Community Newsletter APRIL 2017

If you have an item that you would like including in the Upper Coquet Resource Group Community Newsletter then please forward the information, ideally by email, to Susan Rogerson by the 17th of the month: [email protected]

ALWINTON VILLAGE

The next UCRG Community Litter Pick, supported by Northumberland National Park, will take place at Alwinton Village: meet 10.00am at the car park on Saturday 1st April 2017. We would like to ask as many people as possible to come along and help. Please remember to wear gloves.

UCRG Easter Bingo: at the Rose & Thistle Inn, Alwinton on Friday 7th April, eyes down 7.30pm.

NETHERTON VILLAGE

Netherton Quiz Evening: Wednesday 5th April at the Star Inn, Netherton from 8.00pm. All welcome.

Netherton W.I.: will meet on Wednesday 19th April at 7.00pm in Netherton Village Hall for a talk and practical session on “Big Knitting” by Sue Boyd. All welcome.

Super Easter Bingo on Saturday 15th April. Eyes down 7.30pm at Netherton Memorial Hall. Some great prizes for Easter and your caller, who has been to Monte Carlo, the one and only Mr Jacques Grey!

Netherton Gardening Club: will meet on Thursday 27th April at Felton Park, at 2.00pm. Any queries contact Pat Younger: 01669 620216

HEPPLE VILLAGE

Hepple W.I.: will meet on Thursday 13th April at 7.00pm in Hepple Village Hall for a talk on China Painting by Gill Burn. All welcome.

HARBOTTLE VILLAGE

Harbottle School Toddler Group meets on Monday afternoons during term time from 1.30 until 3.00pm in Harbottle School.

Iyengar Yoga Sessions: in Harbottle Village Hall every Tuesday evening 7.00 to 8.30pm. For further information please contact Margaret Ranken: 650281.

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Harbottle School Community Group will gratefully accept any complete jigsaw puzzles, including children’s jigsaws and any boxed games. If you have any of these to donate please contact Tracey Boldy, Jackie Bickmore, Ann Hennessy or Margaret Ward.

Judali Yoga hatha yoga class at Harbottle Village Hall on Thursday evenings 7.30 – 9pm. All welcome. No previous experience necessary. Suitable for beginners and those with more experience. For more information contact Judie: 01669 650045

The Harbottle School “Bistro” The next dates for the lunches are: Thursday 6th & 27th April Time: 12.00 mid-day To book a place or a take away meal please call 01669 650271

Harbottle School Easter Coffee morning on Saturday 8th April, from 10.00 until mid-day in Harbottle School. Admission £1, which includes a cup of tea or coffee. Raffle....Tombola…..Cakes.…Plants…. Also, for the children, there will be a competition for the best dressed egg (to be undertaken at home and brought in on the day for judging). There will also be an Easter egg hunt on the top field for the children. All welcome.

200 Club Ticket Winners for April: £20 Susan Rogerson, Alwinton £15 Nancy Moscrop, Holystone £10 Eileen Tait, Harbottle

Rothbury Community Hospital Update The Save Rothbury Hospital Campaign Team is putting Option 6 together to create a solid argument to retain the 12 beds. They want to challenge why the ward appears to have been underused and need to know about people who requested to go to Rothbury Community Hospital but were refused. If you can help, please send responses to Kate at [email protected] . Confidentiality will be respected. They simply need name of patient, date of request to transfer (approximately) and reason for refusal (if given).

The Survey: You can request a hard copy by phoning 01670 335178 or emailing [email protected]. Please complete the online survey at: http://www.northumberlandccg.nhs.uk/get-involved/rchconsultation/ They recommend that you also write to the CCG (email address above) and tell them exactly what you think about their proposals and write to Rothbury Community Hospital Consultation, NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group, County Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 2EF.

Details of remaining consultation events are:

Public Meeting Thurs 30.03.17 6.30-8.30 pm Jubilee Hall, Rothbury Drop in session Wed 05.04.17 2-4 pm Simonside Rm, Jubilee Hall, Rothbury

End of consultation is 25.04.17, with the final decision expected Summer 2017.Please encourage all members of the household to complete a survey. This is an opportunity for all ages to express their thoughts and request that their needs are met locally. UCRG Community & Parish of UC Newsletter April 2017

Advance Notices….Save the date:

1. Star Inn Quiz nights in aid of Harbottle Show. Mondays in June: 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th. 8.30pm start. All welcome.

2. UCRG Duck Race at Shilmoor on Sunday 25th June at 12.00 noon. This coincides with the Coquet Creek weekend, with events held on Friday night, Saturday & Sunday at Linbrigs.

3. UCRG First Aid course on Saturday 15th July from 9.00am – 3.00pm in Harbottle School. This is sponsored by the UCRG and is suitable for anyone requiring a “first aider in the workplace” certificate or anyone requiring know how of what to do until the doctor comes. Please contact Susan Rogerson to book your place.

4. UCRG Treasure Hunt to be held on the evening of Thursday 3rd August. Start and finish at Clennell Hall. More details to follow.

5. Star Inn Potato Competition 2017: all buckets should now have been collected from Star Inn. Judging will be on Sunday 20th August.

Exhibition of paintings, prints, pots and sculpture by Piers Sanders

Easter Weekend Harbottle Village Hall Opening hours: Easter Sunday and Monday (April 16th and 17th) 11am to 1pm; 2-4 pm

Piers Sanders lived in Holystone from May 2009 until he died in October 2014 at the age of 55. His family and friends felt his work deserved a wider audience and are mounting an exhibition at the Hundred Years Gallery Hoxton, East London from May 4th to 14th. This preview is a chance for his friends and colleagues in Coquetdale to see what a talented artist he was.

Harbottle Show: The Harbottle Show Committee are always looking for ways to make this year's show "the best ever" and have therefore devised a survey to gather feedback and ideas for consideration. Forms are available from Ann Hennessy, Jeanette Fielding, and The Star Inn Harbottle, Post Office at Holystone and via the Harbottle Show web site: www.harbottleshow.com. Completed forms can be returned to Ann or Jeanette. We look forward to hearing from you.

DEFIBRILLATOR REMINDER We have defibrillators sited in the following villages: Alwinton: in the car park on the toilet block wall Hepple: on the village hall wall Netherton: on the village hall wall Thropton: on the school wall

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COUNTRY MUSIC WEEKEND 23RD, 24TH, 25TH June 2017

At Linbrig Farm, Alwinton, Northumberland

LIVE MUSIC & LINE DANCING

Zene, apache, Alabama rose, macbailey duo,

honky Tonkin, jim Clarke, lance merlin

Caravans & Fully Licensed From Saturday Night - Camping Welcome 12 Noon Until Late Local’s Night £5 Per Night

(Weekend Tickets Only) £5 Admission Catering All Weekend

Inc. HOG ROAST Strictly After 8pm

No Booking Required Ticket Prices (Per Adult) - CHILDREN FREE OF CHARGE

Full Weekend £45 Friday Only £15 Sunday Only £10

Saturday (Full Day £20) (From 6pm £10) (From 8pm £5) For more information call: Call 01669 650 436 or 01669 650 253

E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

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PARISH OF UPPER COQUETDALE

COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

APRIL 2017 CHURCH ORDER OF SERVICES

Church of England Alwinton, Holystone & Alnham Sunday 2 11.30am Holy Communion Alnham Fifth Sunday of Lent 4pm Growing Church Alwinton Sunday 9 10.15am Holy Communion Alwinton Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday 6.30pm Holy Communion Holystone Good Friday 2pm Good Friday Liturgy Holystone Sunday 16 10.15am Holy Communion Alwinton Easter Sunday 11.30 Holy Communion Alnham Sunday 23 10.15am Holy Communion Alwinton 2nd Sunday of Easter Sunday 30 10.15am Holy Communion Holystone 3rd Sunday of Easter 6.30pm United Service Holystone

Funeral 6 March Charlie Stephens

Thanksgiving services

22 March Paul Sturgess 23 March Elizabeth Clifton

Celebration of Life

25 March Cathy Jenkins

May they rest in peace

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Obituary - Cathy Jenkins 1946 – 2017

Cathy and her husband Nigel bought their house, the Bastle in Sharperton, as a ruin in 1981 and spent many years turning it into a unique home, whilst living and working in Tyneside as architects. Spending weekends and holidays in the valley, their social life quickly became entrenched locally. So, when in 1998 they decided to come and live amongst their many friends, it seemed a natural move. Commuting for the first few years, in 2000 they downsized and moved their practice to Rothbury, where they continued to practice for the next 6 years. Cathy retired in 2006 and was able to spend more time enjoying her many interests. Having been a member of the tennis club for many years, she became club secretary. She and Nigel provided the scenery for the annual CADS panto for the first five years. Cathy drove the community bus, including some longer trips with the basketry group. She walked the St Cuthbert’s and St. Aidan’s way with friends and took part in many other activities including carpet bowls, bridge club, book group, archaeology, U3A walking and art appreciation group, basketry group etc. Finally, although not a churchgoer, she was church treasurer for Alwinton and Holystone for many years until having to give up due to illness. Cathy died at home, after two years suffering from cancer. She will be greatly missed by Nigel, her family and all her friends.

Cathy wanted a 'gathering ' to celebrate her life rather than a memorial and had planned the content well in advance. We have booked the Jubilee Hall in Rothbury for Saturday afternoon on the 25th March at 2.00pm.

Valley Happenings

There will be many people who remember Colonel Richard Cross with great affection. He was Commandant at Otterburn Camp for many years in the 80’s and 90’s and was very approachable when there were any problems with the ranges. When he retired, he and Nairn bought a farm in West Woodburn and remained very involved in anything local. Sadly he died very suddenly and will be much missed. His funeral was held in Elsdon church on Friday 17th March.

Our 200 club is now up and running and anyone who would like a ticket and not already been approached, then please contact Julia on 630241. All proceeds go to maintaining the churchyards.

This year again we are holding an alternative to our Garden Fete and planning a family barbecue in June at Simon Kenny’s new shed. The details will be in the next newsletter but we are very grateful to Simon for letting us christen his spanking new build!

We will be having an Alwinton church yard spring clean on Saturday. 1st April at 10.30am and it would be very nice to see anyone with a wee bit of spare time to give us a hand.

Congratulations to Netherton School for their very good Ofsted report.

There will be an Easter garden at Alwinton Churchyard at 1.30pm for all children on Good Friday. Bring your Easter decorations i.e. coloured stones, shells, flowers etc. Refreshments will be provided.

All of the Easter services are listed in this newsletter. We very much look forward to seeing you at one of the services and wish you all a very happy Easter.

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Music for Sunday Services

Palm Sunday April 9th at Alwinton

G. F. Kaufmann: Valet will ich dir geben

J. S. Bach: Herzlich tur mich verlangen BWV 727

The Kaufmann prelude is on “All glory, laud and honour” – the hymn which opens the Palm

Sunday service. After the reading of the Passion, the service ends with a beautiful version of the Passion Chorale.

Sunday April 23rd at Holystone – Easter 2

J. G. Walther: Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit

J. Pachelbel: Alle Menschen mussen sterben

Two Baroque Easter preludes for this Sunday. The melody for the Walther prelude is sung to the words “Christ the Lord is risen again.” The Pachelbel prelude “All men must die” is sung to the words “At the Lamb’s high feast we sing” Mary Thorne

Alwinton with Holystone Churches

SPONSOR A GRASS CUT / Alwinton & Holystone Churchyards

Spring/Summer is just around the corner and our latest fundraising idea has been to ask local businesses if they would like to sponsor a grass cut in one of our churchyards and as a thank you we will personally thank them and advertise their business in one of our monthly Church Newsletters if they wish. We then thought people independently might also like to sponsor a cut.

Every year we try to come up with different ideas to fundraise for various jobs to be carried out to maintain our churches and the outside is no different, we do get some voluntary help which is fantastic and couldn’t do without it. So we hope this latest idea is a success.

We have costed our Grass Cut Sponsor at £25.00 and would be delighted if anyone would like to help us with this new additional fundraising idea, if you are able to sponsor a cut please could you make your cheque payable to Alwinton with Holystone Churches and post to Rev Michael Boag, The Rectory, Rothbury, Morpeth, NE65 7TL, or could be given to either Julia Stott, Sharon Graham or Gail Johnston. Many thanks, and any help given is much appreciated.

Alwinton with Holystone DCC

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OPEN DAY Cragend Farm Wednesday 14th June 2017

Come and visit Cragend Farm for a free demonstration on our ESSE 990 wood burning cooker and taste some delicious food. You are welcome to walk around the farm and see the historic buildings created by Lord Armstrong of Cragside Woodland Management & River Coquet Information & Discussion. Plant Stall - Cushions - Tea & Coffee FREE admission. Donations for North-East Air Ambulance and Rothbury Christmas Lights.

NOTICE: If you are keen on gardening/hard landscaping and are interested in keeping busy this year we are looking for volunteer helpers at Cragend Farm. Our Northumberland 16th century farm was transformed by Lord Armstrong of Cragside in 1880 as a modern hydraulic agricultural show piece with turbines on site, a Victorian Weighbridge and a Grade II* listed Silo Tower. Tea/Coffee and biscuits supplied. Please contact [email protected] 01669 621533 for details

COQUETDALE MUSIC TRUST, THROPTON Friday 7 April 2017 at 7.30pm EARL GREY AND THE CHARWALLAHS Saturday 15 April 2017 at 7.30pm THE TROOTERS Saturday 29 APRIL 2017 at 7.30pm ANDY CRAIG & STEWART HARDY Saturday 13 May 2017 at 7.30pm ROSS COUPER & TOM OAKES

ROTHBURY CINEMA 2017 14TH APRIL AT 7.30pm LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP (U) 28TH APRIL AT 7.30pm A STREET CAT NAMED BOB (12) 12TH MAY AT 7.30pm THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (12) 26TH MAY AT 7.30pm THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (12) 9TH JUNE AT 7.30pm MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (15)

Got a mole problem? Need that garden tidied up? Need that grass and hedge cut? Then you need Myrtle! Give her a call on 07973315806

Please send in articles for the May issue by Saturday 15TH APRIL 2017 to: [email protected]

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SWEDISH MASSAGE THERAPY Relief of muscle aches and pain Improved circulation and relaxation 1 hr full body massage with oil £20 Back massage - £15 Contact Peter Joyner on 01669 650385 or email – [email protected] for an appointment Home visits can be arranged FIRST MASSAGE FREE BLAKEYS HAULAGE Collins Fish Wayside, Netherton, Morpeth Van visits the Tel: 01669 630225 area on a Mobile – Les – 07850529970 Thursday at the following times: email – [email protected] Also your local CMF approved coal Hepple Post Office – 8.00am merchant Alwinton Village Green – 9.00am Coal & smokeless fuel supplied in sealed Harbottle (chapel end) – 9.30am 25kg bags emptied into your bunker or Holystone Post Office – 9.40am stacked in a shed. Preferred minimum Netherton Village – 12.00 – 12.15pm delivery of 250kg GARDENING & ODD JOBS DRAKESTONE BUILDING Grass cutting, Weeding, Assembling furniture, SERVICES Fence painting, Fitting shelves, Decorating, etc. Joinery, General Building, Tiling & £12/hour - Mike Keeble (01669) 631343 Decorating Work [email protected] Contact Billy Gibson Whitridge, Netherton (next to Village Hall) Tel: 01669 650206 OR 07979042499 One-off, occasional or regular work taken email - [email protected] Available: Monday-Thursday after 4.30pm, Friday after 1.30pm & Sat & Sun: all day Computer Rescue Website & Computer Services formerly known as SharpertonPC Local friendly professional help, when you just need it all to work! Repairs, Speed tune ups, Upgrades, Virus removal, Data recovery, Broadband setup, Website creation, Personal tuition and more… Computers, Laptops, Macs, Tablets, Smart Phones, iPods & all things technical. Malcolm Burke 01669 650404 - 07971 056482 [email protected] www.coquetdalecomputerrescue.com

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