Calne Connection - Issue 79

Issue 79 - Summer 2021

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LATEST NEWS ‘DON’T BREAK THE TOYS’ ARTWORK UNVEILED Local resident, Olivia, aged 7, met with Calne’s Town Mayor to unveil new artwork to discourage visitors from damaging play equipment in Calne.

Olivia designed the artwork after visiting the play area at Calne Recreation Ground to find that someone had damaged pieces of the equipment. The artwork has been printed and displayed at all of the town council’s play areas and will feature as part of a local campaign to reduce damage to the equipment.

TOWN MAYOR’S UPDATE I am privileged to become your Mayor as we emerge from the darkest part of the pandemic in the UK. My thoughts go out to less fortunate parts of the world.

I am humbled by the community spirit and sacrifices that so many volunteers have made and continue to make every day in Calne. I never want to move away from this wonderful and special town.

Calne is known for our community events that every year exceed expectations and which are built on the efforts of so many people in this town. I want to be able to support more of these to bring more sunshine in to our lives over the coming year.

I have chosen to support two charities over my Mayoral term which are very close to my heart and I know bring great benefit to the community.

My first chosen charity is Sands.

Sands is the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK. Website: www.sands.org.uk Facebook: @sandscharity Email: info@sands.org.uk

My wife and I were lucky to have the support of this charity when we lost our first son Harry in 2010. We will forever be grateful to them for the support they gave, the research they provide, and the support they continue to give to brave families.

My second chosen charity is the Calne Community Area Dementia Friends who do such fantastic work to help those living with dementia to live well.

To launch my charitable efforts, I am setting a goal to travel the equivalent land distance on my exercise bike that links us to our twin towns Caln Township (PA), Charlieu (Loire) and Enigen unter Achalm.

Calne Town Mayor, Cllr Rich Jones, said “Olivia is a great example of why we’re all so proud to live in Calne. She took it upon herself to encourage others not to break equipment at the play areas by designing a lovely poster, which we have produced into permanent signage to remind visitors.

“It was a pleasure to present Olivia with a framed image of her artwork and a goody bag for all of her hard work.”

We urge anyone who notices damage to any of the play equipment to contact us by calling 01249 814000 or by email to calne@calne.gov.uk.

Follow the Calne Town Mayor and Deputy Mayor Facebook page for the latest news and updates.

Rich

Cllr Rich Jones #ProudOfCalne

Calne Community Area Dementia Friends focuses on improving inclusion and quality of life for people with dementia.

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LATEST NEWS

COMMUNITY FOCUS

COMMUNITY DEFIBRILLATORS In March, members of Calne Town Council resolved to purchase five new life-saving defibrillators, to be fitted for community use around the town.

NEW LOG CIRCLE SEATING AREA AND BUG HOTELS Residents and volunteers from River Warriors Calne, Calne Clean Up Crew and Friends of the Marden Valley dedicated their time recently to create a Log Circle Seating Area and Bug Hotels along the Abberd Brook.

A defibrillator is a device used to give an electric shock to help restart a patient’s heart when they are in cardiac arrest.

Defibrillators are easy and safe to use by anyone with little or no training. The device talks and displays what you need to do.* The five defibrillators have now been ordered with South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

All of the logs used came from trees that were recently cut down in the area. Unfortunately, due to some vandalism soon after it was constructed, the area required some repairs from the volunteers which have now been completed.

The volunteers created the area for the benefit of residents to sit and enjoy the wildlife. Please respect the area and the natural habitats for the local wildlife.

If you would like to help volunteer with one of our local eco groups, visit their Facebook pages for more information. @RiverWarriorsCalne @CleanUpCalne @FriendsOfTheMardenValley

We are currently awaiting the signed agreements to fix the units to the third party properties.

Once these are received the fitting can take place.

The total cost of the project is £7000 and is being match funded by Calne Town Council and Wiltshire Council’s Calne Area Board. *Content from South Western Ambulance Service.

YOUTH OUTREACH Calne Town Council and Calne Area Board have jointly funded a detached youth outreach scheme with The Rise Trust since 2019.

This has proved very successful and was able to operate throughout the COVID-19 pandemic offering support, advice and signposting to young people across the town.

In June, members agreed to extend the detached youth outreach sessions for the upcoming year and a weekly Safe Youth Space on a Friday evening at Calne Town Hall, until March 2022.

Search for The RISE Trust Youth Team on Facebook for more information on their next outreach sessions in the town.

To attend the Safe Youth Space, contact 07715 681950 or email danielleb@therisetrust.org.

LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL PLAY AREA ENHANCEMENTS Our Grounds Team work incredibly hard to ensure all of our facilities and green spaces are kept to a great standard. To improve the facilities, our play areas have received a number of enhancements over the past few weeks.

At North End Play Area, this includes a major repair of the Zip Line, general replacements and repairs and a fresh new batch of chippings around the play equipment.

Additionally, we installed a new Swing Unit at Stokes Croft Play Area.

Future improvements include the Fynamore Gardens Play Area, which is owned and maintained by Wiltshire Council, who no longer provide maintenance. To ensure the area is fit for community use

again, Calne Town Council are allocating £3835 of S106 funding to the Fynamore Gardens Play Area.

This will include a brand new swing unit for the area.

NEW RECREATION GROUND TENNIS COURTS NETTING To help improve your next visit, new netting has been fitted by our Grounds Team at the Recreation Ground Tennis Courts.

The Tennis Courts are free and open for the entire community, so bring along your rackets and enjoy playing with your friends and family!

To report damages or issues with any of our play areas and green spaces, please contact 01249 814000 or email calne@calne.gov.uk.

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ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21

CALNE CCTV

Welcome to a summary of Calne Town Council’s Annual Report for 2020/21. This report gives information about the town council, the money it spends and the activities it carries out.

The team of twenty-seven dedicated volunteers staff the Control Room at peak times throughout the week.

Despite COVID-19 restrictions, the volunteers have amassed 1161 hours since April 2020, this is an average of 165 hours per month over the seven months that the operations room could be manned.

To read the report in full, visit our website www.calne.gov.uk.

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

ADMINISTRATION COUNCILLORS Calne has nineteen Town Councillors who are elected for a term of four years; the last elections were held in May 2021.

INCOME

2020-2021

INCOME 2020-2021 6% Services to the Public £105,501 11% Democratic and Central £215,535 71% Precept £1,309,754 7% Beversbrook £128,916 5% Comm. Infrastructure Levy £88,604

Total Income: £1,848,310

Councillors are responsible for making key policy decisions and deciding on the town council’s spending plans and budget for the financial year ahead.

TOWN COUNCIL STAFF The town council employs 20 full-time and 9 part-time staff alongside a team of CCTV volunteers and casual bar staff for private events.

EXPENDITURE 2020-2021

EXPENDITURE 2020-2021 11% Services to the Public £167,917 5% Buildings £67,785 15% Parks and Open Spaces £228,944 24% Beversbrook £382,715 6% Capital £95,009 34% Service Support Costs £515,036 4% Loans etc £65,386

Total Expenditure: £1,522,792

GRANTS AND AWARDS Grants and donations (including free use of Town Hall rooms) are awarded by the town council’s previous Policy and Resources Committee (now Town and Community Matters Committee).

strict guidelines and criteria.

In 2020-21, Calne Town Council awarded £29,601.29 of grants.

Awards to community groups and other non-profit organisations are required to meet the town council’s

Of which £957.50 was awarded for free use of the Town Hall, £18,143.79 was awarded as part of general grants and £10,500 from other budgets.

GRANTS AND DONATIONS LIST 20/21 Wiltshire Citizens Advice

£2,000

Calne Heritage Centre Trust

£6,000

Calne Twinning Association

£2,500

Sustainable Calne

£438.15

Wiltshire Sight

£815

CARP £744.11 Calne and District Comm. Link

£927.23

Calne Pop-Up Pocket Park

£1008

Jack and Jill Comm. Pre-School

£500

Calne Health & Wellbeing Group £512 Calne In Tune

BEVERSBROOK SPORTS FACILITY The state of the art Sports and Community Facility is run by Calne Town Council and is a hub for the community.

Set in 94 acres of beautiful surroundings, it has a wide choice of indoor and outdoor sports and community facilities.

A new under-8s play area was opened at the facility. In addition, Calne Archery Club was successful in grant funding from The Hills Group to create a new accessible pathway to the archery range.

Beversbrook welcomes thousands of people a year for a variety of sporting and community activities.

£7,850

Calne Health & Wellbeing Group £189 Calne Comm. Fairtrade Group

£361.80

Avon Needs Trees

£5,176

Calne Bowls Club

£580

Awarded from April 2020 to March 2021

READ THE 2020/21 ANNUAL REPORT IN FULL ON OUR WEBSITE www.calne.gov.uk

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LATEST NEWS

BEVERSBROOK AWARDED GRANT FUNDING

COMMUNITY TREE OF THE YEAR COMPETITION Calne in Bloom are soon to launch a brand new Tree of the Year competition.

We are pleased to announce that Calne Town Council have received grant funding from the Football Foundation and The Hills Group Limited to enable us to purchase a replacement tractor.

The competition will be open to all residents and they would nominate their ‘Tree of the Year’ in Calne, to encourage time outdoors and among the local environment.

Keep an eye on the Calne in Bloom Facebook page for the latest updates.

CALNE RECREATION GROUND Calne Town Council submitted formal plans to Wiltshire Council in March to relocate the rugby pitch from the Recreation Ground, to the adjacent Potter’s Field.

This equipment will help with the grass pitch maintenance programme at Beversbrook Sports and Community Facility. All grounds maintenance is carried out by our highly trained Grounds Team.

The current tractor was purchased by the town council in 2009 and is fast approaching the equipment’s life span.

The tractor enables the Grounds Team to carry out all maintenance that is required to ensure that the grass football pitches are maintained to the requirements and standards from The Grounds Manager Association and the Football Foundation.

Without the tractor, the grounds staff cannot perform their tasks and the grass football pitches will not be available for the club members or any other users within Calne and surrounding areas.

The move, if approved, is the part of the town council’s firstphase plans to redevelop the site, with the aim of returning the Recreation Ground site to its’ designated Pleasure Ground use.

A decision on this application is due from Wiltshire Council soon.

A further planning application has recently been approved

by Wiltshire Council by the Calne Recreation Club, which includes construction of new changing rooms, public toilets and a refreshments kiosk, to be operated by the town council.

CALLING ALL ABBERD WARD RESIDENTS Wiltshire Council’s Local Area Coordinator for Calne is inviting residents in the Abberd Ward to take part in a five minute survey on activities in the area.

The information you provide will enable Healthier Communities Wiltshire to provide the activities for the Healthier Communities project that you would like in your estate.

To complete the survey, please visit bit.ly/AbberdSurvey.

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COMMUNITY FOCUS

COMMUNITY NEWS

Save the date for a week of festivity with the Calne Music and Arts Festival, sponsored by Chilvester Financial. Here’s just a taster of what’s on offer between 1-9 October!

SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER A FREE family day at Marden House from 10am until 4pm featuring The Dome - an immersive theatre experience; music, craft, art workshops throughout the day with a troupe of traditional Japanese Taiko drummers playing in the garden at 2pm.

The Open Art Exhibition will be on display and the cafe will be serving family friendly snacks and lunches. The evening gala concert by the Shelburne Ensemble will feature a programme of music with a French theme.

SCHOOLS ART COMPETITION Calne Music and Arts Festival’s new art competition has launched, which is asking local students aged 4-14 to create an artwork inspired by their local hero during the pandemic.

Entries can be submitted to art@ cmaf.org.uk by 5pm on 12 July.

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER ‘Opera Anywhere’ from Oxford will return to Marden House to perform ‘The Mikado’.

WEEKDAYS Lunchtime and evening concerts - folk, jazz, classical recitals, a concert by local music students, talks, choral, poetry and a return of the Bonfire Radicals.

Full details of all performances and the Open Art Exhibition can be found on the Festival website www.cmaf.org.uk.

COMMUNITY NEWS

DISCOVER CALNE TRAIL

FACE MASKS DONATION We would like to thank local company, Urathon, for their kind donation of 10,000 face masks which will be distributed among local community groups and charities in Calne.

A new Discover Calne Trail has been launched by Calne Pop-up Pocket Park and Calne Heritage Centre. The trail will take you on a journey through history and arts heritage of our town.

If your local group requires face masks, please contact Kim Street, Community and Business Support Officer via kstreet@calne.gov.uk.

SUSTAINABLE CALNE VOLUNTEERING NEWSLETTERS Sustainable Calne have launched a free newsletter featuring the latest volunteering opportunities in Calne.

To register for the newsletter, visit www.sustainablecalne.org.uk/ registerscvor.html.

Starting and finishing at the Pocket Park, the trail lasts approximately 1.5 hours and the map locates seating and wheelchair access.

Pick up a free trail leaflet from the Calne Pop-up Pocket Park, or visit www.calneheritage.co.uk.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors

Would you like to help maintain the Town Gardens? Join Colour for Calne on Tuesday mornings 10am to 12pm. Please call Rosemary on 07803 900148 or CTC on 01249 814000.

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Create your special day

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NEW Intimate Package  One Room for Three Hours  Up to 30 People  30 Chair Covers  One Tablecloth £200 Mon-Fri £250 Sat Available for weddings held until 1 April 2022

at Calne Town Hall & Beversbrook SPECIAL WEDDINGS OFFER 20% OFF Wedding Packages for all bookings made by 1 Sept 2021.

Terms and Conditions Apply. Contact us for more information.

COVID-19 SECURE

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Visit calne.gov.uk/weddings for more information, or to arrange a viewing contact 01249 814000 or email calne@calne.gov.uk

Our venues are E VENUE UR following all government guidance

COMMUNITY FOCUS CALNE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT Calne Community Transport is a charity which runs a variety of vehicles aimed at ensuring accessibility for all.

The volunteers provide services to charities, community groups and individuals within Calne and the surrounding area.

Wheelchair Accessible Car, 17-Seater Luxury Minibus and NEW 7-Seater Luxury Minibus.

Contact CCT if you would be interested in getting a quote or making a booking.

T: 07493 055788 E: calnecommunitytransport@ mail.com

The range of vehicles can be booked for regular journeys or for one off events which require special transportation arrangements.

The fleet includes a 13-Seater Minibus with Wheelchair Access,

COMMUNITY NEWS CALNE HERITAGE CENTRE HAS REOPENED Calne Heritage Centre has now reopened to the public. The centre will be open Wednesday to Saturday, between 10am and 4pm.

To keep visitors and the volunteers safe, a range of measures are in place during your visit.

Visit www.calneheritage.co.uk for more information.

CALNE FAIRTRADE SIGNAGE The Calne Community Fairtrade Group were awarded a grant from Calne Town Council to purchase two signs stating ‘A Fairtrade Town’.

Stan Woods, Chairman said “The Calne Fairtrade Group are pleased to announce that ‘Fairtrade Town’ signs have been installed on the Calne Town Garden Signs at each end of the Town, and that they are very grateful to Calne Town Council for funding their manufacture and installation.”

You can find out more at www.calnefairtrade.org.uk.

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UPCOMING MEETINGS Mon 21

Committee meetings licy Wed 7, 28 Governance, Po are now held in person & Resources Planning, Lice nsing & at Calne Town Hall.

Highways Con Mon 28 sultative Committee Council Members of the public Full Mon 19 and press are welcome Town and Com munity to attend. Please Matters Com mittee register your attendance by emailing Mon 26 Full Council calne@calne.gov.uk. Committee meeting agenda and minutes are available online at www.calne.gov.uk.

Wed 8, 29 Planning, Licensing & Highways Consultative Committee Mon 27 Full Council

Wed 18 Planning, Licensing & Highways Consultative Committee

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NORTH WARD Town Mayor Cllr Rich Jones cllrjones@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Glenis Ansell 01249 816164 or 07801 270299 cllransell@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Tom Rounds* 01249 812464 or 07771 760300 cllrrounds@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Jon Fisher 07557 374550 cllrrsher@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Mark Mewett 01249 818835 cllrmewett@cllr.calne.gov.uk

CHILVESTER & ABBERD WARD Deputy Town Mayor Cllr Robert Merrick 07932 357733 cllrmerrick@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Tim Havenith cllrhavenith@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Tony Trotman* 01249 816062 or 07816 830873 cllrtrotman@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Heather Canfer 01249 822249 or 07515 810915 cllrcanfer@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Steve Boone cllrboone@cll cllrboone@cllr.calne.gov.uk

CENTRAL WARD Cllr Howard Marshall 07464 699113 cllrmarshall@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Ian Thorn* 01249 816351 cllrthorn@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Brent Slater cllrslater@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Rob MacNaughton 07767 071724 cllrmacnaughton@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Terry Couchman 07910 173336 cll cllrcouchman@cllr.calne.gov.uk

SOUTH WARD Cllr Samuel Pearce-Kearney*

01249 549500 or 07480 048500

cllrpearce-kearney@cllr.calne.gov.uk

Cllr Alan Hill 01249 821855 cllrhill@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr David Conway 07973 182646 cllrconway@cllr.calne.gov.uk Cllr Declan Boore 07908 606618 cllrboore@cllr.calne.gov.uk

* These councillors also serve on Wiltshire Council