Bishopthorpe News and Views

It is worth noting and passing on to people you know that as from the weekend of 27th October Sunday postal collections will cease.

This means that for those who shop and send cards and presents on a Saturday had better post them before 12 noon at the Main Street post box, otherwise they will not be collected  until about 47 hours later on Monday morning.

Might be a good idea to plan to post as much as possible on the 28th so that the box fills up to overflowing.

Now is the time to put forward nominations for this year's youth awards, given to two young people who have made a special contribution in the last year. Anyone can nominate, and there are posters throughought the village telling you how to do so.

This year the wards are being arranged by the Parish Council. The Village Hall has a board listing previous winners, all of whom receive a cash sum to spend on an item of their choice.

Yesterday Bishopthorpe Millennium Trust bade farwell to its first Chair John Bettridge at a special dinner held at the Marcia pub.

John, pictured belowing arriving at the dinner, established the Trust seven years ago to spend money raised during the Millennium celebrations.

A former army officer, he used his considerable skills to get people to join in the Trust's activities. These have included setting up the Bish dot net web site, the annual youth awards scheme, creating village signs, funding local groups and the building of the sensory garden and the restored pinfold as part of the Crossroads improvement scheme.

Twenty current and former members of the Trust and their partners accompanied John and his wife Margaret to the dinner, where Liam Godfrey thanked John for all his work and presented him with a signed card and gift.

The Trust is now chaired by Jo Bewley and operates at a reduced level. Its continuing responsibilities for the Youth Awards, the sensory garden and the Pinfold maintenance have been passed over to the Parish Council.

I am contacting you to tell you about a website you may be interested in if you do any shopping on the Internet, particularly in the run up to Christmas.  It is www.easyfundraising.org.uk.

Basically if you register with this site and shop through its links to online shopping services, including lots of the major ones, Amazon, Play.com, M&S, and many, many more these companies will donate a small percentage of the money you spend to a cause of your choice, at no extra cost to you.

I have registered an account for my World Challenge Expedition under "World Challenge Expedition 2008 Peru - Emma Curran" (under W where you find a cause).

If you fancy registering for a Free 30 Day trial of Which that would really help, see the Funds for Free section of the website.

If you want to pass this website on to anyone else who may be able to help or make
use of it, they can choose any cause they want, it seems a shame not to make use of it!

As some of you might know, a group of students, including me, from Tadcaster Grammar School will be participating in a Team Challenge expedition to Peru next summer where we will be participating in various community, environmental and adventurous activities, and part of the challenge is to raise the money for it ourselves, so any support through the use of this website would be very useful, and I would be very grateful!

Thanks a lot
Emma Curran

See my news, views, interviews and stories on the main page of Bishopthorpe.net

Phil