Young people to be proud of
Submitted by Catherine on Wed, 15/11/2017 - 14:39
We are pleased to bring you good news about the initiatives of some of our young residents of the Churnet Valley.
We are pleased to bring you good news about the initiatives of some of our young residents of the Churnet Valley.
Local residents will be delighted to see the Best Kept (Small) Village Award has returned to the village of Cauldon Lowe.
We are planning ahead. Last year we ran the Advent Showcase. People told us they loved it! The community were pleased to hear about businesses and organisations that they weren't previously aware of. The featured businesses won new business and increased sales.
We have an exciting opportunity to set up a new group in the Churnet Valley through Natural England’s Facilitation Fund.
Children from three local villages: Cauldon Lowe, Alton and Kingsley Holt, entered into an exciting poster design competition that was part of the Staffordshire Moorlands Best Kept Village competition. Entrants were asked to design a poster to give ideas on how to improve local villages, with si
Many who came to the Kingsley Wakes event in June will recall that Allison Held had a tombola stall raising money towards her target of £1000 by cycling from London to Paris to raise funds for the Royal British Legion.
What a great weekend everyone had at the start of September when the villages first ever Scarecrow Festival was held. The aim was for around 15 crows but in the end there was almost three times that amount with 44 entries.
Ipstones Christmas Market Committee have taken the decision to cancel the event this year, which was due to take place on Friday 24th November.
This June desperate Kingsley residents had to use force to open the defibrillator box during an emergency. Sadly, by the time paramedics had arrived, around eight minutes after the original call, nothing could be done to save the life of local resident Kath Jones.
Himalayan Balsam is an invasive weed introduced to the UK during the Victorian era. Balsam has spread rapidly along streams and rivers and has now become a serious problem on many of the UK’s river valleys and the Churnet is no exception.
