Don’t forget to get your pumpkins ready for the Hallowe’en party and disco at the Bowling Club on Friday 23 October. 
Children’s Crafting Workshop – Friday 23 October 2015
Spanish Menu at the Cross
A Taste of the Mediterranean event featuring Spanish food will be held at the Cross Inn on Friday 30 October from 6pm onwards.
The event follows their last successful Greek evening. It costs £15 per person including a set starter, choice of main and dessert courses. Spanish wines and beers are available. Call in to the Cross for a menu and to book a table or telephone 843284.
Set starter of typical Spanish aperitivos (selection of snacks and dips to whet your appetite), including olives, artichoke hearts, Manchego cheese, crusty bread, salted almonds, etc
Main courses (all served with paella-inspired vegetable rice, mini roast potatoes and mixed salad)
Bacalao con tomate Fresh cod cooked with tomatoes, onions and red peppers
Cordero en Rioja Rich and flavoursome, slow-cooked braised lamb in Rioja, with chorizo and baby carrots
Pollo al pimentón Chicken cooked in creamy paprika sauce
Pimientos y tomates rellenos A Spanish twist on stuffed peppers and tomatoes, using paella-inspired vegetable rice and typical Spanish herbs
Desserts (served with fresh cream or ice cream)
Dulce de leche cheesecake – A favourite Spanish confection combined with cheesecake
Pastél de naranja y almendras – Orange and almond cake
Heptonstall Parish Council Meeting – 5 October 2015
Busy Autumn Ahead
The nights may be drawing in but there’s plenty of fun events happening in the next couple of months, all listed on our Events page. A few highlights include:
A beer and cider festival at the White Lion on the weekend of 2 – 4 October, with an apple pie competition on the Sunday.
A service of blessing for pets at St Thomas’ Church on Sunday 4 October, followed by a peal of bells.
A concert at St Thomas’ by Hebden Bridge Brass Band on Saturday 17 October.
And then the village gears up for a busy season of Hallowe’en events at the Bowling Club, Christmas fairs at both church and chapel, and much more.
Heptonstall Village Team – Cake and Conversation – The Heptonstall Trail
Heptonstall Village Team – Coach Trip to Tropical World at Roundhay Park, Leeds
Heptonstall Village Team – September Events
Parish Council Meeting 7 September 2015
Blackshaw Head Fete
The annual fete at the chapel and field opposite will have a full programme of events including a dog show, Punch and Judy, adults and children’s produce competitions and much more on Saturday, September 5.
The fete will start at 1.30pm, and the fell race at 2pm. The Punch and Judy show is at 2pm followed by children’s games and dog agility at 2.30pm. The magic show is at 3.30pm and the tug of war at 4pm.
Produce, including cakes, jam, vegetables, etc, must be entered in the morning. See below for the full programme.
Parish Council Meeting – 3 August 2015
Table-Top Sale at the Cross Inn
Sunday 2 August
10am set-up, 11am open
Bag a bargain or clear that clutter
£5 per table (includes breakfast roll)
Breakfast rolls for sale
For more information or to reserve a table, contact the Cross Inn on 01422 843284
Parish Council – Extraordinary Meeting 20 July 2015
An Extraordinary Meeting of the Parish Council will be held at Cross Hill, Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall on Monday 20 July 2015 commencing at 7.30 p.m..
AGENDA
This meeting is open to the public unless Members decide to exclude the public for any exempt or confidential item of business.
Members’ Interests (Personal or Prejudicial) relating to Agenda items for this meeting : to be declared prior to consideration of the appropriate item
- Apologies of absence and reasons
- Declarations of Interests (existence and nature) with regard to items on the agenda
- Public Participation Session with respect to items on the agenda
- To consider the following Planning Application:
- PA 15/00844/FUL : Change of use agricultural land to touring caravan site (30 pitches) including facilities building : land off Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall
- PA 15/00832/HSE : New porch to front elevation : 3 Townfield, Heptonstall
- To consider any other late notifications of Planning Applications
R M Greenwood
Clerk
A full copy of the official agenda can be found here.
Picnic about Slack Chapel
Don’t forget tomorrow’s family picnic at Popples Common to help find out local people’s views on the future of the Slack Baptist Chapel. The Big Picnic will take place from 1pm to 4pm on Sunday, 12 July. Bring your own food and blanket, find out more about ideas for the future of the building, and share your own thoughts.
The chapel was sold by the Baptists several years ago and is currently owned by an evangelical Christian group, however services have had to be moved because of problems renovating the building. Suggestions to use it as a halfway house for those recovering from drug abuse were dropped after objections from local residents. Could the chapel become a community centre, or could there be other uses for the building? All are welcome to this picnic to talk and find out more.
CommuniTEA – Saturday, 11 July, 2015 – 12:00 to 15:00
CommuniTEA is an opportunity to find out what’s on in and around Hebden Bridge. They’ll be free taster sessions and a great opportunity to meet local groups, societies, charities and organisers.
Hebden Bridge Town Hall – Saturday, 11 July, 2015 – 12:00 to 15:00
Oh, and there’s free tea!
You’ll be able to find out more about the:
- Neighbourhood Plan with the town and parish councils
- After Alice photography project
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Box 4 Fitness (free taster sessions)
- Calder Valley Youth Theatre
- Calder Valley Performance Ensemble
- Creative Arts for Dementia with Verd de Gris
- Forget Me Not Hospice
- Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
- Hebden Bridge Cubs
- Hebden Bridge History Society
- Hebden Bridge WI
- Heptonstall Village Team
- Hope Baptist Church
- Overgate Hospice
- Pennine Horizons
- Rhythm Time (free taster session)
- Stand Tall Pilates (free taster session)
- IT workshops with Stoodley Training
- Zen Tone (free taster session)
The Heptonstall Village Team will be there all day, with fliers and information on the events being arranged for our older generations in Heptonstall and the local community.
Lunch at the Shoulder of Mutton…
Our first lunch hosted by The Shoulder of Mutton was well attended and enjoyed by all.
Here are the dates for our next events.
Owen and Lisa will be back from Ireland for these dates and are looking forwards to welcoming us in person
Please contact Mel or Rachel if you need assistance with transport.
01422 847979
Lunch at The Cross….
Our new team will be welcoming you to The Cross on the 14 July, and then again on 11 August and 8 September 215.
This month we have Rachel Banks running the show for us.
Please let us know if you know of anyone who would appreciate a lift to the pub.. We can arrange this for you.Many thanks
01422 847979
Children’s parade
With the generous financial support from The Heptonstall Junior and Infant School and the Friends and Parents of Heptonstall we had £200 sponsorship to spend on materials for the children’s parade on Festival Day. We will be meeting at 10.30 am in Weavers Square and parading from 11 am headed up by the Heptonstall Pantomime Group and Drum Machine.
Jacky Kelly, from the Heptonstall Village Team will be knocking on doors along the route and seeing if some of our older generations would like a ring side seat as the parade passes through.
The Heptonstall Out of School Club have also lent their support to the event, by making a large Giant Peach to carry aloft on the day.
As a final touch, some of the kids will be carrying platters of peaches to offer to our special ‘roadside guests’ as the parade passes by.
(We have limited edition, balloons on sale on the route for £1.00 each (sponsored by Arty party of Todmorden) and this money will help us to cover the cost of activities at the bowling club
The programme that is running at the bowling club is targeted at families or our older folks.
It is an area to take the kids for a sit down and value ALL YOU CAN EAT Tapas, or sandwich platter lunch. Or a quicker cake and sarnie.
There are lots of free activities where the youngest and oldest amongst us can join in.
Cuddly prizes at the ready
The first load of teddies are washed and drying ready for the Teddy Tombola in the Bowling Club on Festival day! Come along with your ‘Wonka Winks’ and have a go at winning one!!! Beth Hardman is selling £4 bags of Wonka Winks in the Heptonstall school playground in advance of the festival for the bargain price of £2.50. The Winks can be spent in the bowling club on Festival Day, to take away the problem of giving children money.
Artist Update: Owter Zeds
Owterzeds bring their own brand of musical sunshine with them wherever they go. Their upbeat mixture of original ska and rock is loved by audiences around the valley and beyond. They will be playing at Heptonstall Festival as an eight piece – don’t miss them on the Ruin Stage at 5.20pm!
Find out more here:
Parish Council Meeting – 6 July 2015
Follow this link to see the agenda for the July Parish Council Meeting.
The meeting will be held at the The School Hall, Heptonstall J I & School, on Monday 6 July 2015 commencing at 7.30pm.
The Bowling Club elements of Festival Day
Please be aware that any donation made at the bowling club on festival day will go to the Village Team.
If you wish to donate to the Heptobstall Festival to help us carry on bringing you top class entertainment in future years, please donate in buckets in Weaver’s Square, the Church Ruin, the pubs or at the Dog Show. We really appreciate your support!
The Heptonstall Villlage Teams’s first fundraiser is to invite you all to re-visit the election and buy 3 water bombs for a pound, Emma Hartley and the Calder High Students are manning this stand for the princely sum of now’t.
The stand was made for us for free, and signage company: ‘School Image’ provided all the graphics and promotional boards for us FOC. So all funds received will help to cover todays FREE activities
Flo Bellamy photo booth is our second fundraiser. For £1.00 per person you can whizz into her booth, grab a prop and get a 30 second fast fire round of shots, before whizzing out the other side. Flo is working for now’t for us, but she will be offering to enhance your shots and get them printed on acrylic blocs, canvas etc. Your shots will be available to download for FREE after the event.
Our third fundraiser is the pop up café in the bowling club. Here you can fill your platter from our ALL YOU CAN EAT Tapas Buffet or buy a children’s sandwich platter before settling down to watch the kids playing on the children’s stalls in the bowing club.
We will also be selling afternoon tea and cake, served in old fashioned miss- matched cups, saucers cups and saucers.
Once again Emma Hartley has arranged for some Calder High School Students to help us out, and all profits from this café will go directly to The Heptonstall Village Team, and the costs of putting the day on.
Artist Update: Tim O’Connor
Tim is a legend, and we’re really pleased he has agreed to travel all the way back to Heptonstall to entertain us again this year with his poetic music.
Make an appointment to join him on the Ruin Stage at 2.20pm.
Artist Update: Brunelle
Hailing from all over Britain, but having met at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Brunelle are a Post-Folk quartet. Drawing influence from a variety of sources, Brunelle perform hard hitting original music, with hear felt lyrics.
On the tail end of recording their first songs to release, the boys at Brunelle are now working on an interesting and innovative way to distribute these to the public using alternative media formats.
So far this year Brunelle have played at the RNCM Big Weekender, Manchester Day, and at The Castle, drawing crowds from all over Manchester to see them.
Expect big things from Brunelle, you won’t be disappointed.
Catch them on the Ruin Stage at 4.20pm.
Children’s Parade on Festival Day
Drum machine and The Heptonstall Pantomime Group lead the way!
With the generous financial support from The Heptonstall Junior and Infant School and the Friends and Parents of Heptonstall we funds to spend on materials for the Children’s Parade on Festival Day.
We will be meeting at 10.30 am in Weavers Square and parading from 11 am headed up by the Heptonstall Pantomime Group and Drum Machine.
Jacky Kelly, from the Heptonstall Village Team will be knocking on doors along the route and seeing if some of our older generations would like a ring side seat as the parade passes through.
The Heptonstall Out of School Club have also lent their support to the event, by making a large Giant Peach to carry aloft on the day.
As a final touch, some of the kids will be carrying platters of peaches to offer to our special ‘roadside guests’ as the parade passes by.
The whole of the festival is aimed squarely at families, with plenty for all ages to see and do across the village including the Roald Dahl treasure hunt and not-to-be-missed Frolicked Puppet Theatre in Weaver Square at 1pm.
The programme which will run at the Bowling Club is an area to take the kids for a sit down and value ALL YOU CAN EAT Tapas, or sandwich platter lunch, or a quicker cake and sarnie. There will be lots of free activities where the youngest and oldest amongst us can join in, and everyone else too!
There’ll be plenty of food available across the village too – with a giant hog roast int the ruins, Vegan Food, snacks available from both pubs and delicious tea in the church – you should find something to your taste.
A fun day to be had for all across the whole village!
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