The Advent Sheep Trail is about to start in Goldthorpe, Bolton-on-Dearne and Thurnscoe.

The idea of this is that 10 knitted sheep per village are given to different shops and public buildings and people have to find the names of the sheep in those buildings. Leaflets are being given out to local primary schools and are available in the shops themselves. When you’ve found the 10 names and filled in the leaflet, you can bring this (with your name and contact details) to the ‘Churches Together’ Christmas Sheep Service on Saturday 15th December between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Salvation Army in Goldthorpe. We’ll put all the entries into a box and draw out a winner for each village… with the lucky winner getting a Christmas hamper (and maybe a sheep too!)

Today, the first lot of sheep ventured out into Goldthorpe. They can be found in the following places:

1. Goldthorpe Library
2. Terry’s DIY
3. Staniforth’s Bakery
4. Coopland’s
5. Hollygrove
6. BARC
7. MarcoPaolo’s
8. Young ‘Uns
9. Sarah’s Pantry
10. Post Office

Here’s what the leaflet looks like…

Sheep and leaflets will be distributed in Thurnscoe and Bolton-on-Dearne later this week or early next week.