Slaley, Northumberland

Slaley Community Trust had a successful sixth AGM on Wednesday, April 21st 2010. Nearly twenty members came along on the night, and after refreshments heard of the Trust’s progress in the past year.
Sales of the reprint of Miss Mason’s “Miscellany” under the title “Slaley, Then and Now” have boosted the Trust’s finances, and will enable it to offer more support to other parish groups. The book was on sale for the first time at the 150th Slaley Show (which the Trust supported in other ways as well). Since then sales have continued through the village shop, bookshops in Hexham and Corbridge, and directly from the Trust. Sales of the book exceeded our expectation, and only a hundred copies are left in stock.
The Trust is now sponsoring a Junior Leek Club prize, with £10 and a cup for the best single leek from the under-16s. The Parish Newsletter continues as a monthly publication, thanks to Carolyn Brooks and Joan Galley, and to the team of volunteers who distribute the newsletters to every household in the parish. We hope that this effort is appreciated by its recipients, if only to remind people of all that is going on in Slaley. We would again like to thank Northumbria Water Ltd. for their assistance with printing. However we have not produced another edition of the Parish Reports booklet, and it is uncertain if this will continue as an annual or occasional publication.
The meeting then elected a new committee. Our secretary (Catherine Lincoln) and treasurer (Margaret Weatherley) are continuing, but the Trust now has a new chairman. He is Norman Watson, who has recently moved to Slaley, and is keen to be involved with local activities.
Other members of the new committee are:   Carolyn Brooks, Andrew Coney, Reg Corbidge, Michael Darrington, Michael Elphick, Jackie Green and Stewart Murrell.