Another trip over to New Mills on Saturday, for a session organised by TomLevitt on the theme of Community Empowerment. Along with around 25 representatives of local groups and bodies includingPat Wilson from High Peak Borough Council and Sharon McCambridge from HighPeak Community Housing we discussed for around 2 hours some of the issuesaround increasing […]
Don't forget that this Thursday (27th November) is Gamesley Festive Market,running from 5.30pm until 9.00pm on the shops at Winster Mews. Please comealong if you can. Next Wednesday (3rd December) sees a meeting of the Council's Audit andRegulatory Committee which amongst others items will be considering reportson the appointment of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor […]
Saturday saw a trip to the St George Hall in New Mills for an eventorganised by Tom Levitt MP and Bakewell based charity Village Aid which sawschools and charities from across the High Peak come together to celebrateAfrica and its culture. Each of the organisations taking part had a stall to display their work andideas […]
Monday evening (24th November) sees a public meeting taking place at Glossop's Bradbury House to look at the work of the Tameside Hospital NHSFoundation Trust. Amongst the speakers at the meeting will Glossopdale'smembers of the trust council Gwyneth Francis and Barbara Whiteley. Further details on the trust are available fromhttp://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/ and you can join the […]
This Wednesday evening sees this month's meeting of the High Peak CommunityHousing Board. In addition this month's meeting also sees the annual general meeting of thecompany where the chair and vice chair of the board will be elected. Not quite sure who the chair will be with an expectation (in my view) thatthe current chair […]
Last Thursday afternoon saw the latest meeting of the Gamesley andCharlesworth Safer Neighbourhood Team. A quite well attended meeting with a number of the ever increasingneighbourhood watch co-ordinators in attendance. As well as a review of some past issues, the meeting was also updated on theperformance following Halloween and Bonfire Nights, when as opposed toprevious […]
Monday evening saw a meeting of the Environment Select Committee, amongstthe items for discussion were updates on the council's activities duringenergy saving week, updates on waste collection and recycling, gullycleaning, winter maintenance and a review of the enforcement strategy aroundenvironmental issues. During energy saving week, by introducing some simply energy savingmeasurers such as timers on […]
From 5.30pm until 9.00pm on Thursday 27th November this years festivemarket. Taking place as with previous years on the shops at Winster Mewsthis year's event promises to be even better than past years. This year's event promises to be bigger and brighter with performances fromGamesley schools, Street and Break dancing from Dynamite Dance, Live Music,performance […]
Bad news for Gamesley’s first team on Saturday (15th November) who lost 2 – 0 away to Woodley FC. Hopefully they will be back on form next Saturday (22nd November) when they return to Derbyshire Cup action with an away tie against Swanwick Pentrich Road FC in Alfreton. No news for the reserves who last […]
Last Tuesday evening saw a meeting of the North Area Tenant Action Zone inGlossop's Bradbury House. Similar in a way to the last meeting with no particular key theme, therewere however a number of points and issues raised by those in attendanceincluding concerns over delays to contracts and problems with repairs,particularly for the new houses […]