You’re never quite sure just what facility people are talking about, when you hear the words ‘Sports Hall,’ because they could be meaning the ‘Sports Club Pavilion’ over at the playing fields, or the big ‘Sports Hall’ beside the Primary…
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The Tea Dance
Mary Gibson invited me specially to drop in this afternoon to chat with the regulars at Wednesday afternoon’s Tea Dance Society in Allendale Village Hall. So I’ll certainly have more stories and information about this beloved institution in Allendale, later…
Milestones at Natural Ability
Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, Natural Ability is a local success story in the charitable organisation sector. An important milestone was marked last month, as the charity attended the 2019 North East Charity Awards as a short-listed Finalist for…
Langley Furniture Works
What a lovely piece on the 40th anniversary of Geoff Jackson’s Langley Furniture Works, in this week’s Hexham Courant! Between this item, and the information at the firm’s delightful website, in particular the individual photographs of team members hard at…
The Community Bank
It used to be Tynedale Community Bank, but as I discovered, as Christina at Fawside was busily proofreading the latest iteration of the Allendale and Allen Valleys Pocket Directory, it’s now joined forces with the Credit Union for South-East Northumberland…
Allendale Sports Club
Nestled into the fields at Allen Mill, just on the boundary with Catton, the Sports Ground looks as if it’s always been there, but in fact it’s only a little ways off its fifteenth birthday. I remember some of the…
Forging ahead . . .
Welcome… The friendly website of Allendale Forge Studios really does convince new browsers that this is a very welcoming place. I’m speaking with Zoë Bell, who runs the Forge Café as her own business, and is also one of the…
Luncheon Club Thursdays
I dropped in to chat with Valery Stepney and Ruth Armstrong, the stalwarts who administer and coordinate this volunteer service. The Luncheon Club is partially self-sustaining, from weekly contributions (£5.50 for the hot meal) by the luncheon guests, and partly…
Ponderings of a Youth Worker . . .
Julie Humes, Youth Project Coordinator in Allendale, writes: Someone asked me the other day: “How long have you been doing youth club and why do you do it?” … I had to stop and think about it. I’ve done this…