24 The Parish of Thornthwaite cum Braithwaite with Newlands. St. Mary’s Church, Thornthwaite St. Herbert’s Church, Braithwaite Newlands Church, Newlands Valley ARTICLES FOR THE June-July 2019 EDITION TO Colin Ashurst on [email protected]NO LATER THAN May 15th 2019 PLEASE. Printing: 21st May - Colin Grant and Jenny Canham A Resilient Life: Healthy Relationships One of the factors in a Resilient Life highlighted by Sheridan Voysey is De- veloping Healthy Relationships. He identifies four factors that undermine and destroy relationships: Anger Unfaithfulness False promises Retaliation. Jesus challenges us to love our enemies and to be peace makers. One place we might start is with our relationships and friendships. What one thing might you do this month to strengthen an existing friendship or to start to turn an acquaintance into a friend? See more in Resilient Life by Sheridan Yoysey which is based on Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). https://sheridanvoysey.com/ This edition of the Magazine has been edited by Colin Ashurst Please contact Colin and not Chris Lewis with any queries. [email protected]‘Our purpose is to serve Jesus Christ and share God’s love with all’ Parish News Parish of Thornthwaite cum Braithwaite with Newlands www.tbnchurches.net April / May 2019 “He is not here; he is risen!” Luke 24:6
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The Parish of Thornthwaite cum Braithwaite
with Newlands.
St. Mary’s Church, Thornthwaite
St. Herbert’s Church, Braithwaite
Newlands Church, Newlands Valley
ARTICLES FOR THE June-July 2019 EDITION TO
Colin Ashurst on [email protected] NO LATER THAN May 15th 2019 PLEASE.
Printing: 21st May - Colin Grant and Jenny Canham
A Resilient Life: Healthy Relationships
One of the factors in a Resilient Life highlighted by Sheridan Voysey is De-veloping Healthy Relationships. He identifies four factors that undermine and destroy relationships:
Anger Unfaithfulness False promises Retaliation.
Jesus challenges us to love our enemies and to be peace makers. One place we might start is with our relationships and friendships. What one thing might you do this month to strengthen an existing friendship
or to start to turn an acquaintance into a friend?
See more in Resilient Life by Sheridan Yoysey which is based on Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). https://sheridanvoysey.com/
This edition of the Magazine has been edited by Colin Ashurst
Please contact Colin and not Chris Lewis with any queries. [email protected]
‘Our purpose is to serve Jesus Christ and share God’s love with all’
Parish News
Parish of Thornthwaite cum Braithwaite
with Newlands www.tbnchurches.net
April / May 2019
“He is not here; he is risen!”
Luke 24:6
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WHO’S WHO IN THE PARISH OF THORNTHWAITE CUM BRAITHWAITE
WITH NEWLANDS
Priest in Charge: Revd. Judith Ashurst, [email protected] 78092 Churchwardens: Mr Colin Grant, Sour Riggs, Thornthwaite 78288 Mrs Christine Lewis, Mereside, Thornthwaite 78108 Mrs Margaret Throp, Jenkin Hill, Thornthwaite 78201 Local Lay Ministers: Colin Grant - see above Jackie & Peter Williams, Greystones, Braithwaite 78333 Alan Williams, 3 Coledale Gardens, Braithwaite 78454
Safeguarding Co-ordinator: Mrs Margaret Throp, Jenkin Hill, Thornthwaite 78201 Secretary: Mr. Colin Ashurst 78092 Treasurer: Mr Colin Grant, Sour Riggs, Thornthwaite 78288 Organist: Mrs Sue Grant, Sour Riggs, Thornthwaite 78288 Hall Bookings: Mrs Sue Grant, Sour Riggs Thornthwaite 78288
Parish Paper Ed: Mrs Christine Lewis, Mereside, Thornthwaite 78108 Braithwaite Institute Booking Secretary: Mrs Penny Woodyer, Shotover, Braithwaite 78394 [email protected] Braithwaite Voluntary Car Service: Ms Sarah Dixon 78448
Do come along, meet your friends and perhaps chat to some-
one you haven't seen for a while. As usual, there will be no
charge for either event. See you there!
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Thornthwaite News
FRIENDS of ST. MARY’s
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If anyone would like to donate plants or cuttings to the sales table then please contact either Maureen - 78223 or Carole - 78242 Items of home baking or produce to sell on the sales table or cakes, scones or tray bakes for the teas, would be gratefully re-ceived. If you are able to contribute any of these items, could you please contact Anne - 78587.
Dear Friends Easter is late this year, the school holidays will have happened before we even get to Holy Week, the week in which we remember the events leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection. Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday 14th April. As well as our regular morning service (10.15 at St Mary’s, Thornthwaite), in the afternoon at 4pm it will be Messy Church. Everyone is welcome, there will be activities to help us think about Easter, some time to celebrate before we sit down for a meal to-gether. Then on the Monday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings (15th, 16th and 17th April) from 7-8pm everyone is invited to join Bishop James, the bishop of Car-lisle, in Booths Café! He will be leading some reflections and discussion and there will be refreshments too. These are open to everyone, not just church members. On Thursday 18th, known as Maundy Thursday, we remember especially the last supper Jesus had with his disciples before he died. This year we are hold-ing a service of Holy Communion at St Mary’s, Thornthwaite. It will be quiet and reflective and at the end we will leave silently going out into the dark, as Jesus went from that meal to pray on the Mount of Olives. On Good Friday, 19th April, there will be a walk of witness in Keswick starting at 11am by the wishing well in the Theatre car park (near Hope Park). A large cross will be carried and at various points along the way there will be pauses to reflect and hear the story of the events of Good Friday when Jesus died for love of the world. In the afternoon at St Herbert’s, Braithwaite there will be an hour of reflections from 2-3pm. Easter Day itself, 21st April, will be celebrated at St Herbert’s, Braithwaite at 10.15am. In an uncertain world, where so much is fragile and many things are changing, faith in God who raised Jesus from the dead offers us strength and hope. I do hope and pray you will experience God’s blessing this Easter.
With very best wishes,
Judith
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Come and join the fun!
Messy Church is church
for
ALL AGES together.
Where? St Herbert’s Church, Braithwaite
When? Sundays 4.00 to 5.30pm
April 14th Always With Us
May 12th Pray, Pray, Pray
June 9th Dazzling Disciples
What? Crafts, activities, bible stories, prayers,
songs and a meal!
It’s amazing what you can pack into just over 90 minutes. Have a
go at some of the crafts and activities as a family. We’re ex-
ploring Easter in April and then in May it’s prayer - which really
is for all ages. The food is good. It’s home cooked and you don’t
have to cook it. Most importantly it’s a chance to meet and
make friends and together explore and celebrate life.
Lenten Walk Friday 5th April
with the Cumbrian Church Leaders Bishop James and Rev Sarah Moore (URC) will be walking from Binsey into Keswick as part of a much longer walk across Cumbria.. Timing is as follows:
5.30 pm Prayers at Crosthwaite; then walk to 6.15 pm Supper in the Parish Rooms
Supper will be a ‘bring and share’ supper. Bishop James and Sarah will be doing a short talk & leading discussion on ‘Pilgrimage & Journeying Together’.
Holy Week Churches in our Mission Community are joining together for Holy Week for a series of talks and discussion. We are holding this in Booths Café! (Thank you to the staff for allowing us to use the café after it has finished its normal business.) Do encourage people to join us for these sessions – they are open to eve-ryone from all churches and no church!
Join Bishop James For tea / coffee; talk; discussion in Booths Coffee shop
Mon 15th Tues 16th Wed 17th 7-8 pm
Annual Parochial Church Meeting 7th April at 7pm in St Herbert’s Church Hall
This is the yearly meeting required by the Church of England where mem-bers of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) and officers are elected as necessary. Anyone is welcome to attend, but only people on the electoral role can speak and vote at the meeting.
Parochial Church Council (PCC) Meeting Next Meeting
7pm Thursday 23 May at St Herbert’s
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Braithwaite CE Primary School, Braithwaite, Keswick, Cumbria
Head Teacher: Mrs J Laker Tel: 017687 78356
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Book Day & other news In Braithwaite School we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as book char-acters and reading stories together. 3 prize winners each won a book donated by FOBS (Friends Of Braithwaite School).
Catbells class had a great day with West Cumbria Rivers Trust and Skiddaw class had an interesting visit to the Magistrates Court in Workington. We also had an amazing time performing at Young Voices concerts in Manchester and Keswick
with other local schools. Find out more on our Facebook page!
Coming Soon: Forest Adventures We are delighted to have been awarded a ‘Big Lottery Grant’ to develop a Forest Adventure Area in our school grounds. Together with a further grant from the Tesco Bag for Life scheme, this will give us sufficient funds to set up and equip our area and train staff to be able to deliver ‘forest adventures’ as part of our curricu-lum for early years and older pupils.
Nursery & School Places Available We have places available in Nursery (and further up in the school) for September but it really helps us plan if we know about applications as soon as possible. We also offer before & after school care. Please come and visit so we can tell you more about us. Email: [email protected], phone us on 017687 78356 or just pop in when you’re passing by.
Community Lunches All welcome to join us for lunch on Thursdays (cost £3.50 for a delicious two course meal). We have special lunches planned for Thursday 28
th March (Spring Special) and 25
th April (St George’s Day). Contact the school
office for more information or to book!
Easter Service Wed 18th April 9:30am at St Herbert’s Church – do come!
A working group of the PCC has been ex-ploring the future for Newlands Church. Thankyou for the 14 responses to the questionnaire distributed to those who live in the valley, which suggest there is a lot of support to help with the maintenance of the building. What we need to do now is to see if we can turn that into practical day to day and week by week arrangements for continued care of the church. This is vital to creating a sustainable future for the building. An Open Meeting (see below) is the next step. If we can get practical arrangements in place, the ideas for using the building and for making visitors welcome become possible. The PCC has agreed that the current pattern of monthly Morning Services at 10.15 eve-ry 4th Sunday should continue until the Harvest Festival service on 22nd September 2019. After that there will be a minimum of four services during the summer months, for 2020 these are suggested as:
Easter Day Sunrise service followed by breakfast buns etc.
A Friends of Newlands Church service
A Mission Community service with a barbeque
A Songs of Praise type service on the final Sunday of the afternoon tea season. The church would remain open as it is now, and would continue to be available for Weddings, Funerals and Christenings.
*** This year the Friends of Newlands Church service is on 26th May, and will be incorpo-rated in our Parish Communion service, at the slightly later time of 11.00am. All are invited to come along, you don't have to be a member of FONC to attend. There will be tea/coffee afterwards and an opportunity to chat with friends, visitors and locals
"Open Meeting Newlands Church Schoolroom
3pm Saturday 13th April Learn more about the plans. Let us know how you will help.
The future of the church depends on support from the community.
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Ideal for any party or family occasion with separate function room seating up
meets on the second Monday of each month at St. Herbert’s Church in Braithwaite at 7.30 pm.
The WI plays a unique role in providing women with ed-ucational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their com-munities.
We are very keen to welcome new members and visitors are very welcome. We do all we can to make them feel at home. Although there is a lot going on peo-ple are encouraged to take part in as much or as little as they wish.
Future meetings:
April 8th David Kerry: Flags
May 13th Barbara Ratcliffe: Lace Making
Over the past year the children at Braithwaite School have had the op-portunity to work with Active Art on a regular basis, enjoying many out-door Art Sessions. Together, they are transforming the look of their school and its grounds with many interesting and striking pieces of art. These include a huge wooden tree installation standing tall in the school entrance hall based on the school motto, ‘Learning together, growing together’. Other work include the vibrant ‘School of Fish’ fence in the Early Years playground, the ‘Wall of Wise Owls’ welcoming you into the school and the brightly coloured ‘Friendship Bench’ focusing on unity, love and compassion.
Active Art is a new business venture, recently set up by a sister and brother team who were brought up on a working farm in Eskdale in the Lake District. Now based in Braithwaite and Lorton, Claire Grant & Philip Wake have the aim of inspiring Nursery and Primary School aged chil-dren to explore the huge variety of techniques and materials that art offers, giving children a broad experience of art in many different forms.
Active Art places great importance to encouraging children to get crea-tive in the outdoors, learning about artists, techniques and media before putting these new skills into practice. The workshops introduce a broad range of interesting and fun techniques, allowing children to explore art media in unique ways. The sessions are full of movement and energy, often big and adventurous and allow the children to dive into and ex-plore art in a way they will remember with enthusiasm and pride.
‘Art has so many avenues, so much to offer and no boundaries; it can be enormous and bold or delicate and small. Getting children outdoors, cre-ating, working individually or as a team, getting involved, getting messy, expressing themselves and being different is vital as well as a fun and lively way to learn’ said Claire.
Active Art also offers schools and organizations the opportunity to make permanent artwork, producing large wooden installation pieces. These are tailor made for each school, with designs initially sketched out by Active Art, based around a topic or theme chosen by the school, these are then cut from hard wood and treated to make them hardwearing and long-lasting. A special workshop is subsequently organized involving the whole school with each child painting an individual part of the instal-lation. These wooden installations are a great way to bring colour, ener-gy and inspiration to a school and can be displayed either inside or out-side in the school grounds. ‘Children gain a real sense of pride in having been part of a team, creating something long lasting and eye-catching for their school. They are always delighted to point out their individual piece on the installation to their friends and family’ Philip added.
NoGoGondola.......Update Thank you to everyone who has been supporting our campaign to influence the LDNPA’s recent plans. Over 150 have attended our meetings in St. Herbert’s church hall. On 1st March the Lake District National Park Authority published the revised Local Plan which included developments concerning the concept of a Gondola (cable car) ride from Thornthwaite to the Whinlatter Centre, as well as plans to extend the leisure area up there. In March the NoGoGondola Group had an opportunity to meet with the NPA’s Chair-man Mike McKinley, Steve Ratcliffe (Director, Park’s Strategy and Vision Director), Han-nah Latte (planner) and our Local NPA Member Geoff Davies to discuss it. In a nutshell, there have been some significant and positive changes:
The word Gondola has been removed from the Plan, so a planning application would not be supported by any overt policy within the Park’s official rule book (obviously good news)
There is now a requirement for a Master Plan to be worked out and approved by anyone wishing to develop anything at Whinlatter (as opposed to a single development idea such as a Gondola)
Developments that ‘adversely impact surrounding settlements’ are likely to be refused
There will be community involvement in the Master planning process
The requirement for Developers to make contributions to transport infrastruc-ture improvement
There remain issues however,
The LDNPA’s continued role as a stakeholder in the Whinlatter Development Company. While not a Local Plan issue directly, this suggests that key figures in the NPA remain privately committed to a Gondola at Whinlatter
The Plan still indicates that ‘Leisure Accommodation’ would be viewed favoura-bly at Whinlatter as part of a Masterplan (which some of us may oppose)
Development controls in our ‘North Distinctive Area’ are now too relaxed in our view due to a change in wording
There should be a clear obligation on any developer to evaluate and wherever possible use existing (transport) infrastructure before any new forms are consid-ered
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Most fundamentally, the Local Plan does not (and realistically probably never can) go so far as to say ‘there will never be a Gondola’, so the possibility of a planning applica-tion being brought forward at some point remains. What we can say though is that, assuming the Revised Plan is adopted, it should be significantly more difficult for a Gondola proposal to be approved. Later in March the Board of Governors for the LDNPA were meeting, to adopt the final policy document to be sent to Westminster. In April, when the Revised local Plan is published, there will be a “Consultation” peri-od of 8 weeks for further comments. PLEASE LOOK OUT IN THE PRESS AND OUR WEB-SITE for your last chance to influence events.
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017687 8010.
Meetings start at 10.00 for coffee, followed by the talk at 10.30
Your School Needs You!
New Governors Wanted!
We’re looking for 2-3 governors to join the Local Gov-erning Body from September to help us support the school. The governors represent parents, staff, the community and the church. Interested? Want to know more? Please contact the head teacher Mrs Laker [email protected]
"Affordable Homes for our Communities
The Above Derwent Community Land Trust Ltd (ADCLT Ltd) have now
completed the purchase of Pow Wood. The site which is their first pro-
ject, will consist of 2x2 bedroom and 2x3 bedroom properties. The AD-
CLT Ltd have been successful in obtaining grant funding from Allerdale
Borough Council for some of the build costs, with Homes England providing
funding for architectural costs. When the final design has been approved
by the LDNPA there will be a tendering process in order to appoint a con-
tractor for the building works.
It is anticipated that building work should start late summer early au-
tumn. These homes will be for young local families which will help to re-
dress the ageing population in the Parish.
The ADCLT Ltd would welcome people who like to be like to be involved
with this project. Contact Don Thoburn for more information:
New International Charity Launches from Braithwaite
The Starfish Story Early one morning, an old man was walking along the sea-shore and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see. Off in the distance, he noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occa-sionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! What are you doing?” The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The storm tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves. When the sun gets up, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.” The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. What difference can you possibly make?” The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
Vision This story is the inspiration for the charity – the vision is to inspire and enable a wave of starfish throwers, to make an impact on physical and spiritual poverty - one person at a time. In the words of Rev George Hoffman, founder of TEARFund “One person cannot change the world, but they can change the world for one person”. Laurence and Alison Biggs who live in Braithwaite are two of the 4 trustees of the charity. Laurence has recently returned from a two week trip to Kenya to build partnerships as the charity builds momentum. Financial support is very welcome via the stewardship network at www.give.net/20262923 or through Charities aid Foundation at www.cafonline.org. For more information contact Laurence at [email protected] or see tbnchurches.net
