Category: News

Here are the present opening times of Slingsby village shop:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday – 7.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Wednesday – 8.15 a.m. to 12 noon.

Saturday – 7.30 a.m. to 12 noon.

Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays – 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.

26 March 10am, Slingsby Methodist School Rooms

Natalie, a former pupil at Slingsby School, continues her efforts to raise funds for this worthwhile expedition. Please give her your support.

To be fair, we on the website team nearly did! 1 March 2016 marked our 5^th anniversary.

It was on 1^st March 2011 at 11 am precisely that the Slingsby Village website was launched upon an unsuspecting world. Since then the webmaster and a crack team of amateurs have been serving the news to Slingsby, Fryton and South Holme, and way beyond.

Here’s a few of the things that have happened in that time:

• 743 news and events posts have been published in support of local groups
• 65 pages of background information have been kept up to date
• 192,344 page views have been recorded (including 870 on a single day in May)
• Facebook and Twitter have helped broaden our reach
• Friends across the globe (from Perth, Western Australia to Peru) have been able to keep in touch with Slingsby and area
• Over 20 local clubs and societies have been publicized
• Regular monthly features such as Geoff’s walks and the Photo of the Month have proved popular
• Class-rooms of Norwegian schoolchildren have found us by googling the Battle of Stamford Bridge (mentioned in the website’s History of the Parish)
• A complete and thorough picture of Slingsby, Fryton and South Holme has been developed, in all its rich variety.

We could go on – and perhaps we will – watch this space!

Ryedale District Council have announced the arrangements and cost (£37 per brown bin) for those who wish to have garden waste collected this year – full details are here

Meeting in the Village Hall at 7pm on Tuesday 1st March 2016

Janet Clarke and Trudy Carr write in the current Triangle:-
You will probably have heard that the Queen is having a birthday party this
summer. The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year: her actual birthday on
21st April and her official birthday on a Saturday in June. The Queen’s 90th
Birthday Celebration event will take place on Sunday June 12th 2016. This is the
day when many communities are holding a street party.

Over the last few days we’ve been asked “Are you doing a party in Slingsby?”
Bearing in mind the tremendous amount of work involved in setting up and
running such an event, we would like to gauge local opinion first. The last thing
we want is to put in loads of effort to find it under-attended.

So we are proposing to hold an exploratory meeting in the Village Hall
Committee Room on Tuesday 1st March at 7pm. Depending how many people
turn up to offer assistance, we will make the decision whether or not to organise
an event.

So come on folks….if you’re interested, turn up and offer some help.