Heritage and Harvest at St Giles's, Bielby

Heritage and Harvest at St Giles's, Bielby 

 Thank you to everyone who supported St Giles's Heritage Open Day, whether donating or calling in. 

Visitors were a mix from the village and as far away as Lancashire and Staffordshire. It was a day of smiles all round and raised £177.08 towards the church's upkeep. 

Bielby's next big church event is Harvest Festival at 6.00 pm on Sunday 4th October and everyone is welcome. 

 Our custom is to receive donations of cans and packets of food (please check BBE dates) to give to our local food bank, The People's Pantry, after the service. 

 If you'd like to help the Pantry, the church will be open 10.00 - 5.00 Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun. Please simply leave your gifts on the table near the door - and thank you very much in advance! 

 The Churchwardens

Harvest Festival St Giles’s Church Bielby Sun 4th October 6.00pm

 Harvest Festival

St Giles’s Church Bielby

Sun 4th October 6.00pm

All are welcome to join us to celebrate our Harvest Festival Service

Donations for the local food bank will be gratefully received at the Church which will be open 10.00am to 5:00pm Wed 30th September to Sun 4th October. Please make sure that items are in date and are non-perishable as otherwise the donations can’t be used.

Thank you in advance.

The Churchwardens.

Bielby St Giles's Heritage Open Day Sat 19th September

Just a reminder that this Saturday, our village church will be open 10.00 - 5.00 as part of the Heritage Open Days festival.

Everyone's welcome to drop in.  There'll be light refreshments and soft live background music while you're free to look around, sit and chat, read the papers provided, bring or buy a book, sew, knit or do a crossword.  It's up to you.  There are also activity cards for children.

We'll have for sale plants, books and CDs and copies of the map of Bielby in 1613.  Remarkably, it may show your property!

If you'd like to donate any books, CDs or plants, the church will be open 10.00 - 6.00 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for dropping off.

If you donate any plants, please can you label them?  We shall see to pricing.

All the money we hope to raise will go toward the upkeep of our village church.

We look forward to seeing villagers plus visitors from far and wide.

All donations will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance

Bielby DCC (District Church Council)

PS  See our national advert:

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St Giles' Church Heritage OpenDay

St Giles's Church Heritage Open Days 

Just a reminder that St Giles's will take part in the Heritage Open Days Festival Saturday 19th September. This takes place all across Europe every September. 

Here there will be live background music, light refreshments and newspapers so you can sit and have a read or a chat. 

In addition, to raise funds, we will have a plant stall and a book and CD stall. For the green fingered amongst you, if you have any unwanted plants or are busy lifting and dividing, we would be grateful for donations. 

If you have any unwanted books and CDs these will also be gratefully received. 

Please contact me from Wed 16th at the Old School House and I can open the church to store any donations. 

We hope to see you during the day. 

Thanks in advance 

Susan Smith

Planning Applications

 Planning Applications

A couple of planning notices were sent this week,

• Planning Consultation for 26/01966/PLF; Erection of single storey extension, Sunnyside Cottage, 2 Main Street, Bielby, Link to application here 
• 26/01967/PLB Listed Building Consent for repair works to wing wall of lock and installation of replacement like for like wooden cill, Coats Lock Whitecarr Lane, Bielby Link to application here

 

Produce Show Winners 2026

Produce Winners 2026

Fruit & Veg Richard Coe 

Flowers - Judith Simpson

Flower arranging - Judith Simpson 

Cookery - Stoneleigh Home 

Produce - Val Bolton

Arts & crafts - Thomas Ridsdale

Photography - Chris Emptage

Children 5&under - Lucas Readman

6-12 - Georgina Lyth

Millennium - Sandra Johnson (produce)

Best children's entry - James Holloway

Village planter - Rachel Whitwell

Bucket of Spuds Competition

1st Geoff Coe  

2nd Dawn  Hanson 

3rd Alan Pilling

Thank you to everyone who entered, came along in the afternoon, helped put up the marquees & helped with the bucket of spuds comp and all the committee members. 

A big thank you once again to Dale, Roz and the team at Stoneleigh for hosting the produce show, what a super venue.

Churchyard Regulations

Hayton villagers have just completed a big tidying up of their churchyard. This matters to Bielby because quite a number of our former fellow villagers are buried there. There are no complaints about their graves, but even so, Bielby church must publish the relevant regulations, which are different from those governing council cemeteries.

So, please see a copy of the regulations sent, via Hayton, from the Vicar of Pocklington in the photo below. Thank you.

John Peel

Churchwarden