This is advance notice that next year The Gardening Club will be organising a Stourpaine Open Gardens event to be held on the 14th and 15th June (Saturday and Sunday) 2014. Please put these dates in your diary – more information will follow nearer the time.
Now is the chance for you to help good causes in the village by donating unwanted presents or items you no longer have a use for!
We have started to make plans for this year’s village fete and are looking for a range of items we can offer as prizes or sell on the stalls at the fete. As yet we do not have a list of who the stallholders will be, can you set aside any items you would like to donate? A detailed list of where donations should be delivered will be announced nearer to the day of the fete.
The type of gifts we would welcome would be suitable to be sold / won on Book;Bric a brac; Cakes, bakes and local produce; Children’s Tombola; Plants; Tin hoopla and Tombola stalls.
If you have any queries about donating gifts, please contact Jacky Fairweather
on T: 01258 480 982.
Julie Wigg Community Resource Worker DT11 Forum Community Partnership 5 Nightingale Court, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 7ED Tel: 01258 489998 julie@dt11forum.org.uk Office days: Tues, Wed, Thurs
Coastal Communities Fund – New Applications Invited from England
The Coastal Communities Fund (CCF) is supporting the development of coastal areas, promoting sustainable economic growth and jobs, so that people are better able to respond to changing economic needs and opportunities.
The Government has committed £27.8 million to support the CCF in 2013-14 with money generated by the Crown Estate’s marine assets. The Fund is UK-wide; however, different levels of funding have been allocated to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on the basis of revenue generated.
£21.7 million funding is available in England for 2013-14 and applications for new projects are being invited from today. Individual funding awards of over £50,000 are available for projects lasting up to two years.
The funds can be used to support both capital and revenue projects and communities will be encouraged to match funds with other pots of money.
Examples of activities that may be eligible for funding include:
supporting skills and training initiatives to improve job prospects;
maintaining and developing specialised tourist infrastructure;
managing and adapting to flood and coastal erosion risk;
supporting social enterprises to bring new economic opportunities and jobs;
offering apprenticeships to school leavers;
creating new workspaces to support and grow local economies;
boosting local approaches to promoting enterprise and economic regeneration; and
supporting sustainable transport improvements.
Innovative bids will be welcomed from businesses, social enterprises, local enterprise partnerships, charities, voluntary groups and local authorities supporting economic development within the community.
Applicants with projects proposed for England are required to submit a stage one application by 13 May 2013.
TO RAISE MUCH-NEEDED FUNDS FOR THE NEW VILLAGE HALL. WE ARE INVITING YOU TO SUPPORT THIS BY “BUYING A TILE”
BRONZE: for a Donation of £5.00
SILVER: for a Donation of £10.00
GOLD: for a Donation of £25.00
PLATINUM: for a Donation of £100.00 or more.
STOURPAINE NEW VILLAGE HALL – “BUY A TILE”
Your Name will be recorded in our Book of Donors and you will be given a Certificate to indicate that you have “Bought a Tile” for this worthwhile cause.
Please complete the form below and return to:
Sue Curtis (Treasurer) 6 Hod View STOURPAINE DT11 8TN
I WOULD LIKE TO BUY A TILE FOR £_______
FULL NAME (PRINTED) ____________________________
ADDRESS ___________________________________
ADDRESS ___________________________________
TOWN ___________________________________
COUNTY ____________________________
POSTCODE ______________
I ENCLOSE CASH FOR THE SUM OF £_______ or
I ENCLOSE A CHEQUE FOR £_______ MADE PAYABLE TO STOURPAINE VILLAGE HALL.
GIFT AID YOUR DONATION
GIFT AID enables us to claim a further 25p for every £1 donated by a UK taxpayer.
*_______ YES, I AM A UK TAXPAYER: I would like STOURPAINE VILLAGE HALL to reclaim tax on this donation until I notify you otherwise. I understand that I must have paid an amount of tax/capital gains tax at least equal to the amount that the charity will reclaim in the tax year that the gift was received.
*_______ NO, I am sorry I am not a UK taxpayer.
*PLEASE TICK APPROPRIATE
SIGNATURE _____________________ DATE _____________________
Additional forms available from Barrie Waterman (T: 01258 450669)
The Gardening Club committee decided that this year, to encourage more participants the categories for the photographic section of the show should be announced as soon as decided, so here goes:
You have all been told previously of our intention to visit Highgrove, sometime in June. This has now changed, after discussion at the AGM. A definite date of Wednesday 28 August is now confirmed. The cost is £38 for return coach travel and entry to the garden. There are still 6 seats available.
If you are interested , please contact Jan on T: 01258 453470 or JeanT: 01258 452330 ASAP.
MEMBERSHIP IS OPEN until the end of MARCH FOR 2013-14
Membership £5 per year, renewable 1 February running to 31 January. Membership closes 31 March each year “with the exception of newcomers to the village.”
Membership entitles bearer to free entry and refreshments at all meetings in the Village Hall plus reduced rates at some other functions.
Renewal is via any committee member, Jean Chandler T: 01258 452330 or Jan Palmer T: 01258 453470.
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