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Green Routine 2013 is a year-long campaign to help people in your area minimise waste, save money and have fun developing positive habits with long-term benefits.

Dozens of groups including Transition Towns, Women’s Institutes to garden clubs and active living centres, have already got involved in ways that will both benefit the people they help and encourage greater community participation.  Will you join other parishes taking part?

Backed by Somerset Waste Partnership, Green Routine 2013 is a flexible campaign, supported by free tools to make it really easy to add your parish’s local voice. Working together we can help more people reduce waste and save money.

Green Routine 2013 is simple to explain and easy to join. With small steps we can all take to make better use of the things we have, from food to furniture, gardens to gadgets, and share tips to make things last longer or giving them a new home.

Check this link for the 12 monthly themes with many activities to help us all – young or old, able or disabled, well off or not – cut waste by avoidance, reuse and repair.

Your parish can easily make Green Routine its own. You choose which themes, activities and campaign tools are right for your group, and then have a fun campaign to engage your members or the wider community.

And FREE training can help you pass on important advice and information, such as:

Love Food Hate Waste can help families waste less and save up to £50 a month. (Join a session at Williton, Taunton or Yeovil in January; further sessions are planned in Sedgemoor and Mendip area. Register online or phone Beth Prince on 01823 625716).  

Compost champions – everything you wanted to know about how to get great compost. (Contact Rupert.farthing@carymoor.org.uk or phone 01963 350143)

You can be a Green Routine partner for a single month’s theme, several or the whole year, and you can help your members and others tackle one or more projects or simply spread the vital messages of the campaign.

It is easy for groups and individuals to get involved and share experiences, lessons learnt and top tips to help others on their Green Routine journey.

The latest newsletter from Avon and Somerset Police District Commander, Chief Superintendent Watson.

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A message from Somerset Community Foundation:

Guidelines for applicants to 2012 Flood Appeal – 28^th Nov 2012

Somerset County Council has provided £50,000 for immediate relief to flood victims to be administered by Somerset Community Foundation (charity no 1094446) under our Surviving Winter programme. We are already receiving additional donations to build this fund from the public and we are also beginning to collect other offer of help such as accommodation and furniture.

Emergency Relief Grants

Our first priority is to swiftly get financial help to people whose homes have been flooded during November 2012.

We call these ‘Emergency Relief Grants’ and they will take the form of a flat-rate payment of £250 to help with the most immediate needs. A simple application form is attached to these guidelines. For more information please contact Somerset Community Foundation on 01749 344949 for more information. 

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Notice of closure of Placket Lane from Somerset County Council.

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During August a mobile library service will be operating again in your area. The updated routes will be available on the Somerset County Council website at www.somerset.gov.uk/mobilelibrary.  Route plans will also be available at every Somerset Library as well as from the mobile libraries themselves. 

Mobile library visits will be monthly. If you have a Somerset library card you can start to use the mobile straightaway.  Otherwise a library card can be issued to you at the time of your visit – simply bring along some form of identification, such as a driving licence or utility bill that displays your current name and address.  As at all Somerset libraries, customers can borrow up to 20 items at any one time. 

The four mobile libraries re-entering service are based at Bridgwater, Taunton, Williton and Wells.  This is in addition to the two mobiles that are already providing a service – the routes for these two vehicles will continue unchanged.  East Coker will receive a visit from a mobile library operating from Wells that will call on Thursdays

All enquiries about the mobile library service can be answered by contacting a library advisor on 0845 3459177.

The newly-appointed mobile library drivers/assistants will be very pleased to see you and we all hope that the reinstated service will be well supported.

Please see the calendar for details of the stop dates, times and locations.

David Laws MP will be holding an East Coker Surgery in the Village Hall, Halves Lane, East Coker on Tuesday 24th July at 3.30pm.  This is an opportunity for you to speak to Mr Laws directly on any concerns you have.  It is expected that Mr Laws’ time will be limited, so meetings will be on a first come first served basis.

Where in the world could you find a Bakelite coffin, the oldest manmade road in Britain, the largest collection of Naval aircraft in Europe or early Victorian prosthetic limbs?

You might be surprised to find out the answer is Somerset!

For a county with a history as rich and diverse as its countryside, Somerset boasts an amazing number of museums and heritage attractions.  Somerset Routes is a unique map and guide which highlights over 100 of the counties best heritage sites to visit.

Taking the form of a ‘tube map’, the county has been broken down into seven different lines to travel on, spread across the country and taking in the best sights and things to do.  Each line takes you to the museums, historic railways, castles, gardens, stately homes and archaeological sites that make Somerset’s heritage unique.

Along with the map, a free booklet has been created which for the first times gives information and contact details about all the major heritage sites in the county.  The booklet details each suggested stop and includes a website link where possible and there’s a useful tip or nugget of information with every entry. 

The touring map, guidebook and itineraries are available to download for free at www.visitsomerset.co.uk/touring-map.  Taster videos are available at www.youtube.com/somersetmuseums.