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NEWS TENNIS CLUB Innerleithen Tennis Club has now restarted junior tennis sessions for all age groups - Nursery to P3 on Fridays, P4 to P7 on Thursdays, High School group on Tuesdays. Phone Jenny Cattermole (Secretary) for more information: 01896 831825. HELP NEEDED Innerleithen Guides urgently require helpers aged 16+ assist with the Guide unit on a Monday night from 6.00-7.30pm school term only. No experience is necessary and any appropriate training will be given. If volunteers do not come forward, Guides in Innerleithen will disband during the centenary of Girl Guiding. Please contact Alexina on 01896 870589 if you can help. Charity Golf Day Innerleithen Golf Club Innerleithen
Golf Club have kindly offered the Rotary Club of Innerleithen, Walkerburn
& Traquair
the use of their course on Sunday 18th April 2010 to allow a Charity
Golf Day to be staged as part of a fundraising appeal to raise £120,000
for the Borders Dialysis Unit at Borders General Hospital. The event
is one of many fund raising events being organised by Rotary Clubs
throughout the Scottish Borders area. The competition will be played
in Scramble format for teams of 4 players, and the Rotary Club of
Innerleithen, Walkerburn & Traquair now invite entries from teams
from local organisations and companies, or even just a group of 4
golfers who would like to enter the event and help a really good cause.
There will be prizes for the best 3 teams along with many prizes on
the course, kindly provided by many local businesses and organisations.
Innerleithen Golf Club will provide a bacon roll before you tee off
and soup and sandwiches on completion of your round which will be
included in the £25 per head entry fee. For an entry form, please
contact Richard Allen of the Rotary Club of Innerleithen, Walkerburn
& Traquair on 07870 194639 or visit the Rotary Club’s web
site at www.iwtrotaryclub.org.uk forfurther details of the event. DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST The Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast, comes to the Innerleithen Memorial Hall this Easter. This Tony Award winning production, which has enchanted audiences worldwide, casts its spell 29th March – 3 April 2010. Beauty and
the Beast tells the story of the winsome Belle and her ferocious captor.
Filled with lovable and loathsome characters, beautiful tunes and
enchanting sets and costumes, this “tale as old as time”
is sure to be another standing-room-only hit. Get your tickets by calling the Society on 0845 224 1908. Future Innerleithen – residents make their choices Sir On behalf of the Future Innerleithen team I would like to thank the 500+ residents who came to the Community Event on Saturday 13th June to state their priorities for the needs of Innerleithen. There was a lot of lively discussion and considered thinking before each resident marked their 6 top priority needs. We will now analyse these results and publish a Community Action plan soon with a copy going to every house in Innerleithen, Traquair and Glen. Having gone through this democratic process we are now well placed with solid facts to establish separate projects to deliver solutions for these top priority needs. The process we used was provided by Colin Roxburgh, STAR consultancy and funded by the Big Lottery and by Scottish Borders Council. Future Innerleithen carried out this study on behalf of the Innerleithen Community Trust. We will provide on-going reports on the progress we are making with each project and there will be further public events where various design options and their locations will be displayed and again residents can vote for their preferred option. More information can be found at the Future Innerleithen web site – www.futureinnerleithen.org.uk or by contacting Brian McCrow on brian@mccrow.co.uk We were also well entertained during the day by the St Ronan’s primary singers, the Beggar Girls, the Fortissimo Choir and local guitarists TurboShandy. There were face painters, a bouncy castle and a trio of skateboarders demonstrating their skills in the car park. Many local groups had stalls in the hall and we were well fed by volunteers from the Innerleithen Tennis club. There was a Prize draw with excellent prizes from local organisations such as Caddon View B&B, Traquair House, Smail’s Printing Works, Cider House, Coop, The Whistle Stop café and Carole Collin. I would like to thank the Future Innerleithen Steering group for their dedication and hard work and the many volunteers who delivered to and collected the survey forms from every house. I’d also like to thank the many groups within Innerleithen who took time out to be interviewed by Future Innerleithen. Thank you, Innerleithen, Traquair and Glen, we will have a Bright Future. Yours Brian McCrow What do you want for a “Future Innerleithen?” Following a recent meeting attended by a number of local groups, the “Future Innerleithen” working party has been formed to establish the views of people in Innerleithen i.e. the EH44 postcode area. This group comes under the umbrella of the Innerleithen Community Trust. It is felt locally that Innerleithen has missed out on investment in recent years with most investments going elsewhere in Tweeddale, we think that it now time for Innerleithen to have money spent on it for the good of its residents, shop keepers, businesses and visitors. First of all we need to find out what you think about the local community facilities and what changes and new facilities you would like to see (if any). Lottery and other funding will be obtained to develop facilities within the town for the whole community, including organisations such as the Pipe Band, Silver Band, Operatic Society, plus the Youth, Elderly, Disabled and all Sports and for visitors, shop keepers and local businesses. In the next couple of months we will be canvassing your views, please let us know what you want and need so we can provide the most appropriate facilities for you and the rest of the community. If you think that you could help us in any way with this process, your contribution would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps you have some experience of such community appraisals, have relevant legal knowledge or are prepared to distribute questionnaires? Whatever you can offer we would like to hear from you. You can contact Brian McCrow, chairperson on 01896 833 188 e mail brian@mccrow.co.uk or Malcolm Cattermole, Secretary on 01896 831 825 e mail malcolm@mcattermole.co.uk
Innerleithen
Community Trust There is a Committee of Trustees that manages the Trust and apply the funds of the Trust including all donations, contributions and bequests to further the objects of the Trust. Since it was set up the Trust has employed a community development worker, progressed charitable status, produced a ‘What’s On’ leaflet, granted money to St Ronans Primary School pupils to publish a town trail booklet, conducted historic town walks, produced a commissioned history of Innerleithen for use in visitor information boards and leaflets, and developed a photographic archive for the community. Current projects include providing funds and overseeing maintenance on the popular woodland walkways along Leithenside from Horsbrugh Terrace to Cuddy Brig and Pirn Hill. Anyone interested in the work of the Trust, requires information on donating by bequest, or has a project that the Trust could undertake should make contact via the Trust secure email address on innerleithen@hotmail.com or contact the Secretary: Malcolm Cattermole, 5 Montgomery Square, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, EH44 6LE. 01896 831825. |
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