Hatfield Woodhouse Village Hall

from The Hatfield Arrow April 2023

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Press release

The start of the year has proved a very busy and productive period for the village hall and its management trustees. Over a year ago prior to the war In Ukraine the secretary of the management committee began to investigate the possibility of reducing our carbon footprint as well as our energy bills by the installation of solar power panels. The massive impact of the energy price rises in 2022 seriously impacted the Hall’s ongoing financial viability, to the extent that investment in such a scheme had to be put on the back burner.

The hall had prided its self in not raising its charges for 15 years, since the last financial crash occurred. It had managed to do this through prudent financial planning. Unfortunately, last November the decision had to be taken to raise its charges by 10% [not enough to cover the energy price hike] but as much as the committee felt its loyal users could bear in present circumstances. With the hall’s viability somewhat improved, in the short term at least, the decision was taken to revisit the solar project. Various grant funding bodies were approached and the hall was incredibly fortunate to obtain a very substantial grant from Well Doncaster [ part of Public Health Doncaster] towards Phase One of the project, the installation of Solar Panels on the roof of the building. Though these are invisible they are already in action. We were also doubly fortunate to be granted a further large sum from The Tween Bridge Wind Farm Community Fund [ administered by South Yorkshire Community Fund] towards Phase Two, the installation of the battery storage array. This too is now commissioned.

The hall would like to publicly thank both the grant giving bodies for their generosity and help in ensuring the hall’s future viability. However, there is still much to do to improve the hall and ensure its continuing viability as a muchused local asset. Having completed phases one and two of the energy security plan, this year will see us turning our attention to phases 3 and 4. These are the potential doubling of the solar collection and battery storage and the replacement of the decades old heating control system with a new more targeted and responsive control system. Once again, we would like to thank our grant givers, Well Doncaster and Tween Bridge Wind Farm Community Fund [via South Yorkshire Community Fund] for their amazing generosity and help.

Hatfield Community Library

The coffee morning for The Friends of Jubilee Park was well attended so thank you to all those people who supported this good cause. I believe the Jubilee group made about £200 which will go towards improvements. The Church jewellery stall and the Food Bank Chocolate tombola also did well and we made about £20 on our ‘for sale books’ and jigsaws.

Lab Rascals, was enjoyed by the lucky 20 children who managed to secure a place. Lab Rascals are coming back at Easter. More information in our events section.

The Friday Sing-a-Long had gained some new members who were not put off by a very challenging My Generation’ originally by The Who but that was offset by one of our favourites ‘Annie’s Song’ by John Denver. Do come to join us if you want to sing your heart out to old and new favourites.

New Events

March Sat. 25th Thorne rural Lions coffee Morning

March Tues. 28th Author Event. Peter Pascoe talking about his life in the RAF. National Service and Beyond. 4pm

March Thurs. 30th George Formby Evening 7pm His life story and music with a ukulele of course.

EASTER CLOSURE Closed FRI. 7th RE-OPEN TUES.11th April

April Thurs 6th Lego Robotics 2 sessions 10-12.30 and 1-3:30. Please book

April Thurs 13th Lab Rascals Colour and Light 1:30-2:30. Please book

April 25th Author Event Dave Pitt. 4pm

April Fri 14th PCSO DROP-IN. If you have any local concerns, come to chat to the friendly officers who will do their best to help you.

Tech Tablet Course

TEA AND TECH TABLET course for adults 18+ endorsed by Skills Doncaster, Voluntary Action and the NHS. Enjoy a cup of tea and cake/biscuit as you learn how to use your new tablet and its APPs. You will be presented with the tablet on successful completion of the course which will last 5 weeks. Mondays from 3-4pm.We need to know how people many people are interested so please contact Hatfield Community Library. Chairman Retires.

I am quite often asked who runs the library. The answer is simple. We are a volunteer run library and like all organisations we have to have a committee to make the running of the library more efficient. The committee is made up of five people each with a particular responsibility. Sadly, we said goodbye to our Chairman, Clive Margerrison at Thursday’s Committee meeting. Clive has been chairman since we first opened as a Volunteer run library in 2014 so it was quite a sad moment. He was especially helpful in setting up our non-profit business plan and bank account. We presented him with a rose bush for his garden so when he looks at it, he can hopefully remember us fondly. (As we will him). Dave is our new Chairman

Picture shows The Committee, from left to right - Lorraine, Sue, Clive, Dave, Marion, Fiona

I mentioned the art club in the last news item so this week it is the turn of the Bridge and Needles and Pins groups. Both groups welcome new members. The Bridge club is for beginners but you can join to learn or improve. The Needles and Pins group usually work on their own projects and share their expertise with others whilst chatting and having a cuppa and a biscuit.

Weekly Classes

If you would like to meet new people, come to the Library and join some of our groups or just borrow a book and have a coffee and a chat or just come to keep warm.

MONDAY. Needles and Pins 10am. Bring your own work and chat with like-minded people or ask for advice about a project you might want to start. (free activity). Bridge 1pm for beginners and improvers. (free activity)

TUESDAY. Games café 10:00-12:30 Join us in the library to play a variety of games including Mahjong. Refreshments are provided for the small charge of £1. (Free activity). Readers’ groups. The last Tuesday of the month 2-3:30 and the last Friday of the month at 10:30. (Free activity). Gentle Hatha Yoga 6:00-7:30pm. £6 a session

WEDNESDAY. Art Class 10:00-12:30

Tuition from an artist is available to help beginners and experienced artists. New members are welcome. You do not have be good at art to enjoy this class. £30 for 4 weeks)

Yoga (gentle/chair yoga) 3:30-5pm. £6

If you wish to contact the library Tel. 01302 842064 email. hatfieldcommunitylibrary@gmail.com

Facebook @hatfieldcommunitylibrary

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Thorne Camera Club

Competitions form a major part in all camera clubs programmes with the aim to improve the standard of photography of all members. However not all members like competitions but do have a keen interest in photography and with that in mind the club held its first 'Critique Evening' with Royston Packer providing the critique on a wide range of images where the members had the opportunity to discuss the comments given on their images. All the critiques given provided a constructive view for the growth of each member and the club as a whole.

Two members provided very good talks for the members, one by Malcolm Hayes on camera settings and the typical menus found in most cameras and how the aperture and shutter settings change the visual effect of the images taken and the second member Graham Linley's talk and demonstration on two programmes for the production of Audio/Visual presentations.

Our DPI competition was judged by Nigel Plant from Hebden Bridge. The competition was ‘Open’ and provided many interesting entries. Nigel provided excellent critique on all of the entries and his final choice was:- First and Third Terry Gunnill with 'Bolverk' and ‘Nerthus’ Second Jacki Greenwood with 'Puppy Love'. Well done to all for providing a fine collection of images.

The programme for Highlights for March and April are:-

27th March Black and White Print , Competition Judge, Robert Helliwell

3rd April Trees and Much More. Speaker, Terry Gunnill

Wildlife in Lockdown. Speaker, Stewart Campbell

10th April Easter

17th April The Flat Capped Photographer. Speaker, Tom Marsh

We welcome all who are interested in photography to join our club Monday evenings at 7.30pm at the Methodist Church Hall, Thorne. The membership for the club is £15.00 per annum with a weekly subscription of £2.00.

For further details please contact:-

Chair - Patricia Woodward thornecc2022@gmail.com

Secretary - June Horbury junehorbury@sky.com

Membership - Jackie Woodward tccmembership@gmx.co.uk

Monty's Monthly Tip - The Exposure Triangle (aperture, shutter and ISO) is the basis of exposure control in photography and needs to be understood. When one point of the triangle is moved in one direction then another point of the triangle must be moved by the same amount in the opposite direction to maintain exposure. When making any adjustments to aperture, shutter and ISO settings always check the ‘in camera’ meter and keep the indicator at the midpoint of the scale to achieve a good exposure. For guidance only use ISO 100 for sunny days and up to 400 for overcast days, for poor light conditions use ISO settings of 800 and above. Large apertures (f1.4 – f5.6) give shallow depth of field, small apertures (f8.0 onwards) give deep depth of field. Fast shutter speeds freeze movement and slow shutter speeds blur the movement.