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Kaber Village Show & BBQ – 7th September

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Hello all, we are excited  to announce this year’s Kaber Village Show. Which is being held at the Village Hall on the 7th September, with a BBQ !

(here are some sample photo’s from the day – see them all on this page)

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Here are links to the Schedule (classes), Entry Forms and Set Recipe. As you can see there are classes for adults and children (free entries for small people!) with PRIZES for 1st,2nd & 3rd places!

Details

Kaber Village Hall Show is open to residents of Kaber parish and their families.

The timings are as follows:

Dates & Times

  • Show Date – Saturday 7th September 2024
  • Location – Kaber Village Hall
  • Entries close – Friday 23rd August
  • Entries to arrive between –  8am – 9.30am
  • Entries to be collected between  – 3-4pm
  • All classes judging – 10am
  • Open to public from – 11am
  • BBQ food from 12noon (please let Chair@kaberVH.com or Secretary@kaberVH.com know approx numbers please)

Rules

  1.  All entries must be the competitor’s own work.
  2. No entries should have been entered into another show.
  3. The judge’s decision is final, all disputes to be
    settled by the Kaber Village Hall Committee and not subject to a Court of Law.
  4. Entries cost 50p for all classes with the exception of children’s classes which are FREE (children entering adult classes are to pay the entry fee of 50p)
  5. In the event of classes having 3 or less entries only 1st place will be given.

Prize money

  • 1st – £1.50,
  • 2nd -£1.00 ,
  • 3rd -75p

Classes (see schedule for details)

  • Industrial (baking)
  • Miscellaneous (crafting)
  • Photography
  • Children’s classes (for under 16s) (craft, writing, painting, handwriting etc.)
  • Dogs (working and pet)
  • Gardening (flowers and produce)

Please do enter and support your show, or come along to see your  community’s work and stay for the barbecue.  (Hopefully you already knew about this event, as we dropped off paper copies to all the houses and farms in the village.)

(Considerable thanks go to Sarah Lofthouse for all her work in master-minding and organising this event with all her helpers).

 

Draft Minutes from 8th July 2024

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Again, sorry for the delay, but please find below a summary of, and link to, the draft Minutes of the Kaber Village Hall Working Group meeting minutes from 8th July.

Notable Items

  1. Agreement to update 6th May Minutes to reflect decisions on Working Group in a format suitable for the CC submission.
  2. An update on financial matters (including the fact that our estimates & calculations for cost of heating were remarkably accurate (an error of less than £7 on a total bill of £778).
  3. Procedural and Work-list updates.
  4. Building Work update (expect to see a LARGE crane in the next couple of weeks removing the old Calor gas tank and installing bottles for winter heating)!
  5. Events and booking update
  6. Plans for a regular “Club Night” on Thursdays from September – keep your eyes open for a “flyer” on this.

You can read the complete minutes here 

Thank you all – lots happening!

Minutes from 6th May

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Sorry for the delay, but attached are the draft Minutes from the Working Group meeting on  6th May.

Notable items

  1. Feed back from Charity Commission on  proposed changes to constitution.
  2. Adoption of Damon Green as Trustee
  3. Establishment and operation of Working Group
  4. Decision to drop FoKVH due to lack of interest
  5. Finance & Procedural Updates
  6. Building Work progress, update and grants
  7. Events and Bookings

The full draft minutes  can be read here

Thank you….

An Organisational Update.

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The Trustee Problem

As you may recall, Kaber Village Hall Trust (“the Charity”) had difficulties because all committee members were automatically made legal Trustees of the charity and there had to be 10 such Trustees.

As part of the work that the people you elected to run the hall in October 2023 agreed to undertake was to update all this, so that the people running the hall did not need to be Trustees of the Charity and we had a more realistic number of Trustees (given the size of the community).

Fixing the Problem

The complexity in fixing this situation is that it involved amending the Charity’s “governing document” held by the Charity Commission – not trivial!

Fortunately, our Chair (Sarah Lofthouse) is a past master at “Charity-Commission-wrangling” , and following a couple of meetings/telephone conferences and letters we have a proposed new Governing Document (based on their requirements) which we have submitted and are awaiting their approval.

However, this also requires changes to the way we run the hall, and we wanted to update you on this – and that’s really what this post is all about….

Re-organisation

We have created a Working Group to run the Hall. This is composed of the FOUR Trustees, and others they appoint to help (the people you all know).

This is all explained in this document (Getting Legal: A New KVH Organisation)

Please take a read, and if it doesn’t make sense let one of us know.

The First Nine Months

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Progress

We were looking at how our funds were behaving, nine months after the AGM, and the results show just how well you have done! – the Village Hall has more in the bank now than it did in September. Thank you to all the community who have supported the Hall by gifts of time, money or cooking – or just by supporting the events.

Learn More

We created a poster to provide some more detail on “the money”. You can see it if you click this link…The First Nine Months

More Events Planned

PS – the poster also talks about new events, like The Kaber Show and barbecue on 7th September,  Bingo and Hot-dogs, on 6th July and plans for “club nights” on Thursdays all this alongside Craft club on Tuesdays and Coffee Mornings on the third Saturday of each month!

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Well Done Kaber!

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What a great community you are, this week has seen a demonstration of the many ways pulling together makes life fun…

Junior bingo player
With Dibber in hand – a keen bingo! player

It’s been a busy week in the village hall (and the village in general).

We had a coffee morning a week ago (Saturday morning), well attended with more than twenty arriving, and an abundant supply of cakes (it would seem that cheese scones are more popular than blueberry muffins – a surprise to the author!)

On Monday we had a Domino Drive, (very well organised by Lillian & James.) This was also well attended and according to one member of the household “it was quite competitive” – and she won a prize (although it was the “booby” prize 😢 )

Then yesterday afternoon we held a Family Bingo event run by Anne and Dan from Heggerscale, who also provided all the bingo “machinery”. I’ve never heard a quieter group of children than when Anne said “eyes down” at the start of each round. (although the arrival of the hotdogs also seemed to suppress the chattering!) Lots of prizes were won too, and it was nice to hear requests that we run another one soon!…. We might be needing a bigger hall, as it was completely packed!

Aside from lots of community spirit, these events also raised a bunch of funds for the hall. You’ll be pleased to hear that the Bingo raised £128, when added to £74.55 at the coffee morning and £107 for the dominoes evening that’s a grand total of £309.55 👏👏👏 Well done all round.

This fund raising more than paid for the new secondary double glazing we installed on the rear window – so hopefully the hall will be cheaper to heat (and warmer too)….

… and on that note; another “thank you” to Lillian for persuading Alistair Hanna from Brough to come and inspect the gas heater in the hall – it was pronounced “good”, so now we will get the old gas tank removed, and new bottles fitted and he will come back and service and commission it…

…and in yet more heat-related news, Jason Winder came and fitted additional loft insulation, so now we have the recommended 300mm – so a warm thank you Jason .

In wider news, we understand that B4RN has raised all the money needed to start on the installation of our all-fibre gigabit internet, so we will be joining the internet revolution within the year (hopefully). Thanks go to a number of volunteers around the village for making this happen, with notable mentions to Mike Bidgeway for his stoic and persistent campaigning over the years, to Liz Staley for galvanising the community into supporting the project and Julie Lane for all the work on way-leaves – well done all.

What’s Next?

Whist! With a “learn to play Whist” session on the 10th of May at 7:30pm – this time for a Brain Tumour charity – another “Fisher-related Production!”…. come and be educated, fed, raffled and maybe even a few more games of Dominoes are promised!

So, you all deserve a pat on the back, for pulling together to make fine things happen – Well Done Kaber!

Learn to play Whist

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Friday 10th May 7:30 PM – £3/head

To raise funds for the Brain Tumour Charity Lillian Fisher’s god-daughter is organising a whist evening for beginners, novices and experienced players. Below is a poster (photographed at the Co-Op) which explains all… come along and have some fun…

A volunteer painter?

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As you might know, one of the Hall’s rear windows is only single glazed – so adds significantly to the heating cost and is very drafty.

Just before the primer went on….

Replacing the whole window would be expensive, so we decided to fit secondary glazing (hence the large sheet of perspex on the floor in the hall.) We have all the materials to install this, we have sanded off the old window and primed it, but now it just needs a coat of white gloss before we can do the job,

The problem is that your friendly-local window fixer (Malcolm) is REALLY bad at painting and has a steamboat he needs to get back on Windermere.

So, if you have the time could someone PLEASE volunteer to give the window a coat of paint please, we can provide paint and brushes if needed… nothing fancy, just to preserve the wood… .Thank you …

It would be good to get it done in the next few days, so we can fit the glazing, or there won’t me much room for the coffee morning or other events … Speak to any Committee Member if you need the paint!

An Active April – lots to do…

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Well, while the weather is still somewhat variable, it seems April is shaping up to be an active month at Kaber Village Hall

  • Quiz Night Hamper
  • Photo by Craig Adderley on Pexels.com
  • Craft Club

So, here’s a list of activities we have planned….

EventDateNotes
Craft Club9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th (Tuesdays)Open to all, an evening of chatter and crafting 6:30pm to 8:30pm, £2:50 per session
Coffee MorningSaturday 20th
10:00 am to 12 Noon		Coffee, Chat and Cakes (usually)! Come and say “Hi!”
Domino DriveMonday 22nd 7:30 pmHopefully the first of a regular event – beginners and experts welcome.
Family BingoSaturday 27th 4:00pm startLIke it says: “Bingo for Families” The only rule is that children must be accompanied by an adult. ( Note: Unaccompanied Adults are welcome too!). There will be prizes, good company and refreshments.
Activities in April

If you need to know more contact any Committee member, but do come along and support your Village hall, and have some fun too.

All events are to raise money to maintain and operate the Hall….