Parish Council elections are to take place on the 2nd May 2024 – could you make a difference? The role of a Parish Councillor doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming. The Council meet monthly and you have the option to focus on a special interest of your choice such as road safety initiatives or community projects.
The main objective of a Parish Councillor is to represent and help support positive change for your community.
For further information or just a friendly chat about the role – please contact The Clerk by email clerk@miserdenparishcouncil.gov.ukmiserdenparishcouncil.gov.uk
A celebration of snowdrops will mark the Museum in the Park’s reopening on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 January.
Visitors will be able meet the museum’s volunteer gardeners and see its extensive collection of snowdrops, learn about the pioneering Giant Snowdrop Company of Hyde, buy plants from Avon Bulbs including some special snowdrops and enjoy tea and cake in the Walled Garden Pavilion. Families can follow a Snowdrop Fairy I Spy trail and take part in snowdrop themed craft activities and the museum shop will have a special 10% discount including snowdrop themed products. Cllr Beki Aldam, Chair of Stroud District Council Community Services & Licensing Committee said: “The snowdrop celebration is a lovely way to greet visitors back to our much-loved museum. Our Council Plan recognises the importance of ensuring everyone has access to good quality leisure opportunities, and to ensuring the museum remains at the heart of the wider community.” Cllr Trevor Hall, Vice Chair added: “I’d like to thank the museum staff and volunteers for their hard work deep cleaning and cataloguing its extensive collection during the winter months and look forward to more exciting exhibitions over the coming year.” The museum’s annual closure for deep cleaning and essential maintenance was extended this year as the Grade II listed building is part of an ambitious £5million project to replace aging gas boilers with brand new renewable heating systems at three Stroud District Council-owned sites – Stratford Park Leisure Centre and The Museum in the Park in Stroud and The Pulse leisure centre in Dursley. The cutting-edge green technology will be supplemented by additional solar panels. Coming up at The Museum in the Park: SCI FI! Alternative Film Posters exhibition from Stroud Illustrators Collective, Saturday 10 February to Sunday 17 March. Valentine’s Cards family drop-in workshop, Sunday 11 February Half term family activities including family drop-in art workshops and activities and family explorer trails Crochet & Chat Winter Warmer friendly drop-in sessions – Thursdays 22 & 29 February, 14 & 21 March, 10.30am – 12.30pm More information can be found on the museum’s website and by signing up to the free-of-charge membership programme www.museuminthepark.org.uk/membership The Museum in the Park, managed by Stroud District Council in collaboration with the Stroud District (Cowle) Museum Trust, is situated in a Grade II listed 17th Century former wool merchant’s house. The museum tells the extraordinary and diverse history of Stroud district and has over 4,000 objects and artefacts on display – from dinosaur bones to one of the world’s first lawnmowers. Sign up for regular email alerts from Stroud District Council here. For social media updates follow us on X, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Stroud District Council is backing the Longfield Community Hospice Christmas Tree Recycling campaign. For a suggested minimum donation of £10, real Christmas trees will be collected at the end of the festive period and recycled. This year, the Minchinhampton-based charity hopes to collect and recycle more trees than ever and raise more than £50,000, which could help fund more than 900 hours of Hospice at Home Care. In previous years, as many as 2,900 households from across Stroud district, Cirencester and Gloucester have taken part in the scheme. Last year, Longfield raised nearly £50,000 for essential hospice care. This year, they’re aiming to beat last year’s record to provide free hospice care for life-limited people and their families, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The trees will be collected and taken to recycling sites across Gloucestershire, including Painswick Rococo Garden and Highfield Garden Centre, where they will be chipped and scattered on pathways and car parks, making it an eco-friendly way to dispose of your tree. Cllr Chloe Turner, Chair of Stroud District Council Environment Committee said: “I’m delighted that Stroud District Council is supporting this project once again, providing a useful service to residents while benefiting the brilliant work carried out by Longfield Hospice…” “..One of the priorities in our Council Plan is Environment and Climate Change. We have pledged to reduce the quantity of resources discarded as waste and minimise its environmental impact across the district. The Longfield Christmas Tree Recycling Campaign will contribute to those aims.” Cllr Robin Layfield, Vice Chair of Stroud District Council Environment Committee said: “We have a commitment in our Council Plan to increase recycling rates across the district and encourage local initiatives to ‘reduce, repair and recycle’. This is a fantastic project which supports our goals. Please register your tree for collection – it’s a convenient and charitable way of disposing of your tree sustainably and ensuring it doesn’t end up in landfill.” All money raised helps to fund the hospice’s vital work supporting patients, families and carers across Gloucestershire. To arrange collection of your tree, visit www.just-helping.org.uk/register-tree The booking system for 2023/24 collections is open until midnight 9 January 2024. Alternatively, trees can be taken to the household waste and recycling centre. To book a slot visit www.gloucestershirerecycles.com The fundraising team are also looking for volunteers, vans to collect Christmas trees, or tree chippers. To volunteer either with your time or if you have a van or chipper, then please contact the events team on 01483 886868 or email events@longfield.org.uk. Find out more about Longfield at www.longfield.org.uk
Residents in the Stroud district are being asked to check their waste and recycling schedules over the Christmas period as some collections will change.
There will be no collection on Boxing Day, so waste and recycling that would normally be collected on Tuesday 26 December will be taken on Saturday 30 December.
All other collection days remain the same.
Containers and bins should be put out by 6am on collection days, and people are urged to recycle as much Christmas waste as possible.
Environment Committee Chair, Councillor Chloe Turner said: “There will be more waste and recycling than normal over the holiday period, so please spare a thought for the recycling crews who will be out working hard in the cold weather.
“Large pieces of cardboard should be folded and flattened and kept dry, and bins and recycling bags should be taken back in as soon as possible after collection, especially during windy weather.”
Vice Chair Cllr Robin Layfield added: “On a personal note, I would like to say thanks to our Ubico waste disposal crews who have gone above and beyond, time and again to ensure we have a predictable, reliable, and effective service that is the envy of many other councils. Please take a moment to thank your bin crew this Christmas when you see them.”
Only wrapping paper that passes the `scrunch test’ can be recycled: remove foil, tape, bows and ribbons then scrunch the paper info a ball. If it keeps its shape it can be recycled in your green recycling box. If it springs back out it can’t be recycled and should be placed in your general waste bin or beige sack.
If your waste or recycling is not collected due to snow or icy conditions, please leave it at the kerbside for two days (including Saturdays but not Sundays). If it is not collected within this period, please take it back in and wait until your next scheduled collection.
Here’s a guide to what can and can’t be recycled:
Christmas cards
Can be placed in your household recycling box. Some supermarkets and charity shops accept them.
Remove foil, bows and ribbons. Cards containing glitter can’t be recycled.
Wrapping paper
Can be placed in your household recycling box if it passes the scrunch test.
Remove foil, tape, bows & ribbons first which can’t be recycled
Glass, cans, plastic and foil
Can be placed in your household recycling bin or green sack. Please don’t put them in plastic bags which can be recycled at most supermarkets.
Make more space by squashing soft plastic. Please remove the clear plastic film from food containers which can’t be recycled.
Food
Can be placed in your household food recycling caddy.
Flatten, cut or fold large pieces to the approximate size of your recycling box
Real Christmas trees
You can arrange a collection by Longfield Hospice which will recycle your tree.Alternatively, you can make an appointment at the Household Recycling Centre.
The Waste Wizard search on the SDC website will tell you which household items can be recycled, or if they can be given a new life through repair and reuse.
Residents can check their waste and recycling dates on the SDC website, or download a printable 2024 waste collection calendar, with the option of an easy- to-read accessible version via the My House function on the SDC website. Anyone who doesn’t have online access or who cannot download the calendar can call the council on 01453 766321 for a copy.
Twist on festive songs to discourage drink and drug driving 06-12-2023 04:59 PM GMT The Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) is today launching their annual anti drink and drug driving festive campaign by trying something new this year. The partnership has taken Christmas songs and changed the lyrics weaving in hard hitting messages aiming to discourage people from drinking or taking drugs when they drive.
SATURDAY 4TH NOVEMBER GATES OPEN 4.30PM. FIREWORKS DISPLAY 7PM
We hope you can join us for a family friendly fun evening. All proceeds go to Miserden School. Remember, remember the fifth of November…wrap up warm and head over to Miserden for a fantastic fireworks display and bonfire spectacular on Saturday 4th November. Just follow the signs for Miserden Fireworks with free parking in the field.
Enjoy our selection of food options, meet family and friends for a mulled wine, beer, cider, or hot chocolate, and watch the huge bonfire burn whilst waiting for the wonderful professional Firework display presented by the Skyburst Firework Company! Don’t forget to bust a move with the kids at our glow in the dark disco!
Look skywards in the Cotswolds for CPRE’s Star Count 2023!
Between 17th and 24th February, in celebration of our starry skies and to help protect and improve our view of the stars, CPRE, the countryside charity, is inviting the whole nation to become ‘citizen scientists’ and take part in Star Count 2023 – a cosmic census that will help map our view of the stars, and measure the impact of light pollution across the country.
Dark, starry skies are an undeniably beautiful sight, and a distinctive feature of the countryside – the wonder of gazing up into velvety blackness, with twinkling constellations as far as the eye can see, never gets old. But all too often, light pollution means that many of us can barely see the stars at all.
Our towns, cities, villages, buildings, and roads all emit light, and this can affect our view of truly dark skies, and cause problems for wildlife and people. Too much artificial light can impact our sleep and mental health, disrupt nature’s natural cycles, and confuse wildlife. Light pollution also impacts our experience of the natural wonder of the night sky, and blurs the distinction between town and countryside.
To help understand all this, thousands of people have submitted star counts over the years, which CPRE’s experts plot onto an interactive Star Count map, then analyse and compare with previous years’ data. In the 2022 Star Count, 49% of participants counted 10 stars or fewer in the constellation of Orion, indicating severe light pollution, while only 3% experienced truly dark skies.
Help count the Cotswold stars by becoming a citizen scientist!
This year, we need you to help us fill up the Cotswolds section of the interactive Star Count map! We’d love to see counts submitted to CPRE from every corner of the Cotswolds, including from towns just outside the area, like Cheltenham, Stroud, Gloucester, or Banbury. Let’s all join together to look up, get counting, and sending in our observations.
Taking part in Star Count is completely free, and can be done without any special equipment. You’ll be part of a nationwide citizen science project. Stargazers are asked to count the number of stars they can see (with the naked eye) within the constellation of Orion, and submit their count online. Visit www.cpre.org.uk/starcount to find out more and to register to take part.
The number of stars visible in Orion is a good indicator of the amount of light pollution affecting views of the night sky, and can be compared with previous data to show how our ability to see the stars is changing.
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