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!
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…
Following on from the Meeting we had on the 22nd May to think about events and activities at the Village Hall, and from the decision by the Trustees to separate the events and fundraising activities of the Village Hall from the legal aspects of running the hall, we are planning to hold the next meeting of the Friends of Kaber Village Hall on Monday 30th October at 7:30pm.
The objective of this meeting is to develop some ideas for events people would like to see at the hall, and attach some names to organising those events.
We also need to create a “bookings and housekeeping” team. This will hopefully include a small team of people who can process bookings requests for the hall, schedule events and organise the “housekeeping” aspects of running the hall, like Key Holders, Heating Managers and Bookings Secretaries, a Cleaning Crew, and Catering Helpers etc..
Hopefully, we will be able to organise this via one or more rotas, so that the workload is shared around.
It would be nice try to make the hall look a bit more inviting too, with a little colour or pictures or bunting? So ideas from the more artistic members of the Parish would be great!
Please do come along, even if you only have ideas or skills to contribute or just a burning desire to put your hand up to help to build Kaber a great Community Hub.
Thank you.
The next Parish Meeting is on Monday 23rd, and will be held in the Village Hall, all residents are welcome. Keep an eye on the Parish Notice Boards for full agenda in the coming days.
If you want to include items for discussion or have any questions please contact the Parish Meeting Clerk, Louise Duckett, 01768 372893.
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While it’s not so much of an “entertainment“; getting the Kitchen and Hall clean before the Soup and Sweet event seems important.
Hopefully, we can all have a bit of chat, and laugh – and Sarah has promised Tea/Coffee and Cakes too!
We will have some cleaning materials on hand, but perhaps bring your prefered muck-busting tools too?
…and there is a call for more pictures for the walls – history of Kaber, scenes from around the Parish or just pretty things, will improve the look, and cheaper than patching up the paintwork!
…and we will have more news about Friends Of Kaber Village Hall (“KOKVH”?)…
Enjoy lunch and a chat with friends, warm autumn soup and something sweet. Only £6:00 per head.
For more information contact Wendy on 07751 385356.
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