Thank you to the 10 volunteers from the Trust who helped with the annual litter pick this morning.
We had expected more litter, having cancelled last April’s litter pick due to Covid.
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Annual Litter Pick
April 10, 2021Blooming Funding Secured
March 27, 2021Thanks once again to our County Councillors, Peter & Stephen, for providing a grant from their Neighbourhood Budgets to continue planting up the tubs in the conservation area with bulbs and plants for spring and summer next year.
Here is a selection of photos showing some of the tubs in bloom this spring.
Derwent Valley Car Club Survey
March 8, 2021The Derwent Valley Car Club is a community-based car club, set up by Blackhall Mill Community Association. The pay-as-you-go electric car club offers hourly and daily rates, with no mileage fees and full insurance cover. Thanks to funding from Innovate UK, they plan to install a double EV charge point in Shotley Bridge. The new EV charge point will be available for residents, the public and members of the Car Club.
They are seeking resident, visitor and business views on the location of the charge point, information on Electric Vehicles and potential demand for the car club. They have prepared a short survey which the Village Trust is helping to publicise.
If you are a local resident or regularly visit the village centre please spare 5 minutes to fill in the online survey, before 21 March.
Find out more about the Derwent Valley Car Club.
Tubs planted
October 24, 2020This morning two dozen volunteers from the Village Trust helped plant the village tubs with over 600 polyanthus, together with tulip, daffodil, crocus and grape hyacinth bulbs.
Thank you to our local councillors for providing the funding from their DCC neighbourhood budget and to Beveridge’s Nursery for supplying the plants.
We managed to do all the planting before the rain set in.
Flowers and Seats
August 2, 2020At the beginning of August the summer bedding in the tubs and barrier baskets were looking very colourful.
Also two new seats have been put in the ‘triangle’ to replace the deteriorating wooden seats. The bespoke design of the new seats commemorate the lives lost in the First World War and the industrial past of Shotley Bridge. They were paid for with the remaining S106 monies from the Story Homes housing development at the hospital.
Shotley Bridge Village Trust 