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The Top Picks section of Knaresborough Online showcases a selection of useful information and details of local projects and resources.
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A Knaresborough success story
Friends of Bebra Gardens is restoring this seventy six year old park in the centre of Knaresborough. Bebra Gardens is a delightful place on a sloping site quite close to the castle. Volunteers are always needed to help with gardening, digging, planting, sweeping and to help with running our group. A secretary would be useful! We are a friendly group who meet monthly, please see our website for details.
Andrew Willoughby 01423 866987 mobile 07885 543453
andrew@willouby.demon.co.uk
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Help keep the town colourful
Knaresborough In Bloom is a group of local people devoted to adding extra colour to our town. We have around thirty tubs and boxes on the streets all filled with plants. Window boxes, hanging baskets and even a boat are all blooming in spring and summer each year. We enter the town in the Yorkshire In Bloom competition and we organise our own competition for local gardens. Its all good fun, so if you would like to help with our projects please get in touch.
Christine Willoughby 01423 866987
info@knaresboroughinbloom.co.uk
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Maintaining good access to the riverside
Knaresborough Nidd Gorge Conservation Group are working to look after the riverside areas around Conyngham Hall in Knaresborough. We meet on alternate Saturday mornings to enjoy planting, clearing and improvements to footpaths. We cut down surplus saplings, plant native trees and bulbs, then keep the streams and footpaths clear of debris. Please get in touch if you would like to help.
David or Pat Tankard 01423 866400
knaresborough.nidd.gorge
@hotmail.co.uk
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Improve life in Knaresborough
Renaissance Knaresborough is the organisation set up to identify, develop and deliver projects to improve the town of Knaresborough.
Overseeing the work of Renaissance Knaresborough is the Town Team, which comprises of local people/organisations who are drawn together by a desire to improve the quality of life in the town. We have strong links with Knaresborough Town Council, Harrogate Borough Council, North Yorkshire County Council and other organisations in the Town. You can find out about our latest achievements, current projects and funding opportunities by viewing our recently launched “newsletter”.
Renaissance Knaresborough is open to anyone who lives, works or studies in the town, or who just supports the aims of the Town Team. If you wish to get involved in any way and/or receive future newsletters, please contact the Regeneration Team at Harrogate Borough Council, Tel: 01423 556019
Email: regeneration@harrogate.gov.uk
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A place for the whole community
‘COGS’ stands for ‘Centre on Gracious Street’ and is the acronym being used by Gracious Street Methodist Church in Knaresborough for their £1 million scheme to provide a contemporary centre at the heart of the town for use by both church and community groups. Fundraising has been going on for several years and in September 2008 the contractors were appointed and work finally began.
Parts of the old premises have been demolished to make way for a new atrium link between the 1970s church and the 1815 hall, thus making an integral suite of premises which will include an attractive entrance from the Fisher Street car park, a coffee bar, a small meeting room, offices and toilets, purpose-built facilities for the Noah’s Ark pre-school and a lift providing access to both floors of the church hall.
The first phase of the scheme is scheduled to be completed by the early summer of 2009, but the eventual plan is to completely modernise the hall itself to provide state of the art accommodation for the many community groups that currently use the premises and others who may wish to do so in the future.
COGS website
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Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre
Henshaws award winning Arts & Crafts Centre is part of Henshaws Yorkshire, a charity offering practical help, support and services to people of all ages affected by sight loss.
Henshaws Yorkshire aims to support people through each stage of their life, via the Children & Families Service, Henshaws College, Henshaws Community Housing and the Arts & Crafts Centre.
The Arts & Crafts Centre provides a fully accessible, vibrant environment in which visually impaired people can learn new skills and express themselves through art and creativity.
Our workshops, which include woodwork, music and drama, papermaking and jewellery, are open to the public. The Centre also has a gallery holding regular exhibitions, a fully licensed café and a sensory garden to explore. A shop and plant nursery sell products and plants made and grown by service-users at the Centre and Henshaws College students.
Vocational opportunities are provided with both Henshaws College students and people from community housing working and volunteering at the Centre.
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