Stourpaine Matters

Dorset Coppice Group

Dorset Coppice Group is raising awareness of how the age-old tradition of coppicing leads to clear conservation benefits in local woodlands.

Stourpaine Football Fixtures

The latest fixures (and results) can be viewed here: Stourpaine fixtures.

New Galleries

We still require lots of photographs for our Galleries. Our expected topics include:

We will sell your photographs: check details.
Check our 2013 Calendar Competition too.

Events Calendar

We have added an Events page to the Stourpaine Matters blog that is also shown in our main website:

List of Local Tradesmen

We have decided to use the collation and search service of Checkatrade.com. This ensures that you get a better and unbiased view of the quality of our local trades.

Businesses can still be presented on the website: check all our pages under http://stourpaine.info/businesses.htm.

New Blogging Feeds

A new blogging services has been added to the Home and the News pages. This is faster than the previous service.

New Search Mechanism

A search capability has been added to the website on every text page. An advanced search is available in the About page.

Title: Dorset Senior Football League
Location: S.P.F.A. – Dick Draper Memorial Field
Description: Home against Mere Town
Match Officials: ?
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2012-11-03
End Time: 17:00

Chimney Sweeping

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue (DSFR) has warned about the danger of chimney fires. DSFR suggest all chimneys should be swept at least once a year and up to four time when burning wood.

Checkatrade.com fails to find any Chimney Sweeps within 10 miles of Stourpaine: http://www.checkatrade.com/Search/?cat=1109&location=DT11+8TA&postcode=DT11+8TA&d=15.

We have used our local:
Clean Sweep Blandford Ltd
Chimney Sweeps
40 Hod View DT11 8TN

June’s Jumble

Title: June’s Jumble
Location: Village Hall
Link out: Click here
Description: Further details to be advised.
Start Time: 14:30
Date: 2012-10-27
End Time: 16:30