Natland Parish Council Agenda

The full agenda for the next meeting of Natland Parish Council - to which you are entitled to attend though not participate - can be viewed here. It will be held in the Village Hall at 7.30pm on the 25th July.

Bumper July/Aug edition of Church Magazine is now available.

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Ten tips for Natland Gardens Open Day on 17th July

1. Buy your admission programme a week in advance from Natland or Oxenholme Post Offices and save a pound per person
2. Buy your programme a week in advance on line at http://www.trybooking.co.uk/407 and save yourself money and a walk to the Post Office
3. Wear your sun cream, we have ordered a fine sunny day.
4. Start your afternoon in Oxenholme. Drive to High Park Barn (through the stone gates at entrance to Oxenholme Station, full directions in programme and plenty of parking) next visit two gardens at 3 and 16 Fell Close. Buy your programmes on the day at these gardens in Oxenholme. Then come down to Natland and park your car on Longmeadow and walk round the other gardens
5. Ask for help from the stewards who will be at the church to sell programmes as to how to plan your walk around the village
6. Stop for an ice cream with Elspeth and Martin at 12 Longmeadow
7. Buy a raffle ticket from Cherrie and Mike at 2 Church View
8. Chat to the garden owners, they have worked very hard and want to tell you about their gardens
9. Don’t think you have to “do” every garden – we have 19 so that is quite a lot to get around -
 enjoy as many as you can manage
10. Have a well earned mid afternoon break with tea and cake at the village hall

Changing weather in June

2016		2015
Average temperatures
Temperature at 8am	15.6C		11.2C
Min temperature	13.9C		9.6C
Max temperature	20.4C		16.0C
Total rainfall	mm	in	mm	in
	107.5	4.3	31.5	1.3

Warm and dry at the start of June, the weather changed later, with heavy rain on the 20th and at the end. Still warmer than average overall.

John Dobson

Scotsman flying through on Saturday

On Saturday 2 July 60103 Flying Scotsman will be northbound through Oxenholme. No times are listed yet and may not be due to people trespassing on the line. I have been informed (I hope reliably) that it will leave Carnforth at 11:20.

Pat Williams

Eighteen houses planned near Oxenholme Filling Station

Click here for more details. SLDC Website.

Minutes of June Parish Council meeting and 2016 Parish Meeting published

Two sets of minutes have just been published by the Parish Council. You can download or read the minutes of this month’s parish council meeting here and download or read the minutes of this year’s parish meeting here. (Well done to Kevin, our Clerk, for getting both out so promptly.)

British Empire Medal for services to Natland

Ray Richardson, our recently retired Chairman of the Village Hall Committee, is to receive a British Empire Medal for his services to the community in Natland. He recently received a letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria to that effect, and expects to be presented with the medal shortly. Ray proclaimed himself to be really chuffed.
Ray chaired the Village Hall Committee for twenty six years, with good humour and admirable brevity of meetings. His most demanding time was when he organised the building of the big hall. He had heard that a millenium grant was available for village halls and after a meeting with around 100 local people, nearly all of whom were in support of the idea, he went ahead and applied for the grant and for planning permission. Both were granted but the millenium fund grant had to be matched to the tune of £38,000. Many local organisations were contacted, hall users raised funds, and eventually the money came together. Russell Armer did the work at cost but it was rather a shock to find at the end that there was a £9,000 shortfall. Ray asked for interest free loans from village hall users and was glad to be able to repay them in two years.
The Village Hall has been used by many clubs over the years and it is good to think that so many people's lives have been enriched as a result, and as a result of Ray's commitment, though he says he was glad to find a successor in Paul Want, the new Chairman.

Parish Council agenda published

You can read or download the agenda for the next meeting of Natland Parish Council (Monday 27 June) here. Any member of the public is welcome to attend the meeting as usual and contribute during the Public Participation section of the agenda.

Laying down the law at the Women's Institute

At the June meeting members heard about the work of local magistrates and details of their summer trip out were disclosed. Click here for more details.