Walton News

7th March Walton Work day

The projects for the morning will be:

Litter picking around the village, along Spring Lane & cycle track. Litter pickers and bags will be provided

Pushing back of verge growth along the cycle track where it has started to cover the tarmac. Please bring your own spades & shovels. Installation of new guttering around the bus shelter.

Meet at Holly Cottage at 9.30am for bacon sandwiches, refreshments at The Fox and Hounds at 1pm. Let Richard Prudhoe know if you are available or want allocating to a specific job on richard.prudhoe@gmail.com

Fingers crossed for some spring sunshine!

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Village Hall Committee Update

There have been a lot of changes at Walton Village Hall over the last few months so we asked new committee chair Brian Eldred to update us!

The committee is now led by Brian as Chair and Mark Wake as Deputy Chair. Stephen Sharp, Sue Noble and Gilbert Thompson-Royd remained from the existing committee and we were joined by David Taylor as Treasurer, William Keogh and Anthony Farrimond. The committee work alongside and are supported by the Parish Council. Helena Buck has agreed to act as our Secretary. In addition, there are a number of volunteers, notably Gay Childe and David Spencer who assist in many areas including looking after the cleaning of the Hall.

The first priorities were to ensure a hand-over of documentation, contacts etc. and to make sure everything was in order legally, financially and in health and safety matters. Once this was done the committee took action and jumped in feet first. Some of the achievements of the new group so far are:

Updated Health & Safety signage and procedures and carried out a Fire Safety ssessment

Carried out a Disability Access Assessment along with Leeds Council Building Control

Launched new website, re-launched Facebook page - waltonvillagehallwetherby.org and www.facebook.com/waltonvillagehallwetherby

Developed on-line booking/invoicing system, soon to be integrated with the website

Held the 2nd Bonfire Night party in conjunction with the Parish Council

Held first Walton Christmas party with food, children’s entertainment, live music and Santa!

There are lots of ambitious goals for the coming year including improvements to the building: upgrading the toilets, re-roofing the store at the rear, and improving the car park. They plan to hold another party in the summer, and are already generating extra interest in booking the hall for events. The committee are open to ideas for what the villagers would like to see happen there!

Thanks to those who have helped out at the events – and here’s a call for more volunteers: it’s your Hall, let’s help to make the most of it!