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Easter Breakfast Saturday 4th April

The hall is thiEaster  Breakfasts year repeating its Easter Saturday morning breakfast event at the hall on 4th April from 9am to midday.

A traditional full English breakfast with unlimited tea / coffee and toast. (A vegetarian option can be supplied if asked for in advance)

Tickets are now on sale via the website, Alison on 07980 830647 or Martyn on 01538 750657.

They are priced at £3.50 for adults and £2.50 for under 12’s if purchased prior to the day otherwise its £4 and £2.50 respectively.

Website Ticket Order Form

 

Latest Newsletter Out Now – Download from here

Today (Saturday 28th Feb) saw the latest hall newsletter delivered around the village.

MemberNewsletters of the committee and volunteers from the village have started the delivery’s which will be completed by early next week with the attention of distributing over 400 across the village.

Next week will see newsletters delivered around Kingsley Holt as well.

Features are a summer concert with Breeze and Wilson, an Easter Saturday breakfast and lots more.

For those who haven’t had one delivered (we can’t cover everywhere unfortunately) download the newsletter from HERE

This latest edition is sponsored by the Blacksmiths at Kingsley Holt who have now taken on running the Railway at Froghall which is also featured.

 

Post Office Closure’s

Post Office

The Post Master has advised the committee that due to holidays the Thursday Post Office will not be operating on the following dates :

29th January, 5th and 12th February.

The Monday sessions are unaffected and normal service resumes on Thursday 19th February.

Kingsley and Kingsley Holt Community Defibrillator Fund

Following is an article submitted to the Stunner Newspaper in Cheadle regarding a great community effort that has seen over £1000 raised in two weeks to fund the cabinets to house these devices.

We are now arrnaging free heart start courses ran by the Ambulance Service – the first course is on 27th January 2015 between 1900 hrs and 2100 hrs at the hall. If you are interested then use the contact form here to emauil us or use our Facebook page and use a comment on the relevant post.

Residents of Kingsley and Kingsley Holt have clubbed together to raise over £1000 in just over two weeks to house two defibrillators in the villages.

It all started when the West Midlands Ambulance Service Twitter feed announced that a device was available for relocation. Contact with them was made and developed to a point where two devices were made available, one for each village.

The project spearheaded by Kingsley Village Hall committee via their Facebook page saw residents mobilised to start a fundraising effort to pay for the secure cabinets required to house the devices. By Christmas Eve over £600 had been collected or pledged and since then money has continued to come in.

Local clubs, organisations and individual residents have all donated in what has turned out to be a real community effort that has been  full of the spirit  of Christmas. Local businesses have also stepped in to help and offers from electricians to install the devices for free have also been made.

The Blacksmiths Pub in Kingsley Holt who are to be the site for that villages device agreed to allow free entry into the pub on New Year’s eve but asked for donations to be made instead in a collection bucket kept behind the bar. When the bucket was opened this last weekend it contained over £530.

The devices are life savers and if used early dramatically increase a person’s chance of survival when compared with not using the device. The devices are simple to use and guide the user through the process – the device will not allow itself to  be used if the persons heart rhythm is not suitable for application.

As part of the installation process the Ambulance Service will deliver free basic heart start training to members of the local community.

Said Martyn Hordern Chair of the village hall ‘we are astounded at the reaction, our Facebook page has had so many views and this has captured the  communities desire to contribute,  it’s been so pleasing to see everyone coming together with a common purpose, these devices may well one day save someone’s life’

He added ‘the Blacksmiths have been a great help and have raised almost half the amount and the money is still coming in both there and from elsewhere in the area’

Now that the funding is all but in place the project will move onto ordering the cabinets and arranging the training  which is open to anyone over the age of ten.

Breakfast with Santa Saturday 13th December

Saturday 13th see’s breakfast with Santa at the village hall from 10am to midday.

Santa will be on hand – its been a task and a half to get him as this is his busiest time of the year but he is coming.

Full English breakfast is £3.50 for adults and £2.00 for the children.

A visit to see Santa in his Grotto is £1.50 and includes a present.

Every one is welcome !

The event is organised by St Werburgh’s Church – everyone welcome.

Christmas Lights 2015

Its hard to believe it but Christmas is not that far away and as we did last year the hall will be holding a Christmas Lights Event.

The date is Friday 28th November at the hall from 6pm onwards.

We will have a Christmas Tree which will be lit on the night along with mulled wine, mince pies, tea and coffee as well as carol singing.

See attached poster for more details.

It promises to be a great community event and we look forward to seeing everyone there.

The date was advertised in our last Newsletter as Friday 5th December but that has had to be cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.

Lights Poster

Latest hall newsletter now available for download

The hall committee with help from the local guides have over the last ten days delivered several hundred newsletters around the village, Kingsley Holt and Kingsley Moor.

We can’t reach everyone unfortunately but the latest edition is now available to download.

Its in an Adobe format meaning most computers will have the software to read it.

Click on the link below :

KVH Autumn Newsletter

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World War One Commemoration Event

Sunday 21st September  saw the village of Kingsley and its wider parish coming together to commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.

The day was chosen as it was on the eve of the centenary of the parish’s first fatality when George Harris Smith lost his life when his ship was sunk in the north sea whilst serving with the Royal Navy.

A very fitting and at times moving service in St Werburgh’s Church was conducted by the Reverend Carol Richardson with over a hundred persons present including school children from the local school who gave their thoughts on what the war meant to them.

A cross of  candles was lit by the congregation with readings and the poem  In Flanders Field by John McCrae recited during the act of commemoration.

This saw the 27 names on the villages war memorials read out plus the addition of Leonard Edwards who died as a result of his war service but seems to have been missed out.

Present were descendants of some  of those remembered as well as the small committee that have been working on the event for the last few months.

Either side of the church service the village hall was open and again over a hundred people visited a display of research conducted into the 28 from the area who are on the war memorials with of course the exception being Leonard Edwards.

Some  of the families bought photographs and other mementos of their descendants and shared them with the community.

Martin Clewlow who is a descendant of James Millward from Kingsley Moor (who survived the war) and featured in a Cheadle and Tean Times article earlier this year attended and put on a display of memorabilia from the war which was of great interest to both young and old alike.

As a result of event several families provided additional information and lines of enquiry to the committee in their quest to document as much as possible about the lives of those who died and their links with Kingsley.

Said Martyn Hordern one of the organisers ‘today was a real community event and one that allowed us to pause and reflect in a most appropriate way, having spent several months researching these men it was different this time when their names were read out’ he added ‘its ninety four years this week since Leonard Edwards died as the result of his war service and today was the first time his name has ever been read out’

The research and display created by the committee will now be loaned to St Werburgh’s school to allow the children studying the war to better understand its impact on the local community.

Meanwhile the project is continuing in its research and proposed works around the war memorial. If anyone has any information on those listed below or anyone that might have been missed off the memorials to date then they can get in touch with the committee. They would particularly like to hear from Peter Capewell from Tean who’s story of the Capewell brothers from Kingsley Moor also featured in the ‘Stunner’ earlier this  year.

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Village Hall Event