is running on schedule.
We are continuing to register new patients and
look forward to meeting you.
All enquiries: (01793) 433211
Phoenix Surgery, Deerhurst Way, Toothill Village Centre

Vandals hit Ring of coppers to
encircle new surgery
community Toothill's new Phoenix doctor's
surgery is expected to open for
centre business on Monday 15 Novem-
ber, almost exactly four years
since the practice welcomed its
first patient on 20 November 1995 i
in a converted house opposite
Toothill village centre.
To celebrate, and to raise funds LOCAL GARAGE DOOR
for patient comforts, the Friends
of Phoenix Surgery (FOPS) are SPECIALIST
planning a ring of coppers around
the new building.
All patients and friends of the UP AND OVER D®
surgery are urged to hoard their
1p and 2p pieces and come and lay GARAGE DOORS
them around the surgery at a spe-
cial function which FOPS will or- SUPPLIED,
ganise.
"As a 1p piece measures about FITTED, REPAIRED
2.1cm and a 2p about 2.6cm, it will
take an awful lot of small change (SPARE PARTS AVAILABLE)
to achieve the target of a complete
Graffiti artists have been at work encircling of the surgery," said
in the Toothill village centre area Freda Troughton, honorary secre- REMOTE CONTROL
over the summer, spray painting tary of FOPS.
walls on the local shop, takeaway "We want to do something to - t R INCREASED SECURITY
and the community centre. which every patient, however hard
Centre administrator Annette up they are, can contribute."
Kennedy, above, said it was a great FOPS has already donated to
pity that all the hard work being the surgery, the music system for
put in by the management com- the waiting room, an ECG ma-
mittee, to bring people to thebuild- chine for monitoring heart condi-
ing was being undone by a few tions and an operating couch for Maxwell House • Maxwell Street • Swindon
intent on spoiling the area. the treatment room.