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This site contains pages of information about our village; b&b and holiday cottage accommodation, weather forecasts, maps and directions, parish council meeting papers and minutes, local amenities and events, the village’s history, and lots more…
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News items
- This year’s Pie and Peas 🥧🫛 evening at the pub will be 5-8pm Thursday 14th November. You can choose from suet or shortcrust pastry for your meat & potato pie, served with mushy peas, mashed swede, pickled red cabbage and crusty bread to mop up! There’s Homity Pie available too.
£12.50 each, of which £2 will go to St Leonard’s. 🥧🫛Takeout and delivery can be arranged🥧🫛 - Barn Close Farm Shop is open seven days/week just outside the village. Check out their new web page here or send them a message from here.
- 🗞️📰 The October edition of our monthly printed village newsletter is now out. You can view or download it here. All the back issues are available on the dedicated Monyash Newsletter page here. 📰🗞️
- Monyash Parish Council is looking to employ a cleaner to look after the toilets and the car park area down by the entrance to Lathkill Dale. Hours and days to be negotiated and will vary through the year, but the hourly rate will be very good. If you know anyone who might be interested in taking on the role, please contact the clerk, Lesley Bramwell from this page https://monyash.info/parish-council/contact-the-parish-council/
- Derbyshire Constabulary and The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner are carrying out a survey with local communities. This is important and they would like to hear your views. Your opinions will influence the community engagement and delivery of services within your area. We want to better understand what’s great and what’s not so great about where people live so we can work with residents to help tackle any worries and issues that you may have. You can find the survey at this link.
- This year’s Harvest Festival service will be at 4pm on Sunday 6th October, led by Alison Fletcher, the agricultural chaplain. Some of you from the farming community will already know Alison and it would be lovely to see you in church. As in previous years, we would appreciate any gifts of tinned foods, dry or store cupboard goods which we will deliver to the food bank in Buxton. Any items can be left in church.
- Pilates classes continue on Tuesday evenings 18:00-19:00, with Pilates for Men on Thursdays 19:30-20:30.
Hatha Yoga is on Wednesdays from 18:30-19:45.
Check our Pilates and Yoga page for details and our diary for dates. - Monyash Quilters present a Makers and Crafters Fair on Sun 3rd Nov. Attendance is FREE and refreshments are available. Full details are in this poster which you can read or download.
- The Bull’s Head is hosting a coffee morning 8:30-11:30 Tue 29th Oct to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, so mark your diary. Entrance is free, so please just turn up, make a donation to Macmillan and enjoy a mingle and a brew 🍵🫖☕🥓🌭🍥🍰
Baking donations and raffle prizes are welcome, but the most important thing is to just be there.
You can find out more about Macmillan on their website here. - DDDC is organising a programme for people who are diabetic or pre-diabetic. It’s a six-week course to learn to play tennis. Full details including how to apply are in a flyer which you can read or download here.
- Police and Crime Commissioner Nicolle Ndiweni has launched a consultation on the Derbyshire Police and Crime Plan for 2024-29. The responses to this consultation will directly feed in to the Plan and help her team to tackle the challenges that will make Derbyshire safer. The Commissioner understands that to do this, the Plan needs to truly reflect the needs of communities throughout Derbyshire. To help achieve this, please complete the survey which you will find at this link: https://qrco.de/PoliceAndCrimePlanSurvey.
- There are two schemes whose community transport services include Monyash. They’ve been added to our Links page. You can find them here at the following websites
Bakewell Community Transport
Connex Transport (Buxton) - Derbyshire County Council has a webpage here where you can report potholes. The more people that report them, the more likely DCC are to do something about them – so please do nag the County Council by using that link and submitting a report.
- DDDC has current grant funding available for free energy efficiency upgrades for eligible households. They are promoting the Home Upgrade Grant to residents of the Derbyshire Dales who may be eligible and have funding available for energy efficiency improvements for off gas homes where residents may be in fuel poverty – homes could be offered insulation, low carbon heating such as air source heat pumps, and solar panels. Each home will be assessed individually at no cost and no obligation. If you know of anyone who might qualify, please let them know. More information is on this page on DDDC’s website and in this poster which you can read or download.
- You can now contact individual Parish Councillors. This extends the process we recently put in place where you can contact the Parish Council via the Parish Clerk. More details are on the Parish Councillors page here.
- If you’re interested in planning applications in and around Monyash, don’t forget to check our new planning webpage here from time to time. They are listed with by date of application but they can be sorted in several ways, including by date updated.
- Monyash Quilters, a friendly group with a wide range of creative talent who love making beautiful quilts and anything crafty, meet every Tuesday afternoon from 2-4. Drop into one of our meetings in the Village Hall as a taster to see what we do and if we can tempt you to join.
- The churches in the White Peak and Youlgreave benefices now use a national website designed specifically to share church information and you will find full details on St Leonard’s page here.
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If you can’t find any information which you think might be useful, or if you think we have missed something out, please e-mail us from our “Contact Monyash” page, which you can find in the menu bar at the top of every page. We will be pleased to read your suggestions.