Oswaldtwistle Community Action News

By Julie

Please come and join us at Weight Watchers every Wednesday Evening 6.30pm at Church and Oswaldtwistle Cricket Club.

By tackler

Oswaldtwistle residents basked in the sunshine as they were entertained by several bands in Rhyddings Park. Many visitors to the park brought picnics to enjoy whilst they listened to the bands.

Kate Birtles brought her friends and her 65th birthday party to the event which must have made it a very memorable event for her.

By Bob

By Tackler

As I left my home this morning I noticed a sparrow dead on the road beside my car. I don't know how it died. Maybe it was pecking at some tasty morsel on the road or swooping down joyfully in some spectacular aerobatic display. Probably it encountered one of the noisy, gas guzzling monsters that populate our roads. Perhaps you could spare some time in your prayers to acknowledge the demise of one of God's creatures, slaughtered in our rush to get to work and maybe, just maybe you could also remember the 3,000 humans who die on our roads every year.

By Max Robinson

19 Junior Members of the Kuon Ji Ju-Jitsu Association's Oswaldtwistle club travelled to Brierfield recently to take part in the Pendle Open Ju-Jitsu Championships.

They had a brilliantly successful day coming away with a medal haul that included 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 4 Bronze.

By Gayle Knight

Sparks is a young people’s drama group based at Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre and run by Oswaldtwistle Players but open to members from all around Hyndburn. For the past two years the programme has held very successful summer schools. This year with the support of Hyndburn Borough Council’s Active8 funding, the activities will be expanded.

Sparks – ages 12 – 17

By Gayle Knight

Hyndburn Leisure Trust recently commissioned a feasibility study to determine whether the Civic Theatre could be converted into a Community Arts Centre. The study showed that there was a demand for this sort of venue and budgets and plans are in the process of being drawn up to enable the conversion.

By Gayle Knight

Talking Shop is a Pennine Lancashire wide arts project. The original idea came in 2005 from Mid Pennine Arts who sent a researcher and photographer to Colne to look at local shops. The resultant photographs formed an exhibition at the Mid Pennine Gallery in Burnley.

By Tackler

The highly successful Manning’s Bakery chain has opened a new shop in Oswaldtwistle. They have taken over Cheadle’s bakery at 310 Union Road.

The business which is currently run by David and Peter Manning, was started by their father Michael Manning 60 years ago. He opened a chip shop at Waterfoot in the Rossendale Valley and began baking his own pies. Soon he bought the Burtons bakery chain which already had three shops.

By Tackler

The Foxhill Bank Nature Reserve needs volunteers to help maintain and improve the nature reserve. Volunteers are needed to mend fences, create new habitats and keep the reserve tidy. You can work outside, aquire new skills, help with environmental projects and make new friends.

If you are interested meet in the car park at the Mill Hill entrance to the nature reserve on Wednesdays from 10am - 12am and 2pm - 3pm.