Mary & David Leathes are running the first of a potential series of meetings entitled “Questions of Life”, that offer a Window into the Christian Faith.
They invite you all to come and join them to explore the answers that the Christian Faith gives us to the questions of life.
Please find below a link to the minutes of the Committee Meeting held on 16th October 2023.
Please find a link below to the inaugural Friends of Kaber Village Hall meeting held on the 30th October 2023.
Sorry, this is a repeat – I missed the link to the slides (butter fingers!) Here’s the correct version….
On Monday 30th October we held a meeting to follow up from the May “event ideas” meeting, and to explain the idea behind establishing Friends of Kaber Village Hall group.
Here is a link to the slideshow we used…. Slides
Quite a few new ideas emerged…
We’ve added a calendar for the website – just go to the events page (using the menu above), and you should see it.
We will be adding all the events to this as we go along – so keep watching!
Please find below an Agenda for tonight’s meeting. The meeting is to kick off the Friends of Kaber Village Hall Group, by explaining the background & history of the Hall’s. Describing the Roles of Trustees & Friends, discussing what we hoping the Friends will be able to do, and starting planning for the future..
It’s that time of year when the apples are harvested and we all wonder just how much apple crumble we can eat!
Well this year there’s another option, and it will raise funds for Kaber Village Hall!
Earlier in the year we made a cider press from a 20-tonne hydraulic press and some spare timber donated by Andrew and Sarah at Stowgill. And we have made about 60-70pints of apple juice and cider for the folk at the top of the hill.
So, before it’s too late we decided to run a Community Apple Pressing Day on Sunday October 29th from 1:00pm.
Because the press is heavy, and there is some clearing up to be done afterwards, rather than make a mess of the newly cleaned Hall floor we are not running this at the Hall, but at Lou & Malcolm Duckett’s (Egil’s Hut in Heggerscale).
You bring your apples (or pears) and a bucket, we squash the apples, add a preservative tablet, and you take home the juice to drink or ferment into Cider (in your buckets, tubs, bottles etc..
You pay £1:50 a litre for the juice we provide (for Village Hall funds) (and probably consume the Tea/Coffee & Cider Louise and Julie have promised to make!).
You need some apples, they don’t need to be perfect, an odd bruise, nibble or spot is not a problem. (So fallers are OK). They can be eaters, cooking or even bullet-like, experience shows even the worst produce great tasting juice!
BUT to get the best return you need to freeze them for 48hrs, and thaw them before you bring them. If you do this you can expect 20lbs of apples to make about a gallon of juice. IF you DON’T freeze them, you will only get about a quarter of this amount.
If you want to keep the juice for more than a day or so you either need to freeze if (plastic milk bottles are good) or turn it into Cider. (we can provide advice on how to do that, and unless hundreds turn up, you can try some of ours!!!).
Just ask Malcolm or Louise if you need to know more!
Being as how B4RN arriving in Kaber will be a benefit to us all (including Broadband in the Village Hall), this seems important:
d.ryall@b4rn.org.uk> wrote:
Good afternoon all.
Very quick update.
Investment pledges are now at £196,000 and I’ve been advised of another £5k ‘in the post’ – so that takes us over the £200,000 mark. Incredible in a little over 3 weeks.
Nateby signup – around another 12 signups (depends slightly on whether business or domestic) takes us to the maximum government funding.
We are holding a project review at B4RN HQ tomorrow – we’ll report back on developments but basically we are deploying all possible resources on the project based on recent progress.
So, another milestone achieved. Please shout from the rooftops locally so if anyone is holding back to ‘see if it flies’, now is the time for them to jump on board.
Many thanks for all your efforts, and to the whole community for getting behind this.
Come in from the cold for an evening of fun and games.
We’ll be holding our normal Carols Evening at the Village Hall, with singing and Christmas readings, Hot Chocolate, Mulled Wine, Mince Pies and Soft Drinks – pop the date in your diary…
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