- Penistone Festival of Arts - Thurs 19th to Sun 29th March. Various activities and locations, see 'Penistone Arts Week' for this ten-day event or pick up a leaflet from Penistone Co-op.
- 'Free Before Three' (Launch event) - Saturday 14th February, 11am, Penistone FM Studios. This is an introduction to a new short-course to help reduce social isolation, gain new skills and interest people in radio station activities. Tea/coffee and biscuits provided. For those interested, the course would be eight weekly sessions of two hours each as an opportunity to learn hands-on broadcasting skills, presenting and speaking, interviewing local people using digital media, creating podcasts and short films, having fun and perhaps field trips to community organisations. If interested, email: studio@penfm.media first or you won't get into the studios. Event sponsored by 'The Better Barnsley Bond' and BMBC's 'Love Where You Live.'
- Wellhouse Lane - To be closed on Monday 16th February for three days for drainage work (not potholes).
- Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) is coming on Tuesday 17th February - It is still a strong tradition in the UK, 47 days before Easter Sunday on a Tuesday between 3rd February and 9th March ('Mardi Gras' in some countries). The day before Ash Wednesday starts the Lenten period of fasting when people give up rich foods such as eggs, butter and sugar for spiritual improvement. So, Pancake Day is a blow-out to use them up. Penistone's Pancake Bell tradition stopped until 2019 but is back with us, tolled from the church tower around dinnertime. 'Shrove' comes from the old word 'shrive' - to be given absolution (sins forgiven upon confession). Some Shrovetide traditions are Mob Football (Ashbourne) and mass skipping (Scarborough). Penistone Co-op has a special Pancake Day display: Eggs, Flour, Sugar, Maple Syrup, Golden Syrup and more (try orange marmalade with lemon juice). For eight pancakes you need 8 oz plain flour, two large eggs, one pint of milk and salt. Mix it well and let it stand for half an hour (as you would for Yorkshire puds). Or cheat with a pancake mix bottle, add milk, shake for one minute and let it rest. You need a hot pan with oil, fat or butter. Pour in enough mixture to coat the pan bottom, let it cook then flip it over for the other side if you can. It should be browned but not burnt. Add a drop more oil or fat as you go on. The pancake recipe goes as far back as 1439. Time and Date.
- Pot-holed Roads - The big topic just now is the deteriorating state of local roads.
Be very careful, especially with holes full of rainwater. BMBC's 'Report a Pothole.'
- Drinks Licence -
The former Balti House used to be licenced in 2006 but it lapsed in later years. Now, as the Kurdistan Pizza, the new proprietor has applied for a licence to sell alcoholic drinks from 11pm to 1am, for outdoor consumption. (Barnsley Chronicle).
One hopes that suitable waste bins will be provided nearby if the application is approved.
- Sunday Opening - Cafe Creme is currently opening on Sunday mornings into the afternoon as an experiment, with a limited menu.
It's nice, warm and friendly inside. Give them a try.
Café Crème GF Kitchen.
- Castle Lane Play Area -
Proposed building development on a well-established play area but there's a whiff of something not quite right about it. A Change.org petition opposes the plans. A notice of land disposal was posted in an obscure place to avoid public scrutiny and Planning Application 2026/0002 is hard to access. A claim that 30+ neighbours were contacted for comments appears to be untrue according to anecdotal evidence and the chosen addresses were mostly further away from the site. The petitioner says that the land had originally been donated to BMBC solely for recreational purposes and it served that purpose for decades from when the fish and chip shop was open. The Planning Explorer map shows the area as a playing field. Facebook
Group 'Penistone Community Forum'
has a discussion and our local MP Marie Tidball is aware. It seems that the 500+ who signed the petition are counted as one objection. Individuals should send in their own objections, and in their own words, not copy/paste.
A bad smell permeates this matter.
- Did You Know? - A green space that has been used as a recreational area for more than ten years can be declared a 'Village Green' which would prevent any other use of it.
- Penistone Banking Hub - To move. Currently located in the Resource Centre next to the Community Centre but, subject to contracts, Cash Access UK will open a new, purpose-built hub in June in a corner of Tesco's car park.
A pre-fabricated building will house the hub and it is expected to take about three weeks to get it up and running.
- Bad Cash Machines - The Tesco one is out of action and the Spar one cannot be trusted (scams).
You can get £50 'Cashback' from the Co-op or Spar when you buy stuff or get more cash from the Banking Hub or Post Office.
- Penistone Banking Hub - Open weekdays, 9am to 5pm, Resource Centre, Community Centre car park. A useful resource. Customers can pay or withdraw cash more privately than at a Post Office or bank and discuss banking matters in private, as follows: Monday & Tuesday - Halifax/Lloyds; Weds - TBC; Thurs - HSBC; Fri - Natwest. Halifax and Lloyds customers have the same representative, both days. Basic banking facilities are also available for other banks, as with the Post Office, and Cash Access UK staff are on hand to help. In June it will move to a new building on Tesco car park. This is a very useful local asset and we must support it. (Penistone Banking Hub) PTC.
- The Knowledge - Penistone is a town, not village, with Sheffield S36 postcodes (our mail is not sorted in Barnsley).
Penistone Paramount is (always was) the Town Hall; Hazlehead is spelt that way; Thurlstone has no 'e' in the middle. Bridge End is two words and dinner is at dinnertime. You are in God's Own County and the world envies you.
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Visitor Information - Penistone Library and Penistone Church for local leaflets, maps and general information. 