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Some treats in store for you to bring 2024 to a close.
Friday, November 1st (5.00-9.00pm): Eatstreet ‘s final outing of 2024. Great selection of international streetfood, a bar by Blackened Sun brewery, eat-in or take-away, and it’s FREE ENTRY!
Friday, November 1st (8.00 – 10.30pm): In the Beechey Room. Performers’ Night @The Song Loft. Guest performer is Chris Ronald from Canada, and you too can perform or just sit back and enjoy. £5.00 on the door.
Saturday, November 30th (4.15pm): Christmas Lantern Parade leaves York House for the 5.00pm switch-on in the Market Square. Mulled cider available to buy!
Friday, December 6th (8.00 – 10.30pm): In the Beechey Room. Performers’ Night @The Song Loft. Guest performers are the versatile Phil and Denise who are “Drywood”, and you too can perform or just sit back and enjoy. £5.00 on the door.
SUNDAY, December 8th (2.30pm): The Intelligence Zone. Hear about the involvement in WW2 espionage of Stony Stratford, Whaddon and other local villages and towns.
Friday, December 20th (8.00 – 10.30pm): In the Mai n Hall. The Churchfitters’ Christmas Cracker – superlative musicianship and hilarious fun @The Song Loft. See http://www.thesongloft.com
Saturday, December 21st: Sound of the Crowd Christmas Party, playing the New Romantic and synth pop songs of the late 70s and early 80s, sing and dance along!
York House Community Gardens Was Assessed as Outstanding Again This Year by BIB Assessors!
The RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood Assessors were very complimentary indeed in their comments about York House Community Gardens, awarding us ‘Outstanding’ and giving us a score of 96 out of 100! And it was because of evidence of our sustainable horticultural practices at York House Community Gardens that we gained the Regional Award for ‘Caring for the Environment’.
The judges and the IYN assessors were impressed by No Dig Gardening, and mulching using woodchips from the town Christmas trees, as well as with cardboard, leaves and home-made compost. They also liked the new guttering feeding into the new water-butts, the innovation with Huegel-Kultur, and the garden of pollinating plants.
Another aspect of the community gardens they praised was communication to the public about what we do, with the Information boards with QR codes, and the Open Day in the summer. The comments from the In Bloom judges highlighted the success of vegetable growing for the Foodbank.
The only area for development that they mentioned was that they’d like to see more events using the performance space area in the orchard.
They ended by saying: ‘We encourage you to keep up the fantastic work you do in meeting the changing needs of the community and developing the York House Gardens.’
York House Community Gardens clearly helped Stony Stratford in Bloom to win the Small Town Trophy, and with Gold. And it definitely played a part too in us being selected to represent the Region in the National Finals next year. We feel it’s a great honour to have been selected.
Our lovely Main Hall is starting to feel a little lonely on a Thursday morning 
. Have you been thinking about starting a yoga club? Dance class? Maybe a baby group? Now’s your chance! Space at York House is becoming less and less available so move fast! #YourYorkHouse #NewVenture
Contact tina@york-house.org.uk for details.
Following a structural survey, we have been advised to close one of the rear extensions to York House. This housed “The Space” and an upper floor storage room.
Activities in the main building will continue as usual, although a few groups and events will be relocated to different rooms from their norm.
Visitors will see cones around the side pathway, but the rear entrance and grounds are still Ok to use for now.
AVAILABLE SPACE ALERT
One way of supporting the town’s own community centre is to become a member. Membership is free and open to anyone aged 18 years or over who has an MK11 postcode or a strong association with the town.
We are a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee with charitable objectives, the building and grounds are owned wholly by our members.
Members receive regular newsletters, are informed of our activities and are entitled to come to all members meetings such as the AGM. Members help to decide the future of York House Centre. Members elect the Trustees / Directors who run the centre and are entitled themselves to stand for election. An increased membership can help increase support from grant providers and official organisations to sustain and develop the centre.
You can find out more, and complete an on-line application form at http://york-house.org.uk/about-us/membership/
Not everyone knows that York House Centre is owned by the community of Stony Stratford – YOU!
It’s a registered charity, a business registered with Companies House, and it is run by a volunteer management committee, and its main role is to hire out space for a great variety of community, arts, self-help, small commercial, private party, and charity groups and individuals.
Many of the activities in York House depend on volunteers, eg for the community larder/warm space, gardening and horticultural, stewarding town events such as Christmas Lanterns and Arts4All, and helping with coffee mornings or bar work for our many music and arts events.
Could YOU spare a few hours regularly or occasionally during the year? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us by email at info@york-house.org.uk or phone 01908 561075 to find out more.
We have taken that giant leap! You can follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/YorkHouseStony
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