St. Andrew’s Greystoke, Church Services November 2025
Sunday 2 November – Informal Service with Kid’s Group
Sunday 9 November – Remembrance Service 10.15 am followed by prayers and last post at the cross (11.00)
Sunday 16 November – Informal Service with Kid’s Group
Sunday 23 November – Traditional Holy Communion
Sunday 30 November – Ullswater Mission Community Service
All services, apart from Remembrance Sunday which is 10.15am, begin at 11.00am. Coffee and cake will be served from 10.30 am onwards. We look forward to seeing you.
Greystoke’s New Together Correspondent
After nearly 10 years, the time has come to pass the baton over to a new correspondent. Please contact John Bridges at the email address inside the front cover of the printed magazine if you’d like to find out more, or if you are willing, from January 2026, to provide no more than a day a month collating articles, and updating the village website.
Get Involved – Join our Village Hall Committee
We have a great bunch of people who come together to help run our village hall, ensuring it is available for the whole community. It’s a place for gatherings, clubs, celebrations, school lunches are more. We are currently looking for friendly motivated people to join the committee and help shape its future. Do you have ideas for events, activities or improvements?
So, what’s involved?
- Attending short, friendly meetings (usually 4 times year)
- Helping plan or support local events
- Sharing ideas to improve our space and services
- Help make decisions that benefit the whole community.
No experience needed – just enthusiasm and a bit of time. There are lots of ways to be involved. Whether you’re a long-time resident or new to the village – your voice matters.
Interested? Have questions? Drop us a message or contact Emma.
Greystoke Parish Council
The next Parish Council meeting is at 7.00pm on Tuesday 11 November in the Village Hall.
Greystoke WI
Greystoke WI was very honoured to welcome Alan Hinkes OBE, one time Yorkshire Man of the Year and first Brit to climb the 14 peaks over 8,000 metres as our speaker at our October Guest Night.
He gave an engaging and hair-raising talk about his 17 year long ambition to scale the 14 peaks over 8,000 metres. It took so long because many attempts failed, sometimes because of the weather and on one occasion because his party came upon a man who would have died if they had not helped him to walk down. It was hair-raising because at 8,000 metres you are in the death zone where humans are not adapted to survive. He spoke of the numbers of climbers who had attempted the 14 peaks but had either died or given up. He mentioned many friends who had died from falls, avalanches or from acute mountain sickness whilst climbing. He was very proud of still possessing all ten digits whereas many of his acquaintances had lost fingers or toes to frostbite. He was acutely aware of the risks he was running and the possibility that he would never get back to Fiona, his daughter, whose picture he carried to each summit. Tellingly, he said he would never climb any of the 14 again.
Alan was not shy of including gory detail and told us about a very nasty wound he suffered to his leg when he fell off a path on the way to a climb. This entailed a lengthy stay in hospital and much training to recover his fitness.
Kangchenjunga sounded like Alan’s worst experience. He felt that he came close to death at the summit rather late in the day and was faced with the prospect of descending in the dark. However, he managed to talk himself out of his fear and down the mountain. He has written about his 17 year mission in a book called 8000m All 14 Summits. We were very grateful to him for coming to Greystoke WI to speak about his experiences.
Our meeting on Thursday 6 November is a dabble craft session starting at 2.00pm. There will be an opportunity to look at the archive as well as try your hand at something new.
If you would like to join us at WI meetings, please contact Sue, Val on or Jennifer.
Friends of St. Andrew’s Building Frost Fayre
Saturday 22 November between 10.30am and 2.00pm in Greystoke Village Hall, we will be serving our ever popular Turkey Rolls and Delicious Home Baked Cakes.
Christmas Stalls where you can have a good old Cumbrian ‘ratch’ for Christmas presents, cards, decorations, mouth-watering food and produce. Games for children and hopefully Father Christmas will pay us a visit between 12noon and 1.00pm.
At the time of writing there are still 2 stalls available to hire. Please contact Shirley or Maureen.
The number of FoSAB group members continues to grow. If you have an interest in our beautiful church building and would like to become a member at a minimum charge of £10 per annum or just making a donation please contact Maureen Hardy.
Greystoke & District Sports Association – Future Pool Project
A well-attended event took place on 29 September in the pool café, when plans for the future of the pool were revealed and discussed. Thanks to all who came along and supported the ideas for development and provided useful feedback. Our aim is to create a replacement pool that is more energy efficient, will last us the next 50 years, and be more accessible than the current pool. If you were unable to attend and would like to know more please contact any Committee member or email us at and we will get back to you.
We have benefitted from the community support over the years and will need continued help with fundraising to carry through the ambitious plans. Our next step is to submit a planning application – where letters of support will be welcomed! We will provide regular updates in this newsletter.
Greystoke & District Sports Association – Events
- Monday café – open from 12 noon until 2.00pm. Come and enjoy warming soups, homemade cakes and hot drinks. Great company too.
- Football café – we open the Pool café every time Greystoke play at home for hot drinks and tray bakes. Come and support your local team and the Pool.
- Film nights – Saturday 15 November showing the excellent film, Viceroy, with Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson. £16 for a film, meal and interval ice cream. Licensed bar available. Tickets available from Greystoke Post Office and online.
Village Hall Bingo
Join us for an evening of fantastic prizes, laughs and good old fashioned fun for all ages raising funds for the hall. Our first event is on Friday 7 November 6:40pm doors open, eyes down 7:00pm. Tea/coffee/soft drink included.
The second event will be on Friday 28 November and the Christmas Bingo on Friday 19 December. Thank you to those who have donated prizes to date, our collectors will be collecting until mid-November – look out for your flyer.
Greystoke Pantomime December 11/12/13 December
It’s showtime! The Greystoke Pantomime Troupe will be performing Aladdin. Tickets will go on sale via Greystoke swimming pool website from beginning November. Or contact Clare Morton.
Greystoke Community Land Trust
A huge thanks to everyone who filled in the housing needs survey. ACT are pulling together the results so they can be shared with the community for discussion and any next steps. We hope to be able to share that with you before the end of the year.
We are now officially registered with the FCA.
The community land trust is here for the community and not just our members. Any assets we hold or profits we make must be reinvested for the community’s benefit – often called an ‘asset lock’. We will be looking to open up membership as soon as we can – we’re just waiting on some grant funding coming through and then we can open a bank account. Join for £1 for life!
Stay tuned for more news on this and see our slightly updated website.
Greystoke Pool Draw
Congratulations to the winners of pool draw for October
£20 – Bridget Jardine – 135
£15 – Maureen & Ali – 74
£10 – Gary & Marie Ratcliff – 114
£5 – Ella & Johnathan Tiffin 1– 27
£5 – Annie Swarbrick – 35
£5 – Sarah Dobinson – 70
£5 – Tim Nicol – 7
Get Fit 4 Life, Tuesdays 3pm, Greystoke Village Hall
I’m thrilled to see more people attend the Get Fit 4 Life class, as it means it can keep running and I can bring movement to your community. Classes run during term time only, and drop-ins are always welcome. Cost is £8 for a block booking. Whether you’re looking to improve mobility, boost your mood, or meet others, we’d love to see you. All abilities catered for. For more information, contact Debbie on 07776 162125 or eMail.
New bus timetable from 17/11/2025
- The route (previously designed to accommodate connections with the X4/5 to Keswick) will be simplified with all journeys running via the same anti-clockwise loop Penrith – Clickham – Greystoke – Motherby – Newbiggin – Clickham – Penrith. So will pick up on the same side of the road in each village on every trip.
- The variations in the afternoon timetable with certain journeys only running on Saturdays and on School Holidays have been eliminated. The only variation will be the 14.45 journey on the return to Penrith will end at the Rail Station, rather than the bus station on schooldays.
- The second journey of the day has been re-timed later, to pick up after 09:30, to allow English National Concessionary Travel passes to additionally be used for free travel on Monday to Friday
- The 07:10 from Greystoke will be withdrawn, and is replaced by a 08:05 arriving in Penrith for 08:50, which is better for workers starting at 9.00 (the 17:10 will run at 17:25, to accommodate a new service 106 journey)
- The 11:15 and 16:05 are withdrawn and the 14:35 and 15:00 merged to make a new 14:45
- At the suggestion of the Bus User Group, the bus will run into and out of Penrith via Castletown. It will run the rail station (for the retail park) on the way from Penrith, but use the Booths stop on the way towards Penrith
- The new route will allow the stops outside the Clickham Inn to be served