Join us for a Traditional Burns Night A Fundraiser for the Village Institute Friday 27th January 2017 includes…a Scottish 3 course meal with wine, plus a wee dram. Then highland fling the night away to a well-known local ceilidh band!!! Dress code: smart/tartan…prizes for the best Scottish attire! Tickets are £22 each, £10 per person […]
Community Share Offer
Come to the Institute on Sunday 2nd October between 11am-3pm and find out about how you can support your community and buy a share in our shop. Free coffee, croissants and bacon sandwiches on offer.
Village Society Annual General Meeting 5th July
We are holding our AGM on Tuesday 5th July in the Institute at 7.30, all welcome to come along and give us your views. We are as ever looking for new committee members as well.
Morton Gala Sunday 10th July
Theme of this year’s gala is ‘We love Yorkshire’ As you can see we are going local with the theme this year and celebrating all things Yorkshire. So get your Yorkshire thinking flat caps on for the procession either as a group or individual. REMEMBER – last year we changed the two baby classes to […]
Quiz Night 7th October 2016
Another quiz night will be held on Friday 7th October at 7.30 in the Village Institute, tickets available from Barbara 01274 567435 or Kathy on 01274 567174. Entry form below to download. Quiz_entry_form
Community Shop Meeting 13th January
East Morton Community Shop: Following a survey undertaken last summer, 80 or more residents in East Morton supported the idea of developing a community shop using the building in the village centre currently housing the public toilets. With this aim in view and with the financial support of the village society, an application was submitted […]
Summer Newsletter and AGM minutes – No 81
The latest newsletter is available to download from this link Summer Newsletter No 81 and AGM minutes 2015
Community shop questionnaire
The existing public conveniences are a small building in the centre of the village, currently owned by Bradford Council and recently closed (April 2015) due to the need to make continued cost savings. We have a proposal to apply for the building to become a community asset, with a view to using it as a […]
Old newsletters uploaded to archive
I have just uploaded the first 14 newsletters to our archive page, makes some interesting reading, still having some of the same issues today. http://www.mortonvillage.org.uk/newsletter
Meeting to decide future of toilets Friday 27th February
The village society committee are presently trying to decide the future for the public conveniences when they are no longer under the BMDC umbrella in the spring. A team of local residents has opened the toilet block on a daily basis for some time now enabling it to remain open when many others have had […]