News and Forthcoming Events

related to Hawkshead Benefice

Items for this page should be emailed to John- jjcedixon@btinternet.com
There is more local news on the Hawkshead Village site: here
and on the Satterthwaite Community site: here

Hawkshead Parish Church launches Clock Appeal

Music for a Summer Evening-
a series of concerts in Hawkshead Church in July and August. For a full programme click here.

Treasure Hunt around Hawkshead
on Thursday, August 26^th, starting from Park House at 6.30 p.m.
The walk will be followed by tea and cakes in Hawkshead Church
Entry fee:  £1.   This will be a fun evening for all the family!

Sunday, 29^th August
10.00 a.m. Joint Benefice service at Hawkshead
6.00 p.m. Service at Bowkerstead campsite

Full English (or How to run and Bed and Breakfast and keep your sense of humour!) By Edward Miller
An hilarious account of life in an Esthwaite Vale B & B.
The author will kindly donate £2 from each signed copy purchased from the Vicarage, Hawkshead or from the Minstrel’s Gallery. This will go toward the cost of publishing the Link. The book costs £7.99.

St Petersburg Blagovest Ensemble Concert - Hawkshead Parish Church, 7.30pm on 3rd September. Retiring Collection
It is a great pleasure to welcome back the wonderful Blagovest Ensemble from St. Petersburg. In 2007 they gave a sensational concert which ended in a long standing ovation. After a number of problems with visas, it is great that they are coming again for a concert at 7.30pm on 3^rd September. The Ensemble are bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano, conducted by Olga Kozlova who also sings second soprano.Russia's sacred choral music, much of it penned by her greatest composers, was banned under Soviet rule. Now this music is once again resounding through the churches and halls of Europe. Blagovest's voices are always unaccompanied. Russians feel passionately about their folk music, reflecting as it does their values of courage, love, faithfulness, as well as a self-mocking humour that is charmingly British!

Sawrey Harvest Festivals
The Harvest Festival at St. Peter's Church will be celebrated on October 3rd 11.15.a.m. a Jacob's Join lunch will be held in the Braithwaite Hall from 1.p.m. All welcome.