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Retired engineer (computer, steam, racing etc.), and builder of the steam yacht Befur

Kaber Show & Barbecue 2025

Schedule & Entry Forms & Minutes

The show is scheduled for Saturday 6th September 2025 with judging commencing at 10:00-am and open to the public from 12:00-noon at which time the Barbecue will open!

The documents below minute the open planning meeting held in June and the Schedule of Classes and Entry forms for the day.

Minutes of Open Show Planning Meeting

Schedule and Entry Forms

Please add your entries (adults & children), we had great support last year, and are hoping for even more this year! (You may even win a prize!).

Here are some of the photographs from last year…

  • Photographs of entries for 2024 Kaber SHow

Minutes from April & June

Please find below minutes from the Working Group from April and June.

10th April 2025

2nd June 2025

Kaber Show Reminder

Also do not forget that the Kaber Show is happening on Saturday the 6th September, we will distribute schedules and entry forms to all village households, and also make these items available for download from the WebSite.

We will also publish the minutes from the Show Planning meeting you were all invited to on the 9th June in the next couple of days, with details of changes from last year and plans for this

Kaber Show: Have your say

This year’s Kaber Show will be on the 6th September (barring complications) building on the success of last year’s event. and the great support of the community with many entries in almost 30 classes.

  • Photographs of entries for 2024 Kaber SHow

But, it’s always possible to make it even better, so next Monday (9th June at 7:30pm) we are holding a meeting to start the planning process for this year.

If you have ideas on how to improve it, or want to organise something, or just provide feedback on last year’s show; then come along and have your say.

Trophies

We also have a box of trophies from previous shows, many for livestock classed which are no longer part of the show, and we need to decide what to do with them. So, for example, if you have an idea on what to do with a “Best Gimmer Hog Rose-bowl” trophy (assign it to a new class, sell it, reclaim it as your family’s heirloom, or anything else) please do come and help us decide.

See you next Monday!

Connected!!!

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!!!)

Spring 2025 Events at KVH

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.

Heat, B4RN & Life Saving

A mixed bag in this post….

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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!

 

Soup & Sweet

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.