FUTURE EVENTS

September 2nd

Damson Lunch.

September 9th

Janet Dawson, Community Nurse.

October

During October and November you will be able to order Christmas cards from the Traidcraft catalogue. The cards are simple, beautiful and reasonably priced.

October 7th

A special lunch date to put in your diaries, we are going to have a Harvest Lunch. On that day Rosemary will be covering shoe boxes (with your help!) for the Shoe Box Appeal, which she organises.

October 28th

Hallowe’en

November 4th

Lunch and filling shoe boxes. Bring your own boxes along to be checked.

November 11th

CRAFT FAIR Vicky’s jewellery, Lizzie’s
kitchen and garden crafts, Ken’s woodcraft. Come and shop for Christmas presents in the peaceful atmosphere of the Exchange!

December 9th

Buy your Christmas wreaths and decorations.

December 16th

Join us for Christmas food and music

 

If you see that some significant event or date is going to fall on a Wednesday, do let us know (with a few weeks to prepare for it!)

 

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CURRENT EVENTS

 

SPRING FAIR

We celebrated Spring sunshine with a plant sale and craft fair. Margaret arrived with her usual fantastic array of spring and summer bedding plants and shrubs. Vicky returned with her beautiful jewellery and we were pleased to welcome Lizzie with a table full of kitchen and garden gifts, ranging from hand painted plant pots to memo boards, all beautifully crafted. Steve, the photographer was there to take our photo for the article you may have seen, in the South Lakeland Messenger. The following week Ken came with his pens and woodcraft. We look forward to seeing them on November 11th. You can buy some Christmas presents from them, then.

THE CROSTHWAITE REGATTA

Whilst the toffs were down at Henley, we in Crosthwaite celebrated with Pimms and Eton Mess! You all entered into the spirit with some wonderful outfits………..


MONEY!!! 

Hopefully you will have noticed that our prices have remained very much the same for the last 3 years! Well we may have to make some changes, but we think you will agree that the Exchange fare is good value for money. This year we have donated £100 to Christian Aid and £500 to the Village Hall.

THE NHS and the EXCHANGE

Following a very successful Conference on Healthy Sustainable Communities, run by The South Lakeland NHS LSP (Local Service Provider!) in June 2008, we have become a role model for other communities in South Lakeland and Eden. The NHS in conjunction with ACT ( the new name for Voluntary Action Cumbria) are going to fund new Exchanges. Our blueprint for “making and baking” an Exchange will help other communities to set up their own Exchanges, to suit their own needs.

 

HEALTHY LIVING

On the 10th June we were delighted to welcome Janet Dawson, a Community Nurse. She will be returning on 9th September and wants to know what Health Topics we would like her to bring information on. Let us know. She thinks that links with local communities, such as ours, could help to spread their healthy lifestyle message.

ENTERPRISING BRITAIN

Our entry in this competition proved to be a mistake! However the organisers were so impressed with our entry form and the whole idea of the Exchange that David Chapman came to see how we operated. He must have been delighted to be serenaded by Crosthwaite school children’s ocarina group who came to play for us all!