Stitching Together

Workshops on English Patchwork

personal samples

A Green, Sustainable, Low Energy Building 

In 2006, the project was awarded £30,497 from the Nidderdale AONB Sustainable Development Fund to help finance the installation of a ground source heat pump - GSHP, extra insulation and sunpipes. As a condition of the award the AONB required that the experience of installing and operating this type of technology in a community building should be shared with other organisations considering a similar installation. This was to include an interpretive board detailing every aspect of the installation and placed in an appropriate location. With 14 months experience of operating the systems, the board has now been designed and is located on the wall of CCCC at the point of access to the building from the car park

CCCC is pleased to acknowledge the following companies who have kindly sponsored the board:-

Hughes Geothermal who drilled the boreholes for the heat exchangers, Invisible Heating Systems who supplied the GSHP, and Michael Basnett, supplier and fitter of the sunpipes

Autumn Term

New Courses/Activities: After School Club, Karate, French for Beginners, Aromatherapy, Seniors Keep Fit, Stitching Together, Icing Your Christmas Cake

Continuing Courses/Activities: Playgroup, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies, Dance Classes, Lunch Club,  Legs, Bums and Tums, Yoga, Latin, Painting and Drawing, Chiropody Clinic

Caring Together

A new group has been introduced by the Alzheimer's Society offering the opportunity for anyone who has or knows someone with memory problems to drop in for a chat and a coffee on Thursday mornings at CCCC. This is a partnership between the Society, Help the Aged and the CCCC Committee. The Society will have lots of useful information available, and advice can be provided about some of the existing services available locally.

Darley Local History Group

A new local history group has recently started meeting on alternate Thursdays at CCCC. Under the auspices of Age Concern, it provides an opportunity for older residents to meet and talk about their memories - and escapades! - of 50 or 60 years ago, and for some slightly younger ones to find out what life was like in Darley in the past. The immediate aim, using photographs and anecdotes, is to provide a scrapbook which will provide a snapshot of personal memories of life in Darley.

Annual General Meeting

The first AGM for CCCC was held yesterday evening. The Chair reported that prior to restoration the regular activities included brownies, cubs and scouts, dance classes, library coffee morning, lunch club and play group. In the 6 months since refurbishment, activities had increased by 114% and now included all existing activities plus a chiropody clinic and the following classes: IT for beginners in the new NYCC Skillsmobile, digital photography, painting and drawing, spanish for beginners, latin for beginners, fitness and yoga, and NCT for parents-to-be. Charity events and social activities, including children's parties, had also taken place. Some of these activities are shown below:

NYCC Skillsmobile

IT for beginners

digital photography

painting and drawing

fitness

NCT

reading corner at library coffee morning

The Treasurer reported that the total income raised for the restoration amounted to £388,988, plus VAT of £49,646 reclaimed on expenditure, giving a grand total of income inclusive of VAT of £438,634.

The first Annual Report for CCCC was presented at the meeting, and is on display at CCCC for those who may wish to read it.

The meeting concluded with the appointment of the new Management Committee and Trustees.

All ready for sunny, summer days

Following the opening of the building in August last year, work has continued to create an outdoor area for everyone using CCCC to enjoy. The furniture has been funded with the kind support of the York and North Yorkshire Community Foundation..............

....... with planting undertaken by Darley in Bloom

the playden and sandpit were already in place

Darley Playgroup are back in their 'new' home

...we most certainly have...

Opening of CCCC by Kim Thorman

this way please...

Kim cutting the ribbon

an appreciative audience

Kim receiving flowers

flowers for Angela

successful Steering Group, but missing Janet, Mel and Ingrid

CCCC finished - we made it

lobby to kitchen

kitchen

meeting room

main hall

A lovely playden now on site for the playgroup

Restoration of car park

Preparing for occupying CCCC

anyone remember what this was for?

man .. and women...on a mission !!

first 'meeting' in the meeting room - a celebration

Work in progress on the.....

.....car park

and outside play area

Exciting times....... as the restoration nears completion

decorating .....

.........finished

Junckers Sylvasport floor...

.......being laid

ground-source heat pump

completion of exterior works

Decorating.....etc

the boreholes are......bored, the plastering is finished, the plumbing, sundry items !! and electrical fittings are being installed, and the interior has now had its first coat of paint

new lobby with pine ceiling

meeting room

kitchen through into the hall

hall, with panelling still to be painted

Ground-source heat

The building will be heated by a renewable energy system using ground-source heat accessed from boreholes, and supplying a Velta underfloor heating system - see blog entry for 23rd March. Underfloor heating is the most efficient type of space heating to use with a ground-source heat pump (GSHP)

A GSHP system consists of a ground heat exchanger, a water-to-water heat pump, and a heat distribution system. A typical system is shown above

The ground heat exchangers are U-tubes

inserted into

pre-drilled bore holes

No oil, but plenty of water !!