Notice Board

Please see attached sheet with useful contact numbers for support.

The Parish Council has now adopted the above telephone kiosk from BT, and will be responsible for its ongoing maintenance. 

The telephony equipment has been removed, and with the help of some local volunteers, it will be turned into a flower planter over the next few months.

Following complaints about the confusing closing times of the Elisha Field. Market Lavington Parish Council had discussions with interested users and the volunteers who lock the gates. 

Instead of closing at Dusk, which has multiple definitions and is not easily found, the Elisha Field will close to the public at sunset. 

It will still be available to organisations booking facilities after sunset, but it will not count as open to the public. 

The Elisha Field will continue to open from 8am. 

The editor of the Parish Magazine has been asked to publish sunset times each month. 

The gates are locked and unlocked by volunteers. 

The gates may open early or close late depending on the volunteers hours, but the Parish Council will not guarantee that it will be open, between sunset and sunrise. 

If you are at the Elisha Field after sunset, and the volunteer wants to lock up please leave promptly and treat him or her politely and with respect. 

https://sunrisesunset.willyweather.co.uk/sw/wiltshire/market-lavington.html

Link Schemes are community-based, volunteer run charities based predominantly in Wiltshire which aim to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged, elderly or infirm people by providing transport and ‘good neighbour’ services.

Link schemes help to keep local communities connected to vital services, by connecting volunteer drivers (using their own cars), with passengers who have limited access to transport. Depending on volunteer availability, this can involve taking someone to a medical appointment, taking them shopping or providing ‘good neighbour’ services like prescription collection.

A donation is requested from passengers using Link volunteer cars to support the cost of running the service. Each Link scheme is run by a group of local volunteers managed by a local Link Co-ordinator. People wishing to use the service, simply call their local co-ordinator who will endeavour to arrange for a volunteer to carry out the task.

Due to Covid-19, the Link schemes have found themselves suffering from a high level of inactive volunteers because of age and/or vulnerability.

The Link schemes desperately new volunteers.

If you could spare time, or for more information contact 01380 722 241 or linkproject@communityfirst.org.uk

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