May 21st 2010 TAVERHAM BRASS BAND COMES TO HAWORTH On Saturday May 1st. The Haworth Bandstand Committee held a fund raising concert by the Taverham Brass Band from Norfolk at the Haworth Community Centre. This Band specialises in fund raising for charity and after reading about the Friends of the Parks Bandstand project on the Haworth Village website, offered to come and give a hand as they were touring Yorkshire during the May Bank holiday weekend. They played a cross section of well known musical pieces, including selections from Les Miserables and Jesus Christ Superstar, through to a rousing rendition of the Batman theme and finishing with The Floral Dance as an encore. There were over 30 musicians performing including some juniors. The performance was slick and positive in approach with their Musical Director and Conductor Ian Colman interspersing the numbers with well delivered anecdotes and jokes that entertained and kept a happy atmosphere throughout the concert.
The bandstand committee would like to thank the many local businesses for the large number of raffle prizes donated and the first four Pubs approached, namely The Olde Hall, The Black Bull, The Kings Arms and The Sun who kindly supplied sandwiches for the band. The evening was a great success; the Band received a standing ovation from a full house and a total of £401.00 was raised towards the new bandstand for Haworth Central Park.
They have an extensive and interesting web site:
www.taverhamband.org 
25th August 2009Central Park Haworth has been awarded the Green Flag for the fourth year running. This prestigious award used to be judged by the National Civic Trust, but this year, the competition has been encompassed by the Keep Britain Tidy campaign so the Village is especially proud to continue to be one of the more than one thousand Parks and Green Spaces in England and Wales that are judged to be clean, safe and welcoming places in which to spend time.
Of the many strict criteria to gain a coveted Green Flag, the evidence that improvements are ongoing in the Park is very important and the Judges were impressed by the plans for the new Bandstand and children's Play Area that are all in place and for which funding is now actively being sought.
Bandstand Update 21st July 2009While waiting for the results of the funding applications we have outstanding at present, the Friends of Central Park Haworths Bandstand Committee would like to thank residents for their generosity in popping loose change into the boxes placed in shops and pubs around the village. It is amazing how this adds up and continues to show valuable community support, an all important part of the funding application process. Since the boxes first appeared we have collected £809.88. Our Pop In The Park village event held on 60s weekend raised £104.47 of this total. Well done: keep the coins rolling in.
Everyone enjoyed Als Disco in the Park on the Saturday, and Al himself is already planning how and what to do next year to bring you an even more spectacular show,
including his amazing Tommy Cooper style card tricks that totally mystifies the children!
Bandstand Update 19th March 2008What a wonderful thing is the web. Those of you cognisant with the wonders of modern technology, are no strangers to the way our lives have been opened up by the world wide web phenomenon. What has this to do with the Bandstand project?
It has been brought to our attention that our local village website has a far reaching audience.
A Gentleman who is a member of the Bronte Society but now living in Hong Kong did a random Google search on Haworth and came across our website with the news of our funding appeal efforts for the Bandstand. This prompted a generous gesture in the form of sending to the Friends of Haworth Park two £5.00 Bronte Society Gift Vouchers that he had been sent and rather than consign them to the bin as he had no way of realising their value himself in far away Hong Kong, he sent them to us where they can be recycled to a good cause.
We have some brilliant news for you this time as The Ward Investment Fund that is being distributed around our area from the recent sale of Leeds Bradford Airport has granted the Bandstand project £10,000.00 which is a tremendous boost and brings the total raised so far to £11,302.95. Please keep those donations coming in and we can start building the base this year. Building the base will give us a platform for further fund raising events. Lets pull together and get this Bandstand built.
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30th October 2007 The Haworth & Worth Valley Rotary Club hosted a Fashion Show to help raise funds for the Haworth Bandstand appeal. The show, held on Wednesday October 24th was beautifully choreographed by Colleen of Mine Creative at Cross Roads, for Abbie Tillotson of TCS The Clothes Shop, Mill Hey Haworth. It was a great success and together with the raffle raised £644.66.
The Bandstand fundraising group would like to thank the models and everyone, not forgetting Duncan & his food team, who helped make this event a great success.
The Bandstand fund raised totally by the village so far stands at £1134.70.
Watch this space for more fundraising news.
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28th September 2007 - Bandstand updateThe plans for the Bandstand have been passed by Bradford Council so we are now seriously fundraising. From the boxes situated in shops etc around the village, we have raised in excess of £400.00. Most of these boxes have now been collected in. Thanks go to everyone who has generously popped loose change into our boxes it has been a very encouraging start.
Presenting our project to major commercial funders is our next priority and all our efforts are now proceeding in that direction. If anyone, or group of people would like to help our efforts with a coffee morning, bring and buy sale, or any other money raising idea it all helps and we would love to hear from you.
The Haworth & Worth Valley Rotary Club are assisting us in holding a fashion show to be held on Wednesday October 24th at the Baptists Chapel, West Lane at 7.30pm tickets are £12.50 each which will include light refreshments. Tickets will be available from 'TCS the clothes shop' on Mill Hey, tel; 01535 643284 open Wednesday to Saturday and 'Mine' the photographers at Cross Roads, 01535 648487 open Tuesday to Saturday and The Worth Valley Contact Point, Changegate, We will keep you posted with regular updates on our fundraising progress.
Gillian Hill
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27th April 2007Notes from Meeting held on Wednesday April 25th 2007 at The Old Hall
Present: Edna Thornton, Keith Dredge, Ian Shackleton, Mike Hutchinson, Peter & Gill Hill
Apologies: Jaiq Carter, Freda Conquest, Alan Scriven, Gerry Mitchell.
1. Edna reported that although the floor and kitchen units had been replaced within the Bowling Green Pavilion, the workers had left a hole accessible from outside into the cellar. Children have quickly found this! Mel Smith has been contacted and has said that the hole will be bricked up incorporating an air brick for ventilation. Gill suggested the possibility of applying for a small grant to decorate the inside. This idea is to be put to the Bowling Group Committee. It was also suggested that the cellar could be used for Bandstand props storage.
2. Ian Shackleton together with Maryke Woods of the Parks dept. and Gill Biggs of the funding Dept. at Keighley Voluntary Services are starting to form ideas for the refurbishment of the childrens play area. Discussion ensued concerning the nature of the play area required for Toddlers through to Teens, whether to incorporate a skate Board Area with an Adventure Playground as well as traditional equipment. Ian is to prepare details for presentation to Haworth School and others to determine what the children want in their playground. Fencing was discussed and will be considered in the final plans. Ian indicated that there was funding available from the Waste Management services, eg. WREN etc.
3. Concerning Bandstand Fundraising news, Gill reported that letters had been written to Haworth Freemasons, Haworth Rotarians, Haworth Band and others asking them for a donation or to hold an event to raise funds. A letter is to be sent to businesses asking for Donations. Collecting boxes are to be placed in various outlets within the village asking residents for loose change. All these measures are to show that the Village is behind the project and to reassure and attract outside funding bodies for the large amount required. Results of fundraising efforts will be published in the Parish Newsletter and also be placed on the Village Notice Board outside the School. Keith Dredge wondered if Gift Aid tax relief could attract decent donations. Gill and Freda are to research this possibility.
4. The Haworth Village Trust are to hold their AGM on Thursday June 14th at the Old White Lion in the function room and have invited the Friends to join them to hold a fundraising event after the AGM business has been completed (usually around half an hour) Ideas and volunteers please?
5. Gill reported that she has made an appointment to meet the Head of Haworth School in June to discuss the possibility of holding a competition to design a logo for the Friends of the Park.
There will not be a meeting at the end of May as it is Bank Holiday week when the Schools and half the village will be on holiday.
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03rd February 2007 The plans for the Bandstand/Performing Arts Structure, supplied by Gareth Jackson Architectural Services.
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8th June 2006 Cllr Peter Hill with Friends of Haworth Park and members of Haworth in Bloom were in Haworth Park to meet the judges Paul Varney from Barnsley Parks dept, and Simon Frosdick from Leeds parks dept for the Green Flag judging.
