Introduced by John Grimshaw, the Yorkshire Arboretum Director, see the latest newsletter for information on talks, tree sales, record visitor numbers and more.

October is National NHW Cyber Crime month.
One of the initiatives is to promote “Take Five to Stop Fraud”: the national campaign from Financial Fraud Action UK and the UK Government.

As part of the North Yorkshire NHW support for the initiative I am inviting you to view the excellent booklet entitled “The Little Book of Big Scams”.This has been sponsored by NY Police and NY County Council from an original publication by the Metropolitan Police. It is available in print format as well as electronically.
You can view and download the booklet from the hyperlink below.
This 43 page booklet is in easy to read format and explores a range of issues in non-technical language and contains:
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Key types of online fraud ranging from:
-Holiday scams to online banking or credit card fraud.
-Investment fraud
-Scam mail/ mass market fraud
and most importantly: what to do if you get scammed and how to reduce the damage.

Please go to the following link now and get your copy of this very useful booklet, it will open your eyes as to the ingenuity of criminals to get hold of your hard earned money!
https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-little-book-of-big-scams.pdf

North Yorkshire Police and partners will be holding a rural watch meeting on the 9th November at 19:00hrs at Dalby Forest visitors centre. If you are interested in joining a watch in the Pickering, Kirkbymoorside and surrounding areas please come along to the meeting and meet the team. Guest speakers will be giving information on crime prevention and other subjects. Look forward to seeing you there.

To see a list of previously sent messages please visit North Yorkshire Community Messaging.

With the first cold snap of Autumn already upon us, it seems a good time to remind ourselves of the winter services (gritting etc) provided locally by councils and other agencies.

Ryedale District Council’s Winter Services Factsheet (October 2018) has just appeared and can be found on our Slingsby Village Website’s “Local Services Information” page HERE.

Can you spare an hour on Sat 17 Nov at 10am to help sweep them up?

The magnificent sycamore tree in All Saints Churchyard is one of the crowning glories of Slingsby village. Home to millions of bees and other insects and birds which enjoy it all year round. However, during November it drops tons of leaves on the paths which can lead to them becoming very slippery.

Refreshments will be provided.

Please bring a sweeping brush or rake and a pair of gardening gloves.

You may remember in issue 47 of the Triangle we launched a young photographer’s competition, with the winner’s (Libby Smurthwaite) lovely photograph used as issue 48 front cover.

Above and below are other entries in the competition, all of good quality and of interest. Well done young photographers!

and a reminder of the winning entry.