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St Peter’s Churchyard Working party

Saturday 9th November 2024 10 am to 12 noon

The next churchyard working party is this Saturday.
If you would like to join us, please do, even if it’s only for a short time.

Jobs include

Gathering fallen branches and twigs and move to bonfire site.

Bonfire

Removing unwanted growth in newly planted hedgerow.

Clear any holly, ivy, saplings moss etc from areas where they shouldn’t be

Remove moss from church walls, Bishop’s walk etc, especially the area near the water butt.·

And anything else you feel needs doing.

Please bring a drink, any tools you might find handy, stout gloves and suitable footwear.

Thanks.
Hope you can join us.

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Thornton Tea with a Twist ~ 3T’s ~ Wednesday 6th November

Our next afternoon is this Wednesday 6th November, 2- 4 pm.


Hope you can join us for a happy afternoon at Thornton Community Centre.

Everyone is welcome, including well behaved dogs on leads, to drop in at any time and stay for as long as you like.

Just come along and see what we are all about.


Cake, tea & coffee and time to chat. Games, puzzles and books (to borrow too). No charge.

Please do let us know if you need a lift. message me or email shirley.garlick19@btinternet.com
Hope to see you.

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Quiz night – Thornton Community Centre

The latest quiz night at Thornton on Saturday 2nd Nov, raised £500 towards the upkeep and building works at the Community centre.

The winning team of 4 (the Cuckoos) scored an impressive 93 out 100 taking away the first prize of £24. Two teams tied on a score of 89 and after a tie-breaker, second place and a prize of £12 went to the Sparrows also a team of 4.

8 ‘quizzers’ went home with raffle prizes – thank you Liz M and Ann B for your contributions to the raffle which raised £56.

1 ‘quizzer’ went home with a bottle of prosecco and 1 with a box of Quality street after a quick round of card bingo.

Another successful, enjoyable night – Hopefully there will be another one early in the New Year.

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Thornton Community Centre – Sports Hall – building works

The trustees apologise for any inconvenience caused by the recent building work in the Sports Hall at the Community Centre.

The work has been carried out in three phases to minimise disruption.

PHASE ONE

To remove the Sports hall ceiling tiles, insulation and the brown felt wall and ceiling covering.

Earlier in the year there was a fire inspection at the premises and it was found that the tiles etc were not fire retardant,

The hall was in danger of being closed if the trustees had not taken remedial action. The old tiles, felting and insulation was removed and replaced with new fire retardant tiles and insulation (Tim Baker TLB Construction Ltd) and the hall decorated throughout (Dave Goodburn).

COST – £13,080

PHASE TWO

To provide two unisex toilets in the Sports Hall (additional to the disabled toilet) by utilising the space of the existing small kitchen and using a third of the Sports Hall storeroom space for a new modern, fully equipped kitchen with eye level oven and microwave, induction hob, and large fridge freezer. (Tim Baker TLB Construction Ltd).

COST – £24,500

PHASE THREE

After phase two was completed the trustees realised that there was an unacceptable level of noise (reverberation) in the hall, making it ‘uncomfortable’ for users to hear and concentrate. The decision was taken to engage a specialist company to address the problem.

Sound Reduction Ltd will be installing white, Sonata Aurio absorber panels across the whole of the ceiling. This work will take one day to complete and will take place on Wednesday 6th November in time for the two major forthcoming events – The Christmas Fayre (16th November) and the School pantomime.

COST – £5,577.60

TOTAL COST OF THE THREE PHASES OF THE PROJECT – £43,157.60

It is hoped that this work will lead to more bookings for the Sports Hall which can now be used independently of the Main Hall.  The hall is already very popular for childrens parties with the  safe use of a bouncy castle indoors. The trustees would welcome new user groups to the hall, especially for sporting activities such as ‘pickle ball’ the new sporting craze sweeping the country.

SECURITY

We now have the capability to lock the new kitchen and storeroom doors to enable regular user groups equipment to be stored safely.

FUTURE PROJECTS

There are a few minor internal works that still need completing (new main hall door, new flooring in the Main hall foyer, toilet and kitchen,  bricking up an obsolete rotting door and frame plus major works outdoors – the erection of a decked area off the Main hall patio doors and the extension of the car park.

FUND RAISING

All the works completed so far have seriously depleted the Centre’s funds and no further projects can be carried out until we raise the necessary monies .

More than ever we need new fund raising ideas and helpers.

If you have any ideas or think you can help in any way, then please contact the trustees through this website.