Is there no end to building development in Natland?

John Inglesfield is concerned about the proposed new development on the Home Field. Click here for the full letter.

Christian Aid Week and Coffee Morning

The Christian Aid Coffee Morning on the Village Green last Tuesday.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who gave so generously to Christian Aid again this year. Over £1,800 has been raised so far. The weather for the coffee morning started terribly wet but by 10am the sun was out and it felt good to get together again. Maybe we felt for those people abroad suffering from the uncertain weather brought on by climate change. £513.10 was raised at the Coffee Morning. 

Florence Muthiani and her grandson in Kenya. Her life has changed and her community helped by the creation of this earth dam, built as a result of Christian Aid donations from people like us.                                                          Photo credit:Christian Aid/Tom Pilston

The final result for Christian Aid Week in Natland, Oxenholme and The Oaks was £2,094. Thank you very much to all you generous people.

It IS Spring. The Steam Trains are back

35018 British India Line is down for passing through Oxenholme 11:41 northbound in Saturday 22nd May. Hopefully....

Pat Williams.

Agenda for the next Natland Parish Council Meeting

The Parish Council will be meeting on Monday 24th May at 7pm by Zoom. Here is the Agenda and here are the Rules for Public Participation.

New houses on the Home Field

 Check out this planning application for new homes in Natland.

https://applications.southlakeland.gov.uk/fastweb/detail.asp?AltRef=SL/2021/0383

Christian Aid Coffee Morning

This will be on the VILLAGE GREEN on TUESDAY next, the 18th MAY 10am-12noon. 

There'll be takeaway coffee and tea and homemade biscuits, all for a donation to help people in developing countries try and sort out the problems caused by climate change and poverty.

There will be a plant stall, a cake stall, and a book stall, and everything will be made COVID safe. Please remember your filled Christian Aid envelope if you haven't handed it in already.

You may need an umbrella as well!

Experience the first Coffee Morning of the New Normal by helping make it into a Better Normal!

Village Hall - did you know?

You can support Natland & Oxenholme Village Hall by buying tickets for participation in their monthly 200 Club prize draw.  Tickets are just £12 - of which 50% is paid out in cash prizes and the rest goes to hall funds.  Each ticket runs for a year and the number is included in each of 12 monthly draws.  Further details and entry form are available HERE.

The winning numbers in the 200 Club's May draw are 1st 17,  2nd 72, 3rd 95

When the Church Tower became a mountain

He did it! The equivalent of Everest! Over £8,000 has been raised so far after a comprehensive publicity campaign led by chief fund-raiser Collin Mansfield. Half of the amount raised will soon be winging its way to the International Nepal Fellowship.

The Weather in April

April	2021	April average
Temperature at 8 a.m.	3.9° C	6.6° C
Minimum Temperature (Ave)	0.9° C	4.8° C
Maximum Temperature (Ave)	11.5° C	12.4° C
Rainfall	10 mm 0.4"	65.6 mm 2.6"

 April was the driest month I have recorded. It was also very cold at night with frosts quite often. We did have a lot of sunshine with some hot days but the north easterly winds kept temperatures down most of the time. John Dobson.

Craig’s climb on ITV Border

 Click here to watch Craig’s appearance on ITV Border.

This is what is happening here in Christian Aid Week this year:

It’s been difficult to decide what to do this Christian Aid Week (10th- 17th May) but in the light of the past generosity of people round here, (£2,215 last time we collected in 2019) and since help is needed more than ever for the world’s poorest people, we decided at St. Mark’s Church that we would do as much as we can. 

So, we are planning to do a Door to Door Delivery of Envelopes and finish off with a Pop-Up Coffee Morning. We won’t be collecting for fear of passing on the virus, but there will be plenty of opportunities to hand in filled envelopes. The envelope can be popped through the Vicarage door, or into a collecting bucket at the David Willan Food Hall, or it can be brought to Church on a Sunday or to the Pop Up Coffee Morning which will happen some time during the week beginning the 18th May. More details of this later.

What’s more, there are plenty of opportunities to give on line. This is the Christian Aid website address -  https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/key-appeals/christian-aid-week, where there are more details of the sorts of projects that Christian Aid supports.

Rose Katanu Jonathan sitting on the dry land caused by extreme drought in Dili Village, Kitul. Photo: Tom Pilston/Christian Aid. 

Rose is caught in a cycle of climate chaos. From severe drought to flooding, extreme weather robs her of what she needs to survive: a reliable source of water. Your donation could help Rose's community build a dam. Please give what you can.  Elspeth Jayne.

Parish News for May

Click here to find out about what is happening at St Mark’s Church this month.