Yesterday I attended a celebration of reaching over 50 neighbourhood watches in the Gamesley and Charlesworth Safer Neighbourhood Area. The event which was attended by a number of the local neighbourhood watch co-ordinators highlighted a number of the achievements that have occurred since the work to increase the number of neighbourhood watches started from various […]
This week from Monday 22nd June until Sunday 28th June is National Recycling Week, a week of events aimed at highlighting and improving the amount of rubbish that we currently recycle. Further information on the week and suggestions on how you can improve your recycling can be access by going to the Recycle Now website […]
Yesterday's (Monday) development control meeting saw discussion's take placearound an application for the Mount Pleasant Church in Glossop to beconverted to flats. As there often is, the application received a number of objections with arange of concerns particularly around parking availability, and on the dayof the meeting (from what I've been told) many of those […]
As will no doubt be covered extensively in the press this week, last Thursday evening's meeting of the corporate select and executive have resulted in a decision to sell the council's current site at Chinley, and push for improvements at both Glossop and Buxton. Now whilst I can agree with many of the reasons outlined […]
Tonight (Tuesday) sees a meeting of the Environment Select Committee which unfortunately due to another commitment I will miss, items for consideration are reports on transition Buxton, national indicators on Climate Change and Fuel Poverty, tree strategy, and update on Waste and Recycling and the review of the Council's Environment Statement. Wednesday sees an event […]
As well as St Margaret's school fair on the Saturday, Friday night sees the St Charles school fair on one side of Glossop and Simmondley School on the other. Now whilst in a sense each school is in its own area of Glossopdale and won't attract people from across Glossop, you would think that given […]
This Saturday from 10.00am until 2.00pm is the summer fair for St Margaret's school. As well as all the traditional summer fair items, they are also having a car boot sale running alongside the school fair.
This week (15th to 21st June) is Men's Health Week which sees a series ofevents up to and including Father Day with the aim of heightening awarenessof preventable health problems and encouraging the treatment of theseproblems. In previous years, events have been held locally around the issue, but sofar this year I'm unaware of any […]
This week (as flagged up by a friend on Facebook) is Refugee Week a week of events organised by the refugee week partnership to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK. The refugee week partnership is made up of a whole group of bodies including Amnesty International UK, British Road Cross, the Children's Society […]
This coming weekend starting with the annual general meeting on Friday 19th June at 8.30pm sees a series of events to celebrate a £200,000 renovation of the Glossop Labour Club. The events continue on the Satuday (20th June) with a barbecue with the Powderkegs border morris dancers from 2.00pm and the Clarion Choir from Nottingham […]