God bless you all. Fr Hugh.

Light help offered to an older person who is having difficulty looking after their garden. No heavy work - just general tidying up etc.

One condition - very small well behaved dog has to come along too!

If you would like to take up this generous offer please contact Vicky

Anne Palmer & Peggy Kitchen

Will begin at 12 noon, in Bramham Park. Entrance to the event via Bowcliffe Bridge.

There will be a barbeque going all afternoon, the Leeds Police Dog Team will give a display at 2.00 pm, there will be a Fire Engine on site, a Treasure Hunt in the grounds of the Park. Side shows, children’s races, stalls, afternoon tea etc., etc. The event is aimed at families with children under 13. Bramham has more young children than any other Parish in our Group and we hope you will all come along and enjoy the fun.

We had a fantastic time last year, all we need is your company and - keep your fingers crossed for another beautifully sunny day.

Volunteers: We do need help to erect various tents and gazebos, if you think you could help us in the morning from 10.00 am or in the late afternoon 4.00 pm onwards with the clearing up we would love to hear from you. Please ring Anne Palmer 842850. Bramham have to find a team of at least five enthusiastic helpers.

Stalls: For a fee of £10 you can hire a stall for the afternoon. Please contact Anne Palmer as soon as possible for further information. We will allocate on a first come first served basis, and we need a variety of stalls.

Anne Palmer

Leaflets giving details of our event will be delivered to everyone in the village by the end of May/beginning of June. We hope you will be able to help us raise funds for new equipment and a possible outing for the youths. Cups for the winning girl/boy will be presented.

Mick Fox has kindly offered to do the BBQ again at the White Horse after the run, many thanks Mick. Sue Craven

The Royal British Legion, have been organising Pilgrimages to the War Graves in India as part of Veterans Re-united and recently, Mrs Elizabeth Bustard accompanied by her son Major Kenneth Bustard MBE took part in a Pilgrimage to Delhi.

During the pilgrimage they attended a Service of Remembrance in New Delhi War Cemetery and Mrs Bustard laid a wreath on behalf of the Royal British Legion Women’s Section from United Kingdom on 12th April.

During their visit they met the High Commissioner to India and visited other war cemeteries in Madras Mrs Bustard’s late husband Reg, who died 4 years ago fought in Burma with the Royal Norfolk Regiment. Mrs Bustard had an unforgettable visit to India.

Mrs Bustard went out with the Heroes Return programme which is part of a special Lottery programme called Veterans Reunited, set up to make grants to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the remarkable events that led to the end of the Second World War and to ensure that new generations can learn from their experiences.

UK residents who saw active service and widow/widowers of veterans are eligible for this grant. All interested parties should telephone 0845 00 00121 for further information.

‘Leesen verrry carfully,I weel zay zis, only vunce’!

That’s right! Bramham Drama Group will be performing an adaptation of the classic BBC comedy drama ‘Allo ’Allo next month at the village hall. The hit TV series first appeared on our screens over twenty years ago but its blend of politically incorrect humour and silly accents still has the capacity to appeal to young and old alike today.

With almost a laugh a minute, this show is bound to be a sell-out.

Thursday, 14 July - £7, Friday, 15 July - £7, Saturday, 16 July - £8

All performances start at 7.30 pm

Seating – Café style

Licensed Bar

Firstly, we would like to thank all our own members and friends from the village who so kindly supported our open meeting in April, featuring the well-known gardening expert, Kate Garton.

We were very pleased that the raffle raised £70 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance fund, which is our Charity this year. Thank you to everyone.

Secondly, we are quite proud that at the YCA Homecraft Competition at Wetherby, open to every branch in Yorkshire, one of our members, Mrs Gill Young took second place in the flower arranging class and in the Branch entry, entitled “A scene from a Country Show” the Bramham Branch’s display came third.

Thirdly, our next meeting is on Wednesday 15th June in the Village Hall at the usual time of 7.30 pm when the Speaker will be Mr David Wheldrake who will speak on the “ Lost Village of Lotherton”.

Visitors, as always, will be most welcome.

Jean Dale

The Brownies have been working very hard this term and its not over yet.

We have just completed our ‘Friends to Animal’ badges and next term we are going to do our ‘Athletic’ badge.

On the 24 May we are going to enrol our new Brownies and 3 girls will be doing their ‘Hostess’ badge, which they will really enjoy.

This week, 18th May its camp fire at Kirbys Farm Thorpe Arch and we do hope the rain stays away.

Brownie Revels is on the 28th June and this year’s theme is ‘Ladybirds’. This is to take place at Clifford village hall.

3rd July is the Brownie Walk which is another event the brownies really enjoy, especially the paddling at the end.

To end the term - Sports day this year is on the 19th July and we are really going to try our best as we always do, but its not the winning, its the taking part we always say .

Catherine was at the village hall all day Saturday 14th May for the Parish Plan Exhibition and took our display. If you went you would have seen what a great job the girls did.

I would just like to say a big thank you to Catherine and Liz whose help is greatly appreciated at Brownies.

The Bramham Parish Plan Exhibition took place in the Village Hall on Saturday 14^th May. On behalf of the Steering Committee, a big thank you to all those who visited the Exhibition and helped make the day such a success.

Over 160 people came to see the progress that has been made with the Plan and as a result we received a further 45 comments/suggestions. Some inevitably covered areas that are already known to us but some were new. In addition, six new volunteers came forward offering to help with environmental work and 15 people expressed an interest in getting involved in ‘Bramham in Bloom’ if and when that initiative gets off the ground.

All the feedback that was received is now being reviewed by the individual Working Groups and, where appropriate, Action Plans will be amended to take into account those comments and suggestions, views and opinions.

We appreciated the support from Colin Burgon MP who spent quite a long time with us talking with genuine interest to the people manning each stand and getting their views on the progress the village hopes to make. We were also grateful for the continuing support of Leeds City Council in the person of Kate Hutchinson of the Leeds North East Area Management Team who gave up her Saturday afternoon to learn more about the problems that concern our parishioners, with a view to helping out where possible.

Many thanks also to the volunteers from the Youth Club for keeping everyone suitably refreshed throughout the day and congratulations to the raffle winners, Harry Tindall and Mary Batt.

Iain Kimberley

our 2005 Pantomime

will be held on Wednesday

Simon would like to thank all those who helped and contributed to this evening.

The bell-ringers, the ladies for promotion and refreshments, also the guest performers Jessica, Frankie and Father Hugh, and finally to those who attended making the evening a resounding success.

The magnificent sum of over £400 was raised

Simon Noble