Calendar of Events in Dacre Parish May 2016 (See page 11 for dates of Rheged events) Dacre, Stainton, 1 - Holy Communion 9.30am St Andrew’s Dacre 1 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am 2 – Dawn Chorus walk, Dalemain 4.30am Newbiggin, Blencow 4 - Coffee Morning, Stainton Church 10-11.30am 4 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm and Soulby 5 – Police & Crime Commissioner Election 7 - Pie & Pea Supper + Beetle Drive at Blencow Village Hall May & June 2016 8 - Morning Prayer 9.30am St Andrew’s Dacre 8 - Café Church 10.00am, Stainton School 8 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am Community Newsletter 9 - Jury Meeting, Newbiggin Village Hall 10-12 – Botanical Drawing Class, Dalemain Stainton Village Hall - Update from Jon Rush, 11 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm Chair of the VH Committee 14 – Fell Pony Stallion Show, Dalemain The Big Lottery Stage 2 Bid 15 - North West Carriage Driving, Dalemain went in 14 April! 15 - Informal Service, Stainton Church 10.30am 15 - Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre I just wanted to say well done to the VH 16 - Neighbourhood Planning talk Committee and others for all you have done - & Dacre Annual Parish Meeting, Newbiggin Village Hall a great team effort! There are real positives in 18 - Mystery Tour, Stainton Church our application, but let’s see what comes 18 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm back. 22 - Family Communion 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre 22 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am The timescale is 4 months from submission 25 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm for a final decision about qualifying for Stage 29 - Holy Communion 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre 3. However, after chatting with the Lottery 29 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am Office, there are certain indicators that may June 2016 point us one way or another : 1 - Coffee Morning, Stainton Church 10-11.30am ●If it’s a no-goer, we should get to know 1 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm 5 - Holy Communion 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre fairly quickly. 5 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am ●If it’s likely to be a no-goer with 5 – Spring Celebration & Queen’s Tea Party, Newbiggin VH reservations, they will contact us for a chat 8 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm and visit us to establish if their thinking is th 11 - Queen’s 90 Celebration, Bring & Share at Blencowe correct before making a final decision - we 12 - Morning Prayer 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre 12 - Café Church 10am, Stainton School will know that this is the case when they 12 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am visit. 15 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm ●If it’s a potential goer we will be appointed 17 – DEADLINE for the July/August newsletter an advisor and get working on the further 19 - Holy Communion (BCP) 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre information they may require for final 19 - Informal Service, Stainton Church 10.30am decision for qualifying for Stage 3. 19 – Dalemain Plant Fair 10am-4pm 20 – Dacre Parish Council, Blencow Village Hall 7pm ●If we get through Stage 2, it’s highly likely 22 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm we will succeed at Stage 3. 23 – EU Referendum So please keep your fingers crossed for us! 26 - Family Communion 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre If you want to help with the Village Hall 26 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am rebuild and creation of the Community 29 - Community Cafe, Newbiggin Village Hall 2-4pm July 2016 Services Hub, please get in touch with 2 - St Andrew’s Dacre Safari Supper, Dacre Village Hall Jon Rush on 07825341354 or 3 - Holy Communion 9.30am, St Andrew’s Dacre [email protected] 3 - Sunday Service, Stainton Church 10.30am To book the Hall, call in at Stainton Post Office 9 - Blencowe Village BBQ & Hog Roast or phone 01768867945. Love Cross Stitch? The Alpaca Centre, Clementine’s Needle is based in Stainton and I Stainton design cross stitch patterns and kits. These include wedding samplers which can be The sun is shining, and you are personalised. Why not visit my online shop at putting away your woolly jumpers and looking to www.etsy.com/shop/clementinesneedle or revamp your summer wardrobe,. So wander find me on Facebook. Alternatively, email me along to browse our summer clothing range. directly at [email protected] Visit our refurbished tearoom for scrumptious cakes, and yummy scones with jam and freshly Weighed down by debt? whipped cream from our very own in-house Free debt counselling in Penrith baker. And you can even try the best coffee in the from an award winning charity Lakeland. Call the Penrith Methodist Church Opening times - Monday to Saturday 01768862787 10am to 5pm or register online at www.capmoney.org Facebook ‘The Alpace Clothing Co’ Facebook.com/CAPuk Twitter @CAPuk Twitter @thealpacacentre Charity No 1097217 Open every day 10am - 5pm www.thealpacaclothing.co.uk 01768 891440 Studio K Dance & Fitness @ Newbiggin with Kelly McClelland G&S Specialist Timber Monday at Newbiggin VH - Did you know we now offer a 4.30 to 5.30pm Street Dance age 6 to 12yrs bespoke joinery service, Tuesday at Newbiggin VH - internal/external doors, 4 to 4.45pm Primary RAD Ballet age 5 to 6yrs windows, stairs and fitted 5 to 7pm Advanced RAD Ballet 13+yrs furniture? All manufactured on the premises to For more info on any classes, contact Kelly the highest standard. We also offer tools and [email protected] machinery and we are now the cheapest online 07947 890717 supplier of ‘From The Anvil’, beautiful handmade or visit the website www.dancestudiok.co.uk ironmongery made for cabinets, doors, windows and more. Cumbria Vernacular Buildings Group (CVBG) G&S Specialist Timber is open 8am to 5pm Surveys of the early houses in Newbiggin are Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm on Saturdays in progress. Around 20 buildings in the 01768891445 [email protected] village date back to the seventeenth/early eighteenth centuries. It is hoped that most of www.toolsandtimber.co.uk them can be surveyed during the year. Surveys will include measured drawings Stainton Playgroup (plans, elevation, sections) and descriptions, Stainton Village Hall with historical development. Mondays 9:45 – 11:45 (term time) Last summer, CVBG hosted the national ● Fun, play and crafts for 0 – 5 year olds conference of building historians. One ● Messy play and sensory play sessions hundred members of the Vernacular ● Outings and Christmas party Architecture group came to Newton Rigg and ● First Monday of month - FREE Rheged softplay saw buildings in the Central Lakes (slate), £2 Children, £1 siblings, Under 1’s free Solway plain (clay) and the Pennines (stone). Tea and coffee provided for adults Membership of CVBG is open to anyone Bring a snack and drink for children interested in Cumbria's traditional buildings. For more info, contact Ali 07743 861743 2 Enquiries to June Hall 07547 081631. Attention all Volunteers! Would you like to be part of an exciting new project in the parish? This is your chance to get involved in making local birth, marriage and death records available on the internet. Atlantics Geomatics, a local surveying and mapping company, is pioneering the development of a system to digitise the parish records and map the graveyard. Once completed this will provide a live source of information which will be easy to access. The company will map the graveyard using multiple photographs from drones as well as GPS and traditional surveying techniques and will plot all features of the area; they will photograph the headstones and will make digital copies of the registers. All the information will be cross referenced on a database set up by the company. This where the community involvement comes in. You can volunteer to be in right at the beginning of this project, inputting data, cross referencing records, or checking the information before it is published. It is hoped that a group will be established to meet together to make this valuable asset available to the local and wider community. The cost will be around £1500 to set up the scheme, and the annual running costs will be about £200. Dacre Church will help to finance the project but further sponsorship from individuals or businesses will be deeply appreciated. If you are interested in either helping with the database or with sponsorship, please ring Sue & Steve Huddart, on 01768483082 or email [email protected] Blencowe and Laithes Village Hall ● May 7th - We have a Pie and Pea Supper with a Beetle Drive 7pm - tickets £8/£6veggie/£5 under 16, in advance from Nick 01768 483864, Sue 01768 The Clickham Inn is now open 12- 483111, Susan 01768 480629 or Keith 11pm daily, with food served all day 077607753300 from 12-8.30pm ● June 11th - Celebrate The Queens 90th Birthday - Come along and try our Special menu. Bring and Share Supper & Quiz Look us up on Facebook and Trip Adviser. ● July 9th - Blencowe Village BBQ and Hog Roast Customers old & new very welcome! An afternoon by the river with duck race and tug of Give us a call to make a reservation war, tickets from committee members above. 017684 80024 Lake District Paintball - Birkmere Wood Luiza Oliver is now styling hair at This Penrith-based company will be using Birkmere Newbiggin Community Cafe Wood, near Blencow, for paintballing sessions in the st every 1 Wednesday of the near future. They are keen to contact local horse riders, month between 2-3pm dog walkers and other people in the area to ensure that or you can contact her for a home visit.