Coastal View & Moor News Issue 105 December 2019
Skelton Villages Civic Pride By Pam Batts - Secretary
Floral Displays ur voluntary community group has had another successful year providing Skelton villages with our floral displays. Our fundraising coffee mornings each Monday at Skelton Civic Hall is our main source of income and I would like to pay tribute to all SVCP members who never fail to turn up with their contributions of baking and helping out. Thank you Marjorie, Janice, Steph, Wendy, Anthea, Gill, Julia, Sheila, Brenda and Beryl
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and a special thank you to all our loyal customers. We are open from 9.00 – 11.00am and serve real coffee and some real home baking so why not come along and make some new friends and get involved. We are able to meet the cost of the plants and watering thanks to all the members of our community who have sponsored our floral displays and to our local businesses who have supported our efforts to improve the villages by sponsoring our displays they are: Accurate Doors Skelton DIY and Windows Skelton & Gilling Estates Elsie Blair Skelton UFC Co-operative Members Skelton Ward Councillors Hair Expressions Stitches Alterations and Healing Hands Hillside Practice Embroidery Holey Molies The Amber Rooms K. Dennis & Sons The Allotment Association Longacre Pub Martin Grove Solicitors The Deli @ 85 North Skelton Allotments The Longacre Pub & Restaurant Scotty the Barber Shaw Family Butcher Top to Toe We are also fortunate to receive an annual grant from Skelton and Brotton Parish Council, proceeds
Update from your Member Pioneer
●● (Pictured is L to R - Mark Laker, Rob Anderson (KTS), Kerry Johnson of Skelton Funeralcare and Stewart Hart of Skelton Food. By Mark Laker Member Pioneer for
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Skelton Coop Food and Funeralcare.
t's now getting to the crazy end of the year with Christmas fast approaching and we are delighted to share some good news that local causes in our community have just benefited from the Coop Local Community Fund through the 1% donation part of the Coop Membership Card. These include: The Junction, Redcar -- £4931.00 Marske in Bloom -- £4800.00 Saltburn Community Arts -- £4221.00 Cleveland Ironstone Museum -- £2193.00 Friends of Loftus Library -- £2236.00 Light Up Loftus -- £2461.00 1st Skelton Scouts Group - £1,582.31 Brotton Village Hall - £1,547.02 Dots n Spots Nursery and Out of School Club £1,506.90 These donations are part of a wider £17 Million payout across the Coop Group Estate just by buying our food products, funeral or legal services and since it began three years ago this has raised £56 Million for local causes across the UK. The new causes which have now started are: KTS Academy who would like to create an interactive facility which gives children the sensory stimulation they do desperately require. Brotton Improvement Group who would like to bring people together to improve and protect The Avenue Field, and other green spaces in the village. Skelton United FC who would like to train more coaches and referees to support teams, and to get more children involved in sport. If you would like to support one of these causes or one of the 4,500 others we support, or to
become a member of the Coop you just need to visit coop.co.uk/membership or call 0800 0686 727 by selecting a cause you are helping our great community's thrive. Coming up on Thursday 12 December is the North Skelton Children's Christmas Party from 4.30pm 7.30pm at the North Skelton Pub and will include Face Painting, Refreshments, Games, Prizes and a visit from Santa with a little present, tickets are widely available from Skelton's Coop Food and Funeralcare, Longacre, Elmora Nurseries, and Lisa's Delish, advance purchase is recommended so nobody misses out! Coop Funeralcare will be holding a Christmas Memorial Service on Wednesday 11th December at 7pm at The Salvation Army Citidel in Guisborough. Major Mugford will be conducting the Service with light refreshments afterwards. Everyone is welcome, whether you've arranged a funeral with us or not. And finally food waste is so important to the Coop and I'm delighted to say that Guisborough Coop who had some unsold Pumpkins remaining, with my idea and Tim Myer to help deliver them we kindly donated them to Guisborough Forest Walkway who will use them to place in the woods so that squirrels, hedgehogs, badgers, and foxes can enjoy, the store is looking for a food share partner too, if you can help visit coop.co.uk/foodshare for more information.
from Daffodil Sunday thanks to Mr. Anthony Wharton and the raffle at Skelton Mill. Our plants are supplied by Lynda and Dave Elliott who organise the planting twice a year with help from our members and I would like to thank them for all their help and advice. Thank you to Shelagh and Geoff for looking after the floral displays at Skelton Green, a big thank you to Terry Dauncey at SIGNZ for supplying the plaques for our barrels and other displays free of charge and finally thank you to Allan for his help and support. This year our group has also set about improving an area near the Hills as part of the public realm by installing stone edging and we are fortunate that Derek, Roger, John and Geoff are now undertaking the redesign and replanting of this plot by introducing Spring bulbs and new plants to enhance this area. Two new barrels have also been planted up and installed.
29 Christmas Lights SVCP has been fortunate to receive funding from Skelton and Brotton Parish Council and Skelton Ward Councillors to enable us to purchase festoon lighting between the lamp columns in Skelton High Street to this year`s display over the festive season. We hope that the lights and our floral displays bring enjoyment to all our residents and benefit to local businesses and bring about positive change for our villages. If you are a local business and would like to sponsor one of our floral displays to advertise your company or you are a resident who wish to celebrate a birthday or as a tribute to a loved one, the applications forms are available in the Townscape Heritage office in the High Street, Skelton Civic Hall and Skelton Library. On behalf of Skelton Villages Civic Pride I would like to wish everyone in our vibrant community a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
Marske Brass Band By Philip Chisholm Secretary of Marske Brass Band
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hile Marske Brass Band members are ageing, our eldest member being 89, we are still supporting community events and concerts. We led this year's Armistice Parade in Marske and will also be playing in the town square this Christmas. Meanwhile the Junior Brass Band is thriving with 32 attending weekly on a Sunday evening. To this end, we have set about raising £15,000 to add an extension to our band room and so far we have raised £5,000. If anyone would like to hold a coffee morning or an event to support the expansion this will help the band which was established in 1875.
Nunthorpe Hall Care Home
Nunthorpe Village Luxury Retirement and Care in the heart of the countryside. We have over 25 years of nursing and Elderly care management experience. The property stands within extensive grounds of some six-and-a-half acres, and has been sympathetically designed to offer the finest accommodation in the area, allowing residents to enjoy their retirement within the grandest and most spacious day areas available locally. The Hall's lake and beautiful gardens allow residents and their families to enjoy a lovely summer day in a tranquil location. Nunthorpe Hall also benefits from its own Historic Chapel of St. Mary - residents or families may use the beautiful Chapel whenever they wish.
We offer • Permanent and respite elderly care • Grade-2 Listed stately home • 27 individual luxury en-suite rooms • Stunning 6.5 acre grounds with lake and gardens • Private chapel • Full admission assessments with individual person-centred care plan • Fine dining and Marmadukes Tea Room • Well-stocked Library
Contacting Nunthorpe Hall is simple, whether it’s for an informal chart or you would like detailed information, please don’t hesitate to contact us using any of the below:
• By Phone: 01642 316611 or 01642 326900 • Angela Dixon Service Director 07748 487910 • Email: info@nunthorpehall.com Nunthorpe Hall Eastside, Nunthorpe Village, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough TS7 0NP
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