Don’t forget to check our Events Diary for more information on events in all our villages and surrounding area.

NEWS FROM THE MEMORIAL HALL

Cocktails and Karaoke Night

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our cocktail and Karaoke evening at the end of September. We all had a great and memorable evening. Big thank you to Dave and Ben Harris for hosting. Well done to everyone who got up and sang and made the event such a success.

Charity Skittles Night

We had a full house join us on Saturday 25th October for our charity skittles night. Our night was in memory of Bob Gammage and Phil Bott who were great ambassadors for Northamptonshire skittles and captained the village teams for many years. Four teams, totalling 32 players battled it out in a fun, competitive evening until one team, The Spades, were crowned champions. Thank you to Mandy Carson, Gemma Sellers and Dave Harris for their help with the evening. A total of £280 was raised for Prostate Cancer and Alzheimer’s Society.

Village Archive

Huge thanks go to Cold Ashby Parish Council for giving £500 grant towards the Cold Ashby Archive project. Work is now underway in reproducing and cataloguing many photographs and articles and will continue into next year. We plan to hold another Heritage Day in the spring where we can share our progress so far. Dates for this will be announced in the next edition.

CHURCH NEWS

Lighting of Remembrance Tree

The Tree of Remembrance will once more be lit throughout December to remember those that are no longer with us.

This year the grand switch on will be Saturday 6th December at 6pm and everyone is warmly welcome to join us where we will sing some carols before moving into the church for refreshments.

To buy a bulb costs £5 and villagers will receive a form through your door which needs to be returned to Will Benney by the beginning of December.

Harvest Supper

Thank you to everyone who attended our Harvest Festival and Supper at the end of September. It was a lovely, well attended evening and we are very grateful to everyone that helped on the night. We raised just under £500 which, coupled with the money raised at Open Gardens has paid for the new joists and floorboards which were damaged and needed replacing. Thank you to James Ruddlesdin for carrying out the repairs.

Cold Ashby Memorial Hall

Presents:

Cold Ashby

 Christmas   Cracker

Get into the Christmas Spirit with us on:

Saturday 13th December from 7:30pm

A festive evening hosted by

Dave Harris

Secret Santa (buy a fun present for around £5 and receive one in return)

Christmas tabletop quiz

Bring a plate of food to share

Meet at

St Denys Church

Cold Ashby

December 13th at 2pm

Sunday Cafe

Sunday 21st December, Sunday 4th and 25th January

Join us for breakfast between 9:30-12pm.

Bacon, Sausage, Egg rolls, Toasties  and Cakes

available to eat in or takeaway.

Cold Ashby Memorial Hall

presents:

Join us on:

Saturday 31st January at

7:30pm

For our cash prize bingo

£1 per card

Lasagne and garlic bread available to

preorder at £6

Cold Ashby events for December and January

Everyone is welcome to join us for the following events and residents’ support will ensure that we are able to keep these important village facilities open and provide opportunities for entertainment, social interaction and keep the village pool and skittle teams going.

Pool nights some Mondays from 7.30pm at the Cold Ashby Playing Field Pavilion.  Bar open.   Please see village Facebook pages for more details