A list of support and services from local groups, councils and businesses. . Here’s a handy guide on how to organise locally: Welcome to Covid-19… Read More »Mutual aid Sidmouth

Are we willing to trade public health for greater surveillance and intrusion into our private lives? . An excellent piece from Channel Four News last… Read More »Looking to the model for beating the coronavirus

Sidmouth Rotary Club steps in to support. . The planned move by the Food Bank has had to be postponed – and so it remains… Read More »Sid Valley Food Bank appeals for more supplies

Key ways to help a key industry. . One business which is not being headlined as up for government support but which is the most… Read More »Support your local farmer

Employers and employees to be helped to weather the crisis – but some clarity still needed and perhaps lessons to be learned. . There is… Read More »Financial help and resilience: a further guide

Is paying out an annual dividend to every permanent resident a model to follow to help us out of our current predicament? . One way… Read More »Universal Basic Income: Alaska

Showing appreciation for our key workers. . There’s quite a list of key workers: Key worker: official list of UK personnel who can still send… Read More »Clap for Carers this Friday night

– visitors – the elderly – broadband – councils – nursery provision – business grants – social care – . The Rural Services Network is… Read More »Managing covid-19 in rural areas

Being supportive and positive in difficult times. “Physical distancing and social solidarity.” . We can be really supportive of one another: Support your local pub!… Read More »Day One: social solidarity in Sidmouth

“The longer people don’t self isolate and social distance, the longer this is going to go on for!!” . This is how the virus is… Read More »Stay cautious. Stay smart. Stay home. Stay clean.

Benefits and rights in difficult times. . The District Council have issued a message for us to ‘keep calm and carry on’: Calls for communities… Read More »Financial help and resilience: a guide

Tourism is one of the key engine-drivers of the region’s economy, but nothing is more important right now than public safety. . A lot of… Read More »#ComeBackLater to the South West

Giving our pubs a fighting chance of riding out this storm. What we should be advocating is ‘physical distancing and social solidarity’. . A plea… Read More »Support your local pub! Enjoy a take-away!

Reduce the arrival of new cases into the community (travel restrictions). We do not carry out sufficient testing in the UK so people are just… Read More »The West Country tells tourists to ‘Stay at Home’

Will this bring a welcome renaissance in shopping locally? . The supermarkets are unable to provide further deliveries: Online supermarket deliveries of essential goods could… Read More »Shop local!