CIC TREE PLANTING & VILLAGE LUNCH
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A huge thank you to everyone who came to the Millennium Green on Saturday the 26th November to plant a tree, and made it such a great day. Well over a hundred villagers enjoyed some fantastic autumnal weather to plant a legacy with trees on the first day of National Tree week. Over 250 trees were planted on the Green, or taken away to plant in gardens or areas around the village. A great mix of trees from sweet chestnut, oaks, birch, ash, beach, holly, walnut, dogwood and hazel to a range of fruit trees from damson, plums, cherry, gages, apple and pear were available, and thank you to the Woodland Trust for the advice on trees. Village Power CIC decided on the trees to source which were funded by the Big Lottery Peoples Millions, and thanks also to Next for providing the T shirts. The Village Power CIC Team would also like to pass on our sincere thanks to Rosemary Gandy, for all her hard work sourcing and help organise plant such superb trees. A really great day!
Do look out in the New Year for a questionnaire from the CIC seeking views on what you would like to see as our future projects. Village Power CIC’s first project has been to provide solar panels for 3 community buildings and help enhance the local environment and capture carbon by planting trees. Saturday the 26th provided a great start to the tree planting and the solar project is now ready to get going with solar panels being fitted to St Andrew’s school, the Village Hall and the Sports Club, by Sunswitch at the beginning of December 2011. Sunswitch have been a fantastic company to work with during all the proposed changes to the Feed in Tariffs and we look forward to having the panels fitted in time for all the 3 buildings to be registered to benefit from the higher rate tarrif. (www.sunswitch.co.uk or call on 01908 442233) Village Power are also delighted that Greenability a local company (and many of you may know Simon Williams, Director, from functions around the village) are also willing to give customers in North Kilworth a 5% discount on solar panels and donate a referral fee to Village Power CIC to invest in future village projects. For more information on greenability products www.greenability.co.uk or call free 0808 1087575
CHARITY BONFIRE & FIREWORKS in NORTH KILWORTH A magnificent £1777.06 was raised plus a further donation of £250 from Refurbishment Ltd. All of the proceeds were sent to LOROS following a fantastic evening. Thanks to everyone involved for all the hard work and ‘fingers crossed’ it becomes a regular village event.