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Supporting Communities
- Voluntary and
Community Services - Community Services Team - Action for Surrey
Rural Towns -
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Congratulations
and good luck to Caterham on winning the AMT( Action for
Market Towns) regional Category
Award for the Caterham Festival of 2009. As winners of the
Social and Community category, the successful team, will now
go to the regional event taking place in Farringdon in July
where they will compete with three other category winners to
go forward to represent the South East at the AMT Annual Conference
in October. Previous winners of the national ward were, of
course Haslemere, with the Rewards card which is still proving
to be really popular, and now being emulated in other parts
of the country. The second Caterham Festival has just taken
place again an amazingly successful event involving huge numbers
of people from the local community and providing many different
and exciting activities such, as a street party, a carnival,
an open weekend, a festival of music , a food festival and
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The South
East Rural Towns Partnership (SERTP) Regional event recently took place at Denbies here
in Surrey. Over 90 delegate attended what turned out to be
an extremely interesting, and useful, day. Full details of
the event including the presentations can be down loaded from
the SERTP Web site
www.setowns .org.uk |
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Success
for Farmers’ Markets
A ‘fantastic’ farmers’ market
in Milford has just harvested a top award. Milford Farmers’ Market,
launched a decade ago, has been named the 2010 Certified Farmers’ Market
of the Year by the national farmer’s retail and markets
association Farma.
Farma's judges praised it as a beacon in the area and were
particularly impressed with the way the organisers changed
aspects of the market to continually seek improvements, including:
hosting events such as Apple Day, Farmhouse Breakfast week,
Harvest Festival and school projects all of which generated
huge interest from the local community.
Last year the Milford Farmers’ Market became the second
only producer-led cooperative group to be established under
the making Local Food Work programme to help nature sustainability
for all.
Councillor Robert Knowles said: “Milford is more than
just a place to buy excellent locally produced food; it is
very much at the heart of the community and provides an essential
link between farmers and residents from the towns and villages.
It has been a useful outlet to support many small family-run
farms and businesses.”
Ripley, also in Surrey, was runner up in the event, making
it a dual county success.
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S2S
Shabby to Smart
The
Caterham Community Partnership (CCP) has just learnt that
its bid (S2S Shabby to Smart) into the
SEEDA Small Rural
Towns Programme has been successful, so work will soon start
to improve the Street Scene. Whilst most of allocated monies
will be used improve both Hill and Valley town centres, some
funding has been set aside to support the recently launched
shop smart shop local campaign. This campaign has really
captured the imagination of both the businesses and the local
community as now more than 40 businesses have signed up and
over 1200 cards have been distributed. The photograph show
the winner of the “loyalty trail” which was specially
designed to encourage shoppers to visit the many, and various,
retail outlets in Caterham. Other exciting promotions are
now being planned for future months. For more details please
visit the website of www.shopsmartcaterham.co.uk
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Godalming
Launch Healthcheck
The Godalming Together Team, having recently launched their Healthcheck Report,
have now held a public meeting to set up a Town Partnership using the CIC structure.
A number of residents volunteered to help get started so watch this space for
news as it develops. For more details visit www.onetown.org.uk or
contact Margaret Morton the Surrey Rural Towns Coordinator at
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Haslemere
Food Festival
The Fourth successful Haslemere Food Festival, celebrating local food and businesses
in the area, has just ended The organising team of local people were delighted
that even in the difficult times, all events were well supported and many had
sold out. The photo shows the launch of the festival by the radio broadcaster
Paul Ross and the Mayor of Haslemere Melanie Odell at the Aga, shop one of the
five key sponsors. As ever the Supreme sausage competition proved extremely popular
with people tasting every day during the second week and 365 votes being cast
in the competition.
The main sponsors of the event were Waverley Borough Council, Haslemere Town
Council, the Haslemere initiative, Waitrose, the Haslemere Herald and the Aga
shop.
For more detail please vast the website of www.haslemere.com or
contact Margaret Morton the Surrey Rural Towns Coordinator at
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South East Rural
Towns Partnership - Winners
Fighting off stiff competition two Surrey Towns, Caterham and Godalming, both
reached the finals of the South East Rural Towns Partnership ( SERTP) regional
awards.
Both towns demonstrated innovation and creativity in their respective categories:
Caterham won the Partnership and Strategic Working category for the project with
Storrington in West Success and
Godalming won the Business and the Economy category for their WI – FI Project |
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Caterham |
Town
Mayor Champions Market Towns - The Mayor of Haslemere, Melanie Odell, also
events organiser for the Haslemere Initiative, recently spoke
at a national summit on rural economies. The event organised
by the Commission for Rural Communities ( CRC) South
East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and East England
Development Agency ( EEDA) was designed to show case success
stories. Melanie was able to highlight how fortunate Haslemere
has been in having so many willing volunteers who give their
time freely to make Haslemere such an example of best practise
for their many successful projects including their famous
Haslemere Rewards- a loyalty card |
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Cranleigh - Summers
here and the time is right to join family and friends in
Stockland Square for a morning of music and dance provided
by local young people. The Cranleigh Initiative, working
with the local community, continues to organise regular events
designed to encourage residents and visitors to come into
the Village centre and so support local businesses and use
the recently refurbished town squares. |
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The
Concessionary Travel Club was launched recently at Secretts Garden Centre
in Milford. Developed by Jeff Gargan and supported by Waverley
Borough Council, the Haslemere Initiative and Surrey Community
Action, utilizing the full potential of the web the project
has three aims:
• Encouraging the over sixties, and those with disabilities,
to use their bus passes so providing them an immediate link
to recognised journey planners
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Promoting tourism in Surrey starting with the market towns
in Waverley so Cranleigh. Farnham, Godalming and Haslemere:
allowing them to highlight forthcoming events and show case
examples of activities that have gone well
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Supporting business by encouraging them to be creative in
offering interesting and unusual concessions to the target
audience in the towns, again encouraging travel across Surrey
whilst supporting the economy
Jeff working closely with Surrey Community Action has now
made a bid into the Government Innovation Fund to “ roll
out “ this project across Surrey using the Libraries
as local community hubs.
For more details visit the website www.concessionarytravel.com
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Making
Local Food Work – an exciting
project recently launched in Haslemere.
The national programme Making Local Food Work, funded from
the Big Lottery, and led by the Plunkett Foundation, has many
partners
including, the Campaign to Protect Rural England( CPRE), Cooperatives
Uk, Country Markets Ltd, FARMA, the Soil Association, and Sustain.
The aim of the programme is to secure the long term future
of thriving communities that are strongly connected to the
land
and that understand where their food comes from and can respond
to their own needs using community led solutions.
In Haslemere the mapping work, with local volunteers trained
by the CPRE regional coordinator, has just started and involves
a number of activities in, and around the town and its hinterland.
Volunteers are conducting a number of surveys with consumers
within a two mile radius. They will then talk to, and survey,
all the local food outlets. And finally the producers within
a thirty mile radius will also be surveyed. So everyone to
have an opportunity to participate.
As a result of all this research, a huge amount of data will
be collected showing the connectivity and interdependency between
the different players. The findings will be used locally, but
will also feed into the national picture. It is hoped that
other towns will be encouraged to carry out similar exercises
to help build up the “ bigger picture” of our food
supply chain so that influence can be brought to bear on local,
regional and national policy decisions.
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Caterham – Shop
Smart Shop Local
A new initiative launched by Caterham ABC ( an embryonic
Town Partnership ) and the Caterham Valley Business Partnership
recently held its inaugural meeting . The aim of the group
is to strengthen Caterham as a place to live, work and trade.
This initiative supported by the Business Link Surrey, Surrey
Chambers of Commerce and The Federation of Small Businesses,
is now developing a loyalty campaign with a number of different
themes, including the possibly of a loyalty card similar
to
the national award winning Haslemere Rewards which in now
well established in another Surrey town Haslemere. |
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