Much of Barrie’s year has been spent setting up a new housing charity, Restore (York) Ltd. They now have a house and four people who would otherwise be homeless are living there. Continue reading
Restore – now housing four people
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Holidays
The beach at Buccament Bay Resort
We enjoyed two main holidays this year. The first, to mark our Ruby Anniversary, was in St Vincent in the Caribbean. It was wonderfully tropical and we were spoiled rotten in a five star resort. The island people were so friendly and humourous. They made the week really enjoyable. Continue reading
A new form of theatre?
Barrie was at the Riding Lights Summer School again this July. He worked with a theatre director to produce a ground breaking show, Tall Stories, telling personal stories with both digital storytelling and stage play. Continue reading
Belfrey Groups
The St Michael's Carol Service in York Minster
As well as his charity work with Restore, Barrie has continued to play an active role on the PCC of St Michael le Belfrey and as the team leader for Belfrey Groups. This was the year things changed and cell groups were replaced by Belfrey Groups. Continue reading
So BBC Local Radio is safe ….. The DG says so
In an article in this week’s New Statesman, Mark Thompson says that merging or closing local radio stations is not the way forward for the BBC ……We’re in the middle of an open debate inside the BBC about its future. One idea was whether you could merge local radio with Radio 5 Live or reduce local radio in some way. Although local radio is relatively cheap to run, when you run 40 radio stations in England, you have to multiply the cost. The point of local radio is that if it’s not local, it’s not doing its job. It’s reasonable for people to have a debate about merging or shutting local radio but that’s not the way forward for the BBC.