Discretionary Energy Rebate Scheme Launched in South Lakeland

South Lakeland District has launched a Discretionary Energy Rebate Scheme which will award a one-off payment of £150 to help households in bands E to H properties who were not eligible to receive the mandatory £150 energy rebate. Click here for more details.

Steam train heading north this Saturday

 On Saturday the 24th September 34067 Tangmere will be northbound Oxenholme 11:41.

Pat Williams

Here she comes. 

Covid Booster coming to Natland

A Vaccination Team will be coming to Natland Village Hall on the 27th September, 10am until 4pm, to deliver autumn boosters.

Barbara Alton writes:

I am part of the vaccination team, recently based at the Westmorland Shopping Centre which has now closed.  We have formed an outreach team and are planning to deliver vaccines to the elderly and vulnerable populations in our local villages.

Below is the eligibility criteria for the vaccine and its likely it will be staggered in age and health issue, so if we need to return to your hall that is a possibility.

Vaccination Team Mobile 07526 972 306 (Mon - Fri)

Who is being offered an autumn booster?

COVID-19 is more serious in older people and in people with certain underlying health conditions.

This winter it is expected that many respiratory infections, including COVID-19 and flu may be circulating at high levels – this may put increasing pressure on hospitals and other health care services. For these reasons, people aged 50 years and over, those in care homes, and those aged 12 years and over in clinical risk groups are being offered an autumn booster of COVID-19 vaccine.

A booster will also be offered to front-line health and social care staff, those who care for vulnerable individuals and families of individuals with weakened immune systems. Vaccines need to be given 3 months after the last booster.

The autumn booster is being offered to those at high risk of the complications of COVID-19 infection, who may have not been boosted for a few months. As the number of COVID-19 infections increases over the winter, this booster should help to reduce your risk of being admitted to hospital with COVID-19.

The booster may also provide some protection against mild Omicron infection but such protection does not last for long.

Mourning the Queen in Natland

 On Sunday:

• 8am Holy Communion with a special liturgy for this time of national mourning
• 10am A Service of Commemoration with music, hymns, anthems and readings including the hymns Be still my soul, The King of love my shepherd is, O thou who camest from above, O God our help in ages past, the anthems O taste and see, Bring us O Lord and God be in my head.  There will be the opportunity to light candles and write in the book of condolence. 
• 7pm Reading's Reflections & Prayers in church followed by sharing in the national One Minute's Silence at 8pm on the Village Green by the Coronation tree. We will be joined for the silence by Doug Rathbone, Mayor of Kendal.

On Monday:

• Church will be open from 8.15am 

On Tuesday:

• the flag will be raised at 8am
• floral tributes from around the War Memorial will be taken away at 9am
• the Book of condolence will close at 5pm

The Women’s Institute meet again.

 Natland & Oxenholme WI meet again after the summer break on Wednesday 21st September. The Speaker is Diana Matthews: 'Windermere Lake Shore Villas'. The competition is : A Cumbrian Recipe. Everyone welcome back new and old and visitors always welcome.

Opportunities in Natland to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth.

The Reverend Canon Angela Whittaker writes:

• Church will remain open each day from 8am - 7.30pm in the period of mourning and there will be space to pray and messages of condolences to write if you so wish.  
• At the suggestion of Ian, the Chair of our Parish Council, and with my agreement, we are suggesting that the war memorial becomes the place to lay floral tributes if anyone would like to.  For Her Majesty, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Head of the Armed Forces and someone who served in World War 2, this feels like a fitting place.  This does not stop anyone laying a floral tribute at the foot of the coronation tree on the Village Green if they so desire.  

The weather on Natland in August.

 NATLAND WEATHER REPORT                   AUGUST 2022     AUGUST AV.

                                                                                      C                    C

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE  AT 8AM                      14.8               13.8

          "         MINIMUM     TEMPERATURE              13.3              12.0

           "         MAXIMUM                  "                         20.4               18.2

RAINFALL                                                             76MM              153MM

     "                                                                         3 INS                 6.1 INS

We had another hot spell around the second week in August which pushed average temperatures up. Rainfall was half the normal but not a drought like most other parts of England.     John Dobson.