Sowerby Bridge
Last chance to book onto to the CFFC Membership event on Wednesday 26th October 2022
You’re invited to the CFFC Membership Event 
Members and Non- Members are all warmly welcomed
Wednesday 26th October
12.30 pm to 2.30 pm
Alexanders Bar,
Wharf Street,
Sowerby Bridge
HX6 2AG
If you’re not on holiday for half term next week, and want to book onto Wednesday’s event, please book on today.
You’re invited to monthly membership event for like minded people who support CFFC so we can connect people who care with local causes that matter. There will be open networking and a buffet lunch provided courtesy of our sponsor Nigel Cliffe from Value Exchange. We’d like to thank Nigel for his support and if you’re a little embarrassed about your LinkedIn profile, why not check out his LinkedIn courses?
There will be open networking over lunch, then speed networking so you get the opportunity to meet as many people as possible.
Not got around to applying to be a member yet?
If you would like to become a member, here is the link to complete the application form.
Click here to find out more about applying to become a member
Let’s Grow! Free Family events schedule
Join the Let’s Grow Team on an event near you and have a go with tactile, outdoors experiences around growing and learning about the wonderful world around you!
These free, family friendly fun sessions offer something for the whole family to enjoy. Babies and small children are welcome.
Next sessions as follows:
Sowerby Bridge – Wednesday 3rd August
Tuel Lane Car Park, next to Tuel Lane Lock
Todmorden – Thursday 4th August
Pollination Street Garden
Elland – Friday 5th August
Southgate Bandstand
Brighouse – Saturday 6th August
The Parklets, Bethel Street Car Park
Let’s Grow coming to Calderdale on a location near you!
Let’s Grow comes to Calderdale visiting Lower Valley for a week of hands on outdoors experiences around growing and learning about the wonderful world around us!
Start the summer holidays with our free, family friendly fun sessions! Each session is hands on with something for the whole family to enjoy.
Sowerby Bridge – 3rd August
Tuel Lane Car Park, next to Tuel Lane Lock
Todmorden – 4th August
Pollination Street Garden
Elland – 5th August
Southgate Bandstand
Brighouse – 6th August
The Parklets, Bethel Street Car Park
VSI Alliance news : Local business offering voluntary help this summer
VSI Alliance wish to share that a local business has approached them and are interested in offering some time over the summer to support a local charity or not for profit group.
The company wishes to help with any aspect of manual work needed, from gardening to decorating or another project if you have one in mind, ideally over the weekends in the summer.
They could prefer to donate this time to an organisation based or operating in Sowerby Bridge or the Upper Valley area.
If you would like to know more, please email Charlie at charlie.johnston@vsialliance.org.uk
GGT: The Great Get Together at Crow Wood Park July 3rd!
It’s on! The Great Get Together at Crow Wood Park on Sunday 3rd July!
Join this family friendly free event for a fun day out, full of many activities with something for everybody!
Take part in our fundraising races, the 2.5K fun run or the 10K Burner! These events have an entry fee starting from £6. Proceedings go to Bolton Brow PFA, one of the partner organisations producing the GGT.
A wide selection of food and drink will be on offer (including a barbeque, sandwiches, cakes, cream teas, coffee, cake and ice cream). Alternatively, bring your own picnic to the park – there’s plenty of grass!
The Great Get Together movement is inspired by the Jo Cox Foundation’s aim of bringing communities together. Our event is all about encouraging people to share and enjoy a relaxed day out in one of the loveliest parks in Calderdale.
- FREE ENTRY
- Games for young and old, the chance to try new sports
- A grand prize raffle
- Cake competition
- Music all day
- A great range of stalls and other attractions
- 2.5 km Fun Run – £6 entry fee
- 10 km Burner Run – £6 entry fee
- Lots to join in with (or simply watch and enjoy!)
For more information find us on Facebook, email crowwoodggt@yahoo.com or call Chris on 01422 706373 or 07884 966756.
Memory Lane Gets Back to full-length afternoon cafe sessions
From the start of May 2022 we revert to our pre-COVID arrangement of afternoon-only sessions (1.30-4pm). These run for two and a half hours – just as we did before COVID.
Our first afternoon-only cafes (1.30 – 4pm) of 2022 will start at Boothtown (4th May) and Sowerby Bridge (14th May).
We want to make the most of this extra half hour – so we’re asking all of our members what they’d like to do.
Venue: St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Tower Hill
Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2EQ
Every 2nd and 4th Saturday except December when it’s 1st and 3rd Saturday
£2 including refreshments
Upcoming dates: May 14 and 28
Jun 11 and 25
Jul 9 and 23
Aug 13 and 27
For more information call June on 01422 706 373 / 07920 549 131
june@memorylanecafe.org
For the Boothtown sessions, click here
We’ve been running morning and afternoon cafes (of 2 hours each) since September 2020. We began to do this because of legal (COVID) limits on the numbers we could have in the room and we’ve continued so as to optimise space between people. We’ve been able to continue to operate these “double” cafes for the past 18 months through the efforts and dedication of our wonderful volunteer team.
Whilst COVID certainly hasn’t gone away, we are confident that we can operate safely with larger numbers in a single session. Now that winter is over we’ll focus on ventilating the room to improve air flow (also using a Carbon Dioxide monitor to measure air quality during the cafe).
We’ll continue to sanitise tables and other surfaces. Hand-sanitiser will still be provided.
We have ended the requirement for people to wear masks – but people may, of course, choose to wear them.
Thanks to all our members and volunteers for staying with us through the trials and tribulations of the past two years.
Mum2Mum Market in Sowerby Bridge
Over 30 stalls selling excellent condition baby and children’s goods at bargain prices. Well-known brands at a fraction of high street prices.
Saturday 3 February – 1.15pm to 3.15pm at Trinity Academy, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2NW.
Everything imaginable for your little ones including:
- Buggies & Travel Systems
- Stairgates, Toddler Furniture
- Home & Safety Equipment
- Baby Carriers & Harnesses
- Moses Baskets, Cots & Travel Cots
- Growbags, Bed Guards
- Sterilisers and Feeding Equipment
- Highchair’s, Bumbos
- Trikes, Balance Bikes, Bikes and Outdoor Toys
- Baby Walkers, Bouncers, Jumperoo’s & Activity Centres
Join the event on Facebook for previews of sale items.
£2 entry per adult (kids are free) also the last half hour of the sale is free. Ensure you come early to bag all the best bargains. (2 4 1 voucher available on Mum2mum website)
If you would like to make some money and declutter you can book a stall here
For further information please email halifaxandhuddersfield@mum2mummarket.co.uk
Calderland – Taster Singing Workshop, Sowerby Bridge June 14
Calderland is a huge musical vocal and visual extravaganza that will be presented in The Piece Hall courtyard at the end of September 2017.
This ambitious project is made by and with the communities of Calderdale and will tell stories of a valley and people shaped by water and performed by a large community cast who will take the audience on a musical odyssey along the Calder Valley.
FREE Half Term Activities for Ages 11+ at Orange Box
FREE half term activities for ages 11+ return to Orange Box Tuesday 30 May to Friday 2 June between 2 pm and 4 pm. Get all arty in our arts and crafts sessions; beat your friends at table tennis; sing your favourite tunes with karaoke in the atrium; climb to new heights in our bouldering tunnel; see what you can do wearing a bumper ball in our zorbing sessions; and come help us celebrate the half term break with an end-of-week DJ party.
No need to book, just turn up (you will need to register when you arrive, if you haven’t already, or you can fill out a registration form here and bring it with you when you come) For more information call 01422 433200 or email hello@orangeboxhalifax.org
Orange Box young people’s centre, 1 Blackledge, Halifax HX1 1AF (next to the Piece Hall)
Volunteer with the Halifax Street Angels
Want to become a Street Angel and help make Halifax and Sowerby Bridge a better and safer place to have a night out? Or maybe you just want to help out behind the scenes?
Why volunteer
- Full basic first aid training provided
- Enjoy various social activities with a close knit team
- make an immediate difference to the safety and well-being of the public
- be part of a positive difference for the people of Halifax and Sowerby Bridge
If you are interested in volunteering with the Halifax Street Angels visit halifaxstreetangels.org.uk/volunteers and fill in the application form.
Please note:
Filling in the form only indicates your interest. Upon submitting the form you will be contacted by a member of the Street Angels team to discuss it further.
All volunteers will be required to provide at least two references and will be subject to a DBS check before being allowed to join.
More detailed information is in the FAQ section under the title Volunteer Information, here.
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