As we fast approach the Christmas season, we invite you to join in decorating the Institute, having a glass of mulled wine and enjoying pie and peas with your neighbours.

Please click here for more details and RSVP to Alison with your choice of pie by Monday 27th November.

Unfortunately, numbers were a little low for this event, so the decision was taken to postpone and make it a festive event and 'trim the Institute' evening on 2 December instead.

Further details will be available in due course.

Those of you who attended the Harvest Lunch in The Institute in September will have seen a fabulous array of photos on display and they have now been added to the website.

Please click here to see them.

Please click here to see the minutes from this meeting.

The website received an email two days ago, letting us know the sad news that Percy has passed away peacefully, following a long illness. His funeral is at 11am on 2nd October at Kirkleatham Crematorium.

Percy was born in Thornton Steward in 1931 and he lived here until he decided to join the police force and move to the north east at the age of 27.

He was very fond of the village and sent warm Christmas greetings to us all in 2020, followed by some wonderful poems, which he kindly agreed could be published on the website. They can be found by clicking the following link:

The Poems of Percy Sadler

Rest in Peace, Percy.

Please click here to see details of this event and confirm your attendance by 29th September.

To see the agenda for this meeting, please click here.

As the weather forecast is not looking great for this weekend, our next social event in the Village is now the Fete with tea and cakes to be held in the village Institute from 3pm.

• The fete will have tables selling books, plants and produce ( fruit / veg, baking etc.)
• We will be offering tea and cakes for sale
• All proceeds from the fete will go to the village funds
• We are looking for contributions to the fete - please drop any donations for the fete a couple of days in advance and pop into the car port at Moorlinch where there will be a table ready for them
• All welcome

Please click here to see the minutes from this meeting.

The Annual Governance and Accounting Statements for 2022-23, which were approved and signed at the Parish Meeting held on 31 May 2023, are now available on the Parish Meeting Accounts webpage which can be seen by clicking here. 

Please click here to see full details of this event which will start a little earlier than usual, so that families with children may be able to attend.

Please click here to see the agenda for this meeting.

A wide range of social events has been planned for the next few months, details of which can be seen by clicking here.

North Yorkshire Council has provided us with information for residents on the background to the recent reorganisation and details of the changes, FAQs and how to contact the Council etc.

Please click here to see this information.

Please click here to view the newsletter and to find out about the events planned for 2023.

North Yorkshire Council launches on 1 April and our Parish Clerk has received a 'Communications Pack' document for circulation among residents. It aims to create awareness of the council, highlight the benefits of having one unitary authority, reassure customers about business continuity, and inform them of how to contact the new council from day one.

Please click here to see the document.

Please click here to see the minutes from this meeting.

A number of Warm and Welcome Spaces have been created across Richmondshire to help vulnerable and elderly people through the cost of living crisis.

Each one provides a warm space where anyone who is cold can go to stay warm, socialise and enjoy some additional activities and hot refreshments.

The scheme has been set up in response to the current cost-of-living crisis to support community organisations to open a network of warm, safe and welcoming spaces to help people struggling with the cost of living, especially residents worried about the cost of heating their homes during the winter months.

Click here to see the Directory of Warm Spaces as published by the Council in January 2023.

Following the survey of trees carried out in 2022 by Barnes Associates Ltd, Olivers Tree Services quoted for the work recommended and the details can be seen by clicking here.

Work on T19,T20, and T22 have already been carried out.

Sam has very kindly revised the plan for the village green, which can be seen by clicking here. It can also be viewed on the notice board.

Our Parish Clerk has received a letter from the Chief Executive of North Yorkshire County Council, inviting the Thornton Steward Parish Meeting to complete a questionnaire which is seeking our views on a Draft Parish Charter Consultation document. 

The Charter sets out the arrangements for partnership working between the new North Yorkshire Council (which comes into effect on 1 April 2023), and local City, Town and Parish Councils and Parish Meetings.

Please click on the links above in order to see the letter, questionnaire and the Draft Charter document. 

The proposed arrangements will be discussed at the Parish Meeting being held in The Institute on 1st February 2023 and the questionnaire will be completed during the meeting. (See forthcoming events for Agenda.)

1/ Agree minutes from last meeting 06 September 2022

2/ Update on voluntary registration of Village Green (Click here to see revised map)

3/ Discuss tree survey and action required (Click here to see quote by Olivers Tree Services)

4/ Update on how Area Partnership Fund has been spent

5/ Update on cost of moving the defibrillator to the bus shelter, and in the interim improving the signs

6/ Update on planes that are frequently flying over the village

7/ Update on placing a bin in the reservoir car park

8/ Update re Institute and Social Group fund raising

9/ Update on grass cutting contract

10/ Agree answers to Draft Parish Charter Consultation

11/ Update on dispute over building work on Back Lane

Everyone welcome 

The Thornton Steward Social Committee is really pleased to report that £1130 was raised from the auction of promises on Saturday 3 December.

Thanks to all who donated promises and all who so generously bid for these. We also raised £240 from the raffle and donations so all in all £1370 raised in total for the Village Institute.
 
Many  thanks to all who made this event such a success. 

Photos from the evening have been posted on the village Facebook page.