PROGRESS WITH THE COMMUNITY ACTIVITY PROJECT

ACTIVE LIVING CENTRE – The next three meetings will be on 31 March, 28 April and 26 May, all starting at 10am at the Recreation Field building. Anyone over 50 years is very welcome and the activities are optional and free. The lunch (£4 per person) has been very popular. Over the coming year, we are planning both talks by external speakers and a number of meetings involving gentle activities. These will be advertised on the Recreation Field noticeboard.

DANCE – a reminder that dance lessons are available for anyone over 16 years at 7-8pm on Fridays at the Memorial Hall. The cost is £2.50 per person. Just turn up or contact Graham on 01373 813912.

YOUTH CLUB – this is currently running on Monday’s, 6.30-8.00pm. Future meetings are 31 March and 28 April, open to 8 -12 years (cost 50p per child). Adult volunteers welcome to support a rota. Contact Graham on 01373 813912.

RECYCLING FOR CARDBOARD AND PLASTIC BOTTLES

The licences needed to run a recycling service every fortnight from the Recreation Field for the community have been obtained. Recycling will be established as a pilot project and will be run by volunteers - its success will depend on your co-operation and at least one volunteer offering to help at each collection. We will start on 8 March at 10.30am (see What’s On). We can only take a set amount of cardboard – this needs to be squashed (to reduce the volume) and must not include fruit juice containers such as Tetrapak. We can take plastic bottles only, not yogurt pots or other plastic containers - there is a number on the bottle and we can take any that have the number 1-3 (usually in a triangle). Please also squash the bottles. We will have leaflets explaining more about plastic bottles on the collection day.

Please note that we need to stop collecting material at 11.15am – so do not leave any material after that time on the collection day.

1^st March 2008