The coffee morning this Saturday is in support of the Rosedale Community Fund. Since the coffee mornings for the community fund began in 2016 it has over the years supported the following for Rosedale.

• Donation to the air ambulance
• Tubs on the village green and planting
• Village green annual Christmas tree
• Hanging baskets at the school
• Hall hire for First Responders update training
• Children’s Christmas parties and gifts from Santa
• Assisted the make bake and grow
• Decorations and party bags for the Halloween parties
• Donated towards the defib box at the Reading Room and its installation.

Please support the coffee morning. Who knows what will be next in the community.

Also the Domino Drives begin again on the third Thursday of each month for Reading Room funds. First one Thursday 17th October 7.30 

The Rosedale Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Show was held on the Milburn Field in Rosedale Abbey on Saturday 17 August. The show was blessed with excellent weather and dry ground this year which made for a grand day out for the large number of visitors ( currently thought to be around 4000) who enjoyed the many attractions on offer in the new show rings layout and exhibition areas, along with a wide variety of trades stands. A short selection of photos are below to give a flavour of the day:

As always, the show would never happen without the stirling efforts of the all-volunteer committee and the many other helpers giving up their time to run the entrance gates, control the traffic and parking and act as stewards at all the classes and events within the very full show programme.

Planning for the 2025 show is already under way to build on the resounding success of the 2024 show and should anyone wish to help out next year please keep an eye out on social media and on www.rosedaleshow.com, or contact the Secretary on rosedaleshowsecretary@gmail.com

See you all in ’25!

The main elements of the show field are now set up, but volunteers are still need on Thursday and Friday to help complete the interior ‘fixtures and fittings’. If you can spare a couple of hours please come to the Milburn Field at 1.0pm (that’s 1300 hours) on both days if possible and someone with a Rosedale Show hi-vis vest will direct you where to go.

Dear friends,

Forthcoming services

Mid-week, Wednesday: 10.00 am Lastingham Crypt, Holy Communion

Next Sunday, July 14th.

9.15 am             Appleton Holy Communion (me),
                             with Banns for Daniel Feaster and Maura Partridge (to be married at Cropton on August 10th)

10.45 am           Lastingham Holy Communion (Revd Christine),
                             with Banns for Steven Brace and Linda Ann Blackburne (to be married at Rosedale on August 3rd)

6.00 pm             Cropton Evensong (Reader Mike Stallybrass)

Please remember the wedding couples in your prayers as they prepare.

TONIGHT

7.00 pm Cropton: Concert by Clare’s Choir Moorland Voices. She promises an eclectic programme with some audience participation

And two dates for your diary:

August 17th Rosedale Show

August 27th 2.00 pm Cropton Annual Garden Fête in the Village Hall in aid of church funds

With blessings and prayers,

Revd David

Just a reminder that the Coffee Morning in the Coach House Inn in aid of the Reading Room/Village Hall is on Saturday 1 June from 10 to 12am with the usual cake sales and raffle and that the Rosedale History Archive quarterly Tea and Chat Meeting will be in the Village Hall in Updale from 2 to 4pm on Sunday 2 June where a host of historical archive material; will be available to peruse and also some excellent tea and cakes will be available! Both events are free to enter but donations would be appreciated to help the annual running costs of both organisations.

The Coffee Morning to be held in the Coach House Inn, Rosedale Abbey, on Saturday 4 May from 10am to 12am will be in aid of our local Search and Rescue Team

The team will have one of their vehicles on show and members will be able to demonstrate some of their rescue techniques.

All are welcome to come and support this essential service to our community and, of course, for the usual excellent coffee and biscuits provided by the Coach House Team and for the cake sale and raffle to follow.

Over seventy people attended a very interesting talk on Rosedale’s barn owls, held in St Mary and St Lawrence Church on Wednesday 6 March. The event was in aid of the Save Rosedale Church Appeal and raised the magnificent sum of £978 from donations and an auction of a print of owlets on an owl box.

Heartfelt thanks to the volunteers who set up and hosted this very successful evening.

Coincidently, around 80 people from the village and dale gathered in the Coach House In on Friday 19 January 2024 to celebrate Ian ‘Brownie’ Brown’s 80th birthday. It was a well kept surprise and Brownie took a few minutes to recover after his arrival!

Thanks to Dave Oakey and his team in the Coach House Inn for their splendid hosting of the event and to Jan Baker for her coordination of all the details.