Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Tuesday July 21, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The big race approaches, The Parwich Panoramic Five fell race is on Tuesday 4th August. However there is still time to take advantage of the cheaper advance registration at £4 for the Main Event. Click here to download the entry form. Don’t worry if you don’t get the form off in time, you can also register on the night of the race at £5, though make sure you allow enough time.
Entry for junior races is free.
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Monday July 20, 2009| 2 Comments »
The organisers of the Parwich Panoramic Five Fell race are delighted to announce that one of Royal Crown Derby’s exciting new porcelain figurines – appropriately enough a fast cat, has been kindly donated as first prize for the race by Mr Hugh Gibson, Chairman of the famous Derby based fine China manufacturer.
The figurine of the Cheetah is one of a pair produced by top Crown Derby designer Carmen Roome, and there is a companion piece, the baby cheetah so this is part of a mother and baby couple.
The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company is a locally owned Company employing about 200 people and manufactures the highest quality English Fine Bone China at its factory on a four and a half acre site on Osmaston Road in Derby. The Company produces bone china tableware, giftware and collectables, for sale primarily in china and glass retailers and department stores, both in the UK and overseas. There is also a popular Visitor Centre at Osmaston Road, providing factory tours, museum, factory shop and restaurant. The present factory was established in 1878 but the business traces its origins to the original factory, which was set up in Nottingham Road in about 1750. Queen Victoria granted permission to include the title “Royal” in the company name in 1890.
The organisers of the Parwich Panoramic Five are delighted to receive such a generous donation which will make a fitting memento for the eventual overall winner of the race, alongside other trophy’s and shields for other race category’s . We have also received an extremely generous donation by Marks and Spencer’s of 100 chocolate lollies, so every junior race entrant will each receive their own tasty memento of the race.
Thank you to Graham for sending this information in. (more…)
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Saturday July 18, 2009| 4 Comments »
If you are willing to help either on the Monday 3rd or Tuesday 4th August, with preparations for the race, or during the race, assisting with registration and marshalling, please contact either Paul Drummond (561), Don Higgins (773) or Graham Johnson (344). It should be a brilliant night.
Posted in Memorial hall on Monday July 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Tonight’s Memorial Hall Committee Meeting has been postponed until later in the week. Amanda will email members with the new date.
Thanks
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Saturday July 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Memorial hall, News, Wakes on Wednesday July 8, 2009| 1 Comment »
This week’s Ashbourne News Telegraph is available in the Sycamore Shop or on-line. Local interest articles include:
Posted in Memorial hall, News, Wakes on Tuesday July 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Will you be in tomorrow’s paper? This week’s Ashbourne News Telegraph should be a bumper Parwich issue with a great Wakes spread and more.
As ever, we will provide links to any local interest articles; you can buy the real thing at the Sycamore Shop; or you can see it on-line at their website.
Posted in Memorial hall on Monday July 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Ashbourne News photographer will be in the pub at 7pm tonight (Monday) for photo shoot for an article about the Memorial Hall. If you can spare 10 minutes please come along. Sorry it is so last minute.
Posted in Memorial hall on Monday July 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The New Memorial Fund was boosted by another anonymous donation of £500 over the weekend. The committee would like to thank everyone for his or her continuing hard work in raising the money.
Just a word about ‘anonymous’ donations. Sometimes they are from individuals or families that wish to remain quietly private or sometimes they are from a company who like lottery winners, don’t want to be inundated with other requests. Whoever they are we respect their privacy but say a very sincere thank you.
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Tuesday June 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Those entering the Parwich Hill Race this evening may be interested in adding another date to your diary.
click on poster to enlarge
Posted in 2009, Memorial hall, Posts of Note on Tuesday June 30, 2009| 1 Comment »
update of Sunday’s post
Milestone Day for the New
Memorial Hall:
Less than £100,000 to go.
Today we have not one but two great pieces of news. The first is that confirmation has been announced of a massive £41,653 grant from the Sustainable Development Fund (Peak District National Park Authority) and the second is that leaves only £86,032 to raise. The committee have known about the grant for a couple of weeks but couldn’t announce it until today. They would like to say a special thank you to the Peak District National Park. Following the Community Visit in January, they have been instrumental in demonstrating their support for our new hall by helping and advising us. This has given the committee a tremendous boost.
This grant now means that the fund for the New Memorial Hall tops £781,768.
What an achievement for a small community the size of Parwich and its surrounding villages. This amounts to approximately £1,000 for every man woman and child.
Although the end is in sight it’s imperative that we don’t stop now. Every £10 that we can raise will make a big difference – it will help to equip the spacious kitchen designed particularly with our important Oddfellows lunch in mind but will also let us hold all those milestone celebrations like birthdays and weddings. It will help towards the new meeting room where we can hold all our current meetings such as the History Society and Horticultural Society as well as all those extra things that the survey indicated people wanted to do – art groups, talks, and just general get togethers. So please continue with your efforts for that last £86,000.
The village has worked hard to make its contribution but it was always acknowledged that an amount as large as this could not come from the village alone, so true to its promise, the Committee and the funding group particularly, have sourced every contact and available grant (with hopefully more in the pipeline) Contributions have come from village fundraising, Project Parwich, individuals, local politicians, local and national grant sources. All have been impressed by our small communities’ big dream.
That new hall, talked about for years, voted for five years ago and two years in the planning, is now going to be a reality that we can all use and enjoy.
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
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