My Community Fund

Each year as a TDC councillor I have £1500 to give out as a Community Grant to local organisations, this has to be to the benefit of the community. I have used my fund this year to help support several organisations and events some of which are set out below:-

• Environment projects at Highweek and Bradley Barton primary schools
• New Community Seats at the top of the Avenue, Newton Abbot - (Still to be Installed)
• The Memory Cafe at the Avenue Church - this supports people with Alzheimer's and their carers.
• "View from Here" Film Festival - This is an opportunity to introduce young people to the film industry, allow them to inspire at film making and to further their skills and find new ways of expressing themselves.

This is only a few of the grants I have given out but I hope it gives a taste of the kind of things I have supported. A new round of grants will be available from April so if anyone as any suggestions or projects for funding please get in touch through this blog.

New PACT meeting Date for Bradley

The next PACT meeting for the residents of the Bradley ward is set to take place on Thursday 4th February at 19:30 (7:30pm).

This time the meeting will be held in the dinning room of Coombeshead College, so if you have an issue or just wish to know what is going on in our ward please come along and join us.

The area's PCSO, Beat Officers, TDC officers together with your local councillors will be in attendance and through out the evening there will be ample time to ask questions.

New Year

This is to wish everybody who read this blog a very Happy New Year. This year will see a General Election, Football World Cup and Winter Olympic Games but for your local councillor it will be business as usual. The year will start with the setting of this year's budget, picking our next Chairperson to guiding this dictrict through the coming year. I will keep you up to date with my work as we go through the year, and if you have any issues please get in touch and I will do my best to help. So Happy New Year to you all, may 2010 bring you everthing that you have wished for, and that Tiegnbridge continues to grow to the best dictrict in Devon. "HAPPY NEW YEAR"

Cold Weather

As the winter months start to rush in and the weather starts to get colder let us share a thought for other less fortunate then ourselves our older neighbours, someone who is sick or house bound I am sure that a few minutes of our time may well make a big difference to them and quite possible make a bad day better.

We all need to keep warm, but save energy as well, one easy cost effective way is to keep our homes energy efficient is to have both our wall cavities and lofts insulated. For more information go to    http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=11468

Not only do us humans need help in cold weather but birds also find it very hard, so a little food put out daily will help and I am sure bring some colour into your garden as a thank you. if you need more info on the feeding of our garden birds then go to the RSPB web site.

Christmas in Newton Abbot

Just a quick reminder if one is needed, that Christmas is just around the corner. Festive lights and other arrangements are up and running, from now on ever Wednesday including the 23rd will be late night shopping with father Christmas, street entrainment and all the usual seasonal events. please go to the Newton Abbot town council web site for up to date information www.newtonabbot-tc.gov.uk

 

 

Bradley Ward PACT Meeting

AT a resent PACT meeting (Police And Communities Together) that I attended, the general public that were there felt that while we live in a very safe and low crime area we still have to suffer Anti-Social crimes from Dog Fowling to cars speeding around the estate and inconsiderate parking.

You may have noticed our PCSO walking around our roads, in fact, you may hopefully have spoken to him, he is doing his best to deal with the small amount of problems we have, which as I say are not many but if we can reduce the small number of Anti-Social crimes then we will alleviate the very very small amount of minor crimes, but we need your help. 

If you see any thing then please report it, you can ring the Police on 08452777444 non urgent, remember 999 is for Urgent and Emergency calls only, and someone will get back to you. or you can contact me by going to the link "Fix My Street" on this blog page, and leaving me a message.

Remeber we all live in this area and we all need to respect it for I can't think of a better place to live.

Just over a few weeks ago I had a report of over grown trees and brambles at the junction of Coombeshead Rd and Ashburton Rd, with the help of Mark Payne from TDC, I have arrange to get the area tided up so by the time you read this blogg it should have been done. If you have any problems in your area (Bradley Ward) please let me know and I will see what I can do, with no guarantees contact me through this blogg or by phone via TDC.