Number 128, December 2020 Newsletter review of the year Observing constitutional requirements, Clapham and However there would be no Clapham & District Newsletter District Newsletter held its AGM for 2020 on Thursday 5th without the community’s support and involvement: so many November by Zoom. The inability to celebrate this event with of you contribute articles, pictures and information for mutual gregarious festive refreshments only partly subdued publication and there would be nothing without you. There the experience, and the committee, having unanimously are also our advertisers, who provide the major financial expressed willingness to continue with present roles, was backing and sponsorship that allow us to continue printing nemine contradicente re-elected. in colour, and we hope that the community will reward them During the year the Newsletter has weathered the effects with their patronage. of international pandemic The group is especially strategies successfully and grateful for the support has continued to present from the Parish Council, to the local residents and is also grateful to the interesting news about the ‘Clapham, North Yorkshire’ happenings in the Parish. website, not only for The committee meetings publishing copy submission have been held on line, dates on into eternity but and distribution hiatus was also for making the archive avoided by encouraging of all past editions available parishioners to obtain on the internet. There is also copies from advertised appreciation for the efforts collection places. The of our printers who also Clapham Village Store was advertise within the pages. very helpful in this plan of During the year, action. additional people have We have also introduced joined the team and there an online version of the Early Winter sunset over the Lake by Jessica Hart is also appreciation and newsletter. Whilst this began gratitude for those who life as a temporary expedient to help quickly disseminate the have quietly slipped away. fast-changing news triggered by the coronavirus outbreak, Despite being unable to hold a fundraising Coffee we have decided to continue with both the printed and online Morning this season, our finances for the present remain formats and are currently opening the online side up to our sound and we go into 2021 confident that we can continue advertisers to help them through the present difficult trading to serve the community. environment. We move forwards with gratitude and thankfulness for Many individuals have helped along the way; the all the voluntary time and effort we are able to put into the committee, those involved with editing and setting the enterprise. edition, the proof-readers, the advertising, financial and Christopher Hart, secretarial executive, the reporters and the distribution team. 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We hope art supplies, more than 25 children aged from 0 to teens have the pictures help everyone feel a little community Christmas had fun creating glittery works of art and have turned the spirit at a time when we can’t all get together. whole village into a festive art gallery. Zoe Richardson Give Clapham a helping hand Macmillan Cancer - £1639.00! Last year many of you completed the Neighbourhood Plan’s Wow we have to say a HUGE Household Survey. Despite the challenges of this strangest THANK YOU, to all of you of strange years, the team behind the Plan has been hard at who supported the ‘Envelope work analysing the results and shaping them into a draft Scheme’. To date, it has document. raised £979.00. We hope to publish a draft plan in the first quarter of In addition, a sunny 2021, ready for everyone to read and comment on. weekend was chosen The Neighbourhood Plan will give us, as a community, by Annie Farrer for her more of a voice when it comes to planning decisions affecting ‘POP-UP CAR-BOOT CAKE STALL’ which was held on our Parish. It provides a guide for the planning authority and Riverside to attract the many visitors to the village. must be considered for any new planning applications. The stall was supplied by Clapham’s fantastic bakers Please do watch out for more news of the draft plan in and home preserve makers and was very well stocked. Annie the next newsletter. was ably assisted by super salesperson Anne Douglas and, In the meantime, we need a handful of new volunteers by Saturday afternoon, they realised that more cakes would to help assess and progress some of the non-planning related be required for the Sunday. An S.O.S. went out and the ideas that came out of the survey. These ideas are many bakers produced even more supplies, many raiding their and varied, and include a dedicated dog walking area, new own freezers. tree planting, improved footpaths and the development of The stall raised £660.00 and we were absolutely thrilled. a strategy to improve mobile phone reception. More so as, having had to make the difficult decision to None of these ideas fall under the remit of the cancel the usual coffee morning, something so positive has Neighbourhood Plan, but we know they are all important happened. to our community. For this reason, we are looking for a Well done and THANK YOU, to all who supported this small team of volunteers to start shaping the ideas into a fantastic cause - and not forgetting the Newsletter team for Parish Plan, to pick up the baton from the fantastic Parish publicity and in delivering the envelopes, which were all Plan of 2008, and help Clapham flourish and grow over the personally inscribed by Annie. next decade. Jackie Kingsley, Annie Farrer, If you would like to be part of this team, we’d love to Anne Douglas, David Kingsley hear from you. Please email: [email protected] or call and Liz Mason Ann Sheridan on 07866 096215. Adrienne Robins 3 Settle Chimney Sweep Organic Market Garden - Bakery Services Farm Shop - Home Delivery 4 Craven Terrace Settle BD24 9DB www.growingwithgrace.org.uk 015242 51723 Open 10am-5pm (closed Sundays & Mondays) Tel. 01729 823683 A65 Clapham – Follow the carrots! 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It House is the single storey barn which is the last building in started as a bookstall in the church the village on the left-hand side if and at the annual Street Fair, but has you pass the shop on the way to the since grown and now also provides A65 towards Lancaster. It looks like stalls for various charities at coffee a proper library as I have organised mornings. it as far as possible into categories The books were originally which are all labelled. kept in boxes in the choir vestry in From the beginning, the supply church. That became too crowded of books has far exceeded the and they moved to the garage at number of opportunities to sell them, Sandy Bell, followed by the barn at so in recent years I have taken car Long Barn. Their next home was the and trailer-loads of surplus books Temperance Hall in Keasden before to the Oxfam bookshop in Skipton. moving yet again to Hall Garth Barn. Oxfam tell me that between July Their final (I hope!) home is in the 2018 and the end of March 2020, Hearse House, which is now lined sales of those books have raised with bookshelves kindly donated by a staggering £1,655.60 for their Clapham residents at various times causes. It’s well worth doing so and moved around by a willing band please keep them coming! of strong-armed volunteers with If anybody wants to buy or borrowed trailers. donate books at any time I am very The shelves in the Hearse House happy to open the Hearse House - surround a large cabinet which contains the B4RN equipment. just give me a ring on 51816. For this, the building was given a new roof and floor, and Brenda Pearce lining for the walls, so it is now a cosy weatherproof home Saint James’ church Recycling facility improvement As with everything else, Christmas is going to be rather In case you haven’t yet met it, there is a new recycling different at Saint James’ Church this year.