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20 June 2025: See us at Harden Gala, Bingley Creates Market and Wilsden Gala

Over the next two weekends, we're going to be busy, out and about at local events:

• Harden Childrens Gala, tomorrow (Saturday 21 June), Harden park 2-4.30pm

• Bingley Creates Market, Saturday 28 June, Bingley Market Square, 9am-2pm

• Wilsden Gala, Sunday 29 June, Wilsden Cricket Club from 12:30pm

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21 May 2025: Can you help us at Harden Gala, or other events this summer?

Read more about helping at summer events including Harden Children's Gala on 21 June, contact with local schools, and other news, in our latest update.

30 April 2025: Help us fundraise

While our charity registration paperwork is being processed, we need to plan how we'll raise the £195,000 we need to buy Goit Stock Wood. 

If you are able to help us with any fundraising activities, please get in touch! 

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12 April 2025: BBC coverage

The BBC covered us on the Saturday evening edition of Look North. They have also added an article on their website.

9 April 2025: Charity registration submitted

We have submitted our application to form a registered charity. The next step is to plan our fundraising. Could you help us? If you have ideas about how we can raise money we'd love to hear from you! We're having a meeting on Wednesday 30 April for anyone who would be interested to help.

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20 March 2025: Goit Stock Wood approved as an Asset of Community Value

This week, Bradford Council approved the application submitted by Harden Council for Goit Stock Wood to be registered as an Asset of Community Value. This will give the community a period of six months to put together a bid to buy the wood, during which time it can’t be sold to another bidder.

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4 March 2025: We've been featured in the Telegraph & Argus

The T&A have published an article covering our Goit Stock Wood community purchase project!

We are still looking for trustees to help us set up the charity. More details.

27 February 2025: Search for trustees

Our latest email update talks about our vision, mission and values, setting up a registered charity, and our search for trustees to run the charity. In particular, we are looking for:

• Fundraising Lead

• Publicity Lead

• Vision Lead

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10 February 2025: Update

Our latest email update contains information about the project group and our search for special skills!

Read it here

14 January 2025: Our first public meeting

On 14 January we held our first public meeting at Harden Congregational Church. Thank you to the 50+ people who attended! It was amazing to see so many of you.

We heard from local residents about why they think the community purchase would be a good idea, and some people raised some concerns they had. We heard from someone who has been involved in a similar project near Otley a couple of years ago who shared their experience, and another person who works with an organisation who would potentially be able to support us with the purchase. Full notes from the meeting are available here.

If you did not give us your details at the meeting and wish to be kept up to date with news about the project, or if you would like to get involved, please fill out our contact details form. 

Our next step is to identify people who are interested to become members of a project team to move the project forward (more details are described at the bottom of the meeting notes page). If you would be interested in being a member of this team, please let us know using this form by the end of January.