The Ladies’ Christmas lunch will take place at the slightly later time of 1pm this year.

Click here for the menu.

Two courses is £27 and three courses will be £37.50 Once you have done the hard work of choosing from the delicious options on offer, please contact Heather who will co-ordinate numbers and menu choices for the pub.

heatherwhite1912@gmail.com

h: 01751-417436

m: 07748-020509

Come and enjoy some mulled wine and mince pies to get your Christmas preparations off to a flying start.

This event will also incorporate a chance to offer your views to a consultation on the future of the Darley Memorial Hall.

Contact Nadine here for further details.

It will soon be that time of the year again. If you wish to join the festive fun, please contact the Blacksmith’s Arms directly on 01751-417247, or by email: pub@blacksmithslastingham.com

You can book your place and select your meal choices. For the menu, click here.

All finished-off with a ‘waffer-thin mint’?……..

Sustainable Lastingham are hoping to hold a major event next summer.

Come and contribute ideas and enthusiasm to the planning for this exciting future project.

The annual Lastingham Lecture will take place in St. Mary’s Church, and will be followed by a light lunch in the Darley Memorial Hall.

This event is organised by the Friends of St. Mary’s Lastingham.

For further information, please contact Penelope Dawson Brown here.

Held in the Darley Memorial Hall.

Please come and join us and, perhaps, volunteer your services in some capacity to help to keep your village hall thriving as the centre of our community.

This Meeting has been requested by the Sustainable Lastingham group as the Lastingham Energy Survey is now at a stage where the chosen Consultants, Ridge and Partners, are able to attend a meeting to provide a comprehensive brief to villagers about the survey process.

All villagers are urged to attend whether or not they have agreed to have their house surveyed as everyone's input is valued.

We look forward to welcoming villagers to the AGM in the Darley Memorial Hall.

For the draft minutes of the last meeting, click here.

For the AGM agenda, click here.

Make a Pumpkin Lantern and put it outside your house.

Pumpkin trail guides will be available from the Village Hall.

Please let us know:

a] if you are doing a Pumpkin

b] if you want to buy a ticket for the event Adults £7.50, Children £2.50

There will be food and soft drink in the village hall after the trail.
Bring your own bottle if you want anything stronger!

Fancy dress is optional

Tickets must be booked in advance by October 21st.

For Village Hall bank details email: thedarleymemorialhall@gmail.com

There will be a light lunch in the Darley Memorial Hall following the lecture.

Tickets are £10 for the Lecture and £5 for the lunch, for lecture and lunch tickets must be booked by October 24th.

Please contact Penelope 01751 417251 or email ticketsforfriends@gmail.com

We look forward to welcoming villagers to this bi-annual meeting in the Darley Memorial Hall.

Please click here for a copy of the agenda.

Please do come along and find out what we have been doing over the last 12 months, plans for the future and events coming up.

Come and vote for the Trustees, come and join the Trustees, we will be pleased to have more people on board.

Prof Harold Mytum is professor of archaeology at the University of Liverpool with research interests that include above and below ground historic mortuary evidence. Monuments can tell us much more about the culture and beliefs of those who commissioned and made them. It's a fascinating subject and you will learn a lot about our own gravestones.

Please do come along to the Village Hall 7pm tomorrow, Saturday. We have a raffle and there will be refreshments after the Lecture - Beyond Names & Dates, why churchyard memorials are so important. Funds raised will go to the upkeep of our graveyard.

Residents & friends are invited to attend a Street Party.

The celebrations will centre around the Spaunton & Lastingham Village Hall.

Setting-up will begin at 10am with the party beginning at noon. Please bring food to share and there will be two BBQ grills available (one for meat and one for alternatives) for people to cook their own food. Bring your own drinks.

At 2pm there will be Village Photos to mark this very special occasion in the life of the nation and of the village.

The choir of the Theatre Royal, York are giving a concert entitled Screen Songs under the direction of Maddy Hudson.

The concert takes place in St. Mary’s Church and tickets cost £10, including refreshments, and proceeds will go towards St. Mary’s Lastingham and St. Chad’s Hutton-le-Hole.

If you wish to purchase tickets, please contact aandiec@live.com

Your chance to have your say about developments in the village. The meeting is, as usual, in the Village Hall so please come along and support the work of your committee and see how you can become involved and contribute. For the agenda, click here and, for the minutes of the previous meeting, click here.

The meeting will include a report from the Sustainable Lastingham group.

The annual election of Parish Meeting officials will take place at the AGM and the current postholders are:

Chair - Stewart Bray

Vice Chair - David Hepworth

Clerk - Brian Miller

Treasurer - David Barraclough

Any Nominations for (to replace) any of the above positions need to be presented to Brian Miller, as Clerk, by Tuesday 11th April together with the names of the Proposer and Seconder.

Display your festive headgear and enjoy some tea and cake in the Village Hall on the afternoon of Easter Sunday.

Taking place in St. Mary’s Lastingham.

It’s time to sign-up to that annual fixture in the Lastingham social calendar, the Ladies’ Christmas lunch.

Click here for the menu.

Once you have made your choices, please contact Heather White to book your place and menu selection: heatherwhite1912@googlemail.com

Professor Paul Marks, HM Senior Coroner for the East Riding & Kingston-upon-Hull, will be giving a talk on his historic post and up to date practice.

Admission is free but donation boxes will be available. Proceeds go to support the upkeep and running of the Village Hall.

All villagers are invited to our next Village Meeting.

To view the meeting agenda, please click here.

The Bishop of Whitby, Paul Ferguson, also happens to be a very fine organist. He is giving a recital in St. Mary’s Lastingham in aid of the Church.

The event has been organised by the Friends of Lastingham Church and begins with a delicious afternoon tea, served in the village hall just across the road from the church.

Replete with scones and cake, we then cross the road to the church for Bishop Paul’s recital which begins at 5pm.

Tickets cost £12 and can be obtained by contacting ticketsforfriends@gmail.com

Please do come along and support us and help to preserve this beautiful, historic church.

Come and join Ali and the team to enjoy the music of Chris Berry in the garden of the Blacksmith’s Arms. A few drinks with friends on a warm summer’s evening - what could be nicer? Make it a date.

It’s time to dust-off your running spikes. The Village Sports will be returning after a spell of Covid related cancellation in recent years. Further details to follow, but save the date.

Local blues legend, Muddy Merlot Edwards, will be performing with the band at the Blacksmith’s Arms.

Be there or be very, very square…..

This popular a cappella singing group are performing at St. Mary’s Church in Lastingham.

Save the date. Ticket and programme information to follow.