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Save our Outdoor Education Centres

A petition has been launched calling for the government to protect outdoor education centres from imminent closure.  One in three local authority centres are threatened and this could deny millions of children from potentially life-changing experiences.  In many cases these closures could be avoided.  Several have closed in Cumbria in the last year.

Leading education organisations including the Field Studies Council, Association for Heads of Outdoor Education Centres, English Outdoor Council, Institute for Outdoor Learning and National Association of Field Studies Officers have launched the campaign and are asking for everybody to support it by signing their petition, which will be used to lobby the government.

At this time of year, there’s no better place to be than in your own back garden. The flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing and the newly born wildlife are filling the air with snuffles and, tweets and chirps.  With so much going on, now is the perfect time to enjoy the sights and sounds and do your bit for nature by recording everything you see.

Conservation charity the RSPB is asking everyone to take part in its Make Your Nature Count wildlife survey, which runs from June 2^nd to June 10^th.

Jonathon Winter will receive his Queen’s Scout Award from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle this Sunday, 29^th April.  This is a fantastic accomplishment, particularly in this Diamond Jubilee year.

Please donate your unwanted Gold, Silver, Costume Jewellery and Watches.

We have come up with a simple way for you to help boost the Village Hall Revitalisation Fund.  We are running an unwanted Jewellery Recycling Collection.

Please donate any unwanted jewellery towards this recycling appeal; gold, silver, costume jewellery, watches…Then all your unwanted items can be turned into a donation.

The following items were discussed:

Resiting Recycling Facilities

The Parish Council discussed different locations for the recycling facilities which are currently at the Village Hall.  The suggested locations were:

Recycling

Thank you to Fiona, Anne, Marian, Dave, Steven and Ron for helping to keep the recycling area tidy over the past few weeks.

Paul Mooney Visits Threlkeld School

The next edition of Beneath Blencathra will be June 2012.  The deadline for material for this will be Wednesday 30^th May. 

Please e-mail any material to beneathblencathra@hotmail.co.uk or drop it off at 12 Ghyll Bank (Lizzie – 79526) or Cherry Cottage (Madeleine – 79683).  Advertisements costs for local businesses, items for sale, etc. are increasing to £4/issue for up to half a page, £8/issue for a full page (£40/£80 for the year).  Please give money to Madeline before the deadline.  Please note adverts for local organisations and community events are free.

To be held at the Coledale Hotel, Braithwaite, on Sunday 22^nd July.  A buffet lunch will be served at 12 noon for 12.30pm. 

For further information contact Ian Hindmarch

Once again our meeting was held in the big room.  Our speaker for the evening was photographer Mrs Val Corbett.  Val is best known in our area for her photographs in Cumbria Life magazine, plus her work with Keith Richardson on his last book 'JOSS' (well-known fell runner Joss Naylor).