Something Fishy’s Going On:

As Steve, the fish man, is not delivering for the foreseeable future, Pete is very happy to place a group order with Hodgson’s - his normal fish supplier at the pub. They will deliver if there is at least £50 worth of order to be dropped-off at the Blacksmith’s Arms. You would just need to collect from there. Please contact Pete (01751 - 417247) if you want to place an order. For Hodgson’s price list, click here.

Temporary Village Store:

Pete & Hils are making a range of basic essentials available on a not for profit basis at the Blacksmith’s Arms. In addition, they are happy to place orders with the butchers and bakers (as yet, no candlestick makers) on behalf of customers. They will keep a tally which people can then settle at the end of the week. It is also possible to arrange delivery to folks from Lastingham & Spaunton who are self-isolating.

They have a stock of items in the pub but, for bakery products and meat, please click the relevant lists below:

Prescription Delivery Service:

Local volunteers will be making a weekly collection from Towlers in Kirkbymoorside. This will take place on a Friday. Please contact Towlers to arrange for your prescription to be part of this delivery service, and please contact Heather White so that you can be added to the list of items to be collected.

Contact details:

Email: heatherwhite1912@googlemail.com

Mobile: 07748 020509

Lastingham & Spaunton Coronavirus Community Response

If you are self-isolating for whatever reason, please be assured that support will be offered by residents of the villages at this difficult time. Below is a list of services that can be offered; however, this is not comprehensive and can be adapted according to need:

Buying groceries - Collecting Prescriptions - Dog Walking Posting Mail/parcels - Delivering Meals - Providing a Form of Social Contact

For residents concerned about getting cash in order to pay for groceries etc. on-line transfers can be made or cheques written to Heather White, who will maintain a cash reserve.

Email would be a preferable way to keep in touch but please contact Heather by telephone if this is easier for individuals who find email difficult.

Contact details:

Email: heatherwhite1912@googlemail.com

Mobile: 07748 020509

Glaves the Butcher - deliveries available via The Blacksmith’s Arms:

If anyone would like to have meat delivered to the village, Pete & Hils have kindly said that they will co-ordinate orders which can be delivered to the pub. Customers can collect their orders or, for those who cannot, for whatever reason, get ‘out & about’, Pete has offered to deliver to your home. Please contact the pub on 01751 - 417247, if you wish to discuss an order.

To view Glaves the Butcher’s price list, please click here.

Takeaway meals from the Blacksmith’s Arms - Service Suspended:

Due to uncertainty over the government’s wage support payments, Pete & Hils have - very reluctantly - been forced to suspend the service providing takeaway meals. It seems possible that providing this service to the village might mean that they are deemed to be still operating a business (albeit very part-time and on a tiny scale) which would render them, and more importantly their staff, ineligible for the support payments. If they receive clarity over the position, this decision may be revised but, for now, takeaway meals are no longer available. Please keep checking back with this site for further updates.

Takeaway meals available from the Blacksmith’s Arms

free local delivery to Lastingham & Spaunton

Pete & Hils, together with Ally and the catering team, are offering a takeaway food service during the current crisis. There are meals that are cooked and ready to eat straight away, but also frozen meals that can be bought for later self-cooking.

For the full menu of what is currently available, click here.

Further updates and alterations to the menu will appear here, so return to this page regularly for updates.