Rutland County Library Oakham is to undergo a £280k refurbishment Library Service to move to Museum.
Rutland County Library Oakham is to undergo a £280k refurbishment between December 2016 and Summer 2017 and will be closed to members of the public while the work takes place.
During this time, library services will move to Rutland County Museum but will return to normal as soon as the refurbishment is complete.
The Library will be closed from Thursday 15th December as work begins on site.
The museum-based library service will open a few days later on Wednesday 21st December.
All refurbishment work is due to be completed by Summer 2017, after which the service will move back into the Oakham Library building.
The following library services will be available at Rutland County Museum from 21st December 2016:
· Public computers and online services
· Free internet and Wi-Fi access
· Book and DVD loans (reduced stock)
· Latest magazines and newspapers (no back issues)
· Reading groups
· Requests, renewals and enquiries
Museum opening hours will increase from four to six days a week to accommodate the library and will be as follows:
The Museum itself will continue to operate as normal, however there will be no special exhibitions until the library service has moved back to its permanent home.
Work to the library will include improvements to the lighting, flooring, ceiling, electrics and roofing and will provide service users with a much improved library facility.
Prize Draw for Luxury Christmas Hampers
Cake stall including Christmas Cakes
Jams, Marmalade's and homemade chutney's
Games and Activities for the children
Handcrafted jewellery
Homemade refreshments
Proceeds to Braunston Church and Hope Against Cancer
Price: 50p Admission
Braunston & Brooke Village Hall
3 Wood Lane
Braunston-in-rutland
LE15 8QZ
A very Magical Christmas Fayre, with a visit from A Magician who is a member of the Magic Circle.
Stalls, Craft, Santa's Grotto, Raffle, Games and more
All proceeds to St Peter and St Paul Church, Market Overton
Price: 50p Adults, Children FOC
Market Overton Bowls Club
Bowling Green Lane
Market Overton
LE15 7PH
Harringworth Christmas Bazaar on Saturday 26 November 10.30 - 13.30 - Come and join us in the beautiful surroundings of St John the Baptist Church, Harringworth on Saturday 26th November 10.30am - 1.30pm for the Harringworth Christmas Bazaar - a truly festive start to the season! Expect to find some very special gift ideas from local artists such as Life is Bloomin’ Gorgeous (Emma McQuiggan) and Sadie & Sid Art, handmade chocolates by Nenette Shrivener, silk scarves by Jodie Aziz. Plus, beautiful living Christmas Wreaths, cute Clay Piggy Banks, Made In Harringworth produce, children’s activities, Christmas cards, bottle raffle, mince pies and refreshments and much, much more. And how could we forget, the famous Harringworth Hamper Raffle! Entry is FREE. We'd love to see you there. Postcode NN17 3AF
Price: Entry Free
St John The Baptist Church
Seaton Road
Harringworth
NN17 3AF
10am -12 Come and make a wreath or garland, any materials can be used to represent your club, village organisation or hobby, to display in the chapel
1-3pm Display of Garlands and Wreaths.
Donations will be split between the chapel and Thorpe Hall our charity this year!
Everyone Welcome.
The Rutland Fairtrade Market returns to Oakham Castle, with a fabulous variety of stallholders this year, offering Fairtrade and ethically traded products from around the world, including foods, clothes, toys, accessories and hand-made crafts. In addition, there will be stalls selling locally made items ranging from woollen rugs & scarves to hand blended aromatherapy products. While browsing the stalls, visitors will be able enjoy Fairtrade refreshments and homemade cakes.
Through buying Fairtrade products, visitors to the market will be helping producers in some of the world's poorest countries to use trade as a means of improving their living standards. These producers receive a guaranteed price for their produce plus a Fairtrade premium which is invested in social or environmental projects in their wider communities.
The Market will be opened by The High Sheriff of Rutland, Dr Sarah Furness.
Christmas Craft Fair featuring quality craft stalls. Handmade Gifts, Jewellery, Preserves, Wood Turning and more. Games, crafts for children, raffle and tombola. Also delicious hot refreshments and drinks.
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Almost all Oakham Town Councillors who now serve on our parish council are now keen
to serve the community.
Although laws governing the council may make it look like it does not want to.
The Christmas tree is a fine example of this. I think most members support the community
involvement in decorating the town tree. Something which groups and members of our community
have been keen to carry out for a number of years.
They have often been stopped due to Elf and Safety nonsense, claimed by at least one member,
who is often seen ignoring those rules swinging from ladders around town and the parks.
One community member set up a facebook page calling for people to decorate the tree,
but due to a few members not wanting community or even member involvement the
council was restructured and we can not give consent in time.
The Mayor agrees via email that the restructuring has not worked.
The major issue is the council is only having one meeting a month and some important
decisions are being made outside that meeting.
The law says all decisions have to be made at meetings not via telephone, emails etc.
So when a member of the community wants us to consent to something like organising
a Christmas tree decorating group. The Council can not give consent in time.
As a Councillor I can say I support the proposal, but the law prevents me from saying yes go ahead
very frustrating, but the law is designed to keep a parish council working as a team*. (*that is not a joke)
The problem with Oakham Town Council it lost the meaning of being a team many
years ago and this year has seen that become even worse.
Even if the council wanted to give a group consent to decorate the tree it can't because
we won't be holding our next meeting some five weeks since the last and after all
the planned Christmas events.
They way things are going the community will soon be required to submit request of
their council at least a year in advance.
At least one other member has written to the chairman complaining about the
lack of meetings and their desire to be involved in decision making. The chairman
has said he is considering bringing restructuring back to council on the 14th December,
I hope he does. Most of the changes were brought in because the ex Clerk complained
about the work load of having two meetings a month and a few members think we are a
county council and the parish council should operate like one. We can not afford to employ lots
of staff to make delegated decisions.
Rutland Radio were this morning due to broadcast an interview this morning with
the resident who organised the facebook event this weekend.
This appears to have been dropped and replaced by comments made by Rob Persani
he said he did not know which Sunday the tree would be decorated and mentioned
insurance concerns.
I agree with the chairman of the council there would be an insurance concern if consent
was given outside our meeting as there would be no minute to show we had given consent
and noted the risks etc. I believe the risks would be very tiny and of little concern to
any insurance company as up and down the country many members of the community
put up trees in towns and villages. Has any one seen how Uppingham put up its decoration.
Older men swinging from lamp post etc all done at their own risk, can be viewed on the towns web cam
Maybe we can sort out this properly for next year? Although if text message I received from Chairman Adam Lowe is true we may not need to decorate it.
He tell me he is planning on getting the council to agree buying a tree made out of recycled milk bottles, can it get any worse?
This is the latest update from the Chairman of the council, This is also a difficult one for
Adam as I know he wants to please the community.
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 12:30 PM
From: "Adam Lowe"
To: "Martin Brookes" , "Vince Howard" , "Sally Anne Wadsworth" , "Stan Stubbs" , "Joyce Lucas" , "Peter Ind" , "Richard Haynes" , MJHaley
Subject: Re: Christmas Tree
Martin
I met Paul and Ben with Vince.
We have not given any permission for the public to decorate the tree. The Town Council (PPWG) decorate the tree, we did last year, year before the public did their own thing.
The public have stated this is their intention again this year.
The tree was decorated last year my myself and my wife, I was very much a part of the PPWG back then and wanted to ensure OTC had a tree that did not get the same ridicule and last year went O.K.
What the meeting with Paul, Ben and Vince was for was to explain:
The public cannot clamber all over the tree and decorate it.
That myself and Vince would be at the tree at the agreed time when we (OTC Cllrs) will decorate the tree using an approved ladder and process so the public are not at risk.
There are already christmas decorations that I and my wife bought last year in preparation for this which have been wired so they can be fixed securely to the tree. These decorations did not come out any OTC budget, we paid for them and they represent a donation to the Town.
It may be that the public may well attach the decorations to the lower branches, however this will be under Town Council supervision, the whole exercise was to step in before the public lept into action, which they will do, and have a controlled public and Town Council spirited working event that was going to happen anyway.
As regards timing's, the idea is that Sunday 27 at 10am, however this is subject to LITE ensuring the lights are on the tree, if not then it pushes back to Sunday 4 at 10am.
Once we had confirmed all details (LITE) then an e-mail would of been going round the Cllrs.
