Well, what a week it’s been, non stop on the move so no time for moss growing on our shoes.

With the Festival of Folk coming up this weekend starting on Friday, we wanted to make Holmfirth as inviting as we could.

So, on Monday evening we arranged for 24 Honley Beavers together with a dozen parents to litter pick around Sands Rec. on both sides of the River Holme, upto the Holmfirth Cricket Club. This also helped them with earning a Community badge, so a “win – win” for everyone.

Earlier on the same day, plants were collected from Kirklees Polytunnels in Huddersfield after receiving a request for any plants to brighten up the outside of Pattern Principle and Seams So Easy, Victoria Street.
As you may have noticed, Kirklees cuts have meant no bedding plants in Holmside Memorial Garden or the planters around Holmfirth Town Centre. So, businesses need to bring some colour to our streets the best they can and to fill the hanging baskets provided to them free over the past couple of years from Holmepride – Community in Action.

No sign cleaning in this report although requests have been received from Meltham (to clean a few more signs we missed last time out), plus Stocksmoor and Almondbury, both outside the Holme Valley but if we can share what can be done further afield, then it may encourage more people to help in their own villages.

Our next venture out traffic and street name cleaning will be w/c 19th May, so if you know of any road or street names that need a tidy up, this is your opportunity to let us know and can be added to our mental “to do” list.

Tuesday, now this project on a very hot day in the centre of Holmfirth was carried out by Diane and Rupert.

There were two metal rails that looked out of place with all the other improvements happening locally and needed prepping with sanders before getting painted.

These rails ran from the bus terminus up towards Sainsbury’s along the side of the River Holme. Our old friend “black Hammerite” has transformed a “sad looking” to “banging looking”. This has been on the cards to be tackled for quote a while so now “tick” job done and well done guys.

Wednesday, the Primulas we put into the 6 troughs up at the Holme Valley Memorial Hospital Cenotaph suffered after the hot spell. So, even after watering some will need replacing. Additional plants of a different kind (Primulas no longer available) were bought from Hampsons in Wakefield. These will be planted before a gathering at the Cenotaph this Thursday at 11am if anyone wishes to join come along to commemorate VE Day – 8th May.

Thursday, more litter picking was undertaken by Holme Valley (Holmfirth) Thursday Scouts, who litter picked Victoria Park.

More Scouts were going to remove weeds along Hollowgate and along walls on Tuesday this week but due to unforeseen circumstances, this has had to be postponed for later in the season.
Books continue to be fed into the School Street Book Swap Library and it was nice to witness a young boy come along to School Street and tell his Nan “there’s the Library” as he ran upto it, that was so nice to witness.

Oh! we now have an arrangement with The Civic to keep their gardens tidy and lawn cut which was also carried out a week ago on a Sunday morning.

Well, hope you’ve had a great Bank Holiday and enjoy this coming weekends Festival of Folk.

Win & Karen xx