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Parish Council Annual Assembly and Annual Meeting 2024

The Annual Assembly of the Parish Council will be held on Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 7.00pm at Heptonstall Social & Bowling Club, Acre Lane, Heptonstall.

The agenda for the Assembly can be seen here, and minutes from the same event in 2023 here.

The Annual Meeting of the Parish Council will be held immediately afterwards at 7.30pm, also at Heptonstall Social & Bowling Club, Acre Lane, Heptonstall

The agenda for the Annual Meeting can be seen here.

Minutes from the April monthly meeting of the Parish Council can be seen here.

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Spring Community Newsletter

Click on the cover image to read the newsletter online.

Printed paper copies may be available at Post Office, Mays Shop, St Thomas’ Church, Blackshaw head Chapel, Methodist Chapel, The Museum, Heptonstall Social & Bowling Club,  The Workshop and in the book libraries by the village phone box, Blackshaw Head Chapel and on Becketts Close.

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Winter Community Newsletter

Click on the cover image to read the newsletter online.

Printed paper copies may be available at Post Office, Mays Shop, St Thomas’ Church, Blackshaw head Chapel, Methodist Chapel, The Museum, Heptonstall Social & Bowling Club,  The Workshop and in the book libraries by the village phone box, Blackshaw Head Chapel and on Becketts Close.

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Autumn Community Newsletter

Click on the cover image to read the newsletter online.

Printed paper copies may be available at Post Office, Mays Shop, St Thomas’ Church, Blackshaw head Chapel, Methodist Chapel, The Museum, Heptonstall Social & Bowling Club,  The Workshop and in the book libraries by the village phone box, Blackshaw Head Chapel and on Becketts Close.

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Heptonstall Parish Council – Grants for Local Groups or Organisations

PROTOCOL FOR GRANTS (GENERAL)

  1. Grants should be applied for in writing under the criteria laid down by the Parish Council (PC) which has sole discretion in respect of making an award.
  2. All Grant claims should be received by the PC by 30 November in respect of payments to be made in the following financial year (commencing 1 April) ), and should be accompanied by a copy of the claimant’s Constitution, Committee structure (if any) and bank account details together with a copy of the latest audited accounts.
  3. All Grants of £250 or less will be paid in a lump sum after the first PC meeting of the financial year. There will be no requirement for the organisation to account to the PC for the way it has spent the Grant.
  4. No organisation will be given more than one Grant of £250 or less in any financial year.
  5. For Grants over £250 it will be necessary for the organisation to discuss the application with PC members at a meeting to be held in either December or January each year which should include an agreement with the PC as to how it wishes the Grant to be paid. This will normally be by means of staged payments.
    The PC will require evidence of the expenditure for each claim except where such payments are contributing to the day to day administration of the organisation, and shall require the completion of a ‘feedback’ form.
  6. If the Grant is given for a specific project the PC will require evidence of the fulfilment of the project.

An application form in Word format can be downloaded from here, or as a PDF from here.

If you need any additional details please contact the Parish Clerk, Hannah Sherriff-Jackson.

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Parish Councillor vacancy

A Vacancy as Councillor for the Heptonstall Parish has arisen and will be filled by co-option which will occur on 4th July 2023.

If YOU are interested in your community and feel you could bring some of that interest to proceedings, then why not apply to be a Parish Councillor ?

The Council meets monthly and covers not just Heptonstall village, but Slack, Widdop Road and Colden too.

If you want to know more, give me a call or speak to any of the Council members.

Alternatively, just drop me a line and say why you are interested in being co-opted, as well as a bit of information about yourself.
(Let me have it by 28 June 2023)

You will NOT regret it.

Hannah Sherriff-Jackson
Clerk to Heptonstall Parish Council

Contact details here.

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Parish Council Annual and May Monthly Meetings

The Annual Meeting of the Parish Council will be held on Tuesday 16 May 2023 at 7.30pm at Heptonstall Social & Bowling Club, Acre Lane, Heptonstall

The May Monthly Meeting of the Parish Council will be held on Tuesday 23 May 2023 at 7.30pm at Heptonstall Social & Bowling Club, Acre Lane, Heptonstall

The agendas for each meeting can be seen here and here respectively.

Minutes from the April monthly meeting can be seen here.

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Summer Trail Series by Ultra X 2023

I am writing to inform you of our plans to hold a series of trail running races in the Calderdale and City of Bradford areas of West Yorkshire on Saturday 15th July 2023.

There will be three races: a 25km, 50km, and 75km. Race headquarters will be at the Stubb Playing Fields, Mytholmroyd (grid reference SE 00636 25993), which will also be the start and finish location for all races.

We are expecting approximately 200 runners for the 25km event, 200 runners for the 50km event, and 100 runners for the 75km event. There will also be approximately 30 crew members in attendance, including directing staff, safety staff, an experienced expedition medical team, an osteopathy team, and a team of volunteers.

All three of the races’ head West from Race HQ through Hebden Bridge and towards Slack Top along the Rochdale Canal Path. At the top of Colden Road, at the 5km point, the routes separate with the 50km/75km courses heading East along the Calder Aire Link towards Penistone Hill Country Park and the 25km route continuing East to loop around Stoodley Pike before returning to Race HQ.

From Penistone Hill Country Park the 50km route will turn and loop back following the Bronte Way and the Pennine Bridleway to connect with the Half Marathon course near Colden. The 75km route will continue along the Pennine Way towards Cowling before turning Southeast towards Oldfield to rejoin the 50km course at the Ponden Reservoir and continue onwards as above.

There will be six checkpoints/aid stations on the route (six for the 75km route, four for 50km route and one for the 25km), where runners will be able to refuel with food and water. The checkpoints will be situated at grid references SD 99553 32410, SD 99828 36722, SD 98520 42589, SD 94666 31253 and SD 96806 24171.

The full routes (including proposed checkpoint locations) can be viewed online here. These may be subject to minor alterations in the lead up to the event which will be communicated to stakeholders as appropriate.

All races will be run on public rights of way (predominantly the Pennine Way), and other permissive paths with prior permission granted from landowners.

Runners will be required to cross the A646 at grid references SD 98867 27203 and SD 96807 26087, Slack Road at grid reference SD 97795 28677, Moorside Lane at grid references SE 01851 36105 and SE 01791 36281, Badgers Lane at grid reference SD 96752 27457. We will have fluorescent “Caution Runners in Road” and “Crossing Point” signs on the approach to these crossing points to warn vehicle traffic, runners, and other road users.

The routes will be marked using a combination of small red flags (staked into the ground on either side of the trail), ribbons (tied to trees, branches, fence posts etc), and laminated signs (cable tied to lampposts, fences etc) depending on terrain. All signage will be labelled to identify each item as belonging to our organisation and all markings will be removed within 24 hours of the end of the event.

Copies of additional information can be seen via the links set out below.

Key Locations

Project Plan

Emergency Action Plan

Risk Assessment

Environmental Risk Assessment

I would welcome any comments or advice regarding any oversight relating to these documents.

If you have any queries regarding this event, please don’t hesitate to contact me,

Regards,

Seb Moulding
Ultra X Summer Trails Series Race Director
Email seb@ultra-x.co Phone 07837 787784