WHAT'S HAPPENING IN AND AROUND COOKRIDGE AND HORSFORTH

Pictures of the Ceilidh evening are in the gallery. A great evening and thanks to Barbara Stearn for all the organisation

The National U3A has sent an email announcing Friends Extra which will be a new website with offers and services exclusive to U3A members. More details will be announced in the U3A Friends newsletter. To subscribe to the U3A Friends newsletter follow the link below.

https://www.u3a.org.uk/news/newsletter

After last year’s successful launch of Threads we are doing it again but in June to avoid the Leeds Marathon! This year we will have a 3 days of talks, workshops and textile market in our iconic 1912 Mill.

The talks include subjects such as Japanese Sashiko, SE Asian Textiles, African Textiles. Our headline speaker is Lucy Adlington from the History Wardrobe with a talk on ‘Tracing Lost Lives’ which will link in with her latest book The Dressmakers of  Auschwitz. Our workshops include rag rugging, embroidery, crochet, natural dyeing, hand quilting, braid making, drop spindle, weaving, bargello, wet felting and Dorset buttons.

We are also thrilled to have Vanessa Marr giving a talk and a workshop on ‘Domestic Dusters: Embroidery as an act of resistance’. If anyone visited the Harrogate K&S Show last year you will have seen them hanging up and we are running the opportunity to embroider your own. Vanessa will also be part of our textile exhibition ‘Tangled Up’ which will be in the Gallery.

I have attached a flyer and a link to our website that I hope will  be of interest to your members. Please note that the booking for talks and workshops will open on 19^th April via our website.

https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/gallery/threads-textile-festival-2024

If you would like to bring a group we are able to accept a minibus drop off but please note that we can’t accommodate the parking. However, most buses will go to the local ASDA carpark until required.

If you need any further information please just get in touch.

Best Regards  Dr. Sarah Gaunt

Threads Textile Festival Director

Update on New Groups:

PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER if you think you should have received a message from me, Lorraine Harding.

International Dining (4)  is running - leaders Chris and Mary Brook.

5 Mile Walkers (2) is running - leader Mary Massey.

Many thanks to these new leaders.

Stroll to Lunch (2) has enough members but no leader as yet.

Line Dancing - we have an administrator/organiser, Judy Nutland, but currently no teacher.

Canasta - enough members but no leader; an informal meeting is being planned.

Cookery - enough members but no leader.

Jewellery - work is ongoing on this group and we do have a leader, Ann Tindall, but few members.

Computing Skills - Peter Sellek is setting this group up, and could manage a few more members.

Gardening - not enough members.

Below are details of up and coming online workshops provided by the national U3A. 

I'd like to thank all those who have responded on the New Groups, in particular International Dining Group (4), 5 Mile Walkers (2), and Stroll to Lunch (2).  It's great to see your enthusiasm.  It may take ma a little time to get back to everyone, but pleased be assured I am on it.  International Dining (4) can fly because we have two leaders!  I will be in touch with everyone shortly.  I will then come to the 5 Mile Walkers and Stroll to Lunch. 

Hi there

I hope you're well.

Just to introduce myself, I’m Julia and I work at an organisation called Everyday Plastic. We run campaigns to raise awareness about the single-use plastic problem, and aim to inspire people to reduce their own plastic consumption. 

This March, we're teaming up with Greenpeace UK to run The Big Plastic Count, the UK’s largest investigation into household plastic waste. Our goal is to highlight the urgency and scale of the plastic problem, and empower individuals to play a part in helping solve the plastic crisis.

The Big Plastic Count brief is really simple: count your plastic waste for one week (from 11-17 March) and submit your results to us online. This will automatically generate your personalised household plastic footprint and will help us to reveal how much plastic we are throwing away as a nation, and what really happens to it afterwards. We'll use the results to convince UK ministers to lead the way at global talks that could finally phase out plastic pollution for good.

Over 60,000 people across the UK have already signed up, but the more people we have taking part, the more powerful our collective voice will become. 

We would love for the members of the Cookridge & Horsforth U3A to join us on our mission, and would be extremely grateful if you would be willing to help us achieve that by sharing on the registration link with your group members: thebigplasticcount.com/U3A 

We also have additional information especially for community groups, as well as images and graphics to share with your wider network and community (e.g. on social media or in an email newsletter). You can download those at the following link: TBPC assets

If you have any questions, or would like more info, please do get in touch and I’ll be happy to help you. 

Thanks for your support. Let’s get counting!

Best wishes, 

Julia 

Julia Bell (she / her)
Project Manager | Everyday Plastic

Email // julia@everydayplastic.org

Follow // @everydayplastic | @PlasticEveryday

Website // everydayplastic.org

Everyday Plastic is a Community Interest Company (No. 11900689)

'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
And satin sandals,  and say we’ve no money for butter.'
(Jenny Joseph)

Please join in the spirit of this event by dressing appropriately. There will be prizes for appropriate attire, male and female, 

and a hat parade.

(Now is the time to check out the charity shops!) 

Other entertainment is planned.

I would like to restart the New to Leeds Group in September, for those who have arrived in Leeds within the last couple of years.  Anyone interested, please get in touch with me, Lorraine Harding.

Following the talk by Mike Andrews on Adel Players details of the next production are below