Bingley Town Council mailing no. 14

In this month’s mailing, we have news of a further batch of grants awarded to community groups in Bingley. The funds will be put towards projects ranging from a Bingley Parkrun to a feasibility study for the refurbishment of an arts facility and a cycling group focusing on women’s wellbeing.

The next stage of the development of our Neighbourhood Plan is a meeting being held on 21^st November, and we have details below of how you can get involved if you have not already expressed an interest.

If you were out and about in town last Thursday or Saturday, you may have seen groups of volunteers on their hands and knees planting bulbs! All in a good cause, and you can see pictures of many of the culprits below.

Best wishes,

Ros Dawson

Chair, Bingley Town Council

Grants

Grants were awarded to five local community groups at the meeting of the Finance and General Purposes Committee on 11 October, with the total amount awarded amounting to £5,369.

Bingley Amateur Operatic Society were awarded £2,000 to fund a feasibility study in respect of their building in central Bingley. This will enable the group to apply for a grant from the Arts Council National Lottery fund to renovate the building.

Gilstead Village Society is to receive £500 towards the cost of a defibrillator, which will be installed at St Wilfrid’s Church Hall in Gilstead, and a sum of £369 was awarded to Cottingley Community Association for the purchase of Christmas lights to enhance their existing displays.

Parkrun was granted £2,000 to fund the timing equipment and results processing system needed to run a free, regular Saturday-morning Parkrun event in Myrtle Park, Bingley. The amount is conditional on the group obtaining the necessary remaining funding from other sources. And continuing the health and fitness theme, a grant of £500 was awarded to Bingley Belles towards the start-up costs for this women’s cycling group.

Picture below: Members of Bingley Airedale Rotary Club and bulb-planting friends

Winter planting  

Two spring bulb-planting sessions were held in Bingley on 19 and 21 October. The earlier session was instigated by Bingley Airedale Rotary Club, whose members turned out in force to plant crocuses on part of Quaker Hill, off Chapel Lane. The purple crocuses that will hopefully appear on the site in spring are being planted to raise the profile of Rotary's worldwide objective to eradicate polio. This is a huge and ongoing project working alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and eradication is anticipated in the next 3 or 4 years. Purple has been chosen because it is the colour of the dye used to identify children who have been vaccinated against the polio virus.

More crocuses and some daffodils were also planted on Saturday 21st by a small group of volunteers for the Town Council, on the banking at the junction of Ferncliffe Road and the slip road down to the A650 (Skipton-bound).

The barrier baskets and tubs in central Bingley have now been planted up with winter plants by Carlton Nurseries. Bulbs have also been distributed to local groups (Action Stations, Bingley WI, Cottingley Community Association, Friends of Prince of Wales Park, Jerr Wood Action Group, Manorfield Community Gardens and the Myrtle Park group) and village societies in Cottingley, Crossflatts, Eldwick, Gilstead and Micklethwaite to plant in their own  areas.  So we can all look forward to seeing a little bit of extra colour in the spring, along with the added bonus of polyanthus and bellis bedding plants purchased from Bradford Council at a discount.
 

The latest edition of the Town Council's quarterly newsletter is available now in various locations across the parish. In case you missed the link in last week’s mailing, click on the link below for a PDF:
http://bingleytowncouncil.gov.uk/autumn-newsletter-october-2017/

Some dates for your diaries
 
Litter picks
Sunday 12 November, 8 am to 10 am, prior to Remembrance Sunday event in central Bingley
Saturday 2 December, time and place to be announced
 
Christmas Fayre and Christmas Lights Switch-on
Saturday 25th November, 10 am (Fayre opens), 4pm (lights switch-on)
 
Green and Clean forum
Saturday 13 January, 1000-1200, Cardigan House, Ferncliffe Road
 
 

Next Town Council meeting
 
The next meeting of the Town Council is at 6.30pm on Tuesday 31st October at Eldwick Memorial Hall. Please note that there will be no informal surgery with Councillors prior to the meeting.   
 
You can see all our meeting dates in the calendar of the Events section of our website, and a full listing is available as a separate document, updated weekly, in the Documents section of the site.