the epworth and belton arrow

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June 2023

Issue 171

St. Andrew’s Church Epworth Coronation Picnic & Proms

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Welcome to the June issue of

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We hope you spent some valuable time with friends and family and enjoyed the Kings Coronation!

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Community News High Levels WI The members of High

Levels WI met on Wednesday 19th April, paid their annual subscriptions and were welcomed to the meeting. Following the usual rendering of Jerusalem and a small amount of business the entertainment began. Six members of a South Yorkshire Belly Dance Troupe performed some dances and then invited members to join in. They explained the routines, their involvement and the health benefits.

It was certainly an enjoyable and informative evening.

In June, some members have chosen to have afternoon tea at Crowle Moors Railway. This follows the talk by Angus Townley on the History of Crowle moors. The evening meeting on June 21st will host a speaker who will talk about Mary’s Meals. This is a charity which aims to provide a daily meal for every child in its place of education.

High Levels WI is a friendly group of ladies who meet at the Reindeer Inn, Sandtoft on the third Wednesday of each month. The meetings begin at 6.45pm. Do come and join us and/or look at our website www.highlevelswi.co.uk

EPWORTH & DISTRICT WI Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 13 June at 7:30pm at Epworth Imperial Hall (small hall).

We are having a ‘hands on’ pottery session under the very capable instruction of Karen from Pentangle Pottery. Her workshops are excellent and everyone manages their own‘ masterpiece’. We hope you can join us it promises to be a fun evening. Refreshments and raffle available as always. Visitors £4 and free for members.

Are you interested in playing lawn bowls ?

Epworth Bowls Club always welcome new players of all ages and abilities.

Social bowling at our roll-ups every Sunday throughout the season.

Also a range of social activities out of season.

Crowle & District WI meet at 7.15pm on the 1st Thursday of the month at Crowle Community Hub, Market Hall, Crowle DN17 4LA. We have members from all over North and South Axhome and beyond and always give a warm welcome to new members.

Our April meeting was a very interesting talk by Hannah, the District Herbalist and our May meeting was a Cheese & Wine themed evening to coincide with the Kings Coronation. Our June meeting will be Stuart Garfoot talking and demonstrating Canal Art and he will bring items to sell. We will also be able to have a go ourselves.

Come along to any of our meetings and give us a go, we are very friendly.

Epworth and District Flower Club In April the members met for a workshop evening.

Almost all of the membership was in attendance to watch the demonstrator, Sarah, create an Easter display. After only a few minutes Sarah had used tulips, narcissi, various greenery, roses and carnations of varying shades of lemon and yellow and a wreath was made to be used as a table arrangement! It was completed with a few imitation eggs on sticks and a small container of chocolate eggs.

Next it was the turn of the members. Absolutely everything was provided and the ladies worked hard with a constant pleasurable buzz. Eventually 32 arrangements were made, all slightly reflecting the ability and personality of each member. Some had tall roses and tulips, some had cut their flowers shorter but every one was beautiful. Some were left to decorate St Andrew’s Church for Easter.

The evening concluded as usual with refreshments.

The May meeting was planned to welcome Lucy Griffin from Retford and the June meeting, to be held on 12th June in St Andrew’s Church will host Sue Hodgson who will demonstrate “Super Sleuths”. Come and join us, we are growing fast, and discover what the sleuths are!

Linda Clarke of Spotted Dog Flowers will demonstrate in July at the usual time of 7.30pm and the usual night, the second Monday of the month.

Come along, enjoy fresh air and exercise, whilst also meeting new people.

For more information, please contact The Secretary, Pauline Berry 01427 875962

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Haxey Girl Guiding Brownies and Rainbows Could you help out at our meetings?

Girl Guiding is an amazing organisation involving girls of all ages.

We learn new skills, have adventures, enjoy fun together and challenge ourselves to be the best we can be.

Do you want to help to inspire the next generation of young women and develop resilience in our girls?

Do you want to make a difference in our local community?

Why not come and see what volunteering with Girl Guiding in Haxey is all about.

We’d love to see you.

Rainbows, Brownies and Guides meet each Monday evening in term time at Haxey Youth Hub.

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Nursing team step forward for ‘It’s a Knockout’ Challenge A group of clinical staff have stepped forward to represent their charity run Hospice in its first ever ‘It’s a Knockout’ event on Friday 23 June.

The team of 10 from Lindsey Lodge Hospice & Healthcare – known as ‘Lindsey’s Angels’ - will go head to head with more than 20 other teams from local businesses across North Lincolnshire for an event filled with inflatables, water, foam and fun to raise valuable funds for the Burringham Road-based Hospice, which celebrated 30 years of care in 2022.

Lindsey Lodge Operational Matron Karen Andrew said: “I’m so proud of our team for stepping up to take part!

“They work hard every day to care for our patients and their families, so know first-hand how important it is for us to raise the much-needed funds to be able to continue to provide our specialist palliative care to our local community.

“I hope local people will support us by sponsoring us, and helping us to get to our £1,000 target!”

Teams will go head to head and take on the challenge on Lindsey Lodge’s events field from 5pm. They will face a wide range of fun-filled obstacles and challenges, with scores being tracked on a central leader board, competing for the crown of ’It’s a Knockout Champions’ 2023.

Lindsey Lodge Fundraising Co-ordinator Kathryn Stuart said: “We’re asking each team of ten to raise £1,000 in sponsorship for taking part. So far, they’ve set up JustGiving pages to share on their social media channels, as well as getting creative by arranging bake sales and dress down days to get to their target.”

She added: “We’re also encouraging the local community to come along and support the event. We’ll be asking for a minimum of £1 as a donation for entry, and guests will have access to food, live music and a licensed bar, as well as a whole host of inflatables and activities for the kids to enjoy.”

Karen Andrew added: “It will be so lovely to see our team having so much fun!

We’ll also be bringing our very own cheerleaders – Bosley’s Babes – made up from other members of our clinical team to provide even more encouragement for our fundraising teams at the event!

To sponsor the Lindsey Lodge team, please visit their JustGiving page at: For more information about the ‘It’s a Knockout’ event, please contact Lindsey Lodge on email llh.corporate@nhs.net.

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From the classroom to careers event Save the Date!

We are very excited to be holding our first careers and aspiration event at both Belton All Saints Primary & Wroot Travis Charity Primary on the afternoon of 21st June 2023.

We are also looking for people with different types of careers to attend. Maybe you work in farming, retail, building, theatre, literature, music, TV, or within creative arts. Perhaps parents/carers/friends/family have careers in plumbing, education, law, engineering or travel. Basically any role that the children can find out more about.

The aim is to inspire our children to know what our local community and further afield has to offer in the world of work and give to pupils something to aspire to.

It's completely free and if required you would have an allocated table to promote your business.

Please contact the schools on:

Belton C 0f E Primary School: admin.beltonceprimary@northlincs.gov.uk 01427 872391 Wroot Travis Primary School admin.wroottravis@northlincs.gov.uk 01302 770251

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We look forward to hearing from you with regards to this exciting event.

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1st Isle of Axholme BP Scouts May 2023 In April we took our first scout camp of the year –we combined our usual indoor camp with the DofE Bronze practice expedition which made for a brilliantly busy weekend. On Saturday, the 2 teams of DofE participants walked unaccompanied across open country, navigating according to a planned routecard, to Brimham Rocks to meet up for lunch. Despite a soggy morning they made excellent time, showing great teamwork and map skills. After lunch, and the traditional hide and seek games among the rocks at Brimham, we dispersed to walk back to the hall. While the DofE-ers walked a longer route (including practicing how to leave safety tags for leaders), the “chef team” took a more direct route home. They then cooked a delicious meal of tortilla wraps with either spicy chicken or bolognaise fillings, followed by apple crumble and custard. Later, there was time for lots of silly games before supper and bed. On Sunday, after a team clean-up of the hall, we headed to a local outdoor activity centre for air rifle shooting and archery. Some impressive skills shown! After a quick picnic lunch we headed to Harrogate pool for their 2hr inflatables session – scouts race each other down either side of a floating obstacle course, trying to avoid sliding in. The car journey home was very quiet with many sleepy scouts!

Coronation celebrations have been enjoyed by the cubs who made crafts such as crowns ahead of the May 6th ceremony. We also visited Westwoodside Primary school and gave a talk in assembly to share some of our typical activities ahead of our Beavers section reopening.

Leaders have also been busy, keeping up to date with their dbs paperwork and other required qualifications to make sure the young people in their care are kept safe. Some have been updating their 16hr outdoor first aid (to re-validate their BELA walking qualifications), others spent a wilderness weekend in Northumberland completing 50km and wild camping, completing their Hill and Moorland assessment. Well done all, and thank you for giving up your time to run scouts.

Sections all meet at the Westwoodside Village Hall: (Cubs, Scouts and Senior Scouts) all meet on Monday evenings 6pm (Cubs), and 7pm (Scouts), and Beavers (tbc) probably on a Tuesday evening at 6pm.

Remember, we are still looking to recruit Beavers leaders so we can restart this section. Please get in touch if this is something you could help with.

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What’s On In Your area in Epworth and Belton Activity

Meeting place

Time

Contact

Mon

Haxey Brownies

18:15-19:30

07976 807083

Mon

Epworth YOUTH Club (juniors)

Haxey Youth Hub, High Street, Haxey Epworth Com Wellbeing Centre, High St, Epworth

5.30-7.00pm

01724 29650

Mon

Epworth YOUTH Club (seniors)

As above

7.15-8.45pm

01724 29650

Mon

Epworth Mens Society (monthly)

The Red Lion Hotel, Eworth

19.30-21.30

Mon

Canasta Group 2nd & 4th Monday

Epworth Thurlow contact Edwin

13.00-15:00

07742877538

Mon

The Isle Choral Society

Epworth Imperial Hall

19.00-21.00

01427 873898

Mon

Stop Smoking Programme

Epworth Youth Club

17.30

Hille Harris 07876256185

Mon

Belton Short Mat Bowls

Belton Pavilion (Sept-April)

14:00-16:00

01427 875724

Mon

Epworth Youth Club (juniors)

Epworth Community Wellbeing & Youth Hub 17:30-19:00

Mon

Epworth Youth Club (seniors)

Epworth Community Wellbeing & Youth Hub 19:15-20:45

01724 297679

Mon

Army Cadets

Belton Park Pavilion

18.45-21.00

01724 858918

4th Mon Royal British Legion Epworth Branch

Red Lion Hotel, Market Place , Epworth

7pm

01427 872223

Mon

Haxey Rainbows

Haxey Youth Hub, High Street, Haxey

17:00-1800

07976 807083

Tues

Epworth Town Council

Epworth Imperial Hall - Small Hall

18.30 - 21.00

1st Tuesday

Tues

Beavers Cubs and Scouts

Belton Park Pavilion

17:30-20:00

07944 699433

Tues

Bridge Club

Epworth Thurlow

13:00-16:00

Ian 07452 991948

Wed

1st Belton Rangers

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

19.00-21.00

Wed

Isle Community Choir

Crowle Community Hall, Crowle

7.15pm-9.15pm

01427 872227 Gill 07419 319796

Wed

Belton Brownies

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

18:00-19:30

Wed

Belton Rainbows

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

16:45-17:45

01427 754009

Wed

Belton Guides

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

19:30 - 21:00

0753 951 6547

Wed

Rural Day Centre every 2 weeks

Epworth Thurlow Pavilion

10:00-14:00

01427 872445 01427 873730

01724 297679

Wed

Yoga

Epworth Imperial Hall - Main Hall

13.00-15.00 18.00-20.00

Wed

Army Cadets

Belton Park Pavilion

18.45 - 21.00

01724 858918

Wed

Jack in a box playgroup

Wesley Methodist Church, Epworth

10. 00-1130

07460 657278

Mon

Epworth Folk club

The Red Lion, Epworth

7.15pm start

01427 873594

Wed

Epworth Short Mat Bowl Club

Epworth Leisure Centre (Sept—April)

3.30 –5.30 pm

01427 874158 Alan

4th Wed Axholme Ferry Folk

Cross Keys, Wroot

Thurs

Epworth’s Ladies Society

(1st Thurs-monthly)

19.30 start

07548 729 585

Thurs

Whist

Epworth Imperial Hall - Small Hall

13.30-16.00

01427 873622

Thurs

Bingo

Epworth Imperial Hall

18.30-21.00

01427 873622

Thurs

Keep Fit

Belton Park Pavilion

18.30-19.30

Thurs

Epworth & Isle of Axholme Rotary Club

The Red Lion, Epworth (1st & 3rd Thursday) 18:15 start

0790 4573405

Fri

Nordic Walking

Epworth Garden Centre

9.30 start

01724 297270

Fri

Epworth Short Mat Bowl Club

Epworth Leisure Centre (Sept—April)

3.30 –5.30 pm

01427 874158 Alan

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What’s On In Your area in Epworth and Belton Fri

Epworth Performing Arts Academy

Fri

Red Cross (Whist) monthly 3rd week

Fri

Belton Bingo

Sat

Belton Bowls Club roll Up

Belton Park Pavilion (May-Sept)

14:00– 16:00

01427 875724

Sat

Bingo

Epworth Imperial Hall - Small Hall

18.30-21.00

01427 873622

Epworth Imperial Hall (2nd Tues-monthly)

19.30-21.30

07747 103805

2nd Tues Epworth and District WI

Epworth Imperial Hall

15.30-19.00

07548 156258

Epworth Imperial Hall

19.00-21.30

01427 873622

Belton Pavilion doors open 630pm

Eyes down 7pm

Bookings of West Butterwick Village Hall

Bunty Harris

01724 782181

Bookings of the Imperial Hall, Epworth

Mary Addlesee

01427 873622

Belton Pavilion

Marion

01427 872780

Fits Alarms

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Advice

Business Directory

Pensions Helpline

0800 991234

Electricity Emergencies

0800 375 675

Transco - Gas leaks

0800 111 999

The Hair Shop Westwoodside

01427 752455

Yorkshire Water

0845 1242424

The Willows Dental Practise-Belton

01427 872106

£30 + VAT per year Beauty/Health/Fitness

Taxi Service

Care in the Community Age Concern

0800 009966

Childline

0800 1111

Neighbourhood Watch

01482 444466

NSPCC

0808 80050000

RSPCA

0300 1234999

NHS Direct

111

Community Crime stoppers`

0800 555 111

Carers Support Centre

01652 650585

Isle of Axholme Lions

01427 752139

Isle of Axholme Osteoporosis Support Link

01427 875752

Health Visitor Team

0800 099951

SSAFA Forces Help www.ssafa,org.uk

01476 569764

Epworth & Isle of Axholme Rotary Club

07904 573405

Epworth & District WI

07747 103805

Axholme Taxi—Belton based 1-4 passengers 07709097770

Pam’s Minibus and Taxi Service 1 to 4 passengers 1 to 8 passengers (change of no. for mobile no)

01724 711941 07707 036611

Trade/Craftsmen Brooks HOMECARE Replacement Window and Doors 07973 142963 01427 875314 CES Electrical Services—Karl Collins 07768 467814 01427 753072 Axholme Pest Control

01427 873608 / 07766747245

JMB Developments (for all your plastering jobs) 07785 735984

Education and General Epworth Country Primary School

01427 872345

Belton All Saints Primary School

01427 872391

Westwoodside Primary School

01427 752355

Westwoodside Mobile Library

01724 865675

Haxey Library - Memorial Hall

01724 753239

Citizens Advice

01724 870941

Leisure Epworth Leisure Centre

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01427 873845

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