It’s been at least 10 years since celebrated Beverley Author Val Wood appeared at the Beverley Literature Festival. This year Val is back to celebrate the release of her 17 th novel The Harbour Girl. Val says: “I’m so looking forward to meeting readers old and new and will be reading from my new novel, The Harbour Girl, which is set for release in November so all attendees will be…
Beverley Minster will host an Old School Disco theme Youth Café on Friday 30th September for upto 250 young people . Tickets for the event which starts at 7.00pm and finishes at 9.30pm are priced £2 and are available now from all three secondary school libraries, Beverley Minster Parish Centre & Shop. The Youth Café is aimed at young people in school years 7-9 and there is a range of…
Toll Gavel United Church preschool visited “Fresh n Fruity” on Dyer Lane as part of their preparation for harvest. 4 of the older children who attend the preschool along with some of the staff spent time learning about different fruit and vegetables and sampling kiwi. The shop manager Tracey Hartley also very generously donated to the preschool and the Church two large boxes of locally grown produce which will eventually…
St Paul’s Church organized a wonderful flower festival to raise money to improve and update the facilities at the 18th Century church. The money raised from the flower festival is going towards bringing St Paul’s into the Twenty First Century, with the building of toilets, a small kitchen and an area for families and small children. With almost 30 exhibits on show and with each designer having to work to…
The children at Toll Gavel United Church Pre-School Playgroup were making a real mess this week! But it’s o.k. . . .as they are doing their bit to help promote healthy eating in their community and to help celebrate the forthcoming Harvest Festival at Toll Gavel United Church It’s all part of the government’s and NHS initiative to its promote awareness of Healthy Eating in our schools and early learning…
Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company have secured the first amateur production of The Sound of Music for 2011. “This is a fantastic coup for our group of youngsters,” said Martin Cox, Chairman. “We had to get our bid in at the beginning of the year and because this production will be predominantly a youth production Josef Weinberger (the licensees) needed to be sure that we were capable of putting on…
For three years Beverley Minster virger Neil Pickford has been penning a series of humorous articles on his life as someone ‘downstairs’ in one of the busiest and biggest parish churches in England. Now, for the first time, you can hear the author as he reads a selection of the 150 articles in the series so far produced. “Three Chairs – Neil Pickford reads the best Views from the Vestry”, …
To coincide with the last week of this exciting exhibition, showing the fascinating world of church bell ringing, a mobile belfry will be sited outside the Treasure House, Beverley, on Saturday, 3 September. The belfry will be rung by local bell-ringers and a free drop-in workshop in handbell ringing for adults and children will be held inside the Treasure House. The drop-in session is an exhibition by the Beverley and…
The Beverley Methodist Circuit, with churches in Toll Gavel, Norwood, Walkington, Tickton and Bishop Burton, is pleased to be hosting two gap year workers starting in September. We are delighted to be able to welcome, Charlene, a young lady from Germany who will be supplementing our youth work team until the end of July 2011, working with our existing youth work activities but also looking at what else we are…
Beverley Minster choir and musicians are launching their first new CD for 10 years on Sunday, July 17th. And for the first time, it will feature singers from the Minster girls’ choir as well as the traditional men and boys. Minster director of music Robert Poyser said this was a perfect time to record a new collection of music in the church. “There are lots of really good singers in…
Do you know if you have healthy blood pressure? Many of us don’t yet high blood pressure is the major cause of stroke and other cardio-vascular disorders. Beverley Rotary Club in association with The Stroke Association (www.stroke.org.uk) is again running its annual ‘Know Your Blood Pressure’ event at Toll Gavel United Church this Saturday 16th July with NHS professionals ready to test your state of health. It’s quick and free…
Two local charities were presented with cheques totalling over £1500 … the proceeds from a recent concert given by Beverley Community Choir at Toll Gavel United Church. The event, which also featured the East Riding Suzuki Violin group, was hailed as a very successful and enjoyable night by both The Cherry Tree Community Association and Beverley Community Lift. “There was a wonderful sense of celebration about the whole evening,” said…
As usual the gardens of 25-27 Main Street, Tickton were in full bloom, and looking splendid. The weather was great, as the sun shone on this annual event which was well attended, by both the young and old. Stalls included bric-a-brac, cakes and raffles. Adults enjoyed refreshments in the gardens whilst the children enjoyed the games and entertainment, with face painting and “bash-the-rat!” Photos by Paul Linton
Members of a Beverley church have organised a fund-raising weekend to help young Christians undertake a potentially life-changing trip to India. Beverley Community Church, based on Saturday Market, have forged strong links over the years with the Kings Temple Church in Hyderabad and are sending eight young people and two leaders to India in August. The cost of the trip is £900 and to help with the expenses a series…
Beverley Local Action Team wants to know what it is like to live in Tickton and give residents the opportunity to be more involved in local decision making. We have worked closely with the parish council to organise a street surgery and representatives from the police, fire, and council will be out on the streets of Tickton along with local councillors on Wednesday, 6 July between 4 and 6.30pm. They…
As part of their keen interest to involve local schools, community groups and local businesses, the Beverley in Bloom organizers have donated a host of summer bedding plants to the children at Toll Gavel United Church Pre-School Playgroup. The organisers have provided a wide range of bright and colourful summer flowers for the young budding gardeners to pot up such as marigolds, lobelias and of course everyone’s one favourite: ‘‘bizzy…
Beverley Minster is making sure it can serve a world-wide congregation with a new, interactive website. Designed by local (Woodmansey) firm WebOrchard, which is based in one of the parishes connected with the Minster, the new website is intended to make it easy for everyone to find out the nuts and bolts of life in the church as well as communicate with staff and clergy. Beverley Minster vicar Rev. Jeremy…
The Beverley Guildhall will present an unusual evening lecture by members of the York Waits at 7pm on Thursday, 16 June, with plenty of medieval musical instruments to see and hear. From the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century the English town bands, or waits, provided music for civic occasions and celebrations. In this lecture Tim Bayley and John Peel of today’s York Waits will outline the history of the…