After a long period where we have struggled to keep the website updated regularly on a voluntary basis, it has reluctantly been decided to suspend adding new content to the website until new software and hosting facilities are in place. This will probably take until October 2008 (but it could be longer - you know how things are with computers!).
Once the upgrade has been completed, it will be possible for qualifying groups, businesses and individuals to update their own sections or pages on this website as often as they see fit without intervention from the website management. We will also continue to add video clips and news stories on an ad hoc basis.
The issue of paying the website’s running costs has also got to be addressed, as income has been far outstripped by expenses so far. As a result, we will be actively seeking commercial advertising and sponsorship in order to keep the site in the black and ensure its future.
We will continue to give free publicity on the home page to any local community event within the parish. Email events@barwickandscholes.com. Events outside the parish, and commercial events like concerts, can be advertised too - go HERE for more details.
To that tiny minority of Scholes and Barwick residents who have supported the website so far by providing copy, artwork etc, THANK YOU!
To everybody else - this website could be a valuable resource for our villages. It will only reach its full potential if YOU join in by telling us what’s going on in your village, or telling us what you would like to see on the website.
For example, we could have a web forum (there are currently good reasons why we don’t, but we could revisit that idea if someone came forward who’d be be willing to moderate the forum).
We could publish your photographs or letters. We could show your videos. The sky’s the limit.