Its begining to look a lot like Christmas….A huge thank you to everyone involved in arranging the pruchase and the placing of our very own community Christmas Tree.

You can see the tree outside Hilltop school, Thank you to Simon Panther from Panather Roofing for the amazing donation of the tree

Massive thanks to Jacqueline Fairburn at the Hare and Hounds for supplying us with a big plant pot , thanks to Karen Mitchell and Donna Haigh for buying us the lights and to  Gill Cowling who has kindly offered to decorate it.

There is also a smaller tree for the village children to place their own decorations if they would like to.

Sadly the campaign to protect our green spaces has hit a snag, Highways have said they have no objections to the proposed 299 houses! 

We are therefore taking up arms and upping the fight so to speak, the battle continues.

We need as much support as possible, please write objections to Leeds City council, please ask your parents, your siblimngs, your children, your friends, their friends- in fact any one you can think of to support us by penning a letter

thank you

The river of colour or the rainbow of stones, depending on what you want to call it, is now in place, hopfully for many years to comes.

A huge thank you to EVERYONE involved

Hopefully in 10 years time the children will still stop to look at the stones at Hilltop and smile.

The middle stones are put in place

the colourful end result

The dates have now been set for next years Community meetings, this is a chance for residents to ask questions and put forward ideas for the village, the local police and ward councillors are also invited to each meeting.

We hope that you will be able to make some of the meetings if not all.

The meetings are all on Thursdays starting at 7pm at the community centre (Batley Rd Hilltop carpark)

30th January 2020

30th April 2020

16th July 2020

22nd October 2020 (AGM)

Additional meetings may possile be arranged if there are any urgent village matters.

West Ardsley Action Group will be holding their first Annual General Meeting on Thursday 17th October at 7pm, this will take place at the village community centre (Hilltop Sch car park)

The committee for the coming year and lead roles will be elected at this meeting, if you are interested in joining the committee or having more of a role in the village please do let us know and come along to the meeting. Everyone is welcome.

If there is anyone currently on the committee who would like to step down from their role, please can you let Peter Cowling, the current Chairperson know.

Hope to see many of you there.

 A huge thank you to everyone who supported the recent coffee morning/luncheon at West Ardsley Methodist Church that was held to raise funds for Yorkshire cancer support

A staggering £855.00 was made

The organisers would like to thank everyone for their genorisity

The Wednesday lunch club restarts tomorrow 4th September, Lunch is served at approx noon

Home cooked dinner and a sweet, along with a cup of tea and a biscuit, doors open at 11.30am

There will be a special coffee morning on the 14th September at the Methodist church on Haighmoor Rd.

There will be tea and coffee served at 10am as normal and at 11.30am there will also be light lunches available. Home made cakes will also be on sale!

All proceeds will go to “Yorkshire Cancer Research”

This summer Rez Wood Rocks and the in Bloom group have been working together to create a river of colour.

The plan is to cement nearly 500 painted rocks into a thin strip of land next to the car park at Hilltop School.

There have already been 2 painting days and the children of the area have almost poainted 400 stones!!

The next session is tomorrow Wednesday 21st August 12 noon till 2pm at the Hare and Hounds pub garden. There is no charge for anyone turning up and taking part. Help make a memory for years to come.

The in bloom group have been doing a great job on the grassed area at the school car park. They are now waiting for some new planting to arrive so please be patient as it looks a little bald at the moment.

They would especially like to thank the lady who came out with coffee for them!