At long last, Sandford now has access to superfast broadband speeds following work to connect the green box to an electrical supply. It is understood that orders are now being taken, so customers should contact their internet providers to seek the best deals and start to benefit from the faster speeds they should experience.
Category: Community
Appleby Heritage Centre has offered to run a series of FREE training sessions for those who would like to learn how to use their iPad/tablet, suitable either for absolute beginners or for those who would like to develop further their knowledge of their iPad’s features.
The sessions will last between 2 1/2 and 3 hours and refreshments will be provided. There will be a small charge for the hire of the hall.
You can bring your own ipad or tablet with you or the tutor can provide one for you.
Course Topics:
Introduction to your Tablet (1 week)
Getting the Best Deal from Comparison Websites (1 week)
Familiarise Yourself with Facebook (1 week)
Internet Shopping & Online Security (2 weeks)
Introduction to iPad (1 week)
Each course requires a minimum of 6 people so if you would like further details and want to attend one or all of the course, please contact either David Keetley on 017683 41390, or Appleby Heritage Centre on 017683 53350. When numbers are known, actual dates will be set for each session.
Course Tutor: Sam Beattie
Thank you so much to everyone who brought so many bags to the hall for our December bag collection to support the Great North Air Ambulance. They inform us that our bags weighed 690 kilograms which translated into £759 for their charity. This is the highest amount we have ever raised for them so thank you again. We hope many of you also called into the Coffee Morning and had a bacon roll!
Our next collection will be in the summer of 2019, probably in July, so keep some bags handy ready to fill them again!
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War Memorial Improvements
Our Warcop War Memorial has recently been repaired and renovated to help ensure it is ready for the Remembrance Day, which this year marks 100 years since the end of the first world war. As you may know, the War Memorial has recently been designated a Grade II listed War Monument.
The Parish Council would like to thank Max Voican for repairing some rotten posts and Steve and Yvonne Burnett for their wonderful work in painting the posts, chains, wreath-holder and kerb stones. They have also laid fresh gravel.
I am sure you will agree that it looks fantastic and is a fitting tribute to those fallen soldiers commemorated on the plaques.
Thank you to all who came to our MacMillan Coffee Morning at the Parish Hall on the 28th September. You’ll be pleased to know that we raised a fantastic total of £494.
Thank you for your generous support.
Warcop Parish Council, in conjunction with Cumbria County Council’s Community Wheels Scheme, has negotiated the hire of an Appleby Heritage Centre minibus to run a weekly link service from Warcop via Sandford to Appleby. This will link in with the first Appleby to Penrith 563 service at 09:58 and return to Warcop via Sandford when the last bus arrives at Appleby at 14:16. The bus collects at The Croft at 09:20, the bus shelter in Warcop at 09:30 and The Sandford Arms bus stop at 09:40.
Passengers can go on to Penrith on the 563 on either the early bus or the later one at 11:30, or they can just go into Appleby.
We put out a questionnaire in every household’s letter box where your views were sought on the timings, whether you’d use it and if you’d like to volunteer to be a driver and so on. About 7 volunteer drivers have come forward. Initially this link bus will run on FRIDAYS. The service started on Friday 7th September.
The scheme operates as a Cumbria County Council Community Wheels service so passengers have to register with Community Wheels and obtain a card which covers the cost of journeys. No cash is required. They can be topped up at Kirkby Stephen or Appleby Libraries and Appleby Heritage Centre. Appleby Heritage Centre will provide one of their minibuses and do the necessary administration. Cumbria County Council will provide the Community Wheels cards, leaflets with times and pick up points and other publicity.
We have a team of volunteer drivers who have undergone the MIDAS minibus training and are all local residents and we are grateful to all of them and to Appleby Heritage Centre and Cumbria County Council for their support
Please support this idea if you can and it will help many people in our parish get out and about again. If numbers are low, then the service will not be able to continue. Attached below are copies of flyers, timetable and application forms.
The Classic Coaches 574 service continues on Tuesdays picking up from Warcop Railway Bridge.
Thank you,
David Keetley
Chair, Warcop Parish Council
2018.09 Community Wheels Appleby Flyer v5
We have been informed that the road between Warcop and Bleatarn will be closed to allow Thomas Armstrong to carry out flood repairs in this area. The email from Cumbria Highways is given below as well as a map of the planned closure routes and the alternatives. This will impact on a number of residents. Please contact them if you have any concerns or issues.
Please see attached road closure allowing Thomas Armstrong Ltd to carry out flood repairs
The works are due to begin 23rd July and are expected last 8 weeks
DESCRIPTION/LOCATION OF THE WORKS: Closure of C3070 from its junction with U3301 extending in a north easterly direction for approx. 2km to its junction with U3435.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE: – The Unrestricted section of the C3070, C3076, B6259
Regards
Robbie Brown
Assistant Traffic Management Technician | Highways Transport and Fleet
Environment and Community Services|Cumbria County Council
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The Trustees of Warcop Parish Hall are seeking your views on how to make our monthly coffee morning, currently known as the Exchange, an even better experience which will attract more local residents to meet up, have a chat over a cup of tea or coffee as well as buying local produce.
Paper copies will be distributed through all letterboxes shortly and you can return it to the new post box at the hall next to the front door. Alternatively, you can complete in online and email it to Joyce Keetley on keetleyjd@sky.com.
The link to the survey is here: Exchange Survey June 2018
Thank you for taking the time to give us your ideas. We’d really like to make it something that lots of people will support and bring even more people together in our community.
This year’s Appleby Horse Fair took place from the 7th to the 10th June. Arrangements for Warcop and Sandford were pretty much as before, with the exception of the sheepfold in Warcop which we have asked to be fenced off following last year’s incident where horses went into adjacent properties. The links below take you to the agreed stopping places with maps of where bow tops are allowed and so on.
Useful Documents:
Warcop2018UpdatedSheepfold.doc
There is also a website devoted to the Appleby Horse Fair if you require further information www.applebyfair.org .
The Parish Council would welcome any comments, both positive or otherwise, about how you think the arrangements for this year’s Horse Fair in Warcop and Sandford went. We are aware of one or two issues that the police sorted out and several residents were willing to be flexible over horses grazing for one night. Any comments will be fed back to the organisers so that we can improve things further in the future.
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New Footbridge Completed
You might have noticed our brand new footbridge over the beck at the village green in Warcop which is now open. This was paid for out of the £15,000 flood grant we received following Storm Desmond and adds to the new perimeter fencing and benches which have been installed.
Thanks go to Chris Deighton for his excellent workmanship and he will improve the footpath with new gravel to make the far end of the village green more accessible.
