Claughton-on-Brock Parish Events

01/09/2024

Cinema Night - 'The Miracle Club' Saturday Sept 14th 6:30 PM - 10:00PM @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall
Limited tickets - Booking online is advised before 11/09/24
Dinner & Movie £10 | Just the movie £5

Join us for an unforgettable evening of film, friendship and food! We're excited to invite you to a special screening of the delightful 2023 film, The Miracle Club, featuring the legendary Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, and Laura Linney.
Our newly opened bar will be serving a selection of alcoholic and soft drinks, and we’re offering a delicious food option featuring Hamlet's meat and potato pie or cheese and onion pie
Doors open & food served: 6:30 PM
Arrive early to enjoy our tasty pie & peas, or catch up with friends and neighbours before the movie begins.
Film Starts: 7:15 PM
Settle in for a heartwarming story of love, friendship, and adventure. The Miracle Club follows three close friends from the outskirts of Dublin as they embark on the journey of a lifetime—a pilgrimage to Lourdes that brings laughter, tears, and the chance to confront their pasts.
Don’t miss this perfect blend of great food, community spirit, and an inspiring film. We look forward to seeing you for a night to remember!
Book now: https://www.claughtonmemorialvillagehall.org/

Save the dates: 19 October 2024 - Wicked Little Letters; 23 November 2024 - One Life; 22 December 2024 - Afternoon Family Christmas Film (TBD)

01/09/2024

Help Us Grow.

Contributing your skills and enthusiasm to your local community has a real impact and helps improve how things work and how living in our community feels. Giving something back can build your confidence, make new friends and improve your sense of connection to others in the community.

Claughton Memorial Village Hall is in the process of improving our facilities and planning to organise more exciting community events. We need enthusiastic volunteers of all ages with a range of skills and interests who can take on Committee Roles, organise events and help with the general running of the Village Hall. Whether you enjoy a more administrative role, making sure the building is safe and maintained or love the excitement of arranging a one-off event, we have got something for you to get involved with.
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Interested?
Visit: https://www.claughtonmemorialvillagehall.org/volunteer

01/09/2024

The newly refurbished Brock Room at Claughton Memorial Village Hall - ready for bookings. https://www.claughtonmemorialvillagehall.org/

10/08/2024

Check out the new website for Claughton Memorial Village Hall and book your event!

Over the last few months, we've been working hard on our new website. Please check it out, share and sign up for our newsletter to learn about all the new events that are coming up in the next few months.

www.claughtonmemorialvillagehall.org

Thanks again to everyone who made the magic happen!

15/06/2024

Praise in a Barn with Jacobs Join @ Matshead Farm Friday 28 June 18:30
This is a relaxed social evening with live Christian Worship music to join in with if you wish and includes an interval roughly half way. Free entry and drinks, no booking needed just bring a food contribution for your supper and enjoy the evening.

15/06/2024

Claughton-on-Brock Parish Council - General Election Hustings @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall Friday 28 June 19:00-21:00

Voters in the Brock with Catterall, Calder and Wyresdale wards will have a chance to quiz some of our local candidates ahead of the General Election on 4 July at a hustings later this month. Our new constituency is now called Lancaster & Wyre.
Claughton-on-Brock Parish Council will host the event on Friday, 28 June from 19:00 to 21:00. Four of the five candidates standing to be our next MP will be there to answer questions.
The candidates for Lancaster & Wyre are Nigel Alderson (Reform UK - unable to attend), Peter Cartridge (Conservative), Jack Lenox (Green Party), Matthew Severn (Lib Dem) and Cat Smith (Labour).
If you would like to raise any specific question it will help if you could bring them in writing with your name, and hand them in on entry to the event.

15/06/2024

15/06/2024

When community comes together, something beautiful happens.

Thank you to the children from St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Claughton and those who came to the workshop in April for creating this beautiful mural on display at the village hall, celebrating life in Claughton.

Each handprint has something written about what they love about Claughton…. Overwhelmingly it was the greenery and the trees that they said.

Special thanks to Jo Milner for being the mastermind behind this project.

06/06/2024

Your community needs YOU!

Contributing your skills and enthusiasm to your local community has a real impact and helps improve how things work and how living our community feels. Giving something back can build your confidence, make new friends and improve your sense of connection to others in the community.

Claughton Memorial Village Hall Charity is in the process of improving our facilities and planning to organise more exciting community events. We need enthusiastic volunteers of all ages with range of skills and interests who can take on Committee Roles, organise events and help with the general running of the Village Hall. Whether you enjoy a more administrative role, making sure the building is safe and maintained or love the excitement of arranging a one-off event, we have got something for you to get involved with. For more information please contact Guy Campion on email: [email protected] or mobile 07729137353

18/05/2024

Parish Councillor - Vacancies
Two vacancies have arisen on the Parish Council, the formal notice of these has been posted on the Parish Council website, noticeboard and via other channels of communication. The closure date for anyone wishing to seek to become a Councillor via the due election process is the 30 May 2024 and details are given in the notice. However, in anticipation of the requirement to fill the vacancies by co-option the Parish Council is inviting anyone who may be interested in becoming a Councillor to contact the Parish Clerk to register their interest by the same closing date of 30th May - preferably by telephone (07790005604) or emailing> [email protected].
John E. Hallas – Clerk to the Parish Council
16th May 2024

14/05/2024

07/05/2024

Friday 17 May @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall 6:00-8:00 PM
St Mary's Primary School Chocolate bingo! Would you like to win some lovely chocolate, whilst having a fun evening? On Friday 17 May from 6-8pm at Claughton Memorial Village Hall, you can do just that. Please come along and have a lovely evening while raising funds for our school.

16/04/2024

Friday 26 / Saturday 27 April @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall
Get ready to step back in time this April for an unforgettable evening filled with 80s hits, hilarious comedy sketches, and mesmerising Musical Theatre performances! 🎶✨

We’re at Claughton-On-Brock Memorial Village Hall this time and the bar will be open!

Secure your spot for a night of nostalgia – tickets are on sale now! 🎫
garstangmusicalproductions.sumupstore.com and let the countdown to a fantastic trip down memory lane begin! 🌟

https://garstangmusicalproductions.sumupstore.com

17/03/2024

14 April 10:30AM - 3:00PM @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall

Past & Present - a photographic exhibition of Claughton-on-Brock and surrounding areas through the ages. Come and join us for a journey through the past to modern day Claughton. Enjoy the Pop-up Café with drinks and cakes, Garstang Heritage Society, local wood turning crafts by Paul Robinson and free kids craft workshop. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556019187696

17/03/2024

Claughton Memorial Village Hall - Improvements underway!

Work has now started on refurbishing and improving our Village Hall. Thanks to our volunteers who did a great strip out job on the bar and upstairs, the main contractor got a flying start on 4 March. The new walls for the extended bar are built and the main lintel in place, and the stairs to the upstairs multi-use room should be fitted next week. We have had to take the main hall temporarily out of action but we hope to have that open for use again in the next week or so. We expect to have the new facilities fully available by mid year so look out for more posts as we start a new chapter in the history of the Hall.

05/01/2024

Sunday January 14th 10:30-15:00 @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall
Join us at the Claughton Tea Junction pop up café, for a selection of delightful home baked treats, tea cakes and hot or cold drinks.

This will be our last cafe until Sunday April 14 th where the cafe will be back alongside a display of old photographs from Claughton and the surrounding areas, including photographs of the village hall and past committee members.
We would love it if you have any photographs that you would like to share with us at this event. Please email Angela at [email protected] to arrange this.

05/12/2023

Claughton Memorial Village Hall - Improvement Plans!
We have been working hard to act on your feedback from our survey back in March. We have made some improvements to the heating system to help keep things warm, painted the outside of the hall and fitted bike hoops and generally improved a few areas in the hall, so we hope you have started to notice that things are changing.

To encourage people to get to know the hall, we have started a pop-up café every 2nd Sunday in the month, with delicious homemade cakes, toast and teacakes and drinks – come and join us for our special Festive pop-up on the 10th Dec.

Everything we do relies on the efforts of volunteers, so it does take time to make change happen. To allow us to tackle the bigger improvements you said you wanted, we knew we would need external help to fund the work. We have been lucky enough to have been awarded grant funding from both the Lancashire Environmental Fund and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund through Wyre Council, so now we are embarking on some major works. We plan to create a multi-use studio upstairs and to refurbish, extend and equip the bar area so it can be used for community and private events. Preparatory work is already underway with the main build due to start at the beginning of March 2024 with the new facilities being fully ready by July. As most of the work will be behind the scenes, we plan to keep the hall open apart from a few weeks in March.

We’ll tell you more about what is happening over the coming weeks. You can book the hall on https://hallbookingonline.com/claughton/ and follow the Claughton Memorial Village Hall page on https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094644210221

03/12/2023

Claughton Tea Junction - Festive Pop-up Café Sunday 10th December 10:30-15:00 @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall

Come and join us for festive hot & cold drinks, cakes, toast & teacakes. Café open 10:30-15:00 with Christmas songs from talented local singer, Ella Spar, between 12:30-14:00. All proceeds to make your village hall a better place for community and private events.

25/10/2023

Remembrance Service, Saturday 11 November 10:45 @ The Commemorative Garden at St Mary’s School

A Remembrance Service will be held on Saturday the 11th November starting at 10:45 followed by a 2 minute silence at 11:00 am. It will be attended by a number of Veterans from Garstang Armed Forces and Veterans Breakfast Club. Everyone is most welcome to join us to remember the courage and sacrifice of all those who have served their country. Following a wreath laying at the Commemorative Garden we will proceed to St Thomas’ Churchyard to place crosses at the 2 war graves.

25/10/2023

To The Moon Stay & Play sessions Mondays @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall
To the Moon are very excited to announce our To the Moon Monday’s stay and play sessions starting from the 16th of October.
What can you expect from our play sessions?
We will have a full set up of our inflatable slide and bouncy castle, soft play and ball pit, ride ons and different activities available each week. There will be a baby area with lots of baby safe toys and play mats. We will be offering food and drinks to purchase during your play session.
Our session times are 9.30am and 11.30am, these sessions last for 1hr and 45 minutes.
It’s £6 a child and just a £1 for a sibling to join them. 0-6 month olds come along for free. This includes entrance and all they can drink cordial. Our website is now live to book our To The Moon stay and play and party packages to hire for your events. https://www.tothemoonplay.co.uk

25/10/2023

Coming soon! Pop-up Café Sunday 12 November 10:30 - 1500 @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall
Come and enjoy a warming brew or cold drinks and delicious home made cakes and treats at Claughton Tea Junction Pop-up Café. Run by volunteers from our local community, every second Sunday, opening on 12 November 2023. All profits going to improving your village hall and helping us run more events for the community. Bring your ideas and tell us what you want from the café and the village hall.

26/09/2023

Yoga Classes @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall Mondays 7:30-9:00PM until 30 October 2023

“Relax, Rebalance and Re-energise with Samantha’s Hatha Flow Yoga classes
Monday Evening 7.30 – 9pm @ Claughton Village Hall (All abilities welcome including beginners) until 30 October 2023
To learn more about Yoga and to book a class please visit www.yogaspiritandstrength.co.uk/timetable.html or contact Samantha direct on 07985581888

08/08/2023

Wyre Rivers Trust @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall Wednesday 16 August 1830 - 2100

The Wyre Rivers Trust has recently formed the Brock and Calder Farm Cluster to support farmers in the area. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday the 16th August to discuss current and future funding opportunities. To reserve a spot please contact [email protected]

07/07/2023

Learn how to save a life @ Claughton Memorial Village Hall on 14 September 2023 1900-2200

North West Ambulance Service will be running a CPR and Defibrillator training session at the village hall. There are just 20 places to make sure everyone gets hands-on experience, but we can arrange additional sessions if more people are interested. Please email [email protected] if you would like to attend - it will be first come first served and we will confirm in the next few weeks.
Teas & coffees will be provided. There will be no charge but donations on the night would be appreciated

27/06/2023

Summer barbeque on Friday 14th July 6pm-8pm @ St Mary's Claughton-on-Brock primary school

After enjoying the musical extravaganza in the afternoon at St Thomas' church (see earlier post), join your community for a summer barbeque at St Mary's school

Entry £6 for adults and £4 for children which includes a burger or sausage, salad and a drink.

Cake stall, raffle, tombola, ice cream and lots of other stalls.