Posted in Memorial hall on Monday June 29, 2009| 1 Comment »
Lou Matthews ran her very popular jewellery stall again at the Village Market on Saturday. At the end of the day she generously donated her takings of £200 to the New Memorial Hall Fund. Lou is anxious that all the people who bought jewellery from her should also be thanked.
The fund also received another anonymous donation of £2000. We are a very lucky village to have people who are working so hard and giving both time and money to help us build our hall. Thank you to all of them.
Posted in Memorial hall on Sunday June 28, 2009| 2 Comments »
Up-dated Monday 29th June 2009. Sorry the Blog Team have slipped up and put this information on-line prematurely. Watch out for a corrected post tomorrow (Tuesday 30th June 2009).
Click here for the corrected post.
Posted in Memorial hall on Monday June 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Good news in the past few days – two more grants have just been received towards the new build. One from an anonymous charitable trust was for £5,000 and a further cheque for £2,000 has come from a successful application to the Rank Foundation. A huge thank you to both of them – every cheque is a step closer to our village dream of a new hall.
Help would still be very welcome from any one that has a few hours to spare (not that anyone ever has spare time) to help fill in grant forms. The funding team have put together all the relevant information that is generally needed to fill in the applications and there is always someone on hand to help. Every time someone offers help it puts a little fresh blood and energy into the team and it’s great to be involved, so please help if you can. You can contact anyone on the blog, the committee or the secretary, Amanda on 344.
Posted in Environment, Memorial hall, Pub, Sport on Friday June 12, 2009| 3 Comments »
A group of running enthusiasts (well Paul D, Don and me) are organising an event in aid of The Memorial Hall rebuild to be staged on the evening of Tuesday 4th August.
There will be a series of fell runs for juniors (under 8’s, 10’s and 12’s) followed by the inaugural running of the “Parwich Panoramic Five” which is a beautiful 5 mile (approx.) cross country run under the auspices of The Fell Runners Association. The course follows the skyline around Parwich and Alsop-en-le-Dale, and will provide runners with a series of spectacular views around Parwich and Alsop.
Janet has kindly agreed that race control will be The Sycamore Inn, and the junior events will be starting at 6:30pm, with the senior event around 7:15pm.
We are hoping to attract local schools, as the junior event is one of a series of junior fell races taking place in Kirk Ireton, Thorpe (details to follow) and Bradbourne on Sunday 30th August.
Anyone who would like to run, jog or even walk is welcome, as every entry will help with the Memorial Hall funds.
We also are looking for volunteers to help with registration and marshalling, and if you are interested please contact either Paul Drummond (561), Don Higgins (773) or Graham Johnson (344).
Thanks Graham.
Posted in Events, Memorial hall, Pub, Sport on Thursday June 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Memorial hall on Friday June 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »
As part of the fund-raising for the Memorial Hall, we are looking at whether any further large companies in the area would be prepared to support the project as part of their community charity programmes. Some companies, including Egg and Toyota, will consider contributing to local charity projects where their employees are involved. If anyone in Parwich, Alsop, Ballidon or Pikehall works for either of these companies or for other large companies in the area, we would be grateful if you would either call Lynne on 474, contact me at parwich@hotmail.co.uk or leave a contact name / phone no. as a comment to this post. Thank you.
Posted in Memorial hall on Monday June 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Memorial Hall Committee are thrilled to hear that £26,000 has been awarded from the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation towards the rebuild of our new hall.
According to the Foundation’s website, only one in ten applications for its Large Grants Programme are successful – which makes the funding group’s achievement all the more remarkable.
Anyone involved in applying for grants will appreciate just how much work is involved in these applications: not just the hours of research to find the grants, but also the many more hours spent filling in pages and pages of information for the application. Each funding organisation has to be very sure that the project is worthwhile and that their funds are going to be administered properly, so it is great to know that our new Memorial Hall fills their exacting criteria.
The Committee is hoping for more good news over the next few days, so watch this space.
Posted in Memorial hall on Thursday May 28, 2009| 1 Comment »
The Memorial Hall committee have just heard the fantastic news that they have secured a grant of £25,000 from the Local Authority schools/Parwich School towards the building of our new hall. The funding committee are very encouraged that grant sources are impressed with the plans for a new hall to serve the community and are hopeful we shall get an equally successful response from other Fund holders who are currently considering our applications.
There has also been a very generous anonymous donation of £2,000 towards Project Parwich and also £15 from Judith in North Carolina. Thank you both whoever you are and it’s lovely that someone so far away wants to help. Judith, if you are ever in England after next summer, come and visit us and have a cup of tea in our new hall.
(This is in addition to the £721,100 currently on the thermometer, as we need to wait for our technical adviser to return from holiday to update it.)
Posted in Memorial hall on Thursday May 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
We have received a post from Keith Parsons expressing his personal views about the Memorial Hall, which we have printed in full. In the interests of balance we have included some relevant responses and they are at the bottom of the post. (more…)
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday May 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
An asbestos survey has been done today in the Memorial Hall and where samples have been taken large patches of blue tape have been placed over the sample area. Please do not disturb the patches as they maybe required for cross referencing once samples have been analysed at the lab.
Posted in Memorial hall on Saturday May 16, 2009| 11 Comments »
The Memorial Hall Management Committee have put together a set of answers to frequently asked questions, copies of which are being delivered to all households. Please click here to read the document.
Posted in Memorial hall on Friday May 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Please click here to read the minutes of this meeting, in printer-friendly PDF format.
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday April 14, 2009| 10 Comments »
Parwich Memorial Hall Management Committee Meeting
7.30pm – 9.30pm 6th April 2009 – The Memorial Hall
Minutes
Building the Future
The Chairman introduced 2 more of the Design Team, Chris Price from Prosurv and Ben Daykin from Rogers Leask and then summarised the decisions made at, or deferred from, the last meeting.
Discussions covered storage not agreed at the last meeting, the mobile bar idea, the positioning of sockets, best option for having boiling water available in the kitchen, constraints re drains and sink positioning, the relocation of the boiler from last weeks plans, the lighting plan including positioning of lights, switches etc.
KD shared the changes put in from last weeks discussion which included the storage doors creating a wider opening and the addition of shelving, and that he had built a storage space in for a mobile bar.
CP also reminded the Committee that final changes would need to be made by 20th April so tender documents could be sent out on 27th April in order to keep to the time schedule. (more…)
Posted in Memorial hall on Sunday April 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Please click here to access the latest Funding Resource Table, which shows how much money has been raised to date for the new Memorial Hall, and the current state of play regarding further funding applications.
Four months after receiving £500,000 from the Big Lottery Fund, and with roughly four months to go until construction is scheduled to commence, the Memorial Hall committee has already secured just under 50% of the remaining funding – which means that we’re very much at a midway point with the project.
With twelve further applications already applied for, seven applications currently being drafted, and several more to come, there is every reason to feel optimistic that the funding target will be reached in good time. The funding group have been receiving excellent feedback from some of the grant-giving bodies, and villagers should expect to hear some significant positive announcements in the near future.
Posted in Memorial hall on Sunday April 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Parwich Memorial Hall Management Committee Meeting
8.00pm – 9.30pm 1st April 2009 – The Sycamore
Minutes
Minutes of previous meeting
a) Minutes were signed off from the Steering Group meeting of 12th March and AGM on 24th March
Matters arising – None
Election of Officers
All 5 officers were willing to stand again. Val Kirkham proposed they were accepted in office en masse. This was unanimously agreed.
Chairman, Mike Gerard-Pearse
Secretary, Amanda Johnson
Bookings’ Secretary, Janet Gosling
Treasurer, Ed Linnell
Entertainments Secretary, Sandra Chadfield
It was agreed to return to the issue of having a Vice-Chairman at the next full meeting.
Signing of the Minute Book
All present signed to acknowledge their acceptance of the Trust Deed (Constitution)
Building the Future
The Chairman introduced the Architect Keith Dobbins and explained that the plans were having to be redrawn as Marsh Grochowski were unwilling to release the originals. He also suggested the Committee might like to consider if the piano was used enough to justify the space it took up. Jane Harris said she would ask the Pre-School representative if they would be happy with a replacement keyboard. It was agreed to make a decision about this at the next meeting when members had considered it. Di Turnbull offered to price up the cost of several types of keyboard.
Keith Dobbins then shared detailed plans of ideas to date about re drawing of the toilets and storage solutions and these were discussed at length. (more…)
Posted in Memorial hall on Monday April 6, 2009| 8 Comments »
Please click here to view the minutes of the Memorial Hall’s Management Committee AGM, which took place on 24th March 2009. The minutes are in printer-friendly PDF format.
Posted in 2009, Environment, Memorial hall, Ornithology, Posts of Note on Wednesday April 1, 2009| 16 Comments »
The Parwich Memorial Hall funding group are currently preparing a grant application which, if successful, will make our new Hall entirely self-sufficient for all its energy needs – as well as generating extra electricity for the village.
Due to our location at the end of a valley, residents will be aware of how windy it can get – particularly on the top of Parwich Hill. Therefore, the plan is to capture this wind energy by installing a wind turbine on top of the hill.
Thanks to the latest technological advances, modern wind turbines are much less visually intrusive than they used to be – as you can see from our artist’s impression.
(Please click to enlarge)
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday March 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This evening saw the AGM of the Memorial Hall Management Committee, with an excellent turnout, around 70 – so more chairs had to be found. We were brought up to date with the current level of money raised, another £198,000 has been applied for through a range of grants and trust – we are awaiting news of these and there are more grants being applied for. There was a vote of thanks to the committee for all their hard work with a spontaneous round of applause. A few questions were asked and clarification given by the Chair – Mike GP.
Once the Chair and Treasurers reports had been read it was election time. With no-one else wishing to stand the existing committee were re-elected – Mike GP, Amanda, Ed, Sandra & Janet.
The committee is swamped with work and it would be an enormous help if there were a few more offers of help to write letters and submit bids to different grant bodies. It is not a difficult task, you will be given details of which grant to apply for, sample paperwork of other bids that have gone in & then you just have to write the bid to fit the grant criteria. Nia & I are currently working on a bid with a group of 12-18 year old’s applying for funding available to the Youth. Amanda wrote a letter last week to Dales Housing and they have just awarded the new build £1500 from their Community Fund. So you see it is really worthwhile – can you spare a few hours to do the same – Ring Amanda 344.
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday March 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Tonight is the AGM of the Memorial Hall Management Committee – 8pm in the Memorial Hall. Come along and support the committee to ensure that the progress continues for the new build.
Posted in Memorial hall on Monday March 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
It is fantastic to see that over the past couple of weeks the fundraising for the new Memorial Hall has leapt up £50,000, including another £500 in the past couple of days. This is due to the hard work of the fundraising committee.
So don’t forget to come to AGM and hear the latest exciting updates on new build project. You need to vote to keep this successful Committee Team working on the Project!
Agenda
1. Chairman’s opening remarks
2. Apologies for absence
3. Minutes of previous AGM
4. Matters arising
5. Reports:
6. Election of committee members
Posted in Memorial hall, News, People, Photography, Project Parwich on Sunday March 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Our thanks to the Ashbourne News Telegraph, for making these photos available to us on PARWICH.ORG.
Please click here to read the full text of their article.
The Horns, Ashbourne. Cheque presented by Jo-anne Jewett and Lorna Etches to Mike Gerard-Pearse, chairman of Parwich Memorial Hall Management committee. Reproduced by kind permission of the Ashbourne News Telegraph. Please click image to enlarge.
Posted in Memorial hall on Thursday March 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
It is fantastic to see that this week the fundraising for the new Memorial Hall has leapt up another £50,000. This is due to the hard work of the fundraising committee.
So don’t forget to come to AGM and hear the latest exciting updates on new build project. You need to vote to keep this successful Committee Team working on the Project!
Agenda
1. Chairman’s opening remarks
2. Apologies for absence
3. Minutes of previous AGM
4. Matters arising
5. Reports:
6. Election of committee members
Posted in Memorial hall, News on Wednesday March 11, 2009| 2 Comments »
This week’s Stunner contains some great publicity – see page 5 – in the form of a big article on the Memorial Hall fund-raising. As I am new to the area, I may well have missed other mentions of local people in the Stunner so please feel free to add comments if you see that I’ve missed any local news.
Don’t forget you can buy the paper in The Sycamore or click here for the e-edition
Stepping up efforts for Memorial Hall – p.5
A fantastic article about the fund-raising being carried out for the Memorial Hall together with a picture of Jo-Anne Jewett handing over a cheque to Mike Gerard-Pearse. The article sets out the amounts already received and suggests that readers of The Stunner visit Parwich.org for information and contacts if they have any fund-raising ideas. Let’s hope for a big response to this article.
Posted in 2009, Events, Memorial hall, People, Photography, Posts of Note on Sunday March 8, 2009| 1 Comment »
Our thanks go to Patti and Brian Beasley, for hosting such an enjoyable – and delicious! – fund-raising evening, in aid of the Memorial Hall redevelopment project. Those who attended feasted themselves on Beef Goulash with dumplings and red cabbage, followed by Apple Strudel and whipped cream.
Thanks are also due to Richard Hobday at White Peak Farm Butchery in Tissington, for generously donating the beef at cost price.
More pictures of the evening: (more…)
Posted in Events, Memorial hall on Saturday March 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Don’t forget it is Panto Rehearsals tomorrow at 2pm in the Memorial Hall when the script will be handed out and parts allocated. Any more people interested in helping or taking a staring role can turn up. The only hint that will be given about type of production is that it involves lots of men in tights…..
Rehearsals will be every Sunday at 2pm (except on St Georges Day) in the Memorial Hall.
**May 8th & 9th – Panto Nights**
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday March 3, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A big thank you to all who turned up on Friday despite the bad timing with the rugby clash and film night! The next gathering of thesps is on Sunday at 2pm in the Memorial Hall when the script will be handed out and parts allocated. Any more people interested in helping or taking a staring role can turn up. The only hint that will be given about type of production is that it involves lots of men in tights…..
Rehearsals will be every Sunday at 2pm (except on St Georges Day) in the Memorial Hall.
**May 8th & 9th – Panto Nights**
Posted in Memorial hall on Wednesday February 18, 2009| 1 Comment »
At this stage of the Memorial Hall redevelopment project, the securing of additional funds has become a top priority. With this in mind, PARWICH.ORG and the Memorial Hall committee would like to invite any interested local businesses to lend their support to the project, by becoming official sponsors. (more…)
Posted in Memorial hall on Thursday February 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Already more than half the tickets have gone for the Austrian evening on Saturday March 7th at 7.30pm. If you would like to join in, please contact Patti (206) ASAP.
Posted in Films, Memorial hall on Monday February 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Our film selection this Friday has just won the award for BEST BRITISH FILM at the Bafta awards, so don’t miss it!
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York’s twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous extraordinary challenges: he had to find a way to bypass the WTC’s security; smuggle the heavy steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers; pass the wire between the two rooftops; anchor the wire and tension it to withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings. The rigging was done by night in complete secrecy. At 7:15 AM, Philippe took his first step on the high wire 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan…
Part documentary part re-enactment, this gripping film received 100% review consensus on the film web-site, Rotten Tomatoes, and winner of Best Documentary, and was nominated for an Oscar.
Friday 13th February – 7.45pm. Free Entrance
Posted in Memorial hall, People on Tuesday February 3, 2009| 1 Comment »
Robert Bunting offers help with the New Build
On behalf of the Parwich Memorial Hall Committee, the Fund Raising Group would like to thank Robert Bunting for his very generous offer of help with the building of the new hall. He has very kindly said that he would transport materials for the construction whenever it is possible. Robert made this offer in response to the recent letter sent out to each household in the community.
Any other offers no matter how small, will help us all to build this hall.
Posted in Memorial hall on Friday January 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Many hands made light work on Wednesday night at Blanche Meadow where some new faces were welcomed to help fold the latest community letter and put them into envelopes.
This boring task was helped along with coffee and lots of chatty ideas about how to raise more funds for our new Memorial Hall. The extra help was very welcome and the task took only one and a half hours instead of the usual three. The new helpers have gamely offered to help distribute the letters around the village – one way to help walk off those Christmas mince pies!
If there is anyone living in Ballidon or Pikehall who would deliver letters in their area that would be a great help. Please phone Patti Beasley on 390206 if you would like to help the New Build in any way at all.
Posted in Memorial hall on Saturday January 17, 2009| 1 Comment »
To all members of the communities of Parwich, Ballidon, Alsop-en le Dale and Pike Hall:
You will have heard the great news just before Christmas that Parwich has been awarded £500,000 by the Big Lottery Fund towards our new memorial hall. This is the maximum grant that has been awarded in the country. The team were particularly pleased by the comment from the BLF representative that it was one of the most impressive bids that they had received. This means that we really can have our long awaited hall – BUT we need more help.
Read on to find out the current state of play, including all funding details.
Posted in Memorial hall, Pub on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Posted in 2008, Memorial hall, Posts of Note on Wednesday December 17, 2008| 12 Comments »
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday December 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
We shall find out tomorrow if we are one step nearer realising a new Memorial Hall for Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich and Pikehall. Might this become a reality:
Posted in Memorial hall on Saturday December 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »
If donations to a registered charity are gift aided, then the charity can claim from the Inland Revenue 28p for every pound donated.
If you are donating to the Memorial Hall, especially through any of our current fund raising activities, please consider gift aiding.
Click here or on the image to down-load the gift aid form as a printable pdf. When you have filled it in please post it to the address on the form or give it to Ed and Nia.
We also plan to create a version of the form that can be filled in on-line as we update the parwichmemorialhall.org web pages.
Click here to find out more about the HM Revenue & Custom’s Gift Aid Scheme.
Posted in Memorial hall on Friday December 12, 2008| 18 Comments »
Just a quick note for those who missed the post mentioning that the Big Lottery Fund decision on the Memorial Hall redevelopment grant is to be announced on Wednesday 17th December.
The Grant’s Committee met on the 25th November, and initially the BLF said the official announcement would be on the 12th December, however a day or so later they contacted us to say it was delayed to Wednesday 17th (i.e. next Wednesday).
Plans for how we will respond to the announcement next week have been discussed at the Memorial Hall Management Committee meetings since then, but unfortunately we have to wait.
Thank you to Keith for contacting us about this (his email can be seen as a comment below). In 2004 the community vote gave a clear go ahead for re-building the Memorial Hall, and the Committee and supporting project teams have put considerable effort into realising our community’s aspirations. All stages of the process have been formally supported by the Parish Council and all the user group representatives on the Memorial Hall Management Committee.
From all of us here at PARWICH.ORG, a heart felt thanks for all the hard work that has got us this far, and our best wishes for the announcement next week.
Posted in About this site, Memorial hall, Project Parwich on Friday November 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Do you have any ideas? Can you help?
The PARWICH.ORG team are looking to make use of the potential of our websites to encourage sponsorship of the new Memorial Hall and use the sites to generate some cash for the redevelopment.
We have dabbled our toes with such as the commission on the Y-Not Festival ticket sales, Christmas Cards and on-line donations. We have lots of ideas, but are inexperienced in what will work best. Also we feel it is important that any advertising does not interfere with using the site or put off our users.
On-line fund raising means we can access a much larger pool of potential donors.
We would be pleased to hear from anyone who can support us through information, advice, ideas or contacts. Speak to Emma S, Jane B, Mike A or Peter T or email parwich@hotmail.co.uk.
Posted in About this site, Memorial hall on Wednesday November 26, 2008| 3 Comments »
Save money, save paper, save the Planet and support the Memorial Hall Project.
In exchange for a moderate donation (£5 minimum) to the new Memorial Hall fund we will create solely for you a unique virtual Christmas Card. You can then email your friends and family (and any enemies) the link instead of posting them an old fashioned paper version.
Click here for more details.
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday November 25, 2008| 1 Comment »
The Big Lottery Fund grants committee met today to discuss the Memorial Hall application (amongst others) for a community building grant. Have we been awarded £500,000 to build our new Memorial Hall?
The BLF will be officially announcing their decision on Wednesday 17th December.
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