Alfreton & Villages edition - April 2014

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Ta da! Here it is, the new look magazine. We have some new features and some of the old favourites but as always, if there is anything else that you would like to see, don’t hesitate to contact any of us. Just make sure you leave us a contact number, as we’ve had a couple of instances where people have called about putting events in ‘things to do’ and not left contact details for us to get back in touch to verify those details but we love to help promote local events, so please just make sure that you speak to one of us, we don’t bite!!

We are now going to 12,000 homes in total and our little team couldn’t be more excited as we have plenty more plans going forward. By the time this lands on your doorstep, we will have a new improved website as well and our facebook and twitter name should have changed too (although if it hasn’t fully transferred...excuse the teething problems!!)

To top all this off, we have some amazing offers, competitions and new advertisers to help us with this new look, so I strongly advise you to read it from cover to cover this month, as you don’t want to miss anything from first aid training to a wildlife course, from work wear safety supplies to a competition where you can win a 5 in 1 micro dermabrasion.

So, now the re-brand is virtually complete, what will I do with my time? Answers on a postcard….. ;-) Emily x

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Things To Do Damn Yankees ! from the Ripley & Green Gables Alfreton Musical Theatre Company Events The home run musical with a seductive twist! Tickets Alfreton Grange Arts Spring Fayre are on sale online at College at 7.15pm. A Free 26th April - 10am until 4pm at www.ramtc.org or ring the Easter Egg for children Riddings Communty Centre.

Box Of:ice: 01773 745082. seeing the show on Cost is ÂŁ10 per table 14th - 19th April 2014 at Friday 18th April.

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Things To Do Alfreton & District Ramblers Club

made welcome. For more info Alfreton Park call Terry on 07891 517057 Community We walk on alternate Sundays or Dave 07543 100655.

Special School and meet in the car park near Upcoming walks: Events Alfreton Library at 9:30am.

13th Apr - Ashover, 8m Bring a drink and packed 27th Apr– Longstone Edge8/9m Welly Walkies lunch. Suitable footwear and 11th May– Grindleford Area, 8m 13th April - 10am. Meet at Teversal clothing required. New faces Thurs 3rd Apr- Baslow, 5/6m Visitor Centre. Walk the Silverhill Wood Trail with your family & dog.

Adults £5, Children & dogs are Sunday 6th April at Table Top & Craft Fair FREE!

Riddings Park Whether you have Community Centre something to sell or are To book a table (cost £5) looking to buy, or for more info on times this is the event and other details, call Pat for you! on 01773 541794.

Car Boots 6th April & 4th May - 8am until 12pm. Cost is £5 per boot & 20p to browse. Call Margaret on 07518 025622 or Toyah on 01773 832019 to book.

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No job too small

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This 7 week course, run by popular tutor Debbie Alston will initially be based at Alfreton Adult Community Centre, Church Street, Alfreton DE55 7BD and will look at wildlife in May & June and includes a night bat watch and local -ield visits. The cost is ÂŁ49 or ÂŁ44.10 discounted and Free to those on certain means tested bene-its.

Contact Denise Glover on 0115 938 4025 for further information or enrol online at https://enrolonline.wea.org.uk/online.

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Book Review - Longbourn by Jo Baker Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is part of Longbourn is just as much a love story as our culture...there have been >ilms, TV, Austen’s original and it’s beautifully written. adaptations, even Bridget Jones with her The characters are real; but the steps down hero/husband Darcy. We think we know the servants’ staircase lead to a different the world of upper class England in the 19th world. century. Country walks, country gentlemen, It’s grittier – the Bennet sisters’ need for new bonnets and ladies who played the piano adornments for their shoes turns into a and sang. trudge through miles of rain and mud for But now Jo Baker’s Longbourn gives you the Sarah. The Bennets’ afternoon tea and walks story from the perspective of the servants – down country lanes are replaced by blistered as housemaid Sarah describes: “If Elizabeth hands, cold beds, the drudgery of the weekly Bennet had the washing of her own wash. And even in an enlightened household, petticoats, she would be more careful not to as a servant your time and your destiny tramp through muddy >ields.' always belonged to someone else.

While the Bennets are living Pride and One of the real joys is that as Baker’s story Prejudice upstairs at Longbourn, downstairs unfolds she reminds you what is happening gives us overworked servants and different to the Bennets. When Lydia elopes with the kinds of love and sex, war and politics – the scoundrel Wickham; the repercussions echo bits that Jane Austen, for all her sharp down the back stairs. observation of time and place, leaves out.

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“Along comes the sun and dries up all the rain”, well not quite but we’re getting there. So it’s time for us and our incy wincy doggy friends to go out for walks again. We’re off the Wessington this months for a varied walk with some lovely views. Hope you enjoy it. If so why not let us know...

4 mile circular walk from Wessington A moderate and varied walk for you and your dog. The route should take around 2 hours. The route has a number of inclines inclines and the terrain is still mixed at this time of the year with uneven sections so a good pair of boots or wellies as always is highly recommended.

1. Begin the walk on Back Lane in Wessington. Facing east, with your back to the centre of Wessington take a footpath sign to follow wide gravel track. As this track bends right take a smaller path on your left. When this path forks take the wider path on the right.

2. At the A615 cross and turn left and walk for about 70 meters, turn left just past the bus stop to join a path through the nature area. Follow this across the nature area to meet another path that takes you up past the grass pitch to join Slack Lane.

3. Turn Left and follow Slack Lane for a little under 400 meters then take a signposted footpath on your left. Head diagonally across the :ield. Cross the stile and turn right following the path up the side of the next :ield.

4. Continue into the wooded area. Turn right at the fork in the path and follow it across a footbridge as it brings you out into a :ield. r Keep ahead and at the end of the :ield turn a d e r e R right to join a farm track. e O ff 5. Follow the track for a little over 300 meters.

As you approach the farm building, after passing through over a 2nd cattle grid cut across a :ield, heading for the tree, then bear left towards a gate. Cut diagonally right across the next :ield to pass through a gap in the hedge and continue along the path diagonally left across the :ield towards the corner.

6. Cross a stile and turn right along the path into with every purchase of Lindway Springs. Follow the path as it takes you Millers Complete Dog Food up and to the right through the wood and past a with this coupon farm building picking up the farm track that brings you to Lindway Lane.

7. Turn left onto the lane and follow it for a little over 300 meters as it bends around to the right. Continue and as you pass some houses on your left take a footpath sign on your right through the hedge.

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8. Cross the field to join the wide track and continue ahead for 100 meters before taking a signposted path on your right. Continue past a house and around to the left before turning right to follow the footpath marked stiles, heading for the corner of the field to pass through a gap in the hedge. Continue diagonally right across the next field, again heading for a gap in the corner.

Continue up the side of the next field, with the hedge on your right.

9. At the end of the field join the A615 and cross the road to use the wider verge. Turn right to continue past the pub. At the entrance to the pub car park cross the road and take a footpath sign. Follow this path diagonally left across the field, passing through a gap in the hedge.

Continue diagonally left across the next field, heading for the corner, before crossing the next field diagonally again.

10. At the corner cross the fence before crossing the road and taking the signposted path ahead.

Follow this path until it brings you out onto The Green. Turn right and follow the road before taking the second road on your left (Millers Lane). As you reach a triangular grassy are on your right, before a house turn right to cross a stile.

11. Turn left and follow the side of the field before taking a stile on your left. Head straight across the next field heading for a tree inside the field. Then pass through a gap into the next field.

Carry on ahead, heading for a stile on the right.

12. Cross Winny Brook and into the next field then follow the path up the side of the field with the hedge on your right. Cross a wide track and continue ahead, diagonally right across the next field to reach a stile back onto Back Lane, where you began This walk is for illustrative purposes only. The Amber Valley Voice takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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Out and About A daily guide to some of the local clubs and groups in your area Monday Wednesday Baby Massage The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, DE55 2AA - 2pm - 3pm.

Ages birth - 4 months.

Contact the children’s centre on 01629 533735 for information on the next course.

Alfreton Jog Club (for those that can run for at least 30mins at a steady pace) - meet at 7:10pm at Alfreton Leisure Centre. Contact Anne or Amy at alfretonjogclub@gmail.com.

Crafty Crew - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA - 1.30pm - 3pm .

Contact - 01629 533066.

Alfreton Singers - Swanwick School & Sports College (formerly The Delves) 7.15 -9pm. Mixed choir

Tuesday Alfreton WI Meet every 4th Tuesday at Firs Community Centre, Firs Gardens, High Street, Alfreton DE55 7HH at 7:30pm. Contact Linda Singleton 01773 520243.

of friendly singers. All styles of music. Contact Claire on 01773 835316 for more info.

Alfreton Town Juniors U14’s - 7-8pm at Somerlea Park astro pitch, call Ben on 07972 927236 for more info.

Thursday

Contact 01629 533066

Top Tots

Breastfeeding Group

01629 533066

Alfreton Society of Painters - 7pm- 9pm at Pennytown Court Community Rooms.

Visit www.alfretonsociety ofpainters.com for more info.

South Wing ield Youth Alfreton Children’s The Hub, Shiners Way, Club - Fun & activities for Centre, Grange Street, SouthvNormanton, kids aged 6-14 at South Alfreton, DE55 7JA. DE55 2AA. 1.30pm - Wing8ield Social Club, 43 High Road, South 1.30pm - 3pm. Fun 3pm. Make new Wing8ield. DE55 7LX from play session with arts, friends, share tips and 7pm - 8:30pm. Contact Little Ones Group crafts and song time discuss any issues you Alfreton Children’s Centre, Michael Hobson on 07545 aimed at children ages may have. Contact - for more Grange Street, Alfreton, 938994 1-3 years. Contact - 01629 533735.

DE55 7JA - 1.30pm to 3pm. information.

Wednesday Alfreton Nursery School 9.30am - 11am (term time and Children’s Centre, only) Supports mums, Parent & Toddler Drop dads and carers to create in - Alfreton Nursery the best start for their School, Grange Street, children by making the Alfreton, DE55 7JA - Term most of everyday learning. time - 9am - 10am - Con- Contact 01629 533066 tact Angela Stanton : In-betweenies 01773 520031 Alfreton Children’s Centre, Amber Valley Chess Club Grange Street, Alfreton, Meets once a month at the DE55 7JA - 1.30 - 3pm.

Community Rooms, Parks Group for children with Avenue, South Wingfield. mums, dads and carers up Call Paul on 01773 833007 to the age of 25. Contact - for dates & times.

01629 533066.

Everyone welcome, Free to AVRUFC Senior Section non team players Training during close Watchorn Tots Parent season takes place at and Toddler Group Amber Valley RUFC, Lower Watchorn Church, Derby Somercotes (opposite Pye Road, Alfreton. Term time - Bridge Ind Est.) starts at 10am - 11.30am Contact 7pm - 8.30. Contact Stuart Judith - 01773 526012 Artliff 07966 867946 or PEEP 2/3’s - Alfreton Gareth Pilkington 07772 Children’s Centre, Grange 366157.

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Weighing Clinic Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 1pm - 2.30pm. Come and have your baby weighed and see someone from the health team. Contact - 01629 533066

Alfreton & District U3A - Meet every second Thursday of each month at Christ Cypress Parent the King Church Hall, Support Group The Hub, Shiners Way, Nottingham Road, Alfreton at 2pm.

South Normanton, Contact David DE55 2AA. 10am - Thomson on 01773 11.30am. (3rd 602147.

Thursday of every month) A support Alfreton Male Voice group for parents and Choir Rehearsals carers of children and 6:45pm at Palmer young people with Morewood Social additional need and/ Club, Hall Street. New or Disabilities. Contact members welcome-no - 01629 533735. audition, just a love of singing.

Friday Alfreton Nursery School and Children’s Centre, Parent & Toddler Drop in Session. Alfreton Nursery School, Grange Street, Alfreton., DE55 7JA - Term time -1.30pm - 2.30pm. Contact Angela Stanton 01773 520031 Childminding Network Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA.

9.30am - 11.30am. A chance for local childminder’s to meet.

Contact - 01629 533066 Tiddlers and Toddlers Group - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 12.30pm - 2.30pm.

Run by parents and open to all. Contact - 01629 533066

Saturday A.D.A.S.C Football Club - various training sessions for 5 - 16 year olds. Availability for 5 year olds to start training next season and 6 & 7 years olds required for the summer league. Contact Barry on 01773 836017

Sunday Greenwood Archery Meet at Swanwick Pentrich Road Football Club on High8ield Road at 10am. Call Simone on 01773 602605 for more details.

Amber Valley Junior Rugby - Coaching for kids from 4yrs to 16yrs at Lower Somercotes (opposite Pye Bridge Ind Est). Sundays 10am. Contact Stuart 07966

867946 or Gareth 07595 520537.

Alfreton Heritage Trust The Heritage Chapel on Rodgers Lane is open between 2 & 4pm. Visitors are welcome to browse & test the knowledge of Trust members. Contact Rachel Walker on 01773 832349 or visit www.alfretonheritage.org.uk

Other Guiding offers opportunities in the following sections: Rainbows age 5-7yrs Brownies aged 7-10yrs Guides aged 10-14yrs Adult Leaders 18yrs + Senior Section aged 14-25yrs If you or your daughter would like to know more about Joining visit www.girlguiding.org.uk/interested or call 0800 1 69 59 01

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR NON-PROFIT MAKING GROUP IN FUTURE EDITIONS, PLEASE E-MAIL carla@ambervalleyvoice.co.uk Please note that some of the groups listed incur a small charge and we would always recommend that you contact a group prior to attendance.

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Derbyshire Police Update Since our last update there have been a few changes to the of icers on some of our Safer Neighbourhood policing teams.

PCSO Simon Childs has recently left the Alfreton Town Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team, which now includes PC Sharon Evans, PCSO Tracey Barks, PCSO Chris Hart and PCSO Paul Hubber.

The Alfreton Rural Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team cover the Oakerthorpe and South Wing ield areas. PCSO Donna Walker has recently moved on from the team but has been replaced by PCSO Marion Jeffery.

Before becoming a PCSO, Marion worked for Derbyshire County Council’s Youth Services on the mobile unit and also at The Polygon in Alfreton.

There are no changes to the team which covers the Higham and Wessington area, which includes PC Sarah Dolby, PC Dave Price, PCSO Gary Green and PCSO Laura McLuckie.

Marion has been a Police Community Support Of icer for just We would like to wish both Simon and Tracey the very best of luck over a year covering the South and wish them well in their new Normanton and Pinxton area. roles.

You can ind out more information about your local team by visiting the Derbyshire police website: www.derbyshire.police.uk If you have any concerns, or would like to contact the team call 101, For the Alfreton, Oakerthorpe and South Wing ield areas you can also email alfreton.neighbourhoods@derbyshire.pnn.police.uk Or for Higham and Wessington email: claycross.neighbourhoods@derbyshire.pnn.police.uk

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Alfreton Party in the Park Sponsored Walk Now in it's third year, the annual Alfreton Party in the Park eight-mile sponsored walk is once again calling on all walkers and ramblers to help raise funds this year on Sunday, April 13th.

The destination for the charity event is Oakerthorpes Amber Hotel, where the arrivals will be rewarded with a barbecue and live music from 'Redwood Acoustic'

Alfreton on Sunday 13th April at 11am, then through the grounds of St The walkers will be guided by stewards through the quiet, secluded, Martins church and adjacent 3ields, countryside of the Northern section of onto Bracken3ield and through Amber Valley and will include areas of Wessington and South Wing3ield, well-known local history, some dating where it follows in line with the Derby to Shef3ield rail line into Oakerthorpe. back to Roman times.

There are refreshments stops at Planned to raise funds for this year’s various country pubs along the way Party in the Park annual event, walkers can opt to raise money for Sponsorship forms are available from their own charity causes too, or Blueys Bar and the Waggon & Horses simply make a donation of £5 if they pubs in Alfreton or more details contact John on 07933 113873 or Rob can’t take part in the walk. on 07989 668957.

The walk starts at the J.D Wetherspoons Waggon & Horse pub in For details on how to book a stall at this year’s Party in the Park, for charity, trade, exhibition or organisation; contact the Party in the Park team through their Facebook page, or see their webpage http://alfretonpartyinthepark.btck.co.uk/

Gardeners Calendar - April 2014 Plant summer :lowering bulbs such as lilies and anemones; Make sure there’s adequate drainage – crock pots, gravel or vermiculite mixed with compost so they don’t rot if we get a really wet Spring – not that we will, of course...

Pot up any cuttings taken from last year’s plants and overwintered in the greenhouse. Keep taking cuttings as they grow – there’s still time for them to be ready to >lower this summer.

Rose pruning time. If you’ve got roses which repeat :lower during the summer shorten last year’s growth by a third. With shrub roses you can take older stems back to the base if they’re looking congested. This is the time to treat them to some rose fertilizer and a nice bit of muck around the roots.

Top tip. This is bonanza time for slugs – all those sweet little shoots appearing out of the ground. If you don’t want to use pellets because they’re not eco friendly, try crumpled eggshells or coffee grounds. Or encourage frogs into your garden pond by creating shady cool areas of the pond with leaves for them to hide under. Frogs love slugs.

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Carla’s Kitchen Bite Sized Belly of Pork with Crackling Ingredients (approx. 16 portions) 1.2kg of pork belly (in one piece) Sea salt and ground black pepper Handful of thyme sprigs 4 cloves of garlic (unpeeled), halved horizontally Olive oil, to drizzle Splash of white wine

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Heat the oven to 160 C/Gas 3.

Score the skin with a sharp knife and rub all over with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Scatter the garlic and thyme on a lightly oiled roasting tray.

Lay the pork on top, fat side up. Trickle with a little more olive oil and sprinkle with a little more sea salt. Add a splash of white wine, cover the tray with foil and roast for 3 hours, basting every 45 minutes with the pan juices.

Transfer the pork to a clean roasting tray, cover with foil and use several cook books or something heavy to place on top and weigh down to 8latten the pork. Once cool, wrap in cling 8ilm and leave in the fridge for several hours or overnight.

Half an hour before serving, heat the oven to the highest setting, around 240 C/Gas 9. Cut the pressed pork into individual portions and place on a roasting tray, fat side up.

Rub the tops with olive oil and sprinkle generously with sea salt. Roast for 15 minutes until the skin is golden brown and crisp. Rest the pork for 5 minutes before serving.

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Growth Accelerator programme. With three approved Business Coaches within the team, To :ind out more about either Growth they continue to provide bespoke coaching in Accelerator or the Growth Voucher Project areas of Business Development, Innovation & contact James Boler on 01623 334034 or Access to Finance. With the cost of the james.boler@smithcraven.co.uk coaching to clients being signi:icantly subsidised by The Department of Business Innovation & Skills, they are attracting businesses across all sectors and differing in size to work with via this programme. Many local businesses have also bene:itted signi:icantly from the Leadership & Management Training Grants that are available to individuals, once the business engages in the Growth Accelerator programme.

Smith Craven advocate that the client is the centre of all they do and therefore they make it their business to know what help is available within the marketplace to bene:it their clients. By obtaining the approval to provide assistance to businesses via the Growth Voucher Project, they can offer clients and none clients alike, strategic advice in relation to both Financial and Leadership and Management matters, at a reduced cost.

Do you have question that you would like answered? If so e-mail james.boler@smithcraven.co.uk

The Arts Complex is ready to celebrate the beginning of Summer, both in and out of doors.

display their work here and every two weeks one of them is given a special focus in the main exhibition room. At the beginning of April Chas.

Wilby, a landscape painter is featured.

LEABROOKS His life has been enriched by his love of art and G A L L E R Y painting but he spent many years as a miner. At Home Furnishings the age of twelve he was given a box camera and & Interiors used it in his explorations of the countryside; LEABROOKS HOUSE, 36 today, retired and in his In the Interiors LEABROOKS RD, SOMERCOTES, seventies, he continues DE55 4HB section of the the same pursuit: Complex there recording images on >ilm is a variety of new items with which to treat and in paint. The result is yourself or your loved ones. If you would like to a collection of beautiful freshen up your environment or inject a sense of landscapes which convey fun into your surroundings then you could >ind both his skill and sincerity as an artist. help here! Equally, there is a great deal to attract you in the Jewellery and Card area in the There are treats all around - and don’t forget the Coffee Shop. Throughout you will >ind appealing Networking Artists Coffee Club on the 5th April, and affordable pieces which will justify your Coffee Club Plus, for a sociable outing, on the 19th April, (both from 11am until 1pm), and the indulgence in some serious retail therapy!

If you’re looking for a special gift you might like Art Tea, for singletons, on the 26th April, (from to buy a painting: a number of popular artists 2pm until 4pm).

Tel: 01773 602961 | e: carol-barton-jones@lineone.net | www.leabrooks-interiors.com

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Accountant Smith Craven

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Alternative Therapies Breath of Life Clinic KLM Reflexologist

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Auctioneer Kleeford Coin Auctions

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Builder R.H. Building services

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Cleaning Services Clean Away

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Pet Care & Supplies Dog walking & Boarding business for sale 14 Seals Fodder Room 16/17

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