We publish around a dozen short letters and stories a year — mostly notes from the trustees, occasionally a longer piece on a household or a fund. Nothing is published without consent.
On the morning of the spring fair we baked a hundred loaves at the Bardney bakery and walked them down to the bridge. Most were claimed by 10.30. A small story about how a parish gathers when the weather is fine and a charity is older than anyone remembers.
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Notes on the spring fair and the small bakery project that fed the village on its way to the bridge.
A quiet note on a difficult month: how the small reserve fund met the costs that arrived after the Christmas accounts had closed.
Why we paid for a temporary roof patch on the back classroom at Bardney primary, and what we have learned about the limits of small grants.
A short summary of the November meeting of trustees, including the figures for the autumn quarter and a brief note from the chair.
Forty-three walkers, sixteen children, two retrievers, and £842 raised for the Quiet Door. A short report from the abbey-ruins finish line.
A short note on the September school grants — this year a music tutor at Bucknall, library books for both schools, and seven uniforms.
A longer-than-usual quarterly letter from the trustees: notes on the year so far, a mention of the Lincolnshire heritage open day, and a thank-you to the dispatch folders.
A small essay on the founding bequest and the women who made it. Drawing on the parish records and a single surviving letter in the diocesan archive.
A short note on how pastoral referrals from the four churches reach the trustees, and a thank-you to the Rev. Canon Helen Marsden.
A short look at the emergency-reserve fund since its founding in 2018, with figures for the eight years and a note on the cases it cannot meet.
The trustees' Christmas letter for 2024 — a frank note on the small reserve-funded overspend, and a list of those without whom the year would not have managed.
Bardney · Southrey · Tupholme · Bucknall