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 […]
Today (2nd November) you may or may not know has been National Stress Awareness Day, one of the many awareness day ran to raise awareness of a particular issue or cause. Organised by ISMA (International Stress Management Association UK) it aims to highlight the importance of stress management, which according to recent research by insurance […]
For November, I will once again be trying to complete NaBloPoMo which is an initative aimed at encouraging bloggers to post every day for a month. Whilst this first post is a bit light over the next few days and weeks there will be a range of posts covering things such as older people’s housing […]
The next meeting of the council’s development control committee, next Monday (7th November) could almost be billed as a Glossopdale special given that out of the 5 applications for consideration 4 are from Glossopdale. The first is for the development at the former Samas Roneo site (and we will come back to that in more detail […]
Gamesley Councillors Anthony Mckeown and Dave Wilcox along with Hadfield South Councillor’s Bob Mckeown and Edward Siddall are inviting Gamesley residents to join them for their latest councillor’s surgery, which is taking place this Saturday morning (5th November). The surgery which follows on from last week’s shoppers surgery in Glossop is in the slightly warmer […]
Just short of a fortnight ago, a meeting took place on Gamesley with a range of agencies in attendance to look at issues around ‘financial inclusion’, with one of the issues mentioned being around access to credit, and the need for better alternatives than either the legal (such as Wonga and the like – with apr’s of […]
Voting is almost at an end for this year’s Natwest Community Force, with voting closing at mid day on Monday 24th November. As regular readers may recall a little earlier in the year, I asked for any local groups bidding for funds to let me know and I would try and publicize their applications. To […]
Many of you will have seen over the weekend the most relaunch of efforts to get council’s to return to weekly bin collections – with the ‘bribe’ fund this time increased to £250m from the £100m offered earlier this year. In response to queries from High Peak Radio and Radio Derby I commented as follows on the […]
If you’re about locally on Bank Holiday Monday (29th August), Tameside Elite Boxing Academy or Gamesley Boxing Club as it’s also known are holding a fund-raising event at the Gamesley Community Centre on Melandra Castle Road The event will run from 1.00pm until 8.00pm and will feature a fun and games disco, a 35 foot […]
A display board from the recent consultation The letters and number above, or at least what it represents will no doubt become a popular topic of conversation amongst locals in the Gamesley area over the next few months. The reason for this is that the letters and number will be the reference for the planning […]