TO THE PARISHIONERS AND COUNCILLORS OF FIRSDOWN
You are cordially invited to attend Winterslow Village Hall on
WEDNESDAY 4th MAY 2022 at 7.00 p.m.
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Download: Notice & Agenda for Annual PM meeting May 2022 (21 KB)
Two public meetings to discuss the plans for a community shop in Pitton have been held.
The slides from these meetings are available for download,attached
It is not too late to complete the survey which has been provided to each household in Firsdown. The closing date is the 5th of April and returns instructions are on the survey. If anyone needs an additional survey, please contact Firsdown Parish Council.
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Download: Pitton Community Shop v1 (2 MB)
Recycling collections to resume from 21 March
Hills Municipal Collections and GMB Union have confirmed they have reached an agreement, which means the waste collection strike has now concluded with immediate effect, and our recycling collections will resume next week.
Our contractor Hills Municipal Collections has confirmed those workers that were on strike will return to work on Friday 18 March. Therefore, our kerbside recycling collections will resume as normal from Monday 21 March.
Please put your blue-lidded bins and black boxes out on your scheduled day from Monday 21 March. Due to the recent disruption there may still be slight delays to the collection due to the higher volumes of materials we expect, so if your recycling containers aren’t emptied on your scheduled day please leave them out, and they will be collected as soon as possible.
You will still be able to leave additional recycling that has mounted up during the disruption; please leave any additional recycling materials in non-black bags or containers (such as plastic crates) next to the recycling bins and the crews will collect them.
Hills Municipal Collections and GMB Union have confirmed they have reached an agreement, which means the waste collection strike has now concluded with immediate effect, and our recycling collections will resume next week.
Our contractor Hills Municipal Collections has confirmed those workers that were on strike will return to work on Friday 18 March. Therefore, our kerbside recycling collections will resume as normal from Monday 21 March.
Please put your blue-lidded bins and black boxes out on your scheduled day from Monday 21 March. Due to the recent disruption there may still be slight delays to the collection due to the higher volumes of materials we expect, so if your recycling containers aren’t emptied on your scheduled day please leave them out, and they will be collected as soon as possible.
You will still be able to leave additional recycling that has mounted up during the disruption; please leave any additional recycling materials in non-black bags or containers (such as plastic crates) next to the recycling bins and the crews will collect them.
Due to further industrial action confirmed by the GMB Union, we have made the difficult decision to extend our suspension of recycling collection services until the week of 4 April. This does not affect household waste or garden waste collections, which will continue.
The GMB Union, which is in dispute with our contractor Hills Municipal Collections, has confirmed they will be striking until at least 2 April.
This means that recycling collection services won’t resume until the week of 4 April, and not the previously stated 21 March. Please do not put your blue lidded bins and black boxes out until your next collection day from 4 April onwards.
The Winterslow Area LINK Scheme, in common with all the Wiltshire LINK schemes, is a locally run good neighbour service. The actual area covered by our scheme includes the villages of Firsdown, Pitton, Farley, Lopcombe Corner and the Winterslows.
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Download: Co-ordinator Job Spec 2022.02 (3) (1) (16 KB)
The Community Ambassadors Programme is designed to increase awareness of Crimestoppers
through partnerships with businesses, public authorities, charities, and other agencies. Acting
as our Ambassadors, they enable us to spread the word about how we can help protect the people,
places, and communities that matter to you.
Crimestoppers is an independent
charity helping communities
to ‘Speak up. Stay safe.’
More Information attached
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Download: Community Ambassadors Leaflet (2 MB)
Information from Wiltshire Council
Some Hills Municipal Collection workers are currently taking strike action, and this is due to continue until 18 March.
As a result, we have taken the difficult decision to suspend mixed dry recycling (blue-lidded bin) and glass (black box) collections between 7 and 18 March. If you have already put out your blue-lidded bin and black box for collection, please take them back in until your next scheduled collection date.
We will collect additional recycling on or after 21 March, in your blue-lidded bin and black box. Alternatively, you can take waste that will not fit in your bin to any of our household recycling centres.
Put your household waste and garden waste bins out on your scheduled collection day.
Please note: this change does not affect your general household waste or garden waste collections. During the industrial action period please continue to put your household and garden waste bins out by 7am on your scheduled collection day. If you’re not sure what day your collections are, visit the calendar page on our website and enter your postcode. If a household or garden waste bin is not emptied as scheduled, please leave it out and it will be emptied the following day, where possible.
7th March Refuse collection – Industrial action by contractors, advice from Wiltshire Council
Information from Wiltshire Council
We are advising residents to put their bins out on their collection day by 7 am and should they not be collected for any reason then we will arrange to collect them the following day where possible.
This is a fluid situation, but our main aim is to ensure that if for any reason our schedule slips, we get back on track as soon as possible.
You are warmly invited to the Southern Wiltshire Area Board event:
“Greener, Cleaner Southern Wiltshire”
27th April, 6.30pm – 9pm
Whiteparish Memorial Hall
Full details are attached.
Please do drop in or stay with us for the whole event – there will be a free supper provided.
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Download: Flyer - 27th April event (454 KB)
The Jubilee Fund will support voluntary and community groups to develop creative and cultural activities as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022. The activity must be based on arts and culture. For more info https://www.wiltshirecf.org.uk/grants-and-support/grous/lets-create-jubilee-fund/