Greenmount Village Community

Many thanks to Stephen Booth for putting together this beautiful celebration video of this years Greenmount Advent Windows.

You can also browse our YouTube channel here for a selection of other interesting Greenmount related videos.

Greenmount Village Community – YouTube Channel

Dear all,

We Need Your Help

A reminder that the online voting for Bury North Pitch applications opened on Monday 29^th November for two weeks.

There is a pot of £50,000, there are 18 projects bidding for this money.  It will be awarded to the projects which get the most votes by Saturday 11^th December.

Please help us by following the link below to read the summaries, or full details of the Pitches submitted for the Bury North Neighbourhood and

vote for your favourite five. Click on the NORTH pitch, click REGISTER then click on VOTE.  You must vote for five projects otherwise your vote will not be counted.

https://www.onecommunitybury.co.uk/let-s-do-it-together-neighbourhood-pitch

Greenmount Village Community Walking Group are bidding for £2,800.  The project is to help all in the area to “Live Life to the Full” whilst getting healthier as well as helping the planet by promoting all the many activities in Greenmount, indoors and outdoors, restarted after Covid, especially Walking, as Greenmount is the ideal place to be the centre of Bury North Countryside Walks.

The plan is to install a large-scale OS footpath map, of Greenmount and surrounding area, professionally done to include 15 marked circular walking routes, from easy short walks to longer challenging walks starting from Greenmount, which have been created by our village walking group.

We would also like to host an Exhibition in the Community Centre next spring, titled “Live Life to the Full, indoors & outdoors here in Greenmount / Bury North”. To which all involved in activities in the area will be invited to exhibit.

Pitch event

If you would prefer to visit the market stalls at the pitch event this is being held on Saturday 11^th December from 2-4pm at Holcombe Brook Sports and Tennis Club.

Good Morning

The Tottington Methodist Church & Tottington Centre are again having a joint Christmas collection for Porch boxes this coming Saturday, 4th December.  Please see the attached details of location, times and list of items needed.

For people who want to contribute but can’t get to Tottington Centre on Saturday they are welcome to use the box outside 31 Greenheys Crescent, Greenmount, the details of the items needed are on the poster below.

Thank you for your support of these collections, it really does make a difference.

Julie Southworth

Over the past two weeks we have had two break ins in the Old School. Damage was done to cupboard doors as they tried to find anything of value. A few small items were taken but nothing of much value – we never leave money in the building. If you do notice any dumped items likely to have come from the Old School please let me know where they are.

Please be aware that clearly there are people coming into Greenmount and trying door and windows and even willing to break a window to gain access to properties. On the first occasion it is possible that a door may have been left unlocked but on the second occasion a small window was broken to gain access.

Please, if you are walking past the Old School or driving past and notice any suspicious activity let me know. The police response to both incidents was excellent and when it was thought the intruders were still in the Old School the response was very quick.

Neil Carter
Church Secretary

The annual Santa’s Christmas cracker will be taking place this weekend.

Saturday 4th December

11am-3.30pm
Greenmount Church & OldSchool
BrandlesholmeRoad,
Greenmount
BL84DS

Please find all the information related to the annual Greenmount Advent Window event below.
Printable version here:
1 & 2

John Southworth has kindly taken the time to update our long out of date village welcome pack PDF. You will see it below and also here on the website.

Folks,

Just a reminder that we are meeting up this Friday 3rd December at the Pre-School garden near Station Road in Greenmount at 10am. We will be continuing to do maintenance on the Lines as well as the annual leaf blowing and clearing of the pat from The Hub to Shepherd Street. I have attached a map with postcode of BL8 4BJ.

I hope you can join us, the weather forecast is 7 deg and gentle breeze and drizzle, so for now no reason to cancel.

All the best,

Alistair

Ex-Chairman

Good Morning

Ian George, the Treasurer for our local talking newspaper, Bury Pipeline, is asking for help.

For the last 40 years volunteers at Bury Pipeline have recorded articles from The Bury Times for the blind and partially sighted.

They have recently restarted their recording activities following the pandemic. Unfortunately during this time they have lost some of their volunteers.

They are looking for help on Thursday pm/Fridays am, usually once a month for a couple of hours at Tottington Library ( on a 4 week rota basis). If anyone is interested, please contact Ian,  [email protected] and he can provide more information on the roles they are looking for help with.

Julie Southworth

Good Morning

The Greenmount Golf Club 2022 calendar is now available.  This calendar features member photographs of the beautiful course.

Available from the club house bar for £8 cash or message Wendy Power (07974196947) and she can deliver.

In aid of the Ladies Section , photographs of the calendar are attached.

Best Wishes

Julie Southworth