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Weather permitting, Village Volunteers will fettle in Bath House Gardens at the end of April. Details are as follows: Date: Sunday, 28th April, 2019 Time: 10.00 am – 12 noon Venue: Bath House Gardens, Stoney Middleton (If the weather is inclement, our labours will be postponed until the following week, Sunday, 5th May, 2019.) Please do come along and join in. Make friends, renew acquaintances, burn calories and help improve our physical environment. Coffee, and (optional) biscuits, will be provided! Barry Nottage.

Please find details below of the two Elections that will be held for the 7 Stoney Middleton Parish Councillor vacancies and 1 Calver District Councillor vacancy on 2nd May. Parish Council Election - Stoney Middleton District Council, Election- Calver Ward Polling Stations

Due to ongoing issues on the playing fields, the stile at the top of the fields by the children's playground, which leads to Combs Dale, is now closed. Access to Coombs Dale is from the concessionary footpath, along the bottom of the playing field and up the lane. If anybody has any queries, please contact the Parish Clerk on smpcclerk@outlook.com Thank you.

Easter Egg Hunt Monday 22nd APRIL 2019 11.00 am Donations of Eggs Large and Small to Jill and Trevor Askey

As from Monday 1st April a new X66 bus service has been introduced which comes through Stoney Middleton at 07:58 and goes direct to Chesterfield without having to change at Baslow. The bus arrives in Chesterfield at 08:30 and then goes onto the railway station before arriving at Chesterfield Royal hospital for 08:45. For the journey home, the bus leaves Chesterfield Royal Hospital at 16:46, calling at the railway station at 16:56, Beetwell St at 17:10 and then to Stoney arriving in at 17:35.

Derbyshire Dales District Council organise Dementia Friendly walks all over the District. All the walks are led by trained volunteer walk leaders as part of the National Walking for Health scheme which endeavours to provide free, regular easy walks open to all. There are in excess of 40 trained volunteers and over 60 walks per month across the Dales. Please see below links to a poster with the next quarters information regarding dementia walks. These are in partnership with the Peak District National Park, to provide Dementia walks on a regular basis offering 4 walks per month from 4 locations across the Dales. Also attached is a full guide which has all the information for all the walks. Walking Poster Walking Guide For more information please go to www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/walkingforhealth

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There is a SMILE Folk Concert on Saturday 30th March from 7pm at the Eyre Arms, Calver Crossroads. We have 4 very talented Stoney folk performing for you in a relaxed atmosphere at the Eyre Arms function room kindly donated by Jimmy & Tim. Michael Tinker, Karen Esposito, Eve Slater and also a fantastic Stoney / Cornwall combo called "Rocks & Pebbles" will be performing. Tickets are just £5 per person available from Chris call 630324

Following the success of the "Discover Stoney Middleton" book local author Graham Armitage is now launching another literary project. This is a book provisionally entitled "Tales from Stoney Middleton" and Graham is inviting local people to write about the village. This can take the form of fiction or non-fiction work with the only requirement been that the"story" is based around Stoney in some way. Personal recollections of events would be fine but so would fiction using Stoney as a background. Graham says "I know there are already a number of people in the village who have already had written work published and I would love to hear from you if you are in this category but if you have never written a word in your life please have a go. We are not trying to rival Shakespeare-just have some fun." Submissions to Graham via graandles@aol.com or call him on 01433 639639 if you have any queries."

Graham from the newly formed Stoney mental health support group (S.M.A.R.T.S.) has asked if anyone is willing to serve on the group's committee. The roles would be largely nominal involving 3 or 4 meetings per year at maximum (probably less). Experience relating in some way to mental health issues would be an advantage but is not required as the posts are primarily related to meeting funding requirements. For a chat about this contact Graham on graandles@aol.com or 01433 639639

Derbyshire Alert is a two-way messaging system which can be used by Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT’s) and the force Media Team to make contact with the public via email or text message. The messages are sent to specific targeted areas where a crime has been committed. The system can also be used for information appeals of less urgency, for crime prevention advice and the advertisement of police engagement events. Short, succinct targeted messages are created by SNT’s and the media team to give out warnings regarding scams and crimes, alerting the public. Messages can also ask for assistance from the public by requesting CCTV camera footage and dash camera footage in an area of interest, saving hours of police time in the collection of evidence, and in turn speeding up the criminal justice process. Users of the system are grouped into areas of interest. Some examples of the groups are CCTV owners, dog walkers, church watch and school watch. By creating groups, we are able to refine our target audience. For example, a dog walker will be out walking during the early hours of the day and later on in the evening. Past experience has told us that this group of people can be helpful with our enquiries. A message can be sent to residents in real time, allowing the public to look out for evidence and report it back immediately to the officer concerned, or via other force communication channels. This system gives officers more time to spend gathering good quality evidence, as is asks the public to help in areas where they can. Derbyshire Alert works with other agencies including local authorities, Action Fraud and Crimestoppers to get messages out. This spreading of messages via other agencies results in huge coverage throughout Derbyshire of a single relevant message, such as missing persons. Users are able to log on and join Derbyshire Alert via the website. This allows them to manage their own accounts. They can opt out and change the settings as and when they require. Users have a guarantee that their information will only be used for a policing purpose and not shared with agencies that do not have a vested interest in public safety. Derbyshire Police use other social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to communicate with the public. These media channels help to build good, strong trusting relationships with the public, as engagement tools. Derbyshire Alert is a more formal method of communication and asks for assistance with specific criminality. All the media channels work together to complement each other. The forces aim is to increase the users of Derbyshire Alert by signing up more residents to use the alert system, making it a main channel of communication between the police and the public. You can sign up by logging onto the website and completing your details on line at www.derbyshirealert.co.uk or by filling in a form from your SNT representative and sending it to the address given. Help us to improve our communication and work together to provide a better police service for the residents of Derbyshire. For more details, contact Carole Woodall, Communications and Engagement Team, Police HQ, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3RS. You can also contact us via the below methods:- · Facebook – send us a private message to /DerbyshireConstabulary · Twitter – direct message our contact centre on @DerPolContact · Website – complete the online contact form www.derbyshire.police.uk/Contact-Us. · Phone – call us on 101.

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