Social Tennis: Mondays and Thursdays, from 5pm to 6pm. A warm welcome to anyone who would like to come along and play tennis. Just turn up at 5pm at the Court!

Fees 2009 (confirmed as remaining the same at the recent AGM)

Children, 16 and under:               20p each child per hour.

Adults:                                              £1 each adult per hour

Students and unwaged people  50p per person per hour

Please book at the Booking Board at the Garage before you play and wear soft soled shoes.

‘Pay as you go’ moneybox at the Garage for fees.

Annual season ticket. Play as often as you like with no additional payment. Obtainable from the Treasurer: Antoinette Ward, 016974 78220

Children, 16 and under: £5 per year

Adults, 17 and over: £15 per year

The tennis court is situated on the school field at Fellview School. It is open to all, subject to booking a slot on the booking sheet at the Garage, and putting the fee in the honesty box at the Garage.

Summer Play Readings
 
Caldbeck Players will be hosting a selection of play readings this Summer. These readings are open to anyone who would like to come along, new faces are always welcome. You dont have to follow it up with a stage appearance. You could also just come along and listen if you prefer not to read.
Any queries, give me a call, Veronica Stockdale 016974 76035.
 

Thursday 23rd July, 7.30.

David and Roberta Bowen, Clay Dubs, Caldbeck. Tel 016974 78100

Reading: Come on Jeeves, PG Woodhouse.    

Thursday 27th August, 7.30.

Ken and Pauline Woolfenden,Greenrig Farm, Caldbeck. Tel, 016974 78212.

Reading: Cold Comfort Farm, S Gibbons.    

Thursday 17th September, 7.30.

Frank and Rachael Cosgrove, Back Green, Hesket Newmarket.Tel, 016974 78024.

Reading: Great Expectations, H Leonard.

We are still lucky enough to see red squirrels in our area but at least three dead red squirrels have now been discovered in Caldbeck.  One is to be tested to see if it died from the poxvirus which has caused the extinction of reds in so much of the country.

The poxvirus kills red squirrels but not greys. Grey squirrels carry the virus and spread it, killing the reds and making way for more grey squirrels to take over their territory.  To see what poxvirus does to red squirrels, click here.

Local efforts to trap and destroy grey squirrels may slow the invasion but, if the poxvirus has reached us, it is bad news.

Mosedale Coffee Shop

Mosedale Meeting House

The Coffee Shop will be open during the Summer on

Thursdays to Sundays from

2nd July to 6th September.

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays from 10am to 5pm and each Sunday from 2pm to 5pm.

Come and enjoy homemade soup, snacks, cakes and biscuits……

With a variety of locally crafted items and paintings for viewing and sale….

And Bric a Brac in the barn……

Proceeds to the Northern Fells Group.

For people living in Ireby and Uldale, Westward (includes Rosley and Curthwaite), Boltons, Caldbeck (includes Hesket Newmarket), Sebergham (includes Welton), Castle Sowerby and Mungrisdale parishes.

Contact Transport Co-ordinator: Carol Hickson - 016974 78787.

The Northern Fells Lend a Hand Group is a group of volunteers with the aim of giving neighbourly help to anybody who, due to ill health or disability, is in need of help, i.e. anyone of any age with temporary or chronic ill health or disability, and their carers.

Contact Doreen Gleed 016973 71947.

Notes from Caldbeck Parish Council

Notes from Caldbeck Parish Council Meeting of 18th May 2009

• PC Blain had sent a Police Report (read out) to say that three vehicles had been broken into recently, two in Upton and one in Commercial Row.
• Graham Standring, LDNPA Ranger, sent a report which was also read out, detailing the work he does: Repairs and Surveys on Rights of Way (a lot of new gates and stiles installed recently), Resolution of path obstructions, Property management on Caldbeck and Uldale Commons, Meetings with various bodies and Commoners, Conservation management, Recreation, access and events management, Conservation of mining and mineral heritage, ‘Policing’ anti social behaviour, Legal issues and car parks, Management of leased properties (eg The Howk), Volunteers, Guided walks, Fix the Fells (upland paths restoration), Bassenthwaite Lake restoration programme, Planning (very little involvement), Environmental land management. Graham also reported on the complex issue of the illegal ponies on the Common (those ponies where the owner does not have grazing rights). A number of these ponies are stallions and stallions are not allowed to roam on the Common whether or not their owner has grazing rights. As owners of the Common the LDNPA secured the permission of the owner of these stallions to castrate them and so far 14 have been castrated. The work will continue in the autumn and spring of the next two years. Graham reported that the owner has had the ponies on the Common so long that he will have acquired Commons rights for a certain number of ponies, probably about 20 – 30, but not the present 80+. Graham points out that while the LDNPA is funding the castration work to reduce the grazing and other problems on the Common it is important to point out that the ponies are not the responsibility of the National Park.
• Allotments. The Council received the Clerk’s report re the recent inspection of the Allotments. It was agreed that a letter should be sent to the Allotment Holders Association, with a copy to each tenant, with compliments on those plots which are well cultivated and a request that other plots are tidied with paths strimmed and weeds removed before a further inspection in June. There are now three people on the waiting list.
• SIDS. Audrey Noble reported that the Speed Indicator Device scheme will hopefully recommence at the end of May. She is to attend a training course in the management of the SID  and then cascade the training to others involved. The Clerk will now activate the agreed Insurance for the SID.
• Cumbria  in Bloom and Tidy Village plans. It was agreed that the Chairman and Audrey Noble would lead a ‘Tidy Up Day’ for the public areas of Caldbeck village on Sat 4th July, and that Hesket Newmarket would make their own arrangements under the leadership of Alan Armstrong.
• HN Green. It was agreed that the Clerk would request Graham Standring to organise a meeting with the Highways Dept, which the Parish Council would also attend, to address the issue of the damage to Hesket Newmarket Green from vehicles parking and driving on and over the Green edges.
• Clerk would notify the following road problems to Highways: a. very urgently, the myriad potholes on School Hill as they are particularly dangerous to cyclists including schoolchildren, b. Haltcliffe – potholes just south of the Hole Crook entrance, c. scarred area of road at Howbeck still not repaired, d. pothole opposite the Garage at Upton.
• Following representations form residents the Council considered the proposal to extend the two Conservation Areas. It was resolved not to support the boundary extensions in either village as the rationale was not persuasive.
• Annual Audit a) The Annual Report for the year ended 31st March 2009 was received from the Internal Auditor. b) The Annual Return Statement of Accounts 2008/2009 and the Cashbook were approved and signed. c) The Statement of Assurance was completed approved and signed. The Clerk informed the Council that the external audit had been set for 10th July 2009.  The notice will be displayed from 25th May – 7th June on each of the Parish’s five noticeboards and the records will be available for inspection from 8th June – 3rd July 2009. 

Antoinette Ward

Clerk to Caldbeck Parish Council

The Green, Caldbeck, Wigton, CA7 8ER

Telephone: 016974 78220

Email: aw.caldbeck@googlemail.com

Dates of next meetings

29th June

10th August

21st September

2nd November

14th December

25th January 2010