âLots of things to look forward toâ: The community farm with positive news to share
The charity will offer respite, daycare and overnight accommodation for adults with disabilities
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2020 has been a difficult time for everyone. But ending the year with some positive news, is Maltby dad Paul Connaughton, whose vision is coming to life for JPC Community Farm.
A DRUMCHAPEL charity which was saved from the brink of closure earlier this year has delivered Christmas dinners to people in need. G15 Youth Group partnered with the Asda Foundation and Drum Hub to provide a cooked dinner and dessert for those struggling to provide their own dinner. More than 100 people were helped by the charity, which, just months ago, feared it wouldn t be able to continue after it lost out on a funding bid from Glasgow City Council. A spokesman for the charity said it was an honour to help families facing difficulty in the area amid the coronavirus restrictions.
Pembroke Dock Town Council recently awarded Frame £2,500 to provide a community fridge for the town. There is currently a community fridge in Haverfordwest that since opening has saved more than 30 tonnes of surplus food waste from reaching landfill sites. It was originally funded by the Landfill Disposals Tax Communities Scheme administered by WCVA. Pembrokeshire Frame has recently been supported by the National Lottery Fund, Moondance Foundation and The Voluntary Services Emergency Fund to deliver its very popular Bags of Care project, which saw the team partnering with The Green Shed Café to deliver over 5,500 free hot meals and hundreds of free bags of community fridge surplus food to vulnerable individuals in Haverfordwest and Merlins Bridge to ensure that people were supported and not forgotten during the Covid pandemic.
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Forget, just for a moment, the restrictions placed on all our lives by the Virus and reflect on how this has become the Year of the Walker. If such a thing looked unlikely in the deep lockdown of the sunnier months, it makes sense in the sharp light of these winter days.
Yes, we’ve cut right down on trains and buses, as the edicts on confined spaces said we should. Shocking for the national economy, but surely good for personal health. Yet another instance of the swings-and-roundabouts logic imposed by the Plague. Government figures show that by the summer, 39% of people said they were walking more than before the pandemic struck. Now, signs of a new dawn can even be sensed in the Department of Transport’s sober pronouncement: “The Covid-19 pandemic has had a substantial and potentially sustainable impact on active travel.”
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The Theatre Royal has reopened its doors to bring a bit of Christmas cheer back to Plymouth
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After a very difficult nine months, the stage is once again set for the much anticipated reopening of the Theatre Royal Plymouth.