Community Shop and Café
Open Day tomorrow (28th March) 1-5pm in the village hall in Hallbankgate. We have a pop up cafe and North lakes Food are kindly donating milk for that. Helen from Wallside bakes will be selling her gorgeous tray bakes and cakes and we will have displays of local produce and images and ideas of how …
The next Steering Group meeting will be on Monday 23 March at 7.30pm in the village hall.
That’s 28th March, folks, not 28th February, we do not yet have the power to travel back in time. In any case, we are seriously looking to the future, especially now that the Farlam Parish Trust has granted us enough money to start the bidding process to buy the shop.
Plans are forging ahead for the Hallbankgate Hub open afternoon on the 28th of February between 1 and 5pm in the hall. There will be a pop up cafe where you can sit and have a cup of tea and a chat about the future of the shop in the village and how you can …
We are putting together a local history display for the Hub open day on 28th March – does anyone have old photographs of the village or Farlam parish area that they could lend us for the occasion?
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Hallbankgate: The Hub: The Vision Coming to the Lacy Thompson Hall, on the afternoon of 28th March. We will involve local producers, artists and the school, and there will be an historical display, a popup café, and lots of information about the campaign so far, and the vision for the future.
Really good and detailed article about the Hub on page 11 of today’s Cumberland News. You can see it here on the page PUBLICITY AND PRESS .
It was such a positive steering group meeting on Monday, with fresh ideas and much discussion, that the shock waves are still rumbling through the airwaves. The minutes of that meeting are on the steering group page on the left. Do we want ‘just a shop’, or ‘more than just a shop’? Discuss! The question …
Steering Group meeting tonight – if you are still wondering what is happening, come along and find out. The Co-op is now officially a Community Asset, there has been a structural survey, we are close to being in a position to make a bid to Scotmid, and the fundraising campaign is about to start.