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12/09/2026

In just under two weeks we’ll be opening the doors at Denby Dale Pie Hall for our first ever Business Exchange by HD8 Life... And we’ve already got a pretty awesome mix of local businesses, organisations and people booked to join us.

So far, the room will include:

Cow and Giraffe, Sam Earnshaw, Soulfullbysamantha, Lucky’s Paws , Proper Golf , Alura Beauty Clinic , WoodSmiths Family Business , Serene Wellbeing Huddersfield , HDHR Services , Resolute Commercial Finance Ltd , From Seed To Sky / WOW Team, Magpie Design , Nurture Movement , CV Graphics , Kimberley Natasha Photography , Cool Water Direct , Think Forensic, Pearson Financial Wellbeing Mortgages, Claire Stow - Travel Counsellor, Georgie School of Theatre Arts , Kixx Huddersfield , Fully Re-Covered Bespoke Upholstery , Eyes&Teas , Sublime Indulgences , Holden Smith Law , Cyber Certain Limited, Nortonthorpe Sports Club , The Denby Care Home , Only 1 Design , RippleNorth , Dress It Yourself Event Hire , Nature Nurture Nourish, Nationwide Waste and Recycling Ltd and Elevate, Tom & Lauren Hopkinson Personal Estate Agents 🙌

We’ll also have four short, useful speaker sessions from Gayle at HDHR, Vicki at Resolute Commercial Finance, Sharron at Nurture Movement and Juliet from From Seed to Sky / WOW Team. These won't be long-winded or conference-y, just useful bits of knowledge you can take away with you.

And because apparently networking is vastly improved by cake, Grandma Freda's Kitchen is very generously providing some sweet treats for us too 😋

The Business Exchange is on Friday 25 September, 11am–1pm at Denby Dale Pie Hall.

Tickets are available through the HD8 Life website, or follow the link in our bio. They’re just £5 for up to two attendees from the same business or organisation.

If you’ve been meaning to book, go on and get yourself on that list 🖤

11/09/2026

I got this message from Woodlands Close Bake Shed the other day and it made me VERY happy.

They’ve just started supplying The Urban Kitchen in Kirkburton with sourdough and bakes after the two businesses connected because of our HD EIGHT campaign - and this is exactly the sort of thing I hoped would happen when I started the campaign 🖤

HD EIGHT is partly about encouraging all of us to spend more of our money locally, but that applies to businesses too. If something you need can be bought, made or supplied by another business down the road, it’s absolutely worth knowing they’re there and having a conversation.

In this case, that conversation has turned into actual business for one local company and a new local supplier for another.

More of this please 🙏

If you run a business and haven’t signed up to HD EIGHT yet, you can find out more from our website (it's totally FREE 😉) or drop me a DM or comment.

11/09/2026

Fabulous news for cake/bake lovers! Krista from Grandma Freda's Kitchen is opening up her long-planned Bake Shed in Clayton West from TODAY 🖤

Check out the original post for all the info and... On your marks, get set, GO!

B A K E S H E D 🍰

FINALLY... After a very long few months we have decided to make our week super stressful & have a little *soft* opening tomorrow from 12.30pm
AND WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!

Depending on stock levels we aim to open Saturday & Sunday too this week:
Fri - 12.30pm - 8pm
Sat - 10am - 7pm
Sunday 10am - 7pm

We will keep everyone update on socials so please check on here if you need anything.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

📍The location will be at the house - 12 Ings Mill Avenue, Clayton West HD8 9QG

📷The Shed works on a honesty, self service basis - will full CCTV in place (make sure you smile for the 📷 & brownie points if you do me a little dance 🤣😘)

🧁 MENU
- Lemon Meringue Blondie
- Bakewell Blondie
- Cadbury Caramel Brownie
- Cornflake Caramel Brownie
- Bueno stuffed NY cookie
- Mars NY cookie
- Old School sprinkle cake
- Oreo Rocky Road

💰 Payments will be made via a QR code which you can scan to take you to a payment window, or via Cash, there will be no change given unfortunately so bare this in mind

🍰 The Shed will be checked regularly throughout opening times, on warmer days I will make sure the shelves aren't too heavily stocked but I will replenish as much as I can.

Hopefully that answers most of the questions for now, please feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions!
We are so happy this is finally becoming reality as we have been working on this over a year 🙃 😛⭐️

We can't wait to welcome you all

Krista xx

10/09/2026

The nights are drawing in and it's a heritage-flavoured weekend across HD8, with open days, old photos and a steam gala to boot.

Here's a selection of what's on this Saturday and Sunday (12–13 September 2026):

🐎 Pen*stone Agricultural Show at Pen*stone Showground
📍 Sat 12 September, 8am–6pm - ok so not HD8 but a big agricultural show just over the border, featuring plenty of HD8 businesses and stalls

⛪️ Heritage Open Day at St Michael's Church Emley
📍 Sat 12 September, 10am–4pm

🚂 Steam and Diesel Gala at Whistlestop Valley
📍 Sat 12 & Sun 13 September

🚶 Historic Walks through Kirkburton (Heritage Open Days)
📍 Sat 12 September — historic village walk at 10.15am & 1pm (1 hour), graveyard walk at 11.30am & 2.15pm (45 mins). Meet at All HALLOWS CHURCH, KIRKBURTON, pre-booking required (07890 513286)

🍂 Hello Autumn Launch at Dare Boutique
📍 Sat 12 September, 10am–5pm

📜 Shepley Over The Years (Heritage Open Days) at St Paul’s Hall Shepley & St Paul's Church, Shepley
📍 Sat 12 & Sun 13 September, 2pm onwards

🏛 Kirkburton Village Archive (Heritage Open Days) at Denby Dale Pie Hall
📍 Sun 13 September, 1pm–4pm

🎸 Live music at The Secret Garden
📍 Sun 13 September, 4pm-6pm

Please always double check with individual events/venues for updates before travelling.

And if we've missed anything, drop a comment or send us a DM 🖤

10/09/2026

Did you catch HD8 Life on Huddle Radio earlier this afternoon?

I'm so thankful to Sarah and Nick for their support of HD8 Life... AND I'm sooo happy to announce that I'll be bringing my weekly event round up to Huddle Radio too.

Starting from 3.25pm today (and repeated tomorrow at 2.15pm), you can catch the HD8 Life weekend event round up on Huddle Radio.

Tune in on DAB, on the Huddle Radio app, via the Huddle Online website or ask your smartspeaker to launch Huddle Radio 🖤

10/09/2026

The amount of detective work that has gone into creating the HD8 History St Paul's Church, Shepley Poppy Trail is immense 🖤

It is well worth a visit if you're out and about this weekend. If you're not, simply save the post and take a wander the next time you're in Shepley.

A huge thanks to the fantastic people behind HD8 History for all you do to preserve our local stories.

09/09/2026

One of the things I love about local archives is that the things being preserved aren’t necessarily the things that would ever make it into a history book...

They’re photographs of streets we recognise but which looked completely different 60 years ago, local businesses that have disappeared, school photos, families, clubs and societies, old events, newspaper cuttings, documents and all the ordinary bits of life that - if nobody keeps them.- eventually just disappear.

That’s exactly what Kirkburton Village Archive has been working to preserve, and this September they’re taking that a step further with the launch of The Universal Archive.

Working with Microform Digital, the idea is to use technology to preserve those everyday stories and make them available to people much more widely, because every person, family, community group, organisation and business contributes something to the history of a place, even if nobody thought at the time that it was particularly “historic." And, I personally think there’s something really lovely about that.

The archive has already collected a huge amount relating to Kirkburton and the surrounding area, and the new project is about making sure those stories aren’t simply sitting in boxes or disappearing as generations pass.

There are two launch events taking place as part of Kirklees Heritage Open Days if you’d like to go and have a nosy, meet the people behind the archive and find out more:

Sunday 13 September, 1pm–4pm at Denby Dale Pie Hall

Saturday 19 September, 11am–3pm at All HALLOWS CHURCH, KIRKBURTON

If you’ve got old photographs, documents, memories or bits of local history tucked away at home, this might also be a very good reminder not to assume nobody else would be interested in them.

Quite often, the seemingly ordinary stuff turns out to be the really interesting bit 🖤

08/09/2026

Four weeks today, we’ll be at The George Inn for the next Social Collective 🖤

If you’ve seen us talking about it before but still aren’t quite sure whether it’s “for you”, here’s probably the simplest way to explain it:

It’s a room full of local people who are doing interesting things. Some of those people run businesses, some are involved with community groups or local projects, some are self-employed, freelance, creative, charitable, or a mixture of the lot!

You don’t need to be there to sell anything, you don’t need a stack of business cards (I don’t have any!), a rehearsed introduction or a particular reason for coming - you can just come and meet people.

The last few Social Collectives have led to collaborations, work, recommendations, new contacts and people discovering things happening on their doorstep. But, equally, sometimes you just have a really good conversation with a person you’d never have met otherwise.

This time we’ll be at The George in Upper Denby on Tuesday 6 October, with arrival from 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

We’re also adding a short guest speaker spot for the first time, but I promise I’m not secretly turning it into three hours of presentations! The majority of the evening will still be spent doing what The Social Collective was set up for: chatting to each other.

Tickets are £10 per person, including a welcome drink, and you can book through the HD8 Life website.

So, will we be seeing you on 6 October?

08/09/2026

Can you help?

I’ve had a message from someone looking for a treatment room to hire in or around HD8 from October onwards.

They’re a trained acupuncturist, also offering head massage and natural face lift massage, and already have their own equipment. The room would need to be suitable for acupuncture, so specifically have:

• an integrated hand-washing sink
• clinical, wipe-clean flooring

They’re ideally looking for somewhere they could work from on a room-hire basis while building their local client base.

If you have a suitable room available, or know of a local clinic, salon, therapy space or other premises that might, please drop HD8 Life a message and I’ll happily pass the details on 🖤

08/09/2026

The Welcome Centre. Pantry is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays within Skelmanthorpe community centre and is open to members of our community who may be struggling with the current cost of living.

It's not a crisis food bank, but an affordable option to anyone who may need that additional support.

Please see The Welcome Centre's original post and website for more information 🖤

🎉 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎉

🥫 The Welcome Centre Pantry is now OPEN! 🥫

We understand that many people in our community are struggling with the rising cost of living, but may not be at the point where they need to access a crisis food bank.

That’s why we’re delighted to introduce our affordable pantry, providing low-cost food and essential items for people living in our rural community (HD8 and surrounding areas). ❤️

📅 Open Monday, Wednesday & Friday
⏰ 10am – 12pm

💬 Wednesdays also include our Advice Drop-In, where you can come along for support and guidance.

📍 Whether you’re looking to make your budget stretch a little further or simply need some extra support, you’re welcome here.

For more information, visit:
https://www.thewelcomecentre.org/pages/affordable-food

Please like, share and spread the word so we can reach people in our community who may benefit. 💜