Thank you to everyone who attended the Mortimer Spring Clean on Saturday 14th April. Supported by the Mortimer BP Scouts and Cubs, just over 50 people helped to spruce up the streets and wooded and park areas of the village, to produce the black sacks of rubbish and other waste, that are currently waiting for collection by West Berks Council.

Mortimer Tennis Club has to be one of the friendliest tennis clubs around. With just over 50 members, we play on the two Parish Council-owned courts in the Mortimer Fairground. For a £40 (Adult member) investment a year, we play social tennis on a Tuesday evening from 6.15pm until it's too dark to hit a ball; and Sunday mornings from 9.30am to 11am.

Little Bulb Theatre company played to a full house in St. John's Hall last night (21st March). Everyone laughed almost non-stop as, with amazing energy, the cast sang, danced and proclaimed their way through the hilarious tale of the strife between two villages and how it was resolved.

The AGM of Mortimer Village Partnership took place in St. John's Hall on Saturday 17th March. The audited annual accounts and a range of interesting facts about MVP, its activities and some of its affiliated organisations were on display.

In the afternoon on Saturday 17th December the Community Centre was buzzing with lots of young creative children all making decorations for their Christmas Trees. This tooks lots of concentration as you can see....! 

‘It's something I will remember for the rest of my life' was one lady's reaction to the wonderful Christmas spread put on for Mortimer Village Partnership's Lunch Club by DeVere Venues (Wokefield Park) and BMW.

West African Chocolate from our very own chocolate company, Mortimer Chocolate Company, is the winner of the national Britain's Best Drinking Chocolate Award for 2011!

During the 11th, 12th and 13th November the people of Mortimer participated in several different memorial ceremonies.

On Friday 11th about 35 adults met quietly at the War Memorial for the two minutes' silence. The President of the local Royal British Legion, Air Vice Marshall Barry Newton spoke the famous exultation:

This year's scarecrow trail (between 22nd and 30th October) was an even more resounding success than the first one last year. Forty scarecrows decorated the village and hordes of people enjoyed walking and cycling round to see them all.