Please feel free to contact Philip (01484 863232) if you wish to check if any of the following events/details have changed. We will do our best to keep this site as accurate as possible, but cannot guarantee perfection (human or website). For details of all the Services - ie, not just the "special" ones listed here - please click on this SERVICES INFORMATION link, thank you.
Please also take it as read, that at most of the following events (excepting specific committees) "You Are Invited & Welcome". Thus, eg, Mothers' Union (MU) events are open to ALL whatever your gender, sexuality, marital status and so on, and you do not have to be a MU member to enjoy their trips, Bar meals and other sessions (though you would be welcome to join if you wish!).
Some UD5P (Upper Dearne 5 Parishes) group events are listed here - we are part of the UD5P group with All Saints Clayton West, St Michael the Archangel Emley, St James the Great Flockton and St Augustine Scissett. Also some school events are listed here - especially those open to the wider community - but more specific details can be gained from the school website (link from our parish home page)
Please note that for events actually in the Church of St Aidan there is a loop facility for hearing-aid users: kindly remind any friends, neighbours or family for whom this may be relevant.
A temporary site for SOS / KORS information is at the bottom of this page - please scroll down!
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KORS - Keep Our Rural Spaces
MU - The Mothers' Union
PCC - St Aidan's Parochial Church Council
SkCC - Skelmanthorpe Council of Churches (we are not listed as CTBI Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, since we are delighted to include the Wesleyan Reform Union Church in our ecumenical team)
SOS - Save Our Scissett environmental group
UD5P - The Upper Dearne 5 Parishes group; which includes our parish, and also: All Saints Clayton West, St Michael the Archangel Emley, St James the Great Flockton and St Augustine Scissett
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Our grateful thanks to Wrong Notes, Skelmanthorpe 'Nipper' Training Band, St Aidan's School Choir and the Harpist Duo, for their recent delight, lyrical and varied Musical Extravaganza in and for our church - local youth music is very much alive and wonderful!
Saturday 10th May 2008 - 7.00pm - UD5P film night with "Bruce Almighty" at St Michael the Archangel, Emley, followed by refreshments and informal discussion/chat: feel free to bring a friend or two. £2.00 ticket to cover costs
Sunday 11th May 2008 - 6.00pm - Praise for Pentecost at the Methodist Church
Wednesday 14th May 2008 - 7.30pm - MU session
Thursday 15th May 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Saturday 17th May 2008 - Christian Aid Coffee Morning at the Wesleyan Reform Union Church
Sunday 25th May 2008 - 6.00pm - Evensong: during this occasional Evensong series we are not using the BCP lections of the day, but reading and preaching on "The Song of Songs/Solomon"
Wednesday 28th May 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Wednesday 11th June 2008 - 9.30am depart - MU trip to Liverpool £12.00 (£5 deposit booking) return at 5.00pm.
Thursday 19th June 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Saturday 21st June 2008 - 1.45pm for 2.00pm - Youth music and drama workshops, at the Methodist Church, Pilling Lane (car park entrance). At 4.00pm parents and friends are welcome to refreshments followed by a presentation performance to finish 4.45pm . This event is free (costs being paid for by Connect Magazine). To book please contact: Samantha 0776 0293122 or at Friday 330 Club; Stuart 01484 864081; Christopher 01484 866705; or through the school offices at Skelmanthorpe First & Nursery school or St Aidans parish school.
Wednesday 25th June 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Saturday 28th June 2008 - 10.00am until 12.00noon - Coffee morning for church funds (Patronal Flower festival flowers and/or church restoration) by kind permission of Dorothy, in her garden we hope, at 21 Manor Rise
Wednesday 9th July 2008 - 7.30pm - MU session
Wednesday 23rd July 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Thursday 24th July 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing (4th Thur)
Friday 25th July 2008 - 7.30pm - Horace Bradshaw Society "New interiors: Changing your Daido (Daedo) Rails", at the Pleasant Mount Rooms, Skelmanthorpe
Sunday 27th July 2008 - 6.00pm - Evensong: during this occasional Evensong series we are not using the BCP lections of the day, but reading and preaching on "The Song of Songs/Solomon"
Saturday 2nd August 2008 - Come and see the UD5P Church stand at the Emley Show; and also the proposed Church and local community groups procession!
Thursday 21st August 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing (provisional)
Wednesday 27th August 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Wednesday 3rd September 2008 - 7.30pm - St Aidan's MU Centenary Celebration ff refreshments
Wednesday 10th September 2008 - 7.30pm - MU session
Thursday 18th September 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Wednesday 24th September 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Sunday 28th September 2008 - 6.00pm - Evensong: during this occasional Evensong series we are not using the BCP lections of the day, but reading and preaching on "The Song of Songs/Solomon"
Sunday 5th October 2008 - 8.00am and 10.00am Harvest Services at St Aidan
(Provisional) Sunday 5th October 2008 - 6.00pm - Harvest Praise at the Wesleyan Reform Union Church, Gib Lane
Wednesday 8th October 2008 - 7.30pm - MU session
Thursday 16th October 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Wednesday 22nd October 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Wednesday 12th November 2008 - 7.30pm - MU session
Wednesday 29th October 2008 - 7.30pm - MU Kirkburton Deanery Autumn Festival at St Thomas, Thurstonland
Thursday 20th November 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Sunday 23rd November 2008 - 6.00pm - Evensong: during this occasional Evensong series we are not using the BCP lections of the day, but reading and preaching on "The Song of Songs/Solomon"
Wednesday 26th November 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Sunday 30th November 2008 - (provisional) 4.00pm - UD5P group invited to the Advent Service at All Saints, Clayton West: a reflective service of readings, plainsong, hymns and carols. Mince pies and mulled wine will be served after the service.
Sunday 14th December 2008 - 7.30pm - Skelmanthorpe Band Concert at the Methodist Church, Pilling Lane (please note new day and venue)
Wednesday 17th December 2008 - 7.00pm - Skelmanthorpe History Society meeting at Skelmanthorpe Darby & Joan, Barrowstead
Thursday 18th December 2008 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Thursday 15th January 2009 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Thursday 19th February 2009 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Thursday 19th March 2009 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Thursday 23rd April 2009 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing (4th Thur)
Thursday 21st May 2009 - 6.15pm until 6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with prayer & anointing for healing
Friday 29th May 2009 - 7.00pm - Sung Mass at St Aidan for the Feast of Outer Looms to be led by Revd Philip Reynolds. Philip will speak about looming outwardly. Bible readers to be Raphael Pin and Chrystael Spong, and Dire Postlewit to be the organist. Refreshments to be served by Grevious Medley.
Sunday 14th June 2009 - time? - Diocesan 'Transforming Lives' Celebration, venue tba
5,000,000,000 AD - (give or take a thousand million years or so) The end of the Solar System. God will still love you and all creatures in eternal life, ie, forever.
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Temporary site for SOS information
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July 2006 AD
Keep Our Rural Spaces (KORS)
Have you seen the Kirklees Local Development Framework (LDF) Consultation leaflet?
The LDF plan contains five options of where new housing development will take place locally in the next 15 years.
Options A to D are not brilliant; but Option E of the LDF proposes 13,100 (over thirteen thousand!) houses to be built in South Kirklees by 2021, this "new housing would be concentrated in the Denby Dale, Skelmanthorpe and Clayton West area." This would require "a substantial amount of building on the green belt in the Dearne Valley area."
If you want Kirklees to help create vibrant, exciting, lively urban areas - and also to protect the green tranquility of rural areas, with only small human scale development - please oppose the nightmare of suburban sprawl that will ruin our countryside, and dilute the urban environment.
Please join the Public Meeting to express your concerns on Thursday 13th July 2006 at 7.00pm, in St Augustine's Church, Scissett
For outline copies of the LDF Consultation - to which the last deadline for your response is Friday 21st July 2006 - please contact:
[] telephone: 01484 221627
[] internet: http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/newhomes
[] email: research@kirklees.gov.uk
[] write to: Kirklees Talkback, FREEPOST HF2759, Corporate Development Unit, Kirklees Council, Civic Centre 3, Huddersfield HD1 2EY
[] or visit and check the information placed in Skelmanthorpe Council Office
Kirklees are giving us a chance to respond. If you wish to protect y/our villages and this rural area from a disaster - please send for the LDF outline, if you don't already have it, and please let know them your opinion.
Keep Our Rural Spaces (KORS) - Kors it's a good cause
Thank you,
Philip (Reynolds) parish priest of St Aidan - Skelmanthorpe - visit us at http://www.thales.demon.co.uk
northmist@thales.demon.co.uk - 01484 863232
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SOS News - August 2005
SOS are again opposing the large development being planned on the green fields behind Scissett Baths, which this time includes 3-story buildings.
Our rural area, and wildlife, need protection.
Brown field sites in towns should always be renewed first (Planning legislation PPG3)
We need green spaces, places to walk, free from noise
Wakefield Road traffic is already busy enough, unsafe local 'rat runs' already exist
Local services (schools, health, etc) are being overstretched
The developers may claim that they will provide some affordable houses - what will the cost really be ? - and how will they guarantee that Scissett people will benefit ? The only reason for this development is to make lots of money. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but we know that this proposal is not a charity effort to benefit the area !
Cul-de-sacs on the proposed plan allow the possibilty of more and more fields being built on. Remember SOS defeating the 400+ houses proposal a few years back, if they win this one...... ?
SOS is not being 'Nimby' (Not In My BackYard) - we have not opposed much of the smaller scale building in Scissett and Clayton West. Denby Dale Ward (including Sissett) has had the highest levels of development in Kirklees in recent years.
What can we do to show the level of feeling against this development ?
You can still write to the planning department with your objections (reference 2005/62/92469/E3): Mr S Hopwood, Kirklees Metropolitan Council, Planning Services, PO Box B93, Civic Centre III, Huddersfield, HD1 2JR or email philcook@kirklees.gov.uk.
We appreciate all the support you have given us so far , thank you.
As well as the environmental, transport, filling Shelley High School pyramid, green land issues, and the fact that this area has had the greatest percentage of new build throughout Kirklees - the plans leave a road going 'nowhere': ie, possibly ready for another 300 or more houses on neighbouring green fields.
Please come and defend your community should this plan be brought forward again; and write or email your views to the relevant councillors (see the kirklees.gov website) on the Heavey Woollen planning Committee.
Increased road noise due to heavier traffic volumes and new signal controlled junction - It's incredible how far the sound of an accelerating bus or lorry sounds, and it will be happening every couple of minutes.
Reduction of rural setting by loss of greenbelt........
Both of these will affect house prices and the enjoyment of our homes.
Kirklees is about to make a decision on the proposals for about 90 houses on the Sunnymead/Wakefield Road site behind Scissett Swimming Baths.
SOS has concerns about major developments in our community, if you agree please make your voice heard.
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i) Government policy is that major new developments should take place on brown field sites in and near towns before destroying green fields in rural communities.
ii) Denby Dale Ward has already had plenty of new housing. We have the highest rate of development in the Kirklees area during the last ten years. We have taken our share and more already.
Residents have not asked us to oppose every development in Scissett and Clayton - we cannot be accused of 'nimbyism' - but this is going too far, and could open even more building in the fields further along Pilling Lane.
iii) We do not want to lose the rural character of our communities . We hope Kirklees will protect truely rural villages and also develop vibrant, exciting, bright, culturally rich, safe urban communities. But we do not want sprawling suburbs which ruin villages and drain the life out of towns.
iv) We have traffic concerns. Residents know how congested the roads are, not least are prolonged "rush hours". There have been accidents on roads in this area, hence the speed cameras installed: and the evidence seems to be that they are largely due to the current volume rather than speed of traffic.
v) The great increase of dwellings already in the Shelley High School Pyramid area is putting pressure on Shelley High School; and any new major development will cause problems in some of the First Schools.
vi) We do not want further environmental damage. The green fields on this site have not been previously developed, and they largely border further green fields. Whilst not spectacular in themselves, they form part of the setting of the green belt that we want to define the limits of our village. The Great Crested Newt is among the creatures that need protection in or near the proposed area of development.
vii) What is the number of unoccupied houses in Kirklees? Is this number included in the claimed number of new homes required? There appear to be unoccupied low cost flats in Scissett already, do we really need more?
viii) Any major development in rural areas encourages greater car use, which is also against government policy.
ix) Do these specific proposals meet building legislation, standards and advisory guidelines re the spaces between dwellings, distances from boundaries, etc ?
It would be helpful to send a copy of any letter you send to the local Authority to your MP and to your local councillors (we will post contact details when available)
Please let your neighbours and other local contacts know about these proposals. Please tell other people whether by talk, telephone or email
Our voice matters.
Your voice matters.
Thank you for your support.
Philip (currently chairman of SOS)