Community Association Newsletter Summer 2016

Macmillan Cancer Support. Dayspring Church

Since the start of 2016 our Ladies and Friends have been Basecamp & Coffee Church busy knitting Easter Chicks and the sale of these raised Dayspring meet together every 1st and 3rd Sunday for over £1,500 pounds for Macmillan. A special thank you to ‘Basecamp’ Church service (podcasts available online at the Local Shops, Banks, Building Societies, Fish Shops and dayspringchurch.co.uk). Coffee Church is an addition to everyone who helped us to raise this amount of money. our regular meeting. Every non-Basecamp week, we meet We could not do this without your generosity. informally together at Cielo Coffee House, Garforth, for At the beginning of June we held a street collection and Coffee and catch up from 10am. have recently held our Annual Coffee Morning. These All are welcome to join us! were once again very successful. Thank you to everyone Youth Alpha who supported us. Our kids work ‘BRAVE’ is split into groups; ‘Pips’, our youngest, aged 2-4 ‘The Joy Club’, 5-7, ‘Glo’, 8-11 and Our next event will be our Christmas Bazaar to be held on ‘Teens’ 11+. Currently our Glo and Teens have joined Saturday, 5th November from 10:00am. There will be together to create a Youth Alpha group and are meeting plenty of Parkin on sale for your Bonfire Parties. After together fortnightly to tackle all the Big questions ‘Life, that, the Chocolate Filled Christmas Stockings will be on is this it?’, ‘Jesus, who is He?’ and so on! So far there has Sale. been an amazing turn out with some great discussion and Janet Gisburn loads of fun! Bowmen of Assemblies It was good weather at the Garforth Our assemblies team - Mike and Annie - visit primary Gala (apart from the occasional gust schools 3 times per year. They will be delivering of wind – always to be expected at assemblies this summer term to 19 primary schools in the Glebelands) and we ran a successful area, including the 5 within Garforth. This term they will Have-a-Go for people to try out be speaking to Year 6s about their transition into archery. Although it didn’t seem to be quite as busy as secondary school and each child is gifted a journal to help usual, we raised a record amount, allowing us to donate them on their way £100 to the Lions. There was a steady stream of wannabe Churches Together in Garforth Robin Hoods, some of whom came back Dayspring are part of Churches Together in Garforth, again and again! Talking of which, here is who regularly meet for various events including monthly Ken our Chairman with one arrow shot lunches, Lent evenings, Good Friday Walk of Witness, down another, known as a “Robin Hood” Garforth Gala and more. Together we also coordinate our It’s a mixed blessing a rare achievement ‘Messy Church’ in Garforth, which is every 3rd Sunday but costly, both arrows damaged! He and is hosted by a different Garforth Church each month. uses a modern recurve bow with carbon All are welcome to attend any of our events, just contact fibre arrows (much more accurate than our Hub for more details—0113 2320898 the traditional longbow) with an end of 6 Website arrows regularly scoring 50 plus! The We have recently updated our website so please take a other picture of Jonathan, our best longbow man, is look at dayspringchurch.co.uk. Here you’ll find our ‘What’s nearer the truth for the type of bow on?’ section, with all our upcoming events, times and that Robin Hood would have shot, a locations. You can listen back to previous services with our longbow with wooden arrows. Probably podcasts and generally find out more about Dayspring his best ever end of 6 arrows with a Church too. There’s also a ‘Connect’ form, if you want total score of 47 at 20 yards! Here’s more details about Dayspring or fancy joining us, fill it in hoping for some better weather this and we’ll get back to you! Our Dayspring Facebook page, year as outdoor archery, at greater Dayspring Garforth, also provides dates for Basecamp & distances, is all the more enjoyable in Coffee Church. good weather! GCA Art Grooup

Already this year we have enjoyed two splendid workshops. Anita Daniel, one of our favourite professional artists who always gives us expert tuition, held the first one. She came to give us instruction on how to approach drawing a live model – albeit a fully clothed one on this occasion. The first part of the workshop was divided into three short sessions where, in each, we had to try and capture the model in three different poses. Quite a challenge! The latter half of the workshop was given over to a much lengthier study - a portrait of the model. We all found it a very successful exercise and enjoyed it tremendously including the model who confessed he, too, had learnt a lot! I have included two photographs of this workshop – one is a collage of some of the finished portraits and the other is a photo of the members attending, including the model! He’s on the back row. Can anyone match him to any of the portraits?! Jeremy Taylor, another of our favourite professional artists who has tutored us on various topics in the past, came in April and held a workshop on ‘boats and reflections’ and ‘splattering’. Lots of wet-into-wet and splattering techniques and I, for once, was in my element. I love splattering! I use it as often as I can to create interest and texture and love the effect. It can be a bit of a haphazard technique as it involves ‘splattering’ small droplets from a toothbrush loaded with paint by running your thumb along the bristles. It’s sensational when it works! Jeremy added another dimension to it this time. He ‘splattered’ as already described and then threw salt, not too much, randomly over the painting whilst the paint was still wet. As the salt dries, colour is leached out of the painting. As we were painting a couple sheltering under an umbrella on a very rainy day, the effect was terrific. The third photo included is an example.

Other workshops and demonstrations lie ahead and we’re looking forward to the rest of the year. As always, here is Gordon Hall’s tel. no: - 0113 2860239. Give him a ring if you’d like to join us. Gillian Webster Garforth Flower and Vegetable Show. Caroline Atha School of Dance

Thirty six years old !! What a term!

AND still going strong ! What is this ? Our very own Five of our students attended the IDTA Freestyle annual Garforth Flower and Vegetable Show !! Scholarships. They had been nominated last year out of This will take place on Saturday 3rd September at The thousands of dancers. Miner's Welfare Hall and will be open to the public from Congratulations to Jasmyn Watson, one of the youngest 2 p.m. on that day . nominees, and Isobelle Broadbent on reaching the top 9 There are 76 classes for ANYONE to enter plus 4 special in the country, Congratulations to Kady Maude, making ones for children. Grow it , make it , photograph it ,create the quarter-finals, and Jessica Bambrook and Jessica it or bake it! There’s something for everyone . Kewley making it to the top 12 in their age group. Even if you don’t enter (and why not ???), it’s still worth a visit. There are spectacular refreshments baked by Fantastic examination results again, and a special mention Julia (tutor at CarltonTowers Cookery Courses ) tombola for Georgina White, who has been nominated for IDTA and raffle with great prizes donated by local businesses. Scholarship for Grade 5 Tap. You will also be able to see the myriad of fruit ,flowers, handicrafts, photos and home produce that have been Exceptional results at competitions, with Senior Troupe entered in the show. Winners, and Choreography awards were among the top There is even an auction at the end so that you can go trophies. home laden with goodies giving the impression that you have been to Chelsea ! Caroline Atha School of Dance has performed at school This is a community event so do try to enter or at the fairs and the Garforth Gala, and look forward to least visit but remember “you have to be in it to win it“ !! participating in more of these events, including the We need your support to encourage more people to grow Emergency Services Gala. or make things , especially the youngsters as they are our future. Jessica Bambrook also successfully auditioned for a Prove the “Garforth’s Got Talent “ and let us see who has second year at Northern Ballet “The X Factor “ Who has the patience ,skill and perhaps . a little bit of luck to be the proud winner of one of our We look forward to more exams and competitions this shields, trophies or prizes ? year.

Our motto is ..GROW IT AND SHOW IT ! Miss Caroline would like to thank the teachers Stacey, Janine and Melinda for their continued hard work and Good luck everybody and looking forward to seeing you. Heidi and Charlotte for their assistance in class. Peter Harrison Happy dancing Chair, Garforth Flower and Vegetable Committee Caroline Atha Tea Dance

Another six months gone. We are still going but our numbers are down due to operations, illnesses and holidays. New faces still appear, even from Newcastle. The usual highlight has been our Easter bonnet parade.

Once again thank you to everyone involved in putting on the Tea Dance. Frank Hawkins Patchwork People Garforth Garforth Amateur Dramatic Society

Patchwork People haven't stood still since the last Garforth Amateur Dramatic Society are holding their newsletter and continue to create quilts, cushions, wall first ever ‘Line Dancing Evening’ on Saturday 10th hangings and bags! We have recently had two workshops. September, at Garforth Working Men's Club, Barley Hill Road, Garforth. starting at 7:30PM. Tickets are priced at Sylvia Grayson came to show us a technique using a fusible £5:50 and are available now from any Society Member thread to create a Celtic design. The method was shortly, or by contacting Pat Toes on 0113 286 2491 or at straightforward once you got the stitch, iron, layer etc [email protected]. in the correct order! The finished result was very pleasing. The evening is to be hosted by an experienced dance teacher and will be a combination of an exhibition and a Monkey Buttons was our next visitor. Amanda managed to dance class with the chance for anyone to get up and join help a large group make a variety of bags and cushions. in. The workshop involved cutting and sewing many small In March, we held our spring production, ‘The Murder pieces which was time consuming so most items were Room’ which was well attended and received. finished at home. So when you see smart linen shoulder bags being worn on the high street it could be on of our ladies!

Patchwork isn't just for ladies though, as was well illustrated by Stuart Hillard - a former contestant on 'The Sewing Bee'. He gave a group of about forty people a very entertaining talk one afternoon and brought plenty of his work for us to peruse and to take on board his ideas and methods.

We followed this up with an open afternoon where we Here is a review of it by our National Operatic and displayed some of our finished work as well as work in Dramatic Association representative Pamela Booth: progress. A few people took up our invitation and sounded “This is a very complex story of attempted murder when positive about joining the group. newly married Edgar (David Battersby) and Mavis (Erica Nicholls) start out their life together. This couple always We continue to meet during the summer with extras such work well together and they got the play off to an amusing as a sewing morning to make charity quilts, a trip to the start. Why was she trying to kill him? Why was he posing Whitby Quilt Show and a picnic! as an older man only to pop up later in the story as a much Sue Lewis younger policeman? I’m not quite sure that I ever worked it out, but it made for an amusing situation. Caroline Hill gave a comical performance as the down to earth housekeeper and Martyn Simpson worked well as the detective who was later revealed to be the mystery lover. Things became even more complicated when Edgar’s daughter Susan (Becky Mee) arrived home from America. This was Becky’s first role with GADS and she gave a striking performance. She was accompanied by her American fiancé Barry (Connor Doherty) who had worked Gossip or Fact? very hard with his accent. The script for this play is full of misheard lines between It was a fact the bakers shop is now called “Pride and the cast, which led to some very humorous conversations, Produce” Not just a Deli but a coffee shop as well. although in some parts they needed to be delivered a little Welcome to Main Street, a lovely addition for us to quicker. As ever, the set was very good, but some of the enjoy. furniture didn’t seem to fit with the interior of an old cottage. The secret ’murder room’ was well hidden and very believable. A very amusing production with lots of GCA Newsletter Next Issue twists and turns that kept us guessing to the end.” The closing date for input to the winter edition is: Our next production will be performed from Wednesday Thursday 17th November 2016 16th to Saturday 19th November 2016 and will be announced in due course. RNLI - Garforth Branch

Our volunteer Branch Members have been extremely busy over the past months starting with Coffee Mornings in February and March (Easter). In April, Souvenirs were taken to a Boat Jumble in Hull and we finally obtained our permit for Leeds Flag Day (23rd April) from . As this date was so close to the RNLI’s Mayday campaign, we decided to collect in Crossgates instead of Garforth but, as usual included .

Mayday weekend was just a blur as not only were our members manning a display in Main Street (to which we had added our own “exercise bike challenge”), but also as the RNLI was the official charity for the Tour de Yorkshire, volunteers were needed for collections along the cycle route over the three day event, so a few of our members were despatched to Tadcaster on the Friday morning and Sherburn in Elmet on Saturday afternoon (immediately following our Mayday event).

Our ever popular Plant Sale raised approximately £900 and we more recently attended both the Caravan and Camping Rally in Wetherby and the Lions Gala with souvenirs, tombola and cake stalls.

This year our Branch celebrates 50 years of fundraising here in Garforth and in July members of the community have been invited to join us for Afternoon Tea by way of thanks for their loyal support over the years. This event is strictly limited to ticket holders only.

Our annual Race Night will be held at The Working Men’s Club, Barley Hill Road on 15th October and tickets will be available shortly at £6 each to include supper. As demand for these tickets is always high and in order to avoid disappointment, please apply early by ringing the number below or making direct contact with any of our Branch Members.

In addition to the above and the Coffee Mornings mentioned below, we also have another Boat Jumble to attend together with a couple of Supermarket collections in October and December respectively.

Finally, our Volunteer Presenter/Speaker is available for talks and presentations on the RNLI or Beach and Water Safety to either adult or children’s groups at a mutually convenient time and date. Talks are arranged to suit the particular ages of the group involved and for further information, please telephone the number given below.

DIARY NOTES: RNLI Coffee Mornings at the Welfare Hall for 2016:

9th July; 24th September; 26th November (Christmas)

Donations of Tombola prizes and home baking/preserves for our cake stall are always welcome. Please come along and support us. Our volunteer Lifeboat Crews and Lifeguards always need your help.

Mary Small (Branch Secretary) (Tel: 0113 2863473)

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Genix the dentist has expanded into the area below their current premises, business must be good. Garforth in Bloom

In April the RHS Yorkshire in Bloom judges visited and we received some very positive feedback following their visit, despite the miserable weather on the judging day! They met with residents of Montague Crescent/Meadow Road to discuss their new beds and also talked with staff from Aspire regarding the ways in which gardening helps their adult social group. The judges will be coming again on the 19th July to view our summer displays before making their decision on our result. Whilst we will be putting lots of effort into making sure our beds and containers looks as good as they can, please help us by trying to keep Garforth tidy as the judges will judge everything they see – not just our displays. We will find out which mark we have been awarded in September. Wish us luck!

We have created a new bed at East Garforth Railway Station since the last update. The unattractive triangular piece of land at the bottom of the ramp on the Fairburn Drive side of the station has now been dug over and planted up. It looks far better and more welcoming to visitors than it did before.

We held our Summer Fair last month and had the most successful morning to date! We raised the fantastic amount of £799! We were amazed at the generosity of our Friends and the people of Garforth. We had a wonderful morning and really do thank all of you who came along to support us.

Our Garforth in Bloom bags are now creating their own photo album on our website travelling all over the world! So far they have visited Mexico, USA, Canada, Austria, Spain, Norway and the Isle of Wight. If you would like to join in the fun, you can buy a Garforth in Bloom ‘bag for life’ from Dorothy Annes in Garforth Main Street or by contacting us, then simply upload your photo to our Facebook page stating where in the world they are. We would really like to get a photo in every continent if possible!

Quirky Ales have now released Blooming Marvellous, the ale they have specially created for Garforth in Bloom. A few of us have tried it and can certainly agree that it tastes blooming marvellous! The brewery are very kindly donating 10p from every pint sold to Garforth in Bloom.

Do you have one of our containers near your house/place of work? If so, would you be able to help us by watering it? The tubs in Main Street dry out very quickly and would always appreciate a watering can full of water being poured on them!

We welcome help from people who would like to come and dig with us but especially so at this time when we are waiting for the judges. If you would like to come and help, we meet at the Jubilee Garden at 9.30am on the first Thursday and second and fourth Sundays in the month and always finish with a coffee and biscuit! Come and join us, we have made some great friends and feel very rewarded when we see our efforts blooming around Garforth.

If you would like to contribute towards Garforth in Bloom but feel unable to come and dig with us, why not become a Friend of Garforth in Bloom? For a suggested sum of £5 per year, you will receive newsletters throughout the year updating you on our news and projects, and you will be pleased to know that your funds are being put to good use around our town. All funds received via the Friends scheme is spent on plants and bulbs which all help to improve the appearance of Garforth. Forms are available from the noticeboard in the Miners Welfare Hall or from various locations in Garforth (Library and Cielo) or through our website www.garforthinbloom.org.uk.

Joanne Styles