Garforth , Kippax & District Newsletter
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Garforth , Kippax & District newsletter Issue 8 - June Foreword 2 News & Events in June & July 3 Local Interest Groups 3-4 May Speaker Report 4-5 Messages from the committee: 5-6 u3a Day 2 June 2021 Photo competition Social Media Security 7 Blue Plaques around Leeds 7-8 Down Memory Lane 8-9 History Group (Yorkshire Battles & Peckfield Mining Disaster Walk) 9-11 Cover Page Icons 11 Garden Corner 12 Puzzle Corner 3-14 National u3a and Endnote 15 Printable u3a Car Disc 16 8th Issue Welcome to this issue. We are looking to provide updates on what the various interest groups have been doing and to highlight what is being planned over the coming weeks. Throughout the newsletter we refer to our Garforth, Kippax & District UƷA website. Happy Father’s Day to the members to whom this applies. Wednesday 2nd June is u3a Day See pages 5&6 for more details Zoom events in June and July 2021 in- If you wish to join the talk, please send a clude: message to Colin Roberts via the U3A web- site. nd Wednesday 2 June: General Meeting, a th speaker to be confirmed. 1.30pm, if you have 16 June: A general knowledge quiz from not received your link for the meeting by hosted by the quiz group: a general invite will email by 26th May, please check the website be sent to all UƷA members.1.30pm, if you for details of how to get the link. have not received your link for the meeting by email by 10th June, please check the web- Wednesday 9th June: History Group June site for details of how to get the link. Meeting 1.00pm (This Zoom talk is open to th all U3A members). ‘Treasures of Temple Wednesday 7 July: General Meeting, Newsam’: speaker will be Martin Lee from Active Adam Toole, Curator of Temple Newsam, will Leeds. 1.30pm talk about some of the highlights from the rich collections of Temple Newsam, which Wednesday 21 July: A general knowledge feature one of the foremost collections of quiz for all, hosted by the Quiz group: a gen- decorative and fine arts in the UK. This will eral invite will be sent to all UƷA mem- include masterpieces by Joshua Reynolds, bers.1.30pm Junko Mori, Thomas Chippendale and the Leeds Pottery, amongst others. As all of the interest groups have access to the paid version of Zoom, can convenors We are grateful to the Committee for funding please contact Graham Isley to book a time this talk. and to organise ID and passwords that will be required to be sent to all participants. always take it easy, with no-one left behind If any of our members have a suggestion for and the accent is on pleasure, not miles. Do speakers at our monthly meeting please con- feel free to give it a try. tact our Speaker Co-ordinator Sandra Daly via the website. If contact details are availa- Submitted by Dave Swindells ble, or where you have seen the topic/ presenter, then please include these in your email. Art Group Our local Interest Groups Round-Up Topics for June are: 1st June: Still Life Books and Papers Important update for Groups - Covid Risk 15th June: Strong light from one side Assessments (RA) requirement. 29th June: Your own Eyes and Eyebrows (use a Mirror) Before any indoor face to face meetings, all members should complete a personal RA for Bookworms Group themselves. The Bookworms group has resumed Convenors should complete a separate RA meetings from Wednesday 19th May at for their activity group and, any group using 10.30am. It is a small group, so meetings an external venue must obtain a copy of the can be within the guidelines of 6 meeting in- venue’s current Covid RA, and submit a copy doors in our homes. of this along with the group RA to the u3a committee via the venues secretary. The group will endeavour to meet outside if the weather is fine! Hopefully we will all be Copies of all the relevant RA will be placed fully vaccinated so it will be a personal on the website. choice for members. Regards, Judith Huntridge. A Convenors meeting is now planned for June please watch for information and in- Excursion Group vites from the Groups Co-ordinator Heather. The Excursion group are starting their visits shortly. Two fully booked visits are taking place to York Gate on July 2nd, and Ryedale Easy Cycling Group th Since the beginning of April we’ve met up Vineyards on September 6 . five times for cycle rides, which have aver- The group will be looking at a trip to Thorpe aged between 6 to 10 miles, at a leisurely Perrow in the Autumn. Sue (Lomas) will keep pace. We now have eleven members, alt- her members informed as to when and how hough a maximum of six currently meet to to book through her normal channels. ride, keeping in line with current Covid re- strictions. We mainly ride off-road, on rea- Singing Group sonable tracks and bridleways but have also The group had been meeting via Zoom, but been on some quiet roads. attendance has fallen sharply. A decision was made to break now for Summer, and re- We want to continue to encourage members sume as soon as we can meet “in-person”, who haven’t cycled much before, or who are subject to Government guidelines and satis- not very confident because they haven’t factory risk assessment. been on a bike for a while to have a go. We Meanwhile, many on the group will be keep- surplus food, such as unfit for sale but not ing in touch via a WhatsApp group. If you unfit for human consumption, was used to are not a member, but would like more infor- cook meals. The term ‘circle economy model’ mation, please contact the group convenor was used, where customers pay as they feel, via our website link. either money, time, skill etc or just eat and leave. Walking Netball In March 2014 the Guardian did an article on Although Government guidelines now allow TRJFP resulting in over 100,000 contacts for group activities to resume indoors, there coming from across the world. He shut the a number of additional risk assessment and cafe and replied to them all to copy the mod- additional administrative requirements be- el, use the logo or whatever worked for fore walking netball can resume. them, but the basis is to stop Food Waste, to If you would like to be added to the contact focus on the environmental impact of junk list for direct notification please contact the food, not who was eating it or how much group convenor via our u3a website link. they paid. There was an explosion of pop-up cafes across the UK and the world, but they were autonomous. What he was trying to highlight was that you May Meeting Talk: by The Real Junk Food could feed all the poor people on the planet Project (trjfp.com) and there would still be wasted food. It is al- so not the job of food banks and TRJFP to Adam Smith, Founder and CEO of The Real save supermarkets having to pay for disposal Junk Food Project was this month’s speaker. of surplus food. Adam provided details of his early life, through a troubled child- In 2018 a 15,000 foot warehouse was hood and early adult- opened in Wakefield. In 2019, 1,000 tons of hood culminating in im- food which equated to 2.3 million meals prisonment, addiction to were sourced / distributed. When Covid drugs & alcohol and struck they intercepted a years ‘waste’ in 4 attempted suicide to the weeks. turning point when he went to Australia and undertook some work on farms where he came across the waste of perfectly edible food. This gave him the passion to create The Real Junk Food Project (TRJP) in 2013 where his skills and knowledge as a chef enabled him to use this food and on return to the UK set up TRJP - UK’s largest environmental charity redistributing surplus food from all When starting TRJFP, the idea was to put across the food industry. themselves out of business in 10 years - un- The basis of TRJFP is Environmental, not to fortunately, the problem of surplus food is ‘feed’ people. To this end he opened up Arm- actually getting worse and there is more food ley Junction Cafe in December 2013 where in the system than ever before. This is through a rise in plant based food production the pop-up cafes, such as Armley Junction and no real reduction in animal food produc- Cafe, or Hunslet Cafe, which uses surplus tion. The focus shouldn’t be what people are food as above. All people, regardless of eating. but to focus on what waste is taking social or economic standing, can eat place in plant and animal food production. there. Part of problem also around best before outside catering - they have 17 weddings dates and buying power of supermarkets etc. to cater for so far. The world needs to have a sustainable envi- Donations, volunteers, friends, etc. ronment in relation to old production and waste. TRJFP is NOT a food bank, it intercepts sur- plus food destined for waste. The work of TRJFP has several facets and The skilled volunteers transport, process, more information is available on their web- quality control all food intercepted. site trjfp.com. They are totally self-fund The edible food is made available through hub models, cafe, catering, dona- through catering, boxes, schools etc.