Apr
Lower Valley Friday Flyer 27 April – OUT NOW!!
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Featuring
- Shibden Hall Closures for Filming ‘Gentleman Jack’
- Brighouse Artisan Market
- Dr Simpo’s Print-making Class
- World Tai Chi and Qigong Day Event
- What Sure Start Children’s Centres Can Do for You
- Calderdale Libraries May Day Film – Dispossession
- Staying Well Funding Opportunities
Have a great weekend!
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World Tai Chi and Qigong Day Event at Dean Clough
To celebrate World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, Tai Chi Tigers will be holding a FREE event for all age groups on Saturday 28 April, 10:30am – 11:30am at Dean Clough Mills, Halifax (go to Dean Mills main reception).
This is a free event for all age groups and there is wheelchair access to the venue, the event will include mindfulness and movement.
For further information please ring Marsha on 07810 094395 or go to the following website taichitigers.co.uk look under classes or contact info@taichitigers.co.uk.
Brighouse Artisan Market
Brighouse’s ever popular food and craft markets have a new look for 2018!
The Spring and Summer markets will now be focused on just one day – a Sunday. The first of the new Artisan Markets will be on Sunday 29 April with dozens of stalls featuring locally made food and crafts exhibited by Yorkshire producers and businesses.
There’ll be around 60 stalls across the town centre on Sunday – with a particular focus on amazing food. From regular favourites like Love Bread, Temujin and Luddenden Valley Wines to new additions Gintopia, Linley Hog Roast and The Candied Peel Cake Co.
The day will include the town’s St George’s Day Parade which will take place at 3.15pm.
The Markets are run by the Brighouse Business Initiative (BBI), a voluntary group made up of the town’s retailers and businesses, who give up their time and energy to develop, organise and manage the events.
A Summer Artisan Market will be held on Sunday 19 August.
Rastrick Big Local – Voice Your Choice 2018
All residents of Rastrick should be receiving in the next few days a voting form to decide which project they would like to win up to £65,000 in Rastrick Big Local’s 2018 Voice Your Choice.
The theme chosen by the Community for 2018 is “Children and Young People”.
The acceptance of proposals closed at the end of February. RBL have spent some time going through all the great ideas and it’s your turn now!
There are 8 projects to choose from namely;
- Phoenix Radio – Drawing the line
- Illuminated Rastrick
- Aye up Rastrick art festival
- Bradley wood scout campsite and activity centre Challenge Valley Project
- Sling Swing
- Burnsall road play area and Rastrick Health and fitness centre
- 100 Doorsteps – Rastrickians in words and images
- Scavengers of Rastrick
Full details of every project are included in the voting form with information on how to vote with voting open now until Sunday May 13.
Alternatively, to find out more information and to vote online go to Vote Your Choice.
Rastrick Big Local will be having a stall on Sunday 29 May at the Brighouse Artisan Market where details of the projects will be displayed and the chance to vote if not done so already.
Calderdale MayDay Film Screening; Dispossession
On Monday 30 April, 2:30pm-4:00pm at Brighouse Library, Calderdale Libraries will be holding a FREE screening Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle.
For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home.
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary directed by Paul Sng (Sleaford Mods Invisible Britain) and narrated by Maxine Peake, exploring the catastrophic failures that have led to a chronic shortage of social housing in the UK.
These failures include government policy that prevents local councils and housing associations from building homes for the 1.4 million people on council housing waiting lists and the quarter of a million homeless people in Britain. Or the deliberate neglect of council estates by local authorities that s used to justify regeneration projects with private developers, which often force those who cannot afford homes in the new properties to relocate to other parts of the country, far from their families and support networks.
With unprecedented access to residents, politicians and experts in the housing industry and media, Dispossession is the story of people fighting for their communities, of people who know the difference between a house and a home, and who believe that housing is a human right, not an expensive luxury.
The screening is FREE but places are limited so you are asked to register with Eventbrite.
Lower Valley Friday Flyer 20 April – OUT NOW!!
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Featuring
- RSPCA Poochfest Comes to Stainland
- Dr Simpo’s Print-making Class
- Not Long to Tour de Yorkshire
- What Sure Start Children’s Centres Can Do for You
- Start Training for the Rough Ride Gravel Challenge
- Staying Well Funding Opportunities
Have a great weekend!
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Tickets Selling Fast for Dr Simpo’s Print-making Masterclass
New! For Teens!
Brush up your art skills!
Develop your artistic side in the inspiring new Imaginarium at Central Library & Archives on Saturday 28 April. (Two sessions, 10:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-3:00pm) This is your opportunity to learn with top artists and explore a variety of artistic mediums.
Interested in comic books and how illustrations were traditionally created? Learn fantastic new skills and get creative in this print making masterclass and meet the wackily amazing cartoonist and visual artist Doctor Simpo, you will produce some amazing keepsakes in this lino- cut, collograph and etching print workshop. Places limited so book now to avoid disappointment.
Places limited so book now to avoid disappointment. Tickets can be booked at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FFEKFD
Ages 12-18.
Bird Walk and Survey at Cromwell Bottom
Join Mike Henshaw and members of the Cromwell Bottom Wildlife Group (CBWG) outside the cabin at Cromwell Bottom Local Nature Reserve on Saturday 21 April, 9.45am for a 2-hour walk (about 2 miles on easy paths) to observe and identify birds on the Reserve.
The walk is FREE, but donations to CBWG would be welcome. Refreshments will be available at the end of the walk.
Contact cromwellbottom@gmail.com for further information.
There will also be similar walks on Saturday 19 May, Saturday 16 June, Saturday 21 July and Saturday 18 August.
Also NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 1st Annual General Meeting of Cromwell Bottom Wildlife Group will be held at the Mulberry Suite, Brighouse Sixth Form College HD6 1AY at 7.30pm on Wednesday 25 April 2018.
RSPCA Pooch Fest Comes to Stainland
A festival of fun for our four legged friends!
Join RSPCA Halifax, Huddersfield and Bradford and and Calderdale Council on Saturday 21 April, 11:00am-3:00pm as they celebrate our pooches and promote responsible dog ownership! There will be stalls, games, food and drink, a have-a-go-agility and of course, a fun dog show!
It’s Free Entry but donations are welcome through Eventbrite and on the day! The event will be held at Stainland Recreational Park, Stainland Road (Next to the 1885 Pub).
Go down with the family for lots of fun and wagging tails!?
See you there!
For more info or any enquiries please contact: faygibbons@rspca-halifaxandhuddersfield.org.uk
Stress Awareness Month: Take Care Of Your Mental Health
Stress. It’s a common part of life but can often leave us feeling upset, burnt out and overloaded. In a fast-paced modern world with many responsibilities it can be easy to forget to look after ourselves properly and fall prone to the effects of stress.
Stress can affect you both physically and mentally from health complaints like chronic headaches to putting a strain on your relationships with others. Whilst stress can impact your life significantly if left unchecked, there are a range of long and short-term steps you can put in place to help look after your mental health.
How much is too much? Take the quiz on the Anxiety UK website to see if you are exhibiting any of the common symptoms of stress.
If you are feeling stressed or anxious, there are also ways on the website to Get Help.
Stress Awareness Month takes place every April and has since it first launched in 1992. Throughout this period of time, teams of experts aim to increase public awareness about stress. This includes highlighting the causes of stress, the negative effects stress can have on the mind and body, and how to relieve stress.
