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Grants to Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise Organisations 2021/2022

Transparency

Grants to Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise Organisations

The code requires that local authorities must publish details of all grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. This can be achieved by either:

  • Tagging and hence specifically identifying transactions which relate to voluntary, community or social enterprise organisations within published data on expenditure over £500 or published procurement information, or
  • By publishing a separate list or register

For each identified grant, the following information must be published as a minimum:

  • Date the grant was awarded
  • Time period for which the grant has been given
  • Local authority department which has awarded the grant
  • Beneficiary
  • Beneficiary’s registration number (where applicable)
  • Summary of the purpose of the grant
  • Amount

 

Name of Organisation Amount Awarded in 2021/2022
Kent, Sussex & Surrey Air Ambulance £200
Wealden Citizens Advice £150
Hadlow Down Parish Magazine £650
ENGage Grant (TN22 club) £100
Hadlow Down Playing Field Committee £1,820
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Notifications to be discussed at 2nd March 2021 HD PC meeting

WD/2021/0031/F – HASTINGFORD FARM COTTAGE, HASTINGFORD LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4DY
Description: PROPOSED SWIMMING POOL BUILDING, PLANT ROOM AND HARD LANDSCAPING
Link to documents on web: http://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=152383

WD/2020/2550/F – BOLTON BUILDINGS, FIVE CHIMNEYS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4DX
Description: EXTENSION TO COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
Link to documents on web: http://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=152145

 

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Notifications in January to be discussed at 2nd February 2021 HD PC meeting

WD/2020/2496/LDE – CROWPITS, WILDERNESS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4HB
Description: USE OF LAND AS RESIDENTIAL CURTILAGE
Link to documents on web: http://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=152073

WD/2020/2538/F – MICKLETON COTTAGE, WILDERNESS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4HX
Description: SINGLE STOREY REAR ADDITION AND THE REPLACEMENT OF THE ROOFING SHEETS TO THE EXISTING SIDE EXTENSION.
Link to documents on web:  http://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=152126

 

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Urgent call for new volunteers

Is the future of our local playing field at the crossroads?

Yes, this does sound dramatic but the reality is that future of this much loved local community amenity is very uncertain.

What do you know about the playing field?

Opened in 1975 it has provided a space for walkers, informal recreation and both cricket and football pitches for competitive sport.  This provision has relied on the goodwill and commitment of a succession of volunteers.

What does it involve?

It requires local people to give of their time generously to maintain and improve the facility and raise much of the funding to pay for this.

 

Why is the future of the facility in doubt?

Worryingly the current committee numbers just three trustees and one committee member.  It is the case that also these volunteers undertake much of the fund-raising and maintenance and they’re not getting any younger!!  Two of the trustees are over 70 and one over 65 years of age.

What do we need?  WE NEED NEW VOLUNTEERS.

People of all ages, of both genders and those with disabilities would be welcome and no previous experience is required.

How can you help?

In addition to the specific roles – chairperson, treasurer and secretary, there are places for members to help with organising fund raising and events, – examples of such activities are the Firework and Bonfire Evening, Pop Up suppers, Race and Quiz nights.  Committee meetings annually total six and usually are held in the pavilion.

Other volunteers  Grass cutting, football pitch line-marking, cricket wicket maintenance, pavilion repair and upkeep, drainage ditch clearance – activities to name but a few! The first three tasks need to be carried out on a weekly basis and the others through maintenance/working party sessions on Saturday mornings – usually six annually.

Do you think you can help? Interested?  Would you like to find out more?  As a first step, why not visit the Playing Field website visit the Playing Field website hdpf.uk and click on the Contact Us in the menu.

Many thanks
The Trustees, Hadlow Playing Field.

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January Book Club Review

 

This month we have been reading Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’, one of the shorter and more bittersweet of her novels but, nevertheless, quietly profound and longlisted for the Booker Prize.

It is about Micah Mortimer:- a man in his 40s, the youngest of a chaotic family of sisters; the only one to go to university and then have a professional job, but who opted out of corporate life and now scrapes a living running a one-man computer repair business and caretaking his block of flats, giving him free accommodation. His family regard him with affectionate bewilderment.
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