Tag: #2021

Local Employment: Part Time Customer Service Administrator At Rural Ranges

Rural Ranges Ltd are a small but growing family run business located at Pineapple Business Park at Salway Ash, near Bridport.  With over 18 years experience in the AGA and Rayburn trade, they offer everything from a routine service to a complete AGA installation including base chimney, fuel source and, of course, the AGA or Rayburn itself. They also have a small online shop.

They have a part time position for a highly motivated individual with exceptional customer service skills to enable and maintain an exemplary customer experience throughout the buying process. They believe in selling with integrity and honesty, finding the best fit for their customer and producing the bespoke product they desire. For their clients anything should be possible and they believe in going the extra mile to help realise their dreams.

The successful candidate will work alongside the director to secure sales, improve sales processes and documentation and further develop the shop side of the business. Working hours will be untaken over 2 days (14.5 hours) – some flexibility of these hours may be considered but availability to work Mondays and either Wednesdays or Thursdays is essential. There is strong potential for growth of this role over time.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

  • Responding to customer enquiries with knowledge and enthusiasm via both telephone and written means.
  • Securing sales and encouraging trade.
  • Following up on all sales with correct documentation and liaising with customers throughout the buying process, including after sales service and the ongoing relationship with their customers.
  • Greeting visitors to our showroom and demonstrating the appliances with knowledge and confidence
  • Producing quotations, invoicing and job specifications.
  • Developing social media content.
  • Development of their online shop offering, including website updates.
  • Packaging shop purchases and booking courier collections.
  • Ordering of stock and liaising with suppliers.
  • General administration and filing.
  • Housekeeping/cleaning of the working environment.

Essential:

  • Strong Sales experience.
  • Flexibility and adaptability – as a member of a small business, your role will be varied, you will need to be able to meet any given challenge.
  • Good time management – this is a mixed role, where there may frequently be conflicting demands on your time. You will need to prioritise and effectively manage limited working hours.
  • Exceptional customer service skills.
  • Friendly and professional telephone manner.
  • Excellent literacy skills.
  • An appreciation of the demands of a high-end clientele – being accommodating and going the extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction.

Advantageous:

  • Experience of working within a similar small business.
  • Previous knowledge / experience of Aga Cookers and / or Woodburner products.
  • Experience of online sales.
  • Experience of website building, including Squarespace or similar products.
  • Strong social media experience.

Benefits:

  • You will be a valued member of a small team within a fast moving and exciting business.
  • Salary: £7163 – £7917.
  • 28 days holiday pro rata (including bank holidays).
  • 1 additional day holiday for every year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
Steve Smith - Rural Ranges
Steve Smith – Director at Rural Ranges.

To Apply:

Please submit an up-to-date CV and a covering letter, outlining your interest in the role and all relevant experience. Applications close: 5th March 2021.

Email: info@ruralranges.co.uk
Telephone: 01308 488994

Rural Ranges Ltd, Unit 6 Pineapple Business Park, Salway Ash, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5DB

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Proposed Development South Of Fullers, Broadwindsor

The photograph above shows the view from a village resident’s window in Fullers.  The photograph below shows details of the 22 dwellings and associated works, including the formation of access, surface water attenuation pond, landscape and ecological enhancements proposed to go on the same piece of land.  Resident, Ruth Stevens commented  “How sad will it be..to see this lovely view being replaced by the new housing development!”

With reference to Planning Application: WD/D/21/000123 

Proposed Development

You can comment, support or object on this development HERE until 22nd March 2021. The comment box they give you has a 1000 character limit.  (If you wish to enter more than 1,000 characters, please type your response in a text document and add it as an attachment.)

Proposed site of development. Photo credit: Ruth Stevens

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Covid 2nd Vaccine Update From Barton House Surgery

Barton House Medical Practice in Beaminster have released an update:

They started vaccinating in late December 2020 and the 12 week intermission until the 2nd vaccine dates are fast approaching.  They are now receiving information about their next delivery from the NHSE.  They will be inviting patients in order of clinics – data is on the Central National Database.
They need confirmation from NHSE centrally of vaccine delivery before they can put clinic dates on; dates are not known far in advance.

The clinics will be running in March once dates are confirmed.

When they began, they did not have an IT solution that allowed patients to book their own appointments online.  They do now, and so if they have your mobile number, they can send your invite via a text and you can book a vaccine appointment directly online.
Please make sure they have your mobile details as they send a text message to book you into the clinic directly.  If you do not have a mobile – they will telephone you.

Patients do not need to contact the surgery.

Upload your details to their website HERE.

“Thank you for your patience – we will get to everyone as soon as we can; as you know – we have a fantastic healthcare and community team who have worked hard to bring this together and make it happen. Stay safe.”  – Dani Farrell

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Footpath blocked By Trusthams

Due to the continual rain, the footpath just before the bench at the top of Back Lane, at the corner of Trusthams has become blocked.

Magna have been informed.

Please exercise caution at Hollis Hill too as large stones and boulders have been slipping there onto the road.

Stay Safe!

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Broadwindsor Welcomes The Wagon House

Coming very soon to Attisham Farm, nr. Broadwindsor – a Milk Vending Machine.

Calf - The Wagon House

Stuart & Louise Hayball will run this small family business, producing quality, fresh, pasteurised whole milk, from their lovely herd of British Holstein cows.

Attisham Farm is located at Templemens Ash, just before Birdsmoorgate on the B3164, shown below.

Cows @ The Wagon House
Cows at The Wagon House

Asked whether they had a favourite cow . . . Louise commented “..there are many!…..Daisy, Annabelle, Angus, Snowy, Louise, Millie, Olive, Lofty, Bluey, Exclamation, Bubbles, Jess, Cinnamon, Pepsi, Poppy, Eve….to name but a few!“

They arrival of the machine is imminent so hopefully they will be up and running in the not too distant future.

Look out for their delicious milk, milkshakes, and more!

Email: thewagonhouse@hotmail.com
or Message through their Facebook page HERE.

The name Hayball is already familiar to many local residents. The Hayball family have been milking at Attisham Farm for nearly 100 years. 

Specketts Knapp LambProud to be working in British Farming is Stuart’s cousin Neil Hayball, who with his wife, Rachel and their 6 children, have their sheep graze in a few of Neil’s parents’ fields which are just below Pilsdon pen.  Neil & Rachel sell their Speckets Knapp Lamb locally, advertising on their Facebook page and local groups. Please Tel: 07710 608951 with any enquiries.

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Dorset Community Action’s Newsletter

Dorset Community Action are a charity that exists to support charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises across the Dorset community. Their mission is to bring people together to develop community based solutions that deliver better services for the benefit of all.
There is a Funding Event next month too!
Read their 8 page newsletter below. 

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​Dorset Community Action is a member of Action with Rural Communities in England (ACRE) and as part of the ACRE network they support local rural communities in Dorset.
DCA is funded by and works in partnership with DEFRA, Dorset Council and other statutory and grant-making bodies.

​Dorset Community Action (Head Office), The Little Keep, Barrack Road, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1SQ
Telephone: 01305 250921
Email: info@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk

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LIVE Landing Broadcast: Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars

Launched on 30th July 2020, NASA’s Perseverance Rover is due to touchdown onto the surface of Mars, some 33.9 million miles away at 20:55 – 21.15 hours GMT this evening if all continues to go to plan.

Watch Live HERE. Update: A successful touchdown @ 20.56hr GMT

Other Channels that will carry the live broadcast include:
(each one will open in a separate window)

The first successful flyby of Mars was on 14th–15th July 1965, by NASA’s Mariner 4.
On November 14th, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first space probe to orbit another planet when it entered into orbit around Mars.
The Soviet probes Phobos 1 and 2 were sent to Mars in 1988 to study Mars and its two moons, with a focus on Phobos.#Broadwindsor,#Burstock,#Blackdown,#Drimpton,#Hursey,#Kittwhistle,#Seaborough,#Dorset,#WestDorset,#2021,#NationalLockdown,#NASA,#PerseveranceRover,#WatchLive,#Space,#Mars,#Wow,#BeSafe,#StaySafe

New Awards At Bridport Food Festival

Bridport Food Festival are pleased to announce their new ‘Lockdown Hero’ awards devised to recognise and say a BIG ‘Thank You‘ to the local food & drink businesses: cafes, restaurants, pubs, butchers, bakers, greengrocers, farm shops, market traders, etc., who have risen to the challenges of the pandemic and continued to feed us and provide us with much needed treats. Many have increased what they offer and have set up new, or adapted their services, to provide delivery and collection services.

Awards will be presented to six categories:

  1. Restaurants, Cafes & Tea Rooms
  2. Pubs & Bars
  3. Takeaway shops
  4. Food/Drink Shops, market stalls, Farm Shops
  5. Producers, wholesalers, Caterers
  6. Special Award for an outstanding service or offer from any of the above categories
You, their customers, are asked to nominate the businesses you feel have gone the ‘extra mile’ to offer either an extra or special delivery, service or product to keep everyone supplied with all those essentials or treats during the lockdown periods.
You are invited to nominate a businesses in each of the six categories. Voting is open now and will finish at midnight on 31st March 2021.
Cast your vote HERE.
There will be a winner and runner up in each category, judged by the number of votes and quality of comments received. The winners will be announced in April 2021.

Bridport Food Festival was originally conceived by the West Dorset Food and Land Trust, with support from the Countryside Agency, The Marshwood Vale Magazine, Denhay Farms and Bridport Town Council, and was launched with the help of Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall in 2004.

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Potholes

An ongoing problem in our area.  Dorset Council received their share of the £500 million the Government have allocated for the fixing of potholes. To be paid in instalments, this amounts to a total of £7 million. The South West region has been allocated £90,031,000, more than any other region of England.
This is the second of 5 equal instalments from the £2.5 billion Potholes Fund, providing £500 million a year between 2020/21 and 2024/25, announced by the Chancellor in the 2020 Budget – and is part of wider funding the Dept. for Transport provides for road maintenance, totalling over £1.1 billion across England in 2021/22.

Dorset Council report that the average pothole costing around £50 to fill in, the funding will ensure that the equivalent of 10 million potholes can be repaired across the county.

There is an alternative!

Plastic – we must make sure we are reducing, not increasing, the the supply.

In March 2018 in Scotland, Fife Council were in negotiations to use a bitumen-substitute material called MR6 to repair damaged road services.  The company behind the idea, Carlisle-based MacRebur, won financial backing from Sir Andy Murray and billionaire Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and had already undertaken a £200,000 resurfacing scheme on the A7 in the Lake District.
Read more about MacRebur’s revolutionary products HERE.

On the other side of the pond, a Californian company, Technisoil Industrial believe they have the solution with plastic too. To learn more about their products – Click HERE.

To report a pothole to Dorset Council – Click HERE.

To report any other kind of road problem to Dorset Council such as: dead animals; drainage/flooding  problems; street lighting; weeds/moss; abandoned vehicle; footpaths and more – Click HERE.

Baroness Vere of NorbitonBaroness Charlotte Sarah Emily Vere, who took office in April 2019 as the Transport Minister & Member of the House of Lords said:

“We know potholes are more than just a nuisance – they can be dangerous to drivers and cyclists alike, and cause damage to thousands of vehicles every year.
“The funding allocated today will help councils ensure roads in their area are kept up to standard, and that the potholes that blight road users can be dealt with promptly.”

As Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Baroness Vere has responsibility for:

  • Roads (including Highways England)
  • Motoring agencies (DVSA, DVLA, VCA)
  • Buses and Taxis
  • Light rail (including Tram, Underground and Metro systems)
  • Devolution (including Union connectivity and London transport)

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Vikki’s Specials At The White Lion From Thursday

Following the marvellous feedback from last weekend’s Curry Specials – we very much look forward to the next one! On offer from Thursday 18th – Saturday 20th February there is a choice of the following:

  • Homemade Chicken Pie with Fresh Vegetables and Chips or Mash.
  • Homemade Mushroom Stroganoff with Savoury Rice (Gluten Free).
  • Smoked Haddock and Mozzarella Fishcakes with Salad and Chips (Gluten Free).

There’s always room for pudding! This weekend, made with love:

  • Gluten-free Triple Chocolate Brownies @ £3.00
  • Chocolate Orange Cheesecake with Cream @ £4.00

Please pre-order by 5pm the day prior for collection
Please collect between 6pm – 7.30pm

Yorkshire PudsOn Sunday:

For Lunch Vikki offers you Roast Beef, Roast Turkey or Roast Lamb, all served with their accompaniments @ £8.50.
Please pre-order by 5pm Saturday.
Please collect between 12 noon – 2.00pm.

Telephone: 01308 867070
Email: info@whitelionbroadwindsor.co.uk;
Message through Facebook: HERE.

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