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News
Coffee, Cake and Christmas Wreath making
The pub is hosting a Christmas Wreath making event, with Kathryn from Angel Blooms, on Tue 3rd Dec, 10-12:30. £40 per person including coffee and cake plus, on completion, a glass of Prosecco🍾
Places are limited so contact Sharon at the pub to book.
Pie & Peas evening
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
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.
🗞️Monyash News📰
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.
Cleaner wanted
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/
Policing priorities survey
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.
Pilates and Yoga
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.
Makers and Crafters Fair
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.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
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.
Tennis for Health
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.
Derbyshire Police and Crime Plan 2024-29 survey
Police and Crime Commissioner Nicolle Ndiweni has launched a consultation on the Police and Crime Plan for Derbyshire. 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.
Community Transport
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)
Report potholes
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.
Home Upgrade Grant
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.
Contact a Parish Councillor
You can now contact individual 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.
Planning
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
Monyash Quilters meet every Tuesday afternoon from 2-4 in the Village Hall. They’re a friendly group with a wide range of creative talent who love making beautiful quilts and anything crafty. Drop into one of our weekly meetings as a taster to see what we do and if we can tempt you to join.
Church open daily
Since Monday 20th September 2021, St Leonard’s is open every day from 10:00 to 15:00.
All the churches in the White Peak and Yourlgreave Benefices now post their services to the website A Church Near You. Full details of all things to do with St Leonard’s are on the church’s page here.
Old news
You can find archived news up to and including 2018 here.