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Broadwindsor Group Parish Council Meeting, Monday, 13th February

Monday’s meeting of Broadwindsor Group Parish Council will be held at Drimpton Village Hall at 7.30pm.  All are invited to attend.

There is, for now a full compliment of 15 elected Councillors who represent the five wards of Blackdown, Broadwindsor, Burstock, Drimpton and Seaborough. Who are they? Click HERE.

The full agenda may be downloaded HERE which includes…

Item 4. Matters Arising:
Resignation of Broadwindsor Councillor.

Item 6. Correspondence and Notices:
a. Comrades Hall Management Committee, Request for Additional Grant Support
b. Broadwindsor Fun Group, Request for Financial Support
c. Dorset Council, Application for a Definitive Map modification Order, Burstock Parish
d. DAPTC, Royal Garden Party Nomination
e. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Levelling up and Regeneration Bill: Reforms
to National Planning Policy Consultation.

Item 9. Planning Applications:
a. Applications Received and Circulated for Consultation
P/FUL/2022/08024, North Dibberford Farm, North Dibberford Road, From A3066, Beaminster, DT8
3HD
P/FUL/2022/07731, North Dibberford Farm, North Dibberford Road, From A3066, Beaminster, DT8
3HD
P/CLE/2023/00238, Liddels Cottage, Laymore, Winsham TA20 4NT (Certificate of Lawfulness
application)
P/LBC/2023/00416, The Old George, The Square, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QD

b. Other Applications
P/TRC/2023/00714, Hayes Cottage, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QF (Information Only)

c. Results
P/PAPA/2022/07825, Birdsmoorgate Farm, Birdsmoorgate, Marshwood, DT6 5QG: Prior Approval Not
Required
P/HOU/2022/07039, Highlands, B3165 Horn Ash Crossroads to School Lane, Kittwhistle, DT8 3LG:
Granted
P/HOU/2022/06492, 11 Bridport Road, Drimpton, DT8 3RD: Granted
P/VOC/2022/06206, Blackbird Cottage, The Square, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QD: Granted
P/HOU/2022/03599, Lower Sandpit Farm, Hardys Lane, Drimpton, DT8 3RS: Withdrawn
P/LBC/2022/03600, Lower Sandpit Farm, Hardys Lane, Drimpton, DT8 3RS: Withdrawn

Item 11. Allotments

Item 12. Management of the MUGA

Item 13. Coronation of King Charles III, 6 May 2023

Item 14. Communications within the Grouped Parish Area

Item 15. Highways:
a. Parking in Broadwindsor Square
b. War Memorial Project Update
c. Gritting Across the Grouped Parish Area
d. Flood Wardens/Sandbags
e. Fingerpost Sign Restoration Programme Update

Item 16. Affordable Housing:
a. Report from the Broadwindsor Group Parish Community Land Trust

Item 17. Annual Parish Meeting:
a. Discussion on Date, Venue, Speaker

Item 18. Matters of Interest and Information:
a. Items for next Agenda from Members of the Council
b. Items for next Agenda from Members of the Public

The full agenda may be downloaded HERE

The press and public are invited to attend. Under the Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014, members of the public may now film, photograph and make audio recordings of the proceedings of the formal Council meeting, though not, under current legislation, of the Public Participation session, as this is not part of the formal agenda of the meeting. Recording activity should be respectful to the conduct of the meeting and behaviour that disrupts the meeting (such as oral commentary) will not be permitted. Any member of the public shall not speak for more than five minutes. A question asked by a member of the public during Public Participation shall not require a response or debate during the meeting though the Chairman may direct that a written response will be provided subsequent to the meeting.

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Government’s Help To Save

Help to Save is a type of savings account. which is backed by the Government so your savings are secure. Anyone entitled to/in receipt of Working Tax Credit or receiving Universal Credit will get a bonus of 50p for every £1 they save over 4 years.

  • You can save between £1 and £50 each calendar month. You do not have to pay money in every month.
  • You can pay money into your Help to Save account by debit card, standing order or bank transfer.
  • You can pay in as many times as you like, but the most you can pay in each calendar month is £50. For example, if you have saved £50 by 8 January you will not be able to pay in again until 1 February.
  • You can only withdraw money from your Help to Save account to your bank account.
  • Bonuses are awarded at the end of the second and fourth years. They’re based on how much you’ve saved.

Your Help to Save account will close 4 years after you open it. You will not be able to reopen it or open another Help to Save account. You’ll be able to keep the money from your account.

You can close your account at any time. If you close your account early you’ll miss your next bonus and you will not be able to open another one.

How it works:

You can earn 2 tax-free bonuses over 4 years. You’ll get any bonuses you’ve earned even if you withdraw money*.
After your first 2 years, you’ll get a first bonus if you’ve been using your account to save. This bonus will be 50% of the highest balance you’ve saved.
After 4 years, you’ll get a final bonus if you continue to save. This bonus will be 50% of the difference between 2 amounts:

  • the highest balance saved in the first 2 years (years 1 and 2)
  • the highest balance saved in the last 2 years (years 3 and 4)

If your highest balance does not increase, you will not earn a final bonus.

The most you can pay into your account each calendar month is £50, which is £2,400 over 4 years. The most you can earn from your savings in 4 years is £1,200 in bonus money.
Your bonus is paid into your bank account, not your Help to Save account.

* If you withdraw money it will be harder for you to:

  • grow your highest balance
  • earn the largest possible bonuses

Withdrawing money could mean you are not able to earn a final bonus – depending on how much you withdraw and when.

Note:

  • Help to Save bonuses will not affect your Universal Credit payments.
  • Help to Save will not affect how much Working Tax Credit you get.
  • If you or your partner have £6,000 or less in personal savings, your Help to Save bonuses will not affect how much Housing Benefit you get.

You need a Government Gateway user ID and password to apply. If you do not have a user ID, you can create one when you apply.
You will be asked for your UK bank details.

Sign in to your Government gateway and go to https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/help-to-save/no-account.

All information taken from Gov.UK.

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Meet Ashleigh Smith Of Revilo Construction Dorset

This is Ashleigh Smith and he is the owner of Revilo Construction.

Ashleigh began his apprenticeship in 1998 for a small building company in Broadwindsor called ‘Broad Build‘.  He attended Weymouth College, completing his NVQ levels 1, 2 and 3 with advanced craft in brickwork trowel occupations.

After 10 years perfecting his trade skills, Ashleigh returned to Weymouth College as a lecturer in brickwork.  When Ashleigh left the college, he relocated to Spain, working for a British company for two years and it was then he decided to branch out, work for himself and so Revilo Construction was born.

After 13 years of living in Spain, Ashleigh and his family made the big move to relocate back to Dorset so they may bring their children up in an English culture.


Consequently, Revilo Construction has also relocated to Dorset.  Already at work on some great projects, Ashleigh has a reliable, hard working team contributing to his work with exceptional craftsmanship.

Contact: 07821 240754 or visit the website HERE.

We welcome Ashleigh and his family back to Broadwindsor and wish them all the best for their future 🙂


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Full Moon – Sunday, 5th February

The Full Moon is today at 13.30hrs.

Known by many as the Snow Moon as snow is generally found on the ground in most Northern Hemisphere countries during this time, it is also known as the Black Bear or Bear Moon: referring to the time when bear cubs are born.

About once every 19 years, February does not have a Full Moon, known as a Black Moon. In 2018, this was the case in most time zones. This can only happen in February, as this is the only month which is shorter than a lunar month. When this occurs, both January and March have two New Moons, instead of just one, creating a double Blue Moon. This will next occur in 2033.

Just like “Blood Moon” and “Blue Moon,” “Black Moon” is not an astronomical term. There is no single accepted definition of a Black Moon either. Some say every New Moon is a Black Moon as it cannot be seen.

Another definition of a Black Moon says that it is the third new moon in a season of four new moons, according to Space.com. The next date that type of Black Moon will occur is May 19, 2023.


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Congratulations To Kate Staff

Ex-manager of the White Lion Community Pub Ltd., Kate Staff very recently collected the above award: West Dorset CAMRA Pub Of The Year 2023.

Judging had taken place during November and December 2022 when the pub was secretly visited by 9 individual judges on separate occasions.

As Kate, Chloe and Louise no longer work at the pub, the award is Kate‘s to keep and the White Lion‘s will have a copy to display display in the pub. Kate dedicated the award to the late David Leader. The Staff’s won’t be progressing to the next stage but the White Lion Community Pub Ltd. will and we hope Rick Dyke and the Management Committee succeed in employing a new manager of similar high standards 🙂

As the Management Committee and volunteers continue to keep the pub open whilst a new management team are appointed, we send our congratulations and best wishes to Kate, who soon begins her new employment in the kitchen at Broadwindsor House and to Chloe and Louise with their futures.
If you’d like to volunteer at The White Lion in any way, please get in touch with Andrew Hookings at: andrewhookings@yahoo.co.uk or Rick Dyke at: rickdyke59@gmail.com.

Please continue to support our community pub.

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Broadwindsor Film Club – Friday, 17th February

At 7.30pm at the Comrades Hall on Friday, 17th February, Broadwindsor’s Community Film Club will be showing…

Mrs Harris Goes To Paris (PG)

Directed by Anthony Fabian and starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo, Ellen Thomas and Jason Isaacs. Running time: 1hr 56mins

Mrs Harris Goes To Paris tells a humorously heart-warming tale about London housekeeper Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) who thinks her lonely life might turn around if she can become the owner of a Christian Dior gown.  Saying goodbye to friends like Archie (Jason Isaacs) won’t be easy and neither will be wining over elite people in Paris from Madame Colbert (Isabelle Huppert) to idealistic accountant André (Lucas Bravo).  But Ada’s irrepressible charm just might end up saving the whole House of Dior in this uplifting story of how an ordinary woman becomes an extraordinary inspiration by daring to follow her dreams.

  • Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm.
  • Film Club members – Free entry
  • Guests – £4
  • Refreshments available, including a bar.
  • Seats can be booked in advance by contacting:
    Emma Myers – broadwindsorem@gmail.com or
    Margaret Wing – 01308 867252

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Souper Friday At The Comrades Hall, 12 Noon

From 12 noon… today’s soup choice includes a delicious carrot & coriander made and donated by a village resident:)

Provided by Broadwindsor Fun Group and free of any charge, anyone and everyone is welcome to come in and receive a bowl of hot soup with bread and/or a tea or coffee with biscuits.

Take time out for yourself or simply enjoy a much needed warm bowl of soup with some company.

Please share this information! Not everyone accesses the internet or social media…. Tell other villagers who may be elderly or alone. Tell the young Mums who repeatedly skip their meals. Tell the person you see wander around the village with their dog every day. Everyone is welcome 🙂

Stay Warm! Thank You!


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Love Hertz by Peter Roe

Resident poet Peter Roe is a prize winning working class poet, artistic, autistic, computer geek and technology nerd. A former Bard of Dorchester and host of Bridport’s spoken word Apothecary. Founding editor and publisher of the Jawbone Collective.

Widely anthologised, three published collections. “Technology Bytes Back” – 2018, “I’m in Love With My Barista” – 2019, His quest for love and ‘The One’ and his adventures in online dating have been the subject of many of his poems that now appear in his most recent collection “Love Hertz” – 30th January 2023, released concurrently with “Odin and The Mead of Poetry”.

Reviews for ‘Love Hertz’

  • “In Love Hertz, Peter expertly weaves eclectic reflections on the nature of human attraction with a finely wrought chronicle of his own lockdown quest to finally find, ‘The One‘.
  • Often tenderly romantic and touching, this collection is none-the-less consistently clear-eyed, idiosyncratic and surprising. If you thought poetry had already said everything there is to say about the vagaries of love, think again. Love Hertz is a celebratory, wide-ranging and ultimately redemptive collection that you will want to return to again and again – though possibly not quite at a frequency of 528 times per second. Recommended reading for anyone with heart. ”
    Tim King. Poet, Bard, Host of Taking The Mic.
  • “Peter’s poetry has always got to the heart of what it means to be human, and love is an intrinsic ingredient without which there would be no humanity. It’s what defines us, and Peter knows this. With poems of truth, honesty and tenderness, he paints pictures of love, both as a concept and as something incredibly real. These poems revel in the joy of a relationship, and in so doing, transmits that joy to the reader.”
    Robert Garnham. Poet, Bard, Performer, The Professor of Whimsey.
  • “Beautifully honest, vulnerable and heartfelt. If Love were a book… This is it!”
    Nicky Harris. Poet, Host of Poetika Collective.
  • “Heart-warming, life-affirming, occasionally rib-tickling, this is a collection to savour over and over again”
    Jackie Juno. Poet, Bard, Host of Poets and Pints.

Copies of Love Hertz and Odin and The Mead of Poetry are now on sale, priced at £9.00 each or purchase both together for only £15.00.
Available from:

  • Broadwindsor Community Stores,
  • Redlands Yard
  • Little Toller Books, Beaminster &
  • South St. Bookshop, Bridport

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Local Reared Pork For Sale

Matt has fresh locally reared pork ready later this week. Please let him know ASAP if you would like some.
He can do a mixture if you like. First come first served.
If you could collect, that would be great or he can deliver locally 🙂

Contact Matt: 07731 434654.

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Imbolc – 1st February

Imbolc (or Imbolg) is also called St. Brigid’s Day and is celebrated on 1st February each year and is one of the four traditional Gaelic seasonal festivals, marking the beginning of Spring. It is approximately halfway between the Winter Solstice (21st December) and the Spring Equinox (21st March). Imbolc is also associated with the onset of the lambing season and the blossoming of blackthorn. Time to celebrate the lengthening days and the early signs of spring – the snowdrops are up 🙂

Saint Brigid, who died in 525 AD, was a Christianization of the goddess of fertility, Brigid.  Born Brigit, there is much debate over her birthparents, but it is widely believed her mother was Brocca, a Christian baptized by Saint Patrick, and her father was Dubthach, a Leinster chieftain. Brocca was a slave, therefore Brigid was born into slavery.
St. Brigid was also invoked to protect homes and livestock. The holiday was a festival of the hearth and home. It is time to ‘spring clean’.

To receive the blessings of St. Brigid:

  • people would make a bed for her
  • leave her food and drink.
  • Items of clothing would be left outside for her to bless.
  • The lighting of candles and fires represents the return of warmth and the increasing power of the Sun over the coming months.

Brigid of Ireland, also known as Saint Brigid of Kildare, is the patroness Saint of Ireland, and one of its three national Saints along with Patrick and Columba. For Christians, particularly in Ireland, it is a time to feast!  Although many of its customs died out in the 20th century, it is still observed and in some places it has been revived as a cultural event.

Photo credit: Annie Collins Photography

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