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Willow Burn presentation

March 9, 2011

At the Village Trust’s Open Meeting last night, a cheque for £1380 was presented to a trustee of Willow Burn. The charity collection was held during the Victorian Christmas Spectacular last November.  Paul Jackson gave a talk about the hospice at the former Maiden Law Hospital site in Lanchester, stating that they had now raised £1.5 million towards the £5 million target for new buildings. Construction of phase one of the new facility would be starting in the near future.

Clare Singleton and Sue Shaw gave a presentation on the Trust’s Britain in Bloom entry in the Neighbourhood Awards Scheme and Garth Johnson gave details about a photographic competition.

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Big Spring Clean

March 3, 2011

In support of Litterfree Durham’s “Big Spring Clean”, the Trust is holding a litter pick on the morning of Saturday 2nd April this year.

If you can spare an hour or two, meet at 10am in the bottle bank car park [next to the Golden Flower] and bring gloves and a litter picker [if you have one]. The trust has a small supply of litter pickers and will provide refuse sacks and bibs.

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SBVT Open Meeting

February 23, 2011

The agenda for the next Open Meeting of the Trust on March 8th will include a cheque presentation to Willow Burn, of the money collected during the Victorian Christmas Spectacular in November.

There will also be a short video of the event and photographs of old Shotley Bridge provided by Sarah Thew, as well as a presentation about ‘Blooming Shotley Bridge’, the announcement of a photographic competition and a report from County Councillor Stephen Robinson.

Take a look at the open meeting agenda

Members receive a quarterly newsletter. If you would like to know about membership, please go to the Membership page.

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Environmental awareness

November 22, 2010

At the end of the summer term this year, pupils in year 5 at Shotley Bridge Junior School worked on a project dealing with ‘good dog ownership’.

The Benfieldside, Blackhill, Bridgehill and Shotley Bridge Partnership has now published an Environmental Awareness leaflet containing their work and that of pupils from Benfieldside and Blackhill St Mary’s Primary School.

All pupils at these schools have received a copy and it is also available to pick up from community venues.

If you would like to look at the leaflet you can download a copy [but please read the pages in numerical order].

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Tubs in place

November 2, 2010

The 50 tubs purchased by the Trust have now all been positioned in the Conservation Area. Volunteers who have offered to maintain the features will shortly be contacted about which tubs have been allocated to them.

The photo shows the repositioning of one of the tubs by the village notice board.  This morning, 4 members also planted 200 crocus bulbs at the front of the grassed area on the opposite side of Front Street, which were provided by the County Council’s Civic Pride Team, through their 2010 Bulb Planting Challenge.

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