Heptonstall Village Team Monthly Shopper Bus
Author: Nick Dymott
Village Team Trip to Bury Market
THE FAMOUS BURY MARKET
Bury Market remains the undisputed champion of the North so booking is essential for this first trip of this year.
World famous, Bury Market oozes charisma and atmosphere. The ambience and layout offers visitors the opportunity to seek out and visit every stall. The range of products and facilities is second to none.
Bury Market is a very large traditional market in a modern setting. It’s a unique shopping experience and great day out for all.
Sequence Dancing at the Bowling and Social Club
This is a warm and friendly bunch of dancers who would be very happy to make you feel at home. Cost is only £2.50 per person, and you are free to bring your own lunch or make a nice brew in the kitchen area.
Parish Council Meeting – 4 April 2016
Click on the following link to see the agenda for the April Monthly Meeting of the Parish Council to be held in The School Hall, Heptonstall J I & N School on Monday 4 April 2016 commencing at 7.30 p.m.
Minutes arising from the March 2016 meeting can be seen here.
Pennine Spring Music details for 2016
All concerts in Heptonstall Parish Church starting at 7.30
Tuesday 31 May, Thursday 2 June, Saturday 4 June
Details of the programme can be seen here.
Anyone wishing to play in the orchestra or sing in the choir should contact Jean Richux in the first instance on 01422 843995 or email jean[at]richux.plus.com. Places are available in all sections especially bass and tenor voices.
Heptonstall Family Day
FREE Easter Bonnet and Cap making workshops at The Heptonstall Social and Bowling Club 4-6pm Friday 4th March, 11th March, Tuesday 15th March and Friday 18th March.
Family Day Sat 26th March 10.30 til 6pm.
The Annual Chapel Sponsored Walk – 7 May 2016
The Annual Chapel Sponsored Walk – 5 or 10 miles.
Everyone is welcome including well-behaved dogs.
Meet at Chapel from 1300 for departure at 1330.
Tea, sandwiches and cakes as your reward in the Sunday School.
The walk is one of the Chapel’s main fund-raising events and helps maintain this important, historic building.
Walkers can now fund-raise via Virgin Money Giving Website
The event name is ‘Heptonstall Chapel Sponsored Walk’.
Parish Council Meeting and Annual Assembly
Click on the following links to see the agendas for the Annual Assembly of the Parish Meeting and the Monthly Meeting of the Parish Council both to be held in The School Hall, Heptonstall J I & N School on Monday 7 March 2016 commencing at 7.00 p.m.
Minutes arising from the February 2016 meeting can be seen here.
Community Rights Of Way Service (CROWS)
REPAIRING OUR FLOOD DAMAGED PATHS
The floods and torrential rain this winter have caused a huge amount of damage to footpaths in Todmorden and the Upper Calder Valley.
CROWS have a list of paths they need to repair from all over the area, but they need the public’s help to identify problems that they know are out there. So make it easy, they have just introduced a new simple system for people to contact us.
From this week there are 4 ways to report a path problem to CROWS:
• Call their new Path problem line on 0784 964 0784 and leave a message (why not put this number in your contact list?)
• Send a message through the CROWS Facebook page
• Email crows-coop@outlook.com (a photo of the problem would help)
• Leave a note at Mountain Wild, Hebden Bridge or White Ribbon in Mytholmroyd or at Todmorden Visitor centre
Please tell them about any problem, not just those related to flood damage.
Why not put the number in your contacts and please share this with your walking friends.
CROWS
White Ribbon House, 1, New Road, Mytholmroyd, HX7 5DZ
Website http://www.crows-coop.co.uk/
Email crows-coop@outlook.com
Flood effects attract thieves
News is spreading that thieves from as far afield as London are taking advantage of flood damage to local property where alarm systems are down, windows are boarded up etc, and where people are starting to refit or restock.
Everyone should remain vigilant and report anything suspicious to the authorities.
Parish Council Meeting – Monday 4 January 2016
Christmas Lights Switch On
Due to the weather, the Christmas Lights Switch On in Weavers Square has had to be postponed until Sunday evening – 6 December 2015.
Christmas trees remain on sale from 3pm on Saturday 5 December 2015.
Heptonstall Village Team Winter Events
Christmas Lights Switch On – 5 December 2015
CALDERDALE LOCAL PLAN: Consultation
CALDERDALE LOCAL PLAN: Consultation
POTENTIAL SITES AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE LOCAL PLAN – including
COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE LEVY (CIL)
The Council is preparing a new Local Plan and a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).
The Local Plan will set out a framework for how the District should grow, over the next 15 years, to meet the need for new homes and jobs, and will also identify sites for proposed development, and areas that will be protected.
Consultation starts at 12 noon on 6 November 2015 and runs for 6 weeks until 5pm 18 December 2015. Residents and other stakeholders will have the opportunity to comment on potential sites, and other aspects of the Local Plan, and the Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule for CIL.
Mapping will be available on the Council’s website, at a series of drop-in sessions and in due course in all Calderdale’s libraries. You will be able to view the location of possible development sites and consider information from detailed site assessments. There will also be the opportunity to comment on a document which presents other aspects of the Plan, including an explanation of how the future housing requirement has been assessed.
To make your comments, please use the links below:
Potential Sites and other aspects of the Local Plan
Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule (CIL)
Seven drop-in events will be held around Calderdale and each will provide information covering the whole of the District. There is no need to register for these events; you can come along to the venue that is the most convenient for you.
The timetable of the drop-in events is given below.
Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St George’s Street – 16th November 4 – 7 pm
Halifax Town Hall, Crossley Street – 17th November 4 – 7 pm
Todmorden Town Hall, Halifax Road – 19th November 4 – 7 pm
Elland Library, Coronation Street – 21st November 12 – 3 pm
Sowerby Bridge Youth and Community Centre, Foundry Street -,24th November 4 – 7 pm
Brighouse Mulberry Suite, Parsonage Lane – 26th November 4 – 7 pm
Halifax ThreeWays (formerly the Ridings School), Nursery Lane – 8th December 4 – 7 pm
Heptonstall Village Team seeking funding for Getting to Know You Tea Party
The Village Team have applied to the Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund for one of eighty five donations of £300.oo to local community good causes, and need as many votes as possible over the next week (from 3 November) to stand a chance of winning!!
Please support us by voting on line and by passing on details of our bid to your friends and family, so that they can vote too!
Click here to vote for the Heptonstall Village Team “Getting to Know You Tea Party bid.
More information on the Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund can be found here.
Heptonstall Parish Council Meeting – 2 November 2015
Coach trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see the ceramic poppies – Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Heptonstall Village Team – Heptonstall Family Day – Easter weekend 2016
Heptonstall Family Day – Easter weekend 2016
Saturday March 26th – the day after Pace Egg – will be our first Heptonstall Family Day!
This is being planned and organised across the generations and is so far going to include:
- a giant egg rolling competition from the school to Weavers Square
- opportunity for you to have your photo taken on a reproduction of the see-saw shot from the Alice Longstaff Collection (courtesy of the After Alice Photographic Group)
- an Easter Bonnet and Cap parade
- fun and games for all at The Heptonstall Social and Bowling Club
- maypole dancing
- a vintage bus trundling from venue to venue in Heptonstall so that you can ride in comfort to see everything with ease
This event is being sponsored by Heptonstall Junior and Infant School, Calderdale Events and Festivals Fund, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, local businesses and private donations.
Heptonstall Village Team – The Gift of Giving
The Gift of Giving
This very special Christmas Carol concert, working together with school, will take place in St Thomas’ Church on Thursday 17th December at 9.30 am.
This event is open to all, and beforehand there will be a series of singing workshops and rehearsals at the Bowling Club, as well as a gift making workshop, where our younger children will make small gifts to hand to our older generations around the village and at the concert on the day.
For full details contact Beth Hardman on 07796 265027.
Heptonstall Village Team – New Format Art Club: Changing Faces
New Format Art Club: Changing Faces
We are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Heptonstall Junior and Infant School – our Art Classes will now involve both the younger and older generations of Heptonstall and beyond. A regular class will be held with the children at the school, with an alternating class being held in Mytholm Meadows, where our younger artists will come down to paint and craft alongside our older folks.
This will be a regular class, culminating in an art exhibition and film show at The Heptonstall Bowling and Social Club next year. Nick Wilding will be filming some of the process as well as showing his film of 8 year olds interviewing 80 year olds that he filmed in 2000.
If you would like more information or to get involved, contact Pauline Walker at Mytholm Meadows, on 01422 843194
Heptonstall Village Team – New Lunch Club
The Heptonstall Village Team and members of St Thomas’ Church have collaborated to apply for funding to kit out the new kitchen with catering equipment. This means that shortly after Christmas we’ll have another place to hold lunch club events for our older generations, as well as providing catering facilities to support other church events.
Our Lunch Clubs at The Towngate Tea Rooms and The Shoulder of Mutton in Mytholmroyd continue to prove popular, though we will be looking to see if the days need to be adjusted in the New Year.
These are currently the second Wednesday in the month for Towngate Tea Rooms (3pm) and the last Wednesday in the month for The Shoulder of Mutton in Mytholmroyd (12pm).
CROWS – Community Rights Of Way Service
HEPTONSTALL VOLUNTEERS WANTED
CROWS is a group of volunteers who maintain and improve the
Footpath network in the Upper Calder and Ryburne valleys. We clear vegetation, build stiles, gates and boardwalks, deal with drainage and way-mark routes. We also monitor and survey paths. We currently work on Wednesdays and Fridays from about 9.30-2.30 from our base in Mytholmroyd.
At the moment we are particularly short of people who can work on Fridays. In addition we have nobody from Heptonstall in the group, so we feel that we are missing some local knowledge.
Stella started working with CROWS earlier this year & says: “it’s great to have a regular date to work outdoors with a nice bunch of people who have local knowledge, experience & expertise to share. We get a lot done – you can see the fruits of your labours after each day which is very satisfying. And we are often working on a path I’ve never been on before, despite walking in this area for over 30 years.
If you want to know more about what we do, have a look at our blog at http://www.communityrightsofwayservice.blogspot.co.uk
This will take you to the most recent activity page. To go to earlier posts, either use the index on the right hand side or use the ‘Older posts’ button at the bottom of the page.
Having seen the kind of things we do, if you are interested in helping us, or if you have any questions, please get in touch by email to crows-coop@outlook.com or contact us on 07872 960942.
Community Rights Of Way Service
White Ribbon House, 1, New Road, Mytholmroyd, HX7 5DZ
Website http://httpwww.crows-coop.co.uk/
Heptonstall Village Team – Peter Pan Panto at Bridlington Spa – Saturday 19th December
Peter Pan Panto at Bridlington Spa
Saturday 19th December.
Cost £25, to include coach fare and front stalls seats.
We’ll be going to see Joe Standaline perform as the pantomime dame!
The coach will leave at approx 9.30, to arrive in time for the 1pm performance, and we’ll stop on the way home for refreshments.
Booking before 26 November is essential.
Contact Jane Hartmann 01422 846675 to book.
Heptonstall Village Team – Day trip to Bents Garden Centre, Warrington – Thursday 26 November
Day trip to Bents Garden Centre, Warrington
Thursday 26 November. Cost £10.
Plants, CookShop, candles, pet supplies, children’s toys, clothing, shoes, foodhall, Christmas items, restaurant, café and 2 coffee shops.
Pick up: Mytholmroyd 9.40, Mytholm Meadows 9.45, Heptonstall 10.00.
Transport can be provided to pick up points if needed.
Contact Jane Hartmann 01422 846675 to book.
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