Tonight’s meeting of the community select community managed to get quite efficiently through its lengthy agenda, with the themes of health, housing, CCTV and community engagement all been amongst the business. The first item of note involved a presentation from the Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust around the current and forthcoming uses of the […]
This week starts off quite busy with a meeting of the Community Select Committee on Monday, followed by a meeting of the council’s executive on Tuesday. Wednesday sees the day start off bright and early for a trip to Matlock for the Community Safety Board, followed in the evening by this month’s constituency Labour Party […]
An interesting first day of the second session of the leadership academy, looking at a whole host of issues around improving who councillors carry out their leadership role. As posted on Monday one of the sessions was around looking at the future of local government in 2020, with the approach on the course been to […]
On Thursday morning (photo and further details to follow) we had the first formal hand back of some completed bungalows, along with a good opportunity to review some of the current issue and see some work in progress. In the next few days, private residents should be receiving the full details of the costs for […]
If you are involved in a local sport of community group you may be interested in the following, which I heard about via a tweet from Derbyshire Sports (@DerbysSport) Derbyshire County Council have announced a new £180,000 Sports Action Grant fund to encourage clubs and community groups to promote healthy and active lifestyles and that the fund […]
Although I unfortunately cannot be there, due to been away at a training course, tomorrow evening (Friday), the Friends of St Margaret’s School are hosting a karaoke and quiz night in aid of Children in Need. The event runs from 7.30 until 10.30pm at the school on Glossop Road, and tickets are £5 each. You […]
You may have seen some newspaper coverage dring the last week or two on Movember, which is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for prostate cancer. The ways it works, is that at the start of Movember, folks register with a clean shaven face and then they have […]
In the next day or two, (or possible even today in some cases) private residents (on the electric side) will be geting a letter detailing the revised / expected final price for the work. The letter will be from ‘climate energy’ the ‘agents’ for the project and sets out that all the negotiations on the […]
Coming up in a week or so, is the annual celebration of achievement evening orgnaised by Adult Education, primarliy around celebrating achieve within the education course, it also includes a section for community volunteers to be nominated for the work they have done within the community. If you know someone working with, for or in […]
Next weekend, I’m off being educated on the second part of a three part course. In preparation for the second session, one of the preparatory tasks attendees are asked to consider is our vision of what the future holds for local government by the time we reach 2020. As part of my consideration of theme […]