Month: October 2021

Dear All

The next two Woodland Management dates are as follows:

·         Friday 5^th November 10.00am till 12.30 meeting at Island Lodge Car Park to continue the work from the last event along the Lines. Map Attached.

·         Friday 3^rd December 10.00am till 12.30 meeting at Station Road Entrance clearing leaves and debris from Greenmount Sidings to Shepherd St. Map Attached.

No experience necessary, tools provided. Come prepared with clothing, gloves, footwear for outdoor work and enthusiasm.

Kind Regards

Julie Southworth

Our AGM is to be held on Tuesday November 2nd at 7.30pm in Greenmount Old School.

Refreshments will be served & everyone is welcome who is interested in our Society.

Also a talk has been arranged on Wednesday November 10th ,by Val Maden , her subject “ A Passion for Paper”….sounds intriguing.

At the Old School at 8pm. Everyone welcome . £2 including tea & biscuits & free raffle ticket.

Thank you.

Dorothy

Hi,

The next two Woodland Management dates are as follows:

· Friday 5^th November 10.00am till 12.30 meeting at Island Lodge Car Park to continue the work from the last event along the Lines. Map Attached.

· Friday 3^rd December 10.00am till 12.30 meeting at Station Road Entrance clearing leaves and debris from Greenmount Sidings to Shepherd St. Map Attached.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Kindest regards,

Alistair

Ex-Chairman

Good evening everyone

Breaking News… as from today Co-op members can select Greenmount Village Community as their local cause.

For the next twelve months when you buy a Co-op branded product in store you add 1p to your personal account to either spend in-store or donate and now you can also send 1p to the GVC Local Cause.

Pennies make pounds and lots of pounds make new benches and wellbeing signage for the Lines area.

Please log on to your account today and select Greenmount Village Community

https://membership.coop.co.uk/dashboard

Please feel free to share this email and I hope that you can support our cause.

Best Wishes

Julie Southworth

Dear All,

Please see the attached poster and message below from Kim Griffiths regarding local collection points for unwanted coats.

Regards

Julie Southworth

A late notice for all you that may like to attend tonight’s AGM meeting.

Monday 18th October 2021 at 7.30pm in The Old School

Good Evening All

Just a quick reminder that the table top sales are now being held in the Old School only on the first Saturday of each month together with a ‘Drop In’.

There is no sale tomorrow.

Have a great weekend.

Julie Southworth

Dear All,

Please see attached a fundraiser in aid of Breast, Ovarian and Cervical
Cancers.

A Fashion Show is to be held at St. Anne’s Church Hall, Tottington on
Saturday 23rd October from 2.30pm.

Only 23 tickets left, please support if you can,.

Dear All,

It was lovely, yet again to see so many at our weekly Cuppa and Chat session on Thursday afternoon, and some new faces too. We were visited by two members from The Healthwatch Bury group, who are welcoming people to ‘Have their say on local health and social care services’.

Healthwatch visit different areas of Bury to meet with its residents and they will be returning to us in the next 4 to 6 weeks.  If you have something to report or make enquiries about please do not hesitate to come to Greenmount Old School between 2 and 4pm on a Thursday afternoon. The date of their next visit will be confirmed in due course. One of the main questions yesterday was ‘Are we having our Flu Jabs at our GP’. The answer to this question is no. You can find more information on this link  https://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16483

Please note, if you wish to speak to a member of the Healthwatch team, you do not need to be attending a Cuppa and Chat as there will be a separate area available for anyone wishing to speak in private.

Dates for your diary:

21^st October – Sing-A-Long with Don

4^th November – Winter Warmer.  Please note this will be at the earlier time of 12.45pm as there will be a Hot Pot/Cheese Pie lunch available as well as Parkin to mark the season. In order to help with catering we are asking that people book in advance by replying to this email.

!6^th December – Christmas with Greenmount Strummers

To help with the funding of these events we now have a weekly donation of just £1 towards refreshments.

I look forward to seeing you soon,

With kind regards,

Julie Southworth

Dear All,

Please see below and attached the latest update from Bury North Hub, Bury MBC

Julie Southworth

Chairperson Visit our web site www.greenmountvillage.org.uk The information transmitted is intended only for the entity or person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material.  Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.  If you receive this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer or media on which it resides

Hi all,

I hope the following information is of use to you, please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any clarification or have other questions and I will do my best to help.

Foodbanks

Austin and I visited Ramsbottom Pantry and Brandlesholme Foodbank recently and just wanted to highlight what amazing work the volunteers are doing. Both sites have experienced an increase in demand and anticipate this will increase further as benefits are cut and the impact on individuals as fuel prices and other costs of living are rising.

If you have time to give to helping others and would be interested in helping either cause as a volunteer or via donations, please contact them directly or let me know and I can connect you. Brandlesholme Community Centre are also seeking Trustees, please contact them if you would like to know more.

Vaccination information

There are two attachments regarding the roll out and the latest Covid bulletin which may be of use to you, please share this information with others you are connected with.

What’s happening in Bury North for the community?

We are currently re-mapping out what groups are in Bury North (Elton, Tottington, North Manor and Ramsbottom) so that we can develop an up to date local list so that we can signpost effectively and support groups as best we can. We appreciate that we have had lots of this information in the past via various teams in the voluntary sector and council but appreciate how much may have changed due to the pandemic.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could email an update of what groups / sessions you provide (if any), so that we can include them on the list we are collating.

 St John’s Church, Tottington

I called in last week to meet with Reverend Anthony Roberts who is new and really keen to work with the community and already has many exciting plans in place including a Christmas Market (stalls available to hire at only £10). There are rooms available for the community to use at the Church including a kitchen, if this may be of use to you / your organisation please make contact:

Rev Anthony Roberts

Presbyter in Charge 

St Johns Free Church of England

Kirklees Street 

Tottington

BL8 3NJ

07383 969264

If you are on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook you can search for the Church please follow them to keep updated on what is happening.

Funding opportunities

There are new community funding opportunities coming soon, I will keep you updated as soon as I have the full details to share.

VCFA

The VCFA in Bury are offering training on bid writing to support people to apply for funding opportunities, please see their website for further details:

Training

Please check if you are registered with eth VCFA as they do have some people signed up to the newsletter but who are not members so not benefiting from all the services, they could such as support to find volunteers. Contact the VCFA to find out more.

If you have any questions or requests for particular information, please let me know.

Kind regards

Tracey

Tracey Coatman

Bury North, Community Hub Manager

Bury Council

Town Hall

Bury

BL9 0SW

Tel: 07581 018489