The Village Hall has just bought about 80 sets of good quality white crockery for dinners and suppers – large plates, small plates, bowls, cups and saucers. This is available on request to anyone booking the Hall for events where “proper” sit down catering is needed. We hope this will encourage people to use the Hall more for this type of function.

Draft minutes of the Parish Council meeting held in the Public Room on Tuesday 27th July 2010, to be ratified at the next meeting.

Present: Carolyn Cripps chaired the meeting. Guy Duxbury, Trevor Roberts, Roger Bragg, Donald Angus, Les Dalzell, Gillian Winter, Tim Foster.

Others present: Roy Fisher, Albert Richardson, Madeleine Singleton and Sheila Dalzell.

Some of you will recall that we have been hoping to replace our old administration/reception building with a new ‘carbon neutral’ build which would be a catalyst for changing our energy supplies. This was a ‘favoured’ Northern Rock project, though alas the economic climate changed the goalposts and ended our funding options.

Adrian Eddleston (Bridgend) has been in touch to say the Chief Executive of the national organisation in which he is involved is joining up to support our Easyfundraising scheme and is going to encourage her friends in “the City” to enrol as well. She says I would be delighted to use this and to pass on the idea to others.

A Parish Council meeting was held on Tuesday 27th July 2010 at 7:30pm in the Village Hall.

Madeleine Singleton and Sheila Dalzell talked about the judging of Cumbria In Bloom - The judges were met at the Village Hall as usual. The judges were Mrs Jean Airey, who previously lived in Threlkeld, and a gentleman who was very particular. The War Memorial display was complimented upon.

This was held on Saturday 3rd July on Jubilee Croft and the weather was good bright and sunny, perfect for the children's races. However the support for this day was very limited, and takings on the gate and raffle were greatly reduced on previous years (perhaps it was just a clash with other events in the area).

CEILIDH NIGHT – MRS TREVOR’S DEEP FREEZE SECRETS.
This event (see separate advert) is on Monday 2 August, a ceilidh night for all the family. The group (they promise to explain what the name means – until very recently they were known as “Run of the Mill”) are from Cambridge and have established a keen reputation on the folk and Celtic music scene.

Exactly 12 months ago I contacted a number of owners of B&B, Holiday Lets etc. in the village to ask if posters advertising the initiative to sell mugs and T shirts could be displayed in their premises.

Wednesday 18 August 2010
On the Recreation Field and
Bridgend Ground
(by kind permission of Mr G Hutton)

The Lake District National Park has organised a series of guided walks around the Threlkeld area during the summer.

Everyone welcome – suitable for locals and visitors. All walks are fairly gentle and cover points of wildlife and plant interest, and local countryside issues.

See Walks.