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WORTH READING For all your health & News from across the Worth Valley sponsored by: wellbeing products Haworth, Cross Roads & Stanbury Parish Council February—March 2016 Participatory Budget Scheme gets go ahead From the Parish Council Chairman First, I’d like to wish everybody a very 20% 5% Happy New Year from both the Parish Councillors and our staff. off any Compiling a budget for 2016 -2017 has off any item been particularly taxing experience for the Parish Council in recent months. At the end of the process we’ve arrived at bought from stock orders placed a budget that we believe will result in a very small increase and represent great value for money. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday One of the reasons that we’ve been able to arrive at this option is that during the last decade we’ve been very Cllr John Huxley prudent and built up some reserves so that we could protect the community against such unexpected 1st, 2nd, 3rd happenings as election costs or a Parish Poll, both of which would bring a fairly hefty bill from Bradford’s Electoral Services. Fortunately, the combination of our own care and sums of money being left over from projects that did not need all the budget allocated to them or from projects that did not take place, we have MARCH 2016 quite an amount of reserve cash - £20,000 - that we can now spend with safety. And that’s just what the Parish Council has agreed to do. In order that each of the three villages is able to receive an equitable amount of money we are splitting the sum by the percentage that NO CATCHES! NO GIMMICKS! NO TRICKS! each village contributed through the precept. As Stanbury is a small village in both size and population there may be a need to protect their interest by slightly boosting the sum of money available to them. Please contact Ruth on 01535 644496 The plan is to adopt a Participatory Budget scheme for each village. The clue is in the title: the Parish Council will indicate how much or call into our showroom at 33 Sun Street, Haworth money it is willing to allocate from the £20,000 and it will be up to the Councillors from each ward to organise a public meeting to consult with residents about how the money is spent. Cont’d on page 4 YOUR PARISH COUNCILLORS Haworth Ward Cross Roads Ward John Huxley (Chairman) Tito Arana 01535 642264 0781 1263830 [email protected] [email protected] Angel Kershaw (Vice Chair) Peter Clarke 07765 555104 01535 647465 [email protected] [email protected] Peter Hill Stanbury Ward 01535 646999 James Hutton Sheila's World of Wellness [email protected] 07860 182954 Alan Watts [email protected] 01535 645168 [email protected] Clerk/RFO to the Council Gary Swallow Lisa Balderstone 07432 092 728 01535 647066 [email protected] Worth Valley Contact Point, Trudy Mahon 28 Changegate, Haworth Come do Yoga at: 01535 648067 BD22 8DY [email protected] 01535 644001 West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth: Alan Woodward [email protected] 07531 988390 Assistant Clerk Tuesday @ 9.30 & 11 am [email protected] Margaret Smith Ashna Yates 07505 142 383 Farfield House, North Street, Keighley 07720 751752 [email protected] [email protected] Tuesday @ 6.15 & 7.30 pm Website: Connor Hughes www.haworthparishcouncil.gov.uk 07480151257 Thursday @ 11.00 am, 5.30 & 6.45 pm [email protected] ~~~~~~~ 5-Week Ayurveda Lifestyle Programme The Parish Council does not endorse products or th Bradford Councillors for the Commencing Saturday 13 February @ 10 am services advertised within Worth Valley District this newsletter. Farfield House, North Street, Keighley Contact Details Cllr Glen Miller Published at Worth Valley Contact Point 01535 600344 28 Changegate, Haworth BD22 8DY For more information call Sheila today on Cllr Rebecca Poulsen Tel: 01535 644001 01535 648761 or 07799 437174 or visit 01535 647756 [email protected] Cllr Russell Brown Open Tuesday—Friday www.worldofwellness.co.uk 01535 646074 12 noon—4pm 2 15 SPOTLIGHT ON....Methodists in the Worth Valley Each month we’ll devote this page to a Community Group, issue or Charity event. If you have something you would like to see featured on this page please email Mags at [email protected]. Items will be on a first come first served basis and the page may feature two events some months. There are 4 Methodist Churches in the Worth Valley and each one has a long history of reaching out to the community, in their early incarnations through Sunday Schools and concerts providing education and entertainment as well as a place of welcome and more recently as places of meetings for a variety of groups. But, the Methodist church is much more than a community centre it remains driven by a social conscience which looks to reach out again in new ways and offer a warm welcome to all. New initiatives around the Valley. Lees Library Link is now open as a replacement for the Mobile Library, in partnership with Bradford Libraries. We have books for all ages and it is open the 1st Saturday of each month 10-11.30am and the 2nd Wednesday 1-2.30pm. Launching on the 6th of February. Ryan Clapperton Oxenhope is also launching a Library Link - this time in Partnership with St. Marys and Painter & Decorator Bradford Libraries. The Methodist Church will cater for older residents, St. Mary's for families ‘When Quality and younger readers. This will be open on the Matters’ 2nd Saturday of each month 10-11.30am and the 2nd Wednesday 10-11.30am. Launching on the 13th February, again all are welcome to come and borrow books. -Internal & External Painting Haworth Chapel on West Lane will be launching a 'Food for the Soul' Lunch and Library Scheme, run in partnership with The Welcome Project. This -Domestic & Commercial Work will be a Pay as You Can cafe every Wednesday 10-1.30pm starting on the 3rd of Feb, where freshly cooked food will be served and people will have -Paper Hanging the chance to borrow books and donate books to a community led library. - West Yorkshire & Surrounding Marsh Chapel is starting 'Messy Marsh' at 9.30am Sunday 7th February an Areas alternative to a traditional Sunday School, parents can drop off their children for an hour of stories, singing and craft. It will then run monthly on the 1st Please contact me Sunday. for a free quote: It is a proven fact that reading and socialising can help with dementia, isolation and 07851284845 loneliness so please feel free to drop in to any of the events, we have served our [email protected] communities for over 200 years and wish to continue that legacy for many years to come. 14 3 CHAIRMAN’S PIECE continued from the front page Yorkshire Lock We went through a pilot Participatory Budget scheme in Stanbury two years ago so we know it does work. Est.1997 Haworth and Safe Company It will give groups from each village the right to bid for cash for The Ancient Holistic Probiotic Health Drink We are a local their project, or to vote on schemes put forward as being in the Locksmith community interest. Once the preferred schemes have been For problems related to Alcohol, available 24 hours identified votes can be taken to decide which scheme or schemes Arthritis, Blood Pressure, Cancers, can be adopted. And, so long as the money is available and the Depression, Eczema, Gout, IBS., ME, Insurance approved project is both achievable and legal the money will be provided by MS, Stress, Weight Loss, “snapsafe” cylinders fitted. or just as a tonic! the Council. We can help you feel secure Feel the difference in 2 weeks for less The importance of having a Neighbourhood Development Plan has than £10 - Free local delivery. in your home. been amply illustrated as one major housing development planning application has been lodged with Bradford Council for Haworth. We Tel 01535 644833 / 07807998537 Members of the await the outcome of that application with great interest. [email protected] Having a Development Plan that will give everybody a say in what Palmistry & Psychic Readings 1 hour Master future development is allowed is important. We need to think about £25 at Haworth. Locksmiths Asso- Parties on request. what kind of houses we need; what land is given to commercial ciation. development and where development is allowed and where it is not. In Bradford’s Draft Plan Core Strategy Haworth and Cross Roads have been targeted to provide land for 400 new homes so it is important. Our Parish is not a museum: real people live and work here so development is inevitable – how much better if we all have a say in the matter by deciding what we need and want in advance so the Planners know how we feel. Professional Ironing Service for the Cllr. John Huxley, Chairman Worth Valley, Aire Valley, Wharfe Valley and surrounding areas. Garden Waste Survey 2016 Free Collection and Delivery. Government funding for Bradford Council services has been cut by £167.5 million since Items hung on hangers and plastic wrapped. 2010. By 2020 it is estimated the money for Council services will be reduced by some £100 million—that is over 25%. 24 hour service The collection of garden waste is not a statutory service, therefore not a service Tel: 01535 640230 that the Council is obliged to provide. The Council is proposing to charge for the collection of garden waste from June 2016.