Our Latest and Future Events

Let the Christmas Festivities Begin

Enjoying Pre Christmas celebrations with our chair based and dancercise class members.

A fabulous show at Yeadon Town Hall Theatre and then to Murgatroyds for fish/chips afterwards.

Then 40 of our members enjoy Christmas lunch at the Lord D’arcy on 21 December.

Festive Afternoon Tea at the Community Coffee Stop

A lovely afternoon at the Community Coffee Stop, to celebrate the festive season.

ThankYou to Anne and her Elves and to our Community Support Police for helping host this event.

Public Meeting (local bus service) 23 Nov

Feedback from councillor Dan Cohen.

Many many thanks to the huge number of people who turned up for our public bus meeting this evening.

Thanks to my colleagues Neil & Lyn Buckley for their work in arranging the meeting and thanks too, to First for coming to speak to us and to listen.

It was very frustrating (I’m being polite) that the Mayors Office (The Combined Authority) chose not to attend, as their contribution might have been helpful. Unfortunately we can only invite them - we can’t force them to come and meet our residents.

Residents made sure that there was no doubt about the level of anger around the cancelling of the 48.

We shared with the meeting a letter from the Mayors office explaining that they would not subsidise the 48 as it didn’t merit subsidising (this is despite the fact that the Mayor hasn’t made use of a £50 million pound fund for subsidising bus services - and has returned the money to the council).

A takeaway that we will absolutely examine and take forward was what we can do (as a possible fix for now) to have a minibus service between the Wigton Moor Area and Moortown Corner to link in with some of the major routes into the city.

First did repeatedly make the point that the responsibility for ensuring services are kept running when they aren’t financially viable - but have a vital source social role - is the Mayor and her office.

Residents also raised concerns about the service 7S & 7A - its reliability and the number of times the service runs late or gets cancelled. A particular note was made of lack of reliability on the ‘commuter’ services in the morning and returning home in the evenings - along with Sunday daytime services.

I have been sure to raise directly with First all the issues residents braised with me.

The above is a very very brief summary. Again - thanks to all who came and also to Wigton Moor Church for kindly hoisting us.

Table Top Sale 4 Nov 2023

The church tabletop sale was a great success. The atmosphere was lovely and there were so many varied items being sold.

Thank You to all the volunteers who helped out on the morning - much appreciated and made the event run smoothly.

All proceeds to the church roof fund.

See Facebook (‘Wigton Moor United Reformed Church’) for pictures of individual tables.

Table Top Sale (Saturday 4th November)

HAREWOOD PARISH COUNCIL - Working together with our local (Wigton Moor) Community

Dear Friends
You may or may not have realised that Wigton Moor is represented on Harewood Parish Council as well as by our three Alwoodley Councillors on Leeds City Council.
On Harewood Parish Council we really are about the local area and very much have Wigton Moor as a primary commitment in North Leeds. Wigton Moor Church is also at the heart of Wigton Moor and on behalf of Harewood Parish Council I wondered if anyone from Wigton Moor Church would like to volunteer a small amount of time to represent Wigton Moor as a Parish Councillor, or knows anyone in the wider community who might be interested. The time commitment is not significant and local
knowledge would be invaluable in so many ways. We all need to work together, play our part together and most importantly show we care together about our community.

I will be only too happy to answer any questions regarding being a Councillor of Harewood Parish Council and what it entails.

Please feel free to email me at cllr.hforeman@harewoodparishcouncil.gov.uk or contact Moira (church secretary) with your contact details and I will be happy to speak with you.

I thank you in anticipation
Warmest regards
HOWARD FOREMAN
Councillor for Wigton Moor
Harewood Parish Council

MASONS VISIT

We had a visit to our Tuesday ‘Coffee Stop’ by the Leeds Lodge Masons to see our new kitchen & experience the Coffee stop. It also gave us the opportunity to thank them for their generous donation, which bought the commercial dishwasher and bean to cup coffee machine.

The money came from the Province of Yorkshire West Riding Community Fund.

CANAL BOAT TRIP 18 August 2023

Despite the weather everyone enjoyed afternoon tea along the canal on a day trip to Skipton with church Adult Dance Class, Chair Based Exercise Class, and church members and friends from the Community Cafe.

Chair-based Excercise Class Outing

A lovely afternoon enjoying Fish & Chips at Murgatroyds, Yeadon, with my Alwoodley Chair Based Exercise and Dancercise class members! A wonderful development of my sessions is the social interaction which is so beneficial to all! A huge thankyou to Anne and John in the community for volunteering their time to support the sessions and socials!

Sessions at Wigton Moor Church, Alwoodley!🌻

Mon- Chair Based Exercise 10.30-11.15am

Weds- Chair Based Exercise 10.30-11.15am

Thurs- Dancercise 12.30-1.15pm

All sessions are £4pp with Tea and Coffee on Wednesdays and Thursdays! 💃🏽🕺🏽💃🏽

Dedication Service (new kitchen and toilets)

Special dedication service by Tim for our new Kitchen(toilets) followed by a fellowship lunch to also give the opportunity to thank & bless the many people who made this possible after many years, the fundraising, donations & grants & time.

Also an opportunity to reflect how this will help our mission within the local community.

See the following for the fantastic photographs taken on the day by our official photographer, Malcolm - feel free to download specific photos if you want to have your own copy

Coronation Community Party (8 May 2023)

As you can see everyone had a fantastic time celebrating King Charles Coronation - a big shout out to Anne and her team of helpers for organising the event, and to our wonderful pianist Karl Mullen for his contribution.

See the following for the fantastic photographs taken on the day by our official photographer, Malcolm - feel free to download specific photos if you want to have your own copy

LEEDS URC PARTNERSHIP PICNIC

How wonderfully fitting for Pentecost that people from across the Leeds URC Partnership came together to share a picnic and worship in the gardens of the church - see pictures below.

NEW CLASSES for 2023

Pilates : Wednesday 6-9pm (Starts 4 Jan)

Adult Dance Class : Wednesday 1230-1315 (Starts 12 Jan)

Chair-based Exercise Class Xmas Meal

Chair-based class enjoying a lovely festive lunch at The Lord D’Arcy (14 Dec, 2022).

Community Cafe Christmas Party (2022)

Community Cafe has now broken up for Christmas, and will restart Tuesday 10th January 2023.

Merry Christmas everybody and thank-you for supporting us this year !

Christmas Lights (High Ash Drive) switch on

The Christmas Lights will be switched on at 1600 on Fri 2 December 2022.

The church is unable to provide anything special to support this event due to the current building work.

Wigton Moor Church - Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Here’s a selection of the pictures taken at our recent Community Party.