|
Fundraising
FURTHER NEWS
The Food Cooperative has now long been established and
sells cheap, good quality fruit and vegetables in the
Parish Centre every Friday morning.
English Heritage
Grant for Saint Mary’s Horton
English Heritage has offered us a grant of £16
000 towards urgent repairs estimated at £44 000.
WE hope to raise the rest of the money from a combination
of local effort and donations. We have just two years
to do it!
Summer Fayre
The Fayre rounds off a week
of celebrations, after the Patronal Festival and Piano
Concert.
It takes place on Saturday, 16th July.
Fundraising Events and
Activities
We have been heartened enormously
by recent donations given to help us combat the problem
of woodworm in the churches. The gifts have come to more
than £1000. However, we still have much to do, and
several events are planned to help us. In addition to
the Piano Concert and Fayre, Pauline Gainford, Manager
of the Spartans Hotel in The Avenues, is organising a
charity night for us. This will take place on Friday,
22nd July, and she is asking for donations of food for
the night, and for tombola prizes. She will also have
some entrance tickets to sell in the very near future.
Saint Mary’s Blyth have again also kindly offered
us their parish centre for a coffee morning on the 30th
July.
Piano Concert
Tickets will cost £6. The
piano itself is costing over £300 to hire,
hence the need to encourage as many
people as possible to come to the
concert. There will be a selection of
classfcal and modem music from around
the worid, and music from the shows. A
soloist will also be singing on the night,
and there will be some opportunity for
audience participation.
Pilgrimage to Walsingham
Next year’s pilgrimage will take
place at a slightly later time, from Sunday, 25th, to
Friday, 30th, June. Although the new prices for accommodation
at the Shrine are not yet available, we would anticipate
an all-inclusive sum of approximately £240, to cover
full board and lodging, transport and excursions. This
year, we visited Fakenham, Holkham, Holt Sandringham and
Sheringham
|
Saint Benedicts
Saint Benedict’s
Community Garden
The funding for Saint Benedict’s
Community Garden is now all in place. The following
grants have been awarded to us from the organisations
listed:
| The Countryside Agency |
£50 000 |
| Living Spaces |
£25 000 |
| Northumberland Environmental Partnerships |
£12 000 |
| English Partnerships |
£ 5 000 |
| LA21 (Blyth Valley Borough Council) |
£ 1 000 |
The money will facilitate the creation of a planted
garden complete with wrought iron structures
designed by local artists William Pym and Richard
Jardine, who have worked closely with local residents
and schools to come up with several exciting
designs for the garden. We are grateful, too,
for the help of the landscape architect, Hazel
Huddlestone, involved in the original planning.
Race Night
A big thank you to
all who put so much effort into making a success
of the race night last Friday. It raised the magnificent
sum of £300 for our Appeal.
Patronal Festival
The first of our Patronal
Festival Masses this year is at Saint Benedicts
Church on Monday, 11th July, at 7.00pm. Father Ted
Murphy, the Roman Catholic priest at Saint Cuthberfs
Cowpen, is to preach.
We hope to haveour usual bun fight afterwards, so
donations of food and refreshments would be much
appreciated,
Trip to Rome and
Assisi
Father Brian is thinking
about organising a second ten-day all inciusive
pilgnmage to Rome and Assisi in October 2006. If
it is to be viable, he needs the names of those
interested now. Would anyone keen to go, please
let him know. It is impossible to know the exact
cost, but the suggestion would be to budget, roughly,
for about £1000. Once the names of interested
parties appear, the exactfigure should become clearer.
Already about six people have come forward from
other parishes. A non-returnable deposit of £40
required, to guarantee aplace on the trip, if it
goes ahead.
At the time of writing, no one has yet come forward
from the parish, so we may have to abandon the project!
Coffee Morning
From 10am at Saint Mary’s Blyth, on Saturday,
30th July. Part of our fundraising campaign to combat
woodworm.
|
|
