Just a note to say the B4RN broadband is connected to the hall and operating!!!
We will post notes and QR codes to allow people to connect to it when they are using the hall.
This is all provided free of charge, B4RN provide free service for community venues and schools etc. and one of the Hall Trustees donated the connection fee.
(I know the Image above doesn’t look quite “upland fells” but it was automatically created by the AI system behind our website – aren’t we in the modern age!!!)
You will find all our planned events on the web site (events page), but we thought it would be good to provide a poster you can print and pin to your fridge!
You can download it here or there is a snap-shot below…. (and we will put some printed copies on the notice boards, so you can help yourself).
As you can see we are repeating some of our more successful events (Quiz and Bingo nights) and also our regular coffee mornings (upgraded to a BIG Brunch in April) and craft club continues as normal. Please do come along and support your Village Hall.
Bookings for Quiz and Big Brunch
It’s quite important that we have numbers for the events when we are catering (Quiz, Bingo, BIG Brunch) so please let someone on the working group or a Trustee know if you need tickets for these events, (you can drop off payment with them, or whenever the hall is in use) – thank you
A mixed bag in this post….
First a reminder for Thursday Night (28th November) – This weeks Thursday Club is “First Aid” night.
Brian is coming to talk about First Aid in the rural environment, Defibrillators and CPR. PLEASE come and support this event, organised by Rachel who is also training to be a first responder for Kaber.
As always there will be tea, coffee, chat, friends and THIS TIME it will be WARM!!! ..
Photo by Aleksandar Cvetanovic on Pexels.com
The Gas Heater is working – Louise demonstrating it by warming her hands! Thank you to Alistair Hanna for an excellent job
The 2nd bit of news the gas heater is installed and working, so no more freezing nights at KVH… Thank you to all who helped get this done, and to Lillian for recommending Alistair Hanna who did an excellent job.
…and lastly B4RN is nearly here.... after all
The Village hall B4RN broadband box is installed – it will be working soon!!!
your fabulous support and fund raising you will have seen the B4RN vans and tractors around, some people in Kaber have had their fibre boxes installed and the Village Hall had it’s fitted on Friday – the service is provided free (as part of B4RN’s social service), and in the coming weeks we will have gigabit WiFi you can use at the Hall… So our computer clubs will get easier to run.
Computer Club: On that note; thanks to Damon (Rachel’s other half) for loaning us his 3G router for last week’s Computer Club Night (so we had WiFi in the hall), and while only 2 people came we were able to introduce one to the delights and capabilities of their iPad and some of the apps available, and help Sarah Lofthouse to make a new website for her nursery in Warcop.
So, while only having 2 people was a bit disappointing, it was an improvement on the last one, where only one person arrived! But the good news was we managed to help that person bring her Amazon tablet to life and get her connected to the Internet (much to the amazement of one of her family who had given up on ever getting the device to work)…. So, bring along that thing that never does what you want, and let us help you make use of it!
We have prepared a list of the events planned for the rest of the year, and January to print and pin to your fridge/noticeboard/wall!
We look forward to seeing as many of you as can make it to these event, even if you only want to come for the chat and refreshments.
The approved Trustee & Working Group meeting minutes from 7th October are available via the link below.
These followed the standard agenda.
The Next Soup & Sweet Event is on Saturday 19th October (Next Saturday) from 11:30 until 1:30. Just £5 a head, for Soup and a Sweet (surprisingly enough!).
Come along to warm up and have some chat – there will be coffee & tea, if you want something stronger then please bring your own.
Over the Autumn, we are going to try running informal “themed” meetings. A rotating pattern of “Club and Social Nights” on different subjects. So, Each Thursday evening, from 6:30 – 8:30pm, there will be a club night – these will have a theme, but also just be a social night for chatting with refreshments.
Club & Social Nights will repeat in a reasonably regular sequence.
| Date | Topic |
| 17th October | Talk night: Come and join us to hear about … and then stay for a chance to chat with friends. (This time: “Making a steamboat in the fells”) |
| 24th October | Games and puzzle night: Bring a favourite game or puzzle, or simply come along and join in. |
| 31st October | NO CLUB NIGHT due to the local elections. |
| 7th November | Art night: Bring your own project or come and join in with the activities on the night – no talent required! |
| 14th November | Air Fryer Demonstration: Looking for ideas for recipes for your air fryer or deciding if one is for you? Join us for inspiration. |
| 21st November | Make friends with your smartphone: Want to know about how something works or how to make best use of your smartphone? Join us! |
| 28th November | Talk night: topic TBC… do you have a talk you could give |
| 5th December | Domino Drive: Just Dominoes and chat |
Entry will be £2.50 per night to cover the cost of heating and refreshments.
Get in touch with any of the Trustees or Working Group members, or email booking@kabervh.com if you have any ideas or would like to run an evening.
Below there is a link to all the results from the Village Show earlier in the month.
What a clever lot you are! – Here are the results!
I’m tidying our files, so these minutes are from earlier meetings, sorry for the delay
They are from Meetings on, just click to see the detail:
As we have announced here we are planning to start regular Thursday Club Nights.
Our original intent was to start these on the Thursday after the AGM, but we are all living such busy, exciting lives that we have had to postpone the first one until the 3rd October, sorry.
As we have planned, this first one will be a “computer night” aiming to help people with their technology problems from writing an email to shopping on-line. So, bring your questions and problems (just the computer ones please!) and we will try to find an answer, either that night or on the next computer night.
As you can see in the flyer we have other thoughts on what might make good club night themes, but if you come along with other ideas that would be good too…
For example we could have an off-site one, to turn your apples and pears into juice to drink or turn into cider or perry, using the press we made last year – just let Malcolm or Louise know if you are interested in this – and freeze your fruit first, it lets you get more juice from the squeeze!!!..
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