Airton

Quaker Services: Quakers in Airton have regular quiet meetings for worship every Sunday at 2pm in the Quaker Meeting House by the Green in Airton. Worship lasts for an hour. Refreshments in the Barn follow each meeting. Drop-in art and craft sessions are held every Thursday, 10am to 2pm. The Meeting House is open every day of the week for those who need a place of refreshment and peace in the midst of a turbulent world. There is also bunk barn accommodation for up to 12 people, and meeting space may be hired. Email airtonbarn@gmail.com or phone 01729 900018.

Austwick

Church News: Sunday, March 17, 9.30am, at Austwick Holy Communion and 11am Easy Church at Clapham. 6.30pm Eldroth Taize Service. Sunday, March 24, Palm Sunday 9.30am Holy Communion at Austwick and 11am at Clapham. 7pm Evening Service Keasden.

Events & Meetings: Austwick Field and Local History Society, Wednesday, March 20, at the Parish Hall, 7.30pm, a talk by Ged Benn Gaping Gill – A lifetime’s fascination. Visit austwick.org Austwick Street Market and Cuckoo Festival: Volunteers needed at Street Market entrances collecting money as people enter the village. Each ‘shift’ would last for only two hours. Email janheap@hotmail.co.uk

Austwick WI: We meet in Austwick Parish Hall on the second Thursday of the month.

Austwick Parish Newsletter: January to April edition is posted on the village website austwick.org also distributed to households in the village. Copy for the next edition should reach the editor by April 15.

Austwick Field and Local History Society: Our next talk is entitled Gaping Gill, A Lifetime’s Fascination, presented by Ged Benn. The talk will take place on Wednesday, March 20, in Austwick Parish Hall, starting at 7,30pm. Following the talk, refreshments will be available. Admission is free to current members, £3 for guests.

Bolton Abbey

Concert: On Sunday, March 17, Cantores Salicium, Bolton Priory’s principal guest choir, will present a concert of choral and organ music for Passiontide, at 4pm in the Priory Church. The programme lasts for about one hour. Parking is free in the village car park for concert-goers and is available at the church for those less able to walk from the village. Tickets cost £10 (under 18s free) and are available at the door.

Bolton Priory: This Sunday marks the beginning of Passiontide. Passiontide is the traditional English name for the fifth Sunday in Lent and marks the beginning of the two-week period before Easter Day. The title “Passiontide” reminds us that this season is about the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Over the next fortnight we will travel with Christ into Jerusalem and all the way to the cross. The good news however is that this period of suffering does not have the last say. This sombre period will also come to an end and our hearts can then rejoice in Christ’s resurrection on Easter Day. It is worth reminding ourselves this Sunday that, however bleak things look in the world, Christ will eventually be triumphant.

Bradleys Both

WI: Monday, March 18. This month we are having our AGM. Our meeting will comprise BBWI AGM reports, a presentation on the newly-launched WI online learning hub and a just-for-fun quiz. The AGM is a great opportunity to find out what your local WI can offer. Come along. Bradleys Both WI meet every third Monday of the month in the village hall. Doors open from 7pm. Meetings start at 7.30pm. £4 for non-members including refreshments.

Carleton

St Mary’s: Each Sunday at 11.15am;3rd and 5th Sunday – Bread, Wine and Worship; 2nd and 4th Sunday – Parish Communion;1st Sunday of each month: 8am Book of Common Prayer Communion. St Mary’s ‘Coffee Pot’ is open each Friday, 2pm-4pm.

Coniston Cold and Bell Busk

St Peter’s Church Coniston Cold: On Sunday, March 17, there is a service of Compline Evensong at 4pm to which all are welcome. This is a reflective service with readings, prayers, hymns, and a short sermon. St Peter’s Church services are normally at 9.30am on the second and fourth Sunday of each month (BCP Holy Communion), and at 4pm on the first and third Sunday of each month (Compline Evensong). For any enquiries about weddings, baptisms or funerals, contact Rev Andrew Steer on andrew.steer@leeds.anglican.org Draughton St Augustine: Sunday, March 17, 11.30am, Holy Communion (BCP); Sunday, March 24, join with Holy Trinity.

Earby

All Saints Church: On Friday, March 15, we are holding our weekly prayers for the Community and Lent Group in the lounge at New Road Community Centre, starting at 10am. Refreshments afterwards. On Saturday, March 16, Messy Easter is taking place in the Church Hall at the front of All Saints’ Church. Accompanied children of all ages are welcome, with activities, singing, and refreshments. On Sunday, March 17, Communion for the fifth Sunday of Lent is at 9.30am. Everyone welcome.

Farnhill and Kildwick

St Andrew’s Church: There will be a service of Holy Communion at St Andrew’s on Sunday starting at 11am. There will also be a mid-week Holy Communion service starting at 9.30am on Wednesday (20). St Andrew’s is open to visitors on most days, when the building is not in use, from about 10am until about 2pm.

Classes at the Institute: Pilates classes for both beginners and improvers will take place at Farnhill Institute on Monday (18) – with classes at 5pm, 6.15pm and 7.30pm. Numbers are limited, so please contact simon@saltairepilates.com or phone 07549 199670 for details and enrolment.

Local History Group: The Farnhill and Kildwick Local History Group will start its spring meetings and talks next Thursday (21) at 7pm in Farnhill Institute, when there will be a talk on Farnhill’s connection to “The Great Escape”, the 80th anniversary of which is this month. All meetings are free to attend and open to all. Small cash donations, to help cover costs, are welcomed.

Farnhill & Kildwick Institute 2025 Calendar Competition: The competition to find photographs of the two villages for inclusion in the 2025 calendar is now open. See the Calendar page on the Institute’s website for details.

Gargrave

St Andrew’s Church: Services for March 17 - 8am BCP Holy Communion;11am Morning Worship. Everyone is welcome to either of our services. We always have coffee at noon so if you would like to pop in then for a cuppa you will have a warm welcome. Prayer is always available. Saturday Praise, Saturday, March 23, 6.45pm-8pm. We start with coffee followed by a relaxed time of praise and prayer. Saturday, March 30, Craft & Chat Coffee Morning; 10am-12.30pm.

Giggleswick

St Alkelda’s Church: On Sunday everyone is invited to join in the service of Holy Communion at 9.30am. Cafe Church is at Settle Parish Church at 3pm. The last in the series of Lent meetings will take place on Wednesday (20). This will be a plenary session, thinking about how the Church and others in our community support one another. All the speakers from the previous four weeks will be present and the meeting will be chaired by the Right Reverend Anna Eltringham, Bishop of Ripon, who will also give an address. The meeting is at Settle Parish Church from 7pm.

Glusburn

Glusburn Institute Community and Arts Centre: Saturday, March 16, The Houghton Weavers. Doors and bar 7pm, show starts 7.30pm, tickets £14. Call in to the centre to find out about events and activities and to book tickets, or visit our website gicac.org.uk, or call 01535 630 223. Regular office opening hours - Monday-Wednesday 9.30am-2pm, Thursday-Friday 9.30am-noon.

Grassington

Great and Small antiques and vintage fair: Sunday, March 17, at Church House from 9am-4pm. Admission £1.

Grassington Hub: Coffee Morning, Saturday, March 9, 9.30am-noon, Church House. Grassington Hub Community Cinema presents – Operation Mincemeat, Saturday, March 16, doors open 7pm, film starts 7.30pm. The Octagon Grassington. Tickets £5 are available in advance from Grassington Hub, Ticketsource.co.uk or on the door. Cream Tea and meet the Author. With Ifran Shah local publisher of Sigh for a Strange Land. Monday, March 25, at The Stripy Badger. Tickets £7.50 (includes drink and a cream scone). Tickets are available in The Stripey Badger. GDI presents Opera and Ballet Season. Madame Butterfly, March 26; April 24, Swan Lake; Carmen May 1; The Winters Tale May 22. The Octagon Grassington. Doors 7.15pm Tickets £16 from the Hub or online at ticketsource.co.uk. Children’s Fun Packed Magic Show A 2-hour magic party with a 30-40 minute magic show by children’s entertainer & magician, Rob Hutchinson. Games with prizes, fun balloon modelling. Perfect for ages 5-8. Grassington Town Hall. Friday, April 12, 5.30pm £5 Tickets available from Grassington Hub or online at ticketsource.co.uk. Grease Sing-A-Long Night. at Grassington Town Hall. Friday, April 19, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from the Hub or online at ticketsource.co.uk. Grassington Singers and Buckden Singers present: Upper Wharfedale Spring Sing. Ticket price includes refreshments. Grassington Town Hall Sunday, April 28, 3pm. Tickets £12 from the Hub or online at ticketsource.co.uk.

Hellifield

Wesley Centre: Drop-in lunch today from noon. The community pantry will be open tomorrow from 2pm-3pm. A Friday warm space will be held tomorrow from 1pm-3pm. Throughout March there will be a warm space with complimentary soup and sandwich lunch on Mondays. The Welcome Mat group meets on Monday (18) from 2.30pm. The Sunday service is from 2pm. Kettlebells exercise group meets on Wednesdays from 6pm-8.30pm. Contact Pauline for details of Wesley Centre and Methodist activities.

North Craven Flower Club: Meets today from 2pm. The guest demonstrator is Jill Perrings with a demonstration entitled ‘Springtime’. Visitors are always welcome, so come along and enjoy some spring flowers.

Book group: Tonight (Thursday) from 7.30pm.

Pirates production: The Helisingers are rapidly approaching show time in respect of the Pirates of Penzance production, which the choir are to be presenting on Thursday, March 21, (2pm matinee), Friday, March 22, 7pm, and Saturday, March 23, 7pm. The event will be held in the Institute. Tickets are £10. To check availability phone Karen on 01729 851070.

Coffee morning: This Saturday’ s coffee morning in the Institute is a Hellifield PTA fundraiser. From 10am.

Hellifield House: Bingo will be held this Sunday from 6.30pm. The next Quizgo session will be Wednesday, March 20, from 8.15pm. The Slimming World Group meets on Mondays at 7pm.

Messy Monkeys: Call Amanda on 07398 284126 for details of children’s activities which are held in term time at the Institute on Wednesdays from 10.30am.

Games: Games sessions are held in the Institute on Wednesday afternoons from 1pm-4pm. For cards and board games fun.

Helliscribes: Heliscribes writing group meets on Wednesday, March 20, in the Institute from 2pm-4pm.

Chess: For details of Chess Group sessions contact Ian on 07760 190222.

Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Church news: A big thank you to everyone who gave up their Sunday recently to make posies and decorate jam jars, cards and cakes for mums in readiness for Mother’s Day. Jane and Margaret had everyone painting stems on the jars and then pictures of flowers and even sheep were glued on to decorate them. Colourful ribbons completed the retro-look. Thanks to Liz and Gillian for the great cakes and for keeping everyone alert with coffee. Eight children and 12 adults enjoyed the messy church service and the posies were distributed accordingly in the parish.

The Mothers’ Union held their Lent Lunch recently in the village hall when homemade soup and scones were enjoyed. Twenty-four people attended the event. Jo Rhodes from the Settle Hub was the speaker.

The annual Marmalade festival will be held in St Oswald’s Church at the weekend with marmalades, jams and preserves all ready for purchasing from 2pm on Saturday. Both cash and credit cards are welcome in payment.

The festival continues on Sunday with a service of Holy Communion at 10.30am for the combined parishes of Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Stainforth and Langcliffe. It is a fair assumption that there will also be lots of homemade cake and hot drinks available too over the weekend. Come along and stock up on all those delicious homemade preserves.

Kelbrook

St Mary’s Church: On Sunday, March 17, Communion for the 5th Sunday of Lent is at 11am. Everyone welcome.

Kirkby Malham

Church News: On Sunday, March 17, we have a service of Holy Communion with hymns at 10am. During Lent we are taking part in the Deanery Lent Meetings at Settle Parish Church on Wednesday evenings, 7.30pm start. On March 20 there will be a plenary with all the speakers, chaired by Bishop Anna, Bishop of Ripon, to which everyone is welcome. St Michael’s is open from 9am to dusk every day of the year, and facilities for visitors to make themselves a hot drink and information about the interesting history of our 15th century church are available. We welcome enquiries about weddings, baptisms (christenings) and funerals; for more information, visit kirkbymalhamchurch.org or contact Revd Sue on sue.mcwhinney@leeds.anglican.org Malhamdale Local History Group: Thursday, March 21, Kirkby Malham Parish Hall 7.30pm, “The Horner Collection.” Heather Lane, Curator at The Folly, will talk about this wonderful collection of photographs taken by the Horner family of Settle. The photographs capture the changing faces and places of Settle and the surrounding area for nearly 100 years. Entry £4 for non-members.

Long Preston

May Queen/King: On Saturday, March 16, there will be a coffee morning in the village hall from 10.30am to select the 2024 May Queen and King. This can be entered by anyone who has attends or has attended Long Preston Primary School. This is for children in school Years 5-8. Interviews will start at 11am. There will be breakfast sandwiches and cakes available.

Friday craft group: We are a small and friendly group who meet up Friday mornings. Generally at sessions we ‘do our own thing’ but also work together to create specific projects in the village hoping to raise a smile. Currently we are busy crocheting or knitting poppies. We meet in the chapel between 10.30am and noon. You are welcome to come and join us.

Little Footsteps free playgroup: Continues every Monday during term time in the Methodist Church. Come along and play, chat and snack.

Lunch Club: Is in the Methodist Church every Monday at 1pm. £3 for a two-course meal.

Strong and Steady (gentle exercises): Continues at 1.30pm-2.30pm in the Methodist Church. This is followed by coffee and chocolate biscuits. Only £4 a session. Everyone welcome. Free transport availability.

Church News: On Sunday, March 17, the service at St Mary’s will be an Holy Communion with Rev James Rodley at 11am. The service in the Methodist Church will be with Archie McAdam at 10.30am.

Poppy knitters: We need knitted poppies for a village display. The more the better. Wool can be purchased at £1 a ball from Mags on 01729 840068.

Free coffee and cake afternoon: Thursday, March 21, in the village hall. 1.30pm- 3.30pm. This month’s guest speaker is Joan talking about “School Gaffs”. Anyone over 50 is welcome.

Martons Both 

Sunday, March 17 -  9.15am.     St Mary’s Church, Thornton-in-Craven - Holy Communion; 10.45am     St Peter’s Church, East Marton -Holy Communion; 3pm   All Saints’ Church, Broughton  - Evening Prayer

Settle

Settle Scottish Dancing Class: Meets on Thursday, March 14, and Thursday, March 28, at 7.30pm. It meets at St John’s Methodist Church. Visitors and new people welcome.

Settle Community Library: Stay and Play, Fridays 11am during term time. Lego Club, Fridays from 3.30pm during term time. Also, Makey Makey invention kits available on Friday, March 15, to celebrate British Science Week. Asthma and Lung UK Peer Support Group meet on the second Wednesday of each month, 2pm. Talk by Phoebe Caldwell, ‘Not for Wimps’ based on her latest book, Wednesday, March 20, 2pm. Knit and Natter Coffee Morning and Knit sale on Thursday, March, 21, 10.30am-noon, to raise funds for the library. Home Library Service for any who need books delivered to their door. Contact details for more information 01609 534535, Facebook or website settlelibrary.org.uk

Settle Parish Church: It was a joy to welcome families to Sunday’s service celebrating Mothering Sunday. Settle Primary School teachers, Year 3 pupils and members of their Worship Team shared, together with Rev Jules Cox, in leading the service. There was laughter and an occasional tear as the children read out tributes and held up portraits of their wonderful mums. The children gave out the traditional posies, made by members of Giggleswick with Settle Mothers’ Union members and supporters, to Mums, Grans and Godmothers in the congregation. There were even a few left over for Dads to give to their Mums too.

Bishop Anna Eltringham will attend the final Lent Meeting for churches in the Ewecross and Bowland Deanery on Wednesday, March 20. She will lead a plenary session looking back and reflecting on the topics covered over the previous four weeks. Everyone is welcome. Tea and coffee served from 7pm for 7.30pm start.

Rev Julie Clarkson leads Morning Worship at 11am on Sunday March 17. The Annual Church Meetings for parishioners to hear Holy Ascension’s Annual Reports and Financial Accounts will be held at 12.30pm. Copies of the Accounts and Reports of the church’s work over the past year will be available prior to the meeting.

Craven Conservation Group: Assessing Ecological Richness in the Yorkshire Dales using audio, video, and visual data by Dave Melling and Rob Pheasant, Soundscape Project Researchers. Thursday, March 21, at 7.30pm, at St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street. Free for members, £5 for non-members.

Skipton

Italian Circle: Meeting on Thursday, March 21, at St Stephen’s Parish Rooms, St Stephen’s Close, Skipton. A good friend of the Italian Circle, Paola Lerza, will present her talk via video link from her home Genoa on The Villa Adriana at Tivoli, Rome. Doors open at 7.15pm for greetings, light refreshments and renewal of subscriptions. Visitors welcome for £5. The presentation will be followed by a brief annual general meeting. Visit skiptonitaliancircle.org

Holy Trinity Church: Sunday, March 17, 9.45am Family Communion with HT Children’s Club; Wednesday, March 20, 10.45am Holy Communion (BCP); noon Midday Prayer; Sunday, March 24, 10.30am Palm Sunday Procession followed by Holy Communion at Holy Trinity; Morning and Evening prayer daily at 8.30am and 5pm. Lent Course continues on Wednesdays at 7pm in the cafe. This year’s resources have been inspired and informed by the 2024 Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent book, Tarry Awhile: Wisdom from Black Spirituality for people of faith by Selina Stone. Watch and Pray invites us to seek God in both familiar and unfamiliar places this Lent: in darkness and in quiet; in movement and migration; in the healing and transforming work of the Spirit; in the weeping of Holy Week and in the joy of Easter morning.

Christ Church: Sunday at 9.30am - Eucharist; Wednesday at 9.30am - Eucharist.

Skipton Retired Men’s Forum: Meeting on Tuesday, March 19, in the Soroptimist Rooms on Otley Street. ea, coffee and biscuits will be available from 10am and at 10:30, Steve Wroe will give a presentation on “Living and Working in the Antarctic”. Members and visitors welcome.

Skipton and District Parkinson’s Support Group Hub Club:J oin us on Thursday, March 21, 2pm to 3.30pm,at The Hub, Skipton Town Hall. Hot drinks and biscuits included for only £2 per person, and a warm welcome awaits. More information from Barbara Bentley on 01756 797742, or just come along.