Category Archives: Cudworth News

Attending: Chris Fox (Chairperson), Andrew Scattergood (Secretary), Kerry Barker, Sally Bean, Sue Scotcher Charlie Wraith MBE (Councillor), David Gill (Community Development Officer) Apologies: Tina Heaton, Julia Keeling, Chloe Roberts, Rowena Butteriss Minutes: CF welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked everyone for coming. He gave apologies (above). Notes & Updates: The minutes are now available to […]

Attending: Chris Fox (Chairperson), Andrew Scattergood (Secretary), Kerry Barker, Janice Ennis, Julia Keeling, Mick White, Sally Bean, Charlie Wraith (Councillor), David Gill (Community Development Officer) Apologies: Rowena Butteriss, Tina Heaton, Jonathan Davis (Treasurer), Chloe Roberts Minutes: CF welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked everyone for coming. He gave apologies (above). Treasurer’s & Fundraising Action […]

How long until we find ourselves living in a cashless society and bank notes are banned in Barnsley? Will the day come when our fiver note, quids and copper coins are no more? Lost to history, a distant memory like cassette tapes, Marathon chocolate bars, Woolworths and tax discs. Why are we so loose and […]

If you are out and about in Cudworth you may see that many of the shops are displaying window stickers regarding being dementia friendly. The Chair from Barnsley Dementia Action Alliance and the Cudworth Social inclusion Officer from Age UK Barnsley are working together visiting shops and organisations encouraging them to sign up to the […]

It’s a story that’s almost too crazy to be true. However as often is the case, reality is indeed stranger than fiction and the legend of Ben the Cudworth Lion endures in Cudworth today. The not so tall tale of a lion kept in a scrap yard in Cudworth, Barnsley as a ‘guard dog’. Owned […]

After the success of last year’s community projects, our group Cudworth Businesses & Community Together is now looking forward to 2019 and we’ve lots of great events and initiatives planned already. Cudworth Businesses & Community Together’s mission is “To make Cudworth a better place to live, work and prosper”. Working with the community and Cudworth Ward […]

Hello Cudworth, As a New Year begins, we are once again looking for forward to working with the village on a number of exciting community incentives. This website will be getting an update with a number of local news stories, details about our Cudworth community projects and the business listing has a number of local […]

Have you heard about the Cudworth Christmas Light fundraising and our new online Cudworth Christmas Lights CrowdFunder? You may have seen collection boxes around the village and full list of the amazing shops can be found at the bottom of this article. We’ve had volunteers in the Co-op, stood with our collection tub since March […]

Mick Wilson is a talented artist who lives on Darfield Road in Cudworth. His forte is pointillism, the art of painting in small dots of pure colour. Visit Cudworth spoke to former mineworker Mick about his art and life. Hi Mick, tell us a little about you and your work… I left school with no […]

New Business on the High Street Exciting news, we have a new shop in Cudworth: LD’s Fancydress. The shop was officially opened on March 8th at 190 Pontefract Road, Cudworth, Barnsley S72 8AE (The top end of the village). A family run business they provide a extensive range of products including high quality costumes, fancy […]