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The Poppleton Centre Quarterly Magazine Issue 66 l Autumn I September 2020 More Rolly keyboards to be won inside in Poppleton Tuesday–Saturday The Centre Re-opens POPPLETON SOCIAL Easy does it OPEN UNTIL 11pm Breakfast, lunch, pizza Talk to Beth about As we emerge from lockdown, blinking slightly Tuesday 1 September 2020 and wondering what’s going to happen next Re-starting THE POPPLETON CENTRE the Trustees have decided to open The Cen- If you run a club, training course or RE-OPENS tre again, invite Beth and Barry back from Sanitised and ready to go furlough and try to introduce an element of any other type of activity at the normality. Centre and want to re-start safely Thursday 10 September 2020 POPPLETON COMMUNITY talk to Beth to work out how you Socially Distancing TRUST AGM can do so within the common Everybody welcome It will, of course, be a slightly different version sense guidelines imposed because of normality as everyone would expect. The Weekend 12/13 September 2020 Poppleton Social has been back in business of Covid-19. SCARECROW TRAIL All around the village for several weeks now, operating within the new rules, socially distancing, encouraging [email protected] Saturday 12 September 2020 one way systems and using copious amounts POPPLETON COMMUNITY of sanitising gel. All that will continue and will 01904 797478 RAILWAY NURSERY be implemented throughout the building. HERITAGE OPEN DAY Plant sales and more Welcome Back Thursday 5 November 2020 phone. We’ll be keeping an eye on the news BONFIRE & FIREWORK We hope to gradually reintroduce activities at to see when sports such as Badminton can the Centre safely and securely. Beth would resume and, again, Beth is the contact for SPECTACULAR Probably cancelled. See page 9 welcome a discussion with anyone who wants anyone who wants advise or to talk through to do so and can be contacted by email or options. Meet, Eat, Play, Relax Safely Saturday 5 December 2020 BIG TOP BALL Cancelled POPPLETON COMMUNITY TRUST Saturday 13 March 2021 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NORTHERN LIGHT Re-scheduled Thursday 10 September 2020 7.30pm Poppleton Centre Sports Hall Everybody is welcome to join us to find out how the Centre is being run, to catch up on our financial report and our plans for the future. This is your opportunity to hear how your community centre is being run and to have your say. This year the meeting will be held in the Sports Hall to enable Tennis is back. Full social distancing to be implemented for everyone’s benefit. report on page 12 10% off at THE LORD COLLINGWOOD Voucher inside Just because The Centre’s closed doesn’t mean we aren’t busy Trust Chairman Robin Tomlinson looks back over lockdown at The Centre As the villages are aware the Centre has been bar. Bob Wood has been liaising with Sam the website, closed for some while, but just like an iceberg and Louise who have worked hard to ensure We also had some storm damage to what is seen on top is nothing like what is that we all stay as safe as possible. deal with when one of the covers over the happening below water. Trustees have been We have recently replaced the beer Sports Hall extractors blew off the roof. Fortu- working behind the scenes to ensure that your cellar cooling system which gave up the ghost nately no one was injured and a very brave community centre is ready to re-open. after about 25 years’ service. Thanks go to Charlie Jackson went onto the roof to install a Finances Allen Jones who managed to get the problem replacement. Beth and Barry, the core Centre team, have sorted at great speed just before re-opening. Sports Clubs Return been enjoying a bit of furlough leave. Bob Site Changes We have liaised with the Tennis Club to en- Wood has been successful in ensuring our City of York Council have recently reopened sure that the tennis courts could reopen while finances are in good order by securing a cou- the playground, prior to which Trevor Lawson the football pitch has been subject to some ple of substantial grants while our new Treas- organised the selective pruning of the ash tree serious problems, with a combination of chafer urer David Richardson has handled the busi- on the edge of the playground, as well as grub infestation and rabbit holes creating a ness of securing the furlough payments from weed killing beneath the hedge at the rear of costly and difficult period of repair work for government as well as setting up our new the carpark. Beth also press-ganged her fami- Poppleton United Football Club to deal with. accounting system and salary PAYE system. ly into carrying out a major clean up around Centrepiece This all means that the financial position of the the Centre which we covered in the last issue Despite it being impossible to distribute Cen- Trust is in a good state. of Centrepiece trepiece during lockdown an even bigger issue Community Hub We have taken and used a grant of than normal was published, along with a During the first month or so of lockdown Beth £3000 from Nether Parish Council to start the Readership Survey which went out on-line to and Barry volunteered to very successfully project to install a new footpath alongside the our 1100 ENews subscribers. No charge was manage and co-ordinate the City of York road into the Centre. Allen Jones has been made to advertisers in an effort to support Council distribution of food and essentials, organising this, but we could only carry out a local businesses during the pandemic. based at the Centre, to local people in need. small part of the project which has involved Re-opening Poppleton Social extending a culvert at the entrance as well as On September 1st we re-open and look for- Poppleton Social introduced a very successful relining and patching the car park. ward to cautiously welcoming everyone back pizza takeaway service, and this has now Emma Lawer has been advising on to Meet, Eat, Play and Relax as this superb been followed by opening the coffee shop and contract issues and Gemma Lawson updating village amenity comes back to life. Poppleton Community Railway Nursery is open and back in business! Following a successful period of online sales of bedding plants during the lockdown, the Nursery has now reopened to the public. A number of loyal volunteers have been attending to the Nursery upkeep and maintaining the health of our varied stock of herbaceous perennials, seasonal plants, shrubs, herbs and alpines. The Nursery is open on Monday Wednesday and Friday from 10am-3.30pm throughout the year. Heritage Open Day on 12th September —we will be open to visitors and for plant sales from 10am-4pm. Autumn Open Day on October 3rd will see the Nursery open from 10am-3pm. Early Christmas Sale will be on 21st November from 10am-3pm. A selection of fresh and artificial wreaths, table and tree decorations and bowls of hyacinths will be on sale. Wreaths can be made to order by contacting the Nursery. On 12th December the Nursery will be open from 10am-1pm for collection of Christmas wreaths and orders. The Nursery is the last surviving railway nursery in Britain and is a registered charity. The site contains many interesting and historical railway artefacts and a narrow gauge railway. All profits from plant sales support the restoration of the Nursery, which offers practical and horticultural opportunities for local volunteers looking for friendship and relaxation. The Nursery also works with local health agencies to provide therapeutic activities for people recovering from a wide range of health conditions. Poppleton Community Railway Nursery, Station Road, Poppleton, York YO26 6QA Company registered in England & Wales No. 06211163 Registered Charity No. 1148341 Keep in touch at www.poppletoncentre.org.uk Contact Centre Manager 01904 797478 [email protected] 2 What kept Poppleton going through lockdown? Pizza, Pies, Curry—and Jigsaws Throughout lockdown and as we come out the The White Horse very quickly rein- stay open during lockdown and even luckier other side we’ve all been clapping for carers, vented itself as a bakery and then introduced to have kept the business afloat. We have applauding the NHS and cheering key work- the Curry Club on a Friday evening. Says missed some faces, have been delighted to ers, but how have our local heroes— Peter Brown “4,320 welcome some new ones and hope that, everyone that works in the shops and busi- steak and chicken having discovered what our little local newsa- nesses that have continued to serve the vil- pies sold Wednes- gent has to offer, we will be seeing them lage—coped with the pressures that have days and Thursdays again! I think our biggest struggle during been suddenly thrust upon them. and 2,000 curries on lockdown has been keeping the Jigsaws For Ceri and Dan Lamb at Cardland, Friday nights kept stocked up – we couldn’t get them on the like everyone else, it was a baptism of fire us speaking weekly shelves fast enough!” “We were sitting watching Boris’s announce- to our customers throughout lockdown. We Opening up again after lockdown ment on the even delivered 36 cans John Smith’s with a had presented new challenges. Heather Ed, Ceri and Dan from Cardland evening of bakery delivery to a gentleman shielding. We Wilson Hair Studio has worked with the Na- M o n d a y , now know where most of our customers live in tional Hairdressers Federation to ensure that 23rd March Poppleton so will be okay with a paper round when they re-opened both customers and a s h e when we retire!” staff were as safe as it was possible to be.