Old Saw Mill

Congleton Sustainability Meeting Minutes

Congleton Sustainability Group meeting took place recently, download the full meeting minutes HERE.

The Old Saw Mill (new official name).

  • 14 people attended the AGM (29th June) MS to circulate the management report presented at that meeting.

4 Key areas for the future ( see report)

PA thanked all for their support, donations, volunteering etc

Looking to take on apprentices from Macc College

  • Apple Juice / Cider. D.Jones to put an options paper out to group for their views.

It was felt that OSM should acr like Dunham Massey (producer) and CSG would pay OSM for production.

CSG to pay for AJ/C and sell both retail and wholesale.  CSG to use profit for local projects.

Aim for a target price of £3 retail for both products.

 

Congleton In Bloom/ Congleton Partnership/ CSG:

2 June:  Bug gardens workshops

3 June:  Congleton tidy up at Bromley Farm

5 June:  CSG meeting

10 June: harvesting willow at Saint Mary’s for Jubilee Club project, DoE students

12 June: AMCP Community orchard tidied up with Rangers

12 June:  WDT meeting

19 & 30  June  In Bloom meetings

19 June: PP drove draft route with MG Alexandra Court Hotel (with MG)

June, Weds 1-3pm :    Visyon (with MG) to help with their garden near Cong park

During June PP visited BHPG, Community Gardens,  Jubilee Club allotment;

The Bug Gardens Back to back gardens project, 10 confirmed, community polytunnel working with groups to create backdrops (7/6 Brownies, 19/6 Cubs, 22/6 Saint Mary’s ),

23 June: Build gardens with new volunteer Roy & BE

26-30 June: Bug Gardens plant up supervision and helping groups with 8 small gardens

Publicity: 

Photography & Press articles on eco-schools/In Bloom/CSG activities sent to & published by the Congleton Chronicle.

PP continues to admin facebook pages, adding articles, photos, events etc [Congleton In Bloom, Congleton Food4free & CSG, Old Saw Mill & Saint Mary’s Garden Club pages]

 

 

Next Meeting:-
Mon 7th August 2017 The Old Saw Mill ,10.00am (S.Foster to chair)

RUNNING ON SUSTAINABLE VOLUNTEER POWER – Newsletter Old Saw Mill

 

“RUNNING ON SUSTAINABLE VOLUNTEER POWER” 

Forthcoming Events:
Every Monday 1.15-2.15pm; 6-7pm, and 7-8pm: 

Discover Pilates  are up and running, you can join any anytime, more information from Alison on 07798 555458.

 

 “TIDEWRACK” 

An exhibition of paintings, poetry and photography by Elizabeth Lloyd

Some 50 people enjoyed the opening night, feel free to come and browse!

 

Monday 10th April

A monthly Spiritual and Physic Health and Well-Being discussion group is holding its second meeting 2pm to 4pm. To find out more, contact Anne on 01260 274413.

 

Wednesday 12th April

We are very blessed to welcome Sam Garrett to Congleton at 6.30pm.

Food will be served. Sam is a very gifted musician who has played for Mooji (I know a lot of you will appreciate that!). He is with us for one night only and there is room for about 40-50 of you. Sam is amazingly talented and he is on a mission to spread love and hope through his inspirational music. This is an evening not to be missed, a beautiful opportunity for sound, silence, song and connection. Tickets are currently priced at £10 from Dyhan, 07807 044908, you can pay for them here:https://www.paypal.me/DhyanAwakeningLove 

 

Saturday 15th April

Old Saw Mill café will be closed.

 

Saturday 15th April

Dhyan with Darshan and Dyhan Prasada is organising a Swadhyaya at 2pm, contact her on 07807 044908 to book.

 

Sunday 16th April

EASTER LUNCH 

Sunday lunch and entertainment from Peter Jackson for just £5! Join us at midday until 4pm. Just as we did on Christmas Day.  Come and join us especially if you’re on your own!

 

Monday 17th April

Easter Monday – Old Saw Mill will be closed.

 

Friday 21st April and then weekly until 26th May: 

Cooking for Men 

See attached information.

 

Thursday 27th April at 10am

Know your place walks, third series of six walks exploring the impact of the Link Road will start week commencing 24th April at 10am on Thursday mornings, call Peter Aston to join the group.

 

Saturday 29th April 11am to 1pm

Life Modelling Art Sessions

Professional and amateur artists welcome price £8, no tuition provided, from more details contact Angie on 07789 687428. Further sessions are planned for Saturday 13th May, Thursday 25th May 7 to 9pm and Saturday 10th June.

 

Saturday 29th April 7pm – 10pm

“ARABIAN NIGHTS”

Dance, music, food and drink

Fundraising event for Congleton War Memorial Hospital

Contact Diane Cook on 07929 111035 for info and tickets.

 

Sunday 7th May

Dance Workshop – more details later

 

Women’s Day

After the success of International Women’s Day on Wednesday 8th March at the Old Saw Mill  Congleton Woman’s Forum are now inviting women to receive their monthly gift between 10am and 11am on Wednesday, contact Sue Munro on 07534 510841.

 

Coming soon!

Knit and Natter Group and Jewellery Classes, for more information click the two attachments below.

Knitting

Jewellery Class
A SPECIAL VOLUNTEER PLEASE?

The 2 Peters are not the most capable on Facebook and the like and we’d love a Social Media volunteer who could spend perhaps a couple of hours a week keeping us up to date!

 

NEW DIRECTORS

The Old Saw Mill is becoming a very busy place as you’ll see from today’s eMill, we now have 2 paid cooks Alex and Yvonne and the café is busy every day. The 2 Peters need to clone at least another one! If you are interested, please contact either Peter and have a chat about what’s entailed!

Member News

The member’s gift for April will be a £3 discount on a lunch from our delicious menu, as well as your usual 10% member discount.

 

Have you joined yet? If not follow the link below or call in for an application form (Back River St).
For a membership form, click here.
Volunteers:

All volunteers are invited to become members as a reward for their hard work!

 

As victims of our own success we need to expand the OSM team. Can you spare a couple of hours each week to help us in the downstairs café?

 

Veg box scheme:

We have an opportunity to set up a veg box scheme of locally grown food and veg, if it’s something that might interest you, drop us an email or pop in and see us.

 

Parking:

Please keep in mind that there is no parking immediately outside Old Saw Mill. There is a small car park opposite, which is generally full and plenty of parking close by in Antrobus St. Car Park, Princess St. and Rope Walk Car Parks.

 

Contacting us
Facebook :- The Old Saw Mill
General E-mail:- co-op@theoldsawmill.org
Direct E-mail and phone for Finance and Governance, Bookings, Café and Marketing- peterjaston@gmail.com
and 07971805372
Direct E-mail for Buildings, Development and Maintenance, Volunteers peterjranson@btinternet.com
and 07717003847

 

 

Kind regards
Peter and Pete

Latest news from the Old Saw Mill – Congleton

OLD SAW MILL
BACK RIVER STREET
CONGLETON
CW12 1HJ

Membership

“Many thanks to all those generous customers who have signed up to become members of the Old Saw Mill. We aim to make your membership a worthwhile experience, so in March in addition to 10% discount in the cafe we will be giving you a free cup of tea or coffee and a slice of one of Yvonne’s delicious sponge cakes on production of your membership card.We will be making a similar free offer in subsequent months so if you want to take advantage of this sign up without delay!

Click here to obtain the application form

New Events

Come and celebrate International Women’s Day at the Old Saw Mill on 8th March from 10.00 – 12.00. We believe this is the first time that this has been acknowledged in this way in Congleton.

The event will also include the launch of “The  Monthly Gift” which is an initiative where women can drop-in and receive free hygiene products. These items are expensive and still subject to VAT and the costs can be problematic for women on low incomes. Since 2010, infections have risen markedly because women use substitute materials which are not hygienic.

Volunteer
We are looking for someone with bookkeeping skills to help us to manage the day to day finances along with liaising with our accountant to prepare monthly and annual accounts. If you think you have a few hours to spare each week we would love to hear from you. Please contact Peter, Pete or Anna.
Easter Lunch

Our Xmas Lunch was so successful, we are planning to have an Easter Lunch on 16th April, so if you know of anyone who would really appreciate a hearty meal then please get in touch.
Contacting us

We hope this newsletter is reaching everyone but if you would like to contact us here are a few methods:-

Facebook :- The Old Saw Mill
General E-mail:- co-op@theoldsawmill.org
Direct E-mail and phone for Finance and Governance – peterjaston@gmail.com
and 07971805372
Direct E-mail and phone for Bookings, Café, Volunteers and Marketing – annamorrison0@gmail.com and 07738877114
Direct E-mail for Buildings, Development and Maintenance – peterjranson@btinternet.com
and 07717003847

 
Kind regards
Peter, Anna and Pete

Latest News from Old Saw Mill

Congleton Old Saw Mill

 

A very big thank you to Peter Jackson, Retrograde, for getting everyone, or almost everyone, up to dance after their Christmas Lunch, with his songs’ extravaganza set from the 50/60/70/80s. A huge welcome and thank you too, to his brother, Alan, for his magical tricks, banter and bonhomie. What a team! We had a grand time.

Of course, none of this could have happened without the vibrant spirit of our volunteers.

So many people from our town gave up precious hours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to help make this happen, so, in no particular order, our thanks go to, Kirsty and Tel; Dee and Chris; Mandy, Seb and Mark; Angie and Carol; Ethel and Anna R; Linda; Anna K; Audrey and Gordon; Sara, Brenda and Diane.

Thank you so much!

 

We have been overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of sponsors for this event, some of whom have asked that should sponsorship money be left over from the Christmas lunch that we put it towards our next community dinner. There is, and yes, we shall, and since we have already been asked by a number of guests and volunteers about the next one: how about Easter?

Please let us have your ideas and thoughts.christmas-lunch

The team at Old Saw Mill are busy planning for four, or maybe five Community Get- Together dinners and events for 2017, so please come on board with your ideas.

In the meantime: we think the picture

says it all…

 

 

 

Keep healthy and happy by signing up for your favourite

Classes and Events for January, 2017

 

New! Life drawing                           Saturday 7th and 14th 12.30-2.30pm; Thursday 19th 2-4pm

Contact Anna: 07738877114

Discover Pilates                               every Monday 1.15-2.15pm; and 7-8pm

Contact Alison: 07775938532

Tai Chi                                                  every Tuesday 10-11am

Contact Jennifer: 07972287757

Maddison’s Yoga                             every Tuesday 12-1pm

                                                Contact Maddy: 07476053453

New! Children’s Yoga                    every Tuesday 1.30-2.15pm

Contact Karen: 07540388751

Zoe’s Zumba                                      every Wednesday 7-8pm

Contact Zoe: 07983505647

 

OSM Art Exhibition

“Get Together”, open evening: 4.30-7pm 20th Jan

Open Invitation to our new exhibition work by local artists and designers

There is still time to submit your work: contact Anna 07738877114 or email for an application form: annamorrison0@g.mail.com

 

“Meditate for Peace”

Saturday 21st January, 10-2.30pm

With Dhyan Prasada

 

Join Dhyan’s meditation workshop and her guest speakers for, “Meditate for Peace”

Sessions include, “Sound Healing”, facilitated by Sas Bullock

and “Kirtan/Sanskrit Mantro, facilitated by John Crosbie

 

to book a place or to find out more please contact Dhan on 07807044908

Book now to take advantage of the advanced ticket price of £15 per place, when you book before the 11th of January. After that tickets are £20 or £25 on the day.

 

New Appointments

We have been busy building the Old Saw Mill team since Stewart left and we are very pleased to announce that Peter Ranson has joined us as a Director. Pete, as he prefers to be called, has a wealth of experience at hand and has ear-marked the installation of the commercial kitchen as one of his priorities. We are all keen to see this up and running and Pete will be overseeing this aspect of Old Saw Mill’s development straightaway. So, watch this space!

We are so pleased to announce that Yvonne Phillips, chef extraordinaire, has joined us and plans are already afoot to develop our cafe area. You will see such a difference when you next visit as Yvonne’s new ideas for the menu are on show now. Yvonne has planned sumptuous lunches and tasty treats, including flat breads, cakes and biscuits available fresh from the oven. See Yvonne’s feature boards when you next visit for lunch or a cuppa.

Patti Pinto, our secret gardener, has set up our new face book page. It’s up and running so please visit us on face book: The Old Saw Mill

Last but by no means least – as you would not be reading this without him! Dewi Jones has taken on board the new set-up and running of our new E-Mill newsletter. Please contact Dewi if you would like to add a friend or have enquiries at: jonesdewi@hotmail.co.uk

The last of the apples have been juiced, vatted and stored in the press room where they will stay for the next 6 – 12 months. Again, thank you to all of you who have contributed with fruit. A very big thank you to you, Charla, our Congleton High School work-place student, who has the weighty, wet and apple-whiffy process down to a fine art.  Well Done, Charla!

 

Thank you to all for giving your time.

Having said all of that, here is our new contact list – January 2017

Peter Ashton: 07971805372 email: peterjaston@gmail.com

Anna Morrison: 07738877114 email: annamorrison0@gmail.com

Pete Ranson: 07717003847 email: peterjranson@btinternet.com

For E-Mill enquiries: please contact Dewi: jonesdewi@hotmail.co.uk

Old Saw Mill happens because of people of Congleton give time and donations. Please get in touch with us as we are always looking to expand our team. In the next few weeks you will hear from us about more of our new projects.

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

Our very best wishes from the team at OSM,

Anna, Peter, Pete, Yvonne, Patti and Dewi,

Old Saw Mill, Back River Street, River Street, Congleton, CW12 1HJ

 

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