Q Quality Town OTLEY CORE EDITION Council Otley Town Council, Otley Core Resource Centre, Unit 11, Orchard Gate, Otley, LS21 3NX. Tel: 01943 466335 Email: [email protected] June 2013 No 64 Otley Yorkshire Month August 2013 August 2013 will herald the introduction of a new and exciting month long series of events and activities in Otley. Otley Yorkshire Month is a packed programme of A full programme of events will be published nearer the time events starting on Sunday 28th July with the first however, a taster of some of the things you can experience Otley Food and Drink Festival. The event will run during the month long celebration include: from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm in Otley Market Place • Otley Brass Band play in the Market Square and along Boroughgate. • Otley Market Street Festival • Otley Word Feast presents Tyke Talk In addition to the usual wide selection of Farmers’ Market • Otley Clusters summer activity week at Prince stalls selling good quality, locally sourced produce, there will Henry’s Grammar School be cookery demonstrations, entertainment, food and wine • Otley Film Society present a Yorkshire Film Day tasting and much, much more. A full programme of events • Otley Children’s Centre Fun Day will be published nearer the date of the Festival. • Otley Walkers provide a programme of guided On August 1st, Yorkshire Day will be celebrated with the walks to suit all Raising of the Yorkshire Flag Ceremony and a reading of the • Thomas Chippendale Society exhibition Yorkshire Declaration. • And loads more Throughout August, local groups and organisations will If there are other local groups who would like to run an be providing a range of events and activities that will give event or activity then please let us know and we can include OTLEY TOWN COUNCIL residents and visitors a chance to see the wealth of activities in our programme. Please contact Jason Knowles on 01943 GRANT SUPPORT 2013/14 on offer in the Otley community. 466335 or e-mail [email protected] Voice Your n Choice Again! Competitio Win a pair of VIP Guest tickets to Otley Cycle Following the success of Voice Your Choice in 2012/13, with work on going Races on Wednesday 3rd July 2013. to deliver last year’s winner, the Outdoor Gym, Otley Town Council are again inviting Prize includes entry to the VIP suite near residents to spend a portion of our the winner’s podium, plus refreshments and budget. a chance to follow a lap of the race in the This year Voice Your Choice 2013/14 introduces a larger fund, a healthy £10,000. DM Keith Skoda race chase vehicle with The Council is now calling for any ideas and suggestions on projects and events that residents would like to see delivered in the town. expert commentary from Olympic A key feature of Voice Your Choice is that Otley residents are able to participate in the medallist Jonny Clay. decision making process through a public ballot. The project with the highest score following the public ballot will be supported, then the second choice and so on until the ENTER OUR FREE COMPETITION money is exhausted. Answer the following question: If you have an idea or project which you believe will make a difference to our community then we would like to hear from you. Anyone who would like to put forward any project What time will the roads be closing ideas should complete the simple online form at www.otleytowncouncil.gov.uk or alternatively forward your ideas to Jason Knowles via e-mail to [email protected] or on race day? pop into our offices: Unit 11 Orchard Gate, Otley, LS21 3NX. The deadline for project ideas is 5pm on Monday 17th June. Answers to [email protected] LEA The public ballot is intended to take place in September 2013. www.otleytowncouncil.gov.uk UPCOMING EVENTS BRigHTEn uP THE SummER wiTH muSic June in wHaRfEmEadOwS PaRk, OTLEY 1 Otley Fake Festival This summer, Wharfemeadows Park, Otley will host two brass bands concerts as part of Leeds International 8 Otley Core Resource Centre – Open Day Concert Season’s Summer Bands in Leeds Parks 15 Otley Carnival series. Firstly, local band, Otley Brass Band , will 22-30 Otley Walking Festival perform popular favourites on Sunday 30 June and the Golcar Band from Huddersfield will per - 27 Prince Henry’s Summer Fair form brass band classics on Sunday 21 July . Both 29 Chevin Forest Wool Project concerts are on Sundays from 2.30pm to 4.30pm 30 Otley Farmers Market and are absolutely free . 30 Designer Craft Fair Dig out your picnic rugs and sunhats for a perfect way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon. For a free 30 Chippendale Indoor Market leaflet with full listings of Summer Bands in Leeds Parks 30 Summer Bands in the Park call 0113 247 8336, email [email protected] or visit www.leedsconcertseason.com . July These two concerts are very kindly sponsored by 3 DM Keith Skoda Otley Cycle Race Outer North West Area Committee and Otley Town Council . 12-14 Otley Mini Mountain Festival 14 Otley Cycling Festival OTLEY TOWN COUNCIL 21 Summer Bands in the Park GRANT SUPPORT 2013/14 27 Chevin Forest Wool Project 28 Otley Food & Drink Festival 28 Designer Craft Fair CYCLE FUN ON FRIDAY NIGHTS 28 Chippendale Indoor Market Cycle coaching for under 16's started again in April at Prince Henry's Grammar School August in Otley at 6.30pm. Yorkshire Month including: See otleycycleclub.co.uk/coaching.html for 4 Market Street Festival full details. This is the best place for children 18 Otley Brass Band plays Market Square aged between 6 and 16 years to keep fit and develop their bike handling and skills in a 25 Otley Farmers Market safe environment. Each week volunteer 25 Designer Craft Fair British Cycling-qualified coaches put the rid - 25 Chippendale Indoor Market ers through their paces, with warm ups, skills sessions, circuits and races. * Otley Market Days held every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday Otley and Wharfedale Macmillan Cancer Support Fundraising Group We are an ever growing group of people who raise our fundraising - how much time you feel you can give money for this wonderful charity. We like a good laugh is totally up to you - no pressure. Otley Courthouse has a fabulous season of musical but we are all also passionate about supporting Macmillan. There are many ways in which you could help. If you delights this summer, opening with The Nordic Last year we banked £17,549 to help support their work are interested in finding out what we do please feel Fiddlers Bloc and running right through the in the community. Our aim is to fundraise by holding free to contact either Kath Jex tel 01943467299 or Di season to Fusion , a taste of jazz, folk and flamenco different events throughout the year where we inevitably Rutherford tel 0113 2613758 who can meet up for a meet some very special people, who then later quite on Saturday 6th July. On the way, they’ll also have The Aire Ensemble, Jonathan Prag, chat with you. often become good friends. We cover most areas of NW Cormac Begley, The Sundowners, Celtic Fiddle Festival, the quite phenomenal Habadekuk, Our big event of 2013 is our FUNDAY on JUNE 15th Leeds and are looking to organise events in new areas. at COOKRIDGE VILLAGE HALL Al Morrison Blues Experience, Gordie Mackeeman and His Rhythm Boys , and Leeds Jazz We meet once a month in central Otley and would Orchestra ! Surely something for everyone’s musical tastes! Why not come along and meet us at this event? welcome anybody interested in getting involved with Look out for our posters with more details. They also have some quality acts in their Summer Comedy line up. On the afternoon of June 1st the Courthouse will be celebrating the jovial genius of Gilbert & Sullivan, Noel Coward, Joyce Grenfell, Flanders & Swann, with the magical guitar of Grant Baynham and the scintillating voice of Hilary Spencer who together are QuickSilver . Later that evening comedy fans will be Otley in Bloom - Save our Bees, treated to an Edinburgh Preview Double Bill of Joel Dommett and Rhys Matthewson from 8pm- a truly bumper day of comedy delights! Butterflies and Insects There is a lot more in the Summer programme including fantastic theatre from the exceptional Otley in Bloom volunteers recently braved the cold theatre companies Blunderbus, Thunder Road and Paper Zoo and compelling story telling weather to plant a Nectar Bed in Wharfemeadows Park. from Devils Violin Company and a wonderful Yorkshire Burlesque show from Heidi Bang Tidy This flower bed features plants which have been chosen on 8 June and so much more. to provide nectar for pollinating insects such as bees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths. Many of these are There is of course more to the Courthouse than just performances, Saturday mornings during endangered in the UK. term time Art Stars take up residence in the Art Room with workshops for children aged 6-12. On the second and fourth Mondays 13:30-15:30 Singing for the Brain brings together people Secretary Mary Klemm says “Otley in Bloom have been working on this project for the past year. We want to with Alzheimer’s and their carers for an afternoon of song. Then there are the regular courses highlight the importance of pollinating insects and the for adults and children including: the new Disco Diva’s exercise class; French; Creative Writing ; type of flowers where the nectar is easy for them to collect.