As we are heading into the usual Christmas busy period it would be useful to have some dates in your diaries to help plan for the season:

Saturday 29 November, from 8.00 pm – Christmas Charity Auction, Coach House Inn

Sunday 30 November, 8.00pm – Pub Quiz, Coach House Inn

Saturday 6 December, 10.00am to 12.00 am – Coffee Morning, Coach House Inn, in aid of the Rosedale History Archive

Sunday 7 December, 2.00 to 4.00pm – Rosedale History Archive Tea and Chat, Updale Reading Room

Sunday 7 December, 8.00pm – Pub Quiz, Coach House Inn

Tuesday 9 December, 4.00pm – Father Christmas Visit to Rosedale Abbey, School Gates

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12 to 14 December – Christmas Tree Festival, Rosedale Abbey Church from 11.00am to 7.00pm each day. Light refreshments will be available in the church throughout each day and the festival will culminate with a carols service on Sunday at 5.30pm accompanied with mince pies and mulled cider.

Sunday 14 December, 8.00pm – Pub Quiz, Coach House Inn

Friday 19 December time TBC – Church Carol Service, Rosedale Abbey

Sunday 21 December, 8.00pm – Pub Quiz, Coach House Inn

Sunday 28 December 8.00pm – Pub Quiz, Coach House Inn

If you have any other major dates you think need including email hpmc27@hotmail.com

A reminder that the Rosedale Remembrance Sunday Service will be in St Mary and St Lawrence Church, Rosedale Abbey on Sunday 9 November, starting in the church at 1030am and then at the War Memorial for the Act of Remembrance.

Refreshments will be available in Abbey Stores after the service by kind courtesy of Helen and Craig.

There will be a Remembrance Sunday Service at St Mary and St Lawrence Church, Rosedale Abbey on Sunday 9 November 2025, starting at 1030am in the church and continuing at the War Memorial for the Act of Remembrance.

All are most welcome to attend this important event when we remember and pay homage to all who died and suffered in the service of our nation.

Dear friends,

Forthcoming Harvest Festivals are:

Rosedale         Wednesday 22^nd, 6.30 pm

Cropton           Thursday 23^rd, 6.00 pm

As ever, everyone is welcome.

Tuesday October 21st, 3.30 pm, at Lastingham: Choral Evensong with Lichfield Cathedral Choir

Sunday October 26th, 4.00 pm, at Lastingham:  Sung Evensong. Preacher, His Grace the Archbishop of York, the Most Revd Stephen Cottrell .

Then refreshments in the Village Hall, £10 per head in aid of Lastingham Friends, followed by
6.00 pm in church, the Lastingham Lecture for 2025, delivered by the Archbishop. Entry £10.

If you have had a ticket for refreshments, that ticket will admit you to the lecture as well. Otherwise, £10 on the door.

Sunday’s services are

9.15 am Holy Communion at Hutton (Prayer Book) (Revd Christine)

10.45 am Holy Communion at Lastingham (Revd Christine)

With blessings and prayers,

Revd David

The first planning meeting for the Rosedale Christmas Tree Festival 2025 will be held in Abbey Stores on Wednesday 24 September at 7.00pm. All who are interested in helping and/or exhibiting are most welcome. Enquiries to Sam Dring on 01751 417237.

The coffee morning in the Coach House Inn on Saturday 6 September from 10.00 to 12.00am will be in aid of the Rosedale Church Appeal.

There will be a cake and produce sale as well as the ever popular raffle, along with good coffee and company so Dave and the team at the Coach House look forward to welcoming you.

The new Rosedale calendar has just been published, containing landscapes, people and wildlife of the dale taken by seven local photographers and is sold in aid of the Rosedale church appeal fund.

The calendar is available in Abbey Stores in Rosedale Abbey at £10 a copy and will be on sale in the Rosedale History Archive tent at Rosedale Show on 16 August. Further sale outlets will be notified here shortly.

The appeal stands at around £100,000, an outstanding achievement for such a small parish, and work on stabilising the roof is expected to start shortly once architects plans are finally approved; however, the total cost for all the works necessary is thought now to be over £200,000 so bids are being placed with the appropriate finding bodies. As the advert says ‘every little bit helps’ so your contributions will be very welcome!