Date:Sun 29 June
Time:9.30am – 1.00pm
Venue:Strensall Library
Cost:Free entry
Lots of unmissable stalls selling quirky things to tempt you, including may hand crafted items.
All the fun of the Fair at West Bank Park
Date:Sun 29 June
Time:1.00pm – 4.00pm
Venue:West Bank Park, Holgate
Cost:Free entry
Hugely popular traditional summer fair with more than 1000 visitors every year. Fairground, stalls, brass bands, story telling, Morris Dancers and the Great British Cream Tea Tent!
Skips on Saturday
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28th June 2014 8:30am Sanderson House Bramham Road 8:30am Bramham Road/Grange Lane junction 12:30pm Lindsey Ave
5th July 2014 Don Ave 8:30am North Lane 10:30am 12th July 2014 8:30am Sanderson House, Bramham Road 10:30am Rogers Court 19th July 2014 8:30am Lowfields Drive 12:30pm Cornlands Road - The skips are funded by the local residents association using their Estate Improvement Grant. The skips are removed once they are full so please make sure you arrive in good time if you intend to make use of them.
- Please remember to take your waste to the site only on the dates advertised
- If the skip is full or not on the site, please do not leave your waste. This is classed as fly tipping and is illegal
- Bulky items including furniture, fridges and freezers are not accepted. To arrange disposal of one of these items please ring York (01904) 551551.
Ooh La La! on the Boulevard St Leonard.
Date:Sat 28 June – Tue 8 July
Time:Open daily
Venue:St Leonard’s Place
Cost:Free
As part of our celebration of all things French visit our recreation of a Parisienne boulevard in the centre of York, with theatre, art and displays, music, cafe and bars. C’est bon ?
Bag a bargain
Date:Sat 28 June
Time:10.00am – 1.00pm
Venue:Explore Clifton Library
Cost:Free
Come along to our June craft fair, free entry, but bring lots of money! Bag a bargain. Treat yourself or friends and family. Browse the stalls, have a coffee and cake as well as borrowing a book or two.
Cycling Through Time
Date:Fri 27 June – Fri 11 July
Time:Library opening hours
Venue:Bishothorpe Library
Cost:Free
We may be hosting the Grand Depart, but cycling is nothing new to Bishopthorpe. An exhibition of pedal power by Bishopthorpe Local History group.
Holgate community centre business plan queried
The Council opened a new community centre (“Space 217”) serving the Lindsey Avenue area last year.
The initiative seemed to signal a welcome reversal of the current Council Leaderships policy of cutting all funding support from local community facilities.
However more information has become available which suggests that there is no ongoing business plan to support the facility.
At present all costs are being born by Council tenants (rent payments) through the housing account.
Ironically the two community centres most likely to close, as a result of Labour’s cut’s programme (Foxwood and Chapelfields), were also built on Housing Department owned land.
The Council says that it has had to spend around £31,000 bringing the former shop up to a standard that would allow it to be used as a community “hub”. This cost included the provision of disabled access and the removal of asbestos
The Council says that ongoing costs will also be paid for from within existing ring fenced “housing maintenance budgets”.
Strangely the Council is not offering financial support to other community centres from its housing maintenance budgets despite them being used by estate management officers, and other Council staff, as local meeting points.
NB. Lindsey Avenue is currently represented by Council Leader James Alexander. He will be under a lot of pressure if he is to retain his seat in next years local elections. The decision to open the new centre was taken behind closed doors.
Make a difference in your community – fantastic prizes on offer in this year’s Lifestyle competition
A competition for young people to win exciting prizes by making a difference in their community has been launched for the second year running.
The Lifestyle competition is open to school children aged between 10 and 16 across York and North Yorkshire who want to do something positive for their community during the summer holidays.
In return for helping their community, contestants will get the chance to win a host of prizes including PLG adventure holidays and mountain bikes.
Last year’s winners include Team Community Spirit who raised funds for their local boxing club in Acomb, The Green Team who launched a campaign to re-use and recycle in York, Team Ice who organised the clean up of their local park in Sherburn in Elmet and Eastfield Youth Council from the Scarborough area who cleaned up The Dell and devised a campaign to encourage people not to drop litter.
This year’s project was launched at Westfield Primary School in York with the help of Minster FM’s presenter “Griffo”.
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Sporting memories at Acomb Explore Library tomorrow
Join us for our first Sporting Reminiscence session on Mon 23rd June 10am-12 noon. Share your sporting memories! pic.twitter.com/vkHK0EXvRc
— AcombExplore Library (@acombexplore) June 16, 2014
CCG invite public to get involved in shaping local health care
Patients and members of the public are invited to NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG’s) next Patient and Public Engagement Forum in York.
Full details as follows:
Where: Friargate Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL
When: Wednesday 9 July, 6pm
The event is an invitation for patients and members of the public to be part of the conversation with the CCG and local authority representatives about Health and Social Care service delivery with a particular focus on urgent care in the area.
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