[Spring 2010] Parish Council Bulletin Available
The Spring edition of the bulletin is now available.
[20th October '09] The Link needs drivers
The Link provides voluntary transport for the elderly, frail, or disabled from the villages of Limpley Stoke and Freshford. However, they are in need of more drivers. If you think you may be able to help, please call Harry Reiter on 01225 723622, or visit their webpage, to find out more.
[4th August'09] The Galleries Shop is now open
The Galleries Shop has now opened.
[29th July'09] Galleries Shop & Café opening for business!
Our shop organising committee, chaired by Peter King, and a large numbers of helpers have been working hard to get our shop and café ready for opening. Opening day is on:
Tuesday 4th August 2009
The shop will be open from 8 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday, from 9 to 12.30 on Saturday and from 9 to 12 on Sunday.
[28th May'09] Galleries Shop & Café building finished
On 28th May the new building was handed over to us. This was three weeks earlier than promised! The building looks good and will be open for inspection on Village Fête Day - 13th June. A shop manager has been recruited - Christine McKenzie lives in the village and will also be there on Village Fête Day.
The shop still needs fitting out, and suppliers and supplies need to be organised. There is much else to do still. The volunteers are meeting for a first briefing at the shop on Tuesday 16th June, 8 pm. Earliest possible opening remains at end July/early August.
[14th April'09] The problems with sat-nav
Residents of Freshford will be aware that sat-nav systems frequently direct big lorries down inappropriate roads in our village. MP Don Foster, and Cllr Neil Butters have highlighted this issue, and attracted press coverage from the BBC and from The Bath Chronicle.
[19th January '09] Building has started on the Galleries Shop
Building has started on our community shop - known as Galleries Shop after the Galleries Field where it will be located, immediately adjacent to the Freshford Village Memorial Hall. The building should be finished by end June and our shop should open for business in July this year. Press coverage of this is available from The Western Daily Press, The Bath Chronicle, and The Wiltshire Times.
[8th January '09] Pre-school in the news
The Wiltshire Times has published an article about the Freshford Pre-school project.
[16th December '08] WANTED: Leader for Freshford Pre-School
The new Pre-School for Freshford which plans to open in September 2009 is now recruiting a leader. The job advert is available here. To learn more about this project visit the Pre-School web page. Please note that this is a readvertisement of this job with a new closing date of 13th February 2009.
[28th November '08] New online What's On? form
The website now has an online calendar which can list all the upcoming community events which are happening in and around Freshford. If you are organising a community event and would like it to be listed on the website, follow the instructions at the top of the calendar webpage. All you need to take advantage of this new service is a valid email address. We hope that over time this calendar will become the definitive list of events happening in Freshford.
[22nd October '08] WANTED: Toys and equipment for Pre-School
The new Pre-School for Freshford have published a list of equipment and toys that they would like to acquire for the Pre-school. If you have any of these items in good condition that you no longer require they would be delighted if you would consider donating them.
[30th June '08] Galleries Shop-to-be receives one of King Bladud's Pigs in Bath
To celebrate recent successes on the way to bringing about the Galleries Shop, a small number of residents clubbed together to sponsor one of King Bladud's Pigs in Bath. This is a public art project which has caused 100 brightly decorated lifesize pig sculptures to be displayed in and around Bath for the summer of 2008, to be auctioned off in October for the benefit of the Two Tunnels Project.
Our pig was created by Jane Veveris Callan and is called "Country Pignic". It is installed next to the entrance of the Village Hall. See what it looks like from the right and from the left.
If you want to go pig spotting, printed pig maps are available from the Tourist Office in Bath, the shop in the Abbey and Bath Aqua Glass on Orange Grove.
[27th June '08] Galleries Shop obtains a £90,000 Rural Renaissance Grant
On 27th June 2008 the Freshford Shop Project was granted the sum of £90,000 under the Rural Renaissance Scheme (Government funding, administered through the South West Regional Development Agency and Bath & North East Somerset Council) towards the construction of the Galleries Shop, the community shop next to the Freshford Village Hall which is to serve both villages. The application required proof of match funding and it was only thanks to a number of residents who, at very short notice, committed to some considerable capital contributions to be made later in the year that we managed to achieve this.
To obtain the grant, the Group had to be legally incorporated so the Freshford Shop Project became the Freshford and Limpley Stoke Community Association (FLiSCA), a limited company, soon to achieve charity status. The shop itself will be run as a trading arm of this umbrella organisation, whose exact legal form, constitution, membership and how it will be managed and run remains to be decided.
[8th June '08] New bus service to Bradford-on-Avon
On July 1st, a new No. 95 bus service will start, providing a weekly service on Tuesday mornings to Bradford on Avon from Limpley Stoke and Freshford. The timetable and route are available on this website, and on Parish Notice Boards. The service will stop at Sainsbury’s and Bradford-on-Avon town centre and will allow for around a 90 minute stay in Bradford and/ or Sainsbury’s.
The service will be running for 6 months, at which time the providers will determine if it is economic to continue with the service. So it is very important that residents use the service if they wish for it to continue!