Battles and Wars

Last night we enjoyed playing the game ‘Risk’ with a friend who lives in Malaysia. He introduced us to the game a number of years ago, and so it has become a bit of a tradition that we play the game when he’s around. ‘Risk’ is a strategy...

More Christmas Market Photos

More photos have been sent to me from the Christmas Market yesterday. Here are the volunteers with the raffle prizes: People in the activities’ corner: The lollipop game: Not many cakes left now! Full house, with Gemma from CRT looking after the egg game:...

Community spirit

Goldthorpe recently featured in a TV programme about benefits and was portrayed pretty negatively. The view from many people is that this area is not a good place to live and is full of cheats, liars, scroungers and people with addictions and problems who don’t...

Christmas Market fun

The Christmas Market started early: … and got busier… We probably had over 400 people throughout the afternoon and evening (certainly the 300 goody bags we had prepared all went, and these were often given out to a family, not necessarily to an...

Back inside…

Back inside, things were now really ready! A lollipop game: Craft items to buy: A teddy bear to win: A donkey to beat: Craft activities to do: Tombola prizes to win, manned by the fantastic hOurbank team, led by Gill, with Emma a great helper: Food to munch: Helpers...